Burton’s High Fives contest went down in New Zealand over the last couple days. Off-hill activities like knife throwing, MINI Cooper rally racing and skeet shooting were mixed with traditional snowboard contest events like slopestyle and halfpipe. Mikkel Bang came away with a first place win in slopestyle, stomping tricks with his signature easy-going style. There were more than seven tricks during High Fives slopestyle, but here are seven from Mark McMorris, Roope Tonteri and Mikkel Bang. Full results below. Check out opensnowboarding.com for more information.

Men’s Slopestyle Results
1. Mikkel Bang 95.4
2. Sebastien Toutant 94.0
3. Stale Sandbech 92.0

Women’s Slopestyle Results
1. Enni Rukajarvi 83.8
2. Christy Prior 78.9
3. Ty Walker 77.0

Women’s Halfpipe Results
1. Kelly Clark 94.6
2. Queralt Castellet 92.4
3. Kaitlyn Farrington 75.4

Men’s Halfpipe Results
1. Ayumu Hirano 92.4
2. Ryo Ano 89.6
3. Greg Bretz 88.6

Burn River Jump Slopestyle winner dons POV cam for practice run

At the recent Burn River Jump Slopestyle, held in Livigno’s epic Mottolino snowpark, eventual winner Eric Willet strapped a POV cam to his noggin and set about it on the jibs and booters. He even managed to follow cam his buddy though the rails and boxes at the bottom of the course. Get yourself in his head.