Juuso landed the cover of our latest print mag half Cabbing a burly bit of Canadian granite. Have him talk you through how the shot went down, and peep some more riding from the trip…

The shot, snagged by our Photo Ed Sami Tuoriniemi, was taken on a trip to Revelstoke, BC, with Markku Koski and Antti Autti, shooting for Antti’s movie, Relate to It. Make sure you give that a look as there’s some stellar stuff in there.

Action footage: Teemu Lahtinen – www.northlightpictures.com

Interview footage: Johannes Ostergaard

Relate To It features riding from Antti Autti, Miikka Hast, Nicholas Wolken, Markku Koski, Juuso Laivisto, Tero Poikajärvi, Joel Lahti and more.

Antti Autti and friends are back with their second, full-length shred flick focussing on a-grade, yet accessible, snowboarding. Relate to It is 24 minutes full of rad, fun, backcountry ripping. Watch it now!

Anttisworld.com in association with Northlight Pictures releases yet another awesome backcountry oriented movie

Have you ever felt as watching those high-class snowboard films like, man, I wish I was there–but the spots are just so far out of reach? This time they’re not. Antti Autti and buddies were in the search for the best powder, but yet they wanted to get the white magic from the places accessible for everyone. They found themselves having the best season ever with heaps of powder without forgetting the classic wintertime in Finland. There’s a reason it’s called Relate To It.

Relate To It features riding from Antti Autti, Miikka Hast, Nicholas Wolken, Markku Koski, Juuso Laivisto, Tero Poikajärvi, Joel Lahti and more.

Shot in locations of Hokkaido, Japan; Tamokdalen, Norway; Monashee PowderSnowCats, Canada; Revelstoke, Canada; Ruka, Finland; Ounasvaara, Finland; Southern Alps, New Zealand and Riksgränsen, Sweden.

Filmed, edited and directed by Teemu Lahtinen / Northlight Pictures.
Additionally filmed by Matti Ollila, Anssi Lakela (elopictures.com) and Eemeli Hepola.
Photographed by Jani Kärppä / Lappikuva.fi, Rami Hanafi and Sami Tuoriniemi.

Up until moments ago, this post only contained a video of Markku Koski, acclaimed Finnish ThirtyTwo team rider. But then it dawned on us that maybe the famous boot brand produced those video for every of their team members, like JP Walker, Scott Stevens, Toni Kerkelä, Chris Grenier, Joe Sexton, Brandon Hobush, and all the other great riders on their team. And they did. Which is why we had to change this post completely. All 20 bios contain some good shredding, so get on it, in total it’s 34 minutes of awesomeness!

A private season end session has long been high on the Onboard Crew’s wish list and yet the lack of an appropriate partner had until now kept it as just that, a wish. Then out of a smoking lamp came Kitzsteinhorn and their genie Stefan Plattner and with the wave of a long handled shaping spade The Onboard & Kitzsteinhorn Send Off Sessions were born.

This edit shows what went down at Kitzsteinhorn in May 2012. Watch the riding of Markus Keller, Markku Koski, Ville Uotila, Cheryl Maas, Sami Luhtanen, Marc Swoboda, Peter König, Luka Jeromel, Gerome Mathieu, Mario Kaeppeli, Michael Schärer, Fridtjof Tischendorf, Werni Stock, and Björn Hartweger.

For more information on the event and a lot of banging pictures grab some money and buy the September issue of Onboard Mag!

You might have been checking Antti’s Relate to It webisodes he pumped out through last winter, but this is the first look at the real deal that is set to drop this autumn – on November 3rd, to be precise. With a bunch of pow ripping and kicker hopping, we’re expecting this to be a good ‘un. Stay tuned for more info, and peep his movie from the season before last, Antiout, in the meantime.

Here’s the official blurb: Have you ever felt as watching those high-class snowboard films like, man, I wish I was there–but the spots are just so far out of reach? This time they’re not. Antti Autti and buddies were in the search for the best powder, but yet they wanted to get the white magic from the places accessible for everyone. They found themselves having the best season ever with loads of powder without forgetting the classic wintertime in Finland. There’s a reason it’s called Relate To It.

Riders: Antti Autti, Miikka Hast, Joel Lahti, Markku Koski, Juuso Laivisto, Nicholas Wolken, Tero Poikajärvi, Saku Tiilikainen and friends.

Featured riders: Scott Stevens, Chris Grenier, Brandon Hobush, Tyler Flanagan, Markku Koski, Chris Bradshaw, Chris Brewster, Ben Bilocq, Dominik Wagner, Jared Jordan, Zach Rawles, Shaun Murphy, Toni Kerkelä, Jordan Small, Dylan Thompson, Chris Beresford, Jake Kuzyk, Johnny O’Connor, Dylan Alito, Frank April.

Seppe Smits, photo: Markus Deutinger

From March 28^th to 31^st, the Quiksilver Spring Battle celebrated its 10^th Anniversary at Absolut Park Flachauwinkl in Austria. For the very first 5Star TTR Event of the TTR World Snowboard Tour 2012/2013 some of the world´s best snowboarders travelled to Absolut Park Flachauwinkl to go for the heavy total prize purse of 50.000 US Dollar and up to 850 points for the TTR Big Air Tour Ranking 2012/2013. For the second time in a row, previous year´s winner Seppe Smits from Belgium took first place on the podium. Finnish rider Nuutti Niemelä became second before the American Eric Willett. Clemens Schattschneider was the best Austrian rider who made it up to the 5^th place.

Jan Necas

For ten years the Quiksilver Spring Battle has made a reputation as one of the most popular snowboarding events in Europe. An accomplished combination of the premium setup at the perfectly shaped Absolut Park with an innovative video judging system has been thrilling riders and spectators at this year´s 5 Star TTR Big Air snowboard competition. In the Qualification round on Thursday, all riders were showing off on the perfectly shaped 22 metre Big Air kicker, even if the weather conditions were getting worse due to strong winds. With the actual start list it was hardly surprising that double corks and 1260´s have been stomped even in the first round. The best ten competitors advanced to the subsequent Semi Finals. Together with ten invited riders out of the TTR Top 10 World Tour Ranking, they kept on pushing it to the limits, ignoring the upcoming storm in the Semis. The Finals were supposed to go down on Friday, 31^st of March but had to be in the true sense of the word blown off in last-minute. The ten best Semi Finalists were automatically nominated for the final Video Judging on Friday Night. They had the opportunity to pick their favorite run for the Video Juding, which was conducted on a video screen from different viewing angles.

Skate action. Photo: Markus Rohrbacher

International Podium and local Superstars in the top 10

Again, previous year´s winner Seppe Smits could not be beaten. Despite tough conditions due to strong winds, the Belgian convinced the judges and audience stomping a clean Cab 1260 Mute Grab over the Big Air kicker. Seppe won the Quiksilver Spring Battle for the second time in a row. Beside honour and glory, he took home 15.000 Euro prize money and 850 TTR points counting towards the 2012/2013 season. Nuutti Niemelä from Finnland was close on his heels and became second with the same trick, a Cab 1260 Mute Grab for which he was rewarded with 9.000 Euros. The American Eric Willett took 3rd place on the podium with his Frontside Doublecork 1080 Mute Grab, that brought him in 5.000 Euros of prize money. Finnish rider Ville Paumola missed the podium, but raked in 2.000 Euros for the 4^th place. Clemens Schattschneider was the best Austrian rider in the final round, reaching 5^th position. He took home 1.500 Euros as well as Markku Koski from Finland for his 6^th rank.

Another Austrian snowboarder, Michael Macho, became 7^th before Max Buri (SUI), Jan Necas (CZE) and Sven Thorgren SWE). They all got rewarded with 1.000 Euros each for their spot in the Top ten of the Quiksilver Spring Battle 2012.

After the prize giving, FM4/Texta DJ Dan took the tiller for the FM4 Club Aftershow-Party at  the ceremonial hall of Flachau. Riders and party people celebrated the 10th Spring Battle Anniversary properly until the break of dawn.

The prizegiving.

Several winners and three awards at the Skateboarding „Cash for Trick“ Sessions

On Wednesday, 28^th of March 2012, the Quiksilver Spring Battle 2012 showcased finest transition skateboarding at the Chillhouse on 1600 metres above sea level. 26 skateboarders from all over Europe were sending it for the Skate Jam. Most of the time up to five guys rode the miniramp coincidentally, intending to grab for some notes out of the 1500 Euros total prize pot. There were many winners but Andy Scott, Philipp Schuster and Dustin Vonach took home the awards for as “most impressive riders” of the day.

Asymbol Art Show of the Art Of Flight collection

Snowboarding legend Travis Rice and renowned artist Mike Parillo brought their Asymbol Art Show with the Art Of Flight collection for the Quiksilver Spring Battle to Flachauwinkl.

Riders' Night.

Ten years of Spring Battle – a flashback

The very first Spring Battle was taking place in 2003. The Aesthetiker Andreas “Mone” Monsberger took home the glorious trophy. In 2004, it was the Slovenian snowboard star Marko Grilc who won the Spring Battle, before Steve Gruber, another legend rider of the Aesthetiker crew, took over the lead in 2005. The following two years were under the sign of the scandinavians: Sweden´s Martin Sandberg won in 2006 and Ville Uotila from Finland was on top of the podium in 2007. The German “Pirate” Lars Oesterle claimed victory in 2008 and Jakko Ruha took back home all honour to Finland in 2009. Swedish young gun Kevin Backstroem won the competition in 2010, before the Belgian super talent Seppe Smits wrapped up the Quiksilver Spring Battle successfully in 2011.

All infos and rider profiles on:

www.ttrworldtour.com und www.snowboardingresults.com.

All infos on the Quiksilver Spring Battle:

www.absolutpark.com

www.facebook.com/quiksilverspringbattle

www.quiksilver-europe.com

This one goes out to all our Italian readers (who most likely confuse us with their local magazine that goes by the same name).

Two days of shredding in the resorts of Sestriere and Bardonecchia (Italy) with JP Walker, Scott Stevens, Joe Sexton, Markku Koski, Danny Larsen, Chris Grenier, Toni Kerkela, Dominik Wagner and Benni Urban.

Filmed by rockinthemiddle.com.