Make sure you tune in from 18.00 CET to see snowboarding legends like Terje Haakonsen, Gigi Rüf, David Benedek, Jamie Lynn, Stefan Gimpl and more throw down in the burn Style Session alongside pretty much all of today’s kicker bosses. Gonna be BANGING.

Watch it live HERE.

More than 50 international riders have travelled to Innsbruck and the city will be once again the snowboarding hotspot of the season. A total of 11 X-Games winners are on their way to this year’s Billabong Air & Style in Innsbruck. Next to the Style king and the winner of the Billabong Air & Style this year’s World Snowboard Tour Big Air champion will also be crowned in Innsbruck. It’s the last 6star Big Air event of the ongoing season and a total of 12 riders could take home the Big Air crown.

The event will kick off on Friday, February 1st 2013, with a magnificent show and meet-up of four generations of snowboarders. The current top-ranking riders, among them Piiroinen, Smits, Toutant, Kadono, McMorris and Weißenbacher, will need to pull out all the stops in the jam session to have any chance of stealing the show from the sports legends, participating in the burn Style Session. All-time heroes like Haakonsen, Lynn, Iguchi, Benedek, Basich, Gimpl and Rüf, throwing down for the cream of the snowboarding public. The live stage, meanwhile, will feature rapper Left Boy and, for the second time since 2004, Die Fantastischen Vier.

On Saturday, February 2nd 2013, all eyes will be on the riders in the 6Star World Snowboard Tour Contest when the world elite battle it out for the title, the Ring of Glory, 1,000 World Snowboard Tour points and a total of 75,000 euros in prize money. The field has been bumped up from 16 to 24 riders to do justice to the larger numbers at the pinnacle of the sport. Last year’s winner Peetu Piroiinen, Air & Style Beijing winner Yuki Kadono, third-placed in Beijing Ståle Sandbech and co- favorites Sebastien Toutant and Mark McMorris will attempt to pull off the first Triple Corks on the demanding megakicker setup in Bergisel Stadium. Ethan Morgan will be flying the German flag, while Matthias Weißenbacher and Clemens Schattschneider will stand tall on their native snow for Austria. German Indie rappers Kraftklub and the current best American white rapper Mac Miller will provide the musical backing to match.

Weather forecast promises way warmer temperatures than last year to guarantee best riding conditions with a soft landing and perfect surroundings for all our fans. We are looking forward to celebrate this once in a lifetime episode of the Billabong Air & Style with 2 days, 4 Bands and more then 50 riders with you!

Make sure you watch it and get all the details and info to either enjoy it live on the webor on TV in your country: http://www.air-style.com/en/id-2013-air-style-innsbruck/live.html

Sweet edit of what went down at the Flow Tailgate AK at Thompson Pass, Valdez and the Flow World Freeride Championships. There’s plenty of tasty lines, sick tricks, nasty bails and sketchy slides with riding from the likes of Scotty Lago, Sarka Pancochova, Mike Basich and more. Have a look.

Basich is one of snowboarding’s legends and is also one of the more interesting humans on the planet. After years of traveling the world he decided it would be preferable to create his own home, off the grid as it were, and be as self sustainable as he possibly could. These webisodes take a look at his homestead in the Tahoe backcountry, and have stoked us the hell out.

‘WAS HERE’ follows the Flow Snowboarding Team on a worldwide seek-and-destroy mission. While no stranger to the global contest podium, the Flow team now taps into their alter ego to bring you some of the year’s heaviest riding, throwing down in the streets and leaving lines in the backcountry.

Starring: Scotty Lago, Tim Humphreys, Scot Brown, Mike Basich, Sarka Pancochova, Jeremy Thompson, Brandon Reis, Nial Romanek, Ian Thorley, Andre Kuhlmann and Shane Fortier.

Filmed on location in Alaska, Austria, California, Canada, Colorado, Germany, Idaho, Japan, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, and Oregon.

If every link was a boring person this is what TWIS would look like.

SATURDAY

Our English part of the crew shunned riding on Saturday to blog live about the Air&Style Beijing. The One Life Wednesday montage is weird and girlish. Mikey Rencz‘ Cheers part gets remixed, and Mikkel Bang’s In Color part, too. Jeremy Jones talks about Deeper on Fox Business and Burritos and Snow posts his all-time favourite movie parts.

SUNDAY

Johnny Lazz & Co. kick off a new season of Sunday in the Park. Funbelievable is good, but does not quite live up to its name. Our Cup of Tea is a full movie from Sweden. The Bone Zone in Utah gets ripped, and Salvi Peluso isn’t well known but posts his edit nonetheless.

How long can you keep a handful of ants in your mouth?

MONDAY

Halldor Helgason signs for Nike 6.0. Here are the top three tricks from the Air&Style Beijing. We have the full movie Get in the Van 2. The Angry Snowboarder has the full movie Erosion. Yobeat has all Todcast – the Movie episodes. Spatziba drops the second part of Talking Headz with Gigi. Speaking of Gigi, here’s the entire Alaska part from 9191. Want to see some blood? Check TW Snow! Want to see some Premature Jibulation? Then check here. Brandon Cocard is the subject of the latest Airblaster Family Portrait. The Forum Youngbloods shred Mammoth. The “Weekly Quickly” is also worth checking out. A crew of French riders (Bourbousson, Lamazouere, Crepel) enjoys some pow-pow, Greg Sudac’s video part is fairly good, and – unbelievably – these girls are kind of cool.

TUESDAY

Here are the Air&Style Beijing highlights from the finals. TW Snow has Torstein Horgmo’s full run from The Storming (without the video game SFX). Bryan Fox and Scotty Wittlake are making a movie. Oh, and Scotty created a bit of an internet sensation here. Simon Chamberlain gets A Day in the Life. Any Ideas? is yet another interesting teaser. The Nitro rookies are at work here. The Smith Optics team movie teaser is at work here. Park City is looking good in this clip. The Ride Shakedown comes to Germany. The K2 x Beta Unit collabo is somehow pretty cool, and: snow cones for everyone!

WEDNESDAY

Our Artec design comp is going through the roof, Smith Optics release their ‘Prospecting Idaho’ episode 4. Kazuhiro Kokubo‘s part gets remix here, and Simon Chamberlain‘s here, Enzo Nilo rides well in this short clip, the Freestyle Academy in Laax steps things up, the Rip Curl riders rip through Sweden, who was asking if Mike Basich was till riding? Check his Day in the Life! Kevin Pearce talks on Fox News,  Gretchen Bleiler resigns from halfpipe riding, and Andreas Wiig now appears on Rockstar (and vice versa).

If you're a blind cowboy, you don't really care what your horse looks like.

THURSDAY

Absinthe’s Flipside episode 6 is sick, Dan Brisse rides through his Poachers X part (and gets a cover in Japan), Scott Stevens’ Volcom edit is wicked, Kjersti Buaas & Jamie Anderson rip up Tahoe, Forrest Shearer talks about Hydrodynamica while Forest Bailey rides in Colorado, and South of the North gets excited about The Stash in Jackson Hole.

FRIDAY

Apparently a Grand Prix went down in Copper, The Illicit Snowboarder gives us the lowdown on space boardin‘,there’s a thing called the Snowboard Jedi Program, more riding from Park City here, the Cheers crew goes backcountry, here’s Brighton at night, there are the Gremlinz, the From Now On teaser isn’t too bad, and we would love to continue but have to leave for our annual Xmas party!

Enjoy the snow, do whatever you do on a weekend and check back next week for another instalment of TWIS!

A new teaser from ‘Resourceful Gnome Productions’, featuring the life and adventures of Brandon Cocard and Ben Lynch as they travel with and learn from Travis Parker, Josh Dirksen, Temple Cummins, Mikey Basich, and some. (oh, and here’s the first one if you haven’t seen it yet)

This movie is definitely one for every average snowboard enthusiast to relate to. No really, it contains a lot of fun pow shredding, but is also capable of raising the bar at any time. This will be one gem of a shred flick!

Flow’s Witness the Sickness movie just dropped. Get ready for 30 minutes of the finest shredding from Scotty Lago, Tim Humphreys, Brandon Reis, Jeremy Thompson, Scot Brown, Ian Thorley, Austin Young, Mike Basich, Mario Wagner, Morgan Le Faucheur, Petja Piiroinen, Nial Romanek, Jack Herald, Shane Fortier, Atsushi Isikawa, Sarka Pancochova, and Kade Madsen! Here’s what Flow says themselves:

When you see a video that is really good, you may say, ‘that video was SICK’, and we know everyone loves a good snowboard film. So that’s exactly what Flow wanted to do this year when we labeled the video, Witness the Sickness. This video is built from a year of snowboarding that was truly SICK. The team hit snow just right in Japan for waist deep conditions, witnessed Scotty Lago’s Olympic adventures, found some of the best rail spots throughout Minnesota, while hitting up parks across the country, making this years video a truly well rounded and complete snowboard experience. Riders featured include, Tim Humphreys, Jeremy Thompson, Scot Brown, Sarka Pancochova, Brandon Reis, and the rest of the Flow team. Flow Snowboarding partnered with Rubbish this year to bring you another epic flick with the best quality edit, sound and filming around the industry today. Also brought to you by these supporting brands; Matador, and NXTZ. Enjoy, and most importantly get out and Snowboard!

Flow Snowboarding is proud to announce that snowboarding legend Mike Basich is now a member of the Flow team.

Mike will be riding Flow Boards, Boots, Bindings, pulling his boards through airports with Flow Bags, scraping wax with Flow Accessories, keeping himself warm with Flow Softgoods, and, well, you get the picture.

Mike Basich was born and raised in Sacramento, California. His first time snowboarding was with his older sister Tina Basich in 1985 at Soda Springs California. He spent 10 years living in Utah riding and shooting photos. He has since moved back to Donner Summit where he has been concentrating on shooting action photos for the past 9 years. His roots in the snowboard industry go back to 1986, when he spent his time riding and shooting snowboard and motocross photos. His latest venture has been his clothing company 241 and living on Area 241 in his hand built home. Check out his life story in this Mike Basich documentary.

The Mother of all Bombdrops

You may remember Mike from back in the day when he shocked everyone with his clean double backflips or when he acid dropped 130 feet in Alaska from a helicopter.

Mike is riding the NXT-FRX, The One Boa Boot, and Solitude Board in a 161 and 164. Check out snowboard legend Mike Basich in the new Flow Team video, at flow.com, or somewhere steep and deep.

The Basich-mobile.

More on Mike www.flow.com