The Snowpark Kitzsteinhorn became the centre of spectacular tricks and sick action again: Within the scope of a dazzling shooting the Nitro Road Warriors examined the park thoroughly and tested the park by hook or by crook. The pro team around Basti Rittig and Michael Macho pushed it to a maximum with a stunningly wide range of tricks and proved that the Snowpark Kitzsteinhorn offers perfectly shaped obstacles in spite of the proliferating spring!

Things got wild again in the Snowpark Kitzsteinhorn and the result is a clip that is definitely worth watching: The Nitro Road Warriors around Basti Rittig and Michael Macho showed not only impressive tricks, but were convincing, moreover, in their contagious enthusiasm for the team shred session. In order to maximize the effort and output the riders were taken up on the mountain before dawn for the ultimate sunrise shooting. This clearly formed a highlight that neither the Nitro Road Warriors, nor the filmers will forget too soon. As a consequence, the motivation was climaxing just before the kick-off of the session – and the riders pushed each other to show top-class performances. Basti Rittig, Nitro team rider, tells us, “We had a blast up on the mountain! The park was in a perfect condition and it was a highlight to cruise through the entire park and really go to the maximum on the setup. Plus, it´s just great to be riding with the entire team. It´s very motivating and you can watch the others, get tips and also help others – thus you can learn a lot in such sessions. For me personally, the Snowpark Kitzsteinhorn ist one of the best parks of the Alpine region. It was perfectly shaped at the shooting – there was nothing left to be desired! I really had a great time shredding with the guys on these two shooting days!”

Sebastian Funk was filming on the two days of the shooting and he, as well, was truly won over by the setup and the condition of the snowpark: “When other parks become soft and slushy you can still count on perfect conditions in the Snowpark Kitzsteinhorn! Since the park is located so high up on the mountain, it stays the way it is way longer than other park which is great for shootings! Even though I`ve seen quite a bit as a filmer, I always find the park very impressive when I come here. This time, the sunrise shooting was the special highlight! The snowpark offers a massive playground in a relatively compact area – it offers countless riding opportunities and is especially exciting for me as a filmer ! Now, the shooting day with the Nitro road warriors was epic and they showed numerous sick tricks and massive airtime! In fact, I believe that, when working together, the most important thing is that everyone is having a good time and is stoked for the joint shooting! It´s all about the right ambiance!”

For all further information on the park visit www.snowpark.kitzsteinhorn.at. Stay tuned!

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Marc Swoboda is an athlete, musician and actor who has been around in the snowboard world for a quite a while now, riding for Nitro, Volcom and Blue Tomato (among others) as well as filming with the likes of Loveolution and MOG Productions. But the best part of this little introduction is still to come as you can win day of riding together with the Austrian at the Kitzsteinhorn! 

That is, if you own a Nitro snowboard or plan on getting one for this winter. Because anyone with the Swindel Marc Swoboda Pro One off 52 or any other Nitro stick can now register online to get one of the 40 exclusive prize packages, including:
- a day of riding with MARC SWOBODA + friends
- day ticket for the Kitzsteinhorn (excl. 2 euros keycard pledge)
- Nitro and Blue Tomato goodie bags
- voucher for the Nitro Meet & Greet
- Nitro test snowboards

If you’re not riding the Nitro sticks yet, you’re still very welcome to join the team rider Meet & Greet on the mouantain at 1.00pm.

To try your luck, go to snowpark.kitzsteinhorn.at

Last season, Nitro Snowboards’ A-Team focussed on filming a full-on team movie. What Goes Up Must Come Down is the result and, judging by this teaser, it’s gonna be a good ‘un.

Following Markus Keller, Eero Ettala, Marc Swoboda, Marco Smolla, Knut Eliassen, Bryan Fox, Austin Smith, Anton Gunnarsson, Ben Bilocq, and the rest of the team, this looks like it’s aiming to tick the ‘Hey, snowboarding’s fun!’ box as well as the ‘Our team are real fricking good at snowboarding’ one. A winning combination in our eyes.

Editing by CHRISTOPH WEBER, PIRMIN JUFFINGER
Principal cinematography by:
Pirmin Juffinger, Joonas Kenttämies, Clemens Prankl

Music:
I Think I Like U2
Written by Antoine Hilaire & Florent Lyonnet
Performed by Jamaica
(P) 2010 Control Freak
(C) Control Freak / Warner Chappell Music France

Video will drop soon. Check out nitrousa.com for more information.

RIDERS

DOMINIK WAGNER
THOMAS FEURSTEIN
NILS ARVIDSSON
TOBIAS STRAUSS
SEBASTIAN RITTIG
SVEN THORGREN
EMIL ANDRE ULSTETTEN
BENJAMIN URBAN

ADDITIONAL RIDING

MORITZ NEUHAEUSLER
ALUAN RICCIARDI
PATRICK BURGENER
ANTON BILARE
MARCO GRIGIS

Did you spot the spot that’s so old that it’s new again? Or is it just a new spot that looks like a classic Jeff Webb photo from the good old days? Answers on a postcard. Whatever, Vera Janssen seems to have had a dang good season last winter filming with Alterna Action Films, and this highlights reel shows some of her greatest hits. It also shows her dancing. We have no idea how good her dancing season was though. Vera?

This is the second Nitro Roadwarriors teaser for their 2011 movie “Feels like Home”. It will feature Basti Rittig, Benni Urban, and Dominik Wagner, and most likely some footage by Nils Arvidsson, Anton Bilare, Sven Thorgren, Emil Ulsletten, Enrico Cavada, Aluan Riccardi and many more…

Movie drops September 15th 2011!

“Maybe you realized it already but we just recently lauchend our new website. www.nitrousa.com!”

It’s a no-brainer; you click on Nitro’s new website and get stoked on all the new products, the team news, and the features. And according to the email, some more features will be added soon.

Now head over to www.nitrousa.com, and get immersed in their fabulous world of shred!

A while ago Quiksilver launched their Cinematic Video Series on Youtube. It features their snowboard team having a blast at whatever you throw at them. This clip is actually the sixth episode, and it features Nitro rider and Quik team member Bryan Fox slaying pow in all possible manners, using gold dust from his past few movie parts. Banger!

If you’re interested in watching more episodes I’m sure the Youtube player will lure you away from our own web offering…

“In this episode we dig into the vault for some classic Bryan Fox footage. What we came up with was a RE-EDIT of Bryan’s Pow filled adventures from the past couple years. Enjoy” -Quiksilver

Needing almost no introduction, the Finnish ripper Eero Ettala is one of the great snowboarders of this generation and has been hooked up with Nitro for over 10 years. His new pro model for 2011/2012 is looking steezy with an awesome custom graphic. Apparently he wanted his stick to be covered with all his favourite things that were lying about his house, so he collected them and headed to off to a studio with one of his photographer mates and got them all shot. They were then arranged into the awesome collage that you see on his top sheet. They are also done so that if you line up all the different board lengths next to each other they make one big collage, how cool is that?! Eero himself uses the 155 mostly and says it perfect for him as the board is of a nice flex which allows him to ride pretty much everything on that one length.

As far as technology goes it’s similar to previous years with a regular camber but if you are familiar with any of Nitro’s boards you’ll surely agree this is not a bad thing.

But if you want the word straight from the big man’s mouth then check the preview vid above.