Volcom’s Am-focussed pan-Europen jib tour rolled through Scandinavia and Austria recently, and they’ve dropped us the video highlights from each stop. Check em…

FINLAND

SWEDEN

NORWAY

AUSTRIA

Midway through its 9th European winter season, Volcom Stone’s PBRJ vessel has been sailing all over Europe before it arrives at its final port, where it’ll anchor up in Avoriaz (Harbor), France for the final PBRJ session on the 31 of March 2012. This’ll be the last long-lining festival of fun of the season, after 18 stops taking in the whole of Europa from Greece in the South to Finland in the North!

The top 5 anglers in every division at each stop qualify for the European PBRJ Championships in Avoriaz, France. So we will see some of the best up and coming jibbers from all European seas gathering for this exciting event, with tons of prizes to be reeled in and 12,000€ in prize money!

Check out videos, photos and reports of the 2012 European PBRJ season

As Volcom’s amateur contest, the goal of the PBRJ is to give something back to the kids. Beware of copies out there, this is the original! Mixing up the established contest format, they came up with something different. Rather than having three rails in a row, the Volcomites put them side-by-side to create a rail zone which boosts the energy level and fun nature of the contest by having everyone ride together, riding, hiking, and watching in a big group.

There are 4 divisions: Girls, 15 & under, 16 & over and Open. Winners from every division go home with loads of prizes while the Open division winners receive prizes as well as cold hard cash. The contest runs in a jam format so there are no scheduled runs – riders can hit each of the rails as many times as they want during their 20-minute heat. Judges only score landed tricks, so you don’t need to worry about falling. The event is absolutely free to enter, on a first come first served basis, and boasts tons of free prizes, free drinks, free food and Peanut Butter & Jam sandwiches! Also, Everyone who enters walks away with some prizes!

Upcoming PBRJ Europe Stops

MARCH 10, St Petersburg, Russia
MARCH 10, Hafjell, Norway
MARCH 10, Blue-Tomato Snowpark, Stuhleck, Austria*
MARCH 10, Hammarbybacken, Stockholm, Sweden
MARCH 10, Talma, Finland
MARCH 17, Les 7 Laux, France*
MARCH 17, Grasgehren, Germany*
MARCH 18, San Martino di Castrozza, Italy
MARCH 24, SnowPlanet, Netherlands
MARCH 31, PBRJ European Championships, Avoriaz, France 12000€*

Dates and locations subject to change, check www.volcomeurope.com for the latest info.

Where: Rinn Jib Park, Innsbruck

This is just a quick reminder for the #9 Europen stop of the 2012 Volcom Peanut Butter and Rail Jam. It will go down in the Sane Rinn Jib Park on Saturday, 3 March 2012.

Register from 9.30am on contest day, ride from 11am and win tons of prizes, get free food & drinks and have a good time.

Results

Open:
1. Nejc Ferjan (Slovenia) 1750€
2. Daniel Cobrats (Germany) 1000€
3. Erik Nesse (Norway) 750€
4. Stefan Rokos (Czech)
5. Jesse Rontti (Finland)

Girls:
1. Mary Luggen (Austria) 1000€
2. Anne Sophie Lechon (NL) 750 €
3. Dina Treland (Norway) 500€
4. Joellg Juchli (Austria)
5. Christine Szumovsku (Austria)

16 and over:
1. Lasse Ihalainen (Finland) 1000€
2. Joel Ahola (Finland) 750€
3. Ziga Rakovec (Austria) 500€
4. Florian Arnold (Switzerland)
5. Marc Andre Seguin (Quebec)

15 and under:
1. Jesse Augustinus (NL) 1000€
2. Gery Regnant (Spain) 600€
3. Ludwig Billtoff (Sweden) 400€
4. Michel Tobias (Austria)
5. Jules Hense (NL)

Electric Gooyest move:
Dina Treland – halfcab 5050 to frontboard

All through this winter Volcom will be pitching up their PBRJ rail events at a multitude of resorts across Europe. There’s a 10k purse for the series, and top 3 from each stop get an invite to the PBRJ Europe finals in Laax at the end of the season. Cash money? Free food? Free entry? Free awesomness? Check out where your nearest one is and get yourself involved in these fun-vibed shindigs…

Volcom and Onboard has offered you the chance to win an all inclusive trip to Laax for the finals of the Peanut Butter & Rail Jam 2010, and here are the official results.

You guys have been pretty talented at naming the tricks well, as well as being very creative on other trick terms, to say the least. But the best of you all, who had the privilege to go and judge at the Euro finals, all expenses paid, was Max Wettstein from Germany. He even corrected some of the senior trickspellers around, and got 21 rights answers out of 24! His mistakes: on the second trick, Mark Swoboda is riding switch, and sorry but a ‘one foot indy tap’ is most commonly known as a Fast Plant… Anyways, congrats to him! We hope he enjoyed his crazy week-end in Laax with all the pros!

Here’s the list of the 4 other winners to win one year free subscription at Onboard, for showing us all their talents at spelling – or smelling trick names:

1st Place: Max Wettstein

1. Backside 180 in to swicht tailpress buttering 180 backside 180 off

2. Backside tailslide 270 off

3. Frontside bluntslide 270 off

4. Gap stailfish to frontside boardslide

5. Tailslide to frontside boardslide

6. 50-50 gap frontside 360 off

7. MJ ( michael jackson)

8. Gap backside 180 in cap 180 off

9. Onefoot gap to special playstation onefoot slide

10. 50-50 frontside sexchange swichtch backside 180 off

11. Noseslide backside 270 off

12. Backside tailslide 270 off

13. Boardslide to switch 50-50 switch backside 180 off

14. Gap backside 180 in revard

15. onefoot indy tap

16. Frontside 270 in to switch backside 270 switch tailpress switch backside 180 off

17. Gap frontside 360 in 50-50 frontside 180 off

18. Hardway backside 270 in boardslide backside 270 off

19. 50-50 frontboard prezel off

20. Gap tailbonk

21. Libslide frontside 270 off

22. Frontside bluntslide backside 270 off

23. Gap hardway frontside 270 to frontside boardslide

24. Gap backside 450 in switch off

Second Place: Alex Simopoulos

1. nosepress revert till i die or carousel

2.nollie back lip 270 out.

3.fs blunt 270 out

3.stalefish gap to fs board or THE BLUFF

4.bs board to sw fs board or the double penetration

5.50-50 gap 360 out.

6.mj or the king is dead or beat THIS

7.bs180 to 50-50  sw fs 180 out

8.the flamingow

9.fs 5050 revert 180 out or what the fuck

10.180 sw 5-0 360 out or smth i didnt like this trick a lot.

11.nollie back lip 270 out or fakie who knows:p

12.fs nose to sw 5050 180 out

13.gap hardway bs 180 to 5050 180 out or EAT SHIT!

14.THE TRICK THAT GUYS IN THINK THANK WILL ALWAYS DO BETTER

15.fs 270 to switch fs blunt to sw 5-0 bs 180 out.

16.nice gap 360 to 5050 to 180 out

17.nollie bs 270 to board 270 out or the hellacopter.

18.the nosebleed

19.the brocken comdom(you get in and you have to get out again without taking the pleasure)

20.fs tail 270 out

21.fs blunt 270 out ( 270s are in fashion:p)

22.gap 270 to fs board THE HARDWAYYYY.

23.bs 450 to fs board or blunt(i bet he didnt knew either what he was going to do:p)

24.i somehow missed a trick…

Third Place: Aleksi Kemilainen

1.-bs270 in bs 2 out(the spinner)

2.-nollie bs tail 270 out

3.-fs blunt 270 out

4.-Stalefish to fs board

5.-cab 1 to 5050 to fs board

6.-5050 to 360 out over the downbar

7.-THE JACKSON

8.-bs1 in cab1 out

9.-cap to one foot crossfooted 5050

10.-toeside cab1 to 5050 to 180 out

11.-fs 1 in  cab3 out

12.-nollie bs taislide 270 out

13.-boardslide to 5050 180 out

14.-Anssi Paatero´s special move “the turner” , bs 1 in ss bs 1 out

15.-Fastplant

16.-cab 270 to 270 switch up to 5050 bs 1 out

17.-fs3 in , 180 out

18.-Wrong side(heelside) bs 270 in and 270 out

19.-5050 to fs board prezel out

20.-gap to tailtap

21.-fs lipslide 270out

22.-fs blunt 270 out

23.-gap toeside fs270

24.-bs450

Fourth Place: Keijo Ruuven

1. Backside 180 to tailpress 180 to 180 off

2. Nollie bs tailslide 270 out

3. Fs bluntslide 270 out

4. Stalefish to frontside boardslide

5. Bs boardslide to switch fs boardslide

6. Fs 50-50 to fs 360 out

7. Michael Jackson

8. Bs 180 to bs 50-50 nosebonk 180 out

9. One footed transfer to cross-legged 50-50

10. Fs nosebluntslide to 50-50 to 180 out

11. Bs overcrooked noseslide to pretzel 270 out.

12. Bs tailslide to 270 out

13. Bs noseslide to nosebonk? 50-50 to 180 out

14. Bs 180 to 50-50 pretzel 180 out

15. Fastplant on a bigass tire.

16. Fs 270 to frontside noseslide 180 switch bs tailslide 270 out

17. Fs 450 to bs boardslide to fakie.

18. Nollie bs 270 to bs bluntslide(boardslide) 270 out

19. 50-50 to fs boardslide pretzel 270 out

20. Transfer tailtap.

21. Fs lipslide 270 out

22. Fs bluntslide 270 out

23. Toe-edge fs 270 to fs boardslide to fakie

24. Bs 450 to fs bluntslide(boardslide) to fakie.

Fifth Place: Noel Garsou

Nose toupie

Nollie bs tail 270 out

Nollie fs blunt 270 out

Stalefish to fs boardslide

boardslide to fs boardslide

fifty to fs 3.6 out

un putain de mj slide

bs 180 to SW fifty to 180 out

one foot to Fred Astaire slide

180 fifty shifty quelque chose 180 out

fs 180 sw five-0 3.6 revert

nollie bs lipslide 270 out

Boardslide to sw fifty bs 180 out

180 back sw fifty revert !!

(hummm je veux être la tartine)

fastplant

fs 270 frontboard to five-0 bs 180 out

Fs 3.6 fifty 180 out

nollie bs 270 boardslide 270 out

fifty to frontboard pretzel

tail tap

fs tailslide 270 out

fs blunt 270 out

nollie 270 fsboard 270 out

bs 450 frontboard to fakie

Congrats to all of you guys, your skills and (sometimes or) creativity will bring you Onboard magazine to your door for the next coming year, as well as the infamous Volcom PBRJ prize pack!

See full report of the Euro PBRJ 2010 here.

The ultimate showdown of the best European Peanut Butter & Rail Jam riders went down in LAAX, Switzerland.

More than a hundred snowboarders from more than 18 European countries made a pilgrimage to the Swiss Alps to attend to the event and battle for the prizes, honor and ransom. Local shapers did an amazing job dealing with the end of season warm temperatures and set the rails at the bottom of the slopes next to the Rock resort. This year European PBRJ Champs featured a down rail “the Pacific Union”, a mellow double kink “double colt” and a massive plastic tube alias “T.N.T.” stick; all rails were round ones, and that made a difference for riders only used to flat bars or boxes.

As soon as the rails were ready to practice everyone assaulted them, and riders quickly warmed up hiking back on the scaffoldings to get the necessary speed. Contest then started with the weisswurst and ribs fumet from the barbecue, and from midday til the end, every heat saw non-stop action. The whole event was full of energy, and lots of bandits went down in the shoot outs, but fortunately without any severe injury. And it is in the middle of whips, guns and lassoes that all the riders attacked for Victory.

We will not go into a trick list cause you better watch the clip to get an idea but some of the highlights were Jesse Augustinus masterizing the 15 and under division from qualifications to final, Girls charging hard in their qualification heat, impressing even our Judges-deputies such as rail expert Anton “Tonton” Holland with for example throwing perfects nollie back lips on the “Pacific Union” first try. Also, apparently next trend would be the small stance come-back, and there are less crazy spinners 450 ins- 450 outs but way more sexchanges and other swingswangs…

As our PBRJ/Onboard judge game winner Max Wettstein noticed, the train robbers got more creative on the “T.N.T.” stick while the day advanced, but got disappointed that nobody tried to hippie jump it…that would have won the Electric “Gooeyest Move of the day” award… Other than that Slovenians were some stand outs throughout the day and despite Norwegians doing really good in the qualifications, watch out for the eastern rail killers replacing the scandos in the future jibbing domination.

North America PBRJ sheriff Jeff Arnold had a couple of bandits down during the shoot outs but couldn’t do anything against Finnish sniper Sami Luthanen who robbed the bank, destroying everything in the qualifications and surgically striked during the last showdown into the first place in the Open division (900€), plus getting one of the two Electric award on the way (100€).

After a long day of action, showdown and serious chill under the sun, prize ceremony went down and prizes literally covered top 5 of each category, with Open division winners getting some money on top of that. A thousand Thanks to our friends in the industry for the product supportVans, Electric , Aerial7 , Onboard snowboarding magazine! and Nitro who gave out the prize of a brand new board to polish qualifier Kacper Kilar via the raffle.

In the end, Jesse, local Gina Somani, Thomas Coldebella, and Sami Luhtanen won their tickets and accommodation to compete in the world PBRJ champs in Mammoth mountain (USA) and have a shot at the 30 000$ prize money. Don’t miss the live Webcast on Saturday April 25 from 6pm to 2am (Paris time) on volcom.com

Everybody then enjoyed Swedish band GRAVEYARD playing some good rock’n roll at the Riders Palace and throwing a sick show for free until late night.

See you all next season for another good one!

Thanks to the good work of all Volcom staff, LAAX resort, all the shapers from LAAX, Jon and Henry MCing, Jarnold, Tonton, Pacome, Micha for bringing Graveyard, Vernon Deck and Miha Matvz for the pics, Chris Garside and Simpert for the clips.

Results:

Electric “Gooeyest” Moves of the day
Dominik Wagner 100€
Sami Luthanen 100€

Winners Open category

15-:

1. Jesse Augustinus – Netherlands 900€ trip to Mammoth
2. Andrej Marincic – Slovenia 400€
3. Teemu Lambert – Finland 200€
4. Sindre Cottis – Norway
5. Johannes Refsdal – Norway

Winners 15- category

Girls:

1. Gina Somani – Switzerland trip to Mammoth
2. Urska Pribosic – Slovenia
3. Stephie Kauert - Switzerland
4. Basa Stevulova – Slovenia
5. Marion Hearty – France

Winners Girls category

16+:

1. Thomas Coldebella – Switzerland trip to Mammoth
2. Jessi Blackwell - Norway
3. Aljaz Gnezda – Slovenia
4. Matic Zavodlik – Slovenia
5. Tobi Hartmut – Austria

Winners 16+ category

Open:

1. Sami Luhtanen – Finland trip to Mammoth
2. Flo Heim - Austria
3. Florian Galler – Austria
4. Simon Pircher – Germany
5. Ziga Rakovec - Slovenia / Stefano Benchimol – Italy

And the big winner is:

Sami Luhtanen, happy winner 1000 euros in total, and a plane ticket to the PBRJ world finals in Mammoth!

See the full report of the Volcom PBRJ 2010 on Volcom Europe’s website.

But that’s not all folks! We also wanted to give you the results of our great Volcom/Onboard competition that run all the way during the PBRJ across Europe. For those who need a reminder, click here.

You guys have been pretty talented at naming the tricks well, as well as being very creative on other trick terms, to say the least. But the best of you all, who had the privilege to go and judge at the Euro finals, all expenses paid, was Max Wettstein from Germany. He even corrected some of the senior trickspellers around, and got 21 rights answers out of 24! His mistakes: on the second trick, Mark Swoboda is riding switch, and sorry but a ‘one foot indy tap’ is most commonly known as a Fast Plant… Anyways, congrats to him! We hope he enjoyed his crazy week-end in Laax with all the pros!

And here’s the list of the 4 other winners, who get one year free subscription at Onboard, for showing us all their talents at smelling trick names:

2nd Place: Alex Simopoulos

3rd Place: Aleksi Kemilainen

4th Place: Keijo Ruuven

5th Place: Noel Garsou

If you want to read all the trick names they put down, go here.

Video of the jibbing that went down at the Euro PBRJ finals in Laax.

Saturday April 10th was the big European Final of the Volcom Peanut Butter & Rail Jam in LAAX, Switzerland. With a nice spring conditions, all the qualified from the previous events joined in Switzerland to compete and win a ticket for the US big final in Mammoth, USA.

Read the full report of the 2010 European PBRJ here.

Volcom offers you the chance to win an all inclusive trip to Laax for the finals of the Peanut Butter & Rail Jam 2010, but you’re obviously going to have to work for it!

You just need to ask yourself one question: Do you have what it takes to be a PBRJ champs judge?

If you think you have, go to the Volcom PBRJ page and watch the video. Name the 24 tricks on the PBRJ 2009 mix recap you’re going to see, and put them in order in the text box.

Best entry will win an all expenses paid trip to the European PBRJ champs in Laax, Switzerland (April 10, 2010), to come help judge the contest and hang out with the Volcom team Riders. Top 15 runner up will win a special PBRJ prize pack. No needs to be a snowboarding nerd: BE CREATIVE!

The Volcom PBRJ prize pack

VOLCOM STONE’S EUROPEAN PBRJ TOUR 2010

9/01/10 Gaissau Hintersee, Boardshop snowpark, Austria
23/01/10 Luz Ardiden France
23/01/10 White-Elements snowpark, Grindelwald, Switzerland
28/01/10 Bialka Tatrzanska, Poland
30/01/10 Parnitha, Greece
6/02/10 Trysil, Norway
13/02/10 Horni Mysecky, Czech
13/02/10 Hammarbybacken, Stockholm, Sweden
20/02/10 Laichingen- Alb, snowpark Salzwinkel, Germany
27/02/10 Kuutsemäe, Estonia
27/02/10 Rogla, Slovenia
6/03/10 Serena, Finland
6/03/10 Oberstdorf, Fellhorn Park, Germany
6/03/10 Port Ainé, Spain
14/03/10 Alagna, Italy
20/03/10 Les 2 Alpes, France
27/03/10 Innsbruck, Nordpark, Austria
4/04/10 Madonna di Campiglio, Italy
10/04/10 Laax, European PBRJ Champs, Switzerland
24/04/10 Mammoth, Ca World PBRJ Champs, USA

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