It’s less than two weeks until the TSA Indoor Winter Games kicks off and there are still few places left if you want to enter a team.

There’s cold hard cash up for grabs, £150 winning bar tab, snowboard hardware, outerwear and of course medals and trophies galore to be won. Have you got what it takes to beat these so-called pro teams at snowboard Slalom, High Jump, Long Jump and Hurdles?

Top prizes are up for grabs at every event, plus championship trophies and prizes will be won by the overall winning team and best unsponsored winning team (the best unsponsored team prize pot is growing by the day).

You can enter a team of four snowboarders for just £75 if you register before the 21st August, that’s less than £20 per team member for an awesome night of snowboard fun, get your skates on though as entry will go up to £100 a team on the 21st.

For those of you not competing but wanting to check out the action still head on down. There will be a slope side bar and spectator area with plenty to watch all night long. All the teams need your support, who will you back to win Gold and honour?

Book your place now by calling SNO!zone Milton Keynes on 0871 222 5670

Full registration and event info here – www.snowboard-asylum.com/tsa-games

Japan ROCKS!

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Another 7 days have flown by so we’re here with our army of highly trained pre-teen internerds to bring you anything, everything and even sometimes nothing that went down in snowboarding the past week. Have at them links…

SATURDAY

We flicked on the internets Saturday morning, idled about and and checked out Antti Autti‘s site and saw his footage of riding a kicker on a Finnish beach. We have no idea when it was from, but it’s maybe the weirdest location for a kicker comp ever. Keeping it Finnish, Buoloco squeeze some chat out of Markku Koski’s face about sponsorship while Stateside Darrell Mathes and Nima Jalali get their Harlem Globetrotter on, and Shane Flood joins the YEA.NICE family and rides the worlds smallest halfpipe. There’s a shot of ‘When Double Corks Go Wrong’ in there too that’s pretty wince-inducing.

SUNDAY

We post up our slick edit of the Forum International team enjoying the summer slush in Les 2 Alpes, while in Teaserland, the offerings for Alterna Films’ ‘Hello World’ and Bamboo Pictures’ ‘Sketchy’ drop into the pipes. The Angry Snowboarder shares Kingpin’s seminal movie ‘Destroyer’ from 2000 with the world (set aside 40-odd minutes to watch the full thing – it’s epic and has Gigi’s first pop at a double cork amongst other bangers), VegHeads are from Canada, eh, and is this clip of Heikki Sorsa the future of snowboard movies? At least the iPhone still films when you hold it ‘wrong’.

Andreas Wiig ROCKS!

MONDAY

The first day back behind a desk always blows, but it’s made better as Nitro’s TWS Team Challenge effort is birthed onto an expectant internet by Mr Ettala and hammers continues to rain down at the Camp of Champions when the Stepchild/People session wraps up. TSA opens registration to their hyper-awesome mega-extreme Winter Games contest – banked slalom, high jump, hurdles (hurdles?) and long jump, bitches – and in slightly less EXXXTREME contest news, the Dew Tour announces its schedule. Sorry, but if you ain’t got hurdles you ain’t shit these days. Other Monday tidbits include photo hound Eric Bergeri launching a new website, a clip that had us reciting Colonel Kurtz – “The horror, the horror…” and Trevor Andrew dropping a fresh mixtape on your asses.

TUESDAY

After a successful time in Val Senales, the World Rookie Fest prepares to head down under, while in addition to the nighttime surfing we brought you a couple of weeks back, there’s now more photographic evidence of what the Grenade crew got up to on their Summer European Vacation. In movie-related news, we love the Pirates: not only do they annually drop heavy snow porn filmed with love, they also like rum and saying ‘Aaarrrgh’. They just wrapped their infamous intro shoot in Kaprun, and let it be known that it won’t be long till we can get pumped on their teaser for the new flick, Hooked. There’s also a new teaser for the upcoming Lives of the Artists 2 that gives us a glimpse of what Jones and De Le Rue got up to in Antarctica. Finally, Nico Müller talks ninja moves and nutrition.

WEDNESDAY

Wednesday kicked off with a thunderclap as Absinthe Films dropped teaser for NowHere. It’s one of the few really ‘holy shit!’ teasers out so far, so we hit up Brusti for the nitty gritty too. The Flow team also have a video coming soon – Witness the Sickness –  and their teaser even contains real live vomit and Lago’s monster overshoot as well as some old fashioned shreddery. Double time: Protest are now sponsoring the British Champs, Fear of the Park’s Shred, Lies and Videotapes series is ‘almost 20‘, The Snowbroader crew went on tour this spring and have a video of the haps, Eero Ettala hits rewind and brings you an awesome clip of him riding in 98, and Chris Sörman is, apparently, an athlete.

Absinthe's teaser ROCKS!

THURSDAY

The TWS Team Shootout entries are coming thick and fast as Volcom’s entry hits the airwaves, but the Private crew aren’t bothered by that as they drop their Beneluxurious teaser for ‘Click Clack’. Meanwhile, Videograss announce the dates for the world premiere of Bon Voyage, photo G Colin Adair gets a nice profile, and in case you didn’t already know it DCP is a cool guy. That was going to be that for Thursday and we were about to go skateboarding. However, as we were headed out the door we saw Antti Autti’s Twitter message, checked out this video of a 6-year-old girl bowl riding and promptly quit skating for good.

FRIDAY

It’s all go in Kangaroo country as course details have been announced for the Dew Hut Jam where you’ll be able to scrap for a share of the 19K purse. In the US and A, Eddie Wall updates the Video Hyper Shred site with some awesome shots of his previous career as an autograph hunter back in 97, along with memories of a cool Jamie Lynn, a bummed Peter Line and a mumbling Terje, and the Airblaster guys found an interesting interview with Think Thank’s Jesse Burtner about their new movie Right Brain, Left Brain. Ashbury catch up with Jake Kusyk, a guy you’ll have been seeing a lot of in the CoC edits, and for those who were wondering how to stand on hot black c.. err, asphalt, Heikki Sorsa’s got your back.

Heikki's landing gear, err, ROCKS!

That’s your lot, homonids. We now feel like this guy and hope you do too. Have yourselves a bonza weekend and see you in 168 hours.

It’s time for the final leg of the TSA Shred Down series.

On Saturday the 27th February the SNO!zone Scotland will host what has come to be a storming grassroots jam format snowboard competition. At this final event the 2010 TSA Shred Down champion will be crowned and get to takeaway a brand spanking new setup for their troubles.

There is a whole host of sponsors onboard and prizes will be given out all night long for rider progression, best tricks and the overall winners.

We will see you north of the border 27th February from 8-10pm