A little over a week ago Alex Tank, with help from his homies at Head Snowboards, Arnette Eyewear and the resort of Oberjoch, laid down the fourth edition of the Head Jib Factory. 20 grade-A jibbers hit up the biggest setup the session’s ever had and the result was some steller stunt sledging. Check the edit and gallery by Flo Jäger…

Could there be a better ending for the winter season than hanging out with all your friends having a sick session, BBQ and a DJ for the perfect sound? That’s exactly what happened on April 16th and 17th at Oberjoch in Germany, where the fourth Head Jib Factory by Alex Tank & Arnette went down. 20 invited riders from all over the world came to the Allgäu to ride the brand new setup which was the biggest one the Jib Factory has seen so far.

As always, the goal was to get creative and to have as much fun as possible. To make that even easier, a new accommodation was chosen, all riders stayed in a typical Bavarian hut right next to the setup. So everybody could start and finish his session whenever he wanted and ride home on his snowboard. Some heavy tricks have been thrown down; naming them all would take way too much time, so you better check out the official Jib Factory edit.

On both days the riders played the “Game of Out” on the Arnette granite ledge. As we knew from previous years, this takes some time because almost every rider was able to do every trick – hence it was decided to turn it into a team competition. Every team had two riders and could decide by themselves who had to do the trick.

At the end only team Innsbruck (Raffael Kossmann and Tobi Hartmuth) and Team Mustachio (Eirik Nesse and Kas Lemmens) were left. After playing for more than two hours they decided for a tie and split the prize money of 500 €. Kas Lemmens was the most outstanding rider for sure, not only that he always was the first rider hitting the setup and the last one to leave, he also landed pretty much everything he tried. So it was no surprise that he was voted Best Rider Overall and cashed out 1000€ on top of the team event.

The decision for Best Trick was way harder because Eirik and Kas stomped some really hard tricks. At the end Kas Lemmens BS 270 Hardway to Fakie at the stair set got the most votes. Boom, another 500 € for Kas.

To finish things off, the Atagge Highest Ollie contest took place. Everybody could join this session, no matter if filmer, shaper, DJ… At the end the host Alex Tank himself took home the wander trophy with a winning height of 95 centimeters. We had two awesome days at Oberjoch, thanks to all people involved.

Hope to see you all again next year!

The crew of Finnish badasses responsible for last year’s most excellent movie, Snake Bite, are back with the teaser for their new project, dubbed Golden Years. It looks hyper rad. Get the lowdown and check the teaser like right now!

KBR have in the space of a short few years gone from plucky upstarts churning out bro-cam edits to Euro movie crew heavyweights. Check their full movie from last year at the bottom of this post and you’ll see they mean business. For 2013 they’ve added a few more Finnish ninjas to the roster, switched up the format a little – they plan to release three ‘chapters’ followed up by an extended full movie this autumn – and by the look of the teaser Golden Years is going to be stoking the asses off street-focussed shredders, while even giving those with a penchant for pow a li’l something something too.

KBR’s Golden Years presented by Battery.

Three chapters and extended full movie dropping in Fall 2013.

Filmed by Eemeli Nättinen, Gus Tible & Jon Vital.

Riders: Toni Kerkelä, Petrus Koskinen, Sami Luhtanen, Janne Lipsanen, Teo Konttinen, Antti Jussila, Sakari Lähdesmäki, Niko Länsiö, Jani Sorasalmi & Elias Veijola.

Supporters: Battery Energy Drink, DC, K2 Snowboarding, Junkyard.com, Iso-Syöte, Quicksilver, Rip Curl, Dye & Smokin

Media partners: Onboard Magazine & Transworld Snowboarding.

Instagram: @kbrcrew
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kbrproductions

Toni Kerkelä, Aleksi Kemilainen, Petrus Koskinen, and Sakari Lahdesmäki get some quality spring shred done at Riihivuori, Finland.

To say that Hoppipolla headwear has a good team is doing a disservice to the word ‘understatement’. With a team that reads like a who’s who of contemporary Scandic talent, this March team edit is predictably bolts. Check it…

Riders: Eiki Helgason, Halldor Helgason, Stale Sandbech, Kalle Ohlson, Alek Oestreng, Erik Botner, Torgeir Berre, Gulli Gudmundsson, Toni Kerkela and Lonnie Kauk.

Once again, Keep the Change are partnering up with Videograss to bring you the best in cutting edge urban riding videography. And since this year the also includes our Euro homie and KBR senior Toni Kerkelä we strongly recommend you watch this and set some money aside for the full movie. Read on to find out who else will be in this excellent snowboard movie.

Watch as the best lineup of up-and-coming riders put their blood, sweat, and fears aside to get the shot again in the highly anticipated ROLL CALL. Last year you said “Holy Smokes,” but this year we’re going all out to produce some of the heaviest footage in the game. This is definitely not a movie you want to miss.

Featuring:
Dylan Dragotta, Johnny O’Connor, Mark Wilson, Cody Beirsdorf, Spencer Schubert, Sam Taxwood, Brandon Hobush, Derrek Lever, Blake Paul, Austin Young, Toni Kerkelä, Mike Ravelson, Dylan Alito

Proudly supported by: 
32, Anon, Arnette, Arbor, Ashbury, Burton, Celsius, Etnies, Holden, Howl, L1, Nitro, The North Face, Union, Rome, Smith, Volcom

The latest instalment of Rome’s project (whereby they drop a short movie each month for a whole year) is live and features hammers from Quebec and Ottowa with urban specialists like LNP, Toni Kerkelä and Will Lavigne getthing it done…

And if you haven’t seen them yet, make sure you check the previous episodes of Rome’s 12 Months…

These dudes from Jyväskylä named their crew after Nick Visconti’s skinny stick legs, hang about with the KBR guys and have produced a rad first full movie. Check it.

Tikut presents a snowboard movie for snowboarders.

Featuring: Ville Väisänen, Aleksi Kemiläinen, Roope Höynä, Toni Kerkelä, Roope Koitola and Friends.

Filmed by Mikko Suomalainen, Eemeli Hepola, KBR, Niki Ja Juuso R.dOGit, Justin Gunson/Tws, Theodore Muse, Petter Foshaug, Erik Lindhe, Kuske

Edited by Roope Höynä & Tuna Baleon

Produced by Tikut

Friends: Miika Lappalainen, Tuho-Juho Haapalainen, Veke Veijola, Antti Jussila, Juuso Rutanen, Petrus Koskinen, Juuso Turkka
What is Tikut?

“Tikut is snowboarding crew from Jyväskylä, Finland. It was founded in the year 2008. We were watching Nick Visconti’s part in Stack Footy and he had so tight pants in it, that his legs looked like two sticks (in finnish Tikut) especially in the shot where he does a tailpress to this wooden down rail (tikut.tumblr.com/image/39514934301) . After that we started calling our “thing” and later the blog “Tikut”.

In the beginning we had an official KBR productions blog where we were allowed to post only official KBR prod stuff. A Little part of the crew wanted to post more videos including ones that are not that “official”, videos that represents us and who we are and some pics of our daily life. So we decided to start a blog of our own.

Tikut blog was and still is kind of a lifestyle blog. Year after year we’ve made new videos and things have got bigger. In the past few years Tikut have developed from only maintaining a blog and making videos in to a movie production also. And we are proud to present, our first full length movie TIKUT.”

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Like us: facebook.com/Tikut

The 10th most popular free snowboard movie of 2012 was KBR Productions’ Snake Bite. Finland’s best up-and-comers get their shred game on, mostly on rails, in parks, and around town. Their best movie yet? Hell yeah.

Riders: Petrus Koskinen, Sakari Lähdesmäki, Elias Veijola, Toni Kerkelä, Sami Luhtanen, Antti Jussila, Janne Lipsanen, Niko Länsiö, Roope Höynä and more.

Toni Kerkelä is a BOSS. Watch his full part from KBR Productions latest bangfest, Snake Bite, like right goddamn now!