1. Jussi Oksanen in Jackson, Sollors, Bang, Oksanen & Rencz Shred Whistler Deep Days

According to our photo editor, Jussi has been licking his face after a pow shot ever since he has been 10 years old. He’s still at it, as he is at shredding the backcountry like no other. Watch the full clip, it’s full of BC hammers!

2. Marc Swoboda in Lovelution IV FULL PART

Not only is Marc Swoboda one of the best European jibbers around, this trick was also shot during our inaugural Onboard Send-Off Session at Kitzsteinhorn. It will return this spring, so keep your eyes peeled on more smackbanging park action.

3. Ursina Haller in Protest Jokers – Mogul Madness

Yeah, we kind of had to post this as a GIF. Ursina Haller loses a mogul race and gets sprayed while stripped down to a bikini.

Ok, there’s every chance that this is the weirdest edit we’ve posted, but if the thought of Ursina Haller in a bikini getting faceshotted by a snowblower floats your boat you’ll be happy as Larry after watching this latest episode from the Protest Jokers…

Featured snowboarders: Basa Stevulova, Ana Rumiha, Julia Baumgartner, Urska Pribosic, Lisa Filzmoser, Diana Sadlowski, Conny Bleicher, Aline Bock, Ursina Haller, Sina Candrian, Vera Janssen, Tini Gruber, Margot Rozies, Suray Fernandez, Aimee Fuller, Tania Detomas, Kjersti Buaas!

The Lipstick girls are back with their second full-length film, the follow-up to last season’s 5 More Minutes, Please?! Watch this full movie featuring some of Europe’s finest ladyshreds.

The lipstick loving chicas behind Lipstick Productions have done it again and produced the second all girls all european snowboard movie starring Basa Stevulova, Ana Rumiha, Julia Baumgartner, Urska Pribosic, Lisa Filzmoser, Diana Sadlowski, Conny Bleicher, Aline Bock, Ursina Haller, Sina Candrian, Vera Janssen, Tini Gruber, Margot Rozies, Suray Fernandez, Aimee Fuller, Tania Detomas, Kjersti Buaas and many more!

A film by: Rene Gallo
Produced by: Conny Bleicher & Ana Rumiha

Filmed by: Rene Gallo, Yoann Hamonic, Sebastian Schwertl, Much & Martin Venier, Ben Bishop, Elena Bernardo, Clemens Krueger, Gregor Spinn, Thomas Franc, Ben Howells, Franbaca.

Motions graphics by: Sandra Kovacic (littlechick-design.com)

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Lipstick Productions dropped their first all-girl, all-Euro shred flick last season, and now they’re back with a bang with their follow up, EUROTIC. Check the teaser.

Last season’s movie, 5 More Minutes, Please?!, was a decent first stab at dropping a girls’ Euro snowboard movie, but with their second film, dubbed EUROTIC, it looks like they’re gonna knock the ball out the park.

Most of Europe’s noteworthy ladyshreds are part of this project, and with the epic season Europe enjoyed plus trips to further flung places like Iceland and the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia the movie promises to be a good ‘un.

Starring: Basa Stevulova, Diana Sadlowski, Julia Baumgartner, Lisa Fizmoser, Ana Rumiha, Urska Pribosic, Conny Bleicher, Suray Fernandez, Ursina Haller, Sina Candrian, Aline Bock, Vera Janssen, Margot Rozies, Tini Gruber, Aimee Fuller, Tania Detomas & friends!

Snowboarding girls of the world unite! A new Liptrip episode!

The Liptrip episodes follow us through the season, capture our trips and show “behind-the-scenes” actions and already some B-footage. In this episode the girls spent few days in LAAX. Check it out!!

featuring Sina Candrian, Ursina Haller and Isabel Derungs

filmed and edited by Elena Bernardo

motion graphics by Sandra Kovacic

music: Strange Talk “Climbing Walls”

FULL MOVIE COMING OUT IN FALL!!

Kamp K2

For the last 3 years, K2 Snowboards have held their annual end-of-season ballroom blitz in Mt Baker, but this year it was the Yanks who had to cram themselves in pressurised cigar tubes and ship out to be part of the Kamp as the resort of Ifen in Kleinwalsertal, Austria, was the chosen spot for the mayhem.

And then it dumped.

Danny Larsen rocking the axe.

And it rocked. Having never been to the US Kamp, the sight of a small village of tents and marquees gathered together in the parking lot was pretty damned impressive. We’d thought it was to be a fairly low key affair, with riders, distributors, brand honchos and media hanging by the campfire and singing Kumbaya. Shows what we know – it was less a 60s love in and more of a 70s hard rock boot camp!

Jordan Mendenhall was long-styling the mini.

A bunny man. On a fake bull. Hm.

We rolled in like grunts ready to be processed and were immediately assigned our standard issue sidearm – everyone there was given a limited edition 2010/11 Kamp K2 Turbo Dream – before we were shipped out to the front line to dodge beer bazookas and chow down on Kamp slop. It started messy and got messier – all on Kamp were given beer rations that were quickly exhausted as we got amongst it in the main tent, what with a sweet miniramp for the less inebriated soldiers and a rodeo bull for those better oiled. When the plug was pulled the more fortunate would crash in rented RVs, with many others bedding down in the sleeping tents – in which the heating failed on the first night. -9 ain’t no picnic, but it sure separated the men from the boys…

Several of these were drunk at Kamp.

Ursina Haller looks longingly at beer.

K2 had rented the whole resort for the two days of riding and everyone rose early despite frostbitten extremities and hangovers to shralp the fun terrain with friends old and new. There was some kind of contest going on whereby you had to find a bunch of stuff and get photos and whatnot, but as soon as we’d hopped aboard our new LTD Turbo Dreams there was no chance our team was going to win – you’d be very lucky to find a better, funner all-terrain machine than that sick stick – and we were having way too much fun riding the hits in the gullies to worry about contests.

Slushboarding as the weather calls an end to a hella fun day's shred. Thanks, Turbo Dream!

Men on bobby carts trying not to vomit with the world's driest hotdog and a cup of beer swilling in their guts.

The afternoon saw a minishred event go down, some Ka-Rock-Oke (guitar, bass, drums and mic that anyone could have a pop at with wildly differing results) and then a hotdog munch/run/down a beer/run/race a bobby cart type contest that had all who entered nearly puking and everyone else pissing themselves, followed up by beer pong – a hotly contested affair that the French somehow won. Then came the Kiss tribute band and everyone got twisted again dressed in their best rocker getups. Messy.

Kiss!

MBM's Basti Gogl channels the spirit of Gene Simmons.

We had to bail the next morning, but the debauchery continued with more riding, beer olympics, burger banging and prize giving for those who could resist the urge to cut loose on the empty mountain. Whoever won will surely deserve their all-expenses paid trip to the next Kamp K2 and now we’re kinda wishing we’d paid closer attention to the contest – this end-of-season get together was nothing short of epic and we for sure want to be in on it next year.

K2 Rockers.

More K2 Rockers.

K2, you ROCK! Massive shout outs to all involved for a killer season ender bender, you’re all kinds of awesome.

"I wanna rock and roll all night..."

Kamp beds. These + -9 degrees + 50 snoring drunk dudes = not so much sleep.

US Olympian Louie Vito training in Breckenridge. Photo: Cole Barash.

The majority of nations have made the final selection of who’ll go to Vancouver. See who’ll be flying the flag for you.

So there we were, tapping up our contacts at the various national snowboard organisations trying to get a definitive list of all the guys and girls who’ll be repping their countries in the pipe at the upcoming Olympics and, wouldn’t you know, our homies over at the Swatch TTR World Tour beat us to the punch. Thanks guys!

It must be said, it can often seem the selection process is more confusing than an algebra exam, with each country having different required criteria, and for the riders bidding to go it must certainly be a nerve-wracking experience waiting to see if all the points tally right and planets have aligned properly. But now, for most, the wait is over.

As ever there’s some big names who didn’t make it and some relative unknowns who did so, drum roll please, here’s who’s announced their pipe ninjas so far…

MEN

USA

Shaun White
Scotty Lago
Louie Vito
Greg Bretz

FINLAND

Peetu Piiroinen
Janne Korpi
Ilkka-Eemeli Laari
Markus Malin

FRANCE

Mathieu Crepel
Arthur Longo
Aluan Ricciardi
Gary Zebrowski

SWITZERLAND

Christian Haller
Iouri Podladtchikov
Markus Keller
Sergio Berger

NORWAY

Fredrik Austbø
Tore V. Holvik
Roger S. Kleivdal
Ståle Sandbech

CANADA

Jeff Batchelor
Justin Lamoureux
Brad Martin
Micheal Lambert

AUSTRALIA

Scott James
(15 year old youngest ever snowboarder to compete at a Winter Olympic Games.)
Ben Mates

GREAT BRITAIN

Ben Kilner

NEW ZEALAND

James Hamilton
Mitch Brown

GERMANY

Christophe Schmidt

WOMEN

USA

Gretchen Bleiler
Kelly Clark
Hannah Teter
Elena Hight

SWITZERLAND

Ursina Haller
Manuela Pesko

NORWAY

Kjersti Ø. Buaas
Linn Haug
Lisa H. Wiik

CANADA

Palmer Taylor
Sarah Conrad
Mercedes Nicolls

AUSTRALIA

Torah Bright

POLAND

Paulina Ligocka

NEW ZEALAND

Juliane Bray

Kendall Brown

Rebecca Sinclair

CZECH REPUBLIC

Sarka Pancochova

GREAT BRITAIN

Lesley McKenna

FRANCE

Sophie Rodriguez
Mirabelle Thovex

As you can see, Japan have yet to announce their team and they certainly have riders who can have a say in the final outcome, but them aside all the big hitters are accounted for. Check out over on the TTR webpage where you can see how those riders have been performing on the World Tour so you can have all the information possible when you head down the bookies’ to have a wee flutter.