Scandinavian girls are famous for many things! Having fun on a football field  without a football probably isn’t one of them... Then again, Kari Opsal-Maeland is anything but typical. A pile of snow, a discarded sewage pipe and her trusty snow snow-sliding device is all she needs to be grinning from ear to ear.

Aaah, if only more girls were like her…

The Red Bull Upside Down in Linz was held last Friday. Thanks to Red Bull and all the other organizers, the great audition and the riders for this sweet contest.

Here the results:

1st – Wojtek Pawlusiak
2nd – Gerben Verweij
3rd – Dani Rajcsanyi

Blue Tomato teamrider Marc Swoboda missed the podium barely. But he had a good time anyway and despite his injured shoulder he got 4th.

And for all of you who couldn’t make it to Linz a sweet video edit of the contest. Enjoy!

Additionally Transworld Snow uploaded some vids from the TWS Riders Poll Awards. Check out Halldor winning the Rookie of the Year and Eiki winning the Readers Choice Award

The Viking Project is an ultra low budget production from beautiful Styria in Austria. The producers of the Viking Project are Christoph Gaisberger, Mac Krebernik, Hans Kainz, Stefan Morocutti, Peter Kricker, Michael Ruhdorfer und Tom Staud. Filming mainly took place in Planneralm, Loser, Tauplitz and Riesneralm but also at the Dachstein glacier and in the rest of Styria.

Visit www.viking-project.com and check out the trailer HERE

More video highlights from the 11th Burton European Open slopestyle and halfpipe contests.

A tight cut from the TTR of some of the killer shredboarding that went down in Laax last week, including Mikkel Bang‘s übersteezy switch backside 12, Peetu Piiroinen‘s stomptastic slopestyle run, and a bunch of double corking in the pipe.

slopestyle finals

Now that the 2010 BEO is done and dusted, we got the winning runs in slopestyle and pipe for you to get hyped on.

After a win at the Roxy Chicken Jam, rookie Finnish rider Enni Rukajärvi continued to show why so many people see a bright future for her with a stellar run to clinch the women’s slopestyle. The girl is just a super stylish stomp machine. In the men’s last year’s TTR winner Peetu Piiroinen left it to the last run to usurp an on-fire Mikkel Bang and did so with some clean jibs and 10-9-10 on the kickers.

The pipe saw Poland’s Paulina Ligocka take the women’s crown with a front 9, some straight airs and a front 7, while Peetu once more left it to his last run to stomp his monster double cork 10 and continue down the pipe like he was on crazy pills to beat off fellow Finn Ilkka-Eemeli Laari.

For more on the BEO, including reports, photos and video interviews with the winners, check the Onboard Events section.

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Eiki is filming with the Pirates this season. Watch the early season edit from Sälen by Pirate Movie Production featuring Danny Larsen, Gulli Gudmundsson, Kalle Ohlson and Eiki Helgason – Awesome!

Congrats to Halldor, after his 1st place at the Qualifiers he got 5th in the Dew Tour Breckenridge Slopestyle Finals… Check the video edit by twsnow.com

Also keep up to date with the Helgasons at helgasons.com