Werni Stock and his crew, The Djudes, have been knocking together a small jib park in their Zillertal backyard the last few seasons, and now with some budgetary energy from burn they’ve taken it up a notch. Check them out shralping their self-made Ruama Park on its opening day…

Here’s what went down last year…

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February went by so quickly this year again… On my way to ispo, I stopped in Arlberg to shred with Rudi Kröll for a day. It had just snowed but the conditions were quite sketchy and we decided not to go too far out of the slopes. We spent the day doing fun lines and pow slash. Pretty fun mellow day until my car broke down on the parking lot in Zurs.

Then Munich for ispo super busy between meetings, long time no see people, and the parties!! Thanks to DJ Loli for the insane beat! After 3 days of madness I was stoked to make my way back into the mountains. I joined the Aesthetikers in Zillertal to film with Mone Monsberger, Beckna, Chris and Rudi Kröll, Steve Gruber and the whole crew.

I arrived with the cold temperatures 10 days of -15!! Brrr… too cold for my taste! The advantage is that the snow stays good when it’s cold but then again, building kickers with sugar isn’t so easy!

The first day we got to shred sick pow runs in the trees, snow was great in the forest but the wind had blown too strong higher up and the amount of snow was too small anywhere lower. The next few days we discovered a small zone with landings everywhere. And we went there again everyday to build another kicker. Even though a good part of them didn’t work out so good because the snow was too soft and sugary. We got a few sketchy hits as soon as we pushed a bit too hard on our edges.

This kind of protected zone don’t come for free. We had a good 40 minutes hike out waist deep before reaching the ridge and dropping back into the slopes, luckily it was often at the end of afternoon when the light transforms the landscape. And the best part of the day was yet to come! The best in shredding in Austria is all about the Apres Ski: where everyone dances and drinks on the bar with their ski boots!

Another day we found a pretty fun step down, but by the time we needed to build it, the wind had picked up strong enough to be quite dangerous. No one really wanted to try it out with the risk to end up thrown sideways by the wind. We Roshambowed for it and of course I lost. Luckily it went all good and the wind stopped soon after that. The snow pack was again not super safe. I touched the bottom several times.

The wind had transformed quite a few areas on the mountain and it became more and more difficult to find good snow, so we went back to our kickerland area. Where we had found another spot to build. But then again the snow was super sugary, it took us a whole day to shape it and still the kicker was way too soft to hit it. We needed to let it sit for a night. A night which turned into 3 days because of weather troubles. Then we hit it, but we couldn’t get the right speed for it. The list of unsuccessful kickers keeps on growing this winter. Not so easy to deal with mentally. I’m really looking forward to hitting a fun jump one of these days. Luckily the Aesthetiker crew are super fun to shred and hang with! The weather forecast is predicting snow for this week… fingers crossed!

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Check the latest webisode from the Zillertal crew documenting the old dogs and the young guns of the Ästhetiker clan mixing it up.

For 2010 the Ästhetikers have planned a new format for their well-known boardsport-shows. In the new productions the ‘old dogs’ and the ‘young guns’ come together to create a new era in the Ästhetiker Tell Ä Vision history.

The crew. Photo: Tom Eberharter.

The ‘old dogs’, Steve Gruber, Chris and Rudi Kröll, Tom “Beckna” Eberharter, Friedl Kolar, Jocki Köffler, Gogo Gossner and many more shred together with the ‘young guns’ like 15 year old Georg Huber, Alex Walch, Werni Stock, Marc Swoboda, Herby Thaler, Phips Gruber, Flo Heim and Simon Schweiger. Also new in the project will be the first girl on Tell Ä Vision ever, namely Anne-Flore Marxer!

By snowboarding together they will support each other. The ‘young guns’ profit from the experience oft the ‘old dogs’ and the ‘old dogs’ can pick up the ‘young guns’ motivation.

Young gun Georg Huber. Photo: Christian Eberl.

The Ästhetikers are not only going to present a huge variety of snowboarding shots, they are going to show the emotions of all the riders, the discussions about powderlines, how to build a kicker or how to improve their riding! What the Ästhetikers want to show as well is an impression of how snowboard shots get produced!

Old dog Rudi Kröll. Photo: Toom Eberharter.

Every two weeks during this season the Ä-Crew will produce a newsblog webisode to introduce the new riders and advertise some of the footage, which will be broadcasted in their shows in Fall 2010!

In Fall 2010 the Ästhetikers will present eight podcasts with the best footage of the season!

You better not miss it!