From the Carabbean Ocean to the Austrian Mountains.....
After 2 years of cruising the Carrabben Seas on our 40 ft catamran SNOWFLAKE with NIna, Keano & Momo we are back in Innsbruck.
I am looking forward a lot to go riding again, to judge at Freeride World Tour events, to coach the Juniors, to make a good movie with the STOKED filmcrew and much more.
ready to cruise the seven seas of the world with my family
Dear friends around the globe,
after 8 years of dreaming, having 2 kids, 1 year of preparation and finally 10 weeks of hards work in the boatyard here in Trinidad our new floating home is finally ready to go.
SNOWFLAKE is a 40 ft sailing catmaran and will be our home for the next couple of years as we cruise the seven seas of the world.
From today on, you can follow the adventures of Nina, Keano, Momo and myself online on:
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finishing my competitive carrer in verbier with a double podium
what a weekend!
only 10 days after a 3rd place at the world tour comp in alaska we had the finals of the tour in verbier,
on the mythical bec de rosses where my carrer started 16 years ago in march 2000.
i knew i still had a chance for the overall podium and the bec is my favourite mountain on the tour:
long, steep, gnarly, just the way i like it - which is not so much true for all riders on the tour, and so i was the only snowboarder to go into the more radical middle part of the mountain.
visibility was unfortunately horrible due to some high grey clouds, and it was really hard to see. so after a clean upper part i had troubles seeing the landings of my main cliffs, which led to two wabbly landings and the loss of some points, putting me in second place behind sammy lueke.....but the judges were still not sure asfter 2 days if they had taken the right decision (-;
anywyy congrats to sammy fot the title, he is the best and deserves it more than anyone!!! and i was still happy, because the second place here put me into second place overall as well, and with two silver medals in one day it should be easy for me now to say goodbye to the freeride world tour as a rider and retire....well it should be right????
sitting on 6th place overall after halftime of the 2016 tour
high end riding prevailed in cham for stop nr. 2 of the tour.
this time we had to drop in last into a very tracked venue ))-:
with a score of over 82 i finished on 5th - usually that is a safe podium, this time it was not (-:
here is my run, i think that the way the use the hero cast is not perfect yet because if they edit it like this you cannot see the size of the drops....
tough conditions prevailed in andorra for the first comp of the season.
a thin snowpack with warm temperatures and a super early start ment that was hard to judge the conditions.
i dropped in with bib nr. 4 and had a challengin line with a drop into a narrow couloir followed by a solid exit drop. still, i slowed down a bit to much at the entry dop and thus 6th place was the fair result.
it is the place where i was born, where i grew up and where my hombase is:
INNSBRUCK!
home to 120.000 mountain enthusiastic pleople & another 30.000 students,
this city has my love .....and it has everything else:
amazing mountains with world class feeriding right around town, great climbing, perfect hanggliding & paragliding locations, a richt cultural scene and a rocking nightlife
check out the best resorts around town here www.innsbruck.info/freeride-city or go directly to the homepages of my favourite resorts:
together with my mates banni zanon, chris schnabel, seb paschinger and flo albert as filmer we ventured out into the wild north of iceland`s troll penninsula.
it was an incredbile trip in this partly unreal landscape shaped by ancient glaciers.
magic sunsets on the peaks overlooking the ocean and beautiful hikes on our splitboards into galcier bowls were among the highlights. our friends from viking helicopters flew us to the most amazing spring snow lines, and in between we climbed some crazy couloirs.
we also had a fun day with the junior snowboard rippers in the small ski resort of akureri, did a soulfull sunset kicker session and had a few drinks with local crew....oh yes and there is surf in island, too!
the movie will be out on film festivals this summer, so watch out for it.
after 2 weks of waiting and expanding the waiting period for one day,
the event finally happened on a huge face called "the venue".
i was the last snowboarder on the mountain and i was hard to judge the snow condiitons, but i chose the right line and rode it with 100%, doing one of the biggest floating airs of the day!
check out the video of my run clicking on "video" at the top of this site.....
i am second in the ranking in the race for the world title....this weekend in verbier the big showdown is happening!
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