World Snowboard Federation (WSF)

2017 World Rookie Shooting

The video of the shooting of 2017 World Rookie Finals that took place in Kitzsteinhorn Zell am See Kaprun is online!! Check it out!
Riders: Chase Blackwell, Margherita Meneghetti, Davide Boggio, Casper Wolf, David Luckerbauer, Emmi Parkkisenniemi, Gian Andrea Sutter and Iina Puhakka.

2017 World Rookie Finals: highlights from Kaprun

3 minutes with the winners Groms and Rookies from the 2017 World Rookie Finals!

World Rookie Finals 2017 – Kaprun (AUT) – Slopestyle Finals

The 2017 World Rookie Finals went down with fantastic vibes as the quest to unveil the next Rookie snowboard superstars heated up when the world's finest young snowboarders converged on Kitzsteinhorn, Kaprun, Austria. Around 140 riders from all over experienced a whole week full of snowboard action having fun in the Snowpark Kitzsteinhorn, and – of course – to battle it out for the famous and much desired title of the World Rookie Champion.
Slopestyle World Rookie Champions are Takeru Otsuka (JPN) and Kokomo Murase (JPN). High creativity level and crazy riding skills were sent by this years' World Rookie Champions. On the boys' side, Takeru Otsuka (JPN) topped the podium after having thrown a Blunt 270 on the first rail, a Frontside Double Cork 1080 and a Backside Double Cork 1080 over the jumps and finished his run with a Crippler Transfer to Nose Slide Prezel on the last features. He came slightly before Davide Boggio (ITA) and Minsik Lee (KOR) who became 2nd and 3rd. Best boy in the Grom category (below 16 years) was Swedish shredder William Mathisen.
Kokomo Murase from Japan defend the title as female World Rookie Champion from last year and impressed the judges with her winning run including a Blunt 270 on the rail, a Frontside 720 and Backside 720 on the kickers and a Rock to Fakie to Switch Board Slide on the last feature. She shared the podium with 2nd placed Antonia Yanez from Chile and Iina Puhakka from Finland who grabbed the 3rd spot.

2017 World Rookie Tour Halfpipe Finals

Check out some impressions from the World Rookie Tour Halfpipe Finals @ Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun Zell am See... enjoy...

2017 World Rookie Tour Finals Arrival, Training & Girls Qualification

The 2017 World Rookie Finals kicked off and around 140 young snowboarders invaded Kaprun and the Kitzsteinhorn Snowpark for a week full of snowboard action, hanging out with friends and enjoying The unique Black Yeti vibes.
At the end of the week, the new World Rookie Champions, in both Slopestyle and Halfpipe, will be crowned!

2017 Indy Rookie Fest, Japan

Indy Rookie Fest in Nekoma resort was a blast! For the first time also in Japan we had a “Rookie Workshop” at night. International Judge “Ishi” explained to kids “How to Travel” and more good tips to “How to Communicate friends from overseas”. Kids enjoyed not as square class room style =) So we started with the contest, trying to win a spot for the prestigius World Rookie Finals in Kaprun.
Contest day welcomed all the riders with perfect conditions and blue bird but after the training clouds arrived.. Flat light, fog .. during the fist run. Then started get better in the 2nd run and after the park reshape started snowing bit. On the girl' side 10 riders competed for 2 runs, the best counted.
Third place for Hinari Asanuma（Grom Girl）with 66.50points. She competed in the World Rookie Final 2016 - result 12th. Her winning run was: Cab5, NoseGrab, B3Indy, 50 NoseSlide, 50 F180Out. Second place for Yunna Komuroi (Rookie Girl) she also entered Rookie Finals in 2016. First place for Aoi Takahashi（Rookie Girl）with 76.75points with a solid run: Cab5 → F3 → WallRide → BS 27 in BoardSlide 27 Out → BS NoseSlide. She had stable style and solid run!
Total 35 boys competed and after quali stage we had in the final 13 boys, 2 runs best counted. This years “Indy Park Jam Rookie Fest” had an intense level. Names as Ryo Izawa, Yuto Yamane, Kaito Hamada (Grom Winner of WRF 2014 ), Yutaro Miyazawa (Winner of 2016 Indy Park Jam)! There were the amazing young Grom Hirono Ogiwara, age 11 who took 3rd for his small body and bag of tricks. Ruki Tobita（Rookie Boy）won with 86.50 points with a solid run: cab9, Front 12, Switch Tail Slide 27 Out, Switch NoseSlidet and Cab 270 Hardway. Style with controlled riding for him! Winner in the Grom category Hiroaki Kunitake with 89.50points. His impressive run: W BF Indy → B WC 10 Mute → FS LipSlide 27 Out → Tr 360 on 50/50 360 Out → BS LipSlide 27 Out.
World systematically Judging team “IJC Asia” made results accurate and smoothly, and thanks the sound system and Best MC for pump up kids!
“Pyramid SnowPark Design” Crew built the park exclusively for this event! Thank you so much! You guys Rock!
Thanks for incredible support for the event every year: Burton, Redbull and Nekoma Resort!!

2017 Oslo Rookie Fest

Oslo Rookie Fest went down in the amazing Vinter Park in Oslo the 25th February 2017.

Big Success for the Yours Truly event!

Yours Truly event was hold at Talma, Finland, the 19th of February 2017. It was successful and 25 women from all ages and different riding levels participated. The weather was not the best blue bird weather that you could get, but they had still lot of fun.

This year Pamporovo resort hosted the World Rookie Tour for the 4th time! The organization of the event was excellent and the challenge attracted a great interest!

2017 World Rookie Fest . Winning Runs

- Birkir Georgsson and Margherita Meneghetti win the 2017 World Rookie Fest
Finland crowned as the best team of the entire World Rookie Fest
The future of snowboarding looks bright here in Livigno at the Mottolino Snowpark, at the 12th edition of the World Rookie Fest. Under a beautiful blue sky, with perfect winter scenery and amazing snow conditions, the best 44 riders out off the 144 registered athlets showed their skills in three final runs, where the best run counting.
The girls started first and Margherita Meneghetti from Italy landed on the Rookie top spot today with her first run which included a lipslide on the downrail, frontside 540 indy on the kicker line, switch rock&roll and 50-50 boardslide 180 out on the last rails. Margherita won on two Finnish riders: Carola Niemela and Emmi Parkkisenniemi. Also Grom Girls showed their best with two Swiss riders on the first two positions; Livia Tanno took the first place ahead Lena Müller and Annika Morgan, from Germany.
Boys’ finalists started straight after the Girls’ category; 32 thrilling guys were trying to grab the wanted World Rookie Fest trophy.
Birkir Georgsson from Island scored best in today’s contest with a solid run, winning Rookie's division with his 94,6 points. He landed a boardslide to frontslide boardslide to 270 out on the downrail, double 1080 mute on the kicker line, stall and cab 270 on 270 out on the last jibbing obstacles. Birkir finished ahead Casper Wolf from the Netherlands and Leon Vockensperger from Gemany.
Right after the prize giving ceremony, Birkir stated: "I am so stoked! For me, it's the first time in a World Rookie Tour contest and now I could not be more happy. I didn't expect to win, the other riders were so good, the contest level is so high! The World Rookie Fest is awesome... I am really excited and I can't wait to be in Kaprun for the World Rookie Finals".
Valtteri Kautonen from Finland won his first World Rookie Fest in the Groms' category with a score of 84,4 in his third run landed cab 180 on 50-50 boardslide 360 out on the downrail, frontside 1080 tailgrab, 50-50 stall and a frontside 270 on 270 out on the last features. Rakim Foy (NED) and Nick Pünter rounded out the podium as second and third, respectively.
Another amazing edition of the World Rookie Fest went down with an incredible gang of excited young riders. Black Yeti is pretty sure, these guys and their coaches are the snowboarding's future wealth!