World Snowboard Federation (WSF)

The Treble Cone Banked Slalom 2019

31/9/19. The Treble Cone Banked Slalom presented by Jones Snowboards was a blast! Thanks to everyone who came out and threw down.

2019 Air Nation Freestyle Nationals presented by Mazda & Burton

2019 Air Nation Freestyle Nationals presented by Mazda & Burton went down at Winsport Canada Olympic Park with Alberta Snowboarding

Filmer: Taylor Dusynski

The 2019 World Rookie Fest by Rock and Ride was a blast!

The World Rookie Fest by Rock and Ride, which took place from the 12th to the 16th of January in Livigno, concluded in the best way possible welcoming 90 riders from 10 nations! Nick Puenter from Switzerland was crowned World Rookie Fest Champion and won the invitation to the X Games Norway qualification event!

Filming
Marco Brandoli
Silvio Ottonello
Federico Romanello

Editing
Federico Romanello

2018 Pila Rookie Fest by DEEJAY Xmasters

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!!