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Black Yeti is very excited to announce the 2017 World Rookie Tour, including his first shows in Kaprun for the legendary World Rookie Finals!  

9 Dec 2016   |  

For seven years the QParks Snowboard Tour has been paving the way for ambitious shred talents from the alpine area to start their pro careers. Owing to the professional & international judges and an impressive cash price of a total of 40.000 €, the biggest amateur contest series of the Alps is the perfect introduction to the world of competition. What’s more, the catering for the riders is FREE from this season onwards. There’s also news on the brand-new QParks Snowboard Tour website, the fresh new look makes the free registration even easier.

1 Dec 2016   |  

Snowboard your way to the top with the All Mountain Open Series comp. You've got until March 16th to get out on the mountain and submit your winning footage. The Park and Pipe Open Series is for our Skiing cousins, but with a prize purse of $65,000, there's definitely no excuse to get filming. Pursue that prize!

29 Nov 2016   |  

In the season of 2016/17, Snowpark Gastein is going “all-in”. You don’t have the perfect poker face quite yet? Now is the time to start working on it! For the very first time “Shred Poker” is taking place and Snowpark Gastein is not going to miss this game. The ace up the snowpark’s sleeve: setup add-ons in the Beginner and Medium Area.

Snowpark Gastein, Austria.

29 Nov 2016   |  

The entrance to the Snowpark Schöneben lies at about 2.340m above sea level – and based on our experience we’ll be getting heaps of snow and plenty of sunny hours at this altitude. As an encore the stunning panoramic view is free! Not only will the park be in perfect shape once again, but it will also feature an entirely new park area. In addition to the renowned QParks Tour Stop, a completely new event will take place this season - the “Shred Poker”! Plus, we will shoot a video report, which will offer an exciting insight into our shape crew’s work.

Snowpark Schöneben, Italy, January 2016.

25 Nov 2016   |  

The two Norwegians Hanne Eilertsen and Markus Olimstad are the proud winners of the Pleasure Jam taking place last Sunday, November 20, for the 14th time on the Dachstein glacier. The two multi obstacles gave the contestants plenty of opportunities for an action-packed jib battle and visitors of the Schladming-Dachstein region witnessed terrific tricks paired with healthy doses of sunshine. Hanne Eilertsen took it all, meaning she also scored the Best Trick Award powered by PortugalSurfCamp, worth 8,000 USD. Her compatriot, Isak Ulstein, reigned supreme in the category Best Trick Men.

Markus Olimstad from Norway competing during the 14th edition of Pleasure Jam 2016 at Superpark Dachstein, Schladming-Dachstein region, Austria.

23 Nov 2016   |  

Corvatsch is ready to host the second edition of the Corvatsch Rookie Fest scheduled from 15th to 18th December 2016. Following last year’s success, the World Rookie Tour stop will go down in Switzerland at the amazing Corvatsch Snowpark.

15 Nov 2016   |  

Anna Gasser (AUT) and Marcus Kleveland (NOR) have kicked off the 2016-17 FIS Snowboard World Cup season in style winning the big air event in Milan (ITA) in front of a stellar crowd and on a perfectly prepared venue site.

Congratulations to the the top 3 women and men of the Milan Big Air! Men: 2nd Seppe Smits (BEL), 1st Marcus Kleveland (NOR), 3rd Mark McMorris (CAN), women: 2nd Hailey Langland (USA), 1st Anna Gasser (AUT) and 3rd Sarka Pancochova (CZE), at EXPerience Park, Milan, Italy.

12 Nov 2016   |  

TTR Pro Snowboarding (TTR), established in 2002, is proud to announce a major change for the upcoming 2017 World Snowboard Tour (WST) season.

10 Nov 2016   |  

The Dolomites strongly shape the impressive landscape of South Tyrol and it’s these massive summits which surround the Snowpark Alta Badia, forming a uniquely beautiful alpine setting. Soon, the winter sun will be shining onto the white glistening peaks again, the yearning for snow will finally be satisfied and a new season at the sunniest of snowparks in the Dolomites will kick off.

Snowpark Alta Badia, Italy, December 2013.

8 Nov 2016   |  

Soon, we will be kicking off the second season for the female-only shape crew of quattro Snow Park Obergurgl! The venture of the very first park being shaped exclusively by freestyle-savvy female hands has been such a big success that there was no doubt about round two at all. Another Girls Shred Session is thus of course part of the season 2016/17’s bejewelled entertainment program, as well as the “SNOWHOW Kids’ Day” again kindle kids of all genders with the spirit of freestyle.

8 Nov 2016   |  

Sun and warm temperatures welcomed enthusiastic spectators to ModenaFiere to witness the first urban rail contest in the history of the World Rookie Tour. Set up was definitely one of the Europe’s best urban rail set in the last years, designed and built by the wise shapers of F-tech Company based in South Tyrol. 

Rookie Podium at World Rookie Rail Jam by Skipass 2016, with Florian Fischer (SUI) as the winner, Gian Andrea Sutter (SUI) in 2nd and Nicola Liviero (ITA) in 3rd place, at ModenaFiere, Modena, Italy.

31 Oct 2016   |  

World Rookie Tour has rarely been easy, mainly thanks to the presence of all the best youth events across the world, but for the 2017 the Black Yeti has decided to raise the bar and reach another goal: to improve the tour that already represents a benchmark on the snowboarding youth competitions, implementing a new format and location for the end of season 2017 World Rookie Finals.

Kitzsteinhorn, Zell am See-Kaprun, Austria, the new location chosen for the World Rookie Finals taking place in April 2017.

27 Oct 2016   |  

The Zillertal Välley Rälley hosted by Ride Snowboards could not have had a better start into the new season. With bluebird and perfect conditions, Hintertux Glacier welcomed its guests for the kick-off of the popular Snowboard Amateur Series on October 15th and 16th, 2016. Snowboard fun for everyone and smiling faces all over the Betterpark Hintertux were on top of the agenda of this epic weekend in Tux Finkenberg.

One of the competing riders at stop #1 of Zillertal Välley Rälley hosted by Ride Snowboards, Betterpark Hintertux, Austria.

19 Oct 2016   |  

„Holy s***, how huge is that jump?“, “Alright, that thing is definitely big!”, “What an INSANE take-off!”, “Way bigger than it seemed on the pics … scary!”. These were the first comments of first-class snowboarders like Boris Mouton, Rowan Coultas, Jose Aragon, Werni Stock or Roope Tonteri when they first saw Sölden’s humongous 2016 special obstacle in real life. However, after their first runs the freestyle-pros’ opinions had totally changed…

Boris Mouton having fun on "The Wedge", a gigantic obstacle built in 2016 at Area 47 Snowpark Sölden, Austria.

19 Oct 2016   |