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Swatch Nines 2025: The Most Creative Course in Action Sports | X Games

The Swatch Nines is back again this year in a MUCH bigger way. Every year they up the ante by building courses more intricate and creative than any snowboarder or skier could imagine. Take a break from your day and enjoy the recap of Swatch Nines 2025!

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Filmed by: Lukas Hauser, Moritz Keller, Lukas König Jannis Oing, Jonas Leitner, Imanuel Thallinger, Fabio Sturm, Nicholas Bredeston, Johann Hohmüller, Hugo Wirth, Arthur Tillier, Lukas Braune, Sarah Böck, Jennica Folkesson, Tom Granier, Oscar Valencia
Edited by: Jonas Leitner, Lukas Braune, Lukas König, Moritz Keller, Lukas Hauser, Fabio Sturm, Oscar Valencia
Color by: Lukas Hauser, Miquel Soler
Audio Master: Lukas Braune, Industries Soniques
Produced by: Sarah Böck, Lenz Ratay
Race Drone by: Ralph Hogenbrink (DutchDroneGods), Jannis Hoffmann
Additional Footage by: Borja Azurmedi, Michael Haunschmidt, Mathias Kögel

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ANOTHER YEAR OF FULL SEND – PT.1 | SWATCH NINES 25

ANOTHER YEAR OF ABSOLUTE BANGERS – The 17th edition of Swatch Nines has concluded in Switzerland in a flurry of innovation, creativity and unparalleled action. And here’s the first part, out of three, of our highlight edit to get a glimpse into the past week.

The annual ski and snowboard progression session returned for the third time to the atmospheric slopes of the Schilthorn, where one of the most playful and creative setups in the history of the Nines provided an unmatched venue for fun and progression.

The 2025 Swatch Nines setup featured a massive Big Air jump designed for the world’s best to push their air tricks to the limit. But in typical Nines fashion, it wasn’t just about adding an extra spin or flip to the world’s most difficult tricks. The setup also provided a vast variety of creative snow features designed to get creative juices flowing. The result? One of the most highlight-heavy weeks of the season for the world’s freestyle ski and snowboard elite.

On top of that, Øyvind Kirkhus (SNB, NOR) landed a switch backside quad 1620 — a world’s first trick in snowboarding while Luca Harrington (SKI, NZL) stomped a switch triple cork 1980 Esco — only the third time this trick has been landed by a skier. And Vincent Veile (SKI, GER) became the first German, and third person ever, to land a quad cork 1800.

Also some heavy action went down on the teardrop rail, with jaw-dropping tricks from the likes of Mia Brookes (SNB, GBR), Max Moffatt (SKI, USA), Lyon Farrell (SNB, NZL) and Kirsty Muir (SKI, GBR).

Stay tuned — Part 2. is coming on Friday!

Qualifying Day Highlights | The Snow League, Event One | Aspen Snowmass 2025

Qualifying Day of The Snow League brought serious competition to ‪@aspensnowmass‬ narrowing the field to eight men and eight women for Finals Day. Ayumu Hirano and Maddie Mastro led the way as top qualifiers, each earning five bonus points in the Snow League World Championship Standings. The new format pushed riders to showcase creativity and versatility, with head-to-head matchups set to determine the first-ever Snow League champion. With $370,000 in prize money on the line, the stage is set for an epic Finals Day showdown.

ABOUT THE SNOW LEAGUE:

Launched in June 2024, The Snow League is the first professional winter sports league dedicated to snowboarding and freeskiing. Founded by three-time Olympic gold medalist and entrepreneur Shaun White. Season One features a four-event global format boasting a $1.6 million prize purse, with athletes competing to earn points to determine the overall champions. The season kicks off at Buttermilk in Aspen Snowmass (March 7–8, 2025), then moves to Yunding Secret Garden, China (Dec. 4–6, 2025), where 16 of the world’s top freeskiers will join the roster at the Beijing 2022 Olympic venue. The League returns to Aspen (Feb. 26–28, 2026) and concludes at Switzerland (March 19–21, 2026), where the first-ever Snow League World Champions will be crowned. The Snow League is represented by Range Sports to advise on its media rights and commercial partnerships strategy and execution.

METHOD MAG RECAP - Swatch Nines'24

We asked Method Mag to come on-site and showcase what's really happening at the Swatch Nines!

"We were asked to come to the Swatch Nines and report whatever snowboard related action was going on there in the lovely resort of Schilthorn. And what a crazy week it was! The weather kept us down in the village at first, so we improvised a little street session with Simon Gschaider and the hotel golf cart. A pretty unusual start for an event like this... But soon enough we got to go up and see the crazy set-up and the insane riding that went along with it. We even witnessed a couple world records for highest air on what they called a "perfect hip". It was more like a "giant hip" to us, but hey, they're the professional designers, not us. After a couple parties here and there, a quick visit to the James Bond museum (apparently the worst James Bond movie ever made), a nice dinner in a spinning restaurant at the top of the mountain, Chaeun's birthday, some epic snowboarding under a burning sun and maybe the rowdiest Field Report we did so far, we went home with some nice souvenirs and full SD cards. Thus, this edit."

Riders in order of appearance: Kaishu Hirano, Oyvind Kirkhus, Leilani Ettel, Fridtjof Tischendorf, Chaeun Lee, Patrick Hofmann, Nicolas Huber, Queralt Castellet, Simon Gschaider, Juho Laine, Brooke D’Hondt, Mia Brookes, Max Buri, Werni Stock, Vlad Khadrin, Marcus Kleveland & Valentino Guseli.

Interviewed party animals: Henry Jackson, Nicolas Huber, Juho Laine, Fridge, Kaishu Hirano, Fabio Sturm, Richard Bath, Warrick Martin, Juho Saastamonen and Queralt Castellet.

Brooke D’Hondt - World Record - Highest Air on a Hip at Swatch Nines 2024

On Thursday, the 11th of April 2024, Brooke D’Hondt (CAN) established the first official record for highest air on a hip by a female snowboarder at Schilthorn, Switzerland during Swatch Nines. She reached an astonishing height of 7.3 meters (23.9 feet), setting a formidable new bar for the sport.

“I always wanted to come to this event, and having a bigger hip feature is kind of playing to my strengths,” said D’Hondt. “It definitely does not get easier standing up there. Especially the first one of the day, it’s just as scary as the first time ever hitting it. But the feeling of stomping it, nothing beats it.”

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BEST OF Monster Energy Women’s Snowboard SuperPipe | X Games Aspen 2024

Watch the Monster Energy Women’s Snowboard SuperPipe highlights from X Games Aspen 2024!

What is SuperPipe?

Known as Half Pipe at the first three X Games events, the discipline’s name was changed to SuperPipe for X Games Mount Snow 2000 to reflect its super growth.

Sometimes called the U-ditch or frozen taco, SuperPipe is a long, U-shaped course with steep walls and tightly compacted snow -- competition pipes are rock hard to allow competitors better launch and more consistent takeoffs and landings.

Athletes traverse back and forth across the pipe, throwing tricks above the pipe’s “deck.” Competitors can soar more than 20 feet above the deck, or around 45 feet above the pipe’s flatbottom. That’s more than 4 stories high! Depending on the angle of their approach and the distance traveled down the pipe with each trick, SuperPipe competitors usually log between 4-6 tricks in a full run.

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Best of Women’s Snowboarding: Toyota Modified Superpipe Finals | Dew Tour Copper 2020

Following heavy snowfall at Copper Mountain, the skies turned perfect bluebird just in time to run the women’s snowboard Toyota Modified Superpipe competition. Kicking things off on the first day of finals were eight women snowboarders ready to attack this unusual course which featured two modified transition features, leading to a traditional superpipe with 22-foot high walls and over 300 feet in length. If you missed the complete competition, catch all the best highlights and action right here, featuring Summer Fenton, Sonny Alba, Haruna Matsumoto, Brooke D’Hondt, Zoe Kalapos, Queralt Castellet, Maddie Mastro, and Jiayu Liu.

2019 Burton U·S·Open Women’s Halfpipe Semi-Finals - Highlights

Highlights from today’s Burton U·S·Open Women’s Halfpipe Semi-Finals. The world’s best riders were all in the mix, but in the end it was current three-time defending champ Chloe Kim taking the top spot with two huge runs. Joining her in Saturday’s finals will be an all-star lineup: Arielle Gold, Maddie Mastro, Haruna Matsumoto, Sena Tomita, and Xuetong Cai. Be sure to tune in live and witness halfpipe progression in real-time.

Clif Bar’s “Raise the Bar” Award – 2019 Burton U·S·Open Junior Jam

Clif Bar’s “Raise the Bar” award for best trick in the Burton U·S·Open Junior Jam goes to Brooke D'Hondt for landing a frontside 720 melon and Valentino Guseli for putting down a frontside 900 tail. This is the future, and these kids are leading the charge.

Buckle up and hang on, because the Burton U·S·Open is coming at you fast from Vail, Colorado. For the latest details on the competition, the free Burton Concert Series, and more, follow the hashtag #BurtonUSOpen, or head to BurtonUSOpen.com.

2019 Burton U·S·Open Junior Jam Halfpipe Presented by Clif Bar - Highlights

Competition kicked off today at the Burton U·S·Open with the legendary Junior Jam presented by Clif Bar, featuring the world’s top up-and-comers ages 14 and under. Brooke D'Hondt of Canada and Valentino Guseli of Australia, both 13 years old, took the girls’ and boys’ titles and earned a spot to compete against the pros in Thursday’s halfpipe semi-finals. Check out these highlights from today’s competition, then sit back and contemplate the level these kids will be riding at in another ten years.