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  • Wednesdays With Wallisch Seaso Wednesdays With Wallisch Season 3 Episode 5

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      With his knee feeling strong and fully rehabilitated, Tom had a busy month with lots of travel. From winning the world championships in Norway to some spring time shredding and goofing around in Park City as well as more filming missions for his new movie project.

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  • Wallisch And Laker Street Sess Wallisch And Laker Street Session - The North Face

  • Marcel Hirscher - Best Moments Marcel Hirscher - Best Moments 12-13

  • Freeriding in Austria, 2013 - Freeriding in Austria, 2013 - Trailer #1

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      for more Freeride Photos & Videos, visit: http://www.facebook.com/Christoph.Oberschneider.Photography


      Cams: GoPro HD Hero 2 & Hero 3 Black Edition

      Soundtrack: Professor Kliq - Pangea (http://www.professorkliq.com)

      Location: Gastein & Sportgastein, Salzburg, Austria

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  • Wednesdays With Wallisch Seaso Wednesdays With Wallisch Season 3 Episode 4

  • Chris Benchetler Interview - A Chris Benchetler Interview - Atomic Airtime

    • From: atomicsnow
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      Anyone that has met Chris Benchetler in person can attest to the fact that he's simply a kind, easy going and thoughtful guy from Mammoth, California that is in a class of his own when it comes to skiing. What sets him apart is his unique interpretation of natural terrain and his ability to trick features in such a fluid way. We sat down with him to find out where his passion for skiing originates, how he started delving into back country skiing and what it is like being an integral part of the Nimbus crew.

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  • Austrian Freeski Open Training Austrian Freeski Open Training Day - Atomic Airtime

    • From: atomicsnow
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      Get a first look at the slopestyle course of the Austrian Freeski Open in Kitzsteinhorn. Great weather and an epic course made for an awesome training day at the 11th edition of the AFO.

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  • Red Bull Playstreets Gus Kenwo Red Bull Playstreets Gus Kenworthy Final Runs - Atomic Airtime

    • From: atomicsnow
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      The Red Bull Playstreets is a one of a kind freeski event: a slopestyle contest that attracts thousands of spectators and twists and turns through the narrow streets of Bad Gastein, Austria. Runs have to be perfect to get enough speed for the challenging features and Gus Kenworthy managed to make it all the way through to the finals, unfortunately just not getting enough speed to clear the jump features. That didn't stop him throwing down a cork 900 of the knuckle of the jump and claiming second place! Congrats Gus!

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  • Red Bull Playstreets First Loo Red Bull Playstreets First Look - Atomic Linecatcher

    • From: atomicsnow
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      A first look at the 2013 Red Bull Playstreets course in Bad Gastein. Have you ever wondered what it's like skiing through a small historic Austrian village, hitting jumps and jibs along the way? Then check out this video of Atomic freeskiers Gus Kenworthy, Elias Ambühl, Tobi Tritscher, Luca Tribondeau, Juhu Killki, Illka Hannula and Verneri Hannula getting used to the crazy set up.

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  • Sochi Olympic Test Event First Sochi Olympic Test Event First Impression - Atomic Airtime

    • From: atomicsnow
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      In a few days time, Rosa Khutor, the host mountain for all alpine events of the 2014 Sochi Olympics will bear witness to its first ever freeskiing halfpipe competition, the FIS World Cup. Far from being prepared, Sochi and the surrounding area is a 24 hour construction zone. Check out this bizarre place and catch the first couple runs of pipe practice with Beau-James Wells, Jossi Wells, Byron Wells, Mike Riddle and Gus Kenworthy.

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  • Browers Ski Urban By Atomic Browers Ski Urban By Atomic

    • From: atomicsnow
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      Kevin Brower and Mitchell Brower take thier skiing skills to the streets of Salt Lake City Utah. With backcountry visits to Grizzly Gulch and fun creative skiing on walls, rails, jibs and snow. While the browers style typically consists of big mountain freesking, jumps and powder, in this edit they stay below the Wasatch mountains for some exciting newschool riding.

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  • Carving Through History With C Carving Through History With Chuck Barfoot Part One: The Old Days

    • From: jakedesroches
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      Chuck Barfoot

      With each year that passes, the opportunity for seeing, meeting, and speaking with a snowboarding legend diminishes. The passing of Tom Sims last September is a stark reminder of this. The ranks of the original riders, the guys who took what we would consider simple wooden or fiberglass planks to the snow, are fading fast. On Friday February 1st at the SIA Snow Show, I was fortunate enough to come across one of the original riders. I was lucky enough to meet Chuck Barfoot.

      After speaking to Chuck and his board-building partner Ernie Delost, I was nearly at a loss of words. I had never met a stranger who had lived through so much snowboarding history, let alone helped to create it. I knew I needed to learn more about this man. Before he parted to meet with old friends on the snow show floor, I asked if he would be willing to do a brief interview with me the next day.
       
      Being simply a down to earth guy, he agreed to come back the next morning and speak with me for fifteen minutes. This fifteen-minute meeting turned into a thirteen-minute interview plus another twenty minutes of great conversation, just talking, laughing, and enjoying the snow show vibe.

      Chuck Barfoot is a humble, inspiring, and truly good man. We should be thankful he loves snowboarding so much, because without him we might still be riding wooden boards with black grip tape and skyhooks for bindings (ok, it probably wouldn’t be that bad).

      This is Chuck’s story.

      The Old Days

      Chuck Barfoot started surfing in Beach Haven, New Jersey in 1961. Nine years later, in 1970, he moved to Santa Barbara, California and was living with Tom Sims. Chuck was well positioned to help craft the snowboarding industry that we know today, but he didn’t know it.

      It was 1977; he was working for Tom Sims, building prototypes and doing research and development on the classic skateboards and surfboards that Sims produced. At this point, he had never even touched his feet on a board and placed that board on the snow. He was a surfer and a skater. He had no idea how much his life would change.

      One day, Tom Sims approached Barfoot with a project Bob Webber and Tom had worked on. According to Barfoot, it was a “yellow plastic ski board with a skateboard deck on it.” It had black grip tape, and skyhooks for the riders’ feet. The board worked, but it had some problems.

      The grip tape would pack with snow, and the skyhooks were permanently mounted regular or goofy. There was no switching the skyhooks from regular to goofy, or vice versa. At the time, these snowboards were a rare thing (the word “snowboard” wasn’t even used yet). If you had a board, you wanted to share it with all your friends. With the skyhooks mounted only in one direction, if your friend was regular and you were goofy one of you was simply out of luck.

      Tom Sims approached Barfoot with the crude snowboard device and said, “What can we do to fix these problems?” Barfoot gave the board a quick look up and down and replied, “Well first, get rid of the black grip tape.” He replaced the standard black tape with a sheet of clear plastic grip tape, and then sprayed the board with a coat of silicon to help relieve the skate deck from packing with snow. Thinking about how to fix the skyhook problem, Barfoot took rubber bungee cord and bolted it to the top of the skate deck, running from tip to tail. Instead of having a set mounted position, a regular-footed rider could now stand on it, set his feet underneath the bungee, ride down a hill, and then hand the deck over to his goofy-footed friend.

      Snowboarding could now be shared.
      Sims knew Barfoot was onto something. Shortly after this, Sims approached Barfoot again and asked, “How about building me a fiberglass prototype of a board I built like in 1963?“ Always the tinkerer, Barfoot began working on what he described as, “a little four foot bullet with a v-bottom.”

      At this point, it was 1978 and Chuck Barfoot had still never ridden a snowboard, a snurfer, or even one of those plastic ski boards. Barfoot finished his fiberglass copy and knew he could do better. He took the board back to Tom Sims and immediately said; “I can build something way better.”

      Sims told Barfoot to go for it, and go for it Barfoot did. He wanted to craft a board that would let surfers and skaters like him carve through snow just like they were surfing or skating.
      Barfoot began designing his first snowboard in his head; “The idea was like putting two skis together, with camber and channels.” The channels ran along the sidecut of the board, allowing loose snow to flow (at this point, boards were only made for riding powder). He started by building a mold, “a solid rectangular fiberglass shape, with camber, v-shape, nose and tail lift, and sidecut.” After the mold was complete, Barfoot built his first snowboard.

      It was time for him and Bob Webber to begin the nearly thousand-mile journey from the Southern California Coast to entry three between the Snowbird and Alta ski resorts. At the time, entry three was a series of switchbacks winding up the mountain. He had no idea that his life was about to change forever.

      We aren’t all lucky enough to first experience snowboarding riding in 18 inches of champagne Utah powder on Christmas day, but lucky for us, Barfoot was.

      “I remember taking off, taking my very first toe and heel turns, 15 yard beautiful carves all the way down the freaking mountain.” Chuck reminisced. He wore a red, white, and blue jersey, and after getting to the bottom he grabbed his board, held it high above his head, and screamed. “YEAHHH!”

      Chuck Barfoot and Bob Webber weren’t the only ones enjoying a miraculous Christmas. By some stroke of luck, fate, or both, they spotted another rider, sporting a snurfer-like board with a rope on the nose, coming down the mountain. It ended up being Jeff Grell’s older brother, Jay (Jeff was one of the designers of the highback binding).

      Barfoot was amazed. “We were like ‘Oh my god!’ So we snowboarded together all day long.” The three pioneers enjoyed a day of powder, laughter, and camaraderie that truly created history. To this day, riders across the world unknowingly seek to emulate those three young men as they search for that perfect day of freedom, riding, and friendship.

      Barfoot continued to work for Sims for the next several years. But that day was the real beginning of Barfoot Boards. His mind and more importantly his heart were in it. He worked hard, building one of a kind snowboards. Each new board was a little bit different from the last, a little lighter, just a bit more flex, a new shape.

      “I did about fifteen different models until I had boards that worked, really-really well.” He described his motivation for building boards. “It was basically just to surf snow.”
      With such a simple goal in mind, Chuck lovingly built boards for Sims until the 1980 – 1981 season, when he left Sims Snowboards and founded Barfoot Boards. He continued to build individually crafted snowboards and skateboards for the next twenty odd years. Until, around the 2003 – 2004 season, his company had grown too large. It was out of control and unfocused. It became such a problem, that he decided to stop producing snowboards (he continued to craft surf-style longboard skateboards under the Barfoot brand).

      Chuck didn’t sound happy as he said this. “Things were being done for not the right reasons. It was more about money and all that stuff.” Chuck was fed up with the corporatism that had invaded his, and so many other good companies.

      “My philosophy has always been, build something really good, that works. Take care of someone and they'll be back, and your company will grow and the money will come with that. And that's not the corporate world. And I am so far away from the corporate world.”

      Fast-forward ten years, and lucky for us, those same snowboard corporations, the mass media, and most importantly, the internet, created a huge market for snowboarding. The market was so big, that people wanted something smaller, something personal. People began demanding a product made just for them.
      “The internet got so many people getting ahold of me saying, ‘You need to be building boards again. My fifteen year old Barfoot is at the end of its road, I need a new board.’ So my old partner, Ernie Delost, him and I got back together again. So him and I, we are hand building the boards in his factory.

      We design them together. We hand build them in house, and that’s just what I love doing. So that’s why I'm building boards again. It’s for the right reasons.” As Chuck said this, the grin on his face widened to remind me of a child’s first visit to a toy store, his mind hungry for the possibility of building even greater adventures.

      What really amazed me about my meeting with Chuck Barfoot was his willingness to become my friend after just speaking a few words with me. I never once caught a rude tone come out of his mouth, and it was hard to catch him without a smile. The word that kept coming up was “personable.” With his business, Chuck wanted to, and still wants to create a personal connection with every single one of his customers (and many more lucky people, like me). He was also very humble. It never once seemed like he was boasting, or trying to make what he did out for more than it was. Long after our interview was over, and just before we said our goodbyes, Chuck Barfoot left me with one last history lesson.

      “All credit really goes to Dimitrije Milovich, Winterstick founder. He was the one that set the right direction. P-tex base, sidecut, steel edges, swallowtails — it was straight up surfing on powder-no rope attached.”

      Remember to check back later this week for part two, “Barfoot is Back,” a sneak peek at the new Barfoot Boards.

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  • Marcel Hirscher - Ski Clip - A Marcel Hirscher - Ski Clip - Atomic

    • From: atomicsnow
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      Marcel Hirscher in the Atomic Factory in Altenmarkt, Austria. Talking about his partnership with Atomic and the process of designing his own Worldcup Slalom Ski, The Redster Marcel Hirscher SL.

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  • News: One Year To The Winter O News: One Year To The Winter Olympics In Sochi

    • From: TetonGravityResearch
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      PARK CITY, UT – One year out from the opening of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, U.S. skiers and snowboarders are scattered across the globe anticipating the opportunities they will face 365 days from now. The opening ceremony for Sochi is Feb. 7, 2014, with the first medal events the next day. The USA is coming off a Best in the World Olympics in Vancouver that saw 17 different skiers and snowboarders win 21 medals.

      Venues in Sochi are undergoing final tests this month. Freeskiing and snowboarding athletes will compete in World Cup test events this month with U.S. Ski Team alpine racers conducting on-snow camps.

      Successful alpine test events were held a year ago with ski jumping this past December.

      Sochi will debut a host of new events including the inaugural appearance of women’s ski jumping, slopestyle snowboarding along with halfpipe and slopestyle skiing.

      WHERE THEY ARE NOW?

      Freeskiing

      Freeskiers are coming off the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix where David Wise and Maddie Bowman swept to halfpipe titles. Athletes are preparing for the mid-February Olympic test events for halfpipe skiing and skicross at Rosa Khutor near Sochi.

      Slopestyle stars Tom Wallisch, Bobby Brown and Keri Herman appeared live on NBC’s The Today Show Wednesday morning, Feb. 6.

      “It's hard to believe the Olympics are only a year away!” slopestyle skier Tom Wallisch said. “It's really exciting and I hope that I am one of the lucky ones that will have the honor to represent my country. If you would have asked me a couple years ago if I thought our sport would be in the Olympics - it just wasn't on my radar. I am really looking forward to checking out Russia and this next year ahead. I am sure it's going to be a really fun roller coaster.”

      Halfpipe skier Maddie Bowman is blown away by to opportunity.

      “It's crazy to think that freeskiing is going to be in the Olympics,” Bowman said. “I mean, this is really happening and it's only a year away! Holy cow! The last couple months have been going so well for me and I hope that my skiing continues to improve and I can stay on top of my game. I will be keeping my eye on the countdown. I am looking forward to the next 365 days and the adventure my teammates and I are about to go on.”

      David Wise, also a halfpipe skier, is excited represent his sport in the Olympics for the first time.

      “The Olympics! Wow, only a year away,” Wise said. “It really is an exciting opportunity and something that I am looking forward to. Not just the potential to compete in the Olympics and all that comes with it, but the journey my teammates and I are about to embark on. It's going to be a lot of work, but this is a really special time in our lives and I am going to enjoy every minute of it - the good, the challenging and whatever comes my way.”

      Snowboarding

      Top snowboarders were in Laax, Switzerland, for the Burton European Open. Now it’s off to Sochi for halfpipe and SBX test events.

      “I love my country and I really hope that I will be able to be on that Olympic team next year,” slopestyle rider Chas Guldemond said. “I have been trying to stay really focused and perfect my run, there are always ups and downs, but I am going to do my best to be there. I've never been to Russia and I hope that I get to be there with my team.”

      Halfpipe rider Scotty Lago hopes to return to the Olympics in 2014.

      “I had such a great experience in Vancouver - there was so much fun energy around the games,” Lago said. “And here we are, a year away from Sochi and all the guys are riding so well. It's been fun to watch everyone learn new tricks and ride together. The year before Vancouver had a lot of twists and turns and it all worked out well for me. I hope that I can continue to ride solid so that I have the opportunity to go to Sochi in 2014.”

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  • Sage Cattabriga-Alosa Intervie Sage Cattabriga-Alosa Interview - Atomic Airtime

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      There is something very unique to the way Sage Catabriga-Alosa skis. Text-book technical skiing combined with a certain unpredictability and the tendency to stomp almost anything, makes humble Sage stand out amongst his peers. The Atomic team sat down with him to discuss, amongst other things, the nature of creativity and how it influences his skiing. An interesting interview with one of the legends of the sport.

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      Edited by: Patrick Wagner
      Interview filmed by: Mark von Roy

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  • Wednesdays With Wallisch Seaso Wednesdays With Wallisch Season 3 Episode 3

  • Newschoolers Ad - Camp Of Cham Newschoolers Ad - Camp Of Champions

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      If you want your summer to be more than just wishing for winter and dreaming about skiing the perfect park, come to The Camp of Champions this summer and ski the perfect park. For 25 years The Camp of Champions, with the only Olympic and X-Games caliber summer terrain park, for has been the place to be in the summer. You can session with your pro coaches as well as pro guests. Guests like the US National Slopestyle Team, Canadian Olympic Slopestyle Team, The Norwegian Olympic Slopestyle Team, and so many pros it will make your head spin. You’ll be riding with Bobby Brown, Tom Wallisch, Bene Mayr, Gus Kenworthy, Hunter Visser, Mack Jones, Rob Heule, Ben Ogilvie, Chris and Caleb Farro, Dane Degruyter, Joe Schuster and so many others you won’t believe it.

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  • X Games Slopestyle Qualificati X Games Slopestyle Qualification - Atomic Airtime

    • From: atomicsnow
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      Andreas Håtveit was definitely the most confused competitor of the day, after landing a super solid first run he was given a very low score, leaving him in an unsafe 6th position after the first runs. He essentially put down the same run in the second round – including creative rails and a bunch of dubs – and was given a score of 91.33, almost 20 points higher than his first run.

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  • Elias Ambühl Bronze at X Games Elias Ambühl Bronze at X Games Big Air - Atomic Airtime

    • From: atomicsnow
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      The 2013 X Games Big Air competition was undeniably the most competitive big air competition to date. History was written and Elias Ambühl was a huge part of it, winning the bronze medal. Not only did he stomp a perfect triple cork 1440 but he also landed the first ever double cork 1620 lead tail grab to following tail grab. Follow Elias as his unforgettable evening unfolds!

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  • X Games Big Air First Look - A X Games Big Air First Look - Atomic Airtime

    • From: atomicsnow
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      Get a first look at the 2013 X Games Big Air, easily the best big air jump that X Games have ever built. Elias Ambühl may have blown a few peoples minds during practice.

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