Nike Snowboarding?

Nike has a small snowboarding line out, only consisting of a small line of boots, and clothing. But they are looking to make a new name for themselves in the snowboarding world by hosting a unique snowboarding competition. The competion is a mix of slalom style and slope style events. for those of you who dont know what they are slolaum style is when the racer gets down the mountain by weaveing in between sloalums as fast as possible. Sloapstyle is more tecqniquly advanced, involving rails, jumps and different obsticles for doing tricks off of. This Nike competition called Snakes and Hammers involves both those styles of runs. The competitors will get to the bottom of the run as fast as possible and the better the tricks they pull the more time they will get deducted off their time. there is five events in Chantel, France won by Enzo Nilo. The next race was march 16th in Mountain High Colorado, the next race is in Montafon, Austria, followed by Mount Hood Meadows, Oregon, USA. And the finale is in Mounmouth Mountain, California. Should be interesting to see what happens heres a video from the first event. 

Where to still snowboard on the east coast

With the spring rapidly approaching there snow is melting and mountains to ski on the east coast are closing somewhat soon. but theres is places for those who still have the fire to go and snowboard.
Here are some links to those sites. These two would be my recommendations for east coast skiing.

http://www.killington.com/winter/index.html

http://brettonwoods.com/

    

Or if you want to get after the best skiing you can get on the east coast, granted it will come with a sacrifice, you can ski Tuckermans ravine, the bowl of Mnt Washington. You have to hick up but the ride down is worth it. 

2012 Oakley Shred Shop Challenge

This is a recap from last years 2012 Oakley Shred Shop Challenge.

Tignes France X-Games

A new face has been given to the X-Games this year with multiple events throughout the year. Next week in Tignes, France the second event of the year will kick off. Giving a different and harder test to those athletes who are trying to make a name for themselves or those like shaun white looking to extend their legacy and create an even bigger legend surrounding them. Heres a list of those competing in the snowboarding events.

Snowboard Men's SuperPipe
Athlete Name	Country
Shaun White	USA
Iouri Podladtchikov	SUI
Ryo Aono	JPN
Louie Vito	USA
Matt Ladley	USA
Christian Haller	SUI
Danny Davis	USA
Benji Farrow	USA
Nathan Johnstone	AUS
Taku Hiraoka	JPN
Scotty Lago	USA
Ayumi Hirano	JPN
Markus Malin	FIN
Greg Bretz	USA
Luke Mitrani	USA
Kazu Kokubo	JPN

Snowboard Women's SuperPipe
Athlete Name	Country
Kelly Clark	USA
Elena Hight	USA
Gretchen Bleiler	USA
Queralt Castellat	ESP
Kaitlyn Farrington	USA
Torah Bright	AUS
Arielle Gold	USA
Ellery Hollingsworth	AUS

Snowboard Men's Slopestyle
Athlete Name	Country
Mark McMorris	CAN
Sage Kotsenburg	USA
Sebastien Toutant	CAN
Chas Guldemond	USA
Aleksander Ostreng	NOR
Eric Willett	USA
Seppe Smits	BEL
Roope Tonteri	FIN
Ulrik Badertscher	NOR
Torstein Horgmo	NOR
Shaun White	USA
Stale Sandbech	NOR
Max Parrot	CAN
Yuki Kadano	JPN
Peetu Piiroinen	FIN
Gjermund Braaten	NOR

Snowboard Women's Slopestyle
Athlete Name	Country
Jamie Anderson	USA
Enni Rukajarvi	FIN
Kjersti Oestgaard Buaas	NOR
Spencer O'brien	CAN
Sina Candrian	SUI
Sarka Pancochova	CZE
Aimee Fuller	IRL
Silje Norendal	NOR

Here is a recap of the last event to get you pumped and ready for the week to come