Browsing entries tagged with Freestyle
21 Mar 2017
Slalom skier Dave Ryding has finished the season ranked eighth in the world after a successful last race in Aspen, Colorado and has said he is “very confident” of the future of the British team. The…
6 Jun 2016
Get some practice time in on Britain’s largest indoor real ski lesson slope in the UK and introduce a friend to snowsports this month, with The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead. During the month of June,…
30 Nov 2015
There are many fantastic music festivals in the Alps, but today CairnGorm Mountain in Scotland has announced the first snowsports festival to take place in a British ski resort. “Groove Cairngorm”…
5 Aug 2015
Indoor real snow ski slopes in Milton Keynes and Castleford, Yorkshire, are hoping to break three Guinness World Records in the next two weeks, as part of their Freestyle Fortnight. Between now and Sunday…
6 Nov 2013
The ski resort of Sierra Nevada in Spain is building nine new features to its huge Sulayr snowpark, which it claims will give the park the longest line in Europe. When the season opens on 30 November,…
26 Apr 2013
Thirty freestyle skiers in Canada have tried to set a world record for performing a simultaneous backflip. The skiers got together last weekend at Mont Saint-Sauveur in Quebec, organised by freestyle skiing…
10 Mar 2013
Sheffield skier James “Woodsy” Woods continued his run of form yesterday to win silver in the Freestyle World Ski Championships in Norway — the first Brit to do so in 20 years. Woodsy said this morning…
11 Jan 2012
Update 20 Jan 2012 Sadly, Sarah Burke died from her injuries on Thursday 19 January. Despite emergency surgery, Sarah’s injury was too severe. The press announcement said “Groundbreaking Canadian…
29 Jun 2011
New Zealand’s Snow Park will be the first of the South Island resorts to start the winter season, opening on Thursday 30 June. The park’s operators are squeezing every ounce out of the current…
29 Jun 2011
Freestyle fans will be keeping their fingers crossed that this year’s Saas Fee Ride will go ahead as planned on 23 July. Saas Fee’s biggest summer snow festival marks the start of the glacier…
3 Feb 2011
The Aspen edition of the Winter X Cross games has taken place during the past week or so, with good news for British slopestyle rider Jenny Jones. Jones won silver in the slopestyle contest at the 15th…
29 Sep 2010
What five questions would you ask a legendary skier, with a pioneering haircut? Well, ok it does not need to be five (we just figured that was a good number) but think about it … you may get your…
13 Sep 2010
Listen up shredders ... put 19 December in your diaries: it’s official World Snowboard Day. The idea is that various resorts around the Alps, and beyond, will arrange lots of free activities dedicated…
25 Aug 2010
Les Deux-Alpes has announced plans to re-introduce free ski testing on its traditional autumn half term opening weekend. Come On 4 Ski will take place on 23 and 24 October, with free equipment testing…
19 Aug 2010
Gear up for some autumn chill: the banks of London’s River Thames at Battersea Power Station will be transformed into a ‘ski resort’ for three days in October to bring you one of the…
18 Jul 2010
The Saas-Fee summer freestyle event, the Ride, has been cancelled for a second year running. The event was due to take place in the Swiss resort this weekend (17/18 July), but hot weather in the Alps…
1 Mar 2010
The first Winter X-Games series to hit Europe starts on 10 March, in Tignes. ESPN’s Winter X-Games brings together the world’s best freestyle riders in skiing and boarding. The US is its regular venue,…
4 Sep 2009
Do your kids know their ollies from their Alley Oops? Maybe they fancy learning new tricks in a terrain park on their next trip? You could whisk them off to the Dolomites for a ‘Freestyle Day’.…
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