Denver, CO – Snowboarding’s stars came out in force Friday night, rocking The Fillmore Auditorium for the 13th Annual TW SNOW Riders’ Poll Awards Presented by New Era. Infamous emcee GT and Signal’s Dave Lee presided over the biggest night in snowboarding as the best riders of 2011 took the stage to receive their awards.
In the Women’s Rookie Of The Year category, Finnish phenom Enni Rukajärvi accepted the well deserved win after placing first in both the Winter X Games slope style and the Burton US Open slope style in 2011. The Men’s Rookie Of The Year title went to Mark McMorris for a breakout season that included landing the first backside 1440 triple cork and placing second at the X Games slope style.
Women’s Video Part Of The Year was handed to self proclaimed loose cannon, Jess Kimura, for her part in Capita’s Defenders Of Awesome. Men’s Video Part Of The Year was picked up by Eric Jackson who threw down a solid five minutes of footy in People’s Good Look. E-Jack’s part came together after working hard to recover from injuries that left him couched for the previous season.
In recognition of the growing trend away from traditional DVD video parts, this year an Online Video Project Of the Year category was added. Nominees included Xavier De Le Rue’s TimeLine and Devun Walsh and Iikka Backstrom’s Polar Opposites, but it was Jake Blauvelt’s Naturally series that claimed the new title. Jake’s five-part webisodes premiered throughout the winter on TWSnow.com culminating with a full part released online and for TransWorld SNOWboarding’s Mag+ iPad app.
Continuing in the video category, Brain Farm’s epic The Art Of Flight was awarded Video Of The Year. Filmed in some of the most remote locations to yet be ridden and with next level production value, director Curt Morgan’s project made a decisive victory.
The Stand Out Performance Of Year went to Xavier De Le Rue for his ice ride in the Alps.
For the New Era Women’s Readers’ Choice Award, Jess Kimura’s savage approach to the streets won the readers hearts, placing the second trophy of the night in her hands. For the men it was Torstein Horgmo who rallied the most votes to win the category. Despite no full video part, Torsteins’ X Games Big Air gold and a strong web video presence helped him maintain exposure.
The man, the myth, the Legend Award winner Jamie Lynn was in person to collect his due for a nearly double decade contribution to the style and culture of snowboarding. Long live the king of style!
For the final presentation of the evening Jess Kimura took the spotlight for the third time to accept the Women’s Rider Of The Year Award. She was followed by Travis Rice who won Men’s Rider Of The Year for his groundbreaking riding in The Art Of Flight.
Winners of the Riders’ Poll Awards are determined by polling more than 100 professional snowboarders worldwide. In addition, thousands of TransWorld SNOWboarding readers vote for the winners of the New Era Men’s and Women’s Readers’ Choice awards.
Take it from the kids at Transworld, they know how to build a pow kicker…and even more importantly, they know how to illustrate their instructions. Click on the photo below to see the full article. Informative, entertaining, and quality reporting.
Transworld recently posted their 5 most mainstream moments of 2011. Epic. Of course we start off with Mr. Mainstream himself, SW. Click on the photo below to view the rest of the line up.
The nominees for the annual Rider’s Poll Awards have been announced and Rockstar’s Cheryl Maas has been recognized for video part of the year!!! Her work in Open Air has earned her a coveted spot on the list.
Carlsbad, CA – The best riders of the year have officially been selected by their fellow pros for the 13th annual TransWorld SNOWboarding Riders’ Poll Awards presented by New Era and will swoop down on the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, Colorado, on Friday, January 27 to collect their accolades. It’s all part of a little thing we like to call the biggest night in snowboarding. To find out who won, join us at the Fillmore when the doors open at 7:00 p.m. The show starts at 8:30 p.m.
And the nominees for the 13th Annual TransWorld SNOWboarding Riders’ Poll presented by New Era are… Click the jump to see the full list…
Torstein is at it again. This time it’s a game of In Your Face with a skier, Jossi Wells to be exact. Lost in Translation might be a better title for this video. Not only do they speak different languages, the skier vs snowboarder slang adds even more hilarity to the video. Check it out below.
X Games has grown into the pinnacle event for snowsports, rivaling the olympics and arguably much more fun to watch. It hasn’t always been the X Games we’ve grown to know and love/hate. ESPN put together a little history lesson of where it has come from and how it has grown, along with the people who have helped shape it. It’s an interesting read and there are some great facts you can drop on your friends and annoy them as they are trying to watch the contest. We highly recommend doing this. Hit the jump to read the article…
In the world of snowboarding, amazing athletes like Shaun White seem to get the majority of the spotlight (and the TV time). But there are many women who are rocking the slopes too, who can also pull off fantastic tricks and pull in Olympic gold.
FITNESS caught up with two of those ladies before their next competition—the Winter Dew Tour Nike Breckenridge Open, starting today and running through Sunday.
Get to know…
Kelly Clark, snowboard superpipe competitor, the only female to win three US Open halfpipe events, Olympic gold (Salt Lake City) and bronze (Vancouver) medal winner, founder of the Kelly Clark Foundation
Spencer O’Brien, snowboard slopestyle competitor, 2009 Dew Cup champion and female athlete of the year, X Games silver (2009) and bronze (2008) medalist.
