It was a perfect sunny day for The Protest World Rookie Fest finals at the Swatch Mottolino Snowpark. The riding level was high and kids coming from all around the world confirmed that the progression of snowboarding is happening. Diana Augustinova and Sebbe De Buck are the winners of the Groms and Katarzyna Rusin and Roope Tonteri the winners of the rookie’s categories. The girls, despite being less than boys impressed the judges and the boys too! Girls showed their skills on the M course of the Swatch Mottolino Snowpark, while boys where attacking the L and XL lines. The winning girls of the Groms category are: Diana Augustinova(CZE), Maria Delfina Maiocco (IT) and Noemi Valloray (IT). In the rookie’s category Katarzyna Rusin (POL) take the lead of Nora Thompson (NOR) who took second place, and Marika Enne (FIN) who finished in third place. In the boys’ field the Groms podium goes to Seppe De Buck (BEL) (run : 50-50 180out, switch backside 540, frontside 720 e backside 720), Seamus O’Connor (USA) as second place and Lucas Baume (SUI) third place. On the rookie’s side first place goes to Roope Tonteri (FIN) who secured the victory with a sick run that started off with 50-50 backflip out, cab900, backside900 and cab1080. Brage B Richenberg (NOR) got second place and Niklas Mattsson (SWE) third place.

Watch as TTR rider, Iouri Podladtchikov, takes first place in the 5Star Burton Canadian Open 2010 Halfpipe competition, helping him maintain second spot in the much coveted TTR World Snowboard Tour rankings. After a solid performance the ever outstanding iPod improves his ranking, closing the gap between himself and the current tour champion, Peetu Piiroinen. Can he improve his position and take first place away from Peetu 'Podium'? Stay tuned - the tour is only just heating up!

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In our latest installment of Deeper, Jeremy Jones, Travis Rice, Johan Olofsson, Jonaven Moore, and Tom Burt head in into the wilds of Alaska. They wanted to go past heli boundaries, find new terrain, and call the backcountry of Alaska home for a few weeks. See where they end up.

The entire Armada team has been busy this past year travelling, shredding and filming, so we decided to treat you all with a little mid-season surprise.<br/><br/> After weeding through everyones footage, we mashed up the best shots we could get our hands on, added some tunes and are now bringing you the ARMADA Team Edit 2010. <br/><br/> Enjoy.

In this episode we are examining the phenomenon that is ‘After-bang’.

Including:

- our seasonnaire battle continues with new team Grenade UK
- we have an interview with the king of after-bang, Tom Wallisch
- former British Champion freeskier James Webb, gives us a guide to after-bang
- web-watch brings some ground-breaking snowsports and some people dancing naked in the snow
- Johno Verity returns with his feature ‘Being Johno Verity’ which is basically Johno Verity talking about Johno Verity!
- PLUS this episode was the first ever episode to be streamed LIVE, subscribe to Snowfix on Twitter to find out how to watch next time!

Thanks to Dan Wakeham from Grenade UK for the seasonnaire footage!

Music:
During ‘The Kids’:
- The Hot Rocks - Little Red Stiletto
- Deceptakahn - Gunman
During James Webb After-banging:
- J-face - Sheisty

Download:

• Medium quality M4V: for iTunes, iPod, PSP, Zune and most other players)

The Swatch TTR Burton Canadian Open (“CANO”) is coming back to WinSport Canada's Canada Olympic Park on February 1-7, 2010. Join riders from around the world in competing in world class halfpipe and slopestyle courses and for a $50,000 cash purse. The third stop in the Burton Global Open Series, the CANO will be a crucial stop for riders looking to accumulate BGOS points. This is even more important this year, because the top 3 men and women BGOS riders will be awarded major cash for their hard work (like $50k for 1st, $30k for 2nd and $20k for 3rd). The CANO is also proud to be a 5Star TTR event….just another reason to get out there and compete. All riders that compete will earn TTR points, but the top male and female rider will walk away from the CANO with 800 TTR points and a chance at the TTR Championship title.