Snake and Hammers...

Snake & Hammers - Banked slopestyle at the Nike Snowpark Montafon

From 24 to 26 March 2013 the „Snake & Hammers“ banked slopestyle at Silvretta
Montafon/Austria is going to be a blast. Riding an innovative contest course amateurs, local heroes, snowboard legends and pros together take up the challenge of timekeeping and obstacle judging. The snowboarders with the best all-around riding skills get the chance to win $10,000 prize money.Nike Snowboarding presents „Snake & Hammers“ – a unique snowboarding competition designed to test a snowboarder´s best all-around riding skills. The course combines the turns of traditional banked slalom with the features of a slopestyle event. Next to smaller, sharp turns and long banks the riders are awaited by hips, kickers and jib obstacles. A rider´s overall goal is to „snake“ down as fast as they can while dropping their best „hammers“. Everyone is invited to take part wherefore motivated amateurs shred together with pros and experienced snowboard legends. A contest has rarely become that exciting and funny at the same time – because only riders who really have a high level of board control and come out on top of this interesting starting field win a part of the $10,000 prize money.

Schedule Snake & Hammers:24 March 2012 | Show Day – Special sessions, shootings, live band and barbecue25 March 2013 | Qualification amateurs26 March 2013 | Finals / Super FinalsAll riders are able to register online from now on.

Further information of the contest are published on www.snakeandhammers.com.

#Parklife

The #Parklife Project was the brainchild of Jamie Trinder. The idea is to capture their lives, travels and tricks in photo and video. The #Parklife Series will be filmed 100% on iON cameras and will follow the day to day lives of Henry Shackleton, Ollie Jackson, Lewis Courtier Jones, Jamie Trinder and any friends who come along for the ride.

Pleisure holidays in Courcheval will be the season base and the DC Park in Meribel will be their playground. Jamie Trinder said “Using iON cameras allows us to film high quality footage easily without having to spend all our time setting up and dragging around fancy and expensive camera equipment.

As riders, we need to train as well as film and without having our own personal cameraman, the iON Air Pro helps to do both with ease. The iON is small, tough and lightweight. You don’t even notice it in your pocket when you’re riding” Henry said “Getting footage is always so hard because everyone wants footage of themselves but no one wants to carry the camera bag and be responsible for it. So the bag sits at the top of the park and you hope no one nicks it. In this modern age, we all have iON cameras in our pockets!”

As sunny days are spent lapping the chairlifts of the worlds snow parks, these guys are bound to get some great riding footage but it doesn’t stop there. When they’re Facebook page hits 1000 likes, Ollie (man child) Jackson will wax his chest to get some more great footage. So go and like: https://www.facebook.com/ParklifeSeries and keep an eye out for the edits. http://www.parklifeseries.com/

#Parklife crew lapping the DC Park in Meribel. Lewis gets his shin gashed: parklifeseries.com/lewiss-big-gash/
All filmed on an iON camera iontheaction.co.uk/

#Parklife episode 1 Meribel laps from Parklife Series on Vimeo.