December 21, 2007 on 8:05 pm | In Uncategorized |
Here are the girls from the Roxy Team enjoying their Christmas Party after the Roxy Chicken Jam Slopestyle contest in Kaprun last weekend. The Roxy Chicken Jam is a 6 star TTR snowboard event for girls only. The TTR stands for the Ticket to Ride Tour and is a world wide tour of top level contests including slopestyle, big air, quarter pipe and half pipe contests. unlike World Cup events, which are only held in the freestyle disciplines of half pipe and big air. The TTR tour contests are generally very progressive and media based with a lot of fun side events happening alongside of the snowboard contest. In kaprun, there was a large after party with 5 different DJs playing banging tunes into the small hours of the morning.
The Roxy park at the top of the glacier.
The riding during the contest was very competitive and of a high standard. In the end it was Cheryl Maas, the Dutch TTR Tour winner from two years ago who took first place, with TTR tour runner up from last year, Jamie Anderson from the USA taking second place and local ripper, Austrian Claudia Fliri taking the third spot. The contest was supposed to be held in the Roxy park at the top of the Kaprun glacier but had to be moved down to the half way slope where the DC sponsored park will be in the winter due to very high winds. This meant the girls did not get all the practice they would have wanted but it did not slow them down much. They soon got straight into it with Torah Bright, current TTR champion, blasting off the kicker first with a perfect frontside 360 to set the standard. Torah ride well all day but just could not clean up the landing on her cab 540 spin. Also riding well were the UKs Jenny Jones and Norways Kjersti Buaas who in the end tied for 4th place. Jenny got the 4th on a points breakdown but it was a close call, showing how much all the girls are pushing each other.
Before the contest started I spent the week with my fellow Roxy team mates in Kaprun doing the Roxy catalogue shoot for the 08/09 season. We were lucky enough to get some really amazing snow and lots of fresh powder turns. THis is always a very good thing at the start of the season and especially good after the bad snow season in Europe last year. It was bitterly cold though as you can see from the way our photogrpaher Josie Clyde is well wrapped up!! We wil be shooting all over the world in the next 3 months to try and get action shots for marketing. Hopefully if the snow is good in Scotland we will even get to shoot here!!
Lesley McKenna
http://www.chunkyknit.com
Professional snowboarder, film maker and ambassador for Visitscotland. All sorts of outdoor sports from skiing to mountain biking and now mixes her time on the Snowboard World Cup Tour with time in Scotland doing these sports.
