Sorry Torin Yater-Wallace, guess you should have changed your last name to Wallisch. Under bluebird skies, Torin Wallace made history, stomping the first ever switch 1800 in a contest, at the US Grand Prix in Mammoth. Yet Wallace didn't manage to place in slopestyle. That's right. An 1800 and no medal. Still, it's an amazing feat for anyone-- let alone at the ripe age of 16.

Guess who did land on the podium? Tom Wallisch. To be fair, we all know Wallisch has natural talent and incomparable style.

However, Torin is a known halfpipe skier and the youngest Winter X medalist. And after he laid down a switch 1800 in slopestyle on Sunday, March 5, he deserves credit.

Wallisch's winning run was stocked with a switch right side 900, two double cork 1260's, and a pair of proper double corked rodeo 1080's. That may have deserved the 96.40 score that he received. But it doesn't make sense that Wallace ended up buried in fourth behind Alex Bellemare and Joss Christensen in second and third.

Moral of the story? Way to go Tom but keep your eyes peeled, Torin is coming in hot behind you.

Photo: John Lemieux

GoPro has been secretly gathering the snow world's best athletes and creating one hell of an A-team. During Winter X Games 16 that concluded on Sunday January 29, the latest addition to the team was announced. Who might this lone stranger be? Picture flowing fiery locks, questionable taste in snow pants, and an annoying tendency to win every single halfpipe contest he competes in without a second look. Yep. Shaun White.

Along with Tom Wallisch, Jamie Anderson, and Hannah Teter, White took home some X Games hardware in 2012. This hardware of course, being the gold medal paired with a perfect score after his last run in men's pipe finals. Tom Wallisch also claimed the gold in men's ski slopestyle as well as Jamie Anderson who earned hers in women's slopestyle finals. Teter followed up with the bronze in women's halfpipe finals.

Understand the A-team comment now? Check out the highlights with this talented group of rippers below.

Words by Jeff Schmuck
Photos by John Vandervalk

Day 1 of Winter X Games 16 is in the books, and what an incredible and emotional day it was.

Following back-to-back wars in Men's Ski Slopestyle Elimination and Women's Ski Slopestyle Finals earlier in the day, Men's Ski Slopestyle Finals were set to go down at night for the first time ever. But before finals got underway, the most emotional moment in X Games history took place, via a beautiful tribute to the late Sarah Burke.

With a capacity crowd gathered at the base holding glow sticks as makeshift candles, the lights in the pipe were turned off, and virtually every ski competitor here at X Games, along with a strong showing of snowboarders and ski industry types, slowly walked and skied down the pipe with glow sticks in hand as Rory Bushfield and Sarah's parents and family awaited to greet them at the base. Much respect to ESPN for putting together such an amazing, beautiful and healing moment for all of us who loved Sarah so much.



Immediately after the tribute, it was go time on the slopestyle course, and in the end, Tom Wallisch picked up his first Winter X Games gold medal to complement his European X Games one with the highest score in skiing slopestyle history at X Games. Tom was on point all night, sitting just behind Nick Goepper on the leader board until his third and final run, when he once again picked up the win at the 11th hour (which is beginning to become a common theme for Tom) with a 450 off the top of the wall ride, to switch 270 on 450 off the close-out rail, to switch right cork 9, left double cork 12 mute, switch right double 10, and switch left double 10.

Head to Newschoolers to see the rest of the Recap.

We're still rolling out content galore from last week's 11th annual Powder Video Awards & Reader Poll in Aspen, Colo., over at PowerAwards.com, where there are like a gazillion videos and galleries documenting all aspects of the gala affair: Interviews (check), Red Carpet (check), Behind the Scenes (check), Winners with their Hardware (check) and Winning Clips (check). Some select clips follow here--Best Male and Female Perfomances (Sage Cattabriga-Alosa and Grete Eliassen), Tom Wallish and Ingrid Backstrom in their last interviews before being named the Reader Poll champions, Full Throttle (Dana Flahr), and Breakthrough Performer (Ahmet Dadali)--so pop some corn and enjoy the show... --Tim Mutrie

Watch videos at Powder Magazine...

Jiberish Clothing's first trailer for their new flick "Right Back Where We Started" has hit the interaweb and it's looking straight up banger. This feel good flick is all about having fun and shredding with your buddies. Big booters, gnarly rails, and awesome falls are all featured in this teaser. This little taste has us hungry for the full release which will be free to download later this month. Enjoy the tease and get ready to get "Right Back Where We Started."



Words: Jiberish Clothing

Jiberish Clothing presents 'Right Back Where We Started', a motion picture profiling the Jiberish family of athletes as they display their unique styles in the disciplines of snowboarding, skiing and skateboarding. From the terrain parks of Colorado, to the bustling streets of San Francisco, watch our cameras follow around some of the best in the game.

Leave the grandiose action sports movies in your DVD player and load up our 2010 digital featurette which will boast content that you, the rider, can relate to. Those feel good sunny days in the terrain park, the pursuit of the elusive manual pier side and the thrill of greasing that perfect night time urban down rail are some of the sensations we have captured in colorful and dynamic moving images.

A free online offering, coming in August of 2010.

Featuring: Tom Wallisch, Joe Mango, Ian Cosco, Adam Delorme, Mike Hornbeck, Justin Norman, Henrik Harlaut, Stephen Richards, Matt Walker, Keri Herman, AJ Kemppainen, Elijah Moore, Jon Brogan and Corey Vanular.