The Grand Prix in Mammoth wasn't the only contest going down this past weekend- Across the big pond, all the way over in Davos Jakobsorn, Switzerland- the O'neill Evolution Tour was taking Europe by storm. The "Evo tour" was a 6 star TTR event that was action packed as snowboarding's finest competed for TTR points as well as for a chunk of the $100,000 prize purse. When it was all said and done, IPOD (Iouri Podladtchikov, swooped in and won the Men's halfpipe contest. For the ladies, it was ms. Haller Ursina who stood atop the podium and took home gold. Marko Girlc stepped into the spotlight winning the gold for his trickery in the slopestyle event.
Check out the following vids and pics and see what went down in Switzerland's shred scene!
Take a look at the amazing 2010 Swatch TTR 6Star O'Neill Evolution Halfpipe snowboarding finals coming straight from Davos, Switzerland. Featuring all the podium action from every angle. See Peetu Piiroinen and Markus Keller throw down two huge runs only for Iouri Podladtchikov to step it up and blow them out of the park with a Crippler, Back 9, Front 10, finished with his amazing Cab 10 Double Cork. Truly a wonder to behold!
Watch these highlights from the Swatch TTR 6Star O'Neill Evolution Womens Halfpipe Snowboarding Finalsin Davos, Switzerland. Watch as Snowboarders Ursina Haller, Cilka Sadar, Manuela Laura Pesko, Kjersti Buaas, Caroline Beliard and Sarka Pancochova fight it out for the 1000 TTR Ranking Points.
The competition was fierce! Congrats to all the winners! It was a great showing in Switzerland!
Results:
Halfpipe:
MEN 1st- Podladtchikov, Iouri 91.33 2nd- Keller, Markus 88.83 3rd- Piiroinen, Peetu 84.83
The 18-year-old stomped it off a massive kicker in Europe.
While many of us were sulking because the season is practically over, Norwegian shredder, Stale Sandbech was busy stomping a brand new trick. A video of the 18-year-old hitting a massive kicker in Europe just surfaced, and in it, Sandbech stomps a triple underflip 1260. Yeah, we didn't really think that was possible either, but this video from Stale's sponsors proves it.
After seeing the video, we had to know what was going through Sandbech's mind when he stomped the new trick...
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