Ski-buzz

In just over a week’s time the world’s best freestyle skiers and boarders will descend on the resort of Tignes to compete in the X Games Europe 2013 4th edition. This will showcase 150 of the best freestylers in this incredible three day event. The X Games Europe has been developed from the annual American [...]

Fall-Line Skiing are a bunch of tuned-in and inspiring folk responsible for one of the snow sports industry’s best-loved magazines. In this post they’ve tracked down the best booters, rails, jibs, pipes and kickers that will keep park rats happy till the season ends. The best for wannabees Got a secret penchant to become the next Tom [...]

This year’s Crystal Ski Fest 2011 in Sestriere was a great success, with the team all buzzing when they came back in the office yesterday!  Find out about all the goings-on here. On the piste, skills were polished in the race training sessions, as well as general ski technique – under the watchful eyes of [...]

After some great feedback from our last Q&A session with BASI, we’ve got the answers to some more of your FAQs. There’s plenty for snowboarders this time – with board questions answered by Ben Kinnear, Snowboard Director and Vice Chairman of BASI. Not to leave out the skiers, there are some more words of wisdom [...]

Notebooks at the ready people? Here, as promised are our chosen top tips to improve your ski and board technique from our good friends at BASI. BASI’s Chairman Gareth Roberts and Alpine Director Alex Leaf are both BASI trainers. Read through their answers below to pick up some pointers to get that carving up to [...]