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Pirates Premieres!

September 2nd, 2010 by enditii

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Pirate Movie Production presents European Premiere Tour 2010 „Hooked“ The Pirates are back on board to cruise around the world. The new film titled “Hooked” will be presented for the first time ever on the World Premiere in Innsbruck, Austria on the 10th of September 2010. But the film is not the only reason to visit the premieres. The Pirate parties are famous for featuring popular bands and DJ’s who rock the house through the night and into the morning.
Hooked they are, indeed: Hooked on wandering the continents to pillage and plunder the best snowboarding terrain in the world. The finest European riders each bringing their own unique style and collectively raising the flag once again. The crew chased the snow from the mountains of Washington to the streets of Scandinavia and all across the European Alps snowboarding creative city jibs and sh*t loads of powder. The DVD comes packaged in a 100-page art book, filled with various works from motivated Pirates, including the riders. Riders:
Halldor Helgason, Marco Feichtner, Gigi Rüf, Danny Larsen, Björn Hartweger, Hans Ahlund, Arthur Longo, Kalle Ohlson, Sani Alibabic, Teo Konttinen, Tyler Chorlton, Juuso Laivisto, Stephan Maurer, Stian Solberg, Gulli Gudmundsson, Erik Botner, Gerome Mathieu, Eiki Helgason, Elias Elhardt and more.
PREMIERE DATES:
10. September, Innsbruck, Austria, www.hafen.cc
11. September, Munich, Germany www.backstage.eu
17. September, Salzburg, Austria www.rockhouse.at
18. September, Schorndorf, Germany
24. September, Zürich, Switzerland, www.freestyle.ch
30. September, Prag, Czech Republic http://www.retropraha.cz
09. Oktober, Feldkirch, Austria, www.poolbar.aat
15. Oktober, Wien, Austria, www.wuk.at
15. Oktober, Pfarrkirchen, Germany, Boogalo
16. Oktober, Kaunertal, Austria, www.kaunertal-opening.at
23. Oktober, Oslo, Norway
29. Oktober, Göteborg, Sweden, www.parken.se
05. November, Nürnberg, Germany, www.starsandstairs.de
TBA: Modena, Bratislava, Berlin, Wil, Moskau, Amsterdam…

For detailed information about a premiere in your city visit: www.pirate-movie-production.com
Link For Trailer:
http://www.pirate-movie-production.com/movies/hooked

Tags: Danny Larsen
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go-shred.com 1st anniversary!

September 2nd, 2010 by enditii

goshred_back Front-Geburtstags-Flyer

wanna go shredding? no car? no people to ride with?
go to www.go-shred.com and find your ride with the right people to the resort of your chice!
this saves pollution as well!

if you want to grab a k2 Snowboard at their party, show up at MataHari in Stuttgart. details in the flyer!

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Julia with her NIKITA ad!

September 2nd, 2010 by enditii

julia nikita

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hey swiss girls!

September 2nd, 2010 by enditii

swissnowb-girlsflyer_zermattswissnowb-girlsflyer_zermattOur european teamrider Ursina haller invetes young, talented femal riders to join the first girl’s camp for ambitious young ladies, who want to get into professional snowboarding!
Ursina is one of the coaches and K2 is looking for the best action photo from the week-end. Silvano Zeiter will be taking photos and the best will be awarded with a complete K2 set-up! more info on the flyer!

Tags: K2 Alliance, K2 Women
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K2 Fastplant Makes Snowboarder’s Best of Test

August 31st, 2010 by K2 Press Box

Snowboarder Magazine, after all its grueling efforts in testing 2011’s endless snowboard list has come to the conclusion that K2’s Fastplant is pretty freakin cool. Combining an industry first bamboo core with killer graphics from Don Pendleton proved benificial for K2 in 2010/2011. Follow the link below for the full story behind the Fastplant’s prestigious award, where it was tested and what the testers had to say when it was all over.

http://fresh.snowboardermag.com/feature/best-of-test-2011-3-k2-fastplant/

Fastplant - Killing it!

Tags: Don Pendleton, K2 Snowboarding, Snowboarder Magazine
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August 21st, 2010 by leanne

Heyo! We’re here in El Colorado, which is also attached to resorts Valle Nevado and El Parva. Travis Parker, Gretchen Bleiler, Danny Larsen, Aaron Robinson, Jordan Mendenhall and myself are here to shoot the catalog for 2012, and also do some much needed board testing to make any last minute tweaks. We’ve had 3 days of shredding a very shallow snowpack. I don’t mind, because so far its been sunny everyday, with jaw dropping sunsets. This place is awesome and the people are so nice. One lady gave us fresh bread she baked while we were hitting a small hip in front of our k2 house. So amazing!

We’re getting creative with what we have to work with, and our crew is insane. I need to take more photos. Its just gorgeous here, and one of our photographers, Claudio, is a guide in Patagonia. He showed us amazing pictures of breaching whales, seals, and gorgeous camp spots on volcanoes. Beautiful.

Maybe we can convince Kevin to take us south… ha! I’m dreaming.

Peace oot!

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Mtn. Biking Rules

August 20th, 2010 by TimEddy

Session 5 at High Cascade I took the Japanese campers on a mountain biking adventure. Its was amazing! Most of them had never been mountain biking before. There were some tears, some blood, and some mud but everyone finished with a smile on there face! Here’s a little video showcasing the extremenesss…enjoy!

Mtn Biking Rules! from Tim Eddy on Vimeo.

Tags: Airblaster, Dakine, K2 Snowboarding, porterstahoe.com, Tim Eddy
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2011.12 Catalog Shoot in Chile. Day one. Ole! Ole! Ole!

August 19th, 2010 by WINKEL

Ole Ole Ole! It’s that time of the year….catalog shoot time. So while many of you are probably trying to squeeze in the last few days of float life, BBQ’s, beaches, bikini’s, warm weather surf and all those other wonderful things about summer. We decided to end it early and take some of the team down to Chile to shoot the 2011.12 Catalog, and what can we say? Such a good decision!

The Mike Yoshida

First met up with K2 Staff Photographer and video cameo master Mike Yoshida. Between the two of us we had around 14 bags including our photo gear. Packed everything into my girfriend’s Subaru. Not enough room for me and Mike so we had to get a cab as well. Good times. Then we had an interesting challenge of trying to get 10 bags of product onto a jumper flight to LAX. Thanks to the counter ladies at United for the straight hook up! We met the majority of the rest of the crew in Los Angeles which consisted of Jordan Mendenhall, Travis Parker, Gretchen Bleiler, Leanne Pelosi, and one of our filmers for the trip Sam Hiltner. 13 hours, a quick stop in Lima, some delicious wine, and a couple Advil PM’s and we were in Santiago.

Customs in Chile is pretty mellow. Brought in over 30 snowboards. Helps if you pretend not to know what they are asking you.

The drive up from Santiago to the Farallones area is a fun one. Over 39 counted switch backs on a road not much wider than your car in some areas climbing around 4,000 feet. We arrived at our house for the trip right next to El Colorado Resort, one of the first houses to built up here. Farallones is next to four resorts El Colorado, Valle Nevado, La Parva, and Farallones. Every window has a view of the Andes. Not bad.

360 degree views

But now looking forward to a great week! Not the powder we expected, but can’t beat the sunshine. Stay tuned for updates as much as we can. Internet is a pretty rare commodity up here.

Spring Time Weather!

Leanne's Funny Pillow Chile House Shoes

our home for the next week. we do all of these activities.

Tags: Danny Larsen, Eero Niemela, Gretchen Bleiler, Jordan Mendenhall, K2 Snowboarding Catalog Shoot, Kevin Winkel, Leanne Pelosi, Shaun Mckay
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Here in Chile!!!

August 18th, 2010 by leanne

Hey Everyone, we got to Chile safe and sound…looks like we’re shooting our 011 catalog. The boards look insane!!! Got to see an amazing sunset today, and settle into the k2 house in Farallones. So stoked to check out this country. I can’t even sleep! Will post pics soon! Ciao!

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Who Are Ya!? Martin Seiler

August 17th, 2010 by enditii

Here’s a Swiss kid named Martin Seiler who charges but his name hasn’t gotten around much outside of CH. “Seili” has a huge appetite for powder and wishes he was Radioactive Man! Peep some pics and get to know him a little better. Martin Seiler, “Who are ya?! Who are ya?!”

Who are ya? Who are ya?
I’m Martin “Seili” Seiler, 21 years old, out of Wallis, Switzerland.

Seili just shittin’ on gravity as he flips through the gap in the loop. Photo: Basti Gogl

Who are your people?
Everyone who has a positive attitude towards life.

Who are your heroes?
Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and McGyver

Follow the arrow. FS lien 180. Photo: Silvano Zeiter

Who are your enemies?
If I had to pick one, I would say time. There’s so much cool stuff to do and to see on our planet. Compared to that our time here is ridiculously short.

Rock to fakie on avalanches barriers out in Fiescheralp, this shit is eXXXtreme! Photo: Silvano Zeiter

Who is your leader?
I don’t like it too much when other people decide what I have to do, so I try to be my own leader.

Sometimes conditions get a little icy even in Switzerland. Photo: Andre Kremmer.

Who is your favorite?
Too many to mention just one.

Who do you shred with?
Everyone who likes to shred neck-deep powder instead of icy parks and wants to have fun.

Night flight up in Belalp, alley oop front 3 nose boner

Who is your music?
Pretty much everything from guitar-based music, hip hop to electronic stuff.

Remotely flipped at Jib Vid in Mayrhofen. Photo: Silvano Zeiter

Who are you scared of?
Avalanches and injuries.

Who will you be in a decade’s time?
Still me, I guess.

Droppin’ off some wall that is older than Christ. Photo: Andre Kremmer.

Who were you in another life? Who the fuck wrote these questions? I have no freaking clue. Actually I’m pretty stoked on my current life, I never thought about a previous life before.

Who can you always count on?
My friends and family.

Seili hopping into some fresh vanilla frosting, FS 5. Photo: Silvano Zeiter
Who are the best riders right now?
Frederik Kalbermatten, Travis Rice, Jake Blauvelt.

Who would you be if you were a cartoon character?
Radioactive Man. He rocks!

Mega mushroom blast out in the woods. Photo: Silvano Zeiter

Who is the last person you saw in a dream?
Bud Spencer, we were kicking some guy’s asses in a bar.

Who’s your favorite historical figure?
JFK was probably a pretty interesting character.

Sending it off the tunnel in Simplon with a switch back 180. Photo: Silvano Zeiter