//89// Nanshan Open / Txoripapa / Boarddock / Avalanche Awareness

TTR 4Star Nanshan Open

Jan 6th, 2007 / Nanshan, China

Blue skies, warm weather and a beautifully shaped snowpark. Welcome to China, welcome to shralp! episode #89 from January 13th 2008.
It was already the 6th Nanshan Open and after some tough qualification runs four guys made it into the superfinals. Jake Koia from New Zealand became 4th. Japanese rider Atsuchi Ishikawa became 3rd with huge switch FS 7’s and 9’s. Austrian Marc Swoboda showed a BS 7 Japan and a FS 5 witch made him second. First place went to Jakob Wilhelmson from Sweden, showing huge and smooth 720 and 540s.
1. Jakob Wilhelmson
2. Marc Swoboda
3. Atsuchi Ishikawa
4. Jake Koia

Music: Young Kin, Dragon (myspace.com/youngkin010) ///

Slopestyle Txoripapa

December 22nd 2007, Formigal, Spain
200 riders came to that very special slopestyle in Formigal, Spain right before Christmas. A competition with unusual prices and ranking rules. Not the best trick or run won, but, for example, the rider that came first to get his bib. Other prices went to the youngest rider, the one that tried the hardest, whether he landed or not, and so on. Nobody knew what the prices there were, so they just had to ride for fun and joy. The name of the contest, Txoripapa, is also the name of a dish made of red sausage and potatoes. All the participants had a meal of txoripapa after the event.
The video was made by our Spansih friends from Snowticias.com. And if Spanish is your mother tongue, go check out their website. They have shralp in Spanish!

Music: El Círculo de Willis / Album: Cuadrado / Song: Datura ///

Hang your board on the wall

Product Tip
So you got this cool board for Christmas that you want to show of to all your friends - I mean real friends not the one on Facebook - and you want to hang that board at the wall of your room. No longer a difficult thing. We found this Belgian Company Rixon, that produces a simple wall mounting system. Just two screws and 2 brackets thats it. It’s cheap, too. 5 Euros or a little more over 7US. Check out their website for more infos. ///

shralp! Network

A short reminder: Go check shralp.ning.com the shralp! network. Its growing steadily. By the time we produce this we had more than 50 members from all over the world. They wer uploading videos and images and just making friens with other shralpers. Go check shralp.ning.com. ///

Avalanche Awareness Camps

Spitzing Feb, 5th & Ifen Feb, 16th
Last week we had a couple of avalanche victims here in the alps.
But avalances don’t need to be a risk! If you never had an avalanche awareness training, get one now! Check with your local store, check with your resort, check the web for a camp near you. If you are in Germany, Millhaus has two camps for you in Spitzing and Kleinwalsertal. Go to millhaus.com now and register. Get the right equipment, get an avalanche beacon, a probe and a shovel. Learn to use the stuff. If there is bad conditions and you cannot ride, grab your buddies and train finding a beacon. You just have 15 minutes to save your buddy if he got caught by an avalanche.
We don’t want to loose one of our viewers - it’s your responsibility. ///

Music: Bloc Party, Flux (Punx Soundcheck ‘Tenebrae’ Remix), music.podscow.com

Take care of yourself!
Next episode of shralp in two weeks time on January 27th. I want to see you all back.