//94// Pearce is Champion / Waengl Taengl / Big Mountain Pro / Red Bull Gap Session

TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion: Kevin Pearce

The race is over. Kevin Pearce is the new TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion.
Welcome to shralp! #94 from March 23rd 2008.
Kevin just had a fabulous season winning TTR 6 Star events like the Air and Style Munich and The Arctic Challenge. 3rd place at the US Open Pipe Contest was just enough for him to win the Champion Title.
Shaun White, who didn’t show up at many competitions this year, was doing good the last few events. Winning the World Superpipe Championships two weeks ago and Pipe and Slope at the US Open this week made him 4th on the TTR ranking list. 3rd place went to Risto Mattila. Peetu Piiroinen who had 3rd places in Innsbuck, Davos and Oslo, made it second in the world ranking in the end.

TTR World Ranking 2007/2008
1. Kevin Pearce
2. Peetu Piiroinen
3. Risto Mattila
4. Shaun White

Music: Nada Surf / I Like What You Say (music.podshow.com)

TTR 5 Star Waengl Taengl

March 7th 2006 / Mayrhofen, Zillertal, Austria

A lot of the big shots were raging at the Gap Session in Garmisch - see more footage later in this episode - when just less then 2 hours away the TTR 5 Star Wängl Tängl was going of. Every rider had to show his best on both lines: The kicker and the alternative line.
Rider of the year Wolle Nyvelt handled the unfortunate weather conditions well. 3rd place for him in the end.
Elias Elhardt, did an extremely stylish FS 3 Stale on the first kicker and went for a technical BS 9 - Cab 9 Combo on the lower kicker. He also made good use of the alternative line with his front flip of the hip.
In the end it was Andreas Gidlund who rode better than everyone else. He threw down a brilliant Alternative Line including the most technical trick of the week on the Down Rail, which was voted Railtrick of the day, giving him a brand new BMX bike. However his Kicker Line was even better. FS 10, BS 9 and Switch BS 7 in addition to his Alternative Line made sure he is not only going home with a BMX, but also with a brand new Motocross bike.

1. Andreas Gidlund
2. Elias Elhardt
3. Wolfgang “Wolle” Nyvelt
4. Stefan Gimpl
5. Rudolph Kröll

Music: The Duke Spirit / Cuts Across The Land (music.podshow.com)

Big Mountain Pro

Feb 24th - Mar 2nd 2008 / The Alps, Europe

Travelling around the Alps, expenses all paid: sounds like fun if you like gnarly mountains, steep with lots of rocks.
The Big Mountain Pro Started in Chamonix on February 24th and ended in La Grave on March 2nd. In between 13 Freeskieres and 11 Snowboarders went to ride some massive faces in France, Switzerland and Italy.
On the last day the riders had to watch 4 hours of video footage to choose the winner. Lucky you, seeing the condensed version here at shralp! Second place went to Xavier de le Rue. We saw him already. First place: Jeremy Jones : watch him!

1. Jeremy Jones
2. Xavier de le Rue
3. Mitch Tölderer

Music: Blood Brothers / Laser Life (music.podshow.com)

Red Bull Gap Session

March 8 2008 / Garmisch-Partenkrichen, Germany

We promised some more from the GAP Session. From hours of footage we picked some of the best airs. For a longer version go to redbullgapsession.com .

That’s it for this episode. We will be back in 2 weeks time on April 6th.

Music: The Futureheads / The Beginning of The Twist (music.podshow.com)

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