• News

British Snow Tour dates announced

Wed 06 July 11

The British Snow Tour is back for its tenth year with a new format that will consolidate this seasons action into a three event tour, kicking off with the British Indoor Championships at SNO!zone Castleford in September.

British Snow Tour dates announced ©

The British Snow Tour will continue to be the highest level of competitive snowboarding and freeskiing in the UK with the chosen three events being the biggest on the calendar and sporting a collective prize purse of £13,500. Equally, more events will be included into the national ranking system, including the Scottish Series, Southern Series and with more independent events to be confirmed.

“Despite having flown in the face of commercial pressures over the past few difficult years of a global recession which has hit all sectors – slopes, retailers, sponsors and competitors pockets – the decision has been taken to consolidate the British Snow Tour into a three event Tour for 2011/12, so that we may bring it back in its entirety in future years”. Spencer Claridge – Director British Snow Tour / Soulsports.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARIES:

·         British Indoor Championships - 24^th September 2011, Castleford SNO!zone

·         British Invitational Championships - 21^st October 2011, London Ski and Snowboard Show, Earls Court, London

·         The BRITS –March 2012, Laax, Switzerland

To complement the TTR status of the British Snowboarding Championships organisers are exploring the possibility of aligning the British Freeski Championships with the Association of Freeskiing Professionals (AFP). This will mean that all freeskiers competing on the British Snow Tour will earn World Ranking points, putting them on the same list Bobby Brown, Simon Dumont and the rest of the freeskiing elite.   

Last year’s indoor events saw snow-shaping expert, Damian Doyle, perfectly craft the freestyle courses so once again he has been recruited as head shaper for the Indoor Championships 2011. Armed with set-squares and scalpels, Damian and team are hell bent on improving the amazing standards set last year.   

As usual the competition is open to all ability levels from novice to pro with prizes and the British Indoor Championship title served up across five age categories: Kids, Youth, Junior, Senior and Masters. For more info, news, course layouts and online registration go to: www.britishsnowtour.com.

Next Story

NZ Burton 2011 Results

Mon 15 August 11, Cardrona, New Zealand

The first 5*TTR competition of the new season, the Burton New Zealand Open, was held at the weekend. Mark McMorris and Jamie Anderson win the slopestyle and Kelly Clark and Ryo Aono win the halfpipe

Sign up for the Everest Challenge 2012

Tue 16 August 11, Morzine, France

Snow-Camp, one of Britain's most innovative youth charities, will be holding its third annual charity ski-a-thon in the French Alps on January 26th to 29th 2012

Spend a day with stars of forums new flic Vacation

Tue 16 August 11

To celebrate the movie’s release the brands offer you the unique chance to spend a weekend with the Forum Global Team. Fans will not only get the chance to shred with the guys and be one of the first to see the new movie but also to party hard to the tunes of German DJ set up Drunken Masters and of course to simply have a lot of fun.

Winter Games NZ snowboard slopestyle results

Sun 21 August 11, Cardrona, New Zealand

The ninth day of competition at the 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games saw some of the world's top ranked freestyle snowboarders battle it out under picture perfect blue skies at Snow Park

Fernie getting new Polar Peak Lift for 2011

Sat 17 September 11, Fernie Alpine Resort, Canada

The Polar Peak Lift adds an above tree-line Bowl experience with over 22 new runs