Riders from around the globe are currently making the trek to Stratton, Vermont for the men’s last 6Star event of the 2009/2010 Swatch TTR World Tour season. The 6Star Burton US Open is set to take hold of Stratton Mountain Resort all next week with slopestyle finals scheduled for Friday, March 19th and halfpipe finals set for Saturday, March 20th.
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It’s not easy being a slave to the big bad corporate machine. Days are filled with long, painstaking hours spent punching your fingertips to the bone, only to have your boss steal your precious red swing line stapler and move your desk down to “Storage B.†Well, that’s at least how it is for most 9-5ers. Some of us, however, manage to find our niche and make it work with no more than some Pabst, P-Tex and a little bit of bong water. Lane Knaack is one of those people. From the rough-and-tumble streets of Shokan, NY, to the cut-throat alleyways of Truckee, Lane may be a lanky fucker, but don’t let that fool you. The guy can throw down, and he’s got portfolio to prove it.
So first off, tell me about how you got started on a snowboard: Â …Â Details
SixEleven’s recap from the 2010 Ride Shakedown in Seattle. Presented by Ride Snowboards, Bud LIght, Muscle Milk, Rockstar, Summit at Snoqualmie, Shakedown Mfg. Rail jam best trick qualifiers, semi-finals and finals. Main event semi-finals and finals
Last week’s innaugural European Winter X-Games attracted many of the biggest names in snowboarding, creating possibly the biggest media feeding frenzy European snowboarding has ever seen. Not that you’d have realised if you were in the Austrian resort of Mayrhofen, where nobody seemed to even notice the circus over the hills and far away in Tignes. Instead, all eyes – and a considerable ammount of local pride – were focussed on the Wangl Tangl, the annual contest organised by the Aesthetiker Crew who call Mayrhofen home. And while the contest was smaller in scale than last year’s event (thanks to a couple of big money sponsors pulling out) – and it clearly had nothing on the size of the spectacle taking place in France – it was clear from the outset that the local boys were out to prove a point … Details & Pictures