The world of snowboarding is unthinkable without this event: the LAAX OPEN 2017 provide one week of snowboarding at its best. And in addition to the high-class international women’s and men’s slopestyle and halfpipe competitions sanctioned by FIS and TTR, cultural highlights and concerts at rocksresort deliver top entertainment. From January 16 to 21, 2017, the international snowboarding elite will gather at the Swiss winter-sports resort which was awarded “world’s best freestyle resort” a few weeks ago. This unique ambiance regularly pushes the snowboard stars to deliver their best performance of the year!
2016 was the first year that wakestyle kiteboarding has had its own competitions series. In the past there has been lots of individual park style events but a few of us had the idea to start the website kiteparkleague.com to compile all of the results under one roof. With a unified judging, format and criteria we hope to push forward the discipline of park riding and push the level of the sport and media into the future.
The 2016 season comprised of five stops, starting in the Philippines with Blue Kiteboarding’s Palawan event, followed by the legendary Tripls-S in Cape Hatteras. Then heading to Hood River for the slider projects ‘Hood jam’. Russia’s world class kite park hosted the ‘Rail Masters’ and a new park in the UK was built up in Wales to make the ‘Rhosneigr Park Jam’ finalising the season in November.