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Filou Wissen Drops His Season Edit

by Dana
Jul 15th 2012 - 0 comments

A season edit is about all those tricks you planned to land at the start of the season, all those spots you scouted as the snow melted away and all that daydreaming of shredding through hot summers days becoming a reality in the five months of winter. From Filou Wissen’s edit, you can tell that [...]

Ashee Burri 2012 Season Edit

by Dana
Jun 26th 2012 - 0 comments

Shot in terrain parks all across the Swiss Alps, Amplid Ambush rider Ashee Burri’s season edit shot and pieced together in the editing suite by Steady Productions, showcases Ashee’s effortless style. Ashee’s riding is a smooth antidote to the current future spin mentality.

LSM ?My World? Trailer

by Dana
Jun 15th 2012 - 0 comments

Russian freeski crew Life Steeze Media just dropped the trailer for their latest flick “My World”. The quality of the filming, editing and urban riding in the trailer is absolutely next level and as supporters of LSM, everybody at Amplid is super excited about watching the finished movie, which should be available after the premier [...]

Bendik Oye?s Season Shredit

by Dana
Jun 13th 2012 - 0 comments

Norwegian Amplid ripper Bendik Oye has been a great source of banger edits for the Amplid blog this season so we were stoked when his season showcase arrived in the HQ inbox. Solid rail tricks, more footage of ‘that’ slide ride and stompy switch landings mixed with a good helping of big rotations and doubles [...]

Amplid Skateboards?

by Dana
Jun 12th 2012 - 0 comments

If Amplid made skateboards, they’d look amazing! Now that Austrian shredding is confined to glacier parks Austrian Ambush team manager Harry Juen has been preparing for a summer of pumping around skate bowls, by creating his own custom Amplid deck. All you need is a limited team edition Amplid sticker and a black blank and [...]

Morgan Touring in Beaufortain, France

by Dana
Jun 10th 2012 - 0 comments

After a busy winter of getting radical all over the French Alps, Ambush skier Morgan Sauerwald has just got back from a few days of randonnee (that’s ski touring to you and I) with a couple of friends in the Beaufortain region of the French Alps. Based at the “La Coire” refuge, Morgan and company [...]

Mt Bachelor Big Wave Challenge

by Dana
Jun 6th 2012 - 0 comments

How much effort does your local hill put into creating ‘out-there’ events? Well Mt Bachelor is making the most of its late season opening and on May 12th brought in Big Wave surf legend Gerry Lopez to design a course specifically to be surfed on a snowboard. Of course Bachelor local and Amplid Cartel rider [...]

Mt Bachelor Big Wave Challenge

by Dana
May 31st 2012 - 0 comments

How much effort does your local hill put into creating ‘out-there’ events? Well Mt Bachelor is making the most of its late season opening and on May 12th brought in Big Wave surf legend Gerry Lopez to design a course specifically to be surfed on a snowboard. Of course Bachelor local and Amplid Cartel rider [...]

McRae at the Sammy Carlson Invitational

by Dana
May 29th 2012 - 0 comments

In the middle of this month all the big names in freeskiing made the journey to Mt. Bachelor, Oregon for the Sammy Carlson Invitational. Sammy has a reputation for building supersized features and this year was definitely not a let down with a huge 30m booter to wallride combo. With plenty of cash being splashed [...]

Hoodstock 2012

by Dana
May 16th 2012 - 0 comments

On Thursday we bumped into Amplid Ambush riders Harry J and Andi Nitsche on the snow. They’d been enjoying a week sliding and camping at Kaunertal, Austria’s number one spring destination for riders desparate to get a few more rails and kicker hits before the summer takes hold. Andi was particularly pleased that he’d managed [...]

J-Norm Stepping-Up at Superpark 16

by Dana
May 15th 2012 - 0 comments

When one of the biggest events of the year happens in your backyard it’s time to step-up your riding and show the media what you can do. That’s what Amplid Cartel shredder Justin Norman did when Snowboarder Magazine’s Superpark 16 came to Mt Bachelor. Justin took the bull by the horns and hit this monster [...]

McRae Living Like a Rockstar

by Dana
May 14th 2012 - 0 comments

Drop-off Amplid Cartel rider McRae Williams and the rest of the Rockstar Energy Drink Freeski team at Bear Mountain resort, California and guess what happens? Actually, there’s no need to guess because the guys from Rockstar put together a sick little edit of what went down. Looks like McRae and his Antidogmas stole the limelight!

WEST COAST SESSION DAY 5

by Dana
May 12th 2012 - 0 comments

This is the first-ever “West Coast Session Day 5″ post because we’ve never done five days of Sessioning before. This year thanks to our wonderful hosts Timberline and Windell’s Camp as well as our other sponsors, we were able to session an incredible variety of features over the past five days, and today we managed [...]

WEST COAST SESSION DAY 4

by Dana
May 11th 2012 - 0 comments

After skiing it was time to celebrate our two West Coast Session birthdays: Jeff Curry (25) and Karl Fostvedt (22) with a barbeque at Windell’s! Above, Karl and Jeff with the cute heart-shaped Mother’s Day cake that Andy Parry brought for them. Check what happened DURING skiing … 

WEST COAST SESSION DAY III

by Dana
May 10th 2012 - 0 comments

Another day in the office for ARC rider McRae Williams. Check out WCS day III and more of Ethan Stone’s photos at DOWNDAYS.com. Or directly at the official WCS website.

THE BRITS AT KAUNERTAL

by Dana
May 9th 2012 - 0 comments

Apart from tons of snow – yes, also 15cm fresh – it was one more time a blast hanging out with a british snowboard crowd at Kaunertal during the UK on-snow demo. I had some awesome rides with the ABSOLUTE gang (thanks Paul and Matt and co …) and Mark from Snow & Rock. The [...]

WEST COAST SESSION DAY I

by Dana
May 8th 2012 - 0 comments

Does that look like fun ? Well, then get the entire story on NEWSCHOOLERS.com – texts and pics by our friend Ethan Stone – Thanks Ethan !

WEST COAST SESSION COUNT DOWN

by Dana
May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

On May 6 the West Coast Session returns to Mt. Hood, Oregon. For the sixth consecutive year, the Session will freeze-?frame the state of today?s park skiing style, progression and culture by inviting top young ski talent to sample Mt. Hood?s excellent freestyle and natural terrain for five days, kicking off the spring season at [...]