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Ross Wins Powder Week Cup Winner

by Faction
Mar 10th 2011 - 0 comments

Ross Janzen is your 2011 Powder Week Captain’s Cup winner (awarded to the attendee who sends it hardest both on and off the hill) Here are some images from Powder week, with Ross living the dream on the new Faction Mono: For a full update on the week check out the Powder website HERE.

Ross Wins Powder Week Cup Winner

by Faction
Mar 10th 2011 - 0 comments

Ross Janzen is your 2011 Powder Week Captain’s Cup winner (awarded to the attendee who sends it hardest both on and off the hill) Here are some images from Powder week, with Ross living the dream on the new Faction Mono: For a full update on the week check out the Powder website HERE.

Kristi Leskinen?s Homecoming.

by Faction
Mar 8th 2011 - 1 comments

Faction Skier and Women’s Ambassador, Kristi Leskinen, sent us this report from her Homecoming Weekend in Seven Springs, which included a lot of the top female riders, see the report below: Homecoming 2011 I can?t believe this was already the 3rd year for Homecoming, hosted by Seven Springs.  This years planning process was a little [...]

Kristi Leskinen?s Homecoming.

by Faction
Mar 8th 2011 - 0 comments

Faction Skier and Women’s Ambassador, Kristi Leskinen, sent us this report from her Homecoming Weekend in Seven Springs, which included a lot of the top female riders, see the report below: Homecoming 2011 I can?t believe this was already the 3rd year for Homecoming, hosted by Seven Springs.  This years planning process was a little [...]

Luke Nelson wins Young Gun Award at Kirkwood.

by Faction
Mar 4th 2011 - 1 comments

Luke Nelson, took the Young Gun Award at the North American Freeskiing Championships in Kirkwood, as well as 8th place. On the Freeride World Tour website it says “The event was a collaboration between the Freeride World Tour (FWT) and the Freeskiing World Tour in an effort to give the best athletes from both sides [...]

Luke Nelson wins Young Gun Award at Kirkwood.

by Faction
Mar 4th 2011 - 0 comments

Luke Nelson, took the Young Gun Award at the North American Freeskiing Championships in Kirkwood, as well as 8th place. On the Freeride World Tour website it says “The event was a collaboration between the Freeride World Tour (FWT) and the Freeskiing World Tour in an effort to give the best athletes from both sides [...]

Swiss Made, edit from Bastien Brouqueyre

by Faction
Mar 4th 2011 - 0 comments

Swiss made, is an edit of the season so far from Bastien Brouqueyre, also featuring Sophie Brouqueyre and Johan Gaume.  Enjoy: Swiss Made from Bastien Brouqueyre on Vimeo. For those on the move here is the ipad/phine/android/device friendly version: Swiss Made from Bastien Brouqueyre on Vimeo.

Swiss Made, edit from Bastien Brouqueyre

by Faction
Mar 4th 2011 - 0 comments

Swiss made, is an edit of the season so far from Bastien Brouqueyre, also featuring Sophie Brouqueyre and Johan Gaume.  Enjoy: Swiss Made from Bastien Brouqueyre on Vimeo. For those on the move here is the ipad/phine/android/device friendly version: Swiss Made from Bastien Brouqueyre on Vimeo.

European Freeski Open, Half pipe Qualifyer

by Faction
Mar 3rd 2011 - 0 comments

Frederick Iliano, who qualified for the European Open Slopestyle Semi Finals, just a couple of days ago, has now gone and qualified for the European Open Half Pipe semi-finals. So with Semi-finals tomorrow for slopestyle then half pipe training, Fredy is going to be busy, check back here for more results. Frederick Iliano, who qualified [...]

European Freeski Open, Half pipe Qualifyer

by Faction
Mar 3rd 2011 - 0 comments

Frederick Iliano, who qualified for the European Open Slopestyle Semi Finals, just a couple of days ago, has now gone and qualified for the European Open Half Pipe semi-finals. So with Semi-finals tomorrow for slopestyle then half pipe training, Fredy is going to be busy, check back here for more results. Frederick Iliano, who qualified [...]

Premiere of Oppdrag Sognefjorden, starring PC Fosse

by Faction
Mar 3rd 2011 - 1 comments

The premiere of Oppdrag Sognefjorden, starring Faction rider, PC Fosse as one of the 12 chosen extreme sports athletes from Norway, to be part of the seven part tv series, on NRK 1. In case you missed it, here is the trailer again, amazing: The show will premiere on NRK1 on March 6th at 20.25. [...]

Premiere of Oppdrag Sognefjorden, starring PC Fosse

by Faction
Mar 3rd 2011 - 0 comments

The premiere of Oppdrag Sognefjorden, starring Faction rider, PC Fosse as one of the 12 chosen extreme sports athletes from Norway, to be part of the seven part tv series, on NRK 1. In case you missed it, here is the trailer again, amazing: The show will premiere on NRK1 on March 6th at 20.25. [...]

Frederick Iliano at the European Freeski Open

by Faction
Mar 3rd 2011 - 0 comments

Frederick Iliano, is competing at the European Freeski Open, he was 9th in his qualifying heat, which was a high place in a great field, but not enough to take him through to finals.  However, Fredy will be competing in the Half Pipe today at Laax, so will have some more results posted soon.

Frederick Iliano at the European Freeski Open

by Faction
Mar 3rd 2011 - 0 comments

Frederick Iliano, is competing at the European Freeski Open, he was 9th in his qualifying heat, which was a high place in a great field, but not enough to take him through to finals.  However, Fredy will be competing in the Half Pipe today at Laax, so will have some more results posted soon.

Andy Matthew Shredding Glenshee

by Faction
Mar 2nd 2011 - 1 comments

Andy Matthew has been up shredding his local mountain Glenshee in Scotland, and getting the kids stoked on freestyle skiing.  After, a horrible crash at the World Championships, which resulted in an early ticket home, and some serious head injuries, Andy was back on snow checking out how everything was feeling and giving some pointers [...]

Andy Matthew Shredding Glenshee

by Faction
Mar 2nd 2011 - 0 comments

Andy Matthew has been up shredding his local mountain Glenshee in Scotland, and getting the kids stoked on freestyle skiing.  After, a horrible crash at the World Championships, which resulted in an early ticket home, and some serious head injuries, Andy was back on snow checking out how everything was feeling and giving some pointers [...]

Fredy in the 401 Ski Dart Game

by Faction
Mar 1st 2011 - 0 comments

Frederick Iliano, was competing in the Ski Dart Game, which sounds like a lot of fun, here Fredy explains what it is and what he did: 401 SKI DART GAME The comp is called 401 Ski Dart Game and has a really cool format. You have a dart-target and there are different tricks on it: [...]

Fredy in the 401 Ski Dart Game

by Faction
Mar 1st 2011 - 0 comments

Frederick Iliano, was competing in the Ski Dart Game, which sounds like a lot of fun, here Fredy explains what it is and what he did: 401 SKI DART GAME The comp is called 401 Ski Dart Game and has a really cool format. You have a dart-target and there are different tricks on it: [...]

Shane has been getting deep in the Whistler Powder

by Faction
Feb 28th 2011 - 0 comments

Shane Carmichael sent us over this edit from Whistler, where he has been skiing deep powder, which is making us a little envious over here in Switzerland, enjoying the summer. February powder Blackcomb MT (Shane Carmichael) from shane carmichael on Vimeo. For more modern technology: February powder Blackcomb MT (Shane Carmichael) from shane carmichael on Vimeo.

Shane has been getting deep in the Whistler Powder

by Faction
Feb 28th 2011 - 0 comments

Shane Carmichael sent us over this edit from Whistler, where he has been skiing deep powder, which is making us a little envious over here in Switzerland, enjoying the summer. February powder Blackcomb MT (Shane Carmichael) from shane carmichael on Vimeo. For more modern technology: February powder Blackcomb MT (Shane Carmichael) from shane carmichael on Vimeo.