Snow Dreams in Africa

The snow season in South Africa has been a good one this year. The Afriski park has never looked better and the level of riding has been blowing up accordingly. After the show at Quiksnow, the park crew and some mates got to ride some weekends and Lebo was there to capture and edit the action for us. I really like this edit!

snow dreams from lebogang rasethaba on Vimeo.

Quiksnow 2012 Final Day Action - Afriski Lesotho

JoJo Krivec on his way to Quiksnow Boss! (Photo: Quiksilver/Patto)

Another awesome day of snowboarding went down at Quiksnow 2012. The Afriski Park was the perfect playground for the Pro Mens Final. Defending Champion, JoJo Krivec was in amazing form, considering he has just come off 5 months of injury, to win the competition. Marcin Jekot fought off the youngsters to once again be the SA Slopestyle Champion. His sister, Marta, once again won the ladies and new kid on the block, Jan Linze Veenstra took down the Freeski title. Enjoy the video and get to Afriski!

Results Quiksnow 2012 
Snowboarding Amateurs
1) Davo Philips 2) Michael Rassmann 3) Alessio Lacovig
Snowboarding Women
1) Marta Jekot 2) Brigitte Heeb 3) Vanessa Jackson
Freeski Men
1) Jan Linze Veenstra 2) James Barret 3) Dale Andrews
Snowboarding Pro Men
1) JoJo Krivec (Slovenia) 2) Marcin Jekot (Gold SA) 3) Luke Dutton (Silver SA)
4) Dean van Greunen (Bronze SA)

Quiksnow 2012 Day 1 Highlights

Ryde Jones Backflip (Photo: Quiksilver/Patto)

Check out all the action from the Park at 3600m above Sea Level. Welcome to Afriski and the 2012 Quiksnow SA Snowboarding Champs. Day 1 saw some great riding in the newly extended Park. The foreign contingent were raving about the condition of the Park, so check out all the action from Day 1...

Quiksnow Preview 2012

That's right kiddies, the most mayhem filled weekend of the year is upon us! Snow, altitude sickness, boarding, airs, rails, booze and crazy antics are on the way for Quiksnow 2012. Since 2005 this event has ruled the roost as the most fun Action Sports event of the year. judging by the pictures i have been seeing of the Park at Afriski, this is going to be a stellar year, with all of the top SA riders attending, some crazy new junior riders and of course the usual mix of international chargers that make the trip out to the Southern Tip of Africa. I will be there to bring you all the mayhem first hand!

In the meantime enjoy the teaser for this year, which I just made!

Isenseven "Fools Gold" - Bring on the Winter & Boarding!

The crew at Isenseven are back with a new Film, "Fools Gold". These guys have been responsible for some of my favorite snowboard films through the years and judging by the trailer here, "Fools Gold" is going to be great! With the snow season fast approaching in South Africa, this will be a great video to get your amp on for a trip to Afriski and Lesotho!



Fool's Gold. Yup, that's the name of our 2012 feature length blockbuster film.
A few of our boys have left us, a few guys re-joined and a few new faces will appear this year. But never the less, it's a great mix of the bestest team ever and we hope you love each rider the way we do. Although, they sometimes can be annoying.
Watch our crew hit jumps, hit rails, hit faces and hit hits all over the world, captured on our crispy HD cameras for your viewing pleasure (or pain...)

Fool's Gold will be available September 2012 at your local boardshop and iTunes worldwide. Boom!

ISENSEVEN presents "FOOL'S GOLD"
A film by Alex Schiller, Tom Elliott and Vincent Urban

Edit: Vincent Urban
Motion Graphics: Alex Schiller

Principal Cinematography: Tom Elliott, Alex Schiller, Maxi Seefried

Additional Footage: Julian Pintarelli, Martin Venier, Dominik Fellmann, Karsten Boysen, Elmar Bossard, Priit Paluma, Michel Schmidhalter

Production Assistant: Flo Schöftenhuber

MUSIC:
Wildlife
"Stand In The Water"
From the album "Strike Hard, Young Diamond"
wildlifemusic.ca/
Get their album on iTunes here:
itunes.apple.com/ca/album/strike-hard-young-diamond/id405923301

Featuring Alex Tank, Benny Urban, Tobi Strauss, Fips Strauss, Peter König, Tom Klocker, Luka Jeromel, Marco Smolla, Colin Frei, David Bertschinger Karg, Kevin Bäckström, Ludwig Lejkner, Wojtek Pawlusiak, Dani Rajcsanyi, Christophe Schmidt and some other friendly faces.

This film is supported by Pleasure Snowboard Magazin, Head Snowboards, Burton, Forum, Nitro, Nike, Oakley, Airblaster, Zimtstern, Ride, Vans, Planet-Sports.com, DC, Volcom, Bataleon and Snowstyle.

www.isenseven.tv

Southern Tip Snowboarding - Winter is almost here...

Yes happy snow fans of the deep south of Africa, summer draws to a close and the winter approaches. Judging by the last few winters and the insanely hot summer, I am calling a winter of dumps and Pow! So to get you into the mood, here is a great little edit from last year's Quiksnow SA Champs, by our man, Lebo. I cannot recommend enough, how good Afriski has become and what a great time can be had at the Quiksnow weekend. Book soon, places are minimal.