ANYONE IN THE ALPS THIS WEEKEND….you NEED to be in Thyon, the first of the qualifiers in the Ladies First Challenge is there and I can say from experience that it’ll be a great day with a fun park to ride and some amazing girls to meet and shred with. The info is below, the resort info for directions is also linked.

Be there, this comp is one not to miss!

Date : 14.01.2012
Format : Slopestyle
Place : Central Park www.thyonfreestyleresort.com/

Remark : the registration fee is adapted to the amount in francs put at stake for each category

Programme :

From 22h00 : LFC evening at l’After-Bar, les Collons !
It is possible to get lodging for CHF 40.- the night per person with the Agence Vex Promotion

Partner of this event :

Lynsey in the middle with Kirsty and Katie.

Wow, we just had amazing news that ex-Our Camper, uber shredder and all round lovely girl Lynsey Ashdown is going to have a wee babber! (for those needing a translation, that means baby!)

It’s such brilliant news we can’t wait to see her teaching her little boy/girl all her rail tricks, watch this space for the mini-Ashdown season edit! ….for now you’ll have to make do with Lynseys rad edit from last winter in Northstar.

Here’s a piece on Coolermag.com on one of the talks at the retreat this year, sounds like yet another amazingly inspirational weekend had by all!

Cooler Magazine – Women In Boardsports Article.

Hear more about the whole weekend here-  http://womeninboardsports.blogspot.com/

Our Camp comrade and all round SUPERSTAR Jenny Jones has a signature goggle with Oakley : )

Check out these beauties!

Here’s a great little interview the THE REASON has made, they cover all sorts from the goggle design to the Olympics and her plans for next winter -Enjoy

I was just over on the Girly Legs blog and read about this, looks like it’ll be a great film, all they need is some help from us.

Support them here! …all you have to pledge is 1$ and you’ll be helping them.

Our Camp Comrades Aimee Fuller (FIRST SHOT, massive megggaaaaamooooo BackFlip) and Jenny Jones (massive stomped 540 on a powder kicker midway through teaser) are representing nicely. Can’t wait to see the movie!

Check out Aimee and Jenny’s Blogs too!

The Playground Jam 2011 TTR 1Star All Girls Slopestyle.

“A Really relaxed vibe, nice set up, good times! Always fun to shred with le femmes”-Helen Fox GB

This year the 2nd April saw blue skies and sunshine it was the early morning of the Playground Jam, ideal you might think, but when it’s been the same scorching weather for 2 weeks it makes the snow a little bit too much like water and the Avoriaz Chapelle Park had been taking a beating from mother nature. We decided the only way to avoid slushy puppy take offs was to run the comp early and to make sure it ran smoothly so all riders could get as much time riding as they needed to show the judges their skills.
Luckily the amazing parkies of Avoriaz had somehow managed to defy nature and had saved a great park with a ton of features for the girls to show their bulging bag of tricks on: -3 jumps, one up box, one golf ball jib and a rail line with side on kinks, boxes and the new ‘Analogue Module’ with some rails and stairs to play on.
We got things going as soon as possible to avoid the imminent melt. The girls were told the judging was on their best runs but they should mix up their lines to show variation in their riding between the jumps and rails.
The tunes were pumping and MC Drew was on the mic to set the scene, entertain the crowds and keep the riders amped.

The girls started on the jump line to get a good run in when the snow was fast,  everyone was charging and it was great to witness so many great female riders hitting the park.
Laura Berry threw down with a front 3, back 3 and a cab 3, sw back 1, with a nice frontside nose bonk on the golf ball. Rose Bromley was stomping her cab 180′s and took that to the stair set to show the judges she was meaning business, when asked later how she thought the day went she said ”it was Such a good crack riding with the other girls it really raises the bar and pushes you more”. Helen Fox got great syle points for her shiftys, a fs3 off her toes, some bs 180′s and was flying over the golf ball jib with ease. The first to hit the Tractor Tyre next to the jump was Polly Baker sizing it up with an air over the top, she’d already had some lovely clean runs on the jumps with textbook grabs stomped with lovely style.

Obvious rail standouts were Helen and Laura, Helen had a lovely switch front blunt on the down rail and some twizzly fancyness on the the flat box and Laura put a few variations down of front board, front board pretzel, boardslide 270 out on the flat box to 50-50 front 1 out on the flat down rail.
A stand out for a few spectators was Olivia Lottman, she came over for the days comp and started the morning hitting the green kickers, she decided that safe was the name of the game and totally tech-ed up those smaller jumps doing all 4 180′s then moving on to the 3′s, she ended her runs with a few straight airs on the blues (with a little encouragement from the other girls) it was fantastic to see such great progressive riding in just one day.

Once the girls had ridden to their hearts content we stopped and gave the judges some time to work out placings. Andy Nudds, Matt Macwhirter and David Tardif were our judges for the day and did a fantastic job, thanks guys.

Their unanimous decision was-
1st Laura Berry GB- Winning 100€ and a whole bunch of goodies from our sponsors Vans, Burton, Nikita, Neff, Les Ettes and Protest.
2nd Helen Fox GB- Winning Vans Skate Shoes and other goodies.
3rd Rose Bromley GB- Winning
4th Polly Baker GB
5th Olivia Lottman GER
6th Ro Kealey GB
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When interviewed after the competition Laura said-
”I think the best thing about the Playground Jam was that it was such a fun comp to do. Everyone was really chilled and it showed in the good riding. The set up was really good too, enough obstacles to be creative and do your best tricks”

SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR : )

Special Thanks to our sponsors for this year-

VANS

PROTEST

NEFF

BURTON

NIKITA

Thanks to Robbie Davies for all Photographs – APRESIMAGING