Deep Snow Tignes
Working on eliminating rotation and improving stance in heavy deep snow.
Deep Snow Skiing
Deep snow skiing in Tignes, France, January 2013. This was Tony's first attempt to ski in deep stuff.
WAIST deep POWDER in Tignes! Go Pro
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I decided to book last minute flights to bring in the new year (2018) in the French ski resort of Tignes. I was lucky enough to get landed with a fresh storm load of powder!
Snowboard @ Tignes-France. Tonight ft. Netsky
Music: Danny Byrd - Tonight (feat. Netsky)
Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A. in the 1960s and the 1970s and became a Winter Olympic Sport in 1998.
Since snowboarding's inception as an established winter sport, it has developed various styles, each with its own specialized equipment and technique. The most common styles today are: free-ride, freestyle, and free-carve/race. These styles are used for both recreational and professional snowboarding. While each style is unique, there is overlap between them. See also List of snowboard tricks.
[edit]Jibbing
Directly influenced by grinding a skateboard, jibbing is a freestyle snowboarding technique of riding on any surface other than snow. Most common surfaces include metal rails (known as rail riding), boxes, benches, concrete ledges, walls, rocks and logs. Typically jibbing occurs in a snowboard resort park but can also be done in urban environments (known as urban jib).
Free-ride snowboarders also commonly find incidental jibs, such as a downed tree, that prove suitable to ride over in the course of their line or run.
[edit]Free-riding
The free-ride style is the most common and easily accessible style of snowboarding. It consists of riding down any terrain available, but most often consists of groomed runs. Free-riding may include aerial tricks and jib (any type of fixture which can be ridden with the board that is not snow) tricks borrowed from freestyle, or deep carve turns more common in alpine snowboarding, utilizing whatever natural terrain the rider may encounter. Free-ride aptitude is the first step to accessing other, more difficult forms of snowboarding terrain; such as freestyle (tricks), alpine, back country, and gladed terrain. Free-riding, which is more popularly known as all-mountain snowboarding is achieved by establishing a mastery of style in many areas of the sports including the abilities to ride, carve, and perform jumps on virtually any terrain.[11]
Free-riding equipment is usually a stiffer boot with a directional snowboard: since the free-ride style may encounter many different types of snow conditions, such as ice and deep powder, a medium-stiffness setup is recommended to maintain stability in deeper snow or at higher speeds.
[edit]Freestyles
Snowboarder in Tannheim, Austria
In freestyle, the rider uses man-made terrain features such as rails, jumps, boxes, and innumerable other innovative features to perform tricks on. The term box refers to an object with a slick top, usually of polyethylene(HDPE), that the rider can slide on with the base of their board. Like all freestyle features, boxes come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and difficulty levels. The intent of freestyle is to use these terrain features to perform a number of aerial or jib tricks. The term jib refers to the rider doing a slide or press on an object not made of snow. This most commonly refers to tricks done on boxes, rails, or even trees.
The equipment used in freestyle is usually a soft boot with a twin tipped board for better balance while riding regular or switch, though free-ride equipment is often used successfully. The most common binding stance used in freestyle is called duck foot, in which the trailing foot has a negative degree of arc setup while the leading foot is in the positive range i.e. +12°/-9°. Freestyle riders who specialize in jibbing often use boards that are shorter than usual, with softer flex and filed down edges. Shorter length enables the board to be rotated faster, and a softer flex requires less energy for a rider to press a feature. Reverse camber boards, or better known as rocker boards, are most often used as freestyle boards due to their softer flex and inverted 'camber' design.[12] Pressing refers to a type of jib where the rider leans heavily toward the nose or tail of their board- causing the opposite end of their board to lift off of the feature they are sliding on. This trick is typically done for added style. Freestyle also includes halfpipe tricks. A halfpipe (or pipe) is a trench-like half-tube made of snow. Tricks performed may be rotations such as a 360° (a full turn) in the air, or an off-axis spin like a McTwist. Tricks can be modified while hitting different features.
[edit]Free-carve
deep snowboarding Tignes 2019
deep snowboarding Tignes 2019
Snowboarding in Tignes & Val D'Isere 2019 1080p HD
Snowboarding in Tignes, January 2019.
Sidney Poels skiing in deep snow Les Arcs France (2011)
Sidney Poels skiing in deep snow Les Arcs France (2011)
Avalanche à Tignes 13/01/16. France
GoPro: snow on the slopes!! wtf?!! // Tignes
SOS !! insane edit of snowfalls on the slopes!
100% shot with GoPro hero 5 black and hero 5 session.
I'm not off piste, I'm on the slopes!
I'm starting at snowboard (first year) and that was an amazing powder session in the morning at the opening.
After the snow groomer had passed, the snow fell! so this is the result on the slope!
Music free.
Fluffy snow in Tignes le Lac November 2017 !
We're excited about the snow in Tignes - it's a great start to the season!
Snow in Tignes les Brevieres - 10th November 2016
The snow is falling thick and fast in Tignes les Brevieres and there's even more to come!
Powder Fraction - Tignes 2018
A day of powder skiing with awesome people in Tignes, France.
Special thanks to Aleksandar Makaj for the drone shot of the amazing view.
Skiing the north faces of Tignes
I was competing for the second time in the Danish national freeride championship, but I missed my line completely and had a crash on my last cliff drop. Fair to say it was just not my day, so the last day of my stay in Tignes I set out for some retribution, by hiking some of the north-facing areas with deep snow and powder conditions.
The weather and visibility was not too good, cloudy and snowing, but for a few lucky moments it cleared up just enough for the snow to appear visible rather than just a big blur as if it and the sky was one.
Music:
Ellie Goulding - Lights (Bassnectar Remix)
Example - Changed the way you kiss me (Mike Candys Remix)
Original music credit goes to Ellie Goulding and Example
Snowboarfing & Skiing in Tignes, France. 2017
Powpow day in Tignes with Kamil
deep snow of the first april 2008 in Tignes. From the top of Grande Motte until Tignes Val Claret by Tour de Pramecou.
Knee-Deep Alpine Powder - La Peuf de Tignes
Tignes - some of the best skiing the French Alps has to offer! A high resort, there's always great snow.
With a bit of ski-touring you can be away from the crowds in 20 minutes with a choice of powder bowls and couloirs.
Make sure to ALWAYS follow mountain safety guidelines; Carry the right av gear, know how to use it, know the conditions, talk regularly and use the buddy system.
Filmed in and around Tignes, France, featuring my friends Adam and Joel.
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Gear I Use; Movement skis, Black Diamond skins, BD Halo 28 Av Pack, Mammut transceiver, probe and shovel, Scarpa Maestrale boots, Poleplant poles, Dynafit touring bindings, Marmot gloves, Arcteryx shell, Salomon helmet, Suunto Ambit3 Peak and more.
Music Credit: the Youtube Audio Library
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Snowboard Tignes - Val Claret 2019
Snowboard em Tignes - Val Claret 2019
Riders:
Renato Goncalves
Leonardo Cunha
Krish Labourdette
Guilherme Camara
Cesar Stockmann
Tignes france black line kamasutrail HD GoPro
Downhill / freeride / Dirt Jump
black line kamasutrail ecc..
bike park Tignes
Gopro
Snoworks Ski Courses, Powder Skiing in Tignes, 27th April 2016
...and the snow just keeps on coming.