The Arctic Challenge 2014 – Riders arriving / Mini Park Session

After a great season for the 06/07 TTR World Snowboard Champion, Shaun White, he arrives at Vancouver as the stand out favorite for the Olympic Gold Medal. With his infamous bag of tricks including back to back Double Corks, this seasons must have, and his very own Double McTwist 12 he seems unstoppable. Watch here then as we run down through the serious halfpipe snowboarding contenders and you can make your own mind up about who'll be biting at Shaun's heels during the halfpipe at the Vancou...

First practice day at The Arctic Challenge in Oslo, Norway. The event is presented and hosted by legendary snowboarder Terje Haakonsen. Danny Davis has arrived and joins the riders, including Arthur Longo and Olympic Gold winner Iouri "iPod" Podladtchikov, for their first session in the pipe. The riders are in Oslo to take on a creative halfpipe with additional features included in the set up, in their quest to continue the progression and the future of snowboarding.

12 great and stylish riders are here to help shape the future of snowboarding. Confirmed pro riders are Olympic Halfpipe Champion, Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI), Markus Keller (SUI), Arthur Longo (FRA), Danny Davis (USA), Jack Mitrani (USA), Benji Farrow (USA), Scotty Lago (USA), as well as young guns Gabe and Ben Ferguson (USA). Terje Haakonsen (NOR) will for sure also take part himself. The concept is simple, but complex in a modern sports world: Athletes decides on arena and contest format. On...

Second practice day at The Arctic Challenge in Oslo, Norway. The riders are getting ready for the final on Saturday. Shaping the creative features in the halfpipe and making the final decisions on the competition format.

Local Davos hero Christian Haller and American halfpipe star Kelly Clark took top honours at the O'Neill Evolution Halfpipe finals in a spectacular day of snowboarding action.

On the last day of the event the riders competed in two jam sessions lasting one hour each. The first hour was an expression session where riders could focus on single features or combination tricks. The second session the focus was to show creativity, variety, height and technical difficulty in complete runs. Finally the judges concluded on a podium of the top three riders based on combined rankings of both sessions. This year's major profiles in halfpipe would again compete at the top. D...

TTR Tricks - Swiss snowboarder Iouri Podladtchikov's 1st place run at the TTR Burton European Open Halfpipe 2012 in Laax, Switzerland. The best snowboard tricks.

The Otsego Edit - Louie Vito, JJ Thomas, Matt Ladley, Steve Fisher, Zach Black, Simon Dumont, Kelly Marren, Kaitlyn Farrington visted The Otsego Club's O Park to train for the Winter Dew Tour and Winter X Games 15. The main attraction that brought Simon Dumont and the members of the US Snowboard to The Otsego Club is their 22 foot superpipe in the O Park. Right next to the superpipe there was a half pipe to acrobag set up for learning and practicing new tricks. Camera and Editing - David Me...