The Freeride Contest in Montafon (AUT) offers even more of the world's best freeriders who will be at the start of the 4* contest. The first 4* qualifier of the series offers riders 2500 point and a rich prize money for a victory. This is the last event before the "qualification cut" for the "Big FWT Qualifier Finals 2023". The Open Faces Series 2023 demands real skill of the professional freeriders from all over the world who compete in a 1* and a challenging 4* qualifier to thrill their...

The important 1* FWT Qualifier and 2* FWT Junior Event took place last Saturday for the seventh time in the Ski Juwel Alpbachtal Wildschönau and was a high-quality qualifier event, both in terms of the quality of the rider field and the on-site implementation.

Three premieres went down in the Open Faces books: Olivia Riedl caused cheers in the snowboard women’s category with two backflips in her competition run and both a double frontflip and a double backflip in men’s categories showed the insane level at this 1* qualifier contest. Snowboard Men Sebastian Kepplinger and Philipp Lanjus ensured an Austrian double victory in the category of snowboard men. Kepplinger showed a self-confident run from start to finish and delivered many jumps. Des...

After a successful restart of the Open Faces series in end-January, it is now time for the important 1* Freeride World Qualifier and 2* Freeride Junior Stop in the wonderful Alpbachtal. The journey for a later Freeride World Tour career starts with valuable points in the 1 and 2 star contests. The Ski Juwel Alpbachtal Wildschönau is not only world-famous as a family destination, but also offers numerous freeride variants for freeride-enthusiastic winter sports enthusiasts. The Wiedersberger H...

The 3-Star Qualifier on the legendary Quellspitze attracts every year numerous top-class riders to use the challenging face for the first important points for the qualifier ranking. This year the Quellspitze was especially challenging. Only a few days before the Junior World Championships took place on the face and the cold nights and therefore rather hard conditions really demanded the last reserves of energy from every single rider to reach the finish. With a good choice of lines, however,...

Here are the impressive winning runs of amazing freeriding! After 2 times postponement due to weather conditions, the time had come last weekend. The most important World Tour Qualifier Series in Europe celebrated the start of the 10th season with the 3* FWT Qualifier & 2* FWT Junior competition. In difficult conditions and weather-related delays, the riders showed their absolute class and offered top-class performances with many "3s" and backflips on the Quellspitze in Kappl/Paznaun.

The Freeride Junior World Championships (FJWC) returned to Kappl, Austria, Thursday, 24th January. The Quellspitze offering its intimidating beauty in pristine condition to the world’s best young freeriders.

Snowboard Men Kea Chretien (FRA) took the win with a fast, fluid run from top to bottom. He started with a small air out of the gates, then sent a huge air off the ‘mushroom cliff’ while keeping the fluidity and speed maxed out to the finish line. Snowboard Women Lila Yeoman (USA) displayed her big mountain prowess by choosing a gnarly line with steep, technical terrain. She showed incredible sluff control in the thick of it, before boosting out into the wide-open terrain below and into...

Open Faces Kick Off 3* FWT Qualifier / 2* FWT Junior Kappl / Paznaun planned for 14.01.2023 After the postponement of last week, the Open Faces Kick Off in Kappl / Paznaun for the 10th anniversary should take place next weekend 14 January 2023. With the coming fresh snow would be prepared for the 10th anniversary of an international freeride contest in Kappl.

The Open Faces Freeride Series is back with 4 important World Qualifier stops and own Open Faces Academy Camps for everyone. The grand finale of the World Tour Challenger Contests at the end of the 2023 season will be a Freeride Week with an extensive program and the stars of the freeride scene.