THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21ST, 2008, HOLMENKOLLEN, NORWAY. Risto Mattila played a steady game with the three different judged contests of spin, invert and amplitude and placed 4th after the first day of riding at the Arctic Challenge. The final 16 riders get ready for Saturdays final jam in the famous Holmenkollen ski jump. Scotty Lago was riding really well but some untimely falls left him out of the final 16.

 Be sure to check out all the action on Freecaster.tv on Saturday.

Today Terje Håkonsen introduced a new concept in snowboarding, and the ”Evening classics” took off in style!
The first part of today was qualification, where 24 riders fought for the 16 spots in the finals. Two heat with 12 riders in each, went down perfectly with stylish riding and good variation.

After a short dinnerbreak the 16 final riders where ready to earn some money! Flat spins, upside downs and straight airs were at the menu tonight, and I think the audience enjoyed their meal.

Awesome riding, feelgood music and the best arena ever made everybody look even more forward to Saturday, and the rest of the competition.
All the riders did their best, and we saw some kick ass riding. The tricks, the amplitude and the slams were absolutely first class, so everbody should get their butts up to Holmenkollen Saturday, to see the worlds best riders make history!!

Results the Evening Classics - Total

Nr.    BIB    FIRST NAME    SURNAME    MONEY
1        9        Peetu                Piiroinen          43474
2        6        Kevin                 Pearce            19048
3        4        Andy                  Finch                3532
4        24      Risto                  Mattila              3188
5        11      Terje                Haakonsen       3182
6        1        Jacob                Koia                  3116
7        7        Nicolas             Mueller              3086
8        16      Chad                Otterstrom         2592
9        20      Daniel               Josefsen          2384
10      13      Ulrik                   Badertscher    2266
11      23      Dustin                Craven            2116
12     15       Takaharu          Nakai               1952
13      5        Fumiyuki            Murakami       1844
14      2        Kim Rune          Hansen           1542
15     17        Colin                  Frei                   1370
16     18        Shayne             Pospisil           1308

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20TH, 2008 ENGADIN, ST MORITZ, SWITZERLAND. Austrian Flow Team rider Max Zipster wins the  Engadinsnow  Freeride contest.

Amazing conditions at the international Freeride Event on the Mount Corvatsch. An Austrian double at the 6th edition of the Stimorol ENGADINSNOW.

The freeskier Stefan Häusl from Austria and the snowboarder Max Zipser, Austrian as well, won the breathtaking freeride competition.
Stefan Häusl showed the crowd an amazing run. He performed his technical difficult chosen run the most fluidly. He impressed the jury with his clean sticked jumps. He won with an evident advance of 6,1 points to the 2nd placed Swedish guy Andreas Fransson and the third placed Matthias Haunholder from Austria. 

Max Zipser (AUT) impressed in the snowboarding category with a spectacular line and won at his first Stimorol ENGADINSNOW participation, followed by the local Roberto Furger (SUI) and Mike Äschbach (SUI). For the girls, the French Aurélie Garcin (snowboard) and the German Katherina Mihaljevic (freeski) won the freeride competition.

The freeride competition took place under best conditions. The invited top freeriders came across sunshine and best freeride conditions at the north face of Mount Corvatsch. Some riders performed a crazy spectacle with huge jumps from cliffs higher then 30 meters. But the jury was more impressed by the good control and the right choice of line in the up to 60° steep face, then by the big jumps.
Only satisfied and happy faces from competitors, spectators and the organisation at the prize giving right after the competition. It was a wonderful and successful event day.
Tomorrow the Big Air qualification will take place at the midstation on Mount Corvatsch. There is a big run: more then 100 pre-registration were made. The 10 best freeskiers and the 10 best snowboarders can qualify themselves for the big final from Wednesday, where they will compete with top riders like Alessandro Boyens (GER) in the snowboard category or Roy Kittler (GER) in the freeski category.

The explosive pictures form the freeride competition free for download:
http://www.swiss-image.ch/goengadinsnow/

Further information:     www.engadinsnow.com

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2008 SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA -  Antti Autti has landed another Transworld Snowboarding cover, this time it’s TWS Japan. The April 2008 issue features his Toyota Big Air 1st place finish, one of the largest snowboarding events in Japan. Even though we can’t read the Japanese written article, the cover shot taken by Snowboarder Mag’s Photo Editor Ryan “Huggy” Hughes is a photo worth a “thousand words”. Congrats to Antti on this incredible recognition and to another TWS cover!

MONDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2008 SQUAW VALLEY, CA – Flow Team rider Clair Bidez, still hot from her second place finish in the US Grand Prix at Tamarack, stood atop the podium once again at “The Jeep King of the Mountain” Halfpipe Competition in Squaw Valley. Despite Elena Height she crashing in her final run, Bidez couldn’t top her competitors’ high score and ended up taking home 2nd place respectively. Rounding out the podium was Ellery Hollingsworth in 3rd.

Coverage of the action from Squaw Valley will be televised to a national broadcast audience on February 23 and 24 on CBS Sports and on nationally syndicated television beginning February 23.

Results:
1.  Elena Height   S. Lake Tahoe, CA
2.  Clair Bidez      Minturn, CO
3.  Ellery Hollingsworth   Darien, CT

The Jeep King of the Mountain men's & women's podium

Clair Bidez claiming her victory in the pipe

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2008 TAMARACK, IDAHO - The US Grand Prix in Tamarack, Idaho saw a break in the snowy weather on Saturday just in time for the main even where riding in the pipe reached a whole new level. While the pipe was quirky during prelims, the ladies were able to set the pace early by throwing down in the finals. Flow Team rider Clair Bidez had an incredible 2nd place finish with back-to-back sevens and overhead fives. Kelly Clark landed first place by going 3-4 feet higher than the other's and rounding out the podium was Ellery Hollingworth in third. These girls are charging hard and are proving that there is a lot of depth to the women’s field beyond the high profile names commonly found on the podium.

Flow’s Scotty Lago made a late run for the podium with his textbook style and trickery, which included a fs nine corkscrew that was stuck as if it was a simple stale. Lago did one of the best 9’s ever; even Pat Bridges exclaimed “that is one of the smoothest 900’s I have ever seen”. Still, he opted to skip his last wall that may have kept him off the podium with a respectful 4th place finish.

Results:
 
Men
1. Louie Vito, Columbus, OH/Sandy, UT, 260
2. Greg Bretz, Mammoth Lakes, CA, 208
3. Elijah Teter, South Lake Tahoe, CA, 156
4. Scotty Lago, Seabrook, NH, 130

Women
1. Kelly Clark, West Dover, VT, 260
2. Clair Bidez, Minturn, CO, 208
3. Ellery Hollingsworth, Stratton, VT, 156
4. Brooke Shaw, Litchfield, CT, 130

Ellery Hollingsworth, Clair Bidez, and Kelly Clark

Clair Bidez 

Scotty Lago FS 9

SATURDAY JANUARY 9TH, 2008 VAIL COLORADO. Timmy Humphreys finished 7th in the Honda Sessions slopestyle main event in Vail, Colorado this past weekend. With this placing, Timmy has now climbed back in to the top 10 of the TTR World Tour standings, moving into 9th place overall.

On Friday night Flow am team riders Izumi Amaike (Japan) and Scot Brown (Canada) landed podium spots in the Rail Jam competition with each finishing third. Also Timmy tied for 6th in the nighttime Rail Jam.

Great Job Flow Team....keep up the incredible riding! 

Slopestyle Finals

1. Andreas Wiig
2. Torstein Horgmo
3. Chaz Guldemond
4. Robbie Walker
5. Lonnie Kauk
6. Mark Sollors
7. Tim Humphreys
8. Marko Grilc
9. Jonas Carlson
10. Chris Soerman

Mens Rail Jam

1. Chaz Guldemond
2. Scotty Arnold
3. Scot Brown

Womens Rail Jam

1. Molly Aquirre
2. Jamie Anderson
3. Izumi Amaike

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9TH, 2008 SAPPORO JAPAN. Antti Autti and Risto Mattila finished 1st and 2nd at the prestigious Toyota Big Air in Sapporo, Japan yesterday. Both Flow Team riders rode strong all day and then faced each other in the finals. Antti Stomped a FS 1080 on his 1st run in the finals and tried a FS 1260 on his second, but did not land it. Risto holding nothing back in the finals tried to counter Antti with a switch BS 1080 but did not land it. Congrats Antti and Risto on an amazing performance against most of the World's best!

            Toyota Big Air Final Results

           1. Antti Autti                         Finland             Flow
           2. Risto Mattila                     Finland             Flow
           3. Masatake Yamamoto       Japan               Rice28
           4. Kevin Pearce                   USA                  Burton
           5. Nicolas Muller                   Switzerland       Burton
           5. Mikkel Bang                     Norway              Burton
           5. Mason Aguirre                 USA                   Burton
           5. Iouri Podladtchikov          Switzerland        Santa Cruz

Innsbruck, Austria – On February 2nd, 2008 the Swatch TTR Tour made its’ return to the Bergisel Stadium in Innsbruck, Austria for the FIVE(5)STAR Billabong Air & Style Quarterpipe. The atmosphere was full of intensity, as a roaring crowd pushed the riders to lay it all on the line, resulting in some hard hits on the coping, but also some huge airs with even bigger style. Kevin Pearce stomped a smooth BS 5 Alley-oop, rising to just over seven meters, landing him on the top of the podium. Flow Team rider Scotty Lago (USA) took second place on his 3rd hit, pumping up the crowd with a huge FS 7 Alley-oop, knocking his fellow Flow teammate Antti Autti to 4th place. Peetu Piiroinen (FIN) rounded out the Top 3 with a massive BS 5.

Antti Autti’s sick Inverted 7 and 4th place finish at the Air & Style moves him up to World No. 11 with Scotty Lago close behind in the No. 12th position. Kevin Pearce moved into World No. 2 on the rankings, right behind Flow Team rider, Risto Mattila who still holds on to his TTR Tour lead. Mattila was a little disappointed with his run, but has the Burton U.S. Open in his crosshairs. “I’m still super stoked to be World No. 1. I didn’t do too well in this competition and I was hoping for a better result," Mattila said, "but I’m still going to do the Burton U.S. Open cause it’s the biggest competition. I need really good results so I’m going to really push it there.”

With the FIVE(5)STAR Billabong Air & Style now over, the Tour moves on in full force, with the FOUR(4)STAR Quiksilver Natural Selection taking place this weekend, and the SIX(6)STAR Arctic Challenge on the horizon.

Billabong Air & Style Final Results

1. Kevin Pearce USA Burton
2. Scotty Lago USA Flow
3. Peetu Piiroinen FIN Burton
4. Antti Autti FIN Flow
5. Arthur Longo FRA APO
6. Colin Frei SUI K2
7. Markus Keller SUI Nitro
8. Kim Rune Hansen NOR Burton

FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 2008 SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA.  Antti Autti continues his world snowboard media barrage and has now added Transworld Snowboarding Magazine to his list of covers throughout the world. Transworld is the world's #1 snowboard magazine and Antti ”the Finnish Supershred” has a three-day profile and interview. Snowboarder Photo Editor Ryan “Huggy” Hughes landed another one of his famous “sunset” photos on the cover of his rival magazine. Congrats Antti on this incredible recognition!

FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 2008 LAAX, SWITZERLAND. Risto Mattila continued his incredible climb back to the top or the TTR World Snowboard Tour rankings with a solid 7th place finish in the European Open superpipe finals today. Antti Autti also finished 12th and moved up to 16th place in the overall rankings. For the ladies Clair Bidez finished 8th in the Superpipe finals.

Also notable is Flow moving past DC in the men’s TTR Brand rankings into the #2 position by virtue of having 5 riders in the top 25 overall rankings: Risto (1st) Tim Humphreys (9th) Antti (16th) Scotty Lago (17th) and Jeremy Thompson (22nd).

Next up is the X Games with Flow having five riders invited and the return of Scotty Lago from his torn rib cage injury..... Stay tuned folks this is going to get interesting!

Burton European Open Halfpipe Top Ten Results – Men

1.    Kevin Pearce (USA) Burton
2.    Shaun White (USA) Burton
3.    Peetu Piiroinen (FIN) Burton
4.    Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) Santa Cruz
5.    Andy Finch (USA) Rip Curl
6.    Keir Dillon (USA) Burton
7.    Risto Mattila (FIN) Flow
8.    Mason Aguirre (USA) Burton
9.    Markus Keller (SUI) Nitro
10.    Markku Koski (FIN) Quiksilver

Burton European Open Halfpipe Top Ten Results - Women

1.    Kelly Clark (USA) Burton
2.    Torah Bright (AUS) Roxy
3.    Hannah Teter (USA) Burton
4.    Charyl Maas (NED) Volcom
5.    Linn Haug (NOR) Burton
6.    Manuela Laura Pesko (SUI) FTwo
7.    Sina Candrian (SUI) Burton
8.    Clair Bidez (USA) Flow
9.    Jamie Anderson (USA) Salomon
10.    Queralt Castellet (SPA) Atomic

For more info go to Ticket To Ride website

THURSDAY JANUARY 17, 2008 LAAX, SWITZERLAND. Tim Humphreys continued his incredible hot streak of riding this season and finished a top the podium in third place at the European Open slopestyle competition. Shaun White finished first and Chas Guldemond barely beat out Timmy for second. Risto Mattila finished 8th and Antti Autti was 11th. Risto moved into the 4th spot in the overall TTR Tour standings and Timmy moved into the 8th spot overall.

Stay tuned for tomorrow's action from the European Superpipe finals where Risto qualified into the finals in 2nd and Antti 3rd. Also Clair Bidez qualified 2nd into the ladies finals.

Top Ten Slopestyle Results – Men

1.    Shaun White (USA) Burton
2.    Chas Guldemond (USA) DC
3.    Tim Humphreys (USA) Flow
4.    Ville Uotila (FIN) Atomic
5.    Peetu Piiroinen (FIN) Burton
6.    Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) Santa Cruz
7.    Joel Lahti (FIN) FTwo
8.    Risto Mattila (FIN) Flow
9.    Sebastian Toutant (CAN) O’Neill
10.    Kim Andre Eliassen (NOR) K2

For more info go to Ticket To Ride website.

LAAX, Switzerland; Jan. 11, 2008 – Over 100 riders 16 years old and younger competed for top honors at the Burton European Open, Europe’s premier snowboard event. Flow’s young gun Finnish rider Petja Piiroinen, younger brother of 2-times BEO Champion Peetu Piiroinen, took 3rd place on the podium in the junior slopestyle competition. Fifteen-year-old Sébastien Toutant from Canada took 1st and Canadian Zak Stone got second.

Fourteen European nations as well as Japan, Canada, USA and Australia were represented in today’s competition. These young shredders charged hard – many attempting adult-sized tricks like backside rodeos, 900s and back-to-back 720s.

The young competitors will take center stage again on Jan. 12 for the junior and youth halfpipe finals where they will warm up the pipe for many of the world’s best pro riders including Flow Team rider’s Antti Autti, Risto Mattila, Tim Humphreys, and Jeremy Thompson who will be arriving early next week for the main halfpipe and slopestyle finals at the BEO.

Slopestyle Boys Juniors Results
Name                           Nationality        Sponsor            Points
1. Sébastien Toutant     CAN                 O’Neil               74.5
2. Zak Stone                 CAN                 Volcom             71.8
3. Petja Piiroinen           FIN                   Flow                 70.5
4. Ben Watts                  USA                 Burton              68.3
5. Fredrik Wessel          NOR                 Quiksilver          62.8

This is what professional snowboarding is all about. Massive tricks, even bigger air, and pro snowboarders stomping the unstompable. Day two of the O’Neill Evolution in Davos saw Risto Mattila on the podium once again as he grabbed a hold of the number 2 spot in the Quarterpipe showdown. Kim Rune Hansen took 1st and Peetu Piiroinen rounded out the podium with a third place finish.

Risto Mattila threw down one of the biggest McTwists ever seen, launching from one end of the quarterpipe to the other as Peetu Piiroinen spun a clean and huge Backside 5 to secure his podium finish. Risto’s second place finish moved him into TTR World No 6: “Today everyone was pushing it. The level of riding was so high. It was a contest for amplitude: That was the name of the game. Man, it was a fun a competition. I was fourth place until my last run, but I was able to stick my trick for second. I’m so stoked.”

Quarterpipe Top Ten:

1.    Kim Rune Hansen NOR Burton
2.    Risto Mattila FIN FLOW
3.    Peetu Piiroinen FIN Burton
4.    Nicolas Mueller SUI Burton
5.    Colin Frei SUI K2
6.    Andy Finch USA Rip Curl
7.    Tore Holvik NOR Bateleon
8.    Arthur Longo FRA APO
9.    Benoit Thomas-Javid FRA Rome
10.    Olivier Gittler FRA Burton

FRIDAY JANUARY 4TH, 2008 DAVOS, SWITZERLAND. Risto Mattila continued his incredible riding streak and placed second in the Swatch TTR Six Star O’Neill Evolution halfpipe. Andy Finch had some huge air on all his runs and finished first. The podium was rounded out with Janne Korpi (FIN) taking third.

Risto Mattila’s second run was technical, but didn’t have the amplitude that Andy boasted, completing a Backside Air to a Frontside 10, to a Cab7, to a Frontside  9, to a Mctwist. Risto earned 942.30 Swatch TTR ranking points with his podium finish pushing him into current World No. 9.

Flow Teammate Antti Autti placed 7th after returning from  a long layoff with a broken collarbone.

Top 10 Results for Halfpipe:

1.    Andy Finch         USA     Rip Curl
2.    Risto Mattila         FIN     Flow
3.    Janne Korpi         FIN     O’Neill
4.    Gary Zebrowski     FRA     Nitro
5.    Peetu Piiroinen     FIN     Burton
6.    Markku Koski     FIN     Quiksilver
7.    Antti Autti         FIN     Flow
8.    Markus Malin         FIN     Salomon
9.    Gian Simmen         SUI     O’Neill
10.    Iouri Podladtchikov     SUI     Santa Cruz

SATURDAY DECEMBER 15 2007, BRECKENRIDGE, COLORADO
With Antti recovering from a broken collarbone, Risto back at home in Finland and Scotty Lago out with a torn rib injury, the Flow team still made a strong showing at the US Grand Prix in Colorado. Tim Humphreys and Mercedes Nicoll led the way for Flow. Timmy executed a perfect Crail grab Miller Flip on the wallride and won the Rip It Best Trick of the Day earning a $2500 check. Mercedes Nicoll, despite the freezing conditions took third in the ladies Pipestyle Jam Session earning a $1000 check. Later that evening the 10% rule was in full force at the local watering hole…. Oh yeah happy 20th birthday Timmy!

SATURDAY DECEMBER 8, 2007 TOKYO JAPAN. Risto Mattila ended a frustrating past season of injuries and returned to the top of the podium winning the X-Trail marquee event- the big air. Risto stomped his FS 1080 tail grab to beat out Rice who finished 2nd, and Mathieu Crepel who placed 3rd. Risto had finished 5th in the previous night’s quarterpipe comp to place second overall at the X-Trail event behind Travis rice.

The combined results of both formats determined the Swatch TTR SIX(6)STAR Nissan X-Trail Jam Title winner, as Travis Rice took the top spot, followed by Risto Mattila in 2nd, and Mathieu Crepel taking 3rd.

Nissan X-Trail Jam 07 – Final Results (QP & BA combined)
1.Travis Rice (USA) QUIKSILVER, DC
2.Risto Mattila (FIN) FLOW, BILLABONG
3.Mathieu Crepel (FRA)  QUIKSILVER, ROSSIGNOL

Nissan X-Trail Jam 07 – Quarterpipe (QP) Results
1.Travis Rice (USA) QUIKSILVER, DC
2.Kevin Pearce (USA) BURTON
3.Andy Finch (USA) PALMER, RIPCURL

Nissan X-Trail Jam 07 – Big Air (BA) Results
1.Risto Mattila (FIN) FLOW, BILLABONG
2.Travis Rice (USA) QUIKSILVER, DC
3.Mathieu Crepel (FRA) QUIKSILVER, ROSSIGNOL

For more info check:
www.ttrworldnews.com

SATURDAY DECEMBER 2, 2007 MUNICH GERMANY. Flow team rider Tim Humphreys stomped a cab 1080 on his final run to take the next big step in his young career  winning the Air and Style Rookies Challenge. Flow teammate Risto Mattila put on another strong performance in the main event and finished sixth. With Timmy’s win he receives an automatic invite to next year’s main event. Congrats Timmy and Risto on a GREAT showing. Risto now heads to Japan for the world famous X-Trail quarterpipe and big air competition held in the Tokyo Dome.
For more info check:

www.air-style.com/

After years of hard work, Scotty Lago has received the publicity that every snowboarder dreams of. We would like to congratulate Scotty on his exclusive 14 page interview published in the world’s #1 snowboard magazine, Transworld Snowboarding December ‘07 issue. Scotty’s all over the radar with numerous appearances on Fuel TV, Snowboarder Mag. Snowboard Mag., and MBM out of Germany, just to name a few. With all this media coverage he ranks 6th on the Transworld Business Snowboard Exposure-Meter. An honor of this nature surely deserves a shot of the finest Bourbon…or at least a pat on the back since he’s technically not 21 yet. Way to kill it Scotty!

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3RD SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA -- In front of 32,000 screaming fans, Flow Team Rider Timmy Humphrey’s finished second behind Travis Rice and just in front of Chaz Guldemond. Travis threw down a double cork 1080 to win and Timmy Humphreys landed a clean Cab 1080 followed by Chaz who landed a 1260 for third. The huge jump was at AT&T Park, home of the Giants, in downtown San Francisco.

Flow Teammate Jeremy Thompson with a great effort made it to the semifinals and finished 6th in a tough field including such heavyweights as Andreas Wiig, Andy Finch, John Jackson and Mason Aguirre.

1. Travis Rice
2. Tim Humphreys
3. Chaz Guldemond

4. Wyatt Caldwell
5. Ian Thorley
6. Jeremy Thompson
7. Andreas Wiig

For more info go to  http://www.icerair.com/2007/index.html