Last weekend the Edelweiss Shred at Arosa took place, which was the first showdown of this years Chill And Destroy Snowboard and Freeski Tour. It was my second time at Arosa and this time we made it up the hill without any problems on the road or at the customs. More than 1.5 m snow where waiting for us at downtown Arosa and maybe something like 3 to 4 meters up in the park! The setup was shaped completely out of “real snow” and it was again perfect. The only thing mission was a big kicker, but in the end all riders where shredding the park to the max.
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Uppps…it’s 2012 and I haven’t finished last years recaps yet. My bad! Anyway: all the best for 2012 to all you guys out there!
But let’s get back to the recap thing. Last september Nico von Lerchenfeld was host for the 2nd edition of his Cash For Tricks Jam at the INTERBOOT tradeshow at Friedrichshafen in the very south of Germany. Nico is a hell of a guy and I was stoked to be invited for shooting the jam and of course do some media stuff. If you remember we weren’t lucky the year before because of worst weather ever…this year of course, it was all good. Well, let’s say: PERFECT!
Everyone went home winning some cash!
Lets post some more of the last season. In mid September we headed north for the last part of the Red Bull “Fred & Nikki” missions. Finally we filmed at the sweet KÖRKs Strandarena close to Rostock. Fred and Nikki where threatened to ride all day. Ok, of course they wanted to ride nearly whole day long.
Fred & Nikki - High5
Only few more days this year, so I have to hurry up to get those recaps done. Next was the ION “resolve obstacles” videoshooting which I joined for taking some photos, too. It took place at TURNCABLE, which is known to be always worth a visit. We had a small but nice team: Sebi Thums, Benny Sae-Chong, Sandro Reinhardt and of course a groom I didn’t know before, Max “STYYYLE” Reigbert!
Max - going biiiiig!
As the 2011 is nearly over, it’s time to get the last view recaps online. First one is from the Telekom Playgrounds, which I attended once again. Weather was as usually, i’d say “hamburgish”! But this couldn’t stop the riders to throw down a sick contest at Pinneberg and of course the organization was again perfect (as expected)! The bad thing about the comp was Fredys defeat, which nobody expected. But hey boy: that’s what always can happen. Send it next time…
Fred after his unfortunate run...
Here is the next part of my recap story 2011. In august I joined the Chill And Ride powered by NISSAN for the 3rd time. And if you remember those posts from last year (if not here is the 2010 link), Chill And Ride ha something like the best weather deal! Same this year. As our summer was again not the best, everything changed for exactly this weekend at Freistett. More than 30°C all day loooong. So it was again quite perfect for the photo-documentation of the event.
Dominik Hernler
The next recap story is about the 2nd mission with Fred and Nikki. The spot search brought us one of the sickest winch-spots I have seen so far! The “Zeche Zollverein” at Essen in the so called “Ruhrgebiet”. An area where coal-mining was one of the main industries for quite a long time. The spot is now a protected cultural place and that is another point why it was so special to be able to winch there.
Here are some impressions I took with my pocket-cam during the spotcheck:
The 600 meter basin of the "Zollverein Kokerei"...
Although I have been there not for photographing, I want to share this project here, too. We went to the “Weißsee” at Austria in order to do some winching with Fredy von Osten and Nikki Gührs. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t our friend while been up on 2300m above sea-level. The only good day, was the arrival one. We had like 10 centimeters of fresh snow – at the end of July!!! – and the sun was shining. Here is one shitty mobile-cam-shot which quite nicely shows what it was like.
Sunset at our mountain shelter on our arrival...
O’Neill Wake The Line 2011 was the biggest wakeboarding event I have been to by now. As I was asked to take photos for UNIT Parktech there, I spend some more days at Cologne. First day I attended some media-stuff with Daniel Grant and after that: took him to LA cablepark, which was probably the most important thing for this kid. 
Anyway, it was fun. The shot below was taken while Dan was doing some riding on the kicker for the media, whilst the building of the rails and stuff was going on.
Daniel "Turtle" Grant
Last May the second Wakeskate Trash took place at Thulba Cablepark. I went there in order to see some of my wakeskating friends and perhaps get also on the water. In the afternoon, Kai Kissmann and Dennis Knasiak decided, that we need to go winching…as there is a relaxed spot close to Thulba, we moved there. Unfortunately we didn’t get to much shots because of an upcoming storm. My favorite is the lighttest, though…
Kai and Dennis - Lighttest