You can grab your own copy of Standing Sideways on iTunes here: Burton Snowboards – Standing Sideways

If you haven’t seen a teaser for Standing Sidways yet, we’ve got you covered there to:

The rider list is full of talent with the likes of Sebastien Toutant (CAN), Charles Reid (CAN), Danny Kass (USA), Mikkel Bang (NOR) and Marko Grilc (SLO) all confirmed for the legendary Australian event. Local Aussie riders will also be in the mix with rippers Jye Kearney, former Grand Master Ryan Tiene and Nathan Perry all looking to defend their home turf.

Current Swatch TTR World Tour leader, Mason Aguirre (USA), will not be making an appearance at Stylewars, which will leave the door open for Charles Reid and Sebastien Toutant to take over the top spot. Reid, current World No. 2 on the TTR World Ranking List, will be defending his Grand Master title from the 2008 event and will also be looking to beat out fellow Canadian, Toutant, for the chance to take over the World No. 1 position. Toutant will be tough to take down after his amazing slopestyle win last week at the New Zealand Open, and will be seeking his first Grand Master title and the opportunity to move into World No. 1.

Other riders setup to make moves on the Swatch TTR Ranking List are Eric Willett (USA) and Sage Kotsenburg (USA) looking to move into the Top 5, Danny Kass (USA) who could break into the Top 10 and Marko Grilc (SLO) who could rise into the Top 20.

Keep your browser pointer to www.ttrworldtour.com for daily updates from Falls Creek as Stylewars unfolds August 24^th-26^th. And, keep an eye out for Swatch TTR video news updates after the event wraps up.

Top 10 Season 09/10 TTR World Snowboard Rankings as of 15.08.2009:

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Founded by Terje Haakonsen and industry innovators in 2002, the Swatch Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour is a non-profit, rider-driven organization with the mission “to create the highest quality competitive snowboard environment in the world, using authenticity, accessibility, innovation as guiding principles”. Since its foundation, the Swatch TTR Tour has been developing into the most exposed snowboard tour worldwide featuring global grass root and key independent freestyle snowboarding events over a ten-month period from Southern to Northern Hemisphere locations. Events are rated via a 1-through-6Star system, with points allocated accordingly, a 6Star event holds the highest (1000 points). Any rider participating in these events, from up-and-coming to professional talent, earns ranking points and a position on the Swatch TTR World Ranking List. The top male and female rider based on an average of their best six results of the season (5+1 system) is crowned Swatch TTR World Snowboard Champion. For more information visit www.ttrworldtour.com

In a four man contest, head-to-head format, each rider taking two runs, the Big Air Contest is decided entirely by fans’ text votes. Travis wowed the crowds and cameras with a few signature tricks, some seen in the recent “That’s It That’s All” film, including a ridiculous Double Backflip Backside 1080. With 92% of the votes in Travis’s favor for his first match-up and 78% in the final, fans said Yes to Travis Rice.

“Last night was double-vindication for me,” said Travis Rice. “Last year I was knocked out by Mikkel in the head-to-head format and by Torstein the year before. It feels really good to come back this year and to go up against both of them and come out on top. Many thanks to everyone who voted for me.”

Earlier in the week, Travis suffered a gnarly fall on the treacherous slopestyle course, leaving many to question if he would be able to pull through the Big Air contest. But from the start of the practice runs, it was apparent that Travis could not be stopped, going huge on every hit and not holding an ounce of effort out.

Today Travis will go up against Shaun White, Kevin Pearce and Danny Davis in the Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle elimination round for a spot in Saturday’s final.

Check out video of Travis’ Double Backflip Backside 1080 wearing the Quiksilver Everblast jacket at http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=3853914&categoryid=3850011

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Quiksilver is committed to providing tools for uncovering, expressing and expanding your personal style.  Our aim is to foster the sense of individual expression and excitement – the stoke that is the essence of boardriding*.  We’re also here to spread the word because the only thing better than finding stoke is sharing it.

*Boardriding is about timing and style.  It’s youthful, active, casual, and free flowing.  There is no wrong way to ride a board.  The goal is simply to learn, progress, improve, and give it your own interpretation.

Burton It's Always Snowing Somewhere

It’s Always Snowing Somewhere features scenes from a never-ending winter with the Burton team traveling from the southern to northern hemisphere, from Alaska to Argentina with action footage from Shaun White, Terje Haakonsen, Natasza Zurek, Gigi Rüf, JP Solberg, Heikki Sorsa, Nicolas Müller, Tadashi Fuse, Frederik Kalbermatten, Jeremy Jones, Jussi Oksanen, DCP, Mads Jonsson, Trevor Andrew, Keegan Valaika, Kevin Pearce, Danny Davis, Kazuhiro Kokubo, Mikkel Bang, Mikey Rencz and Peetu Piiroinen.

It’s Always Snowing Somewhere features scenes with the Burton team traveling the northern hemisphere, from Austria to Alaska. The movie features action footage from Shaun White, Terje Haakonsen, Natasza Zurek, Gigi Rüf, JP Solberg, Heikki Sorsa, Nicolas Müller, Tadashi Fuse, Frederik Kalbermatten, Jeremy Jones, Jussi Oksanen, DCP, Mads Jonsson, Trevor Andrew, Keegan Valaika, Kevin Pearce, Danny Davis, Kazuhiro Kokubo, Mikkel Bang, Mikey Rencz and Peetu Piiroinen. Be sure to stick around after the movie premiere for the after-party featuring Trouble Andrew.

Burton It's Always Snowing Somewhere in Denver

Come on down to the Burton Movie Tour Denver stop. Check it out:

Ogden Theatre
All Ages, $10 at the door
935 E. Colfax Ave
Denver, CO

7pm Doors
7:30pm – 8:30pm Autograph Session
8pm – 9pm Movie Premiere
9pm – 10pm Bad Ideas
10pm – 11pm Trouble Andrew

For more information, check out http://www.burton.com/movie for tour updates and details on individual stops, including after-parties, bands, bowling, autograph signings and athletes attending.

Buy your tickets @ Ticketmaster.com

It’s Always Snowing Somewhere features scenes with the Burton team traveling the northern hemisphere, from Austria to Alaska. The movie features action footage from Shaun White, Terje Haakonsen, Natasza Zurek, Gigi Rüf, JP Solberg, Heikki Sorsa, Nicolas Müller, Tadashi Fuse, Frederik Kalbermatten, Jeremy Jones, Jussi Oksanen, DCP, Mads Jonsson, Trevor Andrew, Keegan Valaika, Kevin Pearce, Danny Davis, Kazuhiro Kokubo, Mikkel Bang, Mikey Rencz and Peetu Piiroinen.

Burton It's Always Snowing Somewhere

Come on down to the Burton Movie Tour Los Angeles stop. Check it out:

Autograph Session
5pm – 7pm @ Burton LA Flagship Store (All Ages)
8175 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA

Movie Premiere
9pm @ Pacific Design Center (Doors at 7:30pm, All Ages)
Silverscreen Theatre
8687 Melrose Ave
West Hollywood, CA

After Party
11pm @ The Spanish Kitchen (21+)
826 N La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069

For more information, check out burton.com/movie for tour updates and details on individual stops, including after-parties, bands, bowling, autograph signings and athletes attending.

Read and write reviews of It’s Always Snowing Somewhere, right here on SBG

Burton It's Always Snowing Somewhere

The movie features action footage from Shaun White, Terje Haakonsen, Natasza Zurek, Gigi Rüf, JP Solberg, Heikki Sorsa, Nicolas Müller, Tadashi Fuse, Frederik Kalbermatten, Jeremy Jones, Jussi Oksanen, DCP, Mads Jonsson, Trevor Andrew, Keegan Valaika, Kevin Pearce, Danny Davis, Kazuhiro Kokubo, Mikkel Bang, Mikey Rencz and Peetu Piiroinen.

It’s Always Snowing Somewhere premiere dates and locations:

10/16/2008 – Calgary, Alberta

10/17/2008 – Toronto, Ontario

10/18/2008 – Boston, Mass.

10/19/2008 – New York, N.Y.

10/20/2008 – Chicago, Ill.

10/21/2008 – Denver, Colo.

10/22/2008 – Salt Lake City, Utah

10/23/2008 – Portland, Ore.

10/24/2008 – Los Angeles, Calif.

10/25/2008 – Reno, Nev.

10/30/2008 – Burlington, Vt.

For more information, check out burton.com/movie for tour updates and details on individual stops, including after-parties, bands, bowling, autograph signings and athletes attending.

Check out reviews of It’s Always Snowing Somewhere, right here on SBG

It's Always Snowing Somewhere Artwork

It’s Always Snowing Somewhere features scenes from a never-ending winter with the Burton team traveling from the southern to northern hemisphere riding parks, pipes, pow, big mountain lines and jibs from Alaska to Argentina. The movie features action footage from Shaun White, Terje Haakonsen, Natasza Zurek, Gigi Rüf, JP Solberg, Heikki Sorsa, Nicolas Müller, Tadashi Fuse, Frederik Kalbermatten, Jeremy Jones, Jussi Oksanen, DCP, Mads Jonsson, Trevor Andrew, Keegan Valaika, Kevin Pearce, Danny Davis, Kazuhiro Kokubo, Mikkel Bang, Mikey Rencz, Peetu Piiroinen and the Smalls Team, Burton’s crew of riders that range from six to 14 years old.

It’s Always Snowing Somewhere will retail for $29.99 in the United States. VAS Entertainment, a market leader in the distribution of action sports DVDs, is currently distributing the movie worldwide to specialty shops and national retailers.

This fall, Burton will bring the riders starring in the film to cities in North America, Europe and Asia for movie screening parties and autograph signings. Stay tuned for details about the It’s Always Snowing Somewhere movie tour.

About Burton
In 1977, Jake Burton Carpenter founded Burton Snowboards out of his Vermont barn. Since then, Burton has fueled the growth of snowboarding worldwide through its groundbreaking product lines, its team of top snowboarders and its grassroots efforts to get the sport accepted at resorts.  In 1996, Burton began growing its family of brands to include boardsports and apparel brands. Privately held and owned by Jake, Burton’s headquarters are in Burlington, Vermont with offices in California, Austria, Japan and Australia. For more information, visit http://www.burton.com.

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Photos: Chris Boadle / Burton Australian Open

The slopestyle course challenged riders with a variety of features including a down rail, battleship rail, three kickers and a wall ride. Top men’s qualifier, Eric Willett (USA) landed a solid run that started off a front lipslide 270 out on the down rail, followed by a 50/50 gap to front 180, 50/50 out on the battleship, into a switch backside 540 mute, followed by backside 720 melon, finishing with a frontside 900 tailgrab.

“Practice was nice yesterday, but the new snow today made the course really slow. It was definitely a challenge, but it was super fun, the course is really nice and the jumps were well built, said Eric Willett. “Speed was kind of an issue but hopefully it won’t be too bad for Friday’s finals.”

Joining Willett in Friday’s slopestyle finals are Jaako Ruha (FIN), Halldor Helgason (ICE), Andreas Monsberger (AUT) and Markus Malin (FIN), in addition to fellow American, Sage Kotsenburg, who placed first in yesterday’s halfpipe qualifications.

Jaakko Ruha

1 Eric Willett USA VANS 69.33
2 Jaakko Ruha FIN KISSMARK 66.00
3 Halldor Helgason ICE DC 64.83
4 Markus Malin FIN BONFIRE 64.00
5 Sage Kotsenburg USA QUIKSILVER 62.83
6 Andreas Monsberger AUT K2 61.83

Although the snow continued to fall, the ladies braved the elements and took to the course. Kara Rennie out of Canada earned the top spot for the women in slopestyle quals this afternoon with a run that started off with a 50/50 to backside lipslide on the down rail, followed by a huge straight air on the first kicker, followed by a tailgrab, finishing with another straight air. Laurie Currier and Ashley Wendorf, both out of the US will be competing in Friday’s finals against back-to-back slopestyle X-Games gold medalist and New Zealand Open slopestyle winner, Jamie Anderson.

Kara Rennie

1 Kara Rennie CAN NIKITA 50.67
2 Laurie Currier USA OAKLEY 46.67
3 Ashley Wendorf USA — 45.83

The Burton Australian Open continues tomorrow with the men’s and women’s halfpipe semis and finals. For more information visit opensnowboarding.com. If you can’t make it to Australia, watch the semi-finals and finals live on Go211.com, where webcasts and highlights of the competitions will also be available for on-demand viewing once the event is over.

Burton would like to thank Go211.com, Corona, APN, Perisher Blue and Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour for their support of the Australian Open.

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Due to the heavy snowfall and high winds competitors saw early in the week, both the men’s and women’s ParkStyle semifinals and finals were held back-to-back for an action packed day of snowboarding. All riders had three runs to get their best score once they made it to the finals with the women taking the course first.

Great Britain’s Jenny Jones had three solid runs with her final effort securing first place with the run of a 50/50 gap to 50/50 boardslide to fakie off the box into a Cab 540 on the kicker followed by a huge frontside air on the hip. Jamie Anderson put together a strong second run starting off with a big gap tailslide to fakie rolling into a Cab720 melon, capping off her run with a stylish nose grab. Representing for Japan, Izumi Amaike saw a return to the podium, repeating her third place finish from last year with a 50/50 gap to 50/50 on the box, mute Cab 540 off the kicker into a frontside air on the hip.

On the men’s side, the riding was even more impressive. With his insane style, making his run look almost too easy, Mikkel Bang claimed the lead early on in the finals with his first run; however it was his second effort that clinched the top spot. Kicking the run off with a gap to switch backside lipslide on the rail to an insanely smooth switch backside 900 mute, Mikkel cleaned up with a stalled out frontside alley oop off the hip. The Nippon Open always promises feats of gravity defying snowboarding and second place finisher Kazuhiro Kokubo did not disappoint with a solid run that included a 50/50 gap to boardslide to fakie, switch frontside 900 melon followed by an insane frontside alley oop corked frontside grab off the hip that could only be described as “freaking huge” by Head Judge Jason Grossi. Jaakko Ruha earned his first Burton Global Open Series podium finish with third place, charging with an impressive 50/50 gap to nosepress on the rail into a 1080 tailgrab over the jump into a backside 720 indy on the hip.

Both Mikkel and Jenny earned $15,000 each for their first place finishes and 8,000 points towards the Burton Global Open Series Championship titles. Jenny’s win bumps her up to third place in the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour and Mikkel breaks into the Top 10 standings for the men.

Women’s ParkStyle Final Results:
1. Jenny Jones (GBR) Billabong
2. Jamie Anderson (USA) Salomon
3. Izumi Amaike (JPN) Flow

Men’s ParkStyle Final Results:
1. Mikkel Bang (NOR) Burton
2. Kazuhiro Kokubo (JPN) Burton
3. Jaakko Ruha (FIN) Kissmark

In case you missed today’s Go211.com live webcasts of the men’s and women’s ParkStyle finals, both highlights of the winning runs and the full webcasts will be available for replay and on-demand viewing on Go211.com.

About the Burton Global Open Series
The Burton Global Open Series events are the pinnacle snowboarding events of the season. Founded by Jake Burton, the Opens have grown from grassroots events to global spectacles attracting tens of thousands of spectators and riders from around the world. Since the beginning, the Opens have been driven by riders, for riders evolving with snowboarding and riders’ needs over the years. With events held in Canada, Europe, Japan, the United States, New Zealand and Australia, the Opens set the standard for snowboarding events around the globe.

About the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour
The Burton Global Open Series is part of the Swatch Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour, the largest group of independent freestyle snowboard events in the world. TTR ranks riders based on their results at participating competitions and crowns a Swatch TTR World Champion at the US Open. For more information, visit www.ttrworldtour.com.

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