BLOG

Programme des competitions / Competition Schedule – (All times local Tignes time, GMT +1)

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
9 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Women’s Warm Up
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Practice
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Women’s Elimination
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Skiing SuperPipe Practice
11:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Men’s Practice
1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Men’s Elimination
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Skiing Slopestyle Practice
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Snowmobile Demo
4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Skiing SuperPipe Men’s Practice
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Skiing SuperPipe Men’s Final

Thursday, March 11, 2010
9 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Skiing Slopestyle Men’s Warm Up
9 a.m. – 11 a.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Practice
10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Skiing Slopestyle Men’s Elimination
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Practice
1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Men’s Final
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Open Slopestyle Practice
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Snowmobile Demo
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Women’s Practice
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Women’s Final
5:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men’s Practice
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men’s Elimination

Friday, March 12, 2010
8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Skiing Slopestyle Women’s Warm Up
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men’s Practice
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Skiing Slopestyle Women’s Final
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Women’s Warm Up
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Women’s Final
12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Ski Slopestyle Men’s Practice
1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Skiing Slopestyle Men’s Final
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Skiing SuperPipe Women’s Practice
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Snowmobile Demo
4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Skiing SuperPipe Women’s Final
5 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men’s Warm Up
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men’s Final

* Finals designated in bold type
** Schedule subject to change

Here are a few videos from Tignes, France where the European X-Games is taking place right now. So far practice has been taking place. Check out the videos for a teaser on the event and a slopestyle course preview.

Sit back and enjoy - Winter X-Games 14 live streaming video from Aspen, Colorado here on Mysnowparks.com starting today.

We have gotten a live video stream so you won't miss any action from the biggest event in skiing and snowboarding.

Go to the LIVE STREAMING VIDEO FROM WINTER X-GAMES

Hey guys,

It's been a while since the last blog post. But I am still here!

I am happy to see a number of updates from parks all around the world coming in the last few weeks. 

I can promise to get back here soon with more blog posts and hopefully soon some good news about the site in general!

Cheers

It is hard to judge how good a certain snowpark or terrain park is - cause it is really hard to compare parks. But anyway I'll try to give my view on what are the important elements in a great park.

1. The right terrain (too flat means it is really hard to get speed between obstacles - too steep is equally bad)
2. Lines (it's always nice to hit a large number of obstacles in one run)
3. Manager and crew's engagement (the most possitive crew can get a lot out of very little)
4. Shapers' abilities and experience (gotta have the right technique)
5. Effective lift system (fast and no lines)
6. Different levels (features for all riding levels will ensure everyone doesn't end up hitting the same things)
7. Mix of metal (rails and boxes, a lot of them)
8. Pipes (not all parks have the right cutters to make them good)
9. Creative jibs (sometimes even very simple, but always popular)
10. Good vibe (a cozy chill area, bbq, great music and nice people always help)

We have tried to build most of these elements into our rating system here at Mysnowparks.com. So keep the things above in mind when looking for the next park to go to and when rating the parks here on the site.

We have just added two new features to the site: Forums and Points.

The Forum was really needed for users on the site to be able to talk to each other. It is still in an early version and corrections and new elements will be added later on.

Points is a system that rewards users for contributing to the site by adding resorts and parks, rating, writing text updates and forum posts and so on. It adds a list of Top Users which will be used more integrated in the near future. We plan on making competitions based on Points and possibly giving extra features to the most active users.

Let us know what you think about the new stuff. Comment here or post it for discussion in the Forum.

BigAirBag, the official partner of Mysnowparks.com, had one of their amazing BigAirBags set up at the Tradefair of Bergamo in Italy last week.

Here are some fresh pictures from the event.

We wanna make Mysnowparks.com better! That's always the goal, but right now we are in the process of planning the near future changes and improvements.

We obviously haven't got unlimited funds for building new features and improving existing ones, so we have to pick the right things first! So please comment to this post about what you find most important or interesting to begin with...

Here are some of our thoughts:

• Forums (you guys need to have a platform to discuss things in here)
• Activity points (points given for updating parks, rating, commenting, ect - which will provide a list of Top Users who might get certain advantages or special offers)
• Re-design (general refreshment of the design)
• Event calendar (to gather all competitions, premieres and camps)
• User profile improvements (e.g. feed á la Facebook)
• Park Map improvements (redesign, new icons ect)
• Park Videos
• Groups

We are currently on the lookout for a web programmer to work on the Mysnowparks site. We hope that YOU could be the one we need.

You should have php experience and usability/development experience.

But apart from that we do not really any specific requirements. We hope to find a highly motivated programmer who is serious and thorough.

You will work in Drupal and possibly Flash. SEO knowledge would also be a plus.

If you could be this person don't hesitate to contact us on info (at) mysnowparks.com

Today is the final day in Zürich. So don't miss the live video action of the freeski and snowboard finals.

Sunday, September 27

And get the live video stream here.