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Well the old season has hardly ended before a new one is about to begin. I am of course talking about the Southern Hemisphere (and glaciers around Europe and North America).

New Zealand is one of the big places to go for summer skiing. Both Snow Park NZ and Cardrona open in less than a month, around June 25-26. These two resorts in particular have been able to produce some of the best park conditions at this time of the year for a while now. It is gonna be exciting to see what they are bringing this year...

Snow Park NZ has announced that they will up the ante with the increase in size of their already great halfpipe to 22ft - and at the same time it will be ready June 26, a full month earlier than usual.

Cardrona, on the other hand, will be expanding the terrain with a new "Valley View Quad" chairlift. This might help reduce the load on the park lift and reduce waiting time.

All I can say is if you haven't booked your flight to Christchurch, NZ yet then go ahead!

Snow already in Snow Park NZ

We now offer advertisers or sponsors a great way to get exposed to people interested in exactly the resort or park they operate in.

Check out the information here: Advertising on Mysnowparks

By only allow one advertiser per resort, we try to ensure that only relevant ads are shown that will not disturb you guys using the site. 

Watch all the action live from Tignes, France right here on Mysnowparks with the live video stream - even in HD resolution!

Check the previous blog post for the full programme.

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.