Elias Elhardt has 2 covers this month: Snowsurf in France and Pleasure mag in Germany.
There's a 6 pages article in the last one and so you will know more about this guy.
Nice pictures, great text, no doubt, you need these snowboard magazines.

Jean-Baptiste Grange, European Champion & Christof Innerhofer, European vice-champion in Indoor!

The slalom skiers were in the Snowhall at Amneville (Fra) last Saturday to compete for the first time ever the Indoor European Championships organized by the new European Ski Federation (ESF).
It was the opportunity for our racers to race the first slalom of the season and get confidence for the World Cup stage scheduled next week end in Levi, Finland.
Indeed, French Jean-Baptiste Grange and Italian Christof Innerhofer clinched the Gold and the Silver in this competition!
Jean-Baptiste Grange, 2009 Slalom World Cup winner, made a great demonstration of precision and regularity throughout the runs raced in the morning!
Beating S. Tissot, T. Koenig and then M. Moelgg, our French racer had to compete against Italian Christof Innerhofer in the last decisive round!
Starting first in the finale, Christof Innerhofer, the Slalom indoor specialist, who beat J. Lizeroux and M. Gini, made a very good run but had to leave the victory to the French who achieved a gun time!
Jean-Baptiste grabs the European title and Christof takes thus the Silver in this stage!
Congrats to you guys!

Aleksi Laitinen starts the season out right! The young Fin rider takes the win in the final round of the JTS City Rail Tour, last weekend in Helsinki, Finland.

A recap in the words of the champ:
« I had a great night yesterday. We had lots of fun skiing with all the best riders there. Finals were held down by 8 o'clock and we heard that there was me, Oskari Raitanen and AJ Kemppainen in the super-finals. Level of skiing was on top notch and crowd was cheering like hell. I was in the mood that we should step it up and we all did our best.
We hit the rails for twenty minutes and the setup was on fire. I had good feeling on my skiing and I landed heaps of spins in and out on all the obstacles. AJ and Okko also did their best trying to reach the top spot.
The prize giving was held on a nightclub just next to the plaza. It really had full effect with stucked of people. They announced the winners and I thought it went well. Oskari got third, AJ second and I got first!
I was so stoked on the first victory of the season and I hope it will be as good season as it is now towards the end.
Now I'm about to pack my bags and enjoy Hame prod's film premiere. It's gonna be off the hook. I will forward you the link on the movie as soon as it is possible to download it in the internet. »

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Last week, in Les Deux Alpes, Xavier Bertoni and Kevin Rolland tested out a new airbag system in the halfpipe.
We have no doubt that these guys will bring a whole new level of innovation and motivation back to the pipe in the 09/10 season.  The halfpipe standards just got better!!!

Thanx to Pascal Boulakow for the edit.

Ski Freestyle Air-Bag trainings from Boulgakow on Vimeo.

The new comer, Elias Elhardt enters the season with a whole lot of motivation!
After a solid appearance in Zurich for the freestyle.ch, Elias attacked freestyle.Berlin with huge confidence, winning the crossover session, Saturday evening with a massive bs double cork 1080.
Congrats on the results Elias!!