Posts: slopestyle

What a week it’s been, eh?! One of the biggest events in the action sports calendar hits our European shores and plays shock-and-awe with our senses.

With the first event of the 2013 global expansions completed, X Games returns to the centre stage in France with X Games Tignes, March 20-22. And as we turn our heads to see what’s going on we’ll soon see that they’ve announced the schedule and a few more riders! Want to know who? Thought so… [...]

Shaun White you sneaky little bugger. You can’t help yourself can you? You announce that you’re going to be at the Winter X Games Europe in Tignes this year and you go and piss off every other rider in the competition! How did he do it? Well, read on and you’ll find out! The Winter [...]

The Winter X Games is an even that’s stuck on every snowboarder’s or skiers calendar. It’s placed in the diary of everyone that works in the industry and it’s scribbled onto the hand of every fan out there. We’re no different at Mpora and we’re looking forward to this season’s Winter X Games. So much [...]

After the debacle I spoke about yesterday with the UCI and their new title sponsor, Rocky Roads, the FIS have managed to make some headlines in the snowboarding world. Terje Haakonsen wrote an open letter back in January to the FIS about the ruling of the qualification process. He states: “The Olympic system for snowboarding [...]

Is the snowboarding season already happening?! It was just the other day that Jamie Anderson was picking up her crown. Ok, so I know that it isn’t event number 1 on the calendar but the TTR Burton New Zealand Open is easily one of the big hitters on the tour so the battle lines are [...]

This is something that has been up in the air for some time now. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) were meant to have come to a decision on this a while ago but kept delaying so they could have more time. That time is now up and their decision has been made. They are to [...]