Big Air Coming to London (UK)

[Nicko1981]

Check it out, Big Air in London at the end of October, International and Brit comps as well as FIS World Cup Snowboarding.

http://www.londonfreeze.com/index.php

Tanner Hall, TJ Schiller, Jacob Wester and all dem apparently. Going to be a sick four days and the ramp will definitely be awesome.

 

[A_Longley]

Sick to get skiing at the forefront in the UK, however its a bit gay referring to it as 'british big air championships' if its not open to UK competitiors

 

[padski]

^ it's an international freeski big air invitational no???

much like Freestyle.ch we've being hearing much about recently....

 

[Nicko1981]

If you take a look at the schedule:
http://www.londonfreeze.com/static.php?c=schedules

It's FIS s/board qualifier Thursday

International Ski Comp Friday w/ the Armada Team

FIS Snowboard Big Air comp Saturday

Then Sunday is the Brits s/board and ski comp.

 

[SKIDUBAIGUY]

Haha, they say tanners the best skiier in the world, no hes not THE best, hes just good.

 

[followCam]

Well i don't know.....Killing it in pipe....Killing it in Slope...Killing it on Big Mountain.....He's proving himself to be possibly the best skier in the world....

 

[SKIDUBAIGUY]

True, but i still consider Candide to be the best skier in the world.

 

[A_Longley]

'Be sure to catch them as they battle it out for their piece of the £30,000 prize purse and walk away the first UK Skiiing Big Air Champions'

meh just caught my eye scanning through

 

[Nicko1981]

That's a nice little prize fund they've got there.

 

[iJib]

I promise longly if you win all that money there will be a place in our freeskiing drinking crew, known as the richkidginger,

who is a cross between the ladies man with money, and the drinks buyer.

 

[RudyGarmisch]

Biggest jump ever built in England?

 

[iJib]

Id say yes for england, but no for the UK.

 

[A_Longley]

haha for that i'd have to have an invite.. and i wouldnt be able to go that weekend anyway

i just think that there should be a few british riders on the list i.e. Paddy Graham, James Woods, James Webb etc..

 

[.hanaski.]

Finally, 17 years of living in England has paid off.

 

[MagSeven]

Yeah, plus 30 notes per day for a ticket.

For comparison, does anyone know what a ticket for Icer Air, or Freestyle.ch costs? I might be wrong, but that seems pretty steep.

 

[MagSeven]

Icer Air is $28 US - about 15 quid. The most expensive day pass for Freestyle.ch is 45 Swiss Francs - 22.50 of our British Sterlings.

Sure its cool to have an event of this scale in London, but I feel they've priced it too high. Will be interesting to see which riders are there, and how well the event is run. I know its the first year, but seeing how much more expensive it is than Icer and Freestyle.ch, it'd have to be pretty damn good to represent value for money.

I wonder how well attended it'll be.

 

[Nicko1981]

the rider list has been updated, Webbo, Paddy, Bennett, Murray, JT are on the list.

 

[gregor]

The ticket price gives you a vast array of live music too. Here's the line up so far but the headliner has not been announced yet and they will be a bigger name than the Enemy and the Automatic who are on the Friday. Will be good and pretty much worth the ticket price for the kind of musical entertainment alone!

 

[Kevski]

Damn, wanted to see Woodsy riding that thing.