Hidden deep in the maze of Park City’s many trails is a place with giant candy canes, oversize muffins and all sorts of craziness. No Willy Wonka hasn’t set-up shop in Utah and you won’t spot Augustus Gloop floating down a chocolate river, this is Neffland, a terrain park with a difference. Cartel rider Justin [...]

Well Park City resort’s winter season is now over and the perfectly sculpted park is now only a few mounds of baked slush. For Steve and the rest of the Saga crew the season went out in style with one of Evan Heath’s best edits of the season. Here’s the spoiler… Steve crushes it, but [...]

Swiss Ambush skier Lukas Schoepke’s 12/13 season was his best to date. Lukas has had some great contest results and the style he’s refined over the last season is so money even Zurich’s bankers couldn’t afford it. Check-out his season edit for smoother action than a Rolex watch.

Another day, another contest win for Cartel rider McRae Williams. This time it was victory at the Total Fight contest in Grandvalira, Andorra, sandwitched between the French and Spanish Pyrenees. The lineup was stacked with a world class lineup, not least Amplid’s very own Noah Albaladejo who styled his way to a fourth place finish. [...]

Doesn’t matter if it’s bluebird conditions or foggy whiteout you’ll find Juergen Nigg and the Freeski-Crew up on the hill stacking footage for their annual movie release. The B-roll edits they put together capture the fun and progression of every day riding with the Freeski-Crew and make you just want to head up on the [...]

French Ambush skier Charly Royer was recently in the US shredding Colorado’s famous Breckenridge and Keystone terrain parks. Looks like Charly bagged some banger shots on his Antidogmas.

Another month another challenge. For March’s challenge we called-in on Park City deviant Steve Stepp for inspiration. Steve wanted to see a quality “Homies Edit” from each of the Academy riders that captured the fun and stoke of shredding with friends. Two riders really caught the essence of the challenge: German Academy snowboarder Daniel Diedrich’s [...]

Peter Bauer is the co-founder of Amplid::: next level riding and despite his mountain sized workload Peter still makes the important team decisions. For the Academy members, getting their edit in front of Peter for this last challenge is a great opportunity to prove that they have what it takes to be part of the [...]

Here’s Luka dishing-out a masterclass on choosing a park feature and destroying it. To inflict similar damage to your local park you’ll need a good helping of speed, more style than Karl Lagerfeld’s wardrobe and sparks… everything is better with sparks. Shot and edited by Pepe Gay.

Beating French big mountain freestyler Sam Favret in the Quarters meant McRae progressed to the Semi Finals of the VARS Tournament. Facing him in the Semis was Henrik Harlaut who was keen to throw all manner of butters into the mix in an effort to beat McRae for a place in the Finals. Be sure [...]

Since presenting the Ego Trip to the A.R.C. in December the Ego Trip has become the most coveted shred weapon in the ski rack for our more freeride focused team riders. Knowing a spot or two where a superlight big mountain ski will feel right at home, French Ambush rider Morgan Sauerwald took his pair [...]

Around early March every year French Ambush riders Xavier Favre and Yannick Bovard build one of the best shaped gap jumps in the French Alps at the resort of La Chapelle and open it for a jam style contest. The La Beanie Gap Sessions have become legendary for the progressive riding that goes down and [...]

Imagine a winter travelling to exotic shred loactions all over the globe with your best riding buddies… that’s just what Cartel rider John Rodosky got to do this winter on the Freeride World Tour. And the best thing about it? John finished in 7th this season qualifying him for next winters FWT where he’ll get [...]

Fresh off his huge win at the European XGames Slopestyle last week, McRae has been hiding out in the Southern French Alps with a crew of world class riders for the Vars Tournament. Based on a similar concept to SKATE but using the letters of the host resort, the tournament, held over three days, pits [...]

Last Thursday Trickon, in collaboration with ATS, hosted the first edition of the Action Awards. The event was held at Sala Apolo, the home of many of the Iberian peninsular’s  riders. There were awards for a total of 13 sports, each sport having a Rider of the Year and Rookie of the Year category, as well [...]

At the start of March the Energy Freeride Val d’Aran contest took place in Baqueira Beret in the Spanish Pyrenees. As a key sponsor of the event Amplid was there to watch the action, enjoy some rays and hand out some prizes. The standard of the riding that went down was incredible with burly drops [...]

UK Ambush rider Jonny Pickup has spent the last fortnight enjoying slushy laps up at the Vans Penken Park, Mayrhofen. When he’s not enjoying one of Hansi’s topping laden pizzas (actually that’s me) Jonny’s destroying the rail line and throwing all sorts of bizzare trickery into the mix on his Declaration. Oh and Jonny got [...]

TIGNES, France — McRae Williams won gold in the Men’s Ski Slopestyle finals on the Jeep Slopestyle course on Thursday at X Games Tignes, claiming his first X Games medal after failing to qualify for finals in January at X Games Aspen 2013. “I woke up with butterflies this morning,” Williams said after the competition. [...]

Ever wondered about the harmful effects drinking energy drinks can have on your health? Quit worrying, over the past couple of months Steve’s been busy running a series of highly technical experiments to determine how damaging these energy drinks are. And his findings? It’s not energy drinks that you need to be wary of it’s [...]

Team rider John Rodosky is bringing his freestyle flair to the Freeride World Tour and is flipping people’s conceptions of what competitive freeriding is in the process. John’s not your typical freerider, growing up in Jackson hole has given him incredible big mountain skills alongside technical freestyle abilities, combining these in a top to bottom [...]

It’s time for the fourth and penultimate challenge for the Academy riders. For this challenge Cartel rider Steve Stepp wants the Academy riders to film a 60 second edit with their homies, something Steve does a lot of with the 4bi9 crew. To win this challenge the riders will need to put together a movie [...]

It’s been a week of cabin fever for the Freeride World Tour competitors in Fieberbrunn, Austria. Although the weather was glorious for the scheduled Saturday of the event, a baked and weak snowpack due to the spring conditions meant the Avalanche danger was too high and the contest had to be postponed. Eventually last Saturday [...]