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AAA Challenge #4 Winners

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 [...]

Watch Between The Lines

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 [...]

Energy Freeride Val d’Aran

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 [...]

Jonny ‘Mr Blonde’ Pickup

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 [...]

Rodo Talking Trannies

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 [...]

Rodo Qualifies For FWT 2014

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 [...]
Amplid Cartel rider John Rodosky is competing this weekend in Fieberbrunn, Austria at the 5th Freeride World Tour stop. John will be riding his socks off to secure a starting spot in Verbier which is granted to the top 5 snowboarders and a place on the tour for next season which will be awarded to [...]
There are only four days to go before the Academy riders need to submit their edit for the 3rd challenge, so the pressure is on! Cartel rider John Rodosky impressed with what he’s seen from the Academy riders so far wanted the guys to step out of their comfort zone and take their freestyle riding [...]

Sweeney Todds Ep.4

Rain, slush and bitter cold; whatever weather the mountain could throw at him, lens man Tyler Orton endured to get the shots necessary for the fourth instalment of his Sweeney Todds series. Once again featuring Cartel rider Justin Norman.
He may work a full-time engineering job, be building a house and have a toddler to look after but that doesn’t stop Amplid Ambassador Benny Deeg from getting into the mountains for some hardcore shredding. Last weekend Benny took 6th place at the Nature Ride, a backcountry slopestyle contest in Damüls, Austria in a field [...]

Splitboarding A.R.C.

A.R.C. artist Luis De Dios is currently slumming-it away from the sun lashed waves of the Canary Islands in the sub zero home of Amplid HQ. It’s been a perfect opportunity for Luis to enjoy fresh tracks up and down the mountain  on Amplid’s latest creation, the Morning Split, a board with artwork created by [...]

The Story of Snowboarding

Ever wondered how snowboarding came to be? Burn energy drink commissioned this rad 90 minute movie to document the story of snowboarding from its beginnings. Shut Outlook, turn your cell to silent, turn your work monitor so your boss doesn’t notice the neon and watch a collection of some of the pivotal moments in Snowboarding’s [...]
The second AAA task, set by Amplid’s inhouse cliff seeking missile, Mr Teddy Berr, was to film a 30 second POV edit using the GoPro cameras generously provided by GoPro to the Academy athletes. Once again the bar was raised and the quality of the video submissions impressed. Videos that deserve a mention include Alex [...]

Vorarlberg Huckfest

Big dumps of fresh snow have been falling at regular intervals in the European Alps this winter replenishing bombed-out kicker landings and providing the perfect training ground for aerial antics. Amplid Ambush rider Simon Guenther has been making the most of perfect snow and clear blue skys by hucking his meat off this uber flip [...]

Duct Tape at Baker

It’s been four years since Peter competed in the Mt Baker Banked Slalom, but it seems he’s still got the magic, clocking a 1:37 on one of the most physically demanding courses to date. It wasn’t fast enough to take top spot in the Pro Masters category but second ain’t too bad! Here he is [...]
It’s been a successful first day at the Legendary Banked Slalom, Mt Baker. After a four year break from racing in the event, Amplid’s co-owner Peter Bauer guided an UNW8 159 through Baker’s famous banks at a warp speed time of 1:38:06, taking top spot in the Pro Master’s category ahead of a sterling field [...]
At the start of January we posted this video of Amplid boss Peter Bauer testing a new powder board shape in the Austrian Alps. The first production boards have now been pressed and shipped globally for Industry tests and tradeshows which meant that Amplid Ambassador and ex world cup big air rider Stefan Falkeis was [...]
Last year Dash teamed-up with clothing sponsor Jiberish to release a park edit filmed at Park City, Utah. The video was rammed start to finish with bangers and blew up big time with a huge number of views and comments praising Dash’s unique style. This winter Jiberish hooked Dash up with fellow team rider Joe [...]

AAA Challenge No.1 Winners

For the last week the Amplid Research Cartel has been watching through the many edits submitted by the Amplid Ambush Academy members as part of the first challenge set by McRae Williams. The challenge was to create a 60 second edit featuring 5 tricks or features in a row filmed continuously with no cuts in [...]

Sweeney Todds Ep.1

Amplid’s go-to lens man in the Pacific Northwest Tyler Orton dropped HQ an email with a little edit he’d put together featuring Mt. Bachelor’s Sweeney Todd crew and of course Cartel shred-head J-Norm. We reckon Tyler, who considers himself a photographer rather than a filmer, has done a stand-up job of the filming and editing [...]

Dash Does Davos

Last weekend the Cartel’s contest killer Dash Kamp and his HiDef 155 were in Davos for 6 Star TTR event the O’Neill Evolution. Dash had the highest score in Round 1 with a super clean backside double cork and a 5050 backside 180 out of the tricky elbow rail at the bottom of the course. [...]

Rodo Lands 2nd in Courmayeur

Congratulations to Cartel rider John Rodosky who yesterday took second place at the Courmayeur stop of the Freeride World Tour. His run described as “playful” by the live commentators included multiple 360s, some ballsy fall-line drops and a big ol’ back flip and placed John above some big name riders like last year’s tour winner [...]
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