News in from the Cartel is that Amplid took control of the podium at this year’s FTP Monster of Formigal contest in Formigal resort, Spain. Noah took numero uno with Pako in 2nd and Luka in 3rd. Once again the Syntax proved itself to be the go-to park ski for slopestyle contest dominance. Congratulations gentlemen [...]

There are some that would argue that  riding with Teddy is in no shape or form a suitable prize for any competition. However, when Teddy’s sock sponsor CEP Sports throws in a Heli ride in Alrberg and bounds Teddy to the conditions that he must wear outerwear at all times then it doesn’t seem so [...]

Ahh… imagine the life of a Pro Skier, a playboy lifestyle, flying from one exotic mountain range to the next, racking up air miles as you dash across the globe in serach of the next line or the next world class park. Not according to Cartel rider Steve Stepp who breaks into cold sweats as [...]

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 [...]

Last week team rider McRae Williams was competing against an international field of riders in Slopestyle at the Austrian Freeski Open in Kaprun, Austria. After breezing through qualifiers in third place with a score of 88.25, McRae stepped his riding up again for the finals scoring 92.00 points with a Switch Left Double Cork 1080 [...]

Wouldn’t it be a dream to be able to take laps through Park City’s pristine transition and feature wonderland whenever you felt like it! We reckon McRae’s ridden PC’s terrain park so many times he could ride it blindfolded. Check out this edit by Dylan Ferguson filmed in two days and then tell us we’re [...]

Lukas Schoepke fires off a monster booter Here’s some hot off the press Swiss Ambush team news coming direct from Swiss TM Dani M. Riders Alex Neurohr and Lukas Schoepke have been racking-up a serious set of competition results between them. Alex Neurohr started January with a convincing 1st place at the Verbier Qualifier Week [...]

With snow conditions as good as they are in the European Alps this season, Ambush rider Andy Nitsche has had plenty of opportunity to enjoy his uber fat Lexington 185s. Andy emailed across these images by photographer Sev Wegener of him firing through pillow lines and getting creative on unconventional snow laden features.

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 [...]

German Ambush rider Jürgen Nigg made the finals of last week’s Blue Tomato Rail Jam at Munich’s Olympic Park. In the final he managed to land on the double kink with his chest breaking two ribs put on a positive note he got this killer photo. Jürgen told us he’ll be good to ride within [...]

Unless you’re really on the ball when it comes to the freeski scene or you keep an eagle eye on this blog you’re probably not aware that Amplid recently signed Andorran, Noah Albaladejo… an official release will be soon to follow. Until then enjoy this short little edit of Noah killing it with the Stept [...]

Steve told us he’d been working on a top secret video project which he said we’d be “stoked on”. Well to be honest Steve, you’ve surpassed yourself; this is truly the most disappointing video we’ve ever seen. Please get to the gym immediately and do some reps… remember more medals less fictional quotes please Steve.

This month on Newschoolers, team rider Steve Stepp got the 5 Questions treatment from Evan Heath Visual. As expected Steve was pitted against the collective whit of the Newschoolers forum which resulted in some pretty fuuny questions, HQ’s personal favourite being “How do you feel about 12 year old kids at Park City who throw [...]

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 [...]

Last weekend a little bit of hiking into Hochfuegen’s lesser known backcountry areas rewarded Ambush rider Andy Nitsche and photographer Severin Wagener with some stunning shots.  

Aspen Snowmass put together this tasty little edit of team rider McRae Williams and fellow X Games competitor Matt Walker familiarising themselves with the X Games slopestyle course. McRae and his Antidogmas look to have the course on lock so fingers crossed for the Slopestyle Eliminators on Friday.

In a recent article on Unofficial Networks, Teddy’s 50m naked front flip at the Nine Knights competition took third spot on “The 7 Funniest Ski & Snowboard Video Clips Ever”. Two years on and Teddy is still bathing in the glory of this moment of madness. To find-out which videos made-up the rest of the [...]

When the light is flat, there’s no better place to be than the trees. German Ambush rider Andy Nitsche spent last weekend in Fieberbrunn making the most of an overcast day with a wet and heavy alpine snowpack by blasting through Fieberbrunn’s feature filled forests on a pair of uber fat Lexingtons. Photographer Severin Wegener [...]

When Norwegian Ambush riders Martin Bøygaard & Bendik Øye aren’t dressed in smoking jackets and roll necks, sipping single malt Scotch and enthusiastically comparing notes on Miles Davis records you’ll find them riding through the grooves of Norway’s perfect corduroy parks. Here’s a little mix tape they put together over Christmas.

Steve Stepp’s outerwear sponsor Saga have been putting together a short series of shredits they’re calling the Hungry Crew. There’s not much to say other than the skiing is smooth and styled and once again Park City shows the rest of the world how a good terrain park should be put together. No wonder Steve [...]

With the Lexington, Amplid attempted to build a ski that would cater for team rider Teddy Berr’s watermelon sized balls. When we saw the cover of this month’s Skiing Magazine it confirmed that yes Teddy has enormous Kahunas but that the Lexington is Ski enough to take everything Teddy can stomp on it. Congrats on [...]

Luka, Pako and Noah, Amplid’s Iberian dream team have been filming recently for another of their many sponsors, Buff. Filmed in moody black and white around the Spanish Pyrenees, this little edit is packed full of the style we expect from three of Europe’s finest.