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Dominique Vallée interview

2008-05-14T16:58:13+00:00

Check out the website of our friends at FSM (Future Snowboarding Magazine) for a nice little interview of Elan Chicas team rider Dominique Vallée. If you did follow her blogs of the season you might know, that Dominique has been on the road a lot in the last couple of weeks. The guys from FSM met her in Carlsbad where she was visiting a friend and relaxing from a recent backcounty trip. To read the full interview just click here

Elan Chicas Notebook Competition Winner Announced!

2008-04-03T15:33:10+00:00

Yeah girls and boys! We are very happy to announce the winner of the exclusive Chicas Notebook competition: step forward Spela Rihar, from Slovenia! Honorable mentions, meanwhile, go to our second and third place finishers Alexandra Schleich from Germany and Jussi Lehmuskallio from Finland.

1. Špela Rihar

Launched at the end of last year on www.elanchicas.com the competition invited online visitors to upload scanned images of their favorite diary pages and potentially play a part in the creation of the first ever Chicas Notebook. The added incentive of a free Chicas Notebook for every entrant provided the participants with that extra bit of motivation to get creative.

Three months later and with more than 140 submissions to review, the Elan Chicas team riders broke away from their busy winter schedules to judge the best 20 entries and eventual winner. Chicas team rider Lisa Filzmoser was blown away by the depth and quality of submissions, and said: “Wow! This contest was a great way for girls to showcase one of the many ways they choose to express themselves.”

As our main competition winner, Špela picks up a money-can’t-buy prize for her efforts: a two-day trip to Elan’s headquarters including a guided tour of the factory. She’ll also meet and share creative ideas with designers from the Chicas program before collaborating with them on the design of new graphics that could end up on anything from boards to t-shirts in 2009/2010. And let’s not forget her winning page, of course. Look out for it as a double page spread on the inside front cover of the printed Notebook!

Check all designs at: chicas.elansnowboards.com/chicas_notebook_contest_items/gallery

Thanks to all who entered!

O.U.T contest review

2008-02-29T08:46:10+00:00

Organizing an O.U.T contest adapted to snowboarding, that was the challenge from the “Wise ride crew” (Brynild Vulin, Bruno Rivoire). It all went down in Chamrousse France on the 24th of February on a very warm Sunday.

The morning started with the AM qualification with a series of impressive tricks: 180°-360°-540°-720°-sw 540-sw 720. And guess what the best AM easily qualified with sw 720. In the afternoon it was time for the famous OUT contest on a set up composed of a big air and a rail. For the first time the world famous O.U.T contest format, usually challenged by skateboarders, was adapted to snowboarding. The rules are simple but had to be explained for a while.

Riders compete in a group of 3, the one who starts first chooses his obstacle (jump or rail) and announces the trick that he’s gonna do. If he stomps it, the other riders must do the same or they take a letter. When a rider has the three letters from the word O.U.T he is disqualified. Simple isn’t it?

At night the super finale was mainly dominated by the newcomers with a huge baggage of tricks:Gabriel Ribet , Ludovic Bart, Gab Bessy and Eybert Berard . We had seen FS 720 nose grabs, straight back flips, 180 BS double shifty, BS Rodéo indy, FS 720 lien; BS 72 mute ...

In the final two super technical riders where going face to face: Gaby Ribet stomped a SW BS 720 stalefish and Gabriel Bessy managed to do the same spin but missed the grab . 2nd place for him and Gaby Ribet won the first edition of the OUT contest and at the same time took home the 500 $ of prize money. All pictures by Wise ride/ Brynild Vulin

OUT contest by Bruno Rivoire

2008-02-19T08:38:59+00:00

On Sunday 24th of February our french team rider and his friends organize the first edition of the “OUT snow contest” taking place in the world class resort of Chamrousse (France). This is the first time the famous “OUT” challenging well know by all skateboarders is gonna be adapted to snowboarding. The contest format is simple: If you miss the trick that your adversary is pulling you will get a letter; When you have collected three letters you are O.U.T. The contest is open to all riders, pros or amateurs. The final will take place at night. All riders will be shredding for 1000 $ of prize money and guess what…the best amateur will enter the French team of Elan snowboards. Siiiick! So if you have a lot of tricks in your pocket or if you just want to join a good session, don’t miss the “OUT” contest and come to Chamrousse

Easyriders Session 2008

2008-02-14T09:07:00+00:00

You asked for it and we revived it: The Easyriders session is back, better then ever. The session kicks off on Vogel Mountain (SLO), February 23rd and this year the organizers are blowing it out with the best anti-competition categories ever to hit the slopes. They have: limbo carving, highest ollie, best crazy 80’s outfit, best freaking multigrab, oldest action gear, best oldschool to newschool trick, best rider of the day, best/worst accidental bail and much more. Shred the whole day to beats of DJ Dulash, DJ Čaj and crew while the BBQ will be burnin’. Winners will be announced by the end of the day.

The prizes are sick. Sponsoring brands have emptied out their garages and storerooms to help you get tons of fresh gear. So you could very soon own gizmos from brands like: Elan Snowboards, Grenade, Spy, Simobil, Apo, Flow and others. You can even win a free surf camp in Anglet (FRA). And the best thing? EVERYBODY can win something!

Afterparty will take place in Media park, Ljubljana with Wil ridge, Summerwille and MAD CADDIES rocking the place apart! Be sure to sign up at the session to get last minute tickets or low price entrance.

So if you accidentally own a snowboard, even better, if your daddy still owns his skiing outfit from the 80’s, you MUST show up on 23rd of February on Vogel Mountain, Slovenia! Trust us, it will be off the hook.

Elan Chicas Notebook Competition Open for Business!

2008-02-06T17:05:14+00:00

Elan Snowboards is proud to announce the first online Chicas competition since the site’s makeover. To enter the Chicas Notebook Competition, all you have to do is submit a image or scanned picture of the best page from your diary or notebook. Whether your chosen page is super-creative, plain crazy or downright freaky, we want you to submit it now! We’re already looking forward to being blown away by your pages.

All entries will be uploaded to the Elan Chicas website and displayed in an online gallery. The Chicas team riders will then vote on the submissions and select the top 20 entries. From these, the winning image will be selected and used as a double-page spread for the inside front cover of the soon-to-be published Elan Chicas Notebook.

Together with a personal credit in the Notebook introduction, the winning participant is set to scoop an awesome 2-day trip to Elan’s headquarters, including a tour of the factory and a chance to meet the designers of the Chicas program. And as if that wasn’t enough, the winner will also get to collaborate with the designers in the creation of Elan Chicas graphics that could end up on anything from a board and t-shirt to a business card – now that’s some prize!

Each of the 19 runners-up will see their images published in the main body of the Elan Chicas Notebook, and will also pick up a cool Chicas give-away. Besides, nobody goes away empty handed from this competition because every single participant will receive an Elan Chicas Notebook.

The competition ends at midnight on 29th February 2008, so be sure to head over to www.elanchicas.com to find out how to upload your images.

Tech comp winner selected!

2008-02-04T12:56:10+00:00

First of all we like to thank all the smart fellows taking part in our tech comp. All you guys did a great job researching the tricky tech-facts or just copy pasting posted answers from other submissions. Very smart! ;) Anyway we had to roll the dice the select the proud winner and are now happy to announce, that the user andres190 from Italy is looking forward receiving a brand new Elan Snowboards Single Board Bag! New win stuff coming up…check our win stuff section.

Elan Mexican Party at Ispo 08

2008-01-24T17:12:03+00:00

World’s biggest trade-show for winter sport goods is kicking of on Sunday 27th of January. Elan Snowboards and the P.Lab will be rocking in hall A1, booth 318/219 and try to survive all the trade-show-craziness. If you are around you are more than welcome to join our Mexican Party with the famous Mariachi Acapulco live band, lots of free beer, nachos and tequila. Just bring your sombrero and join us on Sunday, 27th at 17.00 h on our Ispo booth. Hope to see you there…

Video contest winners announced!

2008-01-11T16:08:55+00:00

Our first community video contest was a great success. Thanks to all your submissions. Due to the great variety of the films the jury decided not to give away one price only. Instead we awarded 3 clips and every director will receive a nice Elan Snowboards backpack. Tratatataaa….Here is the vote of the jury:

1. Best editing: rockafella – clip: My part in season

2. Best special effects: optionniko – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5DP_1JKP5I

3. Best trick: chillorrock – clip: Snowpart III - backside 360 with beanie-air (0.25 sec)!

To check out the Top 10 clips of the contest just click here.

To win a Elan single board bag in our current win stuff just click here.

Vote for Lisa as Rider of the Year!

2008-01-08T14:56:44+00:00

German snowboard magazine Snowboarder MBM has just started their European Rider of the Year Awards and Elan Chicas team rider Lisa Filzmoser is nominated for this. Check out the voting here and vote for her! There are four more categories as Rookie of the Year, Best Trick of the Year, Videopart of the Year and European Video of the Year. Now go and vote!