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Big mountain legend and Quiksilver snowboarder James Stentiford killed it on the Freeride World Tour last year, with podium finishes and a 6^th place overall. This year Stentiford is back and stronger than ever, with hopes of glory and a hunger for the title:

‘I know I can win one if I get a good line and with a bit of luck on the day.’

The iconic 40-year old, a legend on the U.K. scene, finds his place amongst the top freerider’s in the world and is the only Brit to qualify. He faces tough competition from other international big mountain legends, such as Xavier de la Rue, but with experience rivalling the best of them and the support of the British crowd, James is definitely ready for the challenge:

‘Hopefully I can surprise a few people, I don’t really feel under pressure like some of the younger riders so hopefully that will be an advantage.’

As good friends and snowboard buddies of Stenti’s, here at Mint we will be supporting him all the way when things kick off on the 21^st of January in Chamonix. It’s the first stop of the Swatch Freeride World Tour and what better way to start than on his training ground!

You can follow James’ progress on the Quiksilver blog: www.quiksilver.co.uk/england/news with up to date news on all the team. For more information and details on all the tour stops check out: www.freerideworldtour.com.

GO STENTI!

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In the December issue of Yodel Magazine, published in Morzine, Avoriaz & Les Gets, Mint Snowboard School offered you the chance to win a load of Quiksilver and Roxy goodies. We have received lots of great competition entries and the winners have been announced! Here are the results and their entries:

1st Prize: Paul Chlopas

Runners-Up: Polly Baker & Rob Youblind

Well done to everyone who entered!

Entries for the competition had to include the imaginative use of Minty, the Mint Snowboarding mascot and all of your efforts have been amazing! So amazing in fact that we thought we’d post them below… so here they are, in no particular order.

Let us know which is your favourite in the comment box below…

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The most anticipated snowboard movie of the year is coming to Morzine!

The Art of FLIGHT, sequel to the much acclaimed That’s it That’s All, is making an appearance on the big screen in Morzine thanks to the determination of the guys at Just Snowboard Camps (Mint Snowboarding’s sister company) and the help of Quiksilver. Join us at the Morzine cinema to get closer to the action, live the grandeur of the locations and feel the scale of the tricks, like you can never do at home.

All you need to know:

Where: Colibri Cinema, Morzine

When: Wednesday 14th December, doors open 7.00 pm (showing at 8.00 pm)

Goodies: from Quiksilver for the first 10 through the door

Tickets: Only 5 € !!! On the door

After Party: At the Cavern. Hand your ticket in to get a FREE shot! 

For those of you who haven’t heard about the Art of Flight, it is equal parts action and adventure mixed with the inevitable drama encountered along the way. Two years in the making “The Art of Flight” gives iconic snowboarder Travis Rice and friends the opportunity to redefine what is possible in the mountains. Experience the highs, as new tricks are landed and new zones opened, alongside the lows, where avalanches, accidents, and wrong turns strike. Immerse yourself in the cinematic experience as Brain Farm and their ever expanding arsenal of filmmaking technology, capture the dramatic beauty of the culture, wildlife and scenic landscapes the riders take in along the way.

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December is here, which means it’s all go for our competition with Yodel Magazine!

Enter the competition, it’s super easy…

1. Make sure that you ‘like‘ the Mint Snowboarding and Yodel Magazine Facebook pages.

2. Get creative… send us an image of ‘Minty’, the official Mint mascot and e-mail your entry to competition@yodelmagazine.com. Or you can post it on our Facebook walls!

The 3 most inspired entries at the end of December will win an amazing bundle of Quiksilver or Roxy goodies!

Hint: Minty isn’t as allusive as you’d imagine:

- Download a copy of Minty here…

- OR! Use the special password ‘lime green‘ (the colour of the Mint uniforms this year!) in Attack Attack in Morzine to collect your very own Minty sticker!!!

Competition entries are subject to the standard yodel competition rules.

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Quiksilver & Roxy ambassadors James Thorne and Tammy Esten (also Mint instructor) have just got back from a 2 week hectic tour of the UK to spread the nations love for Quiksilver, Roxy, Mint Snowboard School & Just Snowboard Camps. From Exeter to Glasgow they visited pretty much every city in between, stopping off at Ellis Brighams, Snow & Rocks and a whole bunch of other snowboard stores as well.

Highlights included: a fantastic old hotel in Liverpool, which was very much haunted if you believe in that kind of thing; travelling around London on the worlds smallest tandem, heavily laden with giveaways, flyers & a surfboard; and a few fantastic meals (not mentioning the bad ones) including a catch up with Mint’s unofficial Supervisor Jenny Jones in Bristol.

Let the photos tell the tales:

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Our collaboration with Quiksilver means that the guys at Mint will definitely be heading to the London premiere… stoked!!! See you there?

Heart-stopping airs in the backcountry, stunning first descents on remote mountains and breath-taking scenery filmed in HD: as previewed in the just released, high-energy ‘Metal’ trailer. “The Art of FLIGHT” combines meaningful storytelling and character development with sport progressing action, all captured on state-of-the-art filmmaking equipment. Produced by the Red Bull Media House, in association with Brain Farm Digital Cinema and with the participation of Quiksilver. The outstanding new Curt Morgan film kicks off its worldwide premiere tour at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on September 7th, 2011 during the Quiksilver Pro New York (ASP World Tour event). Then, “The Art of FLIGHT” travels to over 20 theatres across the U.S. and Canada, before heading overseas to South Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia before a massive tour in Europe. 15 stops over 14 countries are scheduled from France to Russia via Austria (2 dates), Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Belgium, Nederland, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland and UK!

Quiksilver & Red Bull iconic rider Travis Rice, Curt Morgan and selection of the world’s best riders will attend the whole tour.

For further information on tour dates visit www.ArtofFLIGHTmovie.com.

“I can’t wait to meet all my friends and the riders who made this project possible. We’ve been working such a long time to make this happen and I am really looking forward to see how the people like what we did”, Travis Rice states. The global premiere tour will offer viewers the premium way to experience “The Art of FLIGHT” using Dolby’s digital cinema package file including the Dolby Screen Server DSS200 and Dolby CP750 Cinema Sound Processor used in major theatre chains

“The Art of FLIGHT” comes to Blu-ray™, DVD and iTunes throughout Europe, Asia and USA on September 8th, 2011 (check www.ArtofFLIGHTmovie.com for release dates of all territories). In Europe, the Blu-ray™ and DVD can be pre-ordered on www.ArtofFLIGHTmovie.com and will be available in Quiksilver stores, on www.quiksilver.com on September 15th and at each European tour stop. In addition to the film, Travis Rice has created The Art of FLIGHT book, an oversized, photo-driven book featuring the stunning images captured and exclusive stories made while filming. The 5,000 limited edition book will include “The Art of FLIGHT” on both Blu-ray™ and DVD, be individually numbered with a hand stamp and sold in a special collector’s box at each European tour stop, in a selection of Quiksilver stores in Europe and on quiksilver.com.

Full schedule of the “The Art of FLIGHT” global premiere tour:
November 2011: 8th Munich/GER, 9th Vienna/AUT, 10th Prague/CZE, 12th Innsbruck/AUT, 13th Milano/ITA, 14th Lucerne/SWI, 16th Madrid/SPA, 17th London/GBR, 19th Oslo/NOR, 21st Brussels/BEL, 22nd Amsterdam/NED, 23rd Warsaw/POL, 24th Stockholm/SWE, 26th Paris/FRA, 27th Moscow/RUS.

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Mint supporters, Quiksilver, are pleased to announce the signing of a new rider on their UK snow team. Billy Morgan, previously sponsored by Westbeach, has been on the UK scene for a while now and has turned heads with his solid riding and impressive results at the Brits.

‘I’m super stoked to be joining Quiksilver and the team! Can’t wait to get things going, push things forward and let the good times roll in!’

Billy is the newest addition to the, updated, Quiksilver team and joins recently signed young shredders, Jamie Trinder and Fin Bremner. The team now hosts 4 generations of riders with Henry Shackleton and Ollie Jackson still representing and old man Stenti still killin it on the World Freeride Tour.  James Stentiford, who is team manager, is looking forward to the new season ahead:

‘I’m stoked to have Billy on the team and look forward to riding and working with one of the most promising young riders in the UK, especially with slopestyle confirmed for the 2014 winter Olympics. I’m also excited to have Fin and Jamie on-board. Should make for some epic team trips!’

Keep checking on the Quiksilver blog for news, updates and podcasts as the team prepares for the upcoming winter season: http://quiksilver.co.uk/england/news

If you want a chance to ride with the Quiksilver team, join us on a snowboard camp for the best in snowboard coaching from the Mint team of instructors along with the Quiksilver riders: www.just-snowboard.com

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See below a video edit made by Dan Jesse of the Just Freestyle snowboard camp in Avoriaz, France this March with Quiksilver. Thanks Dan! A great week filled with tons of progression and fun with coaching from Dave of Mint Snowboard School. Official camp photos taken by Damien McArthur coming soon…

www.just-snowboard.com

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QUIKSILVER & ROXY RADAR 2011
CONGRATULATIONS TO BRITISH GROMS FIN & MONTY!

The finals of the Quiksilver & Roxy Radar were a massive success for the British ski and snowboard scene, proving that our groms have got what it takes to compete in a European level competition. Radar finalist, Fin Bremner, took 2nd place on the podium for boys Snowboard (under 12’s), and Monty Wright took 3rd spot on the podium for boys Ski. Congratulations lads!
The Quiksilver & Roxy Radar finals took place in Tignes, during the 2011 Winter X Games. The contest allowed the groms to compete in an awe-inspiring environment surrounded by some of their greatest idols. Amongst others, the contest was judged by Quiksilver Pro Snowboarders Freddy Austbo, Markku Koski and Roxy’s Margot Rozies, with Mathieu Crepel awarding the finalists their prizes.

(Monty Wright, Ski) (Fin Bremner, Snowboard)

The Radar allows brands like Quiksilver to discover new talent emerging from Europe’s local scenes, and to develop these kids into Europe’s future snowboard and ski champions. A big thanks also to TSA, Whitelines, and Tamworth Snowdome for supporting the Quiksilver & Roxy Radar this year.

Winners of the Quiksilver & Roxy Radar Snowboard finals:
Mathias Ecklhoff (Norway) & Hanne Eilertsen (Norway).

Winners of the Quiksilver & Roxy Radar Ski finals:
Jens Johnsen (Norway) & Amanda Gustavsson (Sweden).

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UK Quiksilver Team Manager and 39 year old British Snowboard Legend scored third place in the final and most intimidating leg of the Nissan World Freeride Tour – the Bec des Rosses – making him ranked 6th over all with 4,700 points. As a close friend, we are super stoked for him here at Mint Snowboarding.

After scoring impressive results from a wild card invitation at the 2010 World Freeride Tour, James Stentiford was invited again to compete against the World’s toughest freeride snowboarders across all legs of the Nissan World Freeride Tour 2011.

The World Freeride Tour kicked off in Stentiford’s home resort – Chamonix – where his unfortunate run scored him in at just 9th place. This didn’t phase him though as 2 events later he scored podium results coming in at 3rd in both Fiebberbrunn (AUS) and Bec des Rosses (Verbier) proving that he is amongst the World’s strongest freeride snowboarders.

His WFT results are as follows:

• 9th Chamonix
• 5th St Moritz
• 4th Russia
• 3rd Fiebberbrunn
• 3rd Verbier

As Britain’s toughest freeride snowboarder, James Stentiford has become an icon for those that have grown up with him, as well as young snowboarders coming into the scene. It has been a proud few months to see him compete in such intimidating conditions against the world’s best, and especially to see him score that podium in Verbier. At 39 years old, Stentiford was happily on the road to retirement but as we’ve all seen – there’s a hell of a lot more to come out of the old man yet. Don’t put those slippers on too soon stenti..Here’s a few words from James Stentiford after Bec des Rosses:

“The Bec Des Rosse is an intimidating mountain, and when you add to that a helicopter buzzing in front of your face and countless camera’s, it becomes an incredibly challenging experience. The emotions run higher at the start & finish gates at this event in particular as all the riders know that the consequences are that much higher. Standing at the top, I went through every emotion from fear to excitement as the adrenaline started to kick in. I tried to calm my nerves with some breathing exercises before I set off, but as soon as I was out of the gate, focus set in and I couldn’t even hear the Heli buzzing above my head.

The Bec has so much freeriding history that I think I built it up to be this big monster that wanted to kill me, but once I stood on top for the first time I realized that as much as it’s intimidating it’s also a beautiful mountain with some great lines.

The relief when I got to the finish was unbelievable. I was just glad to be down in one piece and to get on the podium is an absolute dream. As I stood in the leaders position for live TV and riders kept coming down and not knocking me off I just thought “well at least I didn’t come last… at least I made 5th place!” At the time, I wasn’t that happy with my run as I made a few mistakes, so you can imagine to come 3rd was an absolute bonus.

I was convinced I was going to retire after Verbier but now I’m not so sure, maybe one more year just to see if I can win an event!”

CONGRATULATIONS STENTI! Look forward to riding with you soon…

Check out some great coverage on James Stentiford on the Telegraph and BBC Sports site:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/default.stm