NZsnowboard.com

27th August 2008

Stylewars 2008 presented by Oakley.
August 24-28, 2008
Falls Creek Resort, Australia.

A perfect day with sunny blue skies today at Stylewars meant the first day of competition at Australias most notorious snowboarding event went down like a bowl full of delicious poutine. The 45 invited riders from around the globe were annihilating the course with a level of snowboarding never before seen in Australia.

NZ team captain Will Jackways. Red Bull Gap. Photo: Alex Roberts.

Ripping all day and finishing in number 1 and 2 spots respectively was the French Canadian connection (ie: Canadian Club) of Charles Reid and Matts Kulisek who were both sending and stomping their runs all day. Matts was unleashing huge frontside 7 to backside 7 combinations amoung some super smooth 900s. While Charles Reid was dropping insane frontside 1080s and massive 90-foot corked frontside 360s that had everyone scratching their heads.

Sitting in third is a very consistent New Zealand rider Jacob Koia who looks poised to strike for the lead. NZ team captain Will Jackways had one of the most interesting lines of the day with a perfect 90 foot backside 900 melon followed by a method from the step-over kicker landing on the side of the landing 80-feet away, stomping a method perfectly amoungst the rubble and grooming debris.

Kiwi Jacob Koia sits in 3rd after day one. Photo: Alex Roberts

Roland Morley Brown mid way through the bottom of the Stylewars course. Photo: Alex Roberts.

The course is a 3 jump line that consists of a 15 foot flat cliff step-down, a 90 foot high speed step-down kicker and a 75 foot step up/over kicker.

Stylewars 2008 the freestyle marathon continues tomorrow with sunny days again forecast and riders amping to step it up the rankings for a shot at the Grand Master Title.

Tonight the parties start, a free/private concert for the riders with Australian Producer KATALYST and MC RUCL ready to bring home the first day.

For video footage of the days event check out
www.stylewars.com.au




LINKS:  
www.stylewars.com.au
www.ttrworldtour.com






Stylewars Presented by Oakley
Top 20 after day 1 of 3.

1.      Charles Reid (CAN)      BURTON          722
2.      Matts Kulisek (CAN)     APO                     667
3.      Jacob Koia (NZ)         OAKLEY          618
4.      Torstein Horgmo (NOR)   DC/OAKLEY               602
5.      Roland-Morley Brown (NZ) ELECTRIC/FORUM 595
6.      Wille Uotila (FIN)      ATOMIC          593
7.      Shayne Pospisil (USA)   BILLABONG               570
8.      Stef Zeestraten (NZ)    K2/OAKLEY               568
9.      Robbie Walker (AUS)     BILLABONG               550
10.     Will Jackways (NZ)      BURTON/VOLCOM   529
11.     Mitch Allan (AUS)       BURTON/OAKLEY   525
12.     Tore Holvik (NOR)       BATALEON                505
13.     Clint Allan (AUS)       BILLABONG               484
14.     Mario Kappeli (SUI)     FORUM                   474
15.     Ryan Tiene (AUS)        DC/OAKLEY               467
16.     Keiji Okamoto (JPN)     VOLKL/FLUX              462
17.     Jye Kearney (AUS)       BURTON/OAKLEY   395
18.     Nick Brown (NZ)         BURTON/RPM              368
19.     Masaharu Nakao (JPN)    NP ATHLETICS/REVOLT 313
20.     Cohen Davies (AUS)      ROME                    292



The 2008 Stylewars is presented by Oakley and is supported by Falls Creek Resort,  SilverSki Lodge, Corona, Red Bull, Volvo and New Era.


ENDS

For more information contact:

RUSSELL HOLT
Stylewars Media Manager
+61 (0)414 266 747
rholt@acpmagazines.com.au



About Stylewars
Stylewars is a 4-Star TTR World Tour event.
In 2002 Stylewars was born. With help from Red Bull and the understanding and complete commitment from Falls Creek, a small, little known Victorian resort with a great events department who had the ability to listen to riders rather than tell them what they needed, Stylewars was launched with a completely different approach to competition. All standard event formats were ignored and all scheduling forgotten about. The event was totally freestyled based on what riders wanted to do and where the best place to ride at that moment was. The event was fun for everyone involved and the media that came from it was the first Superpark style session in Australia.

Unlike any other event on the Swatch TTR World Tour, Stylewars is as much about snowboarding lifestyle as it is about on mountain competition. With world premieres of the latest international film releases, live music almost nightly, happy hours and under-lights rail sessions in the village the event tries to cover all angles to keep the crew stoked with an on holiday feel. Some riders have referred to it as the endurance marathon of the tour. 3 full days of competition in the park with 2 judged sessions per day. 1 night rail event under lights and 5 nights of partying means only the strongest can survive.