Hey guys,
so as I promised here is the final recap of the 2012 and 3rd annual edition of the SPRINGgingerle hosted by Matthias FABBRO and Markus EDER.
Everybody arrived last week tuesday for a meet and greed and also a big riders dinner in the evening.
The whole swiss team was there, including Kai Mahler, Jonas and Cyrill Hunziker, Rico Schuler and Fredi Iliano as well as their coach Misra. From the Germa side it was Sebi Geiger and myself as well as the up and comer Dennis Ranalter from Stubaital in Austria. The it aliens had a big crew going with Rafa Cusini, Lukas Schäfer, Markus the host Eder, Fabbro, Stefan and Christoph Schenk and loads of locals who where shredding with us!
Wednesday was the first day of shredding the F-Tech park at Kronplatz.
They had 2 super smooth jumps and a really cool rail set up. Everybody just kinda got used to the park and got some fun practice laps in.
here is the video from the 1st session!
The second day was an early bird day, the weather was sick all week long and everybody had a blast at the sunrise session on thursday morning.
Everybody getting a lift up to the jump in the morning. Wake up call was 4o´clock in the morning, then drive 30min around the mountain to the other side of the ski resort, get picked up by a snow cat, watching a beautiful sunrise over the Dolomites and then session a bad ass jump, it can´t really get any better ;)
ready for drop in
enjoying some air time
everybody who ever did a sunrise session know how exhausting things can get, so it is really important to refill ur energy. Traditionaly and legendary Weisswurst breakfast for the whole crew!
After that everybody was taking it more easy during the day, just taking some cursing laps around the park or chilling back in the hotel, cause we needed the regain some energy for the big Bruneck ice hockey match in the evening.
Sunrise session in moving pictures!
The whole crew going nuts for the Bruneck local team, helping them to gain a victorious 6:2 win over their enemies!!!
During the day Fabio Studer and Paddy Graham joined the crew and the where also giving it all to cheer up the player of team Bruneck!
Friday was an easy the overall until the night session started on the huge F-Tech jump down the valley at the Korrer gondola!
riders meeting
10riders got divided to 5team, 2persons in each team, they then had to battle against the other teams in a 2runs best counts format. 2 teams moved into semi finals and then the top team had to battle each other, means the rider u where riding with the whole night now had to be defeded.
Everybody had a blast riding and especially Fabio and Paddy loved the format:
Stefan Schenk and myself had to go against Lukas Schäfer and Dennis Ranalter in the semifinals.
Unfortunately we lost against them, but those two guys where on fire the whole night, so it is no shame in loosing when u have fun riding ;) which is the main goal of the whole SPRINGGINGERLE.
me mid sw dub 9
the comp area! Great place for a music festival in my opinion ;)
Here is the video of the night session, and also Fabbro´s massive first hit speed check ;)
On saturday everybody went up to the mountain and hit the park for a couple of laps and everybody just enjoyed the great spring conditions and the beautiful weather at Kronplatz.
In the evening the the riders party took place and also a little secret prize ceremony nobody knew about before. Fabbro won the best crash award, just look at the video of day 3 and u know why! I won the most dedicated rider award, which I was super stoked about, cause I had so much fun shredding the park the whole week and it could not have been any better. Lukas Schäfer won the overall rider of the week award and it was a well deserved one in my opinion, he was ripping hard all week long and it´s really cool to see so many good kids as Lukas for example ripping it off!
here is the slideshow from the whole week. Thanks to Alo, Hari and Yarrek for the great shoots.
Also a big shout out for the whole F-Tech crew for building such a bad ass park, and also KRONPLATZ, RED BULL, THE NORTH FACE and to all the other sponsors of the event for helping out Markus and
Fabbro to host one of the best events in europe.
It is a pleasure to be there for 3 years now, and it just got better and better every year! SO keep up the great work guys and thx a lot for having me there!
Now I´m off to the 9Knights in Livigno, which is going to be great! Never been to Livigno yet, so it is about time!
Pce and out
Roy
