Wiley Miller Champery Switzerland Edit from Level 1 on Vimeo.

Colin Spencer 2010 from Colin Spencer on Vimeo.

Colin Spencer Durango 2010 from Forrest Miller on Vimeo.

Hot off the press and ready to take on the heavy comp, the SPY all-star line up will be ready to grab gold at this year’s premier Winter X Games Europe in close to zero temps in Tignes, France March 10-12th.

Recent Vancouver Olympians, crowd pleasing favorite Louie Vito has been crushing the pipe all season while young gun Sarka Pancochova is slaying her practice runs with huge straight airs and smooth style and keep your eyes on Iouri Podladtchikov — he’s been stomping a double Mctwist 12! For Slopestyle, Frederik Evensen will be pushing the envelope with his undivided attention to perfection of jaw dropping spins with his mellow laid back style.

Back at it, fresh off his Stair Rail Battle win from Switzerland, JF Houle will be throwing down in ski slopestyle all the while technical savvy Canadian Charles Gagnier will be ready to impress. Time to make them go nuts, the crowd will be front and center to watch ski pipe rider sensation Duncan Adams compete in the inaugural Winter X Europe. All eyes on deck watch for these unstoppable SPY’s.

*All times local Tignes time, GMT +1

Wednesday, March 10th
1pm - 3pm Snowboard Slopestyle Men’s Elimination
6pm – 7:30pm Skiing SuperPipe Men’s Final

Thursday, March 11th
10am – 12pm Skiing Slopestyle Men’s Elimination
1:30pm – 3pm Snowboard Slopestyle Men’s Final
4:30pm - 5:30pm Snowboard SuperPipe Women’s Final
6:30pm – 8pm Snowboard SuperPipe Men’s Elimination

Friday, March 12th
1:30pm – 3pm Skiing Slopestyle Men’s Final
6pm – 7:30pm Snowboard SuperPipe Men’s Final

For more info visit www.winterxgameseurope.com

Spy would like to thank: No Fear, North County’s House of Motorcycles, Toyota of Escondido, ZERO Motorcycles and Tacos el Unico

Credit: Laax/European Freeski Open

Gusty winds and heavy storms hightailed their way through the European Freeski Open forcing organizers to cancel its March 5^th main freeski event in Laax, Switzerland. Alternatively organizers in the later afternoon unleashed the Stair Rail Battle down in the valley at the rockresort. Despite the last minute change up and harsh elements JF Houle crushed the comp yet again with a nose butter 450 on, pretzel 270 out.

JF has been on fire the past few weeks, also taking first in the L.A. Session at Les Arcs and 3rd at the Austrian Open at the Kitzsteinhorn Mellow Park.

“It’s been a very good trip for me. I can’t ask much more then 3 podiums in 3 weeks!” says JF.

The houligan Houle is alive and chompin‘!

SPY Optic athlete and San Clemente’s free surfing fiend Mike Losness sees Taylor Steele’s newest movie project Innersection.tv as an opportunity to unleash some new footage, promote his sponsors and solidify his reputation amongst the surfing world.

Wasting no time, Mike’s freshly filmed part will be up for voting during the first cycle of Innersection, beginning Monday, March 8th. With only 2 months to film and edit his part, Mike delivered the goods regardless of pressure. Labeling his section “Insurfnia,” Mike brings light to a disease many surfers may find themselves labeled with. To clarify, “Insurfnia” is defined as being plagued by thoughts of surfing, especially at night. Filmed in locales ranging from Bali, El Salvador to Barbados and back, Losness’ case of Insurfnia is clearly diagnosed in his premier part.

Straight from the surfer’s mouth, Mike gives his opinion on Innersection. “It’s going to be one of the biggest websites in surfing. As soon as the first cycle is up on March 8th, who knows? There may be 500 surfers who have uploaded videos, and tons and tons of people are going to watch them. I think it’s a great place to show my surfing talent to the masses.”

Losness has made his mark within the SPY family as a highly regarded free surfer and multi-talented artist, to see what else he’s been talking about, check out spyoptic.com.

We are proud to have Mike in the SPY Optic family and encourage you to view and vote for his video just as we have. To view Mike’s section and secure him a spot in the top 10, go to http://innersection.tv/video/46 and vote for him during the first cycle. Voting is a one week only deal beginning March 8,^th so sign up now and cast your vote!

Ipod’s got the Double Mctwist 12 down from Volcom Europe on Vimeo.

The 14 year old from Santa Barbara known for being one of the premiere west coast rippers and a grom with a never-ending sense of humor, decided to join the blogging world. The “Young Wise Tails” blog site shared with his older brother Conner. www.youngwisetails.com

Parker lives the life that most groms his age dream about. Traveling to dreamy places with unreal waves, grinding out mediocre waves in surf contests leaving with handfuls of trophies while enjoying the company of all the girls that are drawn to him.

Like I said Parker is a funny lad and it’s worth peaking into his life and seeing the world the way he sees it. It will make you laugh and want to be living in his shoes.

Click here to see the site

Stay tuned for Spy’s own Parker’s Place too.

Enjoy!

ROME from Kevin Casillo on Vimeo.

It’s time to make em’ donuts. GO NUTS with SPY’s Duncan Adams! Click on the flyer below and enter to win his sugar-coated, jelly filled, finger lickin’ good, extra frosting on top prize pack compliments of SPY, Dynastar, Spyder, Level Gloves, Breckenridge Ski Resort and Level 1 Productions. Tasty! Just in time for that spring time pow sesh…

SPY CHECKLIST FOR THE TRIP OF LIFETIME:

__Set your swagger back for all the deep fresh pow

__Surfing’ fresh lines with SPY’s Darrell Mathes

__SPY’s Zed snow goggle comes with a FREE bonus lens!

__An adult sized bib (you’re gonna be drooling over the pow lines)

__SPY’s retro-inspired Trevor snow goggle

SPY is taking five retail shop employees and two online consumer winners from all across the US and Canada to the mouth watering, chompin’ at the bit, so amped you can barely contain oneself’s excitement for an all paid expense catskiing trip to Fernie, BC for three days of powder and shred at Powder Cowboy with SPY’s elite team rider, the one and only Darrell Mathes.

Just recently we were giving away Darrell’s Booty prize pack gear giveaway and this time…he’ll be torn off the streets of SLC were he has been filming for the latest VideoGrass Film and will be putting his powder legs on to send it deep for all you folks

Only the chosen SPY’s will be shredding their brains out with the 12 person capacity cat operation that takes you to ride over 6,000 acres of ungroomed and natural terrain that is just waiting to be shredded.

THE CHOSEN ONES

SPY’s snow team manager Kevin Casillo will be leading the charge with his extensive knowledge of backcountry riding and slim fit pants, along with the ever talented good lookin’ Darrell…

GRAND PRIZE winners:

Craig Scholla, Belmont Army, Chicago, IL
Jonathan Royle, MC Sports, Petoskey, MI
Brian Michalss, Comor, Vancouver, BC
Ryan Kirk Larsen, Ski -N See, Taylorsville, UT
Chris Ludwig, Source, Calgary, AB
*Alain Cataniag, Canada Online Winner, Calgary, AB
*Robert Carpenter, US Online Winner, Fresno, CA

*The two lucky winners’ favorite snow/ski/winter scenic photos:

*Canada - Alain’s winning photo shreddin’ the gnar gnar

*US - Robert’s winning photo compliments of TW Snow

Thanks for all your Waist Deep entries. Turn that frown upside down if you weren’t picked! Stay tuned for your chance to win this year’s highly coveted hot seat at SPY’s 8th Annual Boot Camp Contest in July…

Be sure to check out our boy Daryl “Trini” Trinidad, Canadian Marketing Manager, in the MVP (Most Valuable Pencil Pushers) section showing of his pow skills while wearing his favorite “Zed” goggles.

Something a little different to help these guys get through the winter time blues…

POINTLESS mixtape 2 (just some shots) from pointless on Vimeo.

WHITEOUTS 1 from Whiteout Unestablished on Vimeo.

WHITEOUTS 2 from Whiteout Unestablished on Vimeo.

Grant Langston had his best finish of the year with a 7th place. Grant has been getting stronger as the series moves on and looks forward to each and every time he get to race his dirt bike.

Nick Wey finished 8th on the night. Nick will be filling in for Chad Reed on the factory Monster Kawasaki team for one more race in Atlanta this weekend before heading to Daytona.

Tyler Bowers was dominating the majority of the 25-lap main event. However, as the race drew to a close, Demuth put forth one of the most impressive surges to close the gap on his teammate and steal the victory. With the win, Demuth gained another three points on Bowers in the season standings, reducing the deficit to 12 points with five rounds remaining. Bowers held on for second while fellow teammate ,Chad Johnson finished 3rd and helped give Babbitt’s its third podium sweep of the 2010 season.