Nate Wood shows us the only way you should start your season, with over-the-head pow and a pair of S7's.  Nice Job Nate!

Time to vote for Team Rossi, nothing but the best!

Mike Hopkins shows us how his "off-season" is really an "on season" pursuing a career as a professional mountain biker!

Alts Bandai Resort, JPN

The FIS Freestyle World Championships Halfpipe event happens once
every 2 years, and this year it took place in Japan.

Rossignol was well represented by Rosalind Groenewoud (CAN), Kevin
Rolland (FRA), Xavier Bertoni (FRA), David Wise (USA), Vivien Thiery
(FRA) and Nathan Wood (CAN).

Mens final results
1 - Kevin Rolland ROSSIGNOL
2 - Justin Dorey
3 - Xavier Bertoni ROSSIGNOL
4 - David Wise ROSSIGNOL

Austin Ross sessions the park as a final warm-up before shipping off to China and gives a little on-lift insight about growing up in Whistler.

Here is some slopestyle in aspen From Chris and Parker filmed by Duncan Lake himself. Aspen Open Slopestyle from rossignol on Vimeo. Video now appears in the full article.

We've been cranking in the edit room to pull together an edit from Nathan Wood and David Wise at the Aspen Open last weekend. Enjoy.

Here check it January pow edit from the Montage Crew.

http://www.vimeo.com/3170608 Here check it out man, One day with Parker white speaking third person in main park

David Wise wins Aspen Open Half Pipe

The Aspen Open is a special event as it’s the only real open to happen in North America this year and takes place on the same course as X games which was 2 weeks prior, attracting the sports best fresh talent. The young kids have all the tricks with tons of style and many of the competitive runs from both the pipe and slopestyle course could have easily podiumed with the big names at X.