Featured Picture: Emil Brandt | Skier: Jesper Tjäder
Summer season snowboarding can change relying on the place you roam. From Mount Hood to Woodward Copper, sliding rails and discovering jumps within the warmth of June means sourcing out the remaining snow and attending to work. In Copenhagen, Denmark, nonetheless, it means one thing fully totally different. CopenHill is a revolutionary ski space constructed within the nation’s capital metropolis which turned a waste-to-energy energy plant right into a recreation paradise. That includes climbing, working, and naturally, snowboarding, it’s a beacon of innovation bringing Slopestyle snowboarding into a brand new period. By inserting rails and jumps all through the inexperienced astroturf-covered slope, the workforce at CopenHill has created a viable solution to ski year-round. You might have heard of this engineering marvel prior to now, and this summer season, it’s again within the freeskiing highlight.
On June eighth, 2024, the Scandinavian Group Battle will as soon as once more descend on CopenHill. It’s an epic occasion that attracts a packed crowd of stoked spectators excited to see each stomps and tumbles. Be warned, there are many every. Divided into 5 groups of two skiers, it’s a real battle for the North on the world’s largest dry-slope competitors.
There might be groups from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Innsbruck. Snowboarding the course as a pair is required. The judges will search for caliber of tips, however greater than that, they usually reward, “creativity, large sends and normal crowd-pleasers,” in keeping with the official press launch. From tandem flips to elevated rails, we’ve seen loads of distinctive sends prior to now. Jesper Tjäder and Emil Granbom from Group Sweden might be again for his or her fourth 12 months, and as defending champs, they’ll be trying to safe one other title.
🇸🇪 TEAM SWEDEN: Jesper Tjäder & Emil Granbom
🇳🇴 TEAM NORWAY: Johan Berg & Mikkel BK
🇩🇰 TEAM DENMARK: Jakob Ebskamp & Isabella Tvede
🇫🇮 TEAM FINLAND: Harald Hellström & Elias Syrja
🇦🇹 TEAM INNSBRUCK: Lisa Zimmerman & Tereza Korábová
“I couldn’t be extra stoked to as soon as once more host such superb skiers in my house metropolis to ski plastic in the summertime solar! I consider this 12 months’s occasion would be the greatest one but and I can’t wait to see all of it unfold.” – Jakob Ebskamp, Occasion organizer and skier on TEAM DENMARK
The Group Battle has supplied some insanely artistic snowboarding prior to now, and we hope for extra of the identical. The malleability of the course is one thing that makes it so enjoyable and separates it from what a traditional Slopestyle course permits. Plus, as a lot as all of us love deep snow and bitterly chilly mornings, snowboarding in the summertime sunshine simply brings a unique ambiance, and we’re all right here for it. As we prepare for the subsequent version of snowboarding’s favourite Scandinavian throw-down, have a look by the immersive photograph gallery beneath consisting of pictures from years previous. Control FREESKIER this weekend as we carry you the motion from Denmark.
Photos by Emil Brandt & Jesper Grønnemark
