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Roxy Refreshments: Trailblazers

Here in Utah today Brighton mountain opens for the first time- unfortunately I can’t make it, but I know Erin Comstock is up there dusting the rust off her edges on their jib line. Hopefully some of you readers are somewhere in the world where you too can enjoy a little early season shredding, even if it means hiking up a local sledding hill. But if you’re still waiting for the snow to start falling, here’s a new video to keep you fired up. The video features a trip we took in March with Snowbaorder Magazine (see the October issue) to a remote area of Northern California that had never been ridden before. Be sure to watch it to the very end, there’s a surprise waiting…
Until next time!
Amber

Sofia Mulanovich Wins Movistar Perú Classic

Sofia quoted as saying, “It doesn’t even feel real that this is happening right now,” Mulanovich said. “I have wanted to win this event for so long, and have always been disappointed. To do it here, in front of my friends and family and in good waves at Lobitos is a dream come true. Viva Peru!”

The final was a battle between Sofia and the two time event winner, Stephanie Gilmore. After a horrible crash the day before, Sofia fought back in the final to take the win. Sofia now sits at third on the 2009 ASP Women’s World Tour ratings

Another Roxy surfer, Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), 18, 2009 ASP Dream Tour rookie, matched her best result of the year with an equal 3rd at the Movistar Peru Classic. Arguably one of the most in-tune performers at Lobitos, Fitzgibbons lost a nail-biter Semifinal to eventual winner Mulanovich.

For the full story visit: http://www.surfersvillage.com/surfing/43945/surf-news.htm

Roxy Rools OK, Saas Fee

The Roxy European snow team have been training and competing in Saas Fee Switzerland, officially kicking off the 09/10 season in the best way possible with an outstanding win from Torah Bright in the World Cup half pipe event held last Thursday.  Torah competed alongside fellow Roxy team mates including Lisa Wiik from Norway, Kendal Brown from New Zealand, Paulina Ligoska from Poland, Alyona Alenka from Russia, Mirabelle Thovex from France and Lesley Mckenna from the UK. Mirabelle was next best of the Roxy girls on the day with a career best result of 5th place and Paulina followed close on her heals with a notable 7th place. Mirabelle has gone from strength to strength this last season and it is great to see all her hard work paying off. Torah took the win with a Cai Xuetong from China in second and Sophie Rodriguez in third.Torah's win concluded a month of Roxy activity in the pretty little alpine resort of Saas Fee.

Lisa in the World Cup pipe

The month started off with the Roxy Future Team camp, a yearly camp for the up and coming Roxy team riders hosted by the Hotel Dom and Saas Fee and led by Roxy coach Lesley McKenna. The Future camp went really well with the riders all pushing one another and building some strong foundations for the coming months in the form of new tricks and renewed team spirit. Roxy new addition Enni Rukajarvi from Finland definitely made a great first impression with her smooth skills in the pipe and on the kickers. The Roxy Team welcomes Enni and looks forward to many happy days shredding with her.

Enni in action in the pipe.

As well as ruling on the snow the Roxy Team were to be found representing all over town no matter the occasion. Team riders were even to be spotted among the undead of Halloween, although the Roxy ghosts seemed pretty familiar and very friendly......

the unidentifiable? Roxy Team ghosts

The month of October actually kicked off for the Roxy Team before getting on the glacier in Saas Fee with the announcement that Lisa Wiik won the much coveted Female Snowboarder of the Year in Norway. The award was given for all the amazing results Lisa got last season including her TTR 3rd place and her BEO slopestyle win. We are extremely proud of Lisa and are all looking forward to more great riding from her this coming season.

Lisa with her well deserved award.

The Roxy Team are now heading all over the place as they all start their season proper. Some of the riders are heading to the Pleasure Jam in Austria next week while some others are heading to Colorado at the end of the month for some training and the Dew Tour competition. We are all stoked to have been able to catch up with as many of the riders as possible in Saas Fee and are all very much looking forward to the Chicken Jam in Austria at the start of Jan where we will all get to meet up again. Until then we will keep you posted of our progress and our travels.

Lesley

Torah Bright qualified for Olympics !

Torah Bright won the World Cup in Saas Fee 

 She is now qualified for Olympics!

Mirabelle Thovex ended up with a great 5th place! She seems to be on a good way for the games! 

The french team will be selected in January.

Paulina Ligocka ended up with 7t place, and is now also closer to a starting spot at the Vancouver Olympics in February. 

Rosie Hodge Surf movie

Torah Bright: The "Fright" Edition

Roxy's Halloween special! Team Rider Torah Bright is talking us through her new pro model series when thing start to get Scary! Not one for the faint hearted!

Introducing the Refreshments – Our New Snow and Ski Podcasts!

Hi everybody! This is Amber Stackhouse from the snowboard team. I woke up this morning to fresh snow in the mountains here in Salt Lake City, so if that’s any indication, it looks like it’s going to be a good snow season. While I’m not ready to say goodbye to summer weather just yet, I’m definitely looking forward to playing on my snowboard soon.

So in honor of winter’s early arrival, here’s a teaser for the new Refreshments snow team video series we have. Refreshments will be dropping all season long starting in November, featuring the likes of Torah Bright, Erin Comstock, myself, and Kjersti Buaas, as well a new batch of rising Roxy stars.

I helped make the videos, so if you have any questions or comments I can personally answer them for you.

Enjoy the show!

Click to subscribe to Roxy Refreshments (our new snow podcasts for this season!)

News from Angela Peral

 

 

Hello, 

At this moment I´m training in Brazil (Cumbuco). Every year I come a month to train and to do one of the stops of the PKRA world tour but this year the  competition was canceld so I am doing some reports and videos, also im training for the last competition that will be in New Caledonia on November 24.

Angela

Onboard of the Belem...

Hello all!

I am just back from a great weekend in St Nazaire with ROXY and the Roxy Boys, taking part in the festivities at the start of the Solidaire du Chocolate double-handed transat race for the Class 40s.

We went out sailing - great weather, albeit a bit light wind - both days with some great guests. We also got a personal guided tour of the great square rigger the "Belem" who was there to celebrate the race too (she was originally a chocolate-carrying ship!)

Personally it is an emotional weekend, as this was my last sail on board Roxy as she is now up for sale and I have no more opportuities to sail her. I spent a little moment alone at the chart table remembering all the great times I have had sailing Roxy and I hope she will find a new skipper very soon....

I can't be too sad though as my time with Roxy was AMAZING and now I am already skippering my new "machine" ARTEMIS and thoroughly enjoying it! The Transat Jacques Vabre Race is coming up too quickly. Tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday are our last official training days before finishing the last race preparations....

More news from training ASAP as long as I'm not too tired to tap on my keyboard!

S x

Roxy Snow Team back in action

Some of the junior members of the Roxy snow team have been in Saas Fee this last week on the annual Roxy Snow training camp. 11 Riders in all joined Roxy coach Lesley McKenna for a fun packed week of training and off snow workshops. As well as learning new skills on the mountain the girls got to grips with a bit of media training and goal setting as well as plenty of dryland training and yoga. The girls based themselves in the Hotel Dom as usual and, as ever were made to feel extremely welcome there. They made the most of the great park and pipe in Saas Fee as well as the skate park and playing fields.

Britte making use of the skate park in Saas Fee.

The weather was not epic all week however and we lost a couple of days due to wind. We made the most of the lovely scenery though and took a treck up to the Hannegg side of the valley. Here are the girls high above the Saas Fee village.

The Roxy Snow team will soon be back in action in the first contests of the Northern Hemisphere winter. Many of the girls will compete in Saas Fee in either the Europa Cup or the World Cup in the next few weeks. We will keep you posted of their progress.

Lesley