The Roxy Refreshments are back and better than ever!  Here’s a sneak peak of things to come.  The 2011/12 Refreshments web video series will follow the winter adventures of the Roxy snow team, including Torah Bright, Sarah Burke, Robin Van Gyn, Erin Comstock, and more.  Stayed tuned every other Tuesday for more escapades on ice.

Calling all snowboard girls! Roxy has joined forces with the popular snowboard website YoBeat, to run a snowboard contest completely online. Over the next 5 weeks we are giving away tons of prizes to girls who send us their best snowboard moves on video. The first 25 entries will receive a free Roxy beanie and Roxy Tshirt, just for playing. The best video each week will be featured on YoBeat and Roxy.com receive a full Roxy outerwear kit. Then, on April 5, 2011, the top entry will receive $1000, a full Roxy hardgoods kit, Roxy outerwear, and the honor of being the overall Shooting Star champ!

Here’s how it works: Submit your videos now and then a panel of judges, including snowboard video star and Roxy team rider, Erin Comstock, will review the footage and select a winning rider every week from February 28th to April 4th. On April 5th we’ll crown the overall Shooting Star champ and give her $1,000 in cash, a Roxy snowboard and binding set up, and a full Roxy outerwear kit.

The first 25 entries get a free Roxy beanie and Roxy tee, so enter today and shoot your way to snowboard stardom!

Register here now http://www.yobeat.com/shootingstar/

In this latest installment of the Roxy Refreshments follow Robin Van Gyn, Erin Comstock and friends deep into the mountains of Silverton, Colorado. It’s a wintertime mecca for deep snow with a lawless old west charm that makes it arguably the most legit mountain town in the US- but beware, it is not for the faint of heart. A trip to Silverton involves braving a narrow road with no guardrail and a 2,000 foot vertical drop-off, mingling with the kind of suspect characters that wind up in hard to reach places, and the occasional run ins with wildlife. So if you have an adventurous spirit and enjoy snowy getaways, add Silverton, Colorado to your list of must tries, and if not, just watch this video and see what you’re missing.

I rolled out of Salt Lake City Wednesday afternoon, headed to the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado. After struggling through a snowstorm and too many close calls on the slippery roads, I had to play it safe and get a hotel in Grand Junction for the night. Thursday morning the skies and roads had cleared as I cruised into Aspen just in time to witness the best women’s skiing slopestyle event I’ve ever seen. Last year was the first time the X Games gave the skier girls a chance to compete in slopestyle (even though it’s their best event) but sadly the girls had to ride during a blizzard which kept them from really showing their stuff. This year both the women and the sun came out shining. The girls threw down powerful runs with loads of 540s, switch 720s, and 900s.

Roxy’s own Sarah Burke pushed X Games organizers for years to get a women’s skiing slopestyle event, in last years snowstorm-slopestyle she broke her back (literally) trying to prove the girls had a right to be there, and this year she pushed women’s skiing even farther, trying a 1260 on the Moneybooter (I’m pretty sure this is the highest rotation any woman in action sports has ever tried in competition!). Big props to Sarah and all the girls for such an impressive performance. And in case you missed the action, see it here at ESPN360.
Later in the day as the sun was setting the women’s snowboard superpipe qualifiers were just getting started. Roxy rider and reigning X Games superpipe champ, Torah Bright, opted out of this year’s competition due to an injury, but our Norwegian shredders, Lisa Wiik and Kjersti Buaas, threw down some strong runs. New this year are chips in competitor’s bibs that measure amplitude and speed (so futuristic!), so I can say for certain that the likes of Kjersti and Kelly Clark were consistently going more than 12 feet out. Unfortunately, both Kjersti and Lisa had some wobbles that kept them from advancing to finals. Good job to all the competitors- I was stoked to see so many grabbed stylish spins, technical flips, cab 9’s and huge airs!

Stay tuned for more as tonight Sarah must protect her X Games superpipe crown, and tomorrow Kjersti and Lisa get their chance in the slopestyle course.

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!

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