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Enjoy the very best of the year on snow
Sit down, buckle up and hold on tight for our best of the best snowboard and skiing edit.
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Another year in the world of snowsports is behind us so it's time for our annual roundup of the biggest hits of 2017. Of course, trying to pack highlights from a year's worth of Red Bull Media House productions into just under four minutes of screen time was never going to be easy, but this heavy dose of televisual adrenaline will leave you gagging to see more of where it came from.
Watch the best snow action of 2017 in the video below.
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The best of Snow 2017
Enjoy the best action of Red Bull Snow 2017.
Kicking off with 28 Winters, the Nitro Snowboards retrospective movie, which reminded us of just how crazy the speed of snowboarding's evolution has been and just how much fun it is to slide down a mountain using only snow, gravity, P-Tex and steel edges.
Or how about the new Pirates movie As The Crow Flies, where Gigi Rüf and Elias Elhardt gave their urban game a distinctly Game Of Thrones twist when they shredded a medieval Italian castle? On the progression front, This Is Marcus gave us a glimpse into the mind of Norwegian über prodigy Marcus Kleveland – not to mention a sneak preview of freestyle snowboarding in 2025.
John Jackson catches air in Hakuba
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Meanwhile, Same Difference showed that when it comes to skiing, technique is everything and image is only skin(suit) deep. Ski racer Felix Neureutherand freeskier Sven Kühnle traded POV shots in their respective terrain to deliver one of the most memorable edits of the year. But when it came to minds blown and jaws on the floor, once again Jesper Tjäder took top honours when he pulled the first ever Rail Loop for his part in Supervention II.
Angel Collinson on Alaskan spines
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Finally, if any more proof was needed that the skier vs snowboarder rivalry was dead, Sweet and Sour delivered it, when snowboarder Victor de Le Rue and skier Richard Permin joined forces to provide some of the sickest Alaskan powder sequences ever captured on camera.
Taking the boarder and skier love a step further still, when X Games gold medallists Øystein Bråten and Marcus Kleveland swapped gear for a day in The Switch, the results were a lot less embarrassing than you’d think.
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