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Rigas Bende freeski team today
all Rigas Bende guys on a podium
Today Rigas Bende freeski team is well known across Latvia and it's neighbor countries - Estonia and Lithuania and already spreading it's name all across Europe. How we started - read it HERE!
Rigas Bende has brought a real freestyle skiing in Latvia - street sessions, pro level tricks, new style - more people in Latvia joining freestyle skiing rather than snowboarding over the past year.
We are not anymore just a bunch of guys who enjoy skiing - now it's our lifestyle. Our goals are simple - more tricks, more style, more high quality videos and top results in any event we attend - we will not stop at anything. Broken bones, no cash, no job - we don't care - we stand up each time we fall and we do it again and again till we succeed. Winter Olympics 2014 - you will see us there :)
Rigas Bende has brought a real freestyle skiing in Latvia - street sessions, pro level tricks, new style - more people in Latvia joining freestyle skiing rather than snowboarding over the past year.
We are not anymore just a bunch of guys who enjoy skiing - now it's our lifestyle. Our goals are simple - more tricks, more style, more high quality videos and top results in any event we attend - we will not stop at anything. Broken bones, no cash, no job - we don't care - we stand up each time we fall and we do it again and again till we succeed. Winter Olympics 2014 - you will see us there :)
Publicity
Photo shoot for the magazine 'Sestdiena'
People like what we do, it's easy to tell it because our videos sometimes score higher view count than many local musicians do! We receive many invites to rail jams and shows all around Baltic states - people want to see us perform and we love to do it for them and for us! We have been invited to film in a full time movies produced by the most famous producer in Latvia Laila Pakalniņa, we even got the main roles. We have a long lasting friendship with the best extreme sports photographer in Latvia - Juris Zariņš - www.jzfoto.lv. Videos and pictures of us appear in major Latvian news web sites and even magazines.
Rigas Bende as a brand already has it's place in Latvia and Baltics - now we are going to Europe.
Rigas Bende as a brand already has it's place in Latvia and Baltics - now we are going to Europe.
Achievements and future plans
Škoda Yeti Best Trick
We have already made a record in Latvia's freeskiing history by being the first skiers to participate in an international freeski competitions and showing great results - in March of 2010 Rigas Bende went to Italy, Livigno - Škoda Yeti Freeski series and showed the best - Reinis scored 5th place, Edis got 9th place, Pauls 10th and Karlis 11th. Only a misfortune of detached ski on the jump stoped Reinis from winning this competition. Also a big achievement for Reinis, Edis and Pauls a few years ago when they took part in Red Bull Whiteout in Tallin, Estonia and got 2nd place. Reinis is undisputable 2 times Latvian freeski cup winner.
In year 2011 Rigas Bende was heard once more in Italy where Reinis won the Rossignol Slopestyle comps in Bormio. Rigas Bende won indisputably in all 3 stages of Jibbers.org Baltics freeski video contest. With no surprise Rigas Bende riders scored 2nd in Estonian Slopestyle champs, won Latvian slopestyle and bigair champ.
Our goals for season 2011/2012 are really high - we will participate in as many PRO events as possible including Kaunertal Opening, London Freeze, Stochkolm King of Style, World Junior Freestyle Skiing Championships and other:
- 14-16.October - 26th Kaunertal Opening, Austria, PRO event - slopestyle and railjam
- 17-20.October - training camp in Stubai Gletscher, Austria
- 20-23.October - Stubai Premiere, Austria - snowpark opening and railjam
- 24-28.October - training camp in Bispingen indoor snowpark, Germany
- 29.October - London Freeze, participating
- 19-20.November - King of Style, Stockholm, participating
- 10-24.December - training camp in Livigno, Italy and Val di Sole, Italy
- 15-17.December - SFR Tour, Val Thorens France - slopestyle PRO event
- 25.December - Sedrun Bigair, Swiss - bigair competition
- 28. January - Polish Open - Polish Bigair Championships
- January - March - Ride in Baltics, freeski tour in 10 stages around Baltic states
- February - Czech Open - Czech Bigair Championships
- 19-26.March - FIS Freestyle Junior World Ski Championships 2012, Valmalenco, Italy
- 26-31.March - training camp in Val di Sole, Italy
- + more events, rail jams, shows and competitions
Videos and friends
Rigas Bende has a long friendship with one of the best Latvia's freeski movies editor - Kaspars Ozoliņš - he owns a freeski related website - freeskiinglv.wordpress.com. One of our best friends is Janis Kundzins who owns the biggest indoor skatepark in Latvia - www.monsterparks.lv
OLD VIDEOS HERE!
OLD VIDEOS HERE!
Videos season 2010/2011
