Categoria: World Rookie Tour

WRT 2023 Champs William Bostadloekken (ski) Daisy Thomas (ski) and Chaeun Lee (snowboard) were in Schilthorn for the incredible Swatch Nines 2023, one of the most prestigious events on the planet. Black Yeti offered them invitations to this iconic event, a once-in-lifetime opportunity to jump into the professional world of snowboarding and freeskiing.

Over 60 athletes participated in this multi-disciplinary meeting: skiers, snowboarders, skateboarders and bikers.

The event saw the participation not only of the 2023 WRT Champs, but also others former rookies were in the riders list, such as:

– the MVPs of the Swatch Nines 2023 Fridtjof Tischendorf (WRT Grom Champ in 2011)

– Mia Brooks (WRT Champ in 2022)

– Kirsty Muir (WRT podium in 2018)

– Hiroto Ogiwara (WRT Champ in 2021 and 2022)

– Kuba Hrones (WRT podium in 2022)

Watch out the official event highlight where all our WRT rider are featured here:

 

 

Evy Poppe World Rookie Snowboard Champions 2021, winner at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games and the Junior World Champs 2021! She is definitely working hard to become one of the beste freestyle snowboarders from the Benelux! Good job Evy, Black Yeti is proud of you!

Unfortunately bad news from Italy. Kronplatz Rookie Fest 2023, scheduled for 3rd and 4th March, is cancelled. Hope to see again nex year the Black Yeti shredding there!

 

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World Rookie Fest 2023 went down at the Mottolino Snowpark, with more than 180 riders came to Livigno to live one of their best experiences of their life.

It was a week full of tricks, fun and adrenaline in Livigno! New and old friends gathered to celebrate their passion for snowboarding and freeskiing.

Take your time and watch the video highlights from World Rookie Fest 2023, the 18^th edition!

 

Report World Rookie Fest 2023 – Snowboard
Report World Rookie Fest 2023 – Freeski

Video report by Silvio Ottonello, Federico Romanello, Daniele Teodorosi

Black Yeti is proud to deliver on-line the TV Show from the 2022 World Rookie Tour: enjoy a unique journey across the globe to find and support the future start of snowboarding and freesking. Riders from all over the world meet, compete and had fun all over and were awarded with incredible opportunities to enter the professional snowboard and freeski community: ticket to pro-events and a memorable training week at the legendary Prime Park Session.

Check out the latest chapter from the World Rookie Tour snowboard & freeski saga: the future was here, it is still here, and will be here!

Filmed and edited by Andreas Monsberger, Silvio Ottonello, Federico Romanello, Maurino Castellani, Daniele Teodorosi and more contributors.

For Snowboard and Freeski Calendar, please check the last online version here.

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Black Yeti wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy conclusion to 2022! How does it do it? Of course, shredding in snowpark with his friends! Watch here the WRT Black Yeti at the Ursus Snowpark in Madonna di Campiglio.

We are here not just for greetings; we have two important news to share with you: the new World Rookie Freeski Ranking and the confirmation of the Freeski Big Finals.

World Rookie Ranking Freeski
We are seriously working on Freeski Rookie Rank as qualifying criteria for the World Rookie Freeski Finals, on the same basis of the World Rookie Tour Snowboard rules. More info will be available soon. Stay tuned on the WRT Ranking Page here, the World Rookie Ranking Freeski is on its way!

World Rookie Freeski Final 2023 in Madonna di Campiglio is 100% Confirmed!
Not to be misunderstood, on the FIS Calendar you may read “Cancelled” just because it is not a FIS event anymore. See you in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, from 26 to 30 March 2023. If your dream is to start a professional freeski carrier, then the World Rookie Tour is the places to be!

Countdown to World Rookie Fest Livigno
So, while the Black Yeti is celebrating the winter season with a special Santa Claus session, all the rookies can pack their board bags and organize their trips to the World Rookie Fest in in Livigno, Italy. From 14 to 20 January 2023 young snowboarders and freeskiers from all over the world are welcome to the legendary, oldest and larger World Rookie Tour event.

See you on the slopes rookies, we can’t wait!

Black Yeti calls the next generation of pros to the largest Snowboard and Freeski youth global tour

Save the dates for the 2023 WRT Calendar, including the Big Snowboard and Freeski Finals: take a look at where and when the stars of the future will be fighting it out!

The first stop will kick off in the middle of the Alps, from January the 14^th until January the 21^st, in Livigno (ITA), for the World Rookie Fest 18th edition. After the traditional launching event in Italy, then Black Yeti will stretch through hitting some of the best ski resorts all over the world.

We will land in USA, for the US Grom Fest and we’ll come back in East Europe for two Romanian stops: Maramures Rookie Fest and Sinaia Rookie Fest. And again will go in France to the French Kiss Rookie Tour (Font Romeu resort), to the Hellas Rookie Fest in Greece, Borovets Rookie Fest in Bulgaria, Hungarian Rookie Fest (HUN), QKLS Rookie Fest (FIN), Innsbruck Rookie Fest (AUT), the brand new Schilthorn Rookie Fest (SUI), Kronplatz Rookie Fest (ITA) and the Asian qualifier, the iconic Indy Park Rookie Fest (JPN).

The last stops of the year will take us straight to the Big Finals, in order to awards the new World Rookie and Grom Champions. World Rookie Snowboard Finals will be again in Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun/Zell am See, Austria, from 19 to 25 March 2023, and the World Rookie Freeski Finals will back again in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, from 26 to 30 March 2023.

As every year, the World Rookie Tour will attract the best young snowboarders and freeskiers of the world, to compete for the World Rookie Champions titles and gain incredible prizes such as invitation to world-class events, Red Bull Special Experience and much more prizes which will support our champions’ carrier.

If your dream is to jump in the professional sport community, then the World Rookie Tour is the places to be: join the Black Yeti force for the best winter experience of your life!

For Snowboard and Freeski Calendar, please check the last online version here.

Registrations and Information:
registration@worldrookietour.com
Phone +39 059.9783397
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If you dream to become a professional action sport athlete,
then your future starts from the World Rookie Tour!

FUEL TV brings the world’s greatest young snowboarding and freeski riders in the world
to your screen

As part of an ongoing partnership with the much-celebrated World Rookie Tour, on December 17^th FUEL TV will proudly present the WRT 2022 Snowboard & Ski highlights, gathering the season’s raddest moves and lines, as performed during this one-of-a-kind event.

Following the successful live broadcast of the World Rookie Skateboard Finals, last September in Innsbruck, Austria, now it’s time to stay tuned on FUEL TV and enjoy the action that took place during the exciting freeski and snowboard finals, respectively disputed in Madonna de Campiglio, Italy, and Kitzsteinhorn Zell am See-Kaprun, Austria, in an unprecedented display of raw skills by the most talented young men and women in the world.

Organized by Black Yeti in collaboration with World Snowboard Federation, the World Rookie Tour is the largest and longest-running youth international action sports series in the world, gathering more than 3.000 under-18 riders in snowboarding, freeskiing, skateboarding and surfing, coming from over 30 countries, who aim at transforming their passion into a professional career.

As the only channel focused exclusively on action sports and available in more than 100 countries, FUEL TV is the natural partner to a competition that nurtures and promotes the ambitions of the most naturally gifted and determined riders out there. The partnership between FUEL TV and Black Yeti allows all the young shredders to achieve important goals also on a communicative level. After all, FUEL TV is where the rookies of present day will grow to become the stars of tomorrow.

“It´s great to have another partner which helps us to give the kids a stage where they can show their skills to a bigger audience. I hope we can go on for next with this cooperation for the coming years.” Stated Meinhard Trojer, WRT co-founder

“In such a important period, when action sports are becoming an established part of the world mainstream sports arena, we feel the obligation to help grow the new generations of world class athletes” said FUEL’s Head of Marketing Paulo Alves. “As the global home of action sports, I consider it’s only natural that FUEL TV is a key broadcast partner for WRT,”

Now it’s time to shred with the Black Yeti, don’t miss the chance to live the World Rookie Tour experience through FUEL TV, the main action sport broadcast platform in the world.

And it all starts right here, right now!

Find FUEL TV

For Snowboard, Freeski and Skateboard WRT Calendar, please check the last online version here.

New Program for Livigno WRF – First European events confirmed – Finals Reminder

UPDATED PROGRAM FOR WORLD ROOKIE FEST IN LIVIGNO, ITALY
Black Yeti has some fresh news about the World Rookie Fest 2023 that will take place in Livigno, at the legendary Mottolino Snowpark. No changes to the snowboarders’ program, with the event confirmed from 14 to 18 January 2023.

To the freeskiers side, we have an important communication to do: Livigno World Rookie Fest Freeski program changed a bit and the event will be completed by January the 20^th, in order to facilitate transfer from Livigno to the EYOF (European Youth Olympic Festival scheduled from 21 January 2023 in Friuli Venezia Giulia).  Take the opportunity to live two of the most important events in Europe!

Please read the program online here

DOWNLOAD HERE INFO SHEET AND REGISTRATION FORM

WINTER SEASON: FIRST EU EVENTS CONFIRMED
World Rookie Tour staff are excited about the new winter season. We are working on new calendar for 2023 season but we give you some preview. Confirmed in Romania: Maramures Rookie Fest (from 26 to 29 January 2023) and the new Sinaia Rookie Fest 2023 (23-26 February 2023), both snowboard and freeski slopestyle.

To stay update, please check the calendar online version here.

WORLD ROOKIE SNOWBOARD AND FREESKI FINALS 2023
If you haven’t done it yet, save the dates for the Big Finals of the World Rookie Tour 2023! Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun and Madonna di Campiglio will host the best rookies of the 2023 WRT season. Don’t miss the chance to be the new World Rookie Snowboard and Freeski Champion! The appointment is in Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun/Zell am See from 19 to 25 March 2023 for the World Rookie Snowboard Finals and in Madonna di Campiglio from 26 to 30 March 2023, for the World Rookie Freeski Finals. Read the news online here.

Registrations and information:
registration@worldrookietour.com
Phone +39 059.9783397 or +39.340.3285569

All tour events, including the finals, will follow all future directives on Covid19 prevention, to ensure the safety of riders, coaches, companions and staff.

For Snowboard, Freeski and Skateboard Calendar, please check the last online version here.

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If you dream to become a professional action sport athlete,
then your future starts from the World Rookie Tour! 

Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun and Madonna di Campiglio will host the best rookies of the 2023 WRT season

Maybe it’s still early, but the Black Yeti wants to allow you to mark the dates of the most important youth events of the winter season: all the rookie tour crew will be back once again in Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun/Zell am See in Austria, from 19 to 25 March 2023, for World Rookie Snowboard Finals and to Madonna di Campiglio in Italy, from 26 to 30 March 2023, for the World Rookie Freeski Finals.

The WRT Finals will attract once again the best young snowboarders and freeskiers from the World Rookie Tour qualifying events to compete for the 2023 World Rookie Freeski Champion title and incredible prizes such as invitation to world class events, Red Bull Special Experience and much more.

Also, the kick-off and oldest event of the 2023 WRT, the legendary World Rookie Fest in Livigno, Italy, confirmed its 18^th edition from January the 14^th until January the 21^st 2023. The event will be open to both snowboarders (14-18 January) and freeskiers (18-21 January) and will offer also a special training week in the premium Mottolino Snowpark, long time partner of the Black Yeti.

If your dream is to start a professional snowboard carrier, then the World Rookie Tour is the places to be!

Registrations and Information:
registration@worldrookietour.com
Phone +39 059.9783397

For Snowboard, Freeski and Skateboard Calendar, please check the last online version here.

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The best rookies on their way to Innsbruck to the Finals, from 30 September to 2nd October

How many kilometres Black Yeti does it in a season? We reliably don’t know. Honestly, we are just glad to have all these young passionate skaters competing and shredding together. This would therefore appear to be a good point to take stock of the situation.

European Updates
Black Yeti has already been in Romania, Bulgaria, Finland and Germany, and now, before the Big Finals in Innsbruck, Austria, it’s about to land in Switzerland (Winterthur 2.3 September), UK (Manchester 17.18 September), Romania again (Cluj Napoca 8.11 September), Portugal (Lisbon 9 September), Italy (Modena 17.18 September), Greece (Athen 23.24 September) and Czech Republic (Prague 23.25 September).

News from Asia
Unfortunately, Japan Rookie Fest is not confirmed but don’t worry because Black Yeti will land for the first time in South East Asia, precisely in Phnom Penh for the Cambodia Rookie Fest. On the 28th august, the contest will take place at the Factory Phnom Peng Skatepark. Expected live DJs, special world food and drink to make this day a memorable one! More info available at this link.

So, World Rookie Tour Skateboarding 2022 is on fire.
Check the online calendar here and find the next World Rookie Tour event!

The way to crown the World Rookie Skateboard Champion is marked.

 

Graystone, UK

Black Yeti is sad to announce the cancellation of the Japanes WRT Sk8 Qualifier for 2022. Due to difficult economical situation the local organizing committe didn’t find enough financial support from local partners in order to run the event as planned but we promise to come back in the land of Samurai in 2023 with skateboard and snowboard events.

Never stop surprising: an exciting new partnership between Black Yeti and FUEL TV!

World Rookie Tour and FUEL TV announce a new partnership: the most important action sports junior tour and the Global Home of Action Sports media platform will join forces to go to the next level.

FUEL TV is the only channel focused exclusively on the action sports and is available in more than 100 countries around the world. On the World Rookie Tour side, the claim is clear: “If you dream to become a professional action sport athlete, then your future starts from the World Rookie Tour!”. The partnership between Black Yeti and FUEL TV will allow all the young shredders to achieve important goals also on a new communicative level.

The partnership will kick off at the upcoming World Rookie Skateboard Final that will take place in Innsbruck, Austria, at the Skatehalle Skatepark, from the 30^th September to the 2^nd October 2022. The event will gather in Tirol’s Capital city, skateboarders from all over, who got their spot for the finals at this year WRT Sk8 Qualifying events. A high-level of skateboarding is expected, and FUEL TV will support the communication of the event and the distribution of the live-streaming signal from the finals.

This will be only the first of many media project which will be developed in conjunction between WRT and FUEL TV.

“We are excited about the partnership with FUEL TV, one of the very first and older media in the action sport community.” Stated Marco Sampaoli, WRT media manager and co-founder “Our rookies will be stoked to watch WRT contents on the FuelTV platform, and we were looking exactly for a partner like FuelTV to broadcast many stories and behind the scenes from the Black Yeti saga.”

“As the global home of action sports, I believe it’s only natural that FUEL TV is a key broadcast partner for WRT,” said FUEL’s CRO Filipe Castilho. “In such a crucial time, when action sports are becoming an established part of the world mainstream sports arena, we feel the responsibility to help grow the new generations of world class athletes”

Now it’s time to shred with the Black Yeti, don’t miss the chance to live the World Rookie Tour experience through FUEL TV, the main action sport broadcast platform in the world.

Find FUEL TV

For complete Skateboard Calendar 2022, please check the last online version here.

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Facebook: www.facebook.com/worldrookietour
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ABOUT THE WORLD ROOKIE TOUR
The World Rookie Tour is organized by the Black Yeti ssrl in collaboration with World Snowboard Federation, National Snowboard, Ski and Skateboard Associations, and selected action sports agencies. It was born in 2005 as a series of youth snowboard events and it consists now of a selection of high-quality International events for snowboard, Freeski, Skateboard and Surf, the so-called “Rookie Fests”, reserved for riders under 18’s only, in Europe, North and South America, Oceania and Asia. The World Rookie Tour consists not only of competitions: it also features loads of other activities to help rookies to grow in the field of professional action sports, such as photo & video shootings, avalanche, and rescue clinics, meetings with photographers, and international team managers, parties and English talks. Since year zero, it awards tickets to world-class events such as X Games Norway, Audi Nines, The Arctic Challenge, The Air & Style, The World Snowboarding Championships, Red Bull Roller Coaster, Simple Session, Mystic Sk8 Cup, invitations to professional photo & video shootings, and shooting trip all around the world. Every year the tour crowns the World Rookie Champions at the end of the season, during the World Rookie Finals, a unique event format where the best youngsters from almost 30 countries compete and have fun. More information at www.worldrookietour.com.

ABOUT BLACK YETI ssd
The Black Yeti is an amateur sports club dedicated to the realization of Snowboard, Freeski, Skateboard and Surf projects for boys and girls up to 18 years of age, at international level. One of the most successful projects is the World Rookie Tour, the biggest and the most famous tour in the action sports world that attracts 3.000 young athletes from 30 nations to the events called “Rookie Fest”, organized all over the world: Italy, Europe, North and South America, Oceania and Asia. The Rookie Fests program includes not only the competition but also many side activities such as avalanche and rescue clinics, workshops, and English talks.

ABOUT FUEL TV
Founded in 2003, FUEL TV is the global home of action sports on television. Available in more than 100 countries around the world, FUEL TV is the only channel focused exclusively on the sports, culture and lifestyles of Surfing, Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Free Skiing, BMX and MTB, and the art, music and fashion that define them. FUEL TV is available as a Free Advertising-supported Streaming Television (FAsST) channel in key territories, and as a global premium Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVOD) service called FUEL TV+. Headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, FUEL TV has offices in Los Angeles, Miami, São Paulo, Beijing, Melbourne and for more visit www.fuel.tv

World Rookie Tour Media Manager
Marco Sampaoli – marco@moonsrl.it – Tel +39.059.9783397 or +39.340.328.55.69

World Rookie Tour Event Coordinator
Meinhard Trojer – meinhardtrojer@powdern.com – Tel +43.650.56.37.424

FUEL TV
Paulo Alves – paulo@fuel.tv – Tel +351.969.363.070

Black Yeti is excited to release the video report from the special experience organized with some of our top WRT Skaters at one of the most iconic skate events in the world. Thanks to the collaboration between World Rookie Tour and Mystic Sk8 Cup, skaters lived one of the best experiences in their life, directly in contact with the professional skateboarding.

From WRT Zoe Van Essen (NED), Liv Broder (SUI), Aoi Ishimaru (JPN), Raimu Sasaki (JPN), Noel Scharer (SUI), Santino Exenberger (AUT), Fin Broder (SUI), Rocco Muller (SUI) and Kris Havaux (AUT), all of them took the opportunity to participate in this trip and compete in a professional competition, challenging with many big names from the international skateboarding scene.

The Black Yeti is so proud of its young champions!

Watch the video report of this fantastic experience:

Footage and Editing: Federico Romanello

For complete Skateboard Calendar 2022, please check the last online version here.

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From WRT to the Simple Session: Toa Sasaki rock it!

Thanks to the World Rookie Tour collaboration with the Simple Session, WRT Grom Champion Toa Sasaki from Japan was invited to the legendary Skate & Bmx event hosted annually in Tallin, Estonia.  The great news today is that Toa Sasaki, World Rookie Grom Champion 2021, got 3rd at the Simple Session 2022 and won the City Street Session.

Toa took the opportunity to participate in the first professional competition of his career, and live a unique experience at the legendary Simple Session, one of the historic international skate competitions of the old continent, with 22 years of fantastic editions.

Toa was one of the best riders of the 2022 edition: he won the Street Session by Visit Estonia and finished 3rd in the Simple Session main event, challenging with many big names from the international skateboarding community. The Black Yeti is proud of its young Japanese champion and of having launched a new star in the world of professional skateboarding.

Watch the video report of this fantastic adventure by Black Yeti: “Toa Sasaki, from World Rookie Tour to Simple Session”.

Footage and Editing: Outbnd.com

Pictures by Nauris Dollins

For complete Skateboard Calendar 2022, please check the last online version here.

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If you dream to become a professional action sport athlete,
then your future starts from the World Rookie Tour! 

World Rookie Grom Skateboard Champion 2021, Toa Sasaki, just won the opening street jam at our partner event, the legendary Simple Session! Viru Street Jam was a blast and Toa showed his incredible talent!

Here a IG clip filmed by @hlndfilms – Watch the style!