STEPH MAGIROS

16th Stoneham World Cup

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Steph Magiros

The World Cup in Stoneham was my 2nd world cup to compete in.

My team mates, coach and i had an early flight out of denver. It was my first time visiting Quebec Canada and i absolutely loved it. Flying in over the city was amazing because we flew in right as the sun was setting. I took some pretty sweet shots of sunrise and sunset this travel day from my seat in the plane!

Sunrise – Denver Airport Sunset – Flying into Quebec

All the Athletes, Coaches, Judges, Media and other staff were staying together at the Hilton Hotel. I was lucky enough to be put on the executive level on the top floor. I had a great room with an amazing view over the whole city.

We had 2 practice days before the comp. The weather was reasonable sun came out in stages and the pipe wasn’t in the best condition but everyday it got better as we rode it.

Comp day came and we looked outside our windows and all there was to see was white! it was a complete whiteout over the whole city and snowed about 6 inches in the pipe.

The boys competed first. During practice it was difficult to ride the pipe due to the conditions, but i pushed through it and was able to land both my runs. My run was Air Air Front 5 Back 5 Front 3 Cab 3. It wasn’t the best run ive ever done but i was really happy to have landed on my feet in the bad conditions and get 16th in my 2nd world cup.

They managed to spell my name wrong on my credential.

I was in canada for a total of 6 days and between the training days and comp days my team and i were able to walk around and do a bit of site seeing around Quebec City.

Heres some of my tourist shots from Quebec Canada

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4th @ Otsego Rev Tour!

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Steph Magiros

The Otsego Rev Tour was my first time traveling to Michigan. We flew into Detroit and then drove 4 hours to the Otsego Resort Club. On the way we passed 8 Mile Rd which we all were weirdly excited about.

We had 3 days of training before comp day which was plenty of time to get used to the pipe and figure out a run. The pipe was ment to be 22ft but it was only an 18ft, The shape was really good but it was just small and i was only able to get 4 decent hits in.

I Qualified 2nd with a run Back 5, Front 5, Air to fakie, Switch back 5 which put me through to finals where i ended up 4th just missing out on the podium. Its my first top 5 result for the season so i am stoked!

Im back in Colorado in training mode to prepare for a big month of competitions coming up in a couple of weeks.

Here’s a few shots i took on the road from Michigan.

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Top 10 on TTR World Halfpipe Ranking

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Steph Magiros

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Top 10 @ Northstar Rev Tour

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Steph Magiros

Northstar only had 7% of the snow terrain open which isnt alot at all but what counts is that there was a perfect 22 Foot halfpipe and thats all that mattered for me.

Northstars pipe was possibly one of the steepest pipes i have ever riden so it took a little getting used to but once i got the feel for it it was amazing.

I landed my first run which consisted of air, back 5, front 5, air to fakie, switch back 3. i didnt score very high for that run so i just put everything into my second run to up my score and hopefully make it into finals. My second run i did the same run with more hight but upgraded my switch back 3 into my new trick i have been learning which is switch back 5, unfortunatly i put my bum down on the switch back 5 and was unable to qualify for finals finishing in 9th place.

Im back in Colorado now and its just started to snow which is great because i am yet to have a good pow day so hopefully it keeps snowing so i can have some fun in the pow at vail.

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Vail Colorado USA

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Steph Magiros

The next 6 months of my life living in America have begun!

I am currently living in Eagle-Vail, riding and training at Vail resort as part of the Ski and Snowboard Club Vail program coached by Ben Boyd, Mike Slaughter, Brady McNeil and Elijah Teter.

At the moment we are limited to on snow training facilities as it’s early in the season, Copper and Keystone have one chair running and we have the opportunity to ride at vail in private sessions along side the other ski racers part of ski and snowboard club vail.

Hers a bunch of pics from my time over here so far!

Here’s a few shots from my Instagram profile. You can follow me on the Iphone app

(instagram name: stephmagiros)

Keep checking in because i will be posting about all the interesting adventures i come across on this side of the planet!

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2011 AUS/NZ EDIT!

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Steph Magiros

After a solid amount of hours editing, my end of season edit is done!

Including my runs from the Burton Open and World Cup in New Zealand, Some spring time shredding at Perisher, Kangaroos and a Jindabyne adventure.

Check it out!

I also put together this shot on photoshop from the day i spent filming with Chris Nemes at perisher.

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TOP 10 IN QUALIFYING @ BURTON NZ OPEN

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Steph Magiros

I have been in New Zealand for 2 weeks now. Last week I competed in my first Burton open for halfpipe. There were 28 girls in the qualifying round and I managed to get in the top 10 of the field, which I was super stoked on after landing my run of Air, Air, back 5, Air, Michalchuk. Unfortunately they only took the top 5 girls through to semis, which was kinda tough but I was stoked to be in 10^th place. Overall I ended up 19^th out of the 35 girls including all the invited riders after semis.

I will be training the next week or so trying to get a few more of my tricks back into my run in preparation for the World Cup (NZ Winter Games) on August 27^th.

Unfortunatly the weather has come in pretty hard and all the roads are closed and even the mountain shuts at times due to wind hold, but its something we have to deal with so we are having a good time chilling inside by the fires and keeping fit in the gym.

Keep checking in so you can keep up to date with my New Zealand adventures!

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A Days Work @ Perisher

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Steph Magiros

I spent an entire day filming with ozsnowboard.com last week at Perisher mostly hiking drops, rocks and natural wall rides with a few warm up laps in Leichhardt park.

Heres the edit Chris put together from our perfect blue bird day!

My little 13 year old brother Victor who is now bigger than me came riding with us aswell and was right behind me hitting some of the cool features. There’s a few shots of him here to!

Today I was riding at Perisher with a bunch of friends and we had a really fun line going at Leichhardt T-Bar. A bunch of pow rollers into a massive windlip wall drop finnishing the run off with a windlip Quarter-Pipe. It was a super fun day hucking spins off the drop and throwing backflips on the natural quarter-pipe!

The one thing i love doing is Backies. Check out the video.