Individual Legends Snowboard events have been popping up worldwide for at least 25 years! As the first string of grassroots and international World Cup riders continue to shred into their 40’s, 50’s 60’s, 70’s, maybe even their 80’s, we find a need to accommodate these diehard riders in providing a space for them to continue to enjoy sharing themselves, international comradery, and competition.
The Legends World Tour “LWT” celebrates the true international history of snowboarding by selectively integrating its races into already iconic Legends events, such as the Legends of Tahoe, Soda Springs, Ca, USA and the Long Board Classic Stuben/Arlberg, Austria. Riders and spectators will experience local snowboard history when they participate in these iconic events as they were created by some of the founding fathers of the sport at their home mountains. Following the tour provides a unique opportunity to discover international snowboard history firsthand from the people who lived it.
The LWT ignites a true global movement and welcomes legends past, present and future. We are doing this because we believe that “Legends are Forever”. As we lose our Legends riders, those of us who remember them will share their stories. This is where current legends honor their founding fathers and inspire future generations, who in turn, become legends themselves and so on.
To be included for the LWT, you must have competed on the professional circuit or have a proven record of your legendary participation in the development of snowboarding prior to the year 2000.
· Sign up individually for each event on the tour, see links for the tour below. Follow their rules for their event. In cases where sign up is onsite, the first day of the contest, send a snapshot of the start list with your name on it.
· As a legend your Inclusion in the LWT is sponsored. No entry fee is required. Send an email with proof of your pro riding or something you did to provide movement for the sport of snowboarding prior to the year 2000, and a screen shot of your race confirmations for each event you participate in, to info@legendsworldtour.com This will register you as a LWT competitor.
· Please include an old school photo from a competition with the photographers name and permission to post on in our gallery. Share a few words describing something that happened during your time as a pro.
· You will still be a competitor in the host events. As such you will follow the rules of those events and be eligible for any prizes offered for those events.
*Any questions about the LWT should be sent in an email to info@legendsworldtour.com not the individual event organizers.
Scoring:
After each event, riders will earn points based on ranking for that event. The points will be accumulated over the three events. Participate in one event or all three.
Points will be accumulated, and a winner will be announced on the World Snowboarding Federation News Feed.
The Winner take all prize: A never ridden, 1989 Craig Kelly Mystery Air.
Legends of Tahoe, OG half pipe. Donner Ski Ranch Ca, USA March 29-March 31, 2024.
More about the Legends of Tahoe: Originally organized in 2005 by Mike Chantry, Tom Collins, Don Bostik, and Earl Zeller, the Legends of Tahoe, celebrates the early days of halfpipe riding, which traces its roots back to the Lake Tahoe area and Tom Sims and Michael Chantry putting together the first world championship competition in 1983. Over the past 19 years, Iconic riders from around the globe have dusted off their pre 1990 snowboards to ride the OG giant slalom and OG halfpipe competitions.
https://youtu.be/Tzovbp4kdPA?si=sIx6c2UEAIl0tOD7
https://www.facebook.com/LegendTomCollins/
For sign up Contact: don@wcsk8.com
Long Board Classic, Chinese downhill. Stuben, Austria Saturday, April 13, 2024.
More about the Long Board Classic: Snowboarding legend Paul Gruber started the annual Longboard Classic in 1999 at a time when snowboarders were firmly seen as outsiders on the slopes and certainly weren’t welcomed everywhere. The Longboard Classic developed into a huge event and is still the largest and best-attended snowboarding race in the world. Described as the ‘Woodstock of Snowboarding’, generally because of its open-minded and fun spirit, the race invites riders from all ages to compete in one of three categories: LBC Master, LBC Old School and LBC No School.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbTGQlaXsEo
https://www.longboardclassic.com/lbc-friends/
Contact Paul Gruber: Visit website for general event details.
Sign up for the Legends World Tour will be on site at the same time as the regular LBC event. Qualified riders can ride what ever board they feel comfortable with.
Mystery Poach Event GS/Downhill/Banked Slalom? - You must guess the location and date.
More about the Mystery Poach Event: To celebrate the radical aspect of snowboarding, which ultimately lead to the global acceptance of the sport, we are introducing the “Mystery Poach Event” Each year an event will be honored as the mystery poach. Below we give hints that only true OG’s and board heads would know the answers to.
If you think you’ve figured it out email info@legendsworldtour.com to see if you got it right.
Hints: It’s being held in the USA at the location of an extinct iconic event held every spring since 1982 at Suicide Six then moved to the location of the Mystery Poach Event until 2012. There was an annual party hosted by the Hayes Brothers.
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