The One Hit Wonder Down Under all wrapped up for 2009 //
26 October at 10:30 /// Congratulations to Richie Carroll of Coogee and Jessica Arnold of windy Goulburn. You guys will share in $5000 worth of Rome snowboards, Dynastar skis and Sinner Outerwear just for voting for your fav rider. Pretty easy. Thanks everyone for your votes... Same time next year?
We'll be loading the rest of the footage from the event here on the website tomorrow so whether your hanging out overseas waiting for your own snow, or here in Australia wondering why even though the lifts have long been shut why the sun still isn't out, we'll have your spring fix...
16 October at 13:00 /// The people have have spoken... Congratulations to snowboarder Robbie Walker and skier Bine Zalohar. Both riders had effortless looking 1080s that were big, grabbed, and clearly your favourite tricks, thus they are both $2000 richer thanks to Sinner Outerwear.
The two winners of the $2500 Dynastar / Rome ski and snowboard packages will be drawn on Monday at 9am AEST and contacted by email shortly after.
More footage of the One Hit Wonder Down Under will air soon. Stay tuned for the when and where details.
-Walker
-Zalohar
16 October at 00:01 /// The voting lines have now CLOSED. Standby for the winners once the monkeys tabulate the votes.
11 October at 15:26 /// You have only a few days left to vote for the skier and snowboarder you want to win the One Hit.
HERE ARE THE TRICKS //
...or you can watch each one individually HERE.To vote, send an email to vote@onehitwonderevent.com with your skier and snowboarder nomination in the subject line.
You will automatically go into the draw to win one of two $2500 head-to-toe equipment packages from Sinner Outerwear, Dynastar Skis and Rome Snowboards... Voting closes on October 15th. Details of the equipment up for grabs can be found here. The winners of the ski and board equipment packages will be contacted via email.
24 September at 18:30 /// Here they are; Timmins, Walker, Tiene, Lipzker, de Campo, Lloyd, Ferguson, Zalohar and Houghton have all picked one trick they did during the week that will hopefully land them a share in the cash as voted by you. One skier AND one snowboarder will be taking home some cash. Watch the vids and learn how to VOTE to WIN BIG for YOURSELVES here...
When you vote, you go into the draw to win one of two $2500 head-to-toe equipment packages from Sinner Outerwear, Dynastar Skis and Rome Snowboards.. Watch the boys throw everything from frontside 1080s to double rodeo's. Voting closes on October 15th. Details of the equipment up for grabs can be found here. The winners of the ski and board equipment packages will be contacted via email.
21 September at 12:00 /// The team here in the One Hit Wonder website division are a little concerned that aside from the keywords one, hit, wonder, down, and under, the next most popular search string typed into google that directs people to this site is "how to take someone down with one hit?"
The riders tricks will be up later this week. Don't touch that dial.
18 September at 18:30 /// We've sobered up enough to post an update... Congrats to the winners of the Red Bull Charging Bull Award; Thredbo skier Johnny Lipzker made the strongest impression amongst his peers by jumping with one of the most unique styles seen in this country before stepping it up a level with consistently big double back flips. Jindabyne local snowboarder Andy Lloyd was deserving in sharing in the $1000 Red Bull award by charging so hard over every day of the competition, he had to be physically pulled off the Charles Beckinsale built jump long after the event had packed up.
-Lipzker
-Breakfast
17 September at 14:30 /// If you're in Thredbo Village tonight... AFTER PARTY at the Schuss Bar. All the riders have put their votes in to decide who gets the Red Bull Charging Bull award and $1000 cash for, well, charging the hardest over the last 3 days. The next video's to go up will be each riders trick that they put forward as the one they want YOU to vote for, and hopefully share in $4000 from Sinner/Dynastar/Rome... Stay tuned.
16 September at 23:59 /// We had to physically pull the riders off the jump an hour after we were meant to be packed up. Then skier Johnny Lipzker told us what was what at the end of the third day. This is just a tickle of what went down (and up and around and around)...
16 September at 23:58 /// Jordan summed it up best with "dub-nasty." Click here to check out some more of Timothy Lloyd's pics from the day. Thredbo turned it on once again with perfect weather, a perfect jump and a couple of hungry athletes. It was like the flood gates opened and a torrent of style came spewing out as riders played one-up til late in the afternoon. What other comp allows that kind of behaviour?
15 September at 23:59 /// Once again we had nothing but sunshine when we caught up with skiers Jordan Houghton and Charlie Timmins half way through the second day...
15 September at 23:58 /// There was little doubt that the skiers dominated the One Hit on the second sunny day of the event. Johnny Lipzker put down his protein shake momentarily to make daffy's fashionable again. The rest of the boys played their own game by throwing everything from sloooooow switch 5's to double flips and everything grabbed in between. LOOK AT SOME PHOTOS (sorry for yelling).
14 September at 23:59 /// Snowboarders Andrew Roth and Chris de Campo talk about the first day of the event in Thredbo Village. Enjoy this little sneak peek of Monday's action...
14 September at 23:58 /// Who wants to see a photo from day one? Click here. The remaining field of skiers join us on day two along with Andy Lloyd, who is replacing Mitch Allan.
13 September at 08:30 /// The production team is just about to leave Sydney with a truck load of big lenses bound for Thredbo Village. Filming commences tomorrow at 10am and we aim to wrap it all up, injury free, on Thursday the 17th.
On Thursday night at the Schuss Bar in Thredbo village, the athletes and crew will be gracefully sipping fine wine and sampling caviar. We invite YOU to join us! As a bonus, Jordan Houghton may also be signing headshots of himself for you to keep but we are yet to confirm this with his agent.
12 September at 10:50 /// Thredbo's resident professional snowboarder and park designer/builder, Charles Beckinsale sent me this sneak peak of the jump that will test the One Hit Wonder riders.
Unfortunately, Charles seperated his shoulder whilst doing some testing of his own. Hope you have a speedy recovery buddy.
Work will start towards the end of this weekend cutting the gap out and cleaning up around the table top.
10 September at 15:45 /// Youngsters Chris de Campo and Andrew Roth round out the snowboarding field for the One Hit Wonder in Thredbo.
02 September at 08:43 /// Auditions are now closed. There is still a little judging to be be done but so far out of all the serious contenders, Snowy Mountains local skier Jordan Houghton and Slovenian import Bine Zalohar will go up against the likes of Boen Ferguson, Johnny Lipzker & Charlie Timmins for the chance to pocket some cash. Billabong and K2 rider Robbie Walker has been added to the snowboarding line-up next to Ryan Tiene and Mitch Allan.
-Zalohar
23 August at 11:29 /// Thredbo's resident professional snowboarder and park designer/builder, Charles Beckinsale tells us what he has in mind for the One Hit Wonder Down Under:
The snow conditions up the top are looking great for the jump build, there are snow drifts as deep as 20ft on the face above the jump site. We will start pushing the snow down for the jump on Sunday the 23rd of August for three to four days using two winch cats to strip out the drifts and pile up a landing hill and deck. While doing this we will layer up the surrounding area so we wont have any spring melt issues till well after the competition. Once the landing has been winched we will get the park bully snow cat in for two days to build the take-off and cut the sides and back of the landing. Then we are finished and good to go!"
13 August at 08:12 /// Some strong audition vids are starting to make their way online. The best ones will be posted here.
12 August at 20:19 /// We have just been studying the varying demographics of you facebook fans via the "insight" tool, and I'm pleased to announce that 1 of you is in Afghanistan and 3 of you speak Pirate English. Arrrh.
Approx 1200BC /// The One Hit Wonder Down Under is a four day filming session on Thredbo's end of season money-booter from the 14th until the 18th of September, though which ever skier and snowboarder gets the most public votes for the single best crowd pleasing trick will score a $2000 cash sweetener. It is a relatively new but relaxed concept of competition for the Australian skiing and snowboarding scene... Think JOSS, but with gumtrees.
The invited athletes will work with skier/cameramen Tim Myers, Martin Bourke & Sean Balmer on Thredbo’s end of season money-booter to capture their single best trick on film. The tricks will be uploaded to the web for three weeks where the world wide public can vote for who they think has the best “One Hit Wonderous” trick, and thus walking away with some extra cash, but more importantly claiming the title of the best skier or boarder in the universe, maybe.
As well as the invited athletes, there are 2 skiing and 2 snowboarding wildcard spots available. To qualify oneself for these spots and compete with Australia’s best skiers and snowboarders on the purpose built money-booter, you need to audition.
