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Pirate Movie Production presents European Premiere Tour 2010 „Hooked“ The Pirates are back on board to cruise around the world. The new film titled “Hooked” will be presented for the first time ever on the World Premiere in Innsbruck, Austria on the 10th of September 2010. But the film is not the only reason to visit the premieres. The Pirate parties are famous for featuring popular bands and DJ's who rock the house through the night and into the morning. Hooked they are, indeed: Hooked on wandering the continents to pillage and plunder the best snowboarding terrain in the world. The finest European riders each bringing their own unique style and collectively raising the flag once again. The crew chased the snow from the mountains of Washington to the streets of Scandinavia and all across the European Alps snowboarding creative city jibs and sh*t loads of powder. The DVD comes packaged in a 100-page art book, filled with various works from motivated Pirates, including the riders. Riders: Halldor Helgason, Marco Feichtner, Gigi Rüf, Danny Larsen, Björn Hartweger, Hans Ahlund, Arthur Longo, Kalle Ohlson, Sani Alibabic, Teo Konttinen, Tyler Chorlton, Juuso Laivisto, Stephan Maurer, Stian Solberg, Gulli Gudmundsson, Erik Botner, Gerome Mathieu, Eiki Helgason, Elias Elhardt and more. PREMIERE DATES: 10. September, Innsbruck, Austria, www.hafen.cc 11. September, Munich, Germany www.backstage.eu 17. September, Salzburg, Austria www.rockhouse.at 18. September, Schorndorf, Germany 24. September, Zürich, Switzerland, www.freestyle.ch 30. September, Prag, Czech Republic http://www.retropraha.cz 09. Oktober, Feldkirch, Austria, www.poolbar.aat 15. Oktober, Wien, Austria, www.wuk.at 15. Oktober, Pfarrkirchen, Germany, Boogalo 16. Oktober, Kaunertal, Austria, www.kaunertal-opening.at 23. Oktober, Oslo, Norway 29. Oktober, Göteborg, Sweden, www.parken.se 05. November, Nürnberg, Germany, www.starsandstairs.de TBA: Modena, Bratislava, Berlin, Wil, Moskau, Amsterdam...

-When pirates sent out this call for help in a small Austrian valley shabby prisoners were locked up in the dark-

Not only will you witness torture and murder - but "HOOKED" will also feature all aspects of creative snowboarding - expect mad rail slaughtering, natural backcountry jumps mixed up with fine cinematography! The movie represents the potential of European Snowboarding at it's finest and as always the DVD release will come out in a 100 page art book. This analog bonus material this time covers different arty talents of involved pirates and friends.

Athletes: Halldor Helgason; Eiki Helgason; Marco Feichtner; Juuso Laivisto; Tyler Chorlton; Gigi Rüf; Sani Alibabic; Stephan Maurer; Arthur Longo; Björn Hartweger; Hans Ahlund; Danny Larsen; Gulli Gudmundson; Stian Solberg; Gerome“Coincoin”Matthieu; Teo Konttinen; Kalle Ohlson; Erik Botner; Elias Elhardt

Locations: Stockholm/Sweden; Oslo, Helsinki/Finland; Arlberg/Austria; Avoriaz/France; Madonna/Italy; Jackson Hole, Tahoe, Montana/USA; Akureyri/Iceland; and many many more

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The weather was due to be bad for a while so Tyler and I decided to try to do something in a nice bumpy tree area by Thompson pass we spotted the week before. The snow had got pretty heavy but Tyler and I were determined to start the week off well. We found a nice looking step down so we got it setup and waited for a little more light. I went first and landed in a whole and compressed my knee... Nooo! Tyler tried a little more but after a few more tries it was evident the snow was just too heavy and there wasnt enough new snow to land anything. So we called it a day. A few miles down the road Pasha and Carlos broke down having forgotten to refill the tank... Nooo! Ok, we drove back to Valdez to get fuel for them, after some faffing around at the gas station we finally got back to Pasha who had been waiting alone up on the pass. We put gas in... still woudnt start, now the batterie was dead. Ok, lets find some jump cables... still nothing! Right, shiet... so we called someone to come pick it up and we'd sort it later. During the following days the weather stayed real shitty up on the pass, my knee hadn't improved and cabin fever was setting in. Nooo! The truck had been in the truck/RV repair for a few days and the mechanic just couldnt start it so Sergey decided to get someone to come pick it up and toe it back to Anchorage. A few hours later Sergey called us and told us he fiddled with the fuzes a little and played around under the hood for a few minutes and started it up first go! We couldn't believe it... Nooo! So there you go, 3 weeks in AK done. We have learnt alot here, I gotta say our sled skilz are just epic now, we only flipped them like 20 times probably and only have a couple of thousand dollars in repairs on them each ;) And we learnt that up here, Nature is the boss. Big thanks again to Sergey for being the dude and to Mountain Sky Valdez. Peace Marco