Two years already passed since we started working on the Candiesmag project! Our page is still here and it’s growing day by day. We’re pretty happy with the result and – of course – we’ll work even harder in the future!

Have you ever thought about what it takes to run Candiesmagazine?

- 730 days up online
– more than 1’000 articles published
– something like 500 GB of pictures in our hdisks
– endless nights on photoshop, illustrator and wordpress
– 24/7 glued to all freestyle news worldwide
– about 60 EXCLUSIVE pro interviews, featuring the Helgasons, Andreu Lacondeguy, Alex Barbero, Manuel Pietropoli, Hana Beaman, Simone Kid Barraco, The Hatebreed, Camila Harambour, Joni Malmi,Dean “Blotto” Gray.
– Dozens of major events covered live with exclusive footages, like Winter X Games, Vans Off The Wall Spring Classic, Un Tranquillo Weekend di Paura, Torino Street Style and many more
– a view over the most important – not only European – spots and resorts for freestyle sports such as Barcelona, Whistler,Les 2 Alpes, Venice Beach, Berlin and more
– more than 350 video reviews!
– daily updated Facebook, Twitter, Google+ pages!

And do you want to know what is the most important thing? We’re still HAVING FUN!!!!!

We made a short 1:30 clip that resumes all the best moments we had in these last 2 years, in pictures! Enjoy it!

We also would like to thank: all the skaters, snowboarders, surfers, bikers, and all the crews we met and rode with us, all the bands and artists, all the crazy photographers that contributed in the last years – men, love for you all Nicola Debernardi and Doberman Production, Yanis Ourabah, Alessio Scaccabarozzi Photography, and also those who helped us in the past – we’ll never forget, kids! All last but not least our fans, friends, supporters, Candiesmag enthusiastics, you’re the only reason that keep us doing! HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANDIESMAG!

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Silvia & Carlo.

And the last night of Winter XGames 16 will be surely long remembered. Heath Frisby not only won the Snowmobile best trick final: he won it landind the first ever frontflip on a snowmobile!! Huge! Second was Colten Moore and third Joe Parsons.

Spectators of the men’s superpipe finals enjoyed a huge show with Shaun White taking first place with a perfect 100 run, followed by Iouri Podladtchikov and Ryo Aono.

Samson Danniels is the winner of the monoskier x finals, runner up is Gregory Peck and third Josh Dueck.

Winners of the skier x men are Chris Del Bosco, Filip Flisar and Dave Duncan. Winner of the women’s skier x is Marte Gjefsen, followed by Hedda Berntsen and Jenny Owens.

Winter XGames have already ended, and as a resume we can say that they saw next level action in every contest. If you missed the past days of competition take a look at winter x games day 1, winter xgames day 2, winter xgames day 3. Below two highlights video, the first with some crazy footage from gopro cameras, the second is an inside look at xgames from the perspective of the fans, filmmakers, and pros, made by vimeo staff. Enjoy!

Winter X Games has started and action is at the top. Before competition started a tribute has been celebrated in loving memory of Sarah Burke, who tragically passed away last January 19th.

Winner of the snowboard street competition is Forest Bailey, followed by Ryan Paul and Nick Visconti.

The men’s ski slopestyle saw the winning of Tom Wallisch, followed by Nick Goepper and Andreas Håtveit.

After a scary crash in qualifying, Colten Moore took the gold in Snowmobile Freestyle. Runner up was Joe Parsons and third Caleb Moore.

Ski Slopestyle Women saw the domination of Kaya Turski. Second was Devin Logan and third Anna Segal.

New year, new record. Robbie Maddison and Levi LaVallee stomp a world record-breaking jump over 300 feet of water in San Diego for ESPN’s 2011 “Red Bull: New Year. No Limits” event!

Levi LaVallee broke his own world record for distance jumped on a snowmobile with a 412 feet flight. The previous record was 361 feet. He jumped simultaneously with Robbie Maddison, who broke the world record for distance jumped on a motorcycle during practice for Saturday night’s event. During the live event, Maddison jumped shorter landing at 378 feet, 9 inches.

Photocredits: (c) Rich van Every, (c) Garth Milan, (c) Chris Tedesco/Red Bull Content Pool

Seven of the world’s best snowmobilers competed at the RedBull Fuel and Fury in Chicago showing some of their best tricks, including the Hart Attack, Kiss of Death Flip, Cliffhanger, Superman and Indian Air.

Daniel Bodin took the win landing the first Shaolin Backflip ever performed in any competition. Second was Heath Frisby and third Jimmy Fejes

Photocredits: (c) Garth Milan, (c) Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool

The X Games have come a long way since modified snow shovel racing and bungee jumping, but here at Winter X 15, the Games have finally found their groove and proven they’re here to stay with an all-time attendance record of 114,200 spectators over the course of the 4 day event. Here’s a quick recap of what went down in and around town during Winter X 15, and a look at the achievements of the Red Bull athletes

[Photocredit: (c)Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool, Athlete: Bobby Brown]

In a carbon copy of the 2010 results, Kaya Turski again brought home gold and Grete Eliassen brought home bronze in the Women’s Skiing Slopestyle event. With access to sleds, a foam pit, and other resources provided by injured rider Levi Lavallee, Daniel Bodin broke his podium curse and won gold in the Snowmobile Freestyle final.

[Photocredit: (c)Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool, Athletes: Marko Grilc (left) and Daniel Bodin (right)]

After a brutal crash on his first run, Simon Dumont returned to post a leading score on Run #2, but in the end Dumont earned a bronze medal for his solid efforts in Men’s Skiing Superpipe finals.

[Photocredit: (c)Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool, Athlete: Elias Ambühl]

With two huge big air wins already this season, 18-year old upstart from Montreal Sebastien Toutant secured a silver medal in the Men’s Snowboard Big Air competition with tricks including a front 10 double cork.

[Photocredit: (c)Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool, Athlete: Athlete: Sebastien  Toutant]

Australian Russ Henshaw, who qualified first for the Slopestyle finals, pulled out a silver medal in the Men’s Skiing Slopestyle finals with both left and rightside double cork 1260′s Reigning champ Bobby Brown grabbed the silver medal in the Skiing Big Air finals, an astounding feat considering he injured himself earlier in the day in the Slopestyle competition.

[Photocredit: (c)Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool, Athletes: Grete  Eliassen (left) and Bobby Brown (right)]

With creative tricks in the rail section and both regular and switch spin combinations on the jumps, Finnish upstart Enni Rukajarvi rode away with a gold medal in the Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle finals, becoming the first Winter X rookie in 14 years to win this event.

[Photocredit: (c)Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool, Athlete: Elias Ambühl]

It was Canadian domination in the Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle competition as Sebastien Toutant and Mark McMorris stood side-by-side on the podium with gold and silver medals respectively.

[Photocredit: (c)Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool, Athlete: Athlete: Mark McMorris]

Sweden’s own Daniel Bodin claimed his second gold medal of the Games with a huge double grab backflip in the Snowmobile Best Trick competition.

[Photocredit: (c)Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool, Athlete: Enni Rukajärvi]

Shaun White wrapped up X Games 15 by making history once again, becoming the only person to ever win four consecutive gold medals in the Snowboard Superpipe.

[Photocredit: (c)Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool, Athletes: Shaun White (left), Enni Rukajärvi (right)]

Canadian Sebastien Toutant was also named the Jeep Men’s Athlete of the X Games, taking home a sweet brand new Jeep to go with his two medals.

[Photocredit: (c)Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool, Athlete: Russell Henshaw]

Pictures: (c)Christian Pondella, courtesy of RedBull Photofiles

Story: courtesy of RedBull Photofiles.

Here we are, Winter X-games have just ended, once again showing us unbelievable performances. Here youy find most of  the results with the video of the winning runs, we shouldn’t miss any of them guys!

Snowmobiles have been huge, Shaun White wins again the SuperPipe, Alex Schlopy took the gold medal at the freeski big air, Sebastien Toutant wins the snowboard slopestyle, and so on, check them out!

If you want to see more, visit ESPN

Here the snowboard street results:

Nic Sauve
Louis-Felix Paradis
Simon Chamberlain
Jeremy Jones
Seth Huot
Joe Sexton
JP Walker

Men’s snowboard slopestyle results:

Sebastien Toutant
Mark McMorris
Tyler Flanagan
Chas Guldemond
Mikkel Bang
Torstein Horgmo
Halldor Helgason
Eric Willett

Women’s snowboard slopestyle results:

Enni Rukajärvi
Jenny Jones
Jamie Anderson
Kjersti Oestgaard Buaas
Sina Candrian
Cheryl Maas
Hana Beaman
Janna Meyen-Weatherby
Shelly Gotlieb
Spencer O’Brien

Snowmobile Best Trick results:

Daniel Bodin
Caleb Moore
Heath Frisby
Justin Hoyer
Colten Moore
Joe Parsons
Jimmy Fejes
Stian Pedersen

Men’s Snowboard Superpipe results:

Shaun White
Scotty Lago
Louie Vito
Markus Malin
Kazuhiro Kokubo
Peetu Piiroinen
Mathieu Crepel
Matt Ladley

Women’s Snowboard Superpipe results:

Kelly Clark
Kaitlyn Farrington
Elena Hight
Soko Yamaoka
Queralt Castellet
Gretchen Bleiler

Men’s Ski slopestyle results

Sammy Carlson
Russ Henshaw
Andreas Håtveit
Bobby Brown
Henrik Harlaut
Elias Ambühl
Phil Casabon
Gus Kenworthy

Ski Big Air Results:

Alex Schlopy
Bobby Brown
Sammy Carlson
Elias Ambuhl
Jacob Wester