With a spectacular performance in the Super Final Ulrik Badertscher took home a well-deserved
victory earning him the celebrated bounty of an Air & Style champion, the “Ring of Glory,” the
biggest share of the total 100,000 US-$ prize purse and 1,000 TTR ranking points in another
night of snowboarding history made at the Air & Style. In the Super Final, that resembled
Scandinavian championships he prevailed over fellow Norwegians Torstein Horgmo (2nd) and
Staale Sandbech (3rd) and Swedish rider Nils Arvidsson (4th). Badertscher needed a perfectly
stomped Backside 1260 Rodeo Indy Grab to beat his friends and competitors out, to take home
the win. On his way to the Super Final he beat last year’s winner Seb Toutant (CAN) in Round 2
and Gjermund Braaten (NOR) in Round 1. And he also won the Red Bull Best Trick Award.
Second-placed Torstein Horgmo commented on Ulrik Badertscher´s performance: “Ulrik is one
bad-ass dude. We were all trying to follow the level of snowboarding Ulrik showed, doing what
we could to catch him. But there was just no way to beat him tonight.”
The attendance of 13,000 spectators in the world famous Bird´s Nest Olympic Stadium
experienced a night of thrills and astonishment, proving that `boiling snow`, the meaning of Air &
Style´s Chinese name , is an excellent description of the action tonight, and is by no
means an exaggeration. The second edition of the Oakley Shaun White Air & Style also marked
a major step in snowboarding’s quest of conquering the hearts and minds of the Chinese public!

Finally ! The holy "Ring of Glory" arrived in Beijing! Just 2 more days to go!

Toutant, McMorris, Horgmo, Smits, Helgason, Bang: Riders list for the „Oakley and
Shaun White present Air & Style Beijing 2011“ on December 3rd, 2011 guarantees best
sport and finest entertainment in Beijing´s famous Olympic Stadium