The SuddenRush Banked Slalom in LAAX stands for openness and sustainability. It is a cross-generational experience for all who like to celebrate the most original discipline of snowboarding, the banked slalom, together with like-minded people. That's how it was when LAAX, together with SuddenRush and snowboard legends Terje Haakonsen and Nicolas Müller, launched the event in 2014, and that's how it still is today, in February 2021.
But the current starting situation is different than back then. Due to the worldwide pandemic and the associated guidelines, an event mixed for amateurs and professionals will not receive cantonal approval.
But it is exactly this mixture that has made this event since the beginning! No matter what age, what gender, whether tall, short, famous, young, experienced, oldie but goldie or race king, weekend cruiser, Olympic champion or park shredder, pipe rider or boardercross fan - the SuddenRush LAAX is open to all! The so-called OPEN class always had the most registrations in the last six editions. The OPEN category has also produced the best times of the day, which have left many a pro baffled. In this respect, it is out of the question for the hosts to organise a SuddenRush Banked Slalom in LAAX for professional athletes only.
#SuddenRushLAAX2021
So there can be no SuddenRush Banked Slalom LAAX 2021 in the usual form. However, may everyone find their own banked turn on the originally scheduled weekend, 5-7 March 2021! Be it in the winter sports resort of LAAX, which has had a functioning COVID-19 safety concept since the start of the season, is currently in operation and offers perfect snow conditions. Be it elsewhere in the Alps, the mountains worldwide. Those who can't find a way to master a steep turn, a fast turn, a gallant turn in the snow can get creative indoors or outdoors, invent an alternative in the city, the garage, in the park. They can reminisce or actively look ahead by already doing dry runs in the living room or on the balcony for the many 2022 banked turns of the course near Crap Sogn Gion.
#SuddenRushLAAX2021 is supposed to be the digital platform to connect the LAAX banked riders! And there's bound to be something to win too.
