2021 NWT Territorials

Mar 6 & 7, 2021

Fort Smith, NT

Toyota/Canada Snowboard Grom Series Event

If you’re interested in competing in territorials sign up here. details below;

For any questions email nwtsnowboard@gmail.com

Location:

• Fort Smith, NT
  • Located at the end of Marine Drive

Covid-19:

• If you or anyone you have been in contact with someone in the last 14 days that has Covid-19, showing symptoms of Covid-19 or feeling sick you will not be allowed to attend this event
• Please abide by all Slide Zone Shredderz and NWT Snowboard Covid-19 regulations
• At-risk populations include anyone with compromised immune systems, older individuals (>65), those with co-existing medical conditions including, but not limited to: diabetes, cardiac disease, severe asthma, chronic lung conditions and autoimmune diseases.
• For more information please go to https://www.nwtsnowboard.ca/covid-19/

Deadlines:

• Registration deadline is Mar 3, 2021
• If you plan to take the charter we must know prior to Mar 1, 2021!

Travel Reimbursement!

• Flights – NWT Snowboard has organized a chartered flight from Yellowknife to Fort Smith (pending enough interest)
  • Flight costs are $250/child, return from Yellowknife – Ft. Smith.
  • An additional seat for a chaperone is included at no cost
  • Maximum 17 seats!
  • Flight will depart YK – Mar 5 @6:00pm
  • Return Flight will depart Fort Smith – Mar 7 @ 6pm
  • Mask must be worn at all time during the flight

• Prefer to Drive? – NWT Snowboard will reimburse your Fuel costs up to $250 for residents outside of Fort Smith, NT. You must have receipts and a completed reimbursement form to receive a reimbursement

• Accommodation – NWT Snowboard will reimburse up to $150 of your accommodation for residents outside of Fort Smith, NT. You must have receipts and a completed reimbursement form to receive a reimbursement
  • Accommodation options;
    • Pelican Rapids Inn @ $162/night  –  http://www.pelicanrapidsinn.com
    • Wood Buffalo Inn @ $175/ night – https://www.woodbuffaloinn.com

Click Here –> Reimbursement Form

Send all Reimbursement forms to nwtsnowboard@gmail.com

Event Duration:

9 am – noon each day

Event Disciplines:

• Slalom & Banked Slalom
  • Jam format – You can get in as many runs as you can within the time given
  • Timed runs – The best time out of all of your runs will be what is considered your ‘final time’

• Rail Jam
  • Jam format
  • Use the whole run to string together various tricks using all the features and elements available
  • Key judging points: Trick and feature selection, no falls, style, execution and amplitude.

• Snowboardcross
  • Race Format
  • 1st, 2nd and 3rd winners

• Big Air
  • Jam format
  • Big-air jump, 2 size options
  • Key judging points: Trick difficulty, amplitude, landing

• all Judging will be based on;
  • Amplitude – How big you go
  • Difficulty – How hard the tricks are to successfully land
  • Style/ Execution – Smoothness, did they make the trick look easy and did everything go exactly as they planned
  • Landing – Did the board land flat and rider stay up right, did their hand touch down during the landing, did they not land the trick.

Gear:

• Helmets must be worn at all times
• WARM GEAR! There will be times where you may be standing around. You can always take layers off.
• Rental gear has SOLD OUT for the season at Slide Zone Shredderz, please arrange your own snowboarding equipment prior to the event
• Please bring any other protective gear you feel necessary (spine protector, wrist guards, etc)

Lunch:

• Lunch and snacks will be provided by NWT Snowboard
• Please email nwtsnowboard@gmail.com if you have any allergies or dietary restrictions

Coaching tips:

• Try your best and have fun!
• Stick with the tricks you know. Attempting new tricks at events can ultimately hurt your score and can be dangerous, stick to what you’ve practiced!
• Find a happy medium of pushing yourself with difficult tricks but still maintaining your ability to go large off jumps and stay smooth on any and all features
• Use your warm-up wisely! Understand how fast you need to be going for the run and the conditions (speed check), go through your trick list so you know what’s working and what’s not working on the day and always go through a full range of motion before riding to prevent and injuries

Notes:

• Slide Zone Shredderz will also be hosting their Big Fun event in the afternoon each day, we encourage all Territorials participants to sign-up for some extra riding and competition!
  • Cost is $40
  • Sign-up here!
• In case of a tie breaker, the winner will be determined by events won
  • In the rare case that does not clearly define a winner it will go to a head to head event decided by the judges.
• If the weather is colder than -30C the lift will not be in operation, the event will continue but riders will be expected to hike up the hill

Schedule:

NWT Territorials 2020-21_ Schedule

A huge thank you to all of our sponsors/ hosts!