Burn Comp Winners

With Billabong Air & Style fast approaching, we're now ready to unveil the TEN winners of our rad competitions, which will see five talented individuals compete in the Burn Rail Session on Friday afternoon and another five fortunate spectators get their golden double pass tickets to catch the action in Innsbruck, from February 4-7.

First up, here are the five winning entries in the rail riding section. These guys from across Europe stood out, showing off their super skills in video format. Impressive performance from them all, let's hope they can recreate these moves under pressure in Innsbruck!

Benny Urban pulling some sick moves!

Ridin' rails in the sunshine!

Jonny Russell does it indoors!

Nic Ferjan in the Spring.

Summer shredding from Štěpán Rokos

We ALSO asked you to send in how you overcame an obstacle of your own... and five of you were chosen. Here are the winning entries!

1/
Pamplona, July 13th, 2008. Second from last bull run that year. I made it running to the very end: The arena. Among more or less 300 men I noticed perhaps 30 are up for it and actually stand in front of the bull and wave. The rest runs or hides and so did I. After having returned home I could not let it go and so I had to return to the last run and look a bull in the eyes. I ran, I got into the arena and stood in front of the bull and yelled. The bull charged and broke my leg, 'twas worth it.

2/
I love dancing, man. I've danced my whole life: ballet lessons as a child, ballroom and Latin dance later on and in the last couple of years I've started street dance and break dance. Everywhere I go, I learn a new dance. I want to go crazy and learn every dance style in the world, so I've thought of becoming a pilot (easiest way to travel). I've joined a pilot course at Cranfield University, UK, to get my pilot's license. This way I can fly away anywhere in the world and dance my limits off.

3/
When I'm on my boards I try to get higher, faster and more stylish to overcome barriers (at least mine). When I'm not on my boards I overcome society barriers shooting photos, designing and composing music trying to get away from everyting that has already been done.

4/
Limits exist only in imagination. How much you will achieve in your life depends on how far you will go with your dreams. So, if a goal is worth the risks involved, stop worrying. Just go for it. That is my way of overcoming limits.

5/
To improve the quality of the life, depends in great part fromourselves. It's easy to say that someone could object, but as our ways can in concrete terms be changed, can they alter the make-up of our DNA? The first step is to acquire the knowledge of what one wants truly, our real desires, our passions, in order then to remove all the obstacles between them and their concrete realization. It remains to ask ourselves, why do it? This that we would have indeed to ask is - why not?