Rafael Nadal and Lindsey Vonn Win 2011 Laureus Awards

The Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal won the Sportsman of The Year, while the American skiing athlete Lindsey Vonn won the Sportswoman of The Year. Those are the top honors of 2011 Laureus World Sports Awards.

Established in 1999, Laureus World Sports Awards are awarded annually to sportspeople who have been outstanding during the previous year. This year event, which was held in Abu Dhabi on 7 February 2011, also chose Spain World Cup winner as World Team of The Year.

Rafael Nadal is the winner of three Grand Slam titles in 2010. He beat other nominees including Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao and Barcelona footballers Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi.


Lindsey Vonn, winner of the women's downhill at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games and a third consecutive overall World Cup title, took the sportswoman's award. Among the other nominees are high jumper Blanka Vlasic and tennis players Serena Williams, Kim Clijsters and Caroline Wozniacki.



These are the complete list of 2011 Laureus Award Winners:

World Sportsman of the Year: Rafael Nadal (Spain)

World Sportswoman of the Year: Lindsey Vonn (US)

World Team of the Year: Spain World Cup Team

World Breakthrough of the Year: Martin Kaymer (Germany)

World Comeback of the Year: Valentino Rossi (Italy)

World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability: Verena Bentele (Germany)

World Action Sportsperson of the Year: Kelly Slater (US)

Lifetime Achievement Award: Zinedine Zidane (France)

Spirit of Sport Award: European Ryder Cup team

Sport for Good Award: May El-Khalil, founder of the Beirut Marathon

Inside and Outside The Match: Lindsey Vonn

If in the previous post I showed the pictures comparison on how tennis players when they were playing in a match and in their casual appearances, for this time Inside and Outside The Match category, I present a single athlete: Lindsey Vonn

Lindsey Vonn is an American ski racer which won the gold medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics in downhill, became the first American to do so. She's just 25-year-old right now and known as one of the most beautiful athletes in the world.

Now, you'll compare how Lindsey Vonn in her tight skiing suit and when she's on casual outfit, night dress and even in bikini and lingerie from Sports Illustrated magazine. Enjoy!

Freestyle Snowboard Tips and Gears

Have you ever heard about snowboarding? This is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. There are different styles of snowboarding, all with various gears and snowboards too.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are still thinking that snowboarding is merely an extreme sport, the same as skateboard, bungee jumping, or sky diving. But since 1998, snowboarding have became one of Winter Olympic sports, thus many youngster have choose to pursue a career in snowboarding, besides make it as a hobby for others.

Many professional athletes, both man and woman, gain fame from snowboarding, such as Shaun White, Ekaterina Ilyukhina, Tora Bright, or Maelle Ricker, the first Canadian who win Olympic gold medal on home ground, when she won in 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics for snowboard cross on.


If you want to learn snowboarding, or even become an expert in it, there is no better way than learning to the pros. You can train to do The Rodeo 540, McTwist, or Melon to a professional snowboard freestyler, like Etienne Peysson, the one who wrote about top 10 snowboard tricks.


Freestyle Snowboarding

In freestyle snowboarding, the rider uses manmade terrain features such as rails, jumps, boxes, and innumerable other innovative features to perform tricks on. The term "box" refers to an object with a slick top, that the rider can slide on with the base of their board. The objective of freestyle is to use these terrain features to perform a number of aerial or jib tricks.

The equipment used in freestyle snowboarding is usually a soft boot with a twin tipped board for better balance while riding regular or switch. Although, it's also common to use stiff soft boot with a directional twin snowboard, that usually for preparing to encounter many different types of snow conditions, such as ice and deep powder.

To check about the best snowboarding equipment, including snowboards, boots, goggles, gloves, and helmets, just visit www.evogear.com. This online shop explores the collaboration between culture and sport by seamlessly joining art, music, streetwear, skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing and wakeboarding.

Snowboards for woman, you can buy these in EvoGear.com

While for the news about this sport, you might want to subscribe to Snowboard Magazine, where you can find various information about snowboard equipments and products, the best spot for snowboarding, or famous figure in snowboarding.

Go get some action!