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Red Bull Skiing is excited and proud to welcome Kaya Turski to our ski team. With the paint on her helmet only one week fresh, Kaya is already killing the competition (see above).

The 21-year-old Canadian has only been on skis an astonishing 5-years, two of which were plagued with injury, but Kaya's penchant for rails and big air began earlier on the unforgiving battle-field of inline-skating. She stumbled upon skiing almost on accident, and boy are we glad she did.

Coincidentally, Kaya has a nice profile in the February issue of Powder Magazine on news stands now. Pick one up and check out page 96. In the article, Mike Douglas is quoted as saying, "Any comp she doesn't fall in, she'll win." Well said, Godfather.

Once again this year, RedBullSkiing.com is a proud partner of the Powder Video Awards set to go down in Aspen on Saturday, January 30th. It's the monumental 10th anniversary for the only ski movie award show in the industry and it's sure to be poppin' off. If you won't be in Aspen like most of the world won't be, don't fret, you can get a front row seat to all the action with the live webcast. There's sure to be some good action from the Red Bull Skiing camp this year, especially with Sean Pettit's heavy-hitting segment in MSP's In Deep. Pettit had breakthrough performer last year, this year (yes, we're calling it now) Pettit will win Best Male Performance.

Make sure to tune in to powderawards.com, in the meantime check out some of the madness that went down last year.

Considering all the variables working against an event like Red Bull Linecatcher, it's really amazing how well it went off yesterday. The Vars valley in France was hit with a meter of cold powder the day the athletes arrived in town. After a successful qualifying event, two french skiers were pulled into the elite field including Red Bull's own Sean Pettit, Richard Permin, Sven Kueenle, and Bene Mayr.

France's own Candide Thovex topped the field to take the title, while Sean Pettit stood aside him in second and C.R. Johnson took third. Check out the video below:

The Dumont is looking damn good in the pipe for the first week in December...as are the rest of his friends/competitors in this cut. It also looks like Simon's got a double flip he's bringing in his bag 'o tricks for the fast approaching comp season. Just when you thought the bar couldn't get raised much higher...

Our friends over at Armada whipped up this nice little video retrospective on last year's ESPN Winter X Games, featuring Red Bull's Tanner Hall and his superpipe skills. There's gonna be a big empty hole in every superpipe event this season. Heal up Tanner, we can't wait to see you back out there, buddy.

Great video of Jon in Barcelona and all the action that went down surrounding the Big Air contest that Red Bull's Russ Henshaw took home. Thanks to Jon!

...and by "graces" we mean obliterates a big puffy pow pillow. The December issue of Powder should be hitting stands real soon, so keep an eye out for the Red Bull helmet and pick it up.

In other Windstedt news, Henrik recently signed with freeski powerhouse Salomon Skis, joining Red Bull teammate Simon Dumont on the sticks from France. Congrats to both Henrik and Salomon.

With the season's newest ski flicks fresh on the brain, the time is ripe for dropping your vote for the 2010 Powder Reader's Poll. Last season, the people spoke and brought four Red Bull athletes into the top ranks. Tanner Hall nabbed the number two spot, just behind ski icon/demigod Seth Morrisson. Shane McConkey slightly beat out the Red Bull teammate, and Powder Poll top ten newcomer, Simon Dumont for the 8th place spot. And lastly, but not leastly, Grete Eliassen was sitting pretty (pun intended) in the number three spot in the lady's ranks.

Results always get released during the Powder Magazine Video Awards, and this season will be no different as the PVAs again make their mark in late January in Aspen. And, just so you know, your vote for the 2010 Powder Reader's Poll not only gains you the satisfaction of being a proactive member of our ski community, but it also gets you an entry into the contest that will bring you to Aspen for four days for the show. PVAs happen to be the same time as Winter X Games, so it's like winning three trips in one (Assspen, PVAs, and X Games, get it?)! AND, as a bonus for linking to the voting through RedBullSkiing.Com, Powder Associate Editor Johnny Stifter has agreed to be the personal ski valet to the winners of the contest for their entire trip, should they come through RedBullSkiing.com! What a guy!

YOU VOTE NOW!

Grab some popcorn and a Red Bull Cola on October 15th for an exclusive webcast of the Red Bull World Headquarter Premiere of Simon Dumont's Transitions. There will be some Q&A with the man himself followed by streaming of the entire movie for your viewing pleasure at RedBullSkiing.com/Transitions. Keep in mind this is free, no cost involved. The fun starts at 6 p.m. on the West Coast, 7 p.m. Mountain, 8 p.m. Central, and 9 p.m. on the East Coast.

Don't sweat it if you can't make it Thursday night, you'll be able to get special code to stream the movie for free later on and we'll disclose detail on how to do that in a few days. Come check it out!

RedBullSkiing.com/Transitions