Snowboard Park & Pipe season opens in 30 days at Secret Garden big air World Cup
Oct 29, 2025·Snowboard Park & Pipe)
The long wait for the start of the 2025/26 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe season is almost over, as there's now just 30 days to go before we finally get underway with a huge winter of World Cup and Olympic competition, beginning with the Secret Garden Big Air World Cup (CHN) from 27-29 Novemeber, 2025.
While Secret Garden has now taken a place as one of the longest-running World Cup venues on the Park & Pipe circuit - first hosting halfpipe competition back in the 2017/18 season and most famously serving as the prime Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski venue at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games - this season will mark the first time that the resort will play host to top-level big air action, as the 2022 Olympic big air competition took place in Beijing proper.
Despite the fact this will be Secret Garden’s first turn as a big air host, expectations are high for the venue. For starters, on-piste big air venues are generally favoured by the riders over scaffold set-ups, with bigger jumps and longer landings providing more opportunity for pushing the boundaries of snowboarding.
Further, Secret Garden already built a world-class big air jump last season for training purposes, with many Chinese and Japanese riders getting some mid-season reps in there and proving the venue’s potential with some quality footage coming out of the sessions.
Secret Garden will be the first of three competitions to take place in what will be a rapid-fire big air World Cup campaign, with a return to the Beijing Olympic venue following Secret Garden from 05-06 December, before we then jump across the Pacific to Steamboat (USA), where we’ll wrap things up and hand out the Crystal Globes from 11-13 December.
Along with this season’s three big air World Cups, the 2025/26 FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe campaign will also feature four slopestyle World Cup competitions - in Aspen (USA), Laax (SUI), Flachau (AUT) and Silvaplana (SUI) - as well as seven halfpipe events - in Secret Garden (two weeks after the big air World Cup), Copper Mountain (USA), Calgary (CAN), Aspen (USA), Laax, a brand-new stop in Ban-K (JPN), before finally wrapping up in Silvaplana.
Throw in the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in February, which will see big air, slopesyle and halfpipe competition taking to Mottolino Fun Mountain in Livigno, and you have yourself one of the biggest, baddest and busiest seasons in the history of FIS Snowboard Park & Pipe.
Needless to say, you’re going to want to tune to see how it all plays out this winter!
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