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Time shows no mercy. Winters come and go on our infinite journey around the sun. But for each lap we capsule small pieces of time, preserved for future, connected to the past, steppingstones in our collective memory that help us understand the bigger picture and open the doors to all the underlaying events leading up to this specific point.

What an amazing show the final of the Freeride World Tour in Verbier turned out to be! Even though the conditions were not as bad as they initially looked, Bec the Rosses was still very challenging. The term “old powder” was used to describe the snow covering the upper part of the venue and in the more sun affected parts further down the riders had to deal with varied conditions that required adaptable and light feet. 

Tennis is an individual sport in which lots of players all dress the same. And then keep wearing those identical outfits day after day, match after match, throughout a tournament. At the Grand Slams, as well as on the men's and women's tours, it's not unusual to have opponents walk on court wearing the exact same outfits, down to matching socks and even accessories such as headbands.

Tennis has always been the most stylish of sports. There's an elegance with tennis clothes that you don't get when dressing for other sports.

The tennis skirt is having a moment. "Tennis skirts are all the rage right now," Vogue magazine observed recently of women wearing them both off and on the court. The truth is, the tennis skirt has never gone out of fashion on the court. 

HEAD salutes the best female tennis player in the world, Ashleigh Barty, as she announces her retirement from professional tennis.

The humanitarian crisis in the Ukraine has forced millions of innocent people to flee their homes or take shelter without adequate supplies of clothing to protect them from the harsh cold of winter.

The HEAD Worldcup Rebels reasserted their leading position in the alpine skiing World Cup in the 2021/22 season: In the FIS Brand Ranking HEAD is yet again the clear number one with 8,275 points. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, the highlight of the season, six out of ten Gold medals in the individual events went to the HEAD team. In the World Cup, the HEAD Worldcup Rebels raced to 64 podium finishes - 17 times they stood on top of the podium.

The 2021/22 Alpine ski season came to an end on Sunday in Meribel with the technical disciplines. Atle Lie McGrath celebrated his second World Cup victory in the last race of this season, the men's Slalom, on Sunday. Lena Dürr finished her best World Cup season so far with second place in the Slalom on Saturday. Sara Hector finished second in the Giant Slalom overall ranking.

In the last speed events of this season, the HEAD Worldcup Rebels once again showed up in style in Courchevel. Vincent Kriechmayr was the fastest in the Downhill on Wednesday on the 2023 World Cup course and was also in a class of his own in the Super-G on Thursday. Ragnhild Mowinckel bagged her second World Cup victory in the Super-G on Thursday. Christine Scheyer finished second in the Downhill event, missing her second World Cup victory by just a tenth of a second.

HEAD Summer 2022 uncovers a collection with multitude of styles so that every player can find the perfect look. That means the more sporty and elegant styles of the Performance line; the more innovative and colourful styles of the Vision and the ‘We are padel’ lines, plus the more classic Club line.

It’s been a season filled with tricky snow conditions on the Freeride World Tour, and the first of the two final rounds, held in Fieberbrunn, Austria didn’t fail to follow that tradition. With nothing but sun in the forecast, the competition was even held one day earlier than the official weather window originally stated.

Atle Lie McGrath celebrates winning the Night Slalom in Flachau: The 21-year-old Norwegian athlete unleashed a show-stopping second run to nail his first World Cup victory. Fourth place went to Johannes Strolz from Austria, who was in the lead after the first run.

We've created this guide to choosing a padel racquet - with advice on why you might select a certain shape, balance or weight – so you can find one that’s just right for you.

Norwegian athlete Kjetil Jansrud - a very big name in the Alpine Skiing World Cup - says goodbye after almost two decades. The 36-year-old Olympic and World Champion competed in his last race in the Downhill on Saturday in his home town of Kvitfjell. In Kvitfjell and Lenzerheide, the HEAD Worldcup Rebels podiumed six times over the weekend. Canadian athlete James Crawford celebrated his first podium in second place in the Super-G in Kvitfjell on Sunday. 

HEAD’s racquet sports footwear collection for 2022 is made with innovative technologies and materials so you can ‘Win From the Ground Up’ on any court. Whether you are playing tennis, padel, squash, racquetball or pickleball, you will find shoes designed specifically for your sport, helping you to get the most from your game. The HEAD footwear collection has a range of shoes to suit all levels, including advanced and more casual players, as well as juniors and those new to the sport.

HEAD is celebrating its first world No 1 in squash for nearly six years! Beginning of March, Paul Coll will rise to the top of the PSA rankings, becoming the first male squash player from New Zealand to become world No 1.

With her second place in the first Downhill in Crans Montana on Saturday, Ragnhild Mowinckel is now indisputably among the very best in the world in this discipline as well. It was the Norwegian’s first podium in the Downhill. Austrian racer Cornelia Hütter finished the race in third.

After a weekend jammed with great freeskiing action the HEAD athletes competing in the Freeride World Tour in Baqueira Beret, Spain and X Games in Aspen, USA, brought home a fine selection of silver! Big congrats to Hedvig Wessel, Abel Moga and Aaron Blunck!

At the top event this season, the HEAD Worldcup Rebels once again confirmed their unique class. The best ski team in the world was on top of the podium in six out of ten individual events. In total, HEAD athletes won 15 medals. HEAD was represented on the podium in all ten competitions. 

The problem with a well-built ski is that if it's working perfectly, you probably won't even notice it. The same applies to a well-designed ski boot. It's so precise that you don't even realize it. That is the most important point. Don't think about the ski, the boot or any other piece of equipment, just focus on one thing - the finish line!

The third stop of the Freeride World Tour in Kicking Horse, Canada, was also the last stop before the two final rounds in Fieberbrunn and Verbier. It was time for the cut. This year the women competed for a total of six tickets for the final. Among the ski men, 11 spots were up for grabs.

Living up to its name, our new BOOM tennis racquet series has had a big impact on expert reviewers across the tennis world.

Gold for Jess Hotter and the allover lead for Hedvig Wessel after the second stop of the Freeride World Tour.