This video of snowboarder Meesh Hytner would seem to suggest that wearing a Backcountry Access Float 30 (or a similar avalanche buoyancy device) can be very helpful when the entire slope begins to slide. Glad everyone is okay.
[Link: GrindTV.com via Gizmodo]
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Watch the Burton Canadian Open Slopestyle semi finals and Halfpipe Finals live today (February 3, 2012) beginning at 9:30 AM PST and Slopestyle finals beginning tomorrow (February 4, 2012) at 9:30 AM PST.
Watch Kelly Clark (USA), Hannah Teter (USA) Jamie Anderson (USA), Queralt Castellet (ESP), Sina Candrian (SUI), Mercedes Nicoll (CDN), Chas Guldemond (USA), Ryo Aono (JPN), Zack Stone (CDN) and Markus Malin (FIN) are just a few of the top riders planning to compete for a piece of the $72,000 prize purse.
And no, Shaun White will be not be competing. Click here for the live webcast, or for complete worldwide live webcast schedules follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Bergisel Stadium is reportedly all set for the 2012 Billabong Air & Style in Innsbruck, Austria Saturday, February 4, 2012.
Despite the absence of last year’s winner Mark McMorris, the current standings in the TTR are a constant mix of high flying new riders all making their mark on the tour and this event will be no different; with riders like Eric Willet, Sage Kotsenburg, Seb Toots, Jamie Nicholls and all the rest there is no predicting who will take the win and that’s what makes this such an unmissable event.
Watch it live on Extreme.com beginning at 10:30 AM PST tomorrow (February 4, 2012).
[Link: Extreme.com]
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We’re more confused than you. All we’ve gotten out of this is that the 2012 World Snowboarding Championships are going down in Oslo, Norway February 10-19, 2012 and they will include a macking quarter pipe. . . and Drop Kick Murphys and Turbonegro.
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Next Tuesday, (February 7, 2012) Ben Kweller will release a new album, Go Fly A Kite. To promote that album Bored To Death star Jason Schwartzman pulled together a little help from his friends who look more than a little alike. Watch and you’ll see what we mean.
[Link: BlackBook]
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First there were the slew of “skateboard bandits” hitting banks, now police in Orange County, California are looking for someone they are calling the “snowboarder bandit,” after a man robbed a Wells Fargo branch in Irvine, California, according to a story in the Orange County Register.
The robber is believed to be the man who authorities have linked to holdups in Laguna Hills, Anaheim Hills, Ladera Ranch and Corona del Mar, said Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokeswoman. Authorities have described the serial robber as a white man in his mid-20s to mid-30s, who is about 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds. . . The robber is believed to be the man who authorities have linked to holdups in Laguna Hills, Anaheim Hills, Ladera Ranch and Corona del Mar, said Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokeswoman.
You know, buying all that Volcom gear can get expensive. And come to think of it, he does look pretty much like every guy we ever see when we’re rolling behind the Velcro curtain. . .If he looks more familiar than that, click here for the tip line.
[Link: Orange County Register]
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Registration starts tomorrow (February 3, 2012) for the 14th Annual Triple Air Show at Mountain High.
The Cholula Triple Air has been upgraded to a 3 star TTR (Ticket To Ride) event this year which means competitors will earn points towards their overall worldwide ranking. The TTR standard is what competitive snowboarders use to rank themselves against each other, and earn entry into events like the Grand Prix and the Olympics. . . The Cholula Triple Air Show is unlike any other big air event of its kind. Instead of one big jump, snowboarders must tackle three humongous kickers making their landings and execution crucial. Riders are scored on their best of two runs and the top 10 finishers make their way to the finals where awards are paid out to 5th place.
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You had to step around the stacked log front entrance and go inside to see one of the cooler boards on display at K2 Snowboards during this year’s SIA Show.
The Happy Hour is a new universal twin/all mountain snowboard designed by K2 in collaboration with fellow Northwest brand Airblaster.
The board sports a triangular nose and tail and is a new take on the blank board with a solid matte color design on the entire board. It is available in five colors with sizes ranging between 151 and 161 cm.
The Happy Hour is available for pre-book now and has a MSRP of $479.95. For more products from the 2012 SIA Show in Denver click here.
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Tylur Dewolf, a 17-year-old snowboarder from Sandy, Oregon died Friday night (January 27, 2012) after she hit a tree while riding at Mt. Hood Ski Bowl, according to as story on NWCN.com.
Rescuers found Dewolf’s body near Dog Leg Run. It appeared that she had lost control while snowboarding and crashed into a tree just off of the groomed run. She suffered severe trauma to her head and chest. Investigators said she was wearing a helmet.
Friends say she was “a natural leader with a positive spirit.” Our thoughts are with Dewolf’s family and friends.
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Real and true and honest moments are so rare in corporate snowboard sport that when they occur it drops the bottom half of our brains out into our laps and leaves us dumbfounded and quivering. That what happened last night (January 29, 2012) when two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, five-time Winter X Games Gold medalist, Target Clothing Designer, video game character, and 2012 Businessweek Power 100 number 8 Shaun White dropped in on his third and final run in the Winter X Games Halfpipe Finals.
White had already won the gold medal with a score of 94 points, edging second place finisher Iouri Podladtchikov by one point. White was perfectly set up to take a victory lap. He could have just made a four hit run of 23 foot straight airs and the gold would still have been his. But Shaun had some unfinished business. In his second run, White had gone down on his last hit. It was the unveiling of his frontside double-cork 1260 and he didn’t land it. We could tell the moment he dropped in on his final run that he was going to try it again.
As we all know, Shaun landed the back-to-back backside double cork 1260 to frontside double cork 1260 on his last two hits and was awarded the first perfect 100 point score in X Games history. And while it seems an almost too perfectly scripted finish for a Walt Disney Company owned made-for-TV entrainment event property, the truth is Shaun White’s run was one of those real, true, honest moments in snowboarding were an athlete’s performance rises above all the bullshit that surrounds the event, the marketing, and the hype and stands alone on its own screaming for everyone to hear: this is snowboarding.
Shaun White seemed as stoked as we all were. “It’s unreal. I’ve been wanting that 100 forever,” he said. “Thank you everyone here tonight. This is unreal. . . I came here on a mission. I couldn’t compete in slopestyle. I was sitting around icing my ankle. I took out a little of the anger that I couldn’t compete in slope on the pipe tonight. I was upset with my first front double 12 and wanted to get it.
For one of the first times in X Games television show history we were glad we were somewhere with cable and able to watch, because missing this was missing one of those epic moments.
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