Live online coverage of the Burton US Open of Snowboarding Championships from Stratton Mountain, Vermont is in effect through Sunday, March 13, 2011 on Burton.com. No reason to endure the, snow, rain,or frost heaved back roads of Vermont when we can watch it all live online. Click here for the complete schedule of events.
[Link: US Open Snowboarding Championships]
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Wait, no Jamie Anderson and Chas Guldemond on the top spots of the Burton US Open Snowboarding Championship Slopestyle podium? Nope. Finland’s Enni Rukajärvi edged Anderson by 1.70 points for the win and Eric Willett stomped his frontside 270 boardslide, a backside tailslide 450 out, a Cab underflip 900, tailslide 270 out to a frontside 900 tail grab, and a switch backside double cork 1080 mute grab run to take out Marc “Mr. 1440 Triple Cork” McMorris and Chas Guldemond
“It was awesome to win,” Willett said. “This is only my second time competing in the US Open, so to come here and win is great. Even with the tough weather, the level of riding was insane.”
For the rest of the story, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Danny Kass checks in with all the details for Grenade Games 7 coming up March 25-27, 2011 at Southern California’s Bear Mountain. We’re guessing this could be pretty big being close to LA and all.
[Link via YoBeat]
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Two Boyne, Michigan thieves rolled off with two snowboards from Boyne Highlands right under the watchful gaze of the security camera. If they look familiar, turn them in. (Watch them dance off at the very end of the clip.)
[Link: Petoskey News]
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Snowboarders are set to gather today (March 10, 2011) for a meeting at the US Open Snowboarding Championships to discuss forming a union to help snowboarders deal with event scheduling issues International Olympic Committee’s plans to add slopestyle to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, according to a Matt Higgins story in the New York Times.
Such a union would be unusual: X Games competitors’ efforts to create a union have fizzled out, and riders say this is the first attempt to create a union in snowboarding. . . “We have no time to train, no time to recover from injuries,” said Chas Guldemond, 23, of Reno, who during the past three weeks has won slopestyle competitions in Europe, Asia and North America. After the United States Open, Guldemond will fly to France for Winter X Games Europe next week.
While the idea of athletes organizing to protect their best interests is a great one (and we hope they are successful for once), this entire issue seems more related to the owners of established snowboarding events (the TTR series for example) hoping to be included in the Olympic qualification process even though they have never been big fans the FIS.
Apparently, event owners like Terje Haakonsen have finally figured out that being a little more involved with the Olympic process just might be good for business.
[Link: New York Times]
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When snowboard site Yobeat.com embeded a couple Youtube.com versions of Transworld Snowboarding’s Mark McMorris‘ 1440 Triple Cork clip they thought it was pretty funny. They said:
The nice thing about “exclusive” Internet content is after a day, it usually turns into an ad. So if you missed Mark McMorris’s acrobatics on some other site, now you can watch it on them all! Feel the excitement!
Interestingly enough the clips were pulled from Youtube a day later due to a “copyright claim” by Transworld’s parent company Bonnier Corp. Guess they didn’t want that clip going viral with all their branding on it. The same clip, however, is available for embedding on Transworld’s Vimeo account.
[Link: Yobeat]
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We’ve been wondering how Danny Davis’ recovery has been going since some reportedly late night sledding landed him in a Salt Lake City hospital in January of 2010. From the looks of this, he’s right back on track.
[Link: Frendsvision]
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If you like to drink beer and snowboard at the same time, then Whistler Blackbcomb and Kokanee have just the trail map for you, according to a post on the Kokanee facebook page. And if you like to drink and ride and fumble with your phone at the same time, they were kind enough to include a QR code.
“Kokanee is a long standing partner with some of the best Mountain Resorts in Western Canada, what better way to celebrate these relationships than to put their trail maps right on our packaging,” said Mike Bascom, Marketing Manager for Kokanee. “We’re very proud of our Mountain roots and are really excited to be able to bring the mountains to life in an innovative way.”
Snowboarding drunk has never been easier. Now if they only made a can with a map of the Sea to Sky tourists could drink all the way from Vancouver.
[Link: Kokanee via College Ski Trips]
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It appears that Shaun White was able get out of competing in his third Burton US Open Snowboarding Championship in a row. This time reportedly so he can have some surgery done on his foot, according to a story on ESPN/Action.
An email statement from White’s publicist Samantha Hill on Monday afternoon read: “Shaun is taking a short break from riding due to minor surgery he is having on his foot.” . . Hill declined to reveal the extent of White’s injury, or when it occurred. White has not competed since winning a gold medal in halfpipe at Winter X Games 15 in January.
Wonder what Mr. White has against Vermont?
[Link: ESPN/Action]
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ThrityTwo’s Mike Ravelson, Chris Brewster, Brandon Hobush and Johnny O’Conner get their shred on at New Hampshire’s Loon Mountain.
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