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.
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.
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.
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.
Last week on Jump 5 in the Snowmass park in Colorado Mark McMorris stomped the first-ever Backside Triple Cork 1440, the crew was sessioning the public park for the upcoming “Park Sessions” Project coming Fall 2011.
From the looks of this make we’re not going to see the end of the McMorris spin machine any time soon.
The only real surprise in the US Grand Prix Mammoth Slopestyle event was that Chaz “Chuck G” Guldemond sat on his first run and had to take another. Other than than, it was the usual huck fest.
We were secondarily surprised at how embarrassingly shallow the women’s slopestyle pool really is. The women’s finals were made up of Jamie Anderson and seven girls who could barely 50-50 and straight air their way down the course. In their defense it was a big course and some of the more talented girls had some trouble with their landings, but no-grab straight airs should not get anyone on a podium at a “national” competition. Oh, if you wondered, Jamie Anderson won again.
We didn’t even watch the Mammoth Halfpipe comp on Saturday, March 5, 2011, but apparently Steamboat Springs’ Matt Ladley delivered a “back 5, front 9, back 9, front 10, cab 10,” to claim victory over Greg Bretz and Louie Vito. “I feel great. It’s hard to explain. It’s surreal. I got a victory lap up there and I was thinking, ‘I already won, this is crazy,'” Ladley said. “I knew I put down a solid first run but I saw a lot of those guys landing their doubles, but it turns out it held up pretty well.”
On the women’s side Kelly Clark continued her complete and utter domination of women’s halfpipe riding. “It’s great to come out and get another win here. More than the placing, I’m happy with my riding. That’s the most important thing for me and the good placing follows that,” Clark said. [click to continue…]
On March 19, 2011 Academy Snowboards at Tahoe’s Boreal Resort will host a Cash For Kids comp on “a jib feature specially designed by Academy Snowboards’ Team Riders Chad Tarbell and Will Bateman.
Creative setup allows riders to hit different features and take different lines through a jib/rail oriented course. Judging based on overall performance. Top 6-10 riders advance to cash finals. Riders get four runs in finals. One rider on course at a time.
Pros, Ams, and Girls are invited. The event begins at 9 AM and ends at 4 PM and costs $10 in addition to a lift ticket. Follow the jump for all the details or click the link for more info.
Frequency: The Snowboarder’s Journal’sColin Wiseman got the inside line on what big mountain rider Jeremy Jones has been up to lately. More specifically, what his new film Further is all about. Here’s some of what Mr. Jones said.
Further, for me… well Deeper was me going to places that I was really familiar with, then crossing this imaginary boundary into the unridden realm of these areas that have become almost my home ranges, places I’ve gone back to year after year for ten or fifteen years. So with Further the idea is to switch things up… what I learned with Deeper gave me confidence and fresh eyes. I look at the world’s mountains with a new perspective. I look at them and go, “There’s nothing that I consider too far for riding.” So Further is about getting to some exotic places that I’ve always wanted to ride and taking the show on the road; taking the knowledge I’ve learned in the snowpacks and ranges that I’m familiar with, and taking that to places where I’m somewhat starting from scratch.
Just think: we can watch the entire US Grand Prix of Snowboarding Halfpipe tomorrow (March 5, 2011) at 2 PM PST from Mammoth Mountain right here. Nice, huh?
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:
