Last night (March 27, 2010), Nickelodeon held their 2010 Kids Choice Awards. Both Shaun White and Ryan Sheckler were up for Favorite Male Athlete in a list that included basketball greats Kobe Bryant and Lebron James.
Shaun White (who looked remarkably unexhausted) may have presented an award to Taylor Lautner, but he didn’t win. Apparently, the little girls still understand and Ryan rolled away with the win. Had this been the Cougars Choice Awards, there likely would have been a different, more tomatoey, winner.
The Tahoe faithful gathered again at Donner Ski Ranch today (March 27, 2010) for the Legends of Tahoe party and competition. This year’s comp: a GS race for pre-1993 snowboards. Norm Saylor was noticeably absent from the proceedings (although he watched the whole thing from his deck), Tom Burt was ageless as usual, and Pastor Jim Rippey (on the blue course) slayed the GS to edge Salty Peak’sDennis Nazari for the win.
Inducted into official Tahoe Legend status at the end of the day where Billy Olson, Kirsten Bedard, ISM Founder Tom Hsieh, and snowboard event organizer Tom Collins. As Hsieh said during his acceptance speech, “Shaun White may be the world’s most important snowboarder, but he’s only that because he stands on all on your shoulders.”
The names of the inductees will be added to the perpetual Legends of Tahoe trophy on display in the Donner Ski Ranch lodge.
Comune’s Art Director Corey Smith is or has been a snowboarder, a musician, an artist, and a clothing-designing, team-wrangler known to get in a few online scuffles in his time. YoBeat’s Nick Lipton interviewed the Silverlake dweller to get the whole story down; past, present and future including the crazy shit like this:
Well there’s the time I holed up in the presidential suite at Hotel Lucia with Sean Lennon and a bunch of models for a coupe days. We bought like a grand of assorted drugs and just got weird. I took a hot bath for like a day, then I just chilled in my white hotel robe, I thought I could speak different languages. The girls were all tripping out, trashing the place ordering room service and jumping around. We were singing songs and just tripping out. I love that dude, he’s a genius like his father.
Billed as a romantic comedy, the story details the story of a young girl from a working class suburb who lands a job in an ultra-glam ski resort, where she’s totally out of her depth until she discovers her natural snowboarding genius — and the boss’s gorgeous son.
The story is reportedly the retelling of Cinderella as a snowboarder (played by Felicity Jones). Roxy and Quiksilver are reportedly providing “branding” for the film which is being directed by All About Steve’s Phil Traill. Filming isMammoth Mountain going on this week in St. Anton.
Portland, Oregon snowboarder Levi Krukowski, 19, was found dead at the base of a 40 foot cliff at Mt. Hood Meadows on Monday, March 22, 2010. He had been reported missing an hour early according to a story in the Salem News.
“He had been with friends when he went missing near an area marked as a hazard. The hazard area was marked with a rope. . . “The Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Patrol located Levi rukowski’s body in a creek near the bottom of a waterfall. The creek was within the hazard area and required crossing the rope boundary to access.
His death is being investigated as an accident, according to the story, and an autopsy is scheduled for today. Our thoughts are with Levi’s family and friends.
Method Magazine is kicking off a new snowboard photography show titled 5×5 = 25 Years of Snowboard Photography Exhibition. Included in the show will be photos from Mark Gallup, Calle Ericsson, Vincent Skoglund, Bud Fawcett and Frode Sandbech. The show will tour Europe for the next 12 months. to “tell the rich history of snowboarding.”
5×5 opens this Friday March 26, 2010 at 8:30 PM at the arl.rock Sport-park & Restaurant – Bahnhofstrasse 1 – 6580 St. Anton am Arlberg. According to the flyer Terje Haakonsen and Gigi Rüf will be in attendance.
Nothing gets our blood pumping in the morning like a good website launch press release. Thank you Jeremy Jones Snowboards for hitting us up with all the details of your new digital, online catalog. Amazing! Follow the jump for all the sweaty, stinky, backcountry powder, deep wilderness treking details. . . [click to continue…]
Jake Burton discusses his daily shred and the 2010 Olympic snowboard uniforms with USA Today. The Gore-Tex pants (but not the jacket) will go on sale next October for $250.
Last night (March 27, 2010), Nickelodeon held their 2010 Kids Choice Awards. Both Shaun White and Ryan Sheckler were up for Favorite Male Athlete in a list that included basketball greats Kobe Bryant and Lebron James.
