What do you know. . . those Dangerzone boys are still making us smile. . . frightening, we know.
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Snowboarding
Since we seem to be on a Canadian snowboarders and drugs groove today here’s another one.
In his new book Off The Chain, An Insider’s History of Snowboarding Ross Rebagliati suggests that his positive weed drug test at the Nagano Olympic Games was part of an International Olympic Committee plot to put snowboarding in its place, according to a story in the Canadian Press.
“I smoked weed on tour because it relaxed me, and unlike alcohol, it did not result in hangovers or weight gain,” he writes. “To be sure my results would be clear by the Olympics, I’d smoked by last spliff in early April 1997.” . . It wasn’t until after the Olympics Rebagliati learned he had failed every drug test he had taken in the six months leading up to the Games, but was never told the results. . . “When I tested positive for marijuana during those pre-Games doping controls, the FIS said nothing so that, should I win at the Olympics, the IOC could seize the opportunity to show snowboarders what would happen if we didn’t straighten up. . . I’m sure that many other snowboarders failed their drug tests for marijuana in the months leading up to the Games too. And if one of them had won the gold medal, the same thing would have happened to that winner. Too far-fetched? You decide.”
We wouldn’t put anything past the IOC, but this does sound just a tad paranoid. No?
[Link: Canada Press]
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According to Pocketgamer.co.uk a new game Shaun White Snowboarding Origins will be released for the iPhone along side Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage.
Of course, the key feature will be the controls, with AMA – which is developing and publishing – promising trick moves such as ollies, tail grabs, melon, indy grabs, spins and flips will be smooth and intuitive to the touch. . . The action takes places across four geographical areas – Chile, Japan, Spain and the USA. . . Community features will also be covered with the ability to send ghosts to friends, share challenges, as well as compare your scores via global leaderboards.
The game reportedly drops in December in the iTunes store. This could be the first Shaun White Snowboarding game we ever play.
[Link: Pocketgamer]
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Open Space: The Untold Stories of Mike Basich is up and on the 241-usa.com site in its entirety and worth watching if you have a spare 37 minutes. Mikey B. has always followed his own path and this film puts it all in perspective.
[Link: 241 via Board As Fuck]
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The UK’s Independent attends a Burton Snowboards autograph signing session and brings us all up-to-date on the marketing machine zeitgeist that is Shaun White, Inc.
While his contemporaries continued to channel the sport’s core sponsors into career success, White became an overnight industry, trading niche overachievement for mainstream sports superstardom, his image used to launch clothing lines for US superstore Target, his face fronting campaigns for American Express and Hewlett Packard and his signature splattered across the covers of posters, books, DVDs, video games.
When we read stories like this we think back to the time when Shaun was just a tiny kid in a helmet standing quietly by as his mother begged event organizers to let him forerun the US Open halfpipe even though he wasn’t technically old enough.
[Link: Independent]
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Looks like Shaun White’s halloween costume wasn’t just a wacky lark.
According to SportsBusiness Journal Wendy’s and Ubisoft’s Shaun White Snowboarding video game have basically bought out sponsorship of the Winter Diabetes 2 Dew Tour
A partnership that links Wendy’s and Ubisoft’s Shaun White snowboarding video game has helped the Winter Dew Tour sell out of its title sponsorships for the first time. The quick-service restaurant and the video game manufacturer struck a multifaceted partnership deal. . .
Now it’s all beginning to making sense.
[Link: SportsBusiness Journal]
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Those who missed the Mammoth Lakes opening, or who just love snowboarding art and the memory of Jeff Anderson have another California chance to check out the I Am Snowboarding art show this time on December 10, 2009 at Club 6ix at 60 Sixth Street (between market & Mission) in San Francisco. This stop will feature music by Stagger and Fall, Attitude Problem, Gull and DJ Baron. As always money raised goes to support the JLA Memorial Fund.
[Link: I Am Snowboarding]
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One of Greg Stump’s finest snowboard films. . . no doubt. The 1988 Burton Snowboards promo film Snow Rules.
[Link: Surfstyley3]
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Copper Mountain, the newest member of the Powdr family of resorts will open their 22-foot superpipe tomorrow Saturday, November 28, 2009, according to a story in the Summit Daily.
Copper’s pipe will host the US Snowboarding Team for daily training sessions. The US Snowboard Team will have exclusive training times from 8:30-10:00 a.m. on weekends and 9-11 a.m. on weekdays leading into the USSA Grand Prix at Copper, Dec. 10-12.
And the five ring circus begins. . .
[Link: Summit Daily]
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British actor Charlie Bewley who plays the vampire Demetri in the latest installment of the Mormporn series Twilight apparently spent a couple years hanging out in Whistler snowboarding according to an interview on Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch blog.
I really did enjoy snowboarding. I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration. I think in some respects, spending time in the mountains was something that prompted me to stay away from England and take up a path less trodden.
So we guess we have snowboarding to blame.
[Link: Entertainment Weekly]
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