The headline to this Canada.com profile on Jasey-Jay AndersonAnderson shows passion for both fruits and labour comes off sounding more like a political story from some British tabloid than a piece about the legendary Alpine snowboard racer turned blueberry farmer.
At age 33, the Canadian snowboarding veteran has broadened his horizons to include a four-acre blueberry farm in Quebec, but Anderson hasn’t lost his zest for the slopes. In fact, Canada’s overwhelming success on the World Cup circuit — a 26-medal haul this season — has rekindled his competitive passion.
For the rest of what Jasey-Jay has been up to lately (in addition to labouring with fruit), click the link.
No surprise. Kelly Clark edged out Mercedes Nicoll, and Sarah Conrad to win the Roxy Chicken Jam at Mammoth Mountain, California.
Kelly lived up to her reputation today as ‘Queen of the Halfpipe’ and took home her second consecutive Roxy Chicken Jam 6Star win. This puts her in excellent position to go after her first Swatch TTR World Title in tomorrow’s Slopestyle competition. “The title would be an amazing bonus to a really great season to me right now” said Kelly Clark setting her eyes on the prize. “It would just be like icing on the cake.”
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The idea behind the Ultimate Boarder event is a cool one: a contest to decide who is the best boardsports tri-athlete. Problem is the sports have become so specialized that no one anyone cares about will be able well. The big name players event organizers list in their press announcements all either have one really weak sport, or are just not that great at everything.
Last year’s winner Aaron Astorga is undoubtedly a bad ass and we care about him immensely, but we all know what’s going to happen this year: some random 19-year-old shred dog from Ventura or HB is going to win the whole thing. And maybe that’s the way this thing should go. It can be just like a triathlon with 1,200 entries and a beer garden at the finish. Get some participants involved. The organizers have never been afraid of a little main stream sponsorship.
UVM Snowboard Team rider Michael Schwarz had a little trouble at the World Quarterpipe Championships last weekend at Vermont’s Timber Ridge, according to a story on Yobeat.com.
Micheal got bucked off the log jib, bouncing on his head not once, but twice. Not even his helmet, which he was wearing, helped. In the midst of the mayhem he was taken away by ambulance, then airlifted to Dartmouth. He underwent minor brain surgery to relieve swelling and was put in an induced coma. Last we heard, there was no brain damage and all his vitals were good so we have high hopes for a full and speedy recovery!
No surprise here, but looks like Burton was also forced to make some changes to the way they are doing business thanks to the current “no buy” economy, according to the Burlington Free Press.
The cuts include layoffs of “less than 5 percent of its staff in North America,” and a decision by company founders Jake and Donna Carpenter to eliminate their own salaries. . . . “This has been a very painful process for us, and considering the global economic situation, we’ve done everything in our power to save as many jobs as possible,” Burton CEO Laurent Potdevin said in a company news release. . . . “Our goal this entire year has been to cut as many costs as possible on a global level, like sales meetings, travel and new hires so that we could avoid cutting people. Instead of a much larger number of layoffs, we decided to take a different approach, which is temporarily reducing salaries on a sliding scale from 0 to 15 percent for employees in North America.”
We have to admit it: few things make us feel more like going on a spring shred session than watching a Tahoe Dangerzone video. It’s kind of creepy to say, but Nicki Fresh and the crew make it all look new again.
On April Fools day Eric Sweet, 47, and nine other Jews will take a 36-foot-long snowboard to Jackson Hole Resort and hopefully ride into the record books on the world’s longest snowboard, according to a story in the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
Sweet has also procured a trademark hold from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office giving him rights to the name “Ten Jews, One Snowboard” and “The Minyan Board.” . . . Sweet says he’s having fun with the whole project. . . . “It was more difficult to put 10 Jews together and agree on something,” Sweet said. “That’s part of what I think is funny: With 10 Jews, can we actually pull it off? I don’t know. With 10 Jews on a snowboard, it’s going to be hard for us to look athletic.”
The board breaks down into 10 pieces so Sweet and his friends can ride up the lift. At the top they will apparently put the board together and then ride down the mountain (without any official permission from the resort, Sweet says). l’chaim
Broslist.com mixes the classified ads of Craigslist with user generated content community functionality that seems to be loaded on every site these days. Post a profile, post a video, and then post a listing to sell your old skate deck. It’s all there on the broslist. We don’t know how popular the rest of the site will be, but if the classified section can hit critical mass it could be a great resource for snow, surf, skate gear trading.
Here’s what Mike Piscitelli posted on Club Mumble:
These challenging economic times inspired a few of us to build a classified website that would enable surfers to buy, sell and trade used surf gear, find cheap places to stay all over the world, get rides to the beach, and land work. Over the course of 12 months we worked with a talented group of web programmers to createBroslist.com, a simple but thorough classified website that addresses the needs of surfers on all levels. Unlike craigslist, we are your bros.
The site has only been up for a couple hours, so don’t expect to find much now, but if your garage looks anything like ours, broslist.com may offer some kind of salvation from surf, snow, skate overload.
Designer all around the place Cody Hudson of Struggle Inc. (he’s done design work for Burton, Stussy, Monster Children etc.) has a new show opening at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago next weekend.
It’s titled: thanks man, see you around man, fuck yeah, you guys are wild, thanks man, i dig it, see you
Opening party is March 27, 2009 at 6 PM at 835 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago IL 60607.
The headline to this Canada.com profile on Jasey-Jay Anderson Anderson shows passion for both fruits and labour comes off sounding more like a political story from some British tabloid than a piece about the legendary Alpine snowboard racer turned blueberry farmer.
