Yes, apparently Late Night With David Letterman is still on and as is the custom he’s interviewing Olympic gold medalists. Here he talks to halfpipe gold medalist Kaitlyn Farrington. If you need to know anything else, watch. Oh, and if you want to see Sage Kotsenburg utter the first words we’ve ever heard him speak, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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In what has to be one of the best “I-told-you-sos” of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, American Alpine snowboarder Vic Wild has won a gold medal in parallel slalom in Sochi for his new national sponsor Russia. After marrying a Russian Alpine snowboarder and realizing there was no hope in getting any support from US Skiing, Wild picked up a Russian passport and signed on with the Russian Alpine snowboarding team, according to a story on Yahoo Sports.
“I told everybody in the Russian snowboard federation: If you guys take me, you’ll never regret it,” Wild told the Wall Street Journal this week. . . And it won’t regret anything. Wild won the gold medal in the parallel giant slalom on Wednesday, an event that saw only one American entrant. Wild later celebrated with his wife Zavarzina, a fellow snowboarder who won bronze in the women’s event, and draped himself in a Russian flag.
While most don’t even consider Alpine snowboarding “snowboarding,” it’s still kind of funny to see the US pass on a Gold.
[Link: Yahoo Sports]
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Dave Lee and the crew at Signal Snowboards have made sliding devices out of pretty much everything, why not paper? Yeah, why not shred some paper. Here, watch.
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Quebec’s Nic Sauve has joined Gigi Ruf on the Slash Snowboards program and not surprisingly he is happy about his new revenue stream.
“Really stoked to be part of Slash,” Sauve says. “Since I was a kid I always looked up to Gigi, and I couldn’t be happier to get on this project with him and the rest of this sick crew!”
If you don’t know Mr. Sauve, here’s a little informer ya’ no say dada me Snow me I’ll go blame:
In 2011 the world saw what Nic was capable of, winning Gold at X-Games Snowboard Street. This was the start of something even bigger. Today Nic is 100% focused on filming. This past season he was able to get back to where it all started, traveling around with his closest friends. Together they produced Déjà vu, which dropped this Fall. We could not be happier to help support Nic in his constant progression for years to come.
For the official word from Slash (a.k.a Nidecker) follow the jumps. [click to continue…]
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Yes, the shoe giants will try nearly anything to get you to buy a pair of their sporting footwear posing as skate shoes. adidas is even willing to rewrite the history of one of tennis’ greatest living legends and present Stan Smith (yes, that one) as a long closeted skateboarder. Watch, laugh, cry, and then go buy the same pair of shoes that you always buy. And if they’re adidas, score one for the snarky adidas marketing team!
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If you think about it right turn left turn is about what it all boils down to.
“Right Turn Left Turn” looks at the season of five snowboarders exploring the art of turning and everywhere it leads them. From a beginner’s side slide to the perfect high speed carve Think Thank Special Projects aims to show how the simple act of turning your board can unlock an entire universe of snowboard self expression.
Thing is Chris Beresford, Max Warbington, Chris Larson, Jesse Burtner and Freddy Perry do it much better than the rest of us. Check it out in the latest teaser from Think Thank.
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While the city of New York was digging out from another savage winter storm Casey Neistat took to the streets behind his jeep to get some snowboarding done. And yes, he didn’t leave it up to any one else because he is most definitely that guy.
[Link: The Atlantic Cities]
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The pipe at Sochi’s Rosa Khutor Extreme Park was reportedly terrible, possibly the worst Olympic Halfpipe since the debut of snowboarding in the 1998 Nagano Olympics. But 12 snowboarders soldiered on through the sugar and sand flats, over holes in the walls, and three of them prevailed on Tuesday night, February 11, 2014. Sadly for US fans it wasn’t the American dream team let by two-time Gold Medalist Shaun White. It was the Swiss and Japanese.
While Americans Danny Davis, Greg Bretz, and Shaun White where shaken by the rough pipe in both their final runs, Iouri Podladtchikov and Japan’s Ayumu Hirano put down two solid runs (their second runs scoring highest) and Taku Hiraoka pulled it out in a clutch second run save. Luckily, the judging didn’t seem to be a factor at all (for once). Follow the jump for complete results. [click to continue…]
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While the rest of us were staying up all night watching Olympic snowboarding, complaining about judging, and the “quality of the venues” the true hard cores were out on the snow at Mt. Baker for the 2014 29th Annual Legendary Banked Slalom.
Here is a list of duct taped winners in all categories (along with their times, hometowns and ages):
Pro Men
Harry Kearney 1:43.35 Norwood, Colorado 20
Pro Women
Marie-France Roy 2:00.78 Les Eboulements, Quebec 30
Pro Masters
Pat Abramson 1:50.48 Boulder, Colorado 41
Pro Women Masters
Marni Yamada 2:02.64 Seattle, Washington 35
Next Generation
Jaydn Chomlack 2:07.76 Whistler, British Columbia 11
Juniors
Hank Kennedy 1:54.02 Glacier, Washington 15
Younger Amateurs
Jacob Krugmire 1:57.66 University Place, Washington 17
Older Amateurs
Spencer Cordovano 1:51.20 Hailey, Idaho 26
Women Amateurs
Martina Nemcova 2:03.42 Boulder, Colorado 23
Women Masters
Kelly Edmonds 2:09.33 Shoreline, Washington 34
Masters
Scott Reynolds 1:51.67 Rossland, British Columbia 31
Mid Masters
Tim Gallagher 1:58.35 Mammoth Lakes, California 44
Grand Masters
Jay Moore 2:01.01 Bozeman, Montana 50
Click here for a complete and total list of the losers (who had much more fun last weekend than any of us!)
[Link: Legendary Banked Slalom]
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British Columbia, Canada’s secret powder spot Red Mountain is brewing up some fun for fans of “craft beer” (you know, dudes trying to turn beer drinking into wine tasting) with their first Beer Goggles Craft Beer Festival scheduled for March 1, 2014.
From home-brewers to homies, Beer Goggles is set to become one of the largest festivals of its kind in eastern BC, a region known for its “big little beers.” Twelve confirmed breweries include stalwarts Nelson Brewing, Okanagan Spring, Tree, Steamworks, Mt. Begbie, Parallel 49, Stanley Park, Central City Brewing and other craft outfits from all over BC. We expect to serve up more than 50 different beers for the tasting event. . . .”Beer Goggles is not simply a beer festival, but a celebration of the craft beer industry,” explains RED Mountain’s Fran Richards, the man behind the mayhem. “All of the hardcore skiers and snowboarders ’round here know the simple pleasure of a fine brew after a day in the mountains, and we wanted to try and, um, bottle that feeling. Well, least until we can all buy craft beer on Etsy…”
If you’re into beer, and drinking beer, and instagraming pictures of beer to let all your beer drinking friends know all about the great beer you’re drinking then by all means follow the jump and get all the official details because this beer drinking festival is designed especially for you, beer drinker. [click to continue…]
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