Thanks, Yobeat, for keeping us in the laugh track on a Thursday afternoon. “S’posed to be pretty good weather tomorrow. . . “
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Snowboarding
Yes, she was. With her gold medal and everything. Plus, regardless of what some may be saying, Jamie Anderson stomp her run on the big man side of the slopestyle jump line.
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The New York Time’s John Branch looks into the issue of women getting hurt riding the same terrain as the men during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. In other Alpine sports (like the downhill) women have their own courses, but not in snowboarding.
Through Monday night, a review of the events at the Extreme Park counted at least 22 accidents that forced athletes out of the competition or, if on their final run, required medical attention. Of those, 16 involved women. The proportion of injuries to women is greater than it appears given that the men’s fields are generally larger.
Branch looks into these issues and more and comes to no real conclusion. If he did someone would probably get mad and call him sexist. But his story is still worth a read, especially if you winced occasionally during the women’s slopestyle, halfpipe, and boardercross events.
[Link: New York Times]
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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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