Danny Davis blew minds today. Here he talks about what motivated him to go even harder in his second run even though he was in the lead coming out of the first run.
Kelly Clark talks about making the Olympic Team for the third time and how she will be treating the rest of the US Snowboarding Grand Prix Tour.
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Danny Davis, Shaun White, and Scotty Lago on the boxes at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix at Mammoth. We’ve seen more than our fair share of halfpipe contests and this was no doubt the best we’ve ever seen. Old Olympic announcers will tell you that some people are just built for the Olympics. For them everything seems to come together at just the perfect time and today Danny Davis was all that.
Click here for the men’s official final results.
Kelly Clark is going to the Olympics for the third time. Hannah Teter may be on her way, and Australian Holly Crawford will see them there.
Click here for the women’s official final results.
Follow the jump for the official US Snowboarding press release. . .
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Photographer Steve Sherman (photo editor of Surfer Magazine) will be taking his best photos on the road in Southern California this month and not only that, he’s going to share a little knowledge on how to get great photos. The tour begins Thursday January 7, 2010 at Surfride in Solana Beach. Don’t miss this.
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The official results of halfpipe qualification are not out yet because of “technical difficulties” with the score keeping computer at the Mammoth US Snowboarding Grand Prix. Click the above photo for a larger version that you can probably read the mens results.
The women’s complete results are now posted here along with the women finals start list.
As far as we can tell the men’s final will look like this:
1. Shaun White, Carlsbad, CA, 47.10
2. Greg Bretz, Mammoth Lakes, CA, 45.90
3. Jeff Batchelor, Canada, 43.80
4. Louie Vito, Sandy, UT, 43.40
5. Danny Davis, Detroit, MI, 43.30
6. Elijah Teter, South Lake Tahoe, CA, 43.00
7. Broc Waring, Edwards, CO, 42.20
8. Justin Lameroux, Canada, 41.30
9. JJ Thomas, Golden, CO, 41.20
10. Jack Mitrani, Mammoth, CA, 40.70
11. Steve Fisher, Breckenridge, CO, 39.70
12. Matt Ladley, Steamboat Springs, CO, 39.70
13. Scotty Lago, Seabrook, NH, 39.60
14. Brennen Swanson, Stillwater, MN, 39.00
15. Andy Finch, Truckee, CA, 39.00
16. Mathieu Crepel, France, 38.90
We will have the official results up as soon as they are posted. Follow the jump for the official USSA press release.
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Click here for full PHOTO GALLERY from the Mammoth US Snowboarding Grand Prix. And up there, that’s Jack Mitrani sending it.
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In the first run of the Mammoth US Snowboarding Grand Prix Shaun White landed the highest score. It stayed there until he blew everyone away with his second run with a Lien, FS 9, double-double, and 10 for 47 points. This was his throw away.
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No one knows the ins and outs of the Olympics and snowboarding like US Snowboarding Olympic Team Coach Bud Keene. His arm may be braced up from an injury he suffered while catching a falling woman in a Copper Mountain liftline, but that didn’t stop him for discussing with us exactly what the Mammoth US Snowboarding Grand Prix means to the riders and the Vancouver US Olymic Snowboard Team.
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With BNQT Media Group USA Today and its parent Gannett Co. have quietly snuck up on mainstream action sports advertising by aggregating some of the ad sales of smaller blogs and websites into one large platform. For better or worse, this brings mainstream advertisers like Ball Park Franks, Dial Soap, and KMart-Sears and their money to smaller blogs
Formerly called the Cold War Collective, BNQT Media Group now represents 50 sites including like Surfline.com, Surfersvillage.com, Snowboard-Mag.com, Concretedisciples.com, and Freecaster.tv. While the 50-50 revenue share may not be that attractive to some online publishers, 50 percent of something is often better than 100 percent of nothing.
The only reason we’re mentioning is that they’ve just relaunched their website and it gives a much clearer vision of what President Rudd Davis and crew have been building for the past five years.
“BNQT Media Group has been very fortunate that an exceptional amount of our business has been generated from positive word of mouth,” explains Rudd Davis, president of BNQT Media Group. “But we’ve grown so rapidly that it was necessary to give our current and prospective clients an online resource to get up-to-date information on our services, capabilities and continued expansion.”
Check it out.
[Link: BNQT Media Group]
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Click the photo to see how huge Mammoth’s”Super Duper Pipe” really is.
Kevin Pearce may be in critical condition in a Salt Lake City Hospital, but his spirit is hovering like a whisper in everyone’s ear at Mammoth Mountain this week for the the second stop of the US Snowboarding Grand Prix.
Event organizers, riders, and the media are all sending positive energy his way, but at the same time wondering how thoughts of his accident on the double cork are going to affect the riders in the final two open Olympic halfpipe qualifiers.
During the riders’ meeting as the Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol went over their safety plans all we could really think of was KP. And when the Grand Prix’s Scotty Palmer said that CE certified helmets were required and that while no one checked for CE cert stickers at Copper the technical delegate would be checking inside everyone’s helmets at Mammoth all the coaches in the room seemed to nod, having been reminded again how serious this game is.
“This is probably the first time many of these kids have actually realized that they could die snowboarding,” one event official told us. “It’s heavy.”
Twelve years ago the first US Olympic snowboard team was named at Mammoth and while the team won’t officially be announced here, it could get pretty well sewn up by Saturday. The Olympic team will be chosen based on the best two results from the five US Snowboarding Grand Prix halfpipe events. But there’s a catch. The first three events are the only events that are open. The two halfpipe events coming up in Park City on January 20-23, 2010 are by invitation only. Only those with a statistical chance of making it in to the top four positions in the men’s and women’s fields will be invited.
“This is where we making the cuts,” said US Grand Prix Tour Director Eric Webster. “The Mammoth events are like Friday on the PGA Tour.”
Those who don’t make it into the top four of the standings at Mammoth may not get another chance for Vancouver.
Men’s qualifiers begin tomorrow morning at 9:30 AM (click here for Mens and Women’s official start lists). Stay tuned for complete side-of-the-pipe coverage.
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New York Times writer John Brauch had just completed a profile on Kevin Pearce when he got news of the snowboarder’s injury. Here’s how he tells it in the NYT.
Many know Kevin Pearce. Many know Simon Pearce. Few link them together. I found it fascinating — a father and son, connected by their ability to create in utterly different disciplines, famous to vastly different audiences. . . Yes, that was the story. . . On Dec. 21, Pia Pearce cheerfully gave a tour of the family’s house in Norwich, Vt., and the house’s renovated barn, well known on the snowboarding circuit as the ultimate hangout — a skateboard ramp in back, a great room inside stocked with a pool table, foosball, air hockey, stereo, guitars, a refrigerator and couches. . . The story was written Thursday. A call to the Pearce house later that afternoon was intended to let them know and to double-check a couple of things.
Sadly, that is when Brauch learned that Kevin had been injured earlier in the day. Read the rest of the story by clicking the link.
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