Chris Roach was always one of our favorite riders and now Powder & Rails is letting a whole new generation of snowboarders know about a guy many believe to be the most stylish snowboarders of the modern era. Watch this and either learn, or be reminded. And stay tuned because this is only part one, part two is after the jump.
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The week before the skate world gathered in Huntington Beach, California for The Berrics Agenda Show another gathering of skateboarders went down in Philledelphia, Pennsylvania at The Focus Show. Here’s a little video of the event. For more info click the link.
[Link: interstatemag.com]
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The Sheriff’s Department in Big Bear, California is looking for “a white male adult, 25–30 years of age, approximately 5′10″ — 6′2″ tall, wearing a black and white jacket, black pants, and using a black snowboard” who slammed into a 9-year-old girl on January 2, 2010 leaving her with a gash to her face and a broken femur.
Hard to believe someone could run over a little girl and just ride away. The guy must already have a couple warrants. Click the image to watch the video.
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Last week when Kevin Pearce knocked himself out while training in the Park City Halfpipe he became the biggest story of the “pre-Olympic” media. Granted, it has all the trappings of Olympic drama: youth, talent, ambition, and sudden tradgedy. We can already hear the soft music, slow-motion falling snow, and soft-spoken voice over.
But for those who love and care about Danny, some of this media coverage can seem trite, annoying, and occasionally damaging. Such was the case when ABC News aired the above Olympic Hopeful In A Coma video which aired on January 5, 2009 while many of us where on the snow at Mammoth for the US Snowboarding Grand Prix.
In the report ABC News spoke to Snowboarder Magazine’s Pat Bridges who explained that progression in snowboarding pushes athletes into “going bigger, going faster, and doing more difficult tricks.” Australian Olympian Torah Bright was also quoted.
Then ABC rolled in with a live interview an “expert” named Christine Brennan, a “sports columnist” for USA Today. In about 30 seconds Brennan was able to discredit the entire sport of snowboarding saying:
This sport was added for TV ratings . . . the international Olympic committee wanted to bring a sport like this into the Olympics to try to encourage better TV ratings and viewership from a younger audience. So obviously the more extreme . . . the better it is for ratings and the better for them and their endorsements. That’s how this goes.
Old-media sports columnists are notorious for inciting readership with ignorance, and truthfully we never would have typed Ms. Brennan’s name if she had made more rational comments so great for her. On the snowboard side of things however, people got pretty riled up.
TV commentator and pro snowboarder Todd Richards was one of the first to throw what his wife called a “twitfit” .
Christine Brennan you are a hack “reporter/consultant” that should actually get real opinions and facts before reporting on “extreme sports,” he said via Twitter. , , Here is the deal on why i am pissed about this abc fiasco: i think of myself as one of the creditable mouth pieces for snowboarding on tv. i really take pride in having snowboarding being shown with integrity to the masses. i may joke and be sarcastic at times but i am….really protective of the sport that gave me a reason for being. how would a baseball player feel if i was suddenly a self proclaimed authority on what professional baseball players should be doing ? i would be strung up by my taint hairs..right ?
But he wasn’t the only one to get upset. Here are links to the rest (thanks to Yobeat.com):
Yobeat Inteview with Todd Richards
Rumorator’s Snowboarding and Public Perception
Pierre Wikberg’s In Cas You Haven’t Heard
Angry Snowboarder’s The Mainstream Media Still Doesn’t Get It
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Winter isn’t over yet. The Volcom Pipeline Pro January 23-Febuary 5, 2010. Oahu, Hawaii.
[Link: Volcom]
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Meanwhile back in SoCal, ignoring the hunt for Olympic gold and glory in the Super Duper pipe of Mammoth Mountain, the etnies snow team is getting down at their private snowpark facility The Bearics.
JP Walker, Simon Chamberlain, Chris Bradshaw, Joe Sexton, Nima Jalali and the crew get all railie and stuff.
Check it.
[Link: The Bearics]
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Since it appears that everyone has already seen Danny Davis’ near perfect run. Here is our version with Shaun White’s answer back at the Mammoth US Snowboarding Grand Prix Halfpipe #1.
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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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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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