The Ride Shakedown US begins today at Summit-At-Snoqualmie in Washington State. The live webcast on Fuel TV begins tomorrow (Saturday, March 13, 2010) at 2 PM.
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For the past three years the Sessions Lumberjack Log Jam has taken snowboarding back to its roots with a small NorCal contest set up especially for the first 40 sponsored ams who sign up. This year’s jam goes down at Boreal on Sunday, March 14, 2010. Here’s what Sessions says:
The World-renowned Boreal park builders and park staff will be constructing a unique, fun, and challenging course. Look for a feature with a step up, to step down into a quarter pipe, hips on both sides, pole jams on the step up and step downs, hitching post and bonks. Our hope is to provide a fun filled day that you will not forget! So please, grow your beard out, wear your flannel, grab your axe and ox, and come on out for a day of fun at our 4th Annual Lumberjack Log Jam, presented by us, your friends here at Sessions.
Those who shaved this week are going to be bummed. On site registration will be at Boreal on Saturday, March 13th, 2010. It costs $20.00 to enter, plus the cost of a discounted lift ticket. Register early to make sure you can get in.
[Link: Sessions]
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Screw Apple. . . Neff does it all on a Sony Vaio, apparently. At least that’s what this new Sony ad featuring Shaun Neff appears to say. Borrowing heavily from the wearing lots of shirts Youtube meme the ad is cool, funny, and raw, but will it encourage anyone to buy a PC over a Mac? Hell, no!
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According to the SnowSports Industries America trade organization the SIA Denver Show held January 28-31, 2010 had the highest attendance rate of the last six shows. They say the four-day show attracted 18,932 attendees, 3,100 booths representing 845 snow sports brands, and that it featured 125 new exhibitors. We had some pre-show issues with what exactly a “new exhibitor” was but lets just say there were a lot of new companies at the show and while we didn’t see huge crowds anywhere, it was definitely better attended that we expected.
“For the first year in Denver, in the middle of a recession, we’re very happy with the attendance numbers. We were lighter in some regions but we hope they’ll come back next year after hearing all the positive experiences people had this year,” said David Ingemie, president of SIA.
We do have one question: do the attendance numbers include all the kids bussed in from Denver schools? They all had badges. . .
[Update March 12, 2010: The SIA has answered our questions regarding all the school kids at the show. Here’s what they had to say . . . “Kids from Denver schools were bussed to the Show for a special ceremony. They were a part of a Youth Summit that was held at the Show. In conjunction with the Summit, a press conference was held on Saturday, the day that you must have seen the kids on the Show floor, that took place to announce a bold initiative to get 1,000,000 kids involved in outdoor programs over the next 10 years, The Recreation Outdoor Initiative (ROI). SIA is a supporter of this initiative and any other programs that help get more people on snow.
The kids involved in the press conference were given the chance to briefly walk the Show floor to get them excited about snow sports and for some of them, their first time on snow. They were able to go skiing or snowboarding following their visit to the Show. These kids were not counted in our total numbers.]
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Ever wondered what it’s like to work for a real, live snowboard company designing logos, T-shirts, graphics, and even gloves? On Friday, March 12, 2010, Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate art worker Shaun Dumont will answer all those questions and more via the RomeSDS Twitter beginning at Noon Pacific Time (3 PM EST). And there will be prizes so ask a question and enter to win.
Submit your question in the “What Are You Doing?” box. End your question with a #Romedesign
Dumont will fire back his answers to your questions. All you need to do to be entered for the new 2011 Outerwear Kit, is ask a question with the #Romedesign “hashtag” in it during the designated time, and we’ll be picking a question tweeter at random and hooking them up.
Maybe we’ll log in and ask Shaun who his biggest graphic design inspiration is. Or you can do that for us.
[Link: Rome SDS]
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Youth Culture trend forecasters have been repeatedly pointing us toward Taro Tamai’s Gentemstick snowboards. First it was a two-year-old video on Youtube showing the Gentemstick crew cruising snow bowls in Japan. Now it is a post on the hype blog CoolHunting.com. But what are these retro-future snowboards exactly?
An answer to the homogenization of board shapes that happened as snowboarding gained mainstream appeal, Tamai’s goal is no less than to “perfectly blend into the terrain miraculously made of snow and wind, just as if birds flying in the sky or fish flowing in the stream.” The upshot of his philosophical approach to the sport (he calls it snow-surfing) is a line of boards renowned for their flexible fins, oversized sized fish tails and rideability in almost any snow condition.
So are these boards the “longboard skateboards” of snowboarding? Could be.
[Link: Gentemstick via Coolhunting]
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The triathlon of board sports, the Ultimate Boarder competition returns this weekend with surfing at Seaside Reef in the heart of SoCal’s North County San Diego. Then the whole circus heads to NorCal for snowboarding at Northstar-at-Tahoe and skateboarding at Reno’s Grand Sierra Resort. Some of those competing include:
SURF: Nathan Carroll (Haleiwa, HI), Christian Fletcher (San Clemente, Calif.), Eric McHenry (Cardiff, Calif.), Mike Morrissey (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Ricky Whitlock (Carlsbad, Calif.), Bryce Young (Angourie, AUS)
SKATE: Aaron Astorga (San Diego, Calif., 2008 Ultimate Boarder Champion), Cody and Jack Hagar (Long Beach, Calif.) Omar Hassan (Newport Beach, Calif.), Lyn-z Adams Hawkins (Cardiff, Calif., only female competitor), Chad Shetler (Dana Point, Calif., 2009 Ultimate Boarder Champion), Tosh Townend (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
SNOW: Dave Downing (Encinitas, Calif.), Zachary Leach (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Kristian Phillipp (Auckland, NZ), Shayne Pospisil (Mansquan, NJ), William “BJ” Linne (South Lake Tahoe, Calif.), Todd Richards (Encinitas, Calif.)
It all starts on Saturday March 13, 2010. For more info click the link.
[Link: Ultimate Boarder]
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A 20-year-old snowboarder who was riding with two friends in an area called Steep Gully #1 west of Colorado’s Arapahoe Basin triggered an avalanche that killed him on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 according to a report from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
There is a convex knob in the middle of the starting zone for Steep Gully #1. The first rider triggered the avalanche as he rode over the knob. The avalanche broke to the ground along the convexity. The snowpack was very shallow, and rescuers estimated the average crown depth about 12 inches, and around 24 inches at the deepest. The avalanche was the full width of the gully, but left large areas of hangfire. . . The rider was caught and carried for most of the avalanche’s run. He was stopped by trees in the upper portion of the runout, and partially buried. His partners descended the path and used their snowboards to excavate him before organized rescue arrived. The avalanche broke trees approximately 6 inches in diameter.
The avalanche was reportedly 150 feet wide and it slid 800 feet. None of the snowboarders carried avalanche gear according to the report. The name of the snowboarder has not been released but he was reportedly from Spring Grove, Illinois and had been an employee at Breckenridge Resort since November. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
[Link: CAIC and Denver Post via Westword]
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Former child actor and Snowboard Academy star Corey Haim dropped dead in his apartment this morning after an apparent “accidental overdose” according to a story on Fox6.
Haim died at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to the LAPD’s North Hollywood Division. . . . Coroner’s Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said an autopsy would determine an official cause of death. . . Haim collapsed in front of his mother inside an apartment in the Oakwood Apartment Complex, located between Burbank and the Hollywood Hills, officials said.
Hollywood certainly does eat ’em up.
[Link: Fox6]
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