Here it is, a park video brought to my attention by Rob Morrison of park crew of the good times managed in the midst of the good, the bad, the ugly and the worst. We made it! There’s one more weekend left, I will be up there this weekend getting my last laps in with some of my blog homies and other friends. Come by and catch a few laps and join us for an apres at Altitudes. Pray for sun…something besides the apres needs to go right!
Sam
Hey all!
As you may have heard, last week was Grenade Games 6 as well as Telus Festival up in Whistler. It was fun to watch the events, especially when the sun was out. In all, everyone seemed to have had a great time and along with the free live entertainment, there were a lot fun events to watch. This is a video tease from the Grenade Games 6 Grand Finale.
Enjoy!
So the other day Jon Olsson Super Sessions wrapped up and awards were handed out. All the riders threw down and all the edits were banger but in the end our very own Team Canada took it! Here are the results of the competition and the winning video.
Results
1) Team Canada
2) Team Newschoolers
3) Team Norway
4) Team America (and winner of the People’s Choice Award)
5) Team Sweden
6) Team Down Under & Team Europe (tie)
Niklas Ericsson-Best Style
Russ Henshaw-Best Air
Keep It Real Grouse
Eric Beckstead
One warm day at Grouse, we found the park had melted. So, as the sun set, we pulled out the camera, played on this rail and had just as much fun. Check it out!
Keep it real Grouse!
-Eric Beckstead
You may all have heard this already, but Grouse is going to stay open till May2nd. And yes, there will be a park on Cut as long as there’s enough snow. Either way, Grouse is going to be the place to be on the North Shore till May starts. Get up and get shredding. I went up last night with Grouse local, Callem Peake, and it was a beauty. The sun’s out longer and the snow is staying softer later into the night. you have no excuse not to be there.
Cheers,
Sam
For those of you that have not heard of Jon Olsson Super Sessions or Jon Olsson for that matter..quit riding! Just kidding. But, I do hope you’ve heard of him. Jon Olsson is a super pro freestyle skier and racer. He’s been hot on the scene for years and doesn’t do too badly for himself seeing as he drives a Lambo to the hill. Anyways, several years ago Jon started his own competition called the Jon Olsson Invitational because he was fed up with formats and poorly built features of other comps. This competition has turned into JOSS.
JOSS has been voted as the most prestigious freeskiing event of the season. In this competition 21 of the world’s best freeskiers and 12 of the world’s finest ski film makers work together in 7 different teams, representing 7 nations. The teams are: Sweden, Norway, Europe, Down Under, Newschoolers, USA and Canada. Each team consists of 5 people, 2 filmers, 2 pro skiers and a rookie skier. The rookie is new for this year and the only condition to classify as a rookie is that you haven´t participated in X-games before 2010.
The teams have 264 hours to let out their creativity on the features in and around Åre including urban features. The goal is to put together the most amazing and entertaining 5-minute edit. There’s a healthy cash prize and winner takes it all.
The teams’ efforts will be unveiled at the Mix Megapol Arena in front of a massive audience. This venue is somewhat of a gala night. Different nominations and awards are handed out here but instead of rewarding the best sound etc the best trick is rewarded, the most spectacular crash etc. All the 5-minute edits are shown and the judges will present the winner of JOSS 2010.
Keep it real Grouse,
Eric Beckstead
Skiing lately has been far too much fun and I haven’t really gotten around to doing much shooting. Today, I finally brought the camera up the hill and shot for a total of 3 laps, because once again skiing looked like too much fun and I decided to put the camera away. Jordan and Bryce were up with me today and I hope these photos can show how much of a good time everyone was having, as Bryce had a smile on his face in literally every shot.
Nothing special, hope you enjoy.
Bryce cruisin', all smiles
Jordan cruisin', same deal
Jordan on the flat down
That’s all for now,
Frodo.
