Random Rambles I
I met mini shred Nick last night while doing a few laps with Dan Jonas and crew. This kid is sick. Keep your eyes out for him in the Quiksilver park. He’s easy to spot. The smallest dude hitting the biggest stuff is a good sign that it’s him.
The term “Blogger” now identifies me, apparently. The following exchange from last night pretty much solidifies that assumption.
Sam: Hi Alice.
Alice: …Hi?
Sam: It’s Sam!
Alice: Hi Sam.
(Pause)
Alice: Sam who!?
Sam: The blogger.
Alice: OH! Hi Sam!
The Rookie park is amazingly fun right now. Everything is ride on. Even my girlfriend can hit features. Yay for progressive parks!
Nathan Jonas hurt his knee trying a ridiculous corked 7 off a tiny hit by the snowblowers. Bail or not, I was pretty impressed.
Formerly local shred Wes is back on the scene, working on restoring his local status. I ran into him lapping the park Sunday afternoon and got a few laps in with him. He’s super fun to ride with, but long hours at work keep him off the hill.
The BC Snowboard Association is holding a slopestyle competition at Grouse Mountain on February 7th, hosted by Showcase Snowboards. You need to be a BCSA member to register, check out the Facebook page or their site for details.
Fellow blogger Charlie Grinnell will be filming local boy wonder Liam Casey on Thursday with yours truly behind an old school 35mm SLR. If you’re in the park, feel free to stop by and say hi. If you’ve never seen Liam ski before, you’re in for a treat.
You may wonder why my blogs lack the visual stimulation some of the other blogs have. To be completely honest, I have so much fun riding, that I forget to pull the camera out. That and the fact that I don’t want cold hands.
SIA is over and done with and the new gear for 2010 is looking sooooo sick. Here’s a quick rundown of what I find sick…so mostly the reverse camber boards.Capita has introduced Flat Kick Technology to two more models. DC has a camberless model out. Rome is back with 1985s on more models. As for boards with camber, the choices are endless. All reverse camber boards have a sister board with camber. Now, some pictures!
Nitro Sub Pop Series for 2010 ft. RC
Signal 2010 Park Rocker with RIDICULOUS amounts of rocking
Some of DC's 2010 line.
Capita Stairmaster Extreme
Technine keeps it's street roots for 2010
The new Ride Slackcountry for all your powder riding needs
Local boys Endeavour have 4 RC models for this season. The Colour series for 2010, white with rocker and orange without.
Stepchild's 2010 line up
32 is in the outerwear business for 2010
Sessions has you covered if you forgot the gloves at home. Just pull out them mitts!
A sampling of the Rome boards. The Design, Graft and Slash from left to right.
Speaking of Rome, I’ve managed to get my hands on a 2010 Artifact 1985 courtesy of the good folks over at the SDS. Dan and I will be reviewing it in the next couple weeks. Be sure to check back to get the low down on some of next season’s gear.
2010 Rome Artifact 1985
See you on the hill,
Sam
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CASP National Summit 2009
So last Thursday evening was the CASP National Championship, as part of the CASP National Summit, and it went off with a bang!!!
There was also a good crowd turnout supporting all the athletes, which was super sick too. Another cool aspect was that it was under the chair and a couple of times you could see people on the chair getting super stoked on what was going on, so that’s good to see. I whipped out my good old NIKON COOLPIX and snapped a couple of photos. Now please bear with me, I am not Scott “pro photog” Titterington and some of the pics are blurry, but I just wanted to show everyone the general set-up.
The start area, sorry about the quality…
The riders were stoked on the course and everyone was pushing the envelope on the track. The course started off with 2 rollers, then moving into a series of berm turns (right, left, right, left) after the last left it shot the rider out into one last roller before the final jump and then the finishing lazar after that.
One of the major “issues” of the night was the last jump… Mr. Dan Jonas himself nicknamed it “THE CRIPPLER” for obvious reasons. Riders would come out of the last berm, pump the roller and then head into the last jump going MACH 10. This was great for their time as far as the competition goes, but not so good for the body. It made it very entertaining because there were some crazy falls going on. There were people landing completely flat and coming across the finish in mid air (note: the finish line was about 15 feet after the flat part of the landing).
A view of the rollers
A view from the bottom looking up.
The last jump, or as Mr. Dan Jonas would call it: “The Crippler!”
I want to give HUGE props to all the athletes and EVEN BIGGER props to the athletes who hit the jump with too much speed (by accident), there were some amazing falls and they still managed to get up and walk away. Kudos to you guys, you are warriors!!! If a rider had the speed figured out, it was simply a thing of beauty as they carried their speed well down the course, hit the last jump with ease and cruised across the line.
A blurry shot of the DJ, judge and timekeeper’s tent.
Inside the tent.
This event is proudly brought to you by Grouse Mountain.
That’s all for now kids,
CHUCKLES!