Some Rails in the Quick Park

Quik Park rail edit.

-matthew

The 5th Annual Quiksilver Showdown Over the City

Grouse Mountain hosted it’s 5th Annual Quiksilver Showdown Over the City this weekend, and it was awesome! Born five years ago , the event has grown to attract top talent from across Canada and the US with the TTR World Tour 4 Star point designation. Over the past few years the event had been caught in bad weather systems but this year that was not the case. The sun was out, and the beer garden was jumping. Another exciting factor about this years Showdown was the jumps. The Grouse Park Crew built the best course to date. Each of the jumps in the double jump line could have been featured as a stand alone Big Air kicker. With 20′ tall wedges and 60′ decks these kickers were no joke.

Here are a few shots I captured at the event.

Drop In! "What's the speed?" "Straight in from here."

Unidentified Sender!

Heli Cam!

Judges judge. Darcy Sharpe flying.

Man Sized Air

The top jump was no joke.

Snowboarding Roayalty - Chris Dufficy Happy about his cookie and riding in the finals with a huge Cab 9 to Double Wildcat.

John Versteeg $5,000 richer.

Results:

1) John Versteeg

2) Darcy Sharpe

3) Craig McMorris

Stay tuned for the Andrew Santos edit for the Filmmaker Showdown.

-Myrosha

GPC (Grouse Park Crew) Reveals February Photos

You all know the GPC (Grouse Park Crew) is busy maintaining the parks day and night. You probably also know that the crew rips. I mean no one spends more time in there then they do. The crew took some time off of shoveling and raking in Feb to get a some photos for you viewing pleasure. Check it out! #likeabowse

Grouse Park Crew: Snowboard – Edwin Poulsten , Greg Le Patourel , Robert Morrison and Marcus Cartwright. Skier – Liam Mullaly

GPC February Photos

A Couple New Quik Park Features

Went up recently to the Quiksilver Park to check out some new features that have been moved around and added. Here is a taste of whats new up there! Looks as though snow is in the forecast this week which is a promising sign!

This rail is set up with mellow banks on both sides – Tom ollies a 360 over it into the new C-rail set up:

I think the C-rail could be my favorite feature these days…

One of the other big features added was this launch box – You can take it to a jump style landing or just hop into the transition early to save you knees!

The 3 jump line on the side cut is looking very promising in the coming days, looking forward to that! A new Quiksilver park edit coming very soon!

-Matthew

“Day” from DIX Productions

Edits are constantly droppin’ from my friends at DIX Productions. You may see some familiar faces from their last edit “Day” Check it out!

Day from Brenton Keyser on Vimeo.

Find their new episodes of T2B (Top to Bottom) Tuesdays here.

Later!
-Andrew

Sunny Park Laps @ Grouse Park

Last weekend was a preview of the Spring riding we are going to get a little later in the season. The sun was out and the jumps were super fun for learning! Here is an edit and a slideshow from last weekend.

-Matthew

Roxy Ride Days: Coming to Grouse Mountain!

ROXY RIDE DAYS COMING TO GROUSE MOUNTAIN!

Saturday, February 4th. 2012

Come on out and have some fun with Roxy Ride Days Canadian Tour at Grouse Mountain! Learn new tricks, meet new friends and have a blast spending the day snowboarding with the WSF Roxy coaching team. Join in on a fun progressive day on the hill filled with park coaching sessions, mini jam comps and prize giveaways!

Open to all ages & abilities!

Learn new tricks
Receive a gifts from Roxy
Tons of prizes
Demo the latest snowboards from Roxy
Ride with friends
Lunch included

EVENT TIMELINE

Saturday, February 4th. 2012

9:00 – 10:o0 am: Registration & Warm Up

10:00 – 10:30 am: Group Coaching Session: Intro to Freestyle Riding

10:30 – 12:30 pm: Coaching Sessions: Jumps, Rails, Boxes

12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch

1:30 – 3:30 pm: Mini Jams: Game of R.O.X.Y. – JIB JAM

4:00 – 4:30 pm: Prizes & Wrap up

REGISTRATION

$50.00+ Lift Ticket.

Includes Lunch & Roxy Gift Bag!

REGISTRATION LINK: http://shredsisters.com/blog/roxy-ride-days-events/roxy-ride-days-british-columbia/register

For Roxy Snow info, visit:
www.roxy.com
Twitter: @roxy #RoxyCanada

See you out there!

- CV

Quicksilver Park

Here are a few shots from a mellow afternoon in the Quicksilver park! The snow that day was less than prime, but the set ups were proper and had flow – really fun. Everything is looking great up there, lots of options!

-Matthew

Grouse Park Playlist 3 – The Journey

Now that the holidays are over I am getting back into school and riding. I spent a lot of my time in December traveling. This Grouse Park Playlist is inspired by thinking about shredding while on the road. I spent 40 hours in a car from Calgary to southern Ontario in one long seamlessly never ending journey. This gave me plenty of time to reflect and go through my whole iPod, there were many songs that made me nostalgic of epic days on the mountain. I picked these songs in particular because they all have good vibes. While skiing and snowboarding there are many different styles of music to get into, and I am a fan of almost all music. When I’m not on the mountain these tracks seem like theme songs for the good days. They bring back all the good memories and in turn gets me hyped to go ride! It’s hard to try and pick a playlist that is good for riding, as everyone gets down to something different. This collection of songs can at least convey a feeling that you can relate back to being on the mountain with friends. In my opinion, now that the snow is flying, the good times must be just around the corner. See you out there!

Listen, stream or share Grouse Park Playlist 3 – The Journey here.

-Matthew

Oakley Park Jams – Round 1

Oakley Night Jams - Round 1

The first Oakley Park Jam of the season kicked off last night in the Grouse Park. Clear skies made perfect conditions for the throw down and I was stoked to see the turnout and the level of shred at the jam format event. Over 50 skiers and snowboarders showed up to rip the park for prizes and bragging rights. The Park Crew started the crowd off at the rail features near the top of the park. The crew gave the park shreds a short period of time to jam on a decided jib to win prizes from Oakley. Good tricks were called out on the megaphone with the ‘Banger Siren’. After moving through a few rail features they finished off at the Cut Line kicker. And then it started puking snow. The Park Jams are open to everyone. There is no sign up or limited number of runs and anyone can play. All you have to do is show up and drop in on the feature that the Oakley crew and Park Crew call out over the mic. It is just a session like any session except during the jam the you can win prizes. Come out for the next Park Jam on Friday January 20th and don’t forget your tricks!

“Winner winner chicken dinner.” Here are a few of the riders and their banger tricks at the Jam:

Drew Paxton (skier) – 270 on, Switch Up, Pretzel 270 off on the Flat Down Box
Mike French (boarder) – 270 on, Swith Up, 270 off on the Down Bar & Hardway Back 180 on to Back 180 off *holy tech!
Adrien Tognko (boarder) – 50 50 though the kink on the 39′ Elbow Rail to Front 360 off

GPC - Grouse Park Crew holding it down.

Lets squash all this Skier vs. Boarder beef and just ride together. These two are.

The Cut Line kicker was prime.

Now there is a ton of powder up on Grouse right now. So for today, get out of the park!

- Myrosha

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The 5th Annual Quiksilver Showdown Over the City

GPC (Grouse Park Crew) Reveals February Photos

GPC February Photos

A Couple New Quik Park Features

“Day” from DIX Productions

Sunny Park Laps @ Grouse Park

Roxy Ride Days: Coming to Grouse Mountain!

Quicksilver Park

Grouse Park Playlist 3 – The Journey

Oakley Park Jams – Round 1