Showdown over the City Course Preview

I don`t know about you, but I cannot wait for the Showdown over the City. If you don`t know, the Showdown will be taking place this Friday and Saturday at Grouse. The course is pretty gnarly this year with some big features. I thought I would snap some shots of the course exclusively for you, our Grouse Park viewers. Here it is from top to bottom.

For more info check out the official Showdown over the City website here.

See ya there!
Andrew Santos

Sun in the Grouse Park

Many students like me got to take advantage of class being out early this week. The sun was out and the park was dialed. My fisheye lens arrived right on time for this and I brought it up to snap some shots. Here’s what I came up with while enjoying this wonderful holiday.

Adriano Tongko with a sweet method into the sun.

On set of Pocket full of Gnar.

Got to learn some new tricks after the big dump on Sunday night. Photo cred to Kaz Yamamura.

Shawn Greensides rides trees.

Shawn with the Tank.

That’s all for now,
- Andrew Santos

Straight from the Quikpark

I have to say that both the Cut Line and Quikpark are prime right now. Did a couple laps yesterday and I was having way too much fun. I brought out the camera for the last run. Here are the results.

These are only three of the many features that are up right now. Come up and check it out! Photo creds to Kaz Yamamura and a big shout out to the Park Crew.

Later!
Andrew Santos

Walrus Design: Let’em Have Fun Contest

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Hey folks!

For those of you that haven’t heard, I’ve recently started my own clothing company. I’m super stoked on this project finally taking off after a 3 year planning process. Before you get the wrong idea and think this is a “Look at me!” post, let me say that Walrus Design has finally taken off and there’s some hype around it. The team is growing and it contains an impressive line up of riders too! Okay, now you can think that this is a “Look at me!” post. However, I’m gonna make it worth your while.

This contest is specifically for the readers of Grousepark.com. You’ve been reading all season, and we here at the site value that. We’d have no jobs if you all didn’t read what we had to write. To show you that we feel the love, Walrus is giving out some shirts. All you have to do is, as the title states, go have some good, clean, PG-rated fun. Make a video or take a picture of you and your friends hanging out, going skating, singing along to Don’t Stop Believing by Journey really loud or exchanging high fives. Maybe all of the above! If you’re having a good time, I wanna see it.

All pictures MUST be in .jpeg format (if they’re not, I’m not gonna look at them, sorry…I’m lazy.) and all videos must be posted on a vieo hosting somewhere on the interwebs (YouTube, Vimeo etc.). You can email the pictures and links to sam@grousepark.com. Contest closes on May 18th, so get your submissions in before then. Top three submissions get gear and extras. Now go have some fun!

Left to Right: Nathan Jonas, Sam Masih (me), Shayan Aghourlikhani, Antosh Cimoszko and Michael "Giv'er" McClelland

Get your Walrus on!

Sam

Showdown Went Down, I’ve Got the Pictures to Prove It!

I’m gonna have to keep this short and sweet, seeing as it’s 12:30 am as I write this and I am a huge fan of sleeping. They say pictures say a thousand words. If that’s the case, here’s about 8 grand worth of words. Don’t let the pictures deceive you, the conditions were miserable, but the riding and free snacks made up for the poopy weather. There’ll be more of an update when I wake up in the morning. Enjoy!

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