SNOWDEO !?

Coming this February, Snowdeo is a two day railjam competition happening at Swanguard stadium. That’s right Swanguard stadium is going to be turned into a full-on urban park with features including rails, fences, a wall ride, a step-down jump and more.

The railjam will be the biggest of its kind in the lower main land with riders from all across North America competing for $20,000 of prizes. The event will also include entertainment, a beer garden, and DJ’s such as My!Gay!Husband! and The Hood Internet.

Organizers are expecting crowds of 5,000 a day during the two day event and are hoping to make this an annual event for the following years.

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Hailing from North Bay, ONT, Jesmond Dubeau will be participating in Rail jam, Snowdeo.

It’s going to be a killer weekend and there’s no doubt that the riders are going to be throwing down at this event.

For more Information check out www.snowdeo.ca

That’s all for now,
Andrew.

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Northstar @ Tahoe: Olympic Heritage Jam 2010

Hey Grouse!

This video may seem kind of random because of all the things that have been happening in Vancouver and Whistler lately (i.e. the Red Ledge, the Olympics coming up, strange snow patterns etc, etc). However, I have been watching this video over and over for the past 24 hours because I can’t get over how great it is. It must have been impossible to pick a winner because all of these riders threw down so hard. This is the video from the Olympic Heritage contest in Tahoe. I can almost guarantee you will enjoy it as much as I do!

Sha la la snowboarding is fun!

Bye!

Halfpipe and Rail Jams

Unfortunately injuries happen. Its the nature of our sport. They can (and will) happen at the most inconvenient of times. This weekend happened to be one of the biggest weekends of snowboarding the North Shore has ever seen. Fortunately for me there were plenty of events even a gimp could attend, so missing the 48 hours of winter, thanks to a strained MCL and meniscus, was not all that bad.

I got a call on Saturday morning from a friend who had come across two VIP passes to the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup Halfpipe event taking place later that day on Cypress. I gladly accepted the offer and we rolled up just in time to catch the finals. Some of the best pipe riders in the world were in attendance and all were throwing down under the slightly snowy skies. From the bottom of the pipe, we witnessed some of the greatest riding any of the local mountains have ever seen.

The pipe.

All the men were killing it but, to nobody’s surprise, Shaun White dominated the field and added another notch to the bedpost. The highlights of White’s winning run was his massive first hit and back to back 1080′s. Coming in second was Ryoh Aono from Japan and Iouri Podladtchikov from Switzerland rounded out third.

Kelly Clark took the win for the women with a mix of backside and front 5′s, lofty airs and a front 7. In second was Jiayu Liu of China and Hannah Teeter took third.

After sampling a few bevys in the athletes tent, we dropped down to Park Royal to check the LG Mountian Festival Rail Jam. The setup was fairly mellow which meant the riders could get tech if they wanted to. Jed Anderson slayed it and took home first. Jesmond Dubeau took second and Cory Gallon came third. For the women, only three competed and Jess Kimura ended up on top.

Rail Jam on top of Park Royal? Rad.

My camera could not keep up with the amazingness.

On Sunday the Park Royal rooftop played host to some of the local riding talent with the Shop Rail Takedown. Riders from Pacific Boarder, Second Wave, and Showcase competed for a 37 inch flat screen TV for their shop and $100 cash for their pockets. The riding was almost, if not as, impressive as the pros the day before, proving that the Vancouver riding scene is not to be taken lightly.