Under Armour MTN Along The Way Series
This is a cool little video series made by pro skier turned cinematographer Michael Clarke. It follows UA athletes around and lets you kind of peek into the lives that they live. Awesome music, with awesome cinematography and topped off with outstanding editing, this is one of my favourite things to watch on Vimeo right now.
Enjoy!
Charlie
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Orage March Madness Ski Comp
For all you skiers out there, the only ski comp in Vancouver is dropping on March 6th at Mount Seymour. Here are the details from the Facebook group, which you should also join.
“Join us March 6th, 2010 for Orage’s “March Madness Slopestyle Contest” at Mount Seymour, BC, where we’ll be getting the shred down with Comor Sports, Mount Seymour and Snowrider.org. Registration is only $15 bucks which includes your lift ticket and lunch. Athletes will kick off the day at approximately 10am and ride till we’re done! Top three will take home a fist full of goodies including a $1000 Orage shopping spree to Comor Sports for 1st place, a $750 Orage shopping spree for 2nd and a $500 Orage shopping spree for 3rd. We will have a grom level heat for plankers under the age of 15. Be sure to bring your own BBall jersey for the contest and as with all contests, helmets are mandatory! No Jersey, No Helmet, No shred.”
So remember, no basketball jersey, not helmet, no ski. Oh, and don’t forget your $15. Yea!
YLG update
I know, I know, I am a little late on this update, but I have been swamped with midterms, papers, term projects and many more non snowboarding related THINGS.
So, from what I remember, this was the 2nd stop on the Coors Light You look good rider’s cup series, and it was a 3 star ttr event. Scotty and I rolled up around 8 and registered, conditions were spectacular, BLUEBIRD.
Ran into a lot of grouse locals including Zak and Alek Dolesky, Michael Hoy, Nick Felice, some Grouse riders Jenelle Pritchard, Tamo Campos, Barry Hartman and Matt Belzile. The course was super sick, the jumps were small, but on point. The first feature was a staircase feature which included a downbar, down box and flat down box.
Results
Mens Pro Open:
1st Place Matt Belzile (Grouse Mountain)
2nd Place Craig Beaulieu
3rd Place Kevin Griffin
Mens AM Open:
1st Place Joel Dalaker
2nd Place Taylor Pfaff
3rd Place Ian Macarthur
(I was the last cut from finals, go me! i got 16th! haha)
Mens (13-15) :
1st Place Stevie Koypt
2nd Place Nelson Languedoc
3rd Place Zak Dolesky (Grouse Mountain!!!)
Men (12 and under):
1st Place Darcy Sharpe
2nd Place Nick Wittrock
3rd Place Nick Felice (Grouse Mountain!!!)
Women (13-15) :
1st Place Chloe Woodruff
Women AM Open:
1st place Tara Hickey
2nd Place Marie-Andree Racine
3rd Place Ali Tracy
4th Place Carrie Hall
5th Place Kaitie Halinda
Womens PRO Open:
1st Place Terri Dreger
2nd Place Cassandra Ironside
3rd Place Breanna Strangeland
4th Place Gillian Andrewshenko
5th Place Stephanie Just
Here are some pics, Enjoy!
Grouse local Nick Felice gets 3rd place! Congrats Nick!
Sara from Coastal Riders get dirty with Grouse Team Jenelle Pritchard
Sup Barry Hartman (Grouse Team Rider), WHAT UP?
Grouse Rider Tamo Campos getting ready to drop in with Trint Thomas creepin in the back.
PYPEACE
Dan
DEW it up! Freeski Slopestyle
With all this pow we’ve had recently up Grouse Mountain, its easy to forget about shredding park. For those of you in need of a little “reminder” of whats going down these days, look no further than the antics that took place this weekend at the second stop of the Winter Dew Tour at Mount Snow, Vermont.
With a slopestyle course manicured to near perfection, the level of riding on Saturday was absolutely absurd. For a little run down of course check this POV cam by the one and only Tom Wallisch provided by the good people over at freeskier.com.
As you can see, the course provided riders with everything needed to make for a contest full of flippy-spinny tomfoolery. Alexis Godbout held down third place with some bangers like a 630 off, right side 900, left 900, and switch left 900.
Making it all look easy was PK Hunder in second place. PK has been slaying the competition scene so far this season. Its tough to imagine that a run with a 360 switch up, switch on to rodeo 450 off, right side 720, switch left 900, and left 1080 could only conjure up a second place. PK appeared to have a little difficulty dropping into the second axis on his patented double cork 1080 which may have hurt his score slightly.
The double cork aside, PK’s run was still no match for first place winner, JF Houle. JF threw down some of the most technical rail tricks ever seen in competition (450 on switch up 450 out, huge 630 out, nose butter 270 on pretzel out) combined with a right side 720, left 900 and switch left 1080, JF and undoubtedly deserved the win…just watch the video.
So kids, let this be an inspiration to you! Get out there and practice up! The Quiksilver park is coming together nicely with three decent sized jumps on the left side. The rails, when not buried in pow, are perfect for getting those 270s, pretzels and k-feds down. Get practicing because the second Oakley Night Jam is coming up on January 23!
See ya up there,
-cj