Stupid snowboard inventions, the two and three man snowboard. Check out these guys who are apparently "married to each other" through their newfound love affair with a snowboard. "People are open-minded" about it. They call it tandom snowboarding. Personally I'll keep my stick handled solo. It looks like something the Jackass guys might have invented, simply strap two sets of bindings to the modified extra long board. I'm wondering how they skate when the terrain gets flat? Yahoo Video
The Terrain Park setup for the Holy Oly 2008, look at that gigantic quarterpipe.
Summit at Snoqualmie hosted the 5th annual Holy Oly Quarterpipe contest once again this year. The Holy Oly is a snowboard contest founded by Krush Kulesza, the snowboard marketing director of Summit-at-Snoqualmie, after he had a discussion with Mike Ranquet over some "barley pop" one night. They were talking about whether it would be cool if Krush repainted the old Olympia Can water tower over at Hyak, the Summit-at-Snoqualmie's secret weekend-only powder stash. (Hyak is now called Summit East, but no one cool calls it Summit East.) Ranquet told Krush it would be great if the tower got repainted and so an idea was born. The finished tower was gleaming in its glory again, this time with an updated yet retro Summit logo painted in homeage to the previous Olympia logo. Krush knew he needed to create a contest to celebrate, a party style quarterpipe jam with unique award names, cases of Olympia beer as prizes and Cobra Dogs hot dogs served up with Lib Tech's banana sauce for a condiment. Some hikers and riders getting ready to drop in under the repainted Summit can.
So the Holy Oly was born, and the event's history has proven that you never know what to expect from powder storms, to lack of snow, to fog and greyday to perfect bluebird sunny day skies. In the winter of 2004-05, the lack of snow forced the Summit to spray over 1 million gallons of man-made snow to create a halfpipe, quarterpipe, and street course. No other mountain in Washington was open at the time. Last year the contest happened to be on one of the deepest powder days of the season, and it probably snowed a foot or two from the beginning of the day until the end of the event. In an example of classic Northwest weather conditions, contest competitors were taking fresh powder runs in between drop-ins to the quarterpipe. Tim Carlson grabs method
With all the history behind the event, this year drew riders from all over the globe, including Danny Kass, Willie Yli-Luoma, past superhero Jeff Brushie, and young gun Manuel Diaz, who came all the way from Chile. It was a who's who of Northwest snowboarding from Mike Ranquet, Kurt Jensen, Monty Hays, John Laing, Pete Saari, The Phillips brothers, Justin Heath, Austin Sweetin, Austin Hironaka, Dave Goto, Lorn Davies, and many more.
The jibbers like Sean Genovese, Pat Milberry, and Gus Engle even came out for the all-new street course with wall ride gaps and jib-bonks conveniently located next to the 20ft tall quarterpipe. Jesse Burtner announced the event and said some of the funniest stuff I've ever heard at a snowboard contest. He definately kept the crowd entertained with his reactions to tricks.
Results: Jeremy Dubs filming the top two winners Willie Yli-Luoma and Manuel Diaz for the upcoming Funner Films movie.
The Holy Oly Revival Results Krush Kulesza with the awards list written on the back of an Olympia Beer case
The DJ with the official Holy Oly trophies designed by Nic Jonas.
Holiest of the Holy - Willie Yli-Luoma in the blue Alaskan? wolf hoodie sweater
Berzerker Award - Manuel Diaz
Joey McGuire/Best NW Method Award - Danny Garrity
Best Trick(Switch McTwist)- Nate Farrell
Future of NW Shred Award - Austen Sweetin
Hardest Charging Industry Guy - Pat "the eYe" Bridges, editor of Snowboarder Magazine
Jeff Brushie Award - Jeff Brushie
Guy Who Avoided the Most Obstacles in a Jib Run - Gus Engle
Rail Charger Award - Sean Genovese
Biggest Ripper Still Riding Glissade - Monty Hays
The Teaser Preview for Travis Rice´s new video ¨That´s it That´s All. Its been filmed for over two years by Travis and his crew. I heard the budget was so huge that while in New Zealand, they had a trail helicopter to film the helicopter that was doing followcam. Its sponsored by Quicksilver and Red Bull and the budget was definately over a million dollars.
Travis Rice Natural Selection Video Footage: Travis Rice Presents Jackson Hole 2008 Natural Selection Big Mountain Contest. Over 5 Videos from the Dick's Ditch and Casper Bowl courses. Starring 17 of the world's best snowboarders in an invite only contest designed by Travis Rice himself.
Natural Selection Part 1 - Casper Bowl, in Jackson Hole Ski Resort, Wyoming.
Runs from Mark Carter, David Benedek, Travis Rice, Mark Landvik, Sammy Luebke, and DCP in Casper Bowl
Natural Selection Part 2 - Casper Bowl
Runs from JJ Thomas, Gigi Ruf, Rob Kingwill, Colin Langlois, Nicolas Mueller, Kyle Clancy
Natural Selection Part 3 - Dick's Ditch
Runs from Sammy Luebke, DCP, Travis Rice, Nicolas Mueller, Mark Carter, Romain DeMarchi,
Natural Selection Part 4 - Dick's Ditch
Runs by Bjorn Leines, Hampus Mossesson, David Benedek, Gigi Ruf, JJ Thomas, Rob Kingwill,
Natural Selection Part 5 - Dick's Ditch
Runs by Colin Langlois, Kyle Clancy, Wolle Nyvelt, Mark Landvik, Austin Smith,
Travis Rice introduces his contest at Jackson Hole.
Some video shots from the Quicksilver Travis Rice Natural Selection Contest at Jackson Hole,Wyoming. Riders included Travis Rice, Brian Iguchi, Gigi Ruf, Nicolas Muller, JJ Thomas, Wolle Nyvelt,DCP, and more. The contest went down in Casper Bowl, a 2000ft run in Jackson Backcountry.
The Holy Oly Revival turns 5…everyone is going bananas!
The Summit at Snoqualmie, Lib Technologies and Snowboy Productions are quite pleased to once again bring you what Snowboarder Magazine’s Pat “the eYe” Bridges called “the epitome of what snowboarding events should be”…The Holy Oly Revival on February 23 at Summit East.
Beneath the shadow of a 40’ beer can that started it all resides all the fixings…one giant hand-shaped quarterpipe next to a sweet jib line that’s next to a Cobra Dog stand that’s next to a crowd of snowboarding pros, groms, legends, up-and-comers, creepy lurkers, skunkape riders and the occasional skier. Powder lines will be ripped, Thin Lizzy and Dio will be blasted to the heavens, Red Bulls will be gulped and the judging will remain suspect as always at this fine anti-contest that is, and always will be, simply “a celebration of NW snowboard pride.”
Cold Oly’s being saved for all who make it possible: Lib Technologies, Cobra Dogs, Red Bull, Snowboy Productions, Peter Line, Joey McGuire, Jamie Lynn, Jesse Burtner and Shanna Duncan’s amazing artwork.
Archive Holy Oly Video:
Grab the Sharpie marker and write it on your arm…Holy Oly Revival…Feb 23…Summit at Snoqualmie…word.
Mt Baker Wednesday Feb 13th, 2008 Photos Marcus (Markass) Schmick in the Heather Meadows lodge. Connie busting some slashes under Mt Shuksan's sunlit glow. There were about 5 inches of fresh, with more in the backcountry. The day was great because it was sunny and there weren't many people there after the Banked Slalom weekend. There was quite a bit of people in this line-up to get out to the backcountry above chair 8. I hiked out on hemi's for a run and the powder was epic. There was a few hints of choppiness and some ice underneath in places, but overall the pow was fresh and dry. Sammy Giffin was chillin by the lodge after a run on the arm. Ryan admiring the sunset.
DNA Distribution, which includes skateboarding brands Alien Workshop, Habitat and Reflex, today announced that the company has been acquired by Burton.
The two companies began discussions over a year ago and found that they share a common approach in the way that they contribute to boardsports culture, including a commitment to creating long-lasting relationships with their teams of international athletes. In addition, both are committed to advancing and innovating hardgoods technologies, as well as the artistry and creativity associated with these sports; supporting a solid team of amateur riders; and providing best customer service practices.
DNA Distribution will continue to operate in Dayton, Ohio and CEO and Co-Founder Chris Carter will continue to oversee the DNA brands, which include Alien Workshop, Habitat and Reflex Bearings.
"We are very excited to bring the DNA family of brands to Burton—a company that we truly respect," says Chris Carter, Chief Executive Officer for DNA Distribution. "Burton clearly leads their market in terms of team, innovation, marketing and values. Joe, Mike and I look forward to leveraging Burton's strengths to reach the full potential for the DNA brands: Alien Workshop, Habitat and Reflex."
"Through surfing and snowboarding we have learned that hardgoods are the foundation of all boardsports, and with the addition of DNA to our family, we are on our way to delivering skaters what they want and expect," says Jake Burton, Founder and Chairman of Burton. "As with Al Merrick and the crew at Channel Islands, the relationship with Chris, Mike and Joe at DNA has been a natural fit right from the start. Everyone around here is committed to growing Burton into a true boardsports company, so I am confident that we can provide a home where DNA and their team of skaters can build upon what they have already excelled at in the skate industry."
"We couldn't have found a better company to work with than DNA," says Laurent Potdevin, Burton's Chief Executive Officer. "Burton and all of its brands are authentically committed to snowboarding, surfing and skateboarding without distractions from other sports, products or categories. This acquisition completes a strategy that we have been very focused on for quite some time and marks a new milestone in the evolution of Burton and its family of brands."
Stupid snowboard inventions, the two and three man snowboard. Check out these guys who are apparently "married to each other" through their newfound love affair with a snowboard. "People are open-minded" about it. They call it tandom snowboarding. Personally I'll keep my stick handled solo. It looks like something the Jackass guys might have invented, simply strap two sets of bindings to the modified extra long board. I'm wondering how they skate when the terrain gets flat? Yahoo Video
The Terrain Park setup for the Holy Oly 2008, look at that gigantic quarterpipe.
Summit at Snoqualmie hosted the 5th annual Holy Oly Quarterpipe contest once again this year. The Holy Oly is a snowboard contest founded by Krush Kulesza, the snowboard marketing director of Summit-at-Snoqualmie, after he had a discussion with Mike Ranquet over some "barley pop" one night. They were talking about whether it would be cool if Krush repainted the old Olympia Can water tower over at Hyak, the Summit-at-Snoqualmie's secret weekend-only powder stash. (Hyak is now called Summit East, but no one cool calls it Summit East.) Ranquet told Krush it would be great if the tower got repainted and so an idea was born. The finished tower was gleaming in its glory again, this time with an updated yet retro Summit logo painted in homeage to the previous Olympia logo. Krush knew he needed to create a contest to celebrate, a party style quarterpipe jam with unique award names, cases of Olympia beer as prizes and Cobra Dogs hot dogs served up with Lib Tech's banana sauce for a condiment. Some hikers and riders getting ready to drop in under the repainted Summit can.
So the Holy Oly was born, and the event's history has proven that you never know what to expect from powder storms, to lack of snow, to fog and greyday to perfect bluebird sunny day skies. In the winter of 2004-05, the lack of snow forced the Summit to spray over 1 million gallons of man-made snow to create a halfpipe, quarterpipe, and street course. No other mountain in Washington was open at the time. Last year the contest happened to be on one of the deepest powder days of the season, and it probably snowed a foot or two from the beginning of the day until the end of the event. In an example of classic Northwest weather conditions, contest competitors were taking fresh powder runs in between drop-ins to the quarterpipe. Tim Carlson grabs method
With all the history behind the event, this year drew riders from all over the globe, including Danny Kass, Willie Yli-Luoma, past superhero Jeff Brushie, and young gun Manuel Diaz, who came all the way from Chile. It was a who's who of Northwest snowboarding from Mike Ranquet, Kurt Jensen, Monty Hays, John Laing, Pete Saari, The Phillips brothers, Justin Heath, Austin Sweetin, Austin Hironaka, Dave Goto, Lorn Davies, and many more.
The jibbers like Sean Genovese, Pat Milberry, and Gus Engle even came out for the all-new street course with wall ride gaps and jib-bonks conveniently located next to the 20ft tall quarterpipe. Jesse Burtner announced the event and said some of the funniest stuff I've ever heard at a snowboard contest. He definately kept the crowd entertained with his reactions to tricks.
Results: Jeremy Dubs filming the top two winners Willie Yli-Luoma and Manuel Diaz for the upcoming Funner Films movie.
The Holy Oly Revival Results Krush Kulesza with the awards list written on the back of an Olympia Beer case
The DJ with the official Holy Oly trophies designed by Nic Jonas.
Holiest of the Holy - Willie Yli-Luoma in the blue Alaskan? wolf hoodie sweater
Berzerker Award - Manuel Diaz
Joey McGuire/Best NW Method Award - Danny Garrity
Best Trick(Switch McTwist)- Nate Farrell
Future of NW Shred Award - Austen Sweetin
Hardest Charging Industry Guy - Pat "the eYe" Bridges, editor of Snowboarder Magazine
Jeff Brushie Award - Jeff Brushie
Guy Who Avoided the Most Obstacles in a Jib Run - Gus Engle
Rail Charger Award - Sean Genovese
Biggest Ripper Still Riding Glissade - Monty Hays
The Teaser Preview for Travis Rice´s new video ¨That´s it That´s All. Its been filmed for over two years by Travis and his crew. I heard the budget was so huge that while in New Zealand, they had a trail helicopter to film the helicopter that was doing followcam. Its sponsored by Quicksilver and Red Bull and the budget was definately over a million dollars.
Travis Rice Natural Selection Video Footage: Travis Rice Presents Jackson Hole 2008 Natural Selection Big Mountain Contest. Over 5 Videos from the Dick's Ditch and Casper Bowl courses. Starring 17 of the world's best snowboarders in an invite only contest designed by Travis Rice himself.
Natural Selection Part 1 - Casper Bowl, in Jackson Hole Ski Resort, Wyoming.
Runs from Mark Carter, David Benedek, Travis Rice, Mark Landvik, Sammy Luebke, and DCP in Casper Bowl
Natural Selection Part 2 - Casper Bowl
Runs from JJ Thomas, Gigi Ruf, Rob Kingwill, Colin Langlois, Nicolas Mueller, Kyle Clancy
Natural Selection Part 3 - Dick's Ditch
Runs from Sammy Luebke, DCP, Travis Rice, Nicolas Mueller, Mark Carter, Romain DeMarchi,
Natural Selection Part 4 - Dick's Ditch
Runs by Bjorn Leines, Hampus Mossesson, David Benedek, Gigi Ruf, JJ Thomas, Rob Kingwill,
Natural Selection Part 5 - Dick's Ditch
Runs by Colin Langlois, Kyle Clancy, Wolle Nyvelt, Mark Landvik, Austin Smith,
Travis Rice introduces his contest at Jackson Hole.
Some video shots from the Quicksilver Travis Rice Natural Selection Contest at Jackson Hole,Wyoming. Riders included Travis Rice, Brian Iguchi, Gigi Ruf, Nicolas Muller, JJ Thomas, Wolle Nyvelt,DCP, and more. The contest went down in Casper Bowl, a 2000ft run in Jackson Backcountry.
The Holy Oly Revival turns 5…everyone is going bananas!
The Summit at Snoqualmie, Lib Technologies and Snowboy Productions are quite pleased to once again bring you what Snowboarder Magazine’s Pat “the eYe” Bridges called “the epitome of what snowboarding events should be”…The Holy Oly Revival on February 23 at Summit East.
Beneath the shadow of a 40’ beer can that started it all resides all the fixings…one giant hand-shaped quarterpipe next to a sweet jib line that’s next to a Cobra Dog stand that’s next to a crowd of snowboarding pros, groms, legends, up-and-comers, creepy lurkers, skunkape riders and the occasional skier. Powder lines will be ripped, Thin Lizzy and Dio will be blasted to the heavens, Red Bulls will be gulped and the judging will remain suspect as always at this fine anti-contest that is, and always will be, simply “a celebration of NW snowboard pride.”
Cold Oly’s being saved for all who make it possible: Lib Technologies, Cobra Dogs, Red Bull, Snowboy Productions, Peter Line, Joey McGuire, Jamie Lynn, Jesse Burtner and Shanna Duncan’s amazing artwork.
Archive Holy Oly Video:
Grab the Sharpie marker and write it on your arm…Holy Oly Revival…Feb 23…Summit at Snoqualmie…word.
Mt Baker Wednesday Feb 13th, 2008 Photos Marcus (Markass) Schmick in the Heather Meadows lodge. Connie busting some slashes under Mt Shuksan's sunlit glow. There were about 5 inches of fresh, with more in the backcountry. The day was great because it was sunny and there weren't many people there after the Banked Slalom weekend. There was quite a bit of people in this line-up to get out to the backcountry above chair 8. I hiked out on hemi's for a run and the powder was epic. There was a few hints of choppiness and some ice underneath in places, but overall the pow was fresh and dry. Sammy Giffin was chillin by the lodge after a run on the arm. Ryan admiring the sunset.
DNA Distribution, which includes skateboarding brands Alien Workshop, Habitat and Reflex, today announced that the company has been acquired by Burton.
The two companies began discussions over a year ago and found that they share a common approach in the way that they contribute to boardsports culture, including a commitment to creating long-lasting relationships with their teams of international athletes. In addition, both are committed to advancing and innovating hardgoods technologies, as well as the artistry and creativity associated with these sports; supporting a solid team of amateur riders; and providing best customer service practices.
DNA Distribution will continue to operate in Dayton, Ohio and CEO and Co-Founder Chris Carter will continue to oversee the DNA brands, which include Alien Workshop, Habitat and Reflex Bearings.
"We are very excited to bring the DNA family of brands to Burton—a company that we truly respect," says Chris Carter, Chief Executive Officer for DNA Distribution. "Burton clearly leads their market in terms of team, innovation, marketing and values. Joe, Mike and I look forward to leveraging Burton's strengths to reach the full potential for the DNA brands: Alien Workshop, Habitat and Reflex."
"Through surfing and snowboarding we have learned that hardgoods are the foundation of all boardsports, and with the addition of DNA to our family, we are on our way to delivering skaters what they want and expect," says Jake Burton, Founder and Chairman of Burton. "As with Al Merrick and the crew at Channel Islands, the relationship with Chris, Mike and Joe at DNA has been a natural fit right from the start. Everyone around here is committed to growing Burton into a true boardsports company, so I am confident that we can provide a home where DNA and their team of skaters can build upon what they have already excelled at in the skate industry."
"We couldn't have found a better company to work with than DNA," says Laurent Potdevin, Burton's Chief Executive Officer. "Burton and all of its brands are authentically committed to snowboarding, surfing and skateboarding without distractions from other sports, products or categories. This acquisition completes a strategy that we have been very focused on for quite some time and marks a new milestone in the evolution of Burton and its family of brands."
, simply strap two sets of bindings to the modified extra long board. I'm wondering how they skate when the terrain gets flat?
