Nick Dirks is the dude of the hour in the third part of Airblaster's Family Portrait video project - delving deeper into the brain underneath the goggles.

Airblaster Family Portrait is a video portrait of the company, the brand, the founders, and the riders. In Part 3, meet Nick Dirks, long time member of the Airblaster family and team. Having a nasty broken leg for the better part of last winter gave Nick a chance to spend time enjoying his other skills and hobbies, such as photography and art. Now healed up, Nick's ready to strap his spaceship back on and blast off.

GrindTV Newswire, Mt. Hood, OR: (July 7, 2010) There are two ways to watch the action at this weekend's Annual Bonfire Pipe to Pipe snow and skate event-dust off those snowboard boots and leave the city heat for an unforgettable summer day on Mt. Hood, or watch the skate event live on Windell's web cams: http://windells.com/media/webcams/.

The Bonfire Pipe to Pipe is the best place to see up and coming riders and skaters. Soon the names of this year's Pipe to Pipe finalists will be as familiar as past participants Nick Dirks, Scott Stevens, Chad Otterstrom, Zac Marben, Desiree Melancon, Silas Baxter Neal, Hana Beaman, Chris Grenier, Jonas Michelot, Leanne Pelosi and many more.

DJ Tito Black will provide the jams courtesy of Skullcandy and free food will be flowing thanks to Bonfire and Windells. Scotty Arnold is announcing and Bode Merrill will be on hand as a Guest Judge.

All riders are encouraged to show up early to snag one of the 100 competitor jerseys for the snow event. Registration is free and available on a first come first served basis. All riders must purchase a Timberline Lift pass. Schedule details available on www.bonfiresnow.com

The skate event will take place in the new concrete park at Windell's and is sponsored by Creature, Independent Trucks and OJ wheels. Registration starts at 5pm at Windell's skate park.

Snow event sponsors include Windells Snowboard Camp, Bonfire Snowboarding, Gatorade, Salomon Snowboards, Skullcandy, Timberline, Dragon Goggles, Magical Go-Go, POM POM and the Art Institute of Portland.

Check the video from last year's event:

Our favorite hipster film crew, Videograss, just dropped their newest teaser entitled, "Bon Voyage." No one really questions the fact that the riding in this film is going to be sick. These guys are damn ballsy and their abilities when strapped on to a snowboard are ridiculous. Their abilities when not strapped onto a snowboard? Questionable. Just kidding. Check the list of names below on who is getting some in this teaser.

Full of debauchery, nasty falls, and a group of friends just having an awesome season. Who could go wrong with that mix?

Enjoy.







Words from VG:

The Videograss crew brings you the newest movie titled "Bon Voyage". Things went really well this season, so expect some mind melting parts from Justin Bennee, Mikey Leblanc, Jed Anderson, Nima Jalali, Gus Engle, Jon Kooley, Laurent Nicolas Paquin, Louif Paradis, Alex Cantin, Jordan Mendenhall, Johnny Miller, Will Tuddenham, Ben Bilocq, Jonas Michilot, Chris Grenier, Darrell Mathes, Nick Dirks, and friends. New faces, new places, its gonna be a great ride...See you all in August... Bon Voyage!

There ain't no party like a tailgate party. And thats just what the crew at the SoleTech compound offered up to approximately 400 rowdy, tight-jean, PBR drinking, misplaced snowboarders on Thursday evening for the premier of the new 2009 Stepchild/ThirtyTwo Snowboard movie "This Video Sucks".


Simone Chamberlain and Seth Huot

As the miscreants slowly rolled in during the sunset hours they were treated to a skate sesh at the private indoor skate park at SoleTech. Non-skateboarders lurked in the beer garden (720 PBR's downed... nice work crew) and around the Taco Stand (which had a very authentic feel per the language barrier with the servers and the quality of food).


Snowboarder Magazine's Huggy destroying one of the 720 PBR's consumed during the premier

Projected against the outside white-wash wall of the skatepark the movie kicked off with a solid handful of the riders in attendance including JP Walker, Simon Chamberlain and Joe Sexton. That threesome makes up the "The Tripod of Homies", a term coined by young-buck Joe during the movie.


JP Walker trying to wrap up an interview with FuelTV and getting clowned by one leg of his tripod, Joe Sexton

JP has the closing part, big surprise there, but what did floor a lot of the audience was that he filmed his entire part switch... and it was good. The last shot of the movie was such a banger that it had kids on their feet as the credits rolled.


The folding chairs were the formal seating in front of the tailgate party. I kept waiting for a bridal party to walk down the isle.

"I've had a lot of video parts and I really wanted to challenge myself to do something completely different this year. After seeing the video for the first time at the premier last night, I am really stoked on the way it came out," said JP Walker. He went on to say, "There were a lot of good surprises and laughs for me watching it and I think the riders came through with good snowboarding."

Yes, JP, we couldn't agree more. Good surprises, laughs and good snowboarding. Well done boys.

A well known Mt. Baker duo of Snowboarders is missing (and possibly presumed dead) after their boat collapsed outside of Bellingham Washington. A massive search party has been put together to find rider Sean "Donkey" Mansfield and photographer Gunther Jose Frank whose boat collapsed at approximately 1:40 am on Friday, June 5th (according to Bellingham police). "Donkey" rode for Volcom, Mt. Baker Snowboard Shop and Lib Tech and is widely known in the Northwest Region for his Snowboarding Skills. Our hearts and thoughts go out to the friends and families of the two missing Snowboarders.

Twitteris the new black. Everyone is doing it and so are we. Follow us at GrindTVSnow (Click HERE).

Stay tuned to GrindTv SNOW to find out who the hottest ski and snowboard industry tweeps are to follow on Twitter. We're going to drop links to everyone's twitter from Shaun White to Todd Richards to Peter Line to Jonny Moseley to Sarah Burke... er... you get the point.

Two of the biggest ski film companies in the galaxy, Poor Boyz Productions and Rage Films, just wrapped up their last epic spring shoot of the season at Mt Bachelor, Oregon. Click here for a look at what went down and a little taste of what you'll be seeing in their new movies, 'Everyday is a Saturday' and 'Pretty Good,' later this fall.

Pat Milbery is back at Windells Camp at Mt. Hood this summer. And he's bringing with him a new concept called "Pat Milbery's Signature Feature Session". Each session designated pro's and sponsors will help create (with the help of the Windells diggers and staff) a unique feature in the snow camp which the coaches will then help the campers learn how to ride. Be sure to check back here at Grind TV Snow- we'll be out there sponsoring Session 4 in July and delivering full coverage every day.

Snowboarding's very own Shaun Palmer won the 9th Annual Monster Energy MX Crossover in Sacramento. He was up against fellow shreds Nate Holland, Tyler Emond and Chris Roach, and Skier Daron Rahlves, amongst others. The Monster Energy MX Crossover brings together professionals from all different action sports to compete against each other in a Motocross competition.

Pro skierIan Cosco will be dropping the 5th installment of his highly entertaining videoblog series called Chug Life early next week. If you haven't seen an episode of Chug Life, your life is not complete...until you click here that is.

Newschoolers.com just put on a cool contest in which you have the chance to win some serious swag by guessing 'which pro skiers own these laptops?' Head on over to NS for more details.

Ashbury Eyewear, one of hottest new eyewear companies to hit the market, just announced another team rider to their already impressive team. Justin Bennewill be joining the likes of LNP, Nick Dirks, Desiree Melancon, and Nima Jalili. Head over to Ashbury's website to find out more (and be thouroughly entertained by their awesome blog.)