B4BC (Boarding for Breast Cancer) continues to Shred the Love throughout the winter season with onsite and online events beginning February 2012 and running through April. People everywhere are encouraged to participate in support of B4BC's breast cancer prevention and support programs as well as local non-profit beneficiaries. The campaign seeks to unite the board sports community around a love of philanthropy and an active lifestyle.

Mountain resorts, campuses and community organizers will be hosting rail jams, learn-to-ride women's clinics, live music, entertainment and fundraising activities in support of the Shred the Love campaign.

There are so many ways to support by buying B4BC merchandise or add a $1 to lift ticket or retail purchases. Additionally B4BC's Check One, Twoî traveling outreach experience will setup at select locations and provide peer-to-peer breast health education and preventative information.

Schedule of on-site fundraising and outreach events below:

February

3-4 Big Bear Winterfest - XOS Productions' Battle of the Sexes (Big Bear, Calif.)

4-5 Waterville Valley Goes Pink (Waterville, N.H.)

9 CSU-Long Beach Rail Jam (Long Beach, Calif.)

11 B4BC Board-a-thon at Holiday Valley (Ellicottville, N.Y.)

11 B4BC at Camelback (Camelback, Penn.)

12 B4BC Board-a-thon at Sno Mountain (Scranton, Penn.)

16 Cal-State San Bernardino Snow Day (San Bernardino, Calif.)

25 K2 Bumps Challenge & Paint For Peaks (Taos, N.M.)

March

3 B4BC Board-a-thon at Sugarbowl (Lake Tahoe, Calif.)
3-4 Hunter Mountain Goes Pink (Hunter, N.Y.)

4-11 U.S. Open of Snowboarding (Stratton, Vt.)

30-31 Billabong Flaunt It! Finals (Sierra-at-Tahoe, Calif.)

April

14 SCCSC Annual B4BC fundraiser (Mammoth, Calif.)

*Schedule subject to change



In the campaign's second year, Shred the Love participation has doubled in size, with singular events raising as much as $20,000, like that of Holiday Valley in 2011. New this year is Paint for Peaks in Taos, New Mexico, selected by Yahoo as one of the top 5 creative breast cancer fundraising events of the year.

Local breast health centers and cancer support organizations selected as beneficiaries by B4BC and organizers include Camp Good Days, Anita Salas Memorial Fund, Tahoe Forest Cancer Center, and the Dale & Frances Hughes Cancer Center.

Everyone is encouraged to fundraise online through the B4BC Shred the Love Fundraising page and by using the hashtag #shredthelove on Twitter. The top three online fundraisers will be announced on April 22 and will receive Shred the Love prize packs. Online funds raised will benefit the B4BC Survivorship Fund.

Shred the Love is supported by B4BC corporate partners including The North Face, Electric, Volcom, Billabong, VonZipper, Nixon, Burton and Sun Bum.

For more information and to sign up to fundraise or donate, visit www.B4BC.org.

With a week left in the first round of the Nike Chosen Crew Video Contest the competition is as heavy as can be. All of the crews are busy uploading their best edits and photos in hopes of creating enough hype to move unto the second round. Recently, a crew out of Lake Tahoe, California has been making waves with their last-minute popularity surge.

Tahoe Chosen is a crew of three shredders who are all about putting down sick tricks and filming with their friends. We caught up with the trio to get the down-low on what their crew is all about.

Riders:
Scottie "Banger" Hoffman
Joanna "PNut" Dzierzawski
Nick Geisen- Filmer

STYLE: Park, Urban, Backcountry
BUZZ: 360 Likes, 26 Comments



Where are you guys from and how many years have you been snowboarding?
We are from South Lake Tahoe, California and we've been snowboarding over 10 years. -Scottie Banger Hoffman

How did you come up with your Chosen Crew's name: Tahoe Chosen?
It's the perfect name, "Tahoe Chosen". We are the chosen crew, and we are from Tahoe. Simple as that. -Scottie Banger Hoffman

How long have you been a Crew and how did you guys form?
We have been a crew for about a week. We always shredded the same mountain, but now because of this contest, we joined together more closely and created a perfect bond.-Scottie Banger Hoffman

We recently formed. Joanna hooked all of us up. It's great riding with dedicated, rad people. -John Chevallier

What are you looking to get out of the Nike Chosen Contest?
I'm looking to have fun and try something new. Doing this contest is very different from what I normally do. Its nice to create new friendships with other riders.-Scottie Banger Hoffman

Do you have any strategies for filming?
Our strategy is to film unique features. Because this season we don't have much snow, we want to document a high level of tree and rock riding.-Scottie Banger Hoffman

What is your favorite part about snowboarding?
My favorite part of snowboarding is putting all worries aside and having fun with my friends.- Scottie Banger Hoffman

What is your favorite snowboard film?
Any Mac Dawg film. - Scottie Banger Hoffman

After Lame or ANYTHING Travis Parker does.- John Chevallier

If Chosen, what do will your crew do to celebrate?
If chosen, to celebrate I would do the YMCA dance.- Scottie Banger Hoffman

Beers, High Fives & Hugs.- John Chevallier

What pro would you most like to live like and why?
I would most likely live like Jonah Owen, always hungry for filming and pushing snowboarding to the next level. That is his life. -Scottie Banger Hoffman

Describe a perfect day with your crew.
Wake up, everyone comes to my house for coffee and breakfast burritos. We go to the mountain. Film in the park and in the trees. Hopefully there is powder and we can send some pillows. Document the whole day on film. Come back home and watch all the footy. Do it all again the next day. -Scottie Banger Hoffman

Anything else you want to say about your crew?
We love snowboarding. Thank you.- Scottie Banger Hoffman

You haven't seen snowboarding's heart until you've seen Tahoe Chosen. -John Chevallier

Head to Tahoe Chosen's page to help with their quest to be Nike's Chosen.

Josh Dueck's life changed dramatically in 2004, when he became paralyzed from the waist down in a skiing accident. But he not only kept the "freedom" he enjoys on the slopes, aboard a sit-ski, he excelled in competitions and pioneered backcountry skiing on the device. This past week he achieved another remarkable milestone: performing the first documented back flip in the snow on a sit-ski (fast-forward to the 2-minute mark to see the trick).


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That performance, at Whistler-Blackcomb resort in British Columbia, fulfilled a dream eight years in the making for Dueck, who has named his sit-ski the Freedom Chair and stars in a documentary with the same title.

In a recent interview he said, "The sensations that I get from movement in my freedom chair are so much greater than any of the sensations I had a an able-bodied skier. It's so much more liberating and freeing."

The flip must also have represented a redemption of sorts, as the accident that left with a broken back as a paraplegic, when he was 23, occurred during an attempted front flip.

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Words: T. Bird

Photos: Jeff Patterson

Last year, in my intro, I emphasized the fact that Canada might be my favorite country in the world, for myriad reasons. Well, let me follow up in my second year of covering the Burton Canadian Open Prsented by MINI with an exponentiated sentiment of fondness for our neighbor to the north. You see, my friend Preston Strout and I are staying at a hotel directly across the street from Canada Olympic Park (COP), and when we're done working every night, the shuttles have stopped running. Therefore, we've been catching rides home with random locals after the events. Tonight, we got a ride with two young kids named Jordan and Alex. Both had a hunk of chew jammed into their lower lip. We got to talking. Alex had just gotten back from San Diego, and when I asked him where exactly he was in San Diego, he said, "Well, I don't quite remember, hey? I was just down there getting' boiled, and all the streets have Mexican names. Too may fuckin' Mexican names to recall."

Yeah, I love Canada. These people make me laugh.

I also love Canada because every year, the Canadian Open plays host to some of the best competition riding in North America. The vibe, the scene, and the snowboarding are pretty much next-level, and today's pipe finals were no different.

Full recap and results...

Words: T. Bird
Photos: Jeff Patterson

Per usual, Chas Guldemond and Jamie Anderson were unstoppable at the Burton Canadian Open presented by MINI at COP in Calgary.

The fields were stacked under sunny and windless skies, amassed atop the course built by Planet Snow Design, and I must say that what the pushers accomplished with the little snow they had to work with was nothing short of phenomenal. Three rails, three jumps, and the MINI Creative Use of Space feature located at the bottom (where one finalist would be awarded $2,500 for the most creative trick landed on the setup) is what the riders had directly in front of them, and the recap will start with the women.

Hands down, Jamie Anderson is the best female slopestyle rider the snowboard world has ever seen. In a field that showcased elite slope riders like Sina Candrian, Stefi Luxton, Cilka Sadar, Christy Prior, newcomer Isabel Derungs, Shelly Gotlieb, and Jessika Jenson, no one could touch Jamie.

Full recap and results...