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First off, It's FREE to vote... so you have no excuses unless you are really lazy.
Secondly, you can vote multiple times! Show your support for shredding and vote for Vito as many times as they will let you.
It's easy to vote and there are two ways to do it.
Online (The easiest way) : Go to http://abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars or Click HERE. There will be a VOTE link/button. Click on that. You just need an email address and it should let you vote numerous times. Use a different email address to vote even more times!
You may vote online until the next day!
Phone: 1-800-VOTE4-06 (1-800-868-3406)
You can call from a cell or a hard line. IT DOES NOT COST MONEY. You can call multiple times. The lines open at 8pm EST and will stay open a half hour after the show ends.
Louie and Chelsie (aka "Team Chito") recommend calling as early as you can and as often as you can. If you wait until the end of the show there is a good chance the lines will be busy.
For iPhone Users: If you have an iPhone you can text "vote" to the number 3406.
The show premiers live tonight at 8pm/7pm central on ABC. It is a three night premier.
If anything tune in just to see Louie Vito in this kind of getup.
Secondly, you can vote multiple times! Show your support for shredding and vote for Vito as many times as they will let you.
It's easy to vote and there are two ways to do it.
Online (The easiest way) : Go to http://abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars or Click HERE. There will be a VOTE link/button. Click on that. You just need an email address and it should let you vote numerous times. Use a different email address to vote even more times!
You may vote online until the next day!
Phone: 1-800-VOTE4-06 (1-800-868-3406)
You can call from a cell or a hard line. IT DOES NOT COST MONEY. You can call multiple times. The lines open at 8pm EST and will stay open a half hour after the show ends.
Louie and Chelsie (aka "Team Chito") recommend calling as early as you can and as often as you can. If you wait until the end of the show there is a good chance the lines will be busy.
For iPhone Users: If you have an iPhone you can text "vote" to the number 3406.
The show premiers live tonight at 8pm/7pm central on ABC. It is a three night premier.
If anything tune in just to see Louie Vito in this kind of getup.
Channels: Snow
Winner, winner chicken dinner. Scotty Vine got what he deserved. 7G's
This event gets better every year. What started off as a ploy to get Southern California residents up to Bear Mountain to buy a season pass at a "screamin' deal" has six years later turned into a highly anticipated and respected pro-jib contest that draws thousands of spectators and 50 of the worlds best rail riders.
The lollapalooza-esqe crowd herding around the sun deck (beer deck) and vendor booth city is in a class all its own. From the meat-heads to the die-hard old-schoolers, from the Magoon look-a-like's to the hormone driven teenagers flirting with each other and trying to find a signal on their cell phone. It's pure chaos. By 4pm before finals had even started, I had seen everything from kids vying to win a beenie by eating cupfuls of straight coffee beans to barely legal girls making out with each other on a bet... and that's just the legal stuff.
Todd Richards announcing from his perch overlooking the event and crowd below
The crowd's debauchery and chaos added to the energy of the event. Even though it was just a DJ spinning records, the entire afternoon felt more like rock and roll than a snowboard event. Its always good to see that many amped people show up to support snowboarding.
50 riders were invited to compete in the event. The riders in finals were whittled down from a qualifying heat and then semi-final. If a rider made it into finals they had already been shredding and hiking the course for about two hours... not including practice.
The course itself was completely unique as far as rail jams go. Besides the fact that it was long (requiring the riders to hike more than usual), it was well received by the riders. There were six features, each stationed with a judge. There was no question the judges were qualified; they were six of the worlds best jibbers LNP, JP Walker, Joe Sexton, Seth Huot, Keegan Valaika and Simon Chamberlain.
Keegan Valaika (far right) stationed at the feature he was judging during the event
Since each heat was a jam session with all the riders hiking and dropping at will, and since the course was spread out on two strips of snow like a giant horseshoe, there was always something getting thrown down. Trying to watch everything happen at once was like trying to watch a doubles match with four tennis-balls in play. As soon as you looked to watch a rider drop in on one feature a part of the crowd would erupt as someone stuck something at another feature across the way. The dialogue became a constant "Wait I missed it, what did he do?"
A couple of the features were simple, i.e. a down box and a c-rail, while the dog-house and pyramid features required more creativity from the riders. The wall ride became the crowd pleaser since the boys could huck backflips and rodeos onto it, consistently emitting screams from the kiddies, but it was the double-kink elbow rail that had the riders facing the ultimate challenge of the course.
Lacing the rail without getting bucked off was challenge enough, so when Ted Borland tailpressed through both kinks and all three doglegged sections it was a well earned "Best Trick" title. 16 year old Bear Mountain local-boy Zak Hale was neck and neck with Jed Anderson during the finals, both of them sticking tricks on each feature consistently and with style. In the end Anderson scored an inth higher than Hale for 2nd place and Hale took 3rd.
16 year old Zak Hale can buy a lot of candy with that cardboard check
Scotty Vine, another Bear Valley local, was the man to beat all day and he never backed down. Even in the finals when it was apparent all the riders were losing steam from hiking all day, Scotty was charging up and down the course- dancing on the rails, backflipping over the dog-house and combo'ing up his runs with new variations over and over again. He went home $7,000 grand richer at the end of the day.
Four hours of riding later and, despite some sunburnt drunkey monkeys lurking and snoozing on the sun-deck, the Bear Mountain wasn't about to shut 'er down yet. Just as the sun set they premiered their new movie "Parkumentary" via projector (in close vicinity to the bar) followed by the Stepchild/ThirtyTwo movie "This Video Sucks".
After that it was go-time for "The Official After Party" (Yes, it was really called "The Official After Party") at a bar a few miles out of town that doubles as a chinese restaurant. As rumor goes, the Hot Dogs and Handrails after-partys have been so reckless in the past that no bar in the actual town/village of Big Bear was willing to host this years party.
Without getting into gory details (and there was gore) lets just say that the after-party lived up to its reputation.
LNP and Gabby Maiden during "The Official Afterparty". Gabby looks scared due to the intensity of the party going on around them.
Results:
Best Trick: Ted Borland- Tailpress through the double kink
1. Scott Vine
2. Jed Anderson
3. Zak Hale
4. Jake Kuzyk
5. Ryan Tarbell
The lollapalooza-esqe crowd herding around the sun deck (beer deck) and vendor booth city is in a class all its own. From the meat-heads to the die-hard old-schoolers, from the Magoon look-a-like's to the hormone driven teenagers flirting with each other and trying to find a signal on their cell phone. It's pure chaos. By 4pm before finals had even started, I had seen everything from kids vying to win a beenie by eating cupfuls of straight coffee beans to barely legal girls making out with each other on a bet... and that's just the legal stuff.
Todd Richards announcing from his perch overlooking the event and crowd below
The crowd's debauchery and chaos added to the energy of the event. Even though it was just a DJ spinning records, the entire afternoon felt more like rock and roll than a snowboard event. Its always good to see that many amped people show up to support snowboarding.
50 riders were invited to compete in the event. The riders in finals were whittled down from a qualifying heat and then semi-final. If a rider made it into finals they had already been shredding and hiking the course for about two hours... not including practice.
The course itself was completely unique as far as rail jams go. Besides the fact that it was long (requiring the riders to hike more than usual), it was well received by the riders. There were six features, each stationed with a judge. There was no question the judges were qualified; they were six of the worlds best jibbers LNP, JP Walker, Joe Sexton, Seth Huot, Keegan Valaika and Simon Chamberlain.
Keegan Valaika (far right) stationed at the feature he was judging during the event
Since each heat was a jam session with all the riders hiking and dropping at will, and since the course was spread out on two strips of snow like a giant horseshoe, there was always something getting thrown down. Trying to watch everything happen at once was like trying to watch a doubles match with four tennis-balls in play. As soon as you looked to watch a rider drop in on one feature a part of the crowd would erupt as someone stuck something at another feature across the way. The dialogue became a constant "Wait I missed it, what did he do?"
A couple of the features were simple, i.e. a down box and a c-rail, while the dog-house and pyramid features required more creativity from the riders. The wall ride became the crowd pleaser since the boys could huck backflips and rodeos onto it, consistently emitting screams from the kiddies, but it was the double-kink elbow rail that had the riders facing the ultimate challenge of the course.
Lacing the rail without getting bucked off was challenge enough, so when Ted Borland tailpressed through both kinks and all three doglegged sections it was a well earned "Best Trick" title. 16 year old Bear Mountain local-boy Zak Hale was neck and neck with Jed Anderson during the finals, both of them sticking tricks on each feature consistently and with style. In the end Anderson scored an inth higher than Hale for 2nd place and Hale took 3rd.
16 year old Zak Hale can buy a lot of candy with that cardboard check
Scotty Vine, another Bear Valley local, was the man to beat all day and he never backed down. Even in the finals when it was apparent all the riders were losing steam from hiking all day, Scotty was charging up and down the course- dancing on the rails, backflipping over the dog-house and combo'ing up his runs with new variations over and over again. He went home $7,000 grand richer at the end of the day.
Four hours of riding later and, despite some sunburnt drunkey monkeys lurking and snoozing on the sun-deck, the Bear Mountain wasn't about to shut 'er down yet. Just as the sun set they premiered their new movie "Parkumentary" via projector (in close vicinity to the bar) followed by the Stepchild/ThirtyTwo movie "This Video Sucks".
After that it was go-time for "The Official After Party" (Yes, it was really called "The Official After Party") at a bar a few miles out of town that doubles as a chinese restaurant. As rumor goes, the Hot Dogs and Handrails after-partys have been so reckless in the past that no bar in the actual town/village of Big Bear was willing to host this years party.
Without getting into gory details (and there was gore) lets just say that the after-party lived up to its reputation.
LNP and Gabby Maiden during "The Official Afterparty". Gabby looks scared due to the intensity of the party going on around them.
Results:
Best Trick: Ted Borland- Tailpress through the double kink
1. Scott Vine
2. Jed Anderson
3. Zak Hale
4. Jake Kuzyk
5. Ryan Tarbell
Channels: Snow
JP Walker being interviewed at the "This Video Sucks" Premier by Fuel TV
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.
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.
Hot Dawgs and Handrails at Bear Mountain, September 19th, 2009
If you are in the Southern California region this weekend and you are craving a little snowboarding action after this wet, hot American summer, do yourself a favor and head up the hill to Big Bear on Saturday, September 19th for the annual Hot Dawgs and Handrails event.
Bear's going to magically pump out enough snow for a pro-invitational rail jam and the all the big boys (and some girls) of snowboarding are on their way out to play. Expect appearances by LNP, Pat Milbery, Johnny Miller, Zak Hale, Jed Anderson, Michael Casanova, Kyle Clancy, Austin Hironaka and a shit-load more.
Todd Richards and Snowboarder Magazine Editor Pat Bridges will be announcing the shin-dig (those two are hilarious announcing together, you don't want to miss that), and judging the rail jam will be pro rider's JP Walker, Simon Chamberlain, Joe Sexton, Keegan Valaika and Seth Huot (just in case there weren't enough pro's on hand already)
Other goodies include weenie roasting (the "Hot Dawg" part of "Hot Dawgs and Handrails"), music, vendor booth city, pro autograph signings. product giveaways and much, much more. Oh yeah, and it's the last chance to buy a Bear Mountain/Snow Summit Season Pass at the special "Roll Back Price"
And, probably what I'm looking forward to the most, the new Bear Mountain Movie "Parkumentary" is set to premier directly following the event along with the new Stepchild/ThirtyTwo movie "This Video Sucks".
The premiers are free, just show up on Saturday. Check out the trailers below for a taste of what the movies are.
Bear Mountain's "Parkumentary"
This film tracks 20 years of terrain park and snowboarding innovation, style, creativity and history at Bear Mountain and Snow Summit. Beginning with Summit’s hand-dug halfpipe in 1989 and the opening of Bear’s Outlaw terrain park in 1990 it all started in Big Bear. From the domination of Summit’s Westridge and Ego Trip parks of the late 1990’s, and the rise of Bear’s All-Mountain Park in 2002, to new one of a kind features coming this season, Big Bear has been leading the way in terrain park development and helping to push the progression of snowboarding for two decades. It’s a solid place in snowboarding history for a couple of resorts located in sunny Southern California.
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Stepchild and ThirtyTwo present "This Video Sucks"
Channels: Snow
Poor Boyz Productions and Nimbus Independent has joined forces with Mobile Rider and Mountain Sports International to bring you the World Premiere of the Triple Threat Tour streamed live online the night of September 12th, starting at 7:00pm PST. Be sure to watch as athletes, sponsors and media arrive via limo, walk the red carpet and are interviewed by legendary pro skier Mike Douglas and Newschoolers.com's Jeff Schmuck. After an hour pre-show, the feature films of “Contrast” and “Everyday Is A Saturday” will be streamed for your viewing pleasure. The first fifteen minutes will be free, then users will have to subscribe for a $10 (USD) fee and will have access to the entire night’s activities for five total views over an entire month.
To watch the Online World Premiere of Poor Boyz Productions' "Every Day Is A Saturday" and Nimbus Independent's "Contrast" this Saturday night, head on over to Newschoolers.com
To watch the Online World Premiere of Poor Boyz Productions' "Every Day Is A Saturday" and Nimbus Independent's "Contrast" this Saturday night, head on over to Newschoolers.com
Channels: Snow
Check out the Teaser for the new film from Factor-Films. It looks insane with quality filming and editing. The quality alone is insane. Its a new European movie made in assosiation with Sweet Protection, DnB
NOR and Atikin. Featuring riders such as Eiki Helgason, Halldor Helgason,
Torstein Horgmo, Ståle Sandbech, Gulli Gudmundson, Roger Kleivdal, Kareem
El-Rafie and more… www.factor-films.com
NOR and Atikin. Featuring riders such as Eiki Helgason, Halldor Helgason,
Torstein Horgmo, Ståle Sandbech, Gulli Gudmundson, Roger Kleivdal, Kareem
El-Rafie and more… www.factor-films.com
The notorious Grenade crew has outdone themselves with this most recent video addition on their site. In a nutshell: an urgent transmission arrives at Grenade Headquarters. Mission 33 to be exact. General Kass abruptly stops his skate sesh to rally his troops. Next thing you know Kass, Sketchy D, Kevin Casillo, Tom Tom, and (of course) The Dingo are starring in their very own Grenade-esque remake of "On A Boat ft. T-Pain"
Keep an eye out for a real life mermaid, the infamous Zumiez orange couch, Sketchy D's flawless lip syncing pirate impression and a pseudo-impressive special effect explosion at the end of the video. Well done boys, well done.
The Grenade website has been going off recently. If you haven't been over there in a while make the jump and waste some time perusing the vids, blogs, and contests where you can win all kinds of signature Danny Kass memorabilia.
Channels: Snow
They just do things bigger in Jackson Hole. Throw Travis Rice and Todd Richards into the mix... together... and anything can happen.
Channels: Snow
The Prospect Co-Op project has been setup so that anyone can submit snowboard artwork to a real snowboard company with a real chance to have it published. We've been seeing some rad ideas coming from independent designers and its important for us to offer. This concept, designed by Lane Lederman remains nameless at the moment, so we're calling it the bush whacker for now.
Lane submitted his design to us through our Co-op and within a few weeks we will publish his board on our site with a chance for people to reserve their board in advance.
The point of our Co-op is to give guys and gals, like Lane, the chance to have their artwork published with a snowboard company.
Screw design competition where you will literally be one in 1,000 to win. Our Co-Op is natural selection. If you design kicks ass people will want it and we are here to help you make it.
If you are interested in creating your own board for our Co-Op then here is where to start.
2. Submit your artwork and create a bio. What is your artwork about?
3. Tell all your friends about your board so they want to buy it.
4. Your friends reserve a spot to purchase your board.
5. Once a few reserve orders come it we'll print your design.
6. When it is time to print we'll call to complete the reserve orders.
7. We then invest in your design and publish it into our line of boards.
This is your chance to be a snowboard designer.
Check out our Co-op page for more information and to see the current line of concept art.
If you are looking to reserve a model for purchase email us at contact@prospectsnowboards.com
www.prospectsnowboards.com
Channels: Snow
