From: Lindsay Fraka
Lights, camera, smoke, ACTION! The NIKE Chosen event exploded Friday night at Mountain High in a sea of sound, strobes, and solid snowboarding. With GT of Von Zipper and Nike rider Mason Aguirre on the mic and DJ YNot laying down the beats, top riders and NIKE Pros descended on the Playground jib park in this one-of-a-kind nighttime rail jam. The course consisted of a signature rainbow box painted by madsteez.com, a stair set, a concrete ledge, and three quarterpipes connected by two corrugated tubes. Riders like Ian Sams, Yeager Bailey and Danika Duffy destroyed the down rails while Kyle Lopiccolo, Spencer Link, Cory Cronk and Erik Leon were boosting out of the quarterpipe. It was Mountain High's own Ryan Paul who took first and best trick with his backside 360 50/50 on the stair set. Ian Sams took second place with his proper tricks on every feature while Yeager Bailey managed third with his style and flip tricks. Melissa Evans from Big Bear won the Women's division with her relentless domination of the stair set and quarterpipe.
While many of us were sulking because the season is practically over, Norwegian shredder, Stale Sandbech was busy stomping a brand new trick. A video of the 18-year-old hitting a massive kicker in Europe just surfaced, and in it, Sandbech stomps a triple underflip 1260. Yeah, we didn't really think that was possible either, but this video from Stale's sponsors proves it.
After seeing the video, we had to know what was going through Sandbech's mind when he stomped the new trick...