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BRETT SIMPSON ASP SEND OFF IN HB by: Shredstix.com February 20, 2010
Surf City's highest-ranked professional surfer, Brett Simpson, received a proper send-off Friday evening as he embarked on his rookie year on the elite ASP World Tour. Just hours before he headed to the airport, Simpson attended the Go Brett Send-Off Party at Huntington Surf-N-Sport, where hundreds of friends, family and well-wishers showed their support. This is a dream come true,… Read More |
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ON THE SCENE: WOMEN'S OLYMPIC HALFPIPE FINALS by: Shredstix.com February 19, 2010 Some 22 hours after Shaun White claimed gold, the 12 finalists in the women's edition began dropping in - and falling left and right. Whether it was fatigue, deteriorating conditions, or some inevitable cosmic letdown after the men's comp high (am I the only one who thinks it'd be more exciting to run the women before the men?), the girls struggled to stay upright. The lack of a dominant first-… Read More |
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WHITE, LAGO TAKE GOLD AND BRONZE by: Shredstix.com February 17, 2010
In an amazing showing Shaun White and Scotty Lago took Gold and Bronze respectively with Peetu Pirroinen from Finland finishing with the Silver.
Vito finished a respectable 5th just behind a strong 4th place performance by Ipod.
Big ups to Shaun for winning after his first run, then upping the ante on his second run victory lap with a Double M… Read More |
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by: Shredstix.com February 16, 2010 By Sal Rubial/USA Today - Nobody's perfect. Snowboard cross rider Lindsey Jacobellis has proved that axiom at two Winter Games. Her first mistake was when she botched the final jump at the 2006 Torino Games after a spontaneous trick spontaneously combusted and turned her sure-thing gold medal into a silver.
Now 24, she has spent the last four years aiming at redemption … Read More |
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OLYMPIC SNOWBOARDING TICKETS CANCELED by: Shredstix.com February 16, 2010 The Vancouver Olympic Commission today canceled snowboarding venue tickets for 20,000 people who had purchased standing room only access. Due to the heavy rains, the area designated for the holders has become "a dangerous mud pit."
With Vancouver experiencing the mildest winter in over 100 years the timing couldn't be worse. As reported, "VANOC decided to cancel tickets for the… Read More |
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February 16, 2010 In case you missed any of the scintillating action at this year's Aspen Open, herewith, a video wrap. Gus Kenworthy swept up the show on the Men's Side, winning both pipe and slopestyle. Ashley Battersby won women's slope and someone with the charming name Anais Caradeux won in women's pipe. Rather than do any real reporting, let's sit back and enjoy the videos:<object width="400" heig… Read More |
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by: Shredstix.com February 14, 2010 Yesterday at Mavericks, South African Chris Bertish took first place and $50,000 for the best performance at the Mavericks Invitiational. Huge sets in the 22 foot range pounded the coast all day under sunny skies. While the competition was the focus, a bizzare news bit occurred when a unexpected surge pushed over through the lagoon and swamped the spectator area, causing some panic and more tha… Read More |
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OLYMPIC MELODRAMA BEGINS IN EARNEST TODAY by: Shredstix.com February 11, 2010
It's that time again.
On the day of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies kick off, I got my first whiff of the Olympic's melodramatic monologue manure pile via a timeline of emotional vignettes from America's stars: Lyndsey Vonn learning to ski, Shaun White dreaming of the 5 Ring circus, and Apollo Ono uniting the world.
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KELLY SLATER MASTERS THE ULTIMATE WAVE IN 3D by: Shredstix.com February 10, 2010
Nine-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater has made his career conquering the competition and the ocean's biggest waves. As the star of a new IMAX film released this week in Los Angeles, The Ultimate Wave Tahiti, Slater successfully surfs onto the big screen in stunning 3D realism. A three-year project directed by renowned IMAX filmmaker Stephen Low, The Ulti… Read More |
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THE NORTH FACE MASTERS - CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN RESULTS … by: Shredstix.com February 10, 2010 Day one of The North Face Masters of Snowboarding at Crystal Mountain kicked off with impressive airs and tight chutes nailed by both men and women in challenging snow conditions. The top scores from today were given to the most fluid, stylish snowboarders on Northway Peak. Northwest riders made a big showing with Crystal Mountain local Sky Risvold currently holding first place for the men… Read More |
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SEXY SI MODELS - TETER, BIDEZ, VONN AND SCHNOOR by: Shredstix.com February 09, 2010
This always happens around the Oylmpics - the good looking girls of action sports are dressed down, brushed up and made to look fabulous for all the hungry eyes across the land. This installment involves snowboarder Hannah Teter and Clair Bidez who took part in a Sports Illustrated photo shoot in Whistler recently. Much to enjoy in the corresponding galleries of Hannah and Clair. Both… Read More |
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by: Shredstix.com February 08, 2010
Weekly 7 - February 8, 2010
Lost of snowboarding contest action this week between the Canadian Open, Dew Tour, and Banked Slalom, all offering three versions of the nature of snowboarding competition. TV glitz, cold and off camera and an old-fashioned old timers that has them all beat. SIA - last wee… Read More |
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by: Shredstix.com February 08, 2010 <!--StartFragment-->The second annual Burton Canadian Open (CANO) has come to a close and Brett Esser (USA) and Enni Rukaj rvi (FIN) have come out on top, winning the men s and women s slopestyle competition today at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. After seeing optimal conditions during the week with bluebird skies, the weather took a turn for the worse with low vis… Read More |
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by: The Daily Rotter February 08, 2010 Even though its sunny and beautiful 69% of the time in San Diego, we still always find ourselves complaining when the weather is anything less than perfect. This just so happened to be one of those days where we really wanted to shred but the weather really wanted to be shitty... So we found ourselves a prime parking garage, moved around some wood barriers we found and started having some fun. … Read More |
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WINTER DEW TOUR - SAGE KOSTENBURG WINS DEW CUP IN … by: Shredstix.com February 06, 2010 Quiksilver rider Sage Kotsenburg is taking home the overall Dew Tour Cup for slopestyle after finishing second at the Toyota Championships in Mt. Snow. The 16-year-old took the snowboard world by surprise this season with focused confidence beyond his years, a solid bag of tricks and lots of style. He hadn t pre-qualified for the opening event in Breckenridge and quickly hit the riders to … Read More |
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SLOPESTYLE A FAVORITE DISCIPLINE AT WINTER DEW TOU… by: Shredstix.com February 04, 2010 Though not featured at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games, terrain park slopestyle is the most popular competitive discipline among snowboarders and freeskiers. Combining jumps, rails, boxes and other obstacles along an established run, slopestyle allows levels of creativity not possible in the U-shaped halfpipe.
"I always grew up riding park and was always more psyched … Read More |
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PRO FILE: CHRIS "GUNNY" GUNNARSON OF SPT by: Shredstix.com February 04, 2010 Snow Park Technologies is the world's leading terrain park design firm. Led by President, Chris "Gunny" Gunnarson, SPT has grown to be a global business, building parks for Winter X Games, the Dew Tour, and the US Open among others as far away as Japan and Europe. Gunny just returned to Tahoe after spending 29 days in Aspen overseeing the build at Winter X 14. Between catching his breath and ta… Read More |
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WINTER DEW TOUR AT MT SNOW, FEB 4-7 by: Shredstix.com February 02, 2010 The Winter Dew Tour, the world s premier season-long winter action sports tour, concludes its sophomore season with the last of three stops, the Toyota Championship, beginning Thursday, Feb. 4 at Mount Snow Resort. The Winter Dew Tour returns to Mount Snow to host four days of slopestyle and superpipe competitions with the world s best snowboard and freeski athletes vying for the ev… Read More |
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JEREMY JONES RIDES CAPITOL HILL by: Shredstix.com February 01, 2010 Jeremy Jones, eight-time Big Mountain Snowboarder of the Year visited one of the most world-renowned hills in the world, this time without a snowboard. On Wednesday, January 27, Jeremy Jones along with a coalition of winter sport filmmakers and industry representatives shared a new perspective on climate change with lawmakers on Capitol Hill: the economic, social and intangible values o… Read More |
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BOBBY BROWN IS THE MAN: SLOPESTYLE WINNER January 31, 2010 Welcome to superstardom, Bobby Brown: nobody, not Tanner Hall, Dumont, Thovex, nobody had ever won two skiing golds at the same X Games, until Bobby Brown did it by waxing the competition on the slopestyle course a day after smoking everybody in the big air comp. Hatveit challenged him legitimately at slopestyle, and others are certaily better than Brown on the rails, but the simple fact rema… Read More |
