March 31, 2006
T-Rice Seattle Shop Visit
Travis stopped by the Factory today on his way up to AK. He showed us how he would like all of the 0607 Lib Tech Travis Rice Magne-Tracion snowboards to be factory detuned to his specs, for your pleasure.
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March 29, 2006
DAVID SHRIGLEY; NEW DRAWINGS AT THE JOURNAL GALLERY
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March 28, 2006
BikeCar
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March 27, 2006
Missoula, MT Skatepark
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March 24, 2006
Thanks
Just spent an incredible week in the French Alps in big snow, blazing sun and on a 193 Doughboy. Thank you guys, for a board that can take me, as a 275lb weightlifter, it's all I've dreamt of!
Keep up the good work.
Big Guys Slide Fast.
Roger Darbyshire
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March 23, 2006
A Snow Jam in the Czech Republic
Czech Republican snowboard-rock-star, Martin Cernik ask me to come over and check out his local contest, Snow Jam. I thought about it for about a second, sure why not, it was that or the US Open. So we needed to bring an American ripper with so Lib Tech's team manager, Jeannine James called up Allister Schultz, he said "Are you kidding me?"
DAY 1 GETTING THERE:
Allister Schultz and I jumped on some planes and headed over to the Czech Republic for Martin Cernik's Snowjam contest, just 3 hours north of Prague.
A little jet lagged, we killed some time in Prague before heading to the local mountains, Pec Pod Snezkou(Pets for short) Martin's home mountain.
We met some of Czech Quiksilver crew in downtown Prague. Their office had a nice collection of Parillo art that I have never seen before.
Checked out this snowboard/skateboard shop, they only carried Lib Tech and Gnu snowboards!
Up in the Mountains, Pets they drive rad snow vehicles like this as taxis.
DAY 2 PRACTICE:
Here is the overview of the Snowjam, its a double kicker event.
This is the first year of the Snowjam a Ticket to Ride event(TTR), however Martin has been putting on big air events in his country for the last 5 years.
Matej Novak in practice on a Magne-Traction.
Time to go explore the Mountain, Martin shows us some stashes.
Allister, Martin and Henki Odegaard from Norway.
Found some pretty good tree runs with lots of pow and pillow stumps to jump off of. Allister getting some.
Our roommate Henki
Found these sweet pillows, shot a couple lines off them...
Allister slashed this big pillow...
He then blasted a huge method off another pillow.
Here is one of my favorite snow vehicles.
Party #1
Martin knows how to throw parties.
This guy served us Pizza earlier sans wig.
DAY 3 FINALS:
Martin Cernik placed 4th.
Crowd Pleaser
Allister, Smooth Slow Spins
GNU's Chris Sorman landed in 2nd place
Matej Novak
Long time New Zealand Ripper Quentin Robbins, still getting er done.
M.C.
Party #2
The Hottest DJ in Czech!
DAYS 3 & 4 CHILLIN IN PRAGUE
Traveling in style on the Quiksilver double decker Bus
Duck
Traditional Czech meal, Meat, Dumplings, and Gravy
Quentin
Martin
Sam
Allister
Local Slovakian Thomas
Super sick indoor woody skate bowl.
Thanks to Martin Cernik who planned the whole event, it went off.
Photos and Words by G Trevor Phillips
www.snowjam.cz
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March 22, 2006
Markku Koski 4th at US Open
Photo: Nick Hamilton
Lib-Tech's Markku Koski placed 4th at the US Open this last weekend,in the worlds longest running halfpipe event. Koski is also sitting in 9th place in the TTR ranking.
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March 12, 2006
Martin Cernik's Sno Jam
Lib Tech's Czech Ripper Martin Cernik is hosting a contest in the mountains near Prague, a Double line...2 kickers format. You should jump on a plane, and or train and head over, there will be killer music as well!!!
Czech Republic Hosts - 3(three) Star TTR World Snowboard Tour Event – Nokia Snowjam 2006
Pec pod Snezkou, Czech Republic 16 to19th March 2006 - Martin Cernik, one of the TTR’s top 30 ranked riders has taken bull by the horns bringing the Championships Tour to his home country and initiating the first ever Eastern European TTR World Snowboard Tour event. Joining Cernik will be a top level array of talent all hunting for additional Championships points and a slice of the 10,000euro prize purse. They include Chris Sörman(SWE), Darius Heristchian(SUI), Henki Odegaard(NOR), Quentin Robbins (NZE), Tomi Savela(FIN) and Matus Hubka(SVK).
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March 08, 2006
Marginal Way
http://marginalwayskatepark.org/
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March 07, 2006
Launch Rail
Sam Malich....18 yrs old from Snatchee, WA
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March 01, 2006
Does Seattle need more skateboard parks?
Vote for more skate parks!
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/260802_skated.asp#pollArticle
Posted by Webmonkey at 10:03 AM on March 1, 2006 in Letters | Permalink | Comments (1)
