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
Posted by Webmonkey at March 23, 2006 01:23 AM
Comments
Sick! Those pillows in the trees are cool. Watch out for those shishkabab trees!
Need to talk Krush into importing one of those snow vehicles for Summit transportation.
Posted by: sasquatch at March 18, 2006 11:29 AM
Looks like a killer time, nice pics of Allister. Insane pillow lines. Allsiter getting some could be a mag shot, you should submit. Keep up the good work Tnut!
Posted by: stan tech at March 23, 2006 02:19 PM
Looks like you guys had an awesome time!
Posted by: mark at March 24, 2006 07:08 AM
Yeah,
Czech Republic going off... get it boyz, stoked to check the trip, Lib representing WORLD WIDE.....
Posted by: eric brandt at March 25, 2006 06:31 PM
Yo all em homies got steez up in prague fo sho props to the homies and medalists, hell of a show doots
Posted by: Steve at March 26, 2006 06:08 PM
sickkk
Posted by: tyler Flanagan at March 31, 2006 08:21 PM
Chek looks fun. One of the coolest cities. Allister is the smoothest ever from the NW.
Posted by: Katie O. at April 5, 2006 09:02 PM
u are the best...libtech 4 ever
Posted by: thanos3d at May 14, 2006 11:04 AM
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