April 27, 2007
only a matter of Time
Check out the new teaser from Strapless Entertainment.
Posted by Webmonkey at 09:19 AM on April 27, 2007 in Skate | Permalink | Comments (0)
April 21, 2007
Grenade Games 3
Holy Bananas Batman
Posted by Webmonkey at 10:45 PM on April 21, 2007 in Rippers | Permalink | Comments (2)
April 17, 2007
Marginal Way Skatepark Spring Benefit
Help us raise some cash, good times for all. New Marginal Way tee
design for sale also.
Marginal Way Skatepark Benefit
Capitol Hill Arts Center (lower level)
Thursday May 3, 07
10:00 PM
5 Bucks
21+
Gutbomb
Marginal Way
Lessons in Regret
Rough Chukar
Tonight we Knife
Hosted by Marshall from Manic Skateboards
Opening Artist Reception Featuring: Shawn Diaz, LoEnd, David Kaul &
Nate West of OliveDoce Collective.
Local Videos & Raffle!
Supported By:
Capital Hill Arts Center.com
Poster Midget.com
Creature Skateboards
Manik Skateboards
Monster Skateboards
Marginal Way Skatepark.org
Marginal Way Collective
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http://marginalwayskatepark.org/
Posted by Webmonkey at 09:02 AM on April 17, 2007 in Skate | Permalink | Comments (0)
April 13, 2007
Making Hotdogs Sexy Again
Hey all,
We FINALLY got our T Shirt order done and shipping!
www.cobradogs.com
Grove
Posted by Webmonkey at 01:21 PM on April 13, 2007 in Rippers | Permalink | Comments (0)
Magne Traction Movements
Posted by Webmonkey at 09:27 AM on April 13, 2007 in Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)
April 10, 2007
Volcom's Escramble Webisode #6, Featuring Curtis Ciszek
Webisode #6 begins with Bjorn Leines discussing the “chemtrails” in the Utah backcountry, followed by brother Erik launching off some massive kickers. Then we see Janna Meyen, Curtis Ciszek and Chris Demolski shredding the great northwest before jumping back to Bjorn in Utah. Music by Nards of Darkness.
Posted by Webmonkey at 02:34 PM on April 10, 2007 in Rippers | Permalink | Comments (0)
April 09, 2007
Hometown Heroes Snowboard Contest Recap
COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO - After a solid week of blowing snow and super-cold temperatures, the sun broke clear just in time and jackets came off for the first ever Hometown Heroes Pro/Am Team Snowboarding event in front of thousands of shredheads at Copper Mountain with Dingo on the mic calling the tricks. A flat box into tranny, a long, mellow kinked rail, and a 40-foot down rail were all torn to pieces by the impressive field of pros and ams.
Hometown Heroes of Snowboarding SUPERPOST
Things started off with a 30-minute am-only session from which the top 6 were chosen to advance to the final, in which they’d each be paired up with 1 of the top 6 pros. It was an intense battle with tricks stomped left and right, but in the end it was Chris Grenier, Louif Paradis, Nick Dirks, Chad Tarbell, Madison Ellsworth, and Scott Stevens who got the green light to move on to the team-format finals.
After a quick course cleanup, the pro-only session got rolling and the intensity of tricks was insane. Every way 270s, switch craziness and killer combos were stock for these guys. After thirty minutes, Lucas Magoon, Mike Casanova, Colin Langlois, Sammy Luebke, Yan Dofin, Lane Knaack were named the final 6 and moved on to the next round.
The top 6 pros drew names out of a hat and each was paired with one of the ams. Things were getting crazy when Magoon was first to draw and picked Chris Grenier. Needless to say, the others were sweating at this point. The finals went on with some even crazier action and ended with the judges (Nic Drago, Todd Franzen, and Doran Laybourn) saying they had scored the pro division as a tie between Mike Casanova and Lucas Magoon. Rather than splitting top dollars, Magoon and Casanova went into a 3-try “rail off”. Two tries later, neither rider had landed the next to impossible tricks they were throwing at the kink rail, and suspense was in the air. On his 3rd and final attempt, Gooner pulled a back 1 switch nosepress, 270 off the kink to boardslide 270 out, and needless to say, walked away 10 G’s richer. Moments after a ten thousand dollar payday, he got 1500 more as he and Chris Grenier were awarded top team honors.
The inaugural HH Snow event, sponsored by Lost Energy Drink and Copper Mountain Resort, went off without a hitch and made history as the first ever team format Pro/Am event. See you at Copper next year, and be sure to check out all the photos and video on www.HHsnow.com.
Posted by Webmonkey at 04:19 PM on April 9, 2007 in Rippers | Permalink | Comments (1)
NW Snowboard Legend Bob Barci Passes
Apr 6, 2007
In the Northwest, Barci is well known for his many passions. Whether it was surfboards, photography, skateboarding, snowboarding, cars, or his work as bike shop owner or salesrep for Seattle Bike Supply, he took on his interests with unbelievable enthusiasm and always at full throttle.
Bob Barci got his start in the bike industry in the early 70's, helping out his good friend and highschool pal Wally Parcels at Sunshine Bicycles on Orcas Island, on the weekends. By 1974, together they opened the first BIKEFACTORY in Lynnwood, which soon introduced their own brand of folding bike; the PortaBike. For the next 20 years, Bob and Wally operated BikeFactory; and made it one of the Seattle area's premiere bike and skate shops during the thriving 80's-selling plastic banana skateboards, urethane wheels and some of the sports' first BMX bikes.
Also during this time, Barci was an instrumental figure in the earliest days of snowboarding in the Pacific Northwest. Back in 1985, the legendary Mt. Baker Banked Slalom race was Bob's brain child (along with Tom Sims). In the 2006 snowboard documentary, titled "Platinum," Barci is interviewed, and displays the swallow-tail and finned boards they duct-taped their feet to back in the day.
In 1995, Barci joined Seattle Bike Supply, where he assisted his customers in more ways than one throughout the next 12 years. In 2002, the "Year of the fold-up alloy Scooter", Bob was awarded the prestigious "Employee of the Year" and "Salesman of the Year" by SBS.
Between his love for work, Barci was actively and constantly involved with the Washington State Ski Patrol and his car club. His collection of Subaru's and a replica AC Cobra have been shown at many car shows around the Northwest.
Bob is survived by his wife Nancy. Friends of Bob have been showing their support and are sharing their best memories on the Bob Barci blog - http://bobbarci.blogspot.com/
Bob Barci-related links to check out:
http://expn.go.com/bankedslalom/2002/s/history.html
http://www.transworldsnowboarding.com/snow/print/0,26727,537010,00.html
Posted by Webmonkey at 11:16 AM on April 9, 2007 in Letters | Permalink | Comments (0)
April 04, 2007
Happened on a Banana
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April 03, 2007
yesterday was firing...the spines are in season!
a couple POVz to check.
-Chris Ankeny
Posted by Webmonkey at 12:10 PM on April 3, 2007 in Letters | Permalink | Comments (3)
April 02, 2007
Mikey Wier Getting Gnar on a Lib Tech Skate Banana
Local South Lake Lib Tech Ripper Mikey Wier gets gnarly in Big Mountain Snowboard Championship at Kirkwood and gets cover of RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL!
Friends,
Kirkwood is gnarly. This week was the World Freeride Competition. I always like to go out for the comp and shred with all the hommies. Las year i was hurt this time of the year so i missed the comp. This time around i wanted some redemption. We snowboarders are just kind of a side show for the Skiing. The Skiers are really gnarly. It is the last US stop for the world tour, so all the heavy shreds show up. We snowboarders take it seriously, but just can't ride with the same speed as the two plankers. I think you can ride with more style though.
Mother Nature kicked down just in time. When we scouted out the venue and signed up on Monday, it was a coral reef of ice on the hill. As luck would have it, we got one of those nice little spring storms that come in late in the day and dumped all night. Come morning the clouds started to break and kirkwood had close to 20 inches of fluffy, white, fun maker. It takes patrol a while to clear the venue for snow safety, so we all got to freeride for a couple hours in the morning. I got to get into some of my favorite lines that i had been thinking about for a whole snowless month.
Kirkwood is still like early season. The conditions were kind of dangerous because there is low snow to begin with. It hadn't snowed in like over a month, and had been super warm, so allot of rock was exposed. The old snow had been really wet and froze before the storm, so the new light snow was sitting on ice. There are shark teeth under the snow everywhere in these conditions. To top it off, all the locals were in like a frenzy to finally get to ride some fresh snow, so the first few runs are like a Chinese down hill.
The morning started out perfect and blue, but by the time we all lined up at the top of the vista for our qualifying runs, the weather started rolling in again. I had a nice safe line picked out the day before, but with the new snow, some new possibilities had presented themselves. In years past i have come away from this event bummed on the judging. It's hard because some people just ride down a mellow line, but smooth, and get good scores and people who go huge, but buttcheck, get lower scores. They tell you it is and extreme comp, so i would figure you should be getting as gnarly as the terrain would allow. i though about just taking a nice clear and fast line off the top. Then i found a nice pocket of snow under a huge drop. I thought about it for a minute and looked at it really good. my usual call is "will i die if i do this?" I figured out there was a slight chance for death, due to some rocks in the fall line of the drop, but i figured if it went wrong i would most likely just hit rocks and get hurt. It wasn't the size of the drop that made me nervous, it was that you had to come off at a weird angle and then turn in the air, to land with the fall line of the hill there. If you didn't pull it, you were heading for some rocks. I spent the time we had to inspect the venue building a ramp off the lava rock. I kept going back and forth in my head. Should i do it. No it's too big for the condition, just keep in clean. No, i got it. No just go for the safe line and get a clean run score. Finally i figured that i was being a pussy and i should just go for it. I figured if i stick it, it could put me on top. If i crash, at least i went for it. A few of the other competitors came and looked over the edge and said, no way. as they scurried off. I said F it and went for it. I landed, but then washed out. The rest of my line was ok, but i crashed again when i came into an icy spot too fast.
I made the finals but was pretty far down the list. The Cirque it some of the Gnarliest terrain at any ski resort in North America. It is permanently closed to skiing at all times except for this event. The condition were too low to drop in from the usually spot at the very top of the venue, so we dropped from a place called drop in. Because of the low conditions, we only got to ride the chair ten side of the cirque. The lines under Carnnels drop, on the chair 4 side, were unskiiable this year. Day two was fun. the snow was still pretty rippable, but you had to watch for ice in the wind scoured spots. I had a super clean run in the cirque. Went super fast and had some clean drops, but it wasn't enough to crawl up to a podium spot after my low score form the first day. I hate judged events. It's really just me I'm competing against anyway, so i feel good about manning up to a drop that no one else went for.
Friday, a shot of me was on the front cover of the Reno Gazette Newspaper. I thought it was kind of cool, so i would share it with all of you.
Cheers,
Mikey
Posted by Webmonkey at 01:10 PM on April 2, 2007 in Rippers | Permalink | Comments (1)
