Right on dude, uh so did you actually need anything?

"Well my names Maurice and I'm here to say improve your plastic bindings with no delay. Now my raps so great it can't be ignored this one is cold cause it involves a snowboard. Now my man bought your bindings to shred some powder after a jump they went crackers like you put in clam chowder. I know you want your profits to be vast but you should probably offer products that are built to last. People like your bindings, they often choose Burdon if you keep selling junk one thing will be certain, your reputation will be HURTON. It's gonna be CURTONS, your really FLURTON with disaster. Peace."

Kev Gnar interview

"Everyone else is like, 'Well I'll send you a pair of binding's or something' While I am grateful for that, I am going to do this with or without anyone's help." Kevin Jones

The Mick

Interview with Mikey Leblanc from Holden from Dustin Vance on Vimeo.

random information

"I’ve seen some pics on the takledbox of your frankenbinders, they all look pretty radical….I rode most of this year and last with my red/white/black Air Franken-Forces and then updated them with 2010 SL parts a few months ago…….made the Cincinnati Bengal contacts for Birnie back in March with some customized parts for his majesty.….should have taken pics of the other ones I’ve made up over the years too…..there’s a bunch roaming around whistler……. I hope all is good for C3. Happy summer."
Tony

The Outsiders

Swim Team from Nose Dradamous on Vimeo.

We live in a real blue collar neighborhood that boarders one of the more exclusive hoods in the city where all them rich folk live. Actually that neighborhood was built for the Boeing executives and ours was for the factory workers. Oh well whatever the world needs ditch diggers too right? Anyway this rich place has their own clubhouse and pool. It's awesome and we always wished we could use it when that suns beating down. Some of our rich friends will bring us in time to time but you know it sucks when it's incredi out in Seattle and your laying out in your back yard hosing each other off pretending that it's refreshing. So for the first time in 10 years the rich folks needed some more kids for their swim team and well it just so happens we got in. "We're moving on up to the penthouse Weezey!" The kids got to practice a hour a day, 5 days a week and then we get to use the club anytime we want. The only hitch is, we CAN'T bring any of our friends in the club with us. Fuckers.

Good knee

Compression wraps off, got at least 60 hours of icing time, minimal swelling, good flexion and can almost walk without a pimplimp. 5 days later...as Lonis would say "kinda stoked huh!"

Damage Re Visited

The dudes at Damage in Duluth MN, put on a little jam in May every year. I'm so there next year and volunteering to be the door man to keep the 'lurking Larrys' from sneaking in.

"Yes, the event costs $25. One would think this is a pretty small price to pay in considering there isn’t anywhere else in the Midwest to snowboard in fucking May. But still, you can’t just throw 200+ snowboarders onto one giant patch of snow and expect not to hear a little pissing and moaning or to catch a couple of lurking Larry’s trying to sneak in. Apparently some folks have a hard time comprehending that there are certain indemnities that must be covered to host such an event. Hill fees, insurance liability, cost of snow making, a couple of sandwiches and maintenance supplies are just a portion of the monetary grievances a shop faces when trying to get an event like this going. Please consider this next year before fan dangling your way past the registration booth and have to spend the entire day looking you’re your shoulder playing the role of Sketchy Ungrateful Asshole. Yeah, we know – Damage Sucks."

Stevens Pass KICKED their ass

Follow up on the Stevens jump: "The Stevens Pass park crew, ski patrol and administration and the TGR crew acted professional, diligent, and timely in both cases." Translation, dudes got TomBrokeoffed. From Powder Mag. Vid.

Not even

Holy crap, these things are sick looking, if your one of them dudes that like headphone style steez.
This on the otherhand. Too funny. Reaching. Hard.

KJ comeback?

Hor-Hey said at the beginning of the season that he was living in Jackson shredding. Then Blue ran into him at the Mammy Super Duper Park. Now the "New King of Freeride" says he was filming with him in AK for Standard. I sure hope one of the greatest ever is back in the game.
I love this shot, Milo got to hang out with him at a APX Project photo shoot way back in oh two. The only thing he's missing is a cig.

Killa Weed

Backyard dorkin, with a little Ballard Bowl and Greenlake mixed in. Edited while on Vicodin.

3 IS a charm

Up at 6:30AM, shower, shave and a final crap then off with a miserable demeanor to the hospital. I was definitely not looking forward to today. After the stable of Hispanic accented nurses asking me my name over a dozen times and me repeating back to them how to spell "John", my phone number, insurance, etc it was time. Doc comes in, we chat and for some reason I say, "sooooo if you get in there and things don't look as bad as you think, will you still do the micro fracture?" "Of course not." I have no idea why I said that but this whole drilling into the bones thing so they bleed had me tripping.
Dr. Anesthesiologist comes over and introduces himself as "DR. so and so." Wow guy your really stoked on your Dr. status huh? As most of them usually say, "hey I'm Jim, your anesthesiologist." Whatever though. Dude goes right into "so what do YOU do for a living?" "I grow weed." "Uh, really?" "No, I sell snowboards." "Hmmmm, yea I don't know about them snowboarders, they stand all sideways and can't see me when I'm coming down the mountain. I don't know, maybe snowboarders have bad things to say about skiers?" "Yea, it's gay. How about knocking me out and lets get this thing started OK?"
Doc didn't even ask me to count backwards and the next thing i know is I'm in a chair, ice on my knee and some flowers by my side. I was a little groggy but not sore, and something was not as it seemed. No real pain. Doc comes out in a bit, said things went good. Cleaned things up, pulled out the floating debris and DIDN'T have to do the micro fracture. "4-6 weeks you should be walking around fine." I limped out of there and the wife took me home to grill cheese and tomato soup, my post surgery ritual meal. Then a couple of vicoden, the computer, phone, leg elevated, ice, Spike TVs Ultimate Knockouts 1-6 and this stupid post.

Three's a charm

Monday will be my third time under anesthesia in the last year. This time Doc's going back in to last years knee clean up and re-cleaning it up??? "Doc, why is my knee still jacked when I got surgury last summer and didn't reinjure it this winter?" "Yea well funny you ask, we'd rather take out less than is needed and have to go back in instead of taking too much out." Ok cool, I love going under and counting backwards from 100 till i'm knocked out. I've only gotten to 97 but I'm detirmined to hit 96 Monday morning.
Actually I have a new Dr. this time. He's the dude I went to for a second opinion after Dr. 1 told me I would be on crutches for 4-6 weeks. This guy had a good road to recovery laid out for me so he got the job. Plus all the nurses running around is office had big schmeebs.
Monday brings a meniscus clean up and micro fracture procedure, which is where they drill holes in your leg bones so they bleed and build up some cartilage like padding in the knee. Then after a little rehab, homeys going in and injecting some Synvisc for some more lube and movement. On top of that we'll have some bracing to straighten out the leaning leg and of course some of them real inexpensive orthotics. I'll have an unenjoyable summer, that's for sure, but should be good to go for the winter. Of course I'll be taking some prescribed type of anti inflamitorys and shit.
All this is temporary though as I was told, "you WILL have a knee replacement." Wow I'm really looking forward to that.

Steven's Pass still kicking ass

There was a story about Steven's Pass use of wind power and green practices on NPR today. So I hit up the boys to congratulate them on a good story. After a little banter back and forth Nate fires this over:
"Check out what we got going on up here right now, TGR filming through the 20th. You should bring the kids up this weekend, they would love it…Tanner Hall mid-double back…."

Tattoo's and Jewlery

Browsing thru my favorite sk8 site and saw this. Bet that the "Frends" will have some jewel like this soon.

Camp Bound?

...and you need a new next years next level type shit sled to slide around on, hit up Porters for a Horrorscope.

Branden Cocard ain't fucking around here at SuperPark.

Dude???!!!

C'mon seriously some superman shit. Brisse.

Mahn

More wack shit from the other ed.

Thanks FLKN

Ed

Spaghetti

Happy Mothers Day

This would be a good mom's day present right now. Man this was good.

Eddie Spaghetti

2-nite in Seattle.

Snowboarder Superpark Report Day 2

Ongoing coverage from our man in the field, Blue Montgomery.

Pal Sorenson-HOLY FUCK. Break out the methometer.

Day two. Just got down from the mountain. 8pm. sunburned as fuck. Bluebird, but morning started slow because of wind. Afternoon super sessions heated up, as the wind died down.

Bunch of bigger name dudes here (landvik, arnold, gouldemond, to name a few) that are pretty much mini biking around.

Morning sessions were on the regular lines, same ol stuff. Unfortunately one of the capita / union riders from Sweden Jonathan Nilson got broke off pretty bad, had to take the sled down. Went to the hospital. Concussed, but ok. Nothing major which is good news. Brisse got x-rays this morning... nothing broken. Doctor said he could ride at the level of his pain. He got up there in time for the session to start on the big big jump from yesterday. New crew today on that one. Brisse b/s 7'd it first try and stomped. Heavy. Brisse ended up having a pretty good session. couple more 7's, and a couple 9's. Pat Moore is basically "Mr. Superpark." He can ride any feature as good or better than anyone else. It's crazy.

Two surprises today.

1. Bjorn Leines. He has nothing to prove. No reason to hit a 100 + foot step down that everyone is scared of - especially with his wife and 2 kids in the RV in the parking lot. Unlike the other bigger name dudes there, evidently he felt a need to confirm his legendary status. huge backside 180's, and a cab 3 that was perfect. Probably one of the harder tricks to do on something that fast and big. Much respect.

2. Brandon Cocard. This feature was closed, Bridges had to approve who jumped it, and he wasn't on the approval list. I asked him earlier if he had any interest and he said no, so I said ok! No more discussion. You don't pressure people into hitting something that big. Remember yesterday I didn't even want craven to hit it.

Anyway. He dropped after Brisse at the end of the session when bridges wasn't at the top and did a front 5 and went about 50 feet past the knuckle. So huge. I was really scared, thought he killed himself, ran down to the landing zone where I was told "he stomped it." ok. Next run, he did a frontside 1080. Holy shit. He has people around here talking.

Then - that session ended and everyone went to this hip. You guys are going to think I'm exaggerating... but the features here are just enormous.

Anyway... pretty good sesh. Pat Moore going huge, good to see Austin Hironaka ripping with styley grabs. One thing a bit surprising was that Paal Sorenson, our capita/coal/union kid from Norway had the highest air. He was boosting. I guess not a shocker since he got 7th at the Arctic Challenge and won the Hemstedal big air recently.

That's it for day two.

video grab of dustin on the big jump. Kinda hard to tell how big it is, guess just look at how small he looks.

Snowboarder Superpark Report Day 1

Blue's at Superpark and feeding us some daily updates that are pretty good. Here's day one:

Actually it's day two, but today was the first day weather allowed peeps to shred the big stuff.

Here's the recap.

For 80% of the people this was kinda ease into it day, check things out.

Jumps are big. It was blue bird, but very windy, which is scary when

you're that high up.

10% of the peeps were going for it and got completely broke off. I

saw some fucking carnage. Scott Vine did a double back flip mute -

to come up short - on the second biggest jump and just got worked.

Never seen a scorp that bad.

Haldor Helgasson got broke off too on the same jump, but I didn't see

it, don't know how bad.

Then, 10% of the dudes stepped up and got gnarly. Street cred.

Proving it. Professional style.

Brisse got hurt first run, first jump. One of those things. Didn't

look like much, just landed wrong. Gonna get x-rays tomorrow morning

at 9:30.

CAPiTA standouts were Sage Kotsenburg, Brandon Cocard, and Craven.

Sage and Brandon were ripping the big jump in the main line. Sage

is really impressive. For 15 it's ridiculous. Barring injury he

has a future involving professional level snowboard for sure.

The "SUPER SESSION."

At the end of the day, the whole crew moved over to this isolated

jump. People were calling it out as 100 ft. I don't know but it's

the biggest step down jump i've ever seen in my life. Biggest jump

I've ever seen period. HUGE. Dudes are going so fast, and are so

high up. I've never really been scared for the dudes before, but

this was one of those things where I didn't want Dustin to jump it.

Risk vs. reward it's not worth it. You're gonna risk walking for the

rest of your life for a shot in the mag? I probably would have tried

to stop him had i had the chance.

But you know how it goes. Dudes do what they want. Bridges said no

one but a group of hand picked veterans could hit it. Then a couple

of young hungry dudes slipped in there. Maybe 6 or 8 people hit it

out of the 150 riders here.

Dustin did the biggest frontside 3 I've ever seen over it. Stomped

no hands. He was proud of himself. I was proud of him. But still

fucking scary when he's dropping in from like 2 miles uphill.

Jonas really stepped up and got NASTY! He did the sickest b/s 7 indy

I've ever seen over it. So slow, so fucking tweaked. So sick. (you

know how he does those so boned out) people were fucking yelling

and cheering and shit. It was crazy. It felt like a sporting event.

Then he did it again and over rotated a bit and did like b/s 7 indy

to frontside shifty thing and brought it back.

I can't tell you guys how huge it was... one of those things, I

think you gotta see it with your own eyes to grasp the magnitude.

Real gnarly.

Overall, I'd give Jonas the MVP of the day award.

That's it from day one.

Jonas the bonus on fucking fire.

Yea Brisse Burger

"I'm rich bitch!"

NE.L.T.S-2

Round one of the Next Level Type Shit Frankenbinders flew the hell out of here, so as Dave says, S.M.B.B.D!
Anyway, Homeboy crafted up a bunch of new Franks for your pleasure. Use the "code" and get some bucks off.

That's it, That's all...

Shit's all closed down round these parts. Now all them "other" activities kick in. We tried to end it at the Summit's Kinko De Mayo, but it was pretty painful for me to watch an event so it was off to Alpental for some wall hits and moto'n. Sunday was reality with soccer and Greenlake...

Return of the UltraFlair

I clearly have no business clowning UltraFlair as my 50/50's are no match to his rail skillz but after re-encountering him this weekend at the Kinko De Mayo and chuckling my ass off on the sidelines I had to post a mini vid. I'll admit that the kids got the heart to shred, it's too bad he's got no-one slapping him upside the head telling him to let his riding speak for him instead of the 6 bandana's. Enjoy Ultra...have a good summer.

Congrats Bubba

You got knocked the fuck out!

Sorry Hatton, that sucks. I was rooting for you too.

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