Important moments in snowboarding. So says the Smithsonian. I can agree with most of them but, I'll tell you that Ingmar hitting this shit needs to be in there. As well as the Breckenridge jump session with Rehyberg, Roan Rogers and Nate Cole in the Hard the Hungry and the Homeless.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Possibly the best snowboard photo ever when you consider the context of the timeframe. Fucking Awesome!
ReplyDeleteThat photo rocked the snowboard world! Didnt two different magazines run the same cover shot too? It's not in the top 10? WTF! Kids today dont realize how groundbreaking that shit was at the time.
ReplyDeleteOnboard, Transworld and Blunt. Blunts said "HOLY SHIT" on the cover. It took me two years of searching for it on E-Bay to find one too.
ReplyDelete...just another example of when non-snowboarders are spraying snowboarding.
ReplyDeletei'd be curious to read your top 10.
I'd make room on the top 10 by removing #10.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6v8c0E2fyU
that picture made the cover of about six mags worldwide... good photo incentives on that one.
ReplyDeleteand johan, still have that issue of blunt-all of 'em, actually.
-j.
Top 10 Moments in Snowboarding for me would be, off the top of my head with a beer in my hand while I type and no stopping to think, just a quick rattle off would be:
ReplyDelete1-Burton and Flite advertising in BMX Plus mags
2-Craig Kelly in The Smooth Groove
3-Fall Line Films / Freeman Films
4-Palmer at the 1990 Breckenridge World Champs
5-Rehyberg, Roan Rogers and Nate Cole in the Hard the Hungry and the Homeless
6-Blunt Magazine
7-Ingmar backside air
8-Johan straight lining in TB5
9-T-Rice
10-CAPiTA 10 year birthday party
HOW I'M NOT IN ANY OF EITHER TOP TEN SO FAR IS MINDBOGGLING. GET FAMILIAR. WTF?
ReplyDeleteMINE:
1: MY AWESOME AND RICH PARENTS RENT ME, HOSS, TERRIBLE-T, AND COOP SOME OF THOSE SNOWBOARDS AT GRAVITY SPORTS IN RENTON AND TAKE US TO STEPHENPASS FOR MY BIRTHDAY (COMING UP AGAIN, 22 YEARS LATER, ON SUNDAY: C.SLASHER WOULD BE NICE. THINK ABOUT IT.) NO MORE DOUBLE DAFFYS, SALLBOUT PRETENDING TO BE GONZ FROM HERE ON OUT.
2: BARFOOT WOODY 151 FOR THE NEXT XMAS.
3: NEW LIFT AT SKI ACRES- SILVER FIR.
4: TWO DUDES SHOW UP AT BIKEFACTORY WITH THEIR NEW BOARDS WITH SKELETONS ON THEM. COP THAT RAOUL PNW SHIT.
5: 1993 BRECK'N'FRIDGE. G.O.A.T.S SHOW US LEDGES RUN AT VAIL. TERRIBLE-T BS180S A CAT TRACK GAP IN THE TREES AT A-BASIN. WE SNEAK INTO BARS AND DRINK RUM AND COKES.
6: ALPENTAL ONE SPRING DAY AFTER STAYING UP ALL NIGHT ON ACID. ON ACID. I BECAME ONE WITH THE MOUNTAIN THAT DAY. THE MOUNTAIN SPIRITS OF HOTDOGGERS PAST TOOK CONTROL OF MY SOUL AND THE CIRCLE WAS COMPLETE.
6: ROADKILL.
7: BIG SNOW YEAR AT BAKER. LIVED WITH BMX DUDES IN THE RUSSIAN GANGLAND KNOWN AS PEACEFUL VALLEY TRAILERPARK. SEVEN MILLION DAYS IN A ROW OF A FOOT-PLUS-OF-NEW. TOTALLY WORTH DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL (THAT TIME). MITIGATING_FACTOR: SUN FINALLY BROKE OUT AND WAS ON TOP OF THE_ARM FOR THAT DEADLY AVY. STILL SHOOK.
8: DICKSHAPED POWBOARDS.
9: DIMINISHED SNOWSTOKE RE-STOKED BY SPLITBOARDING.
10: TOMATO TAKES HIS SHIRT OFF.