Transworld Riders Poll

My faith in snowboarders was renewed last night at Transworld Riders Poll. Instead of a bunch of dumb jocks getting on stages slurring the words "me and I" in their acceptance speeches, you had people thanking their parents, filmers, sponsors, and people that helped them get to where they are at. The rowdiness was still there, but FINALLY the Tomato hair flip-a-thon speeches about how HE out radded everyone to win the award was non existent. To say that the Union, CAPiTA and Coal kids owned the show, would be an understatement. 6 different awards our dudes and gals were up for and 3 of them got the trophy's.

Front row style

Travis Rice and GT did the MC'n and it was hysterical. Very NON X-GAYMESish.

Mr. Zima came out for the festivities.

Blue was a proud papa last night. His kids did good. Congrats John.

Rider of the Year nominee, Mr. Brisse with Petit from the Youth Shelter and his wife Mellissa. Congrats Dan.

Mikey Leblanc won Most Outstanding Moment award over Torstien and Danny Davis. Fuck yea Mike. He was suppossed to thank Fuck Face Tony on stage though...
Woman of the evening, Jess Kimura HANDLED shit last night. "Last year I was behind the fence with all you motherfuckers. This year I'm on stage with a double ended dildo around my neck! Here's to the UNDERDOGS!"
Phil Jacques was up for Rookie of the Year. Phil is on top of his game right now.

Big C

Joel and TJ

The Downings and 5 time World Extreme Champ.

Jeff with a potential trophy. Lots of claiming going on here, he better bring me the picture to back it all up.

At midnight, I turn into a pumkin. Wasn't far off here.

Every night when I get out of the elevator to go to bed, I stop off here and take a leak in the garbage can. Booze makes you make strange decisions. The things a quarter full right now.

Smarter than the average security guard

Before

After

Gotta love that fake wall. How you like us now?

Chase your dreams

Custom House'd!

Past Blue Ribbon

You seen it here first, but as Ky-Borg says "NFS."

Totally FK'n Awesome

SIA 2011

Year 19 for me coming to this deal. Funny that after 19 years I'm real happy to be sitting in row 2D, drinking my second bloody thinking about that first year.
The year was 1993 and I was working in the Sport Stalker in Steamboat doing rental ski's while trying to get our snowboard shop off the ground, Stalker Snowboards. Along the way I got to help out some Euro friends at Radical Airlines so they wanted me to come to Vegas to not speak broken english to potential customers. So me and a guy name Party Smarty jumped in his van, called the Deer Killer, as it had murdered a half a dozen deer and elk in it's travels. Anyway, Party looks over at me in the passenger seat all excited like and goes "Johan, I got ONE rule in this van. When ever we cross a line, any kind of line, city, county, highway or breakdown we DO a line! Ha ha ha!"
I'm like "dude, good luck with that shit, pull over and I'll pick up a case of beer and drink one everytime. That shits all yours boss." And off we went. 11 hours later, a 12 pack down and a 8-ball up the nose and I was in Vegas.

Rahlves Bonzai Tour...Stevens Pass

Old Daron paid it forward this week for us, that's for sure. As a 4 time Olympic athlete, X Games winner, 12 World Cup wins...the list goes on, the dude SHOULD command a good ($) price to speak at events. But ole D said fuck it, "book me a couple days extra so I can go up to the Stabbin Cabin and ski at Stevens with the kids and I'm in."
See Gums is in this Seattle executive group that has all these upper echelon type people come and speak to them once a month. D was on the hit list for the last year and a half but a little event called the Olympics got in his way of coming out last year. He showed up on Wednesday with a 3 person entourage consisting of fuck face Tony, Kevin and Tom and off we went with out his consent to Northbeach Elementary where Mac and Milo met him at the Bronco 2. A quick speech of "follow your dreams" to Mac's second grade class led to a 1/2 hour fan-a-thon from the gym teacher with Milo's 5th grade class. Off to the cabin where 3 of the execs came out and got acquainted with D, while he got to know Mr. Session and Mr. Cazoldories until 2am. Off to the hill for a SNOWBOARD sesh and we were Seattle bound for a video highlight along with question and answer session for the man. Shit, we had to wear sport coats and ties (didn't have one) and were rubbing elbows with the dudes who run Seattle. The funny thing was, they were all filthy ass mother fuckers. They enjoyed the ski story's and all but when it came to question and answers, the one question that kept coming up was "so tell us about all the pussy you got on the road." Awesome.

Dream team: Tom, Moi, Sabs, Mac, Kev, Milo and D.

So this one time I was in ski camp and...

Hmmm, this stuffs tasty.

Two out of three people here are real uncomfortable in the costumes.

Pockets

Brads new office pup. Hierarchy of mutts is Boris (when he shows up), Manny, Nico and now Pockets. Wonder how Pockets will look in skinny jeans and a white tee?

I'm NOT a PC

So Hor-Hey says. Out of the 80's and into the 2000's with this thing. Now if I could only run it. So used to hacking my way thru a PC. Not the smartest move to switch over the day before you leave on the road for the next 6 weeks. Wish me luck...

Dan Brisse Semi Finals of Real Snow

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Brisse vs. Sauve in the Semi Finals. A vote for Brisse is a vote for $50G in his pocket. Do it. Now.

Paper Marbles

Hey Kids, Ky-Borg has 17 pieces up at EVO this week… Some New shit that he's real stoked on, as well as some old gems…
There’s a little non-official ‘opening’ deal this Friday if you feel like stopping by, otherwise it’s only up until this Sunday – if you can’t make it by, but want to see how it looks, he's got it all at:
http://papermarbles.blogspot.com/

Snowboard Realms

TJ's killing it with season 4. WATCH IT.

Here comes the RAIN

Gore Tex!!! Yesterday it was pissing rain out like I've never seen on the hill and you know what? We had a fucking awesome day on the two lifts they had open. Two pond skims built themselfs, snow was soft, and we had the hill to ourselfs. Thank GOD for my V-Stone Gore, dry as ever with that shit. The kids on the otherhand with that 5K stuff...

CHARLIE SLASHER COVER!

From our BRO J.T. in Japan:
Hi Blue,
Yuta got a cover in Transworld Japan this issue!
And we got 5 pages of capita team trip in japan.
All of shots from Joel and I wrote the text.
Awesome!!
JT
p.s. TOTALLY FK'N AWESOME is fuck'n awesome! This is for everything.
I can ride everything on this board!!
Promotion JT

VOTE FOR BRISSE

Sorry about the painfull TRJJ Vitamin Water commercial, but it's all worth it once the Brisse Burger gets to shredding. Vote. Dan Brisse.

Franked

This shit's super Bruce Springsteen. Made in the USA that is.

Why you have children

To hit all the jumps before you do. That's why.

Torn-backula

That would be me today after the last 4 days. This ole man is torn the fuck up. Why? Zumiez 100k Monday and Tuesday, then a quick flight to Atlantic City for a 20 hour stint at a rep show. Pictures can't do the pain my bodys in justice but it's bettter than me rambling. Enjoy.

Chris Beresford, Blue, Stevens and I lapping the hell out of Keystone. Apparently pro-shreds don't cruise the hill top to bottom these days, as filming always consumes their time. So the boys were having A LOT of fun.

See?!
Zumiez 100K stage. Electric.

My partner for the evening. Sully from Rome. "Hey you like whiskey? Let me get you one."

Who is real out of place with the kid's, thats why we hung so hard.

Chris Tagge from Casual on the other hand is a former Zumiez kid (if you couldn't tell by his uni) and is pretty comfortable with this kid.

Casual FAN...I mean Casual Dan.
Ugly brothers.

Beresford

Sesh Dog and Panda

Bobby

Meaty Lynn. Dudes benching 300. Seriously.

Same story, different location. Atlantic Shitty. POOL PARTY. Vodka party yo!

A Jersey evening with a Jersey kid? Bad combo.

Thank GOD I'm slowly transforming from Johan back to John. Look forward to being normal for a week or so, then SIA.

Mark your calander

Plllltttttt

I think I just messed in my pants after seeing this.

Cover number 8!

Holy shit...CAPiTA's 8th cover this season and Brisse's 3rd for the year, thanks Snowboarder Mag Trade Show Preview Workbook.

Fuck Yea DAN.

Also some interesting retail stats from The Brand Audit. What they did was surveyed 800 snowboard retailers and employee's about which brands are consistently selling. Stoked we made it in there with our brands. Thanks Snowboarder for the Preview Work Book.

CAPiTA got two mentions. 5th TOP SELLING board brand AND the 3rd TOP REQUESTED brand by consumer. Sick.

Union is the number 2 top selling binding brand. Take that you angry claimer.

And Coal rolled in as the number 4 accessory brand.

Congrats Dan, Blue, George, Martino and Brad on all your hard work.