Rome’s Magic Bus kept on rolling this week with stops at Mount Hood, Windell’s and Sierra-at-Tahoe. Canadians Max Legend and LNP are on the trip along with Casey Neefus, John Foy and Greg Bokencamp.
The crew had some good park, pipe and skate sessions this week. For the whole story and more photos you can check out Rome’s website.
(photo from www.romesnowboards.com)
FrontLipped will be taking some time off beginning May 1st. I am flying to B.C. for 11 days to visit family and explore the mountains.
While I’m there I’ll be brainstorming new ideas for creative content to keep FrontLipped going over the summer and I’ll hopefully be making some trip updates on my personal blog.
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Quebec’s very own Max Legend and LNP, along with Casey Neefus, Eiki Helgason and a few other members of the Rome team, rolled into the Summit-at-Snoqualmie this past weekend for the first stop on Rome’s Magic Bus Tour.
Check out Rome’s website for more photos and the full story of what went down.
(photo from www.romesnowboards.com)
Canadian Rome team riders LNP, Max Legend and perhaps a few other merry pranksters will be joining the Rome SDS Magic Bus Trip this weekend as it rolls into the Summit-at-Snoqualmie and Mt. Hood Meadows.
Local riders will get the chance to shred with members of Rome’s professional team including the aforementioned canucks and Casey Neefus, Greg Bokencamp and Eiki Helgasson.
The tour continues with stops at Sierra-at-Tahoe, Kingvale, Sonora, before it wraps up at Mammoth Mountain.
Keep an eye on the Rome SDS website as the tour progresses for updates.
Capita and Nomis team rider Nat Gough was recently featured on MuchMusic as she coached one of the VJs on jibbing at the Ripley’s Urban Rail Park at Polson Pier in Toronto.
Nat was making her way through Ontario along with TJ Schneider on their way to the Empire Shakedown at Mont-St Sauveur in Quebec.
Check the link, at the bottom go to “More on AXS” and search “Tim does snowboarding”.
(photo from www.nomisdesign.com)
If you are a Canadian shredder and you haven’t heard about TJ Shneider’s snowboard realms, stop reading right now and go here. Don’t worry, I’ll wait.
Schneider started the video blog at the start of this season as a way for kids to get a look into what happens in the life of a professional snowboarder. The response was enormous. To date, TJ’s videos have been viewed more than 160,000 times combined.
The latest edition (episode 29) includes highlights from the Big Air competition and Brave Art show at the Telus Ski & Snowboard Festival, and also gives a peek at some of the graphics TJ is working on for his signature projects.
The 2008 Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival wrapped this past weekend in Whistler, B.C. The event is a week-long festival of art, music, snowboarding, skiing and, most importantly, partying.
Seventeen-year-old ripper Sebastien Toutant, of L’Assomption, Que., took 1st place in the Big Air competition on April 12th. Norway’s Kim Andre Eliason finished 2nd and Matt Belzile, of Aylmer, Que., took 3rd.
The “If Ullr Was a Girl” competition went down from April 13th to the 15th and covered backcountry riding, halfpipe and slopestyle. The final standings saw Bev Vuilleumier end up in 1st, Spencer O’Brien finish 2nd and Jess Cumming come in 3rd.
The snowboarding wrapped up on April 19th with the Superpipe finals. On the men’s side, Ontario’s Jeff Batchelor made a good showing as he placed 2nd, behind Fumiyuki Murakami, and won the Superhit competition. Kazuumi Fujita rounded out the podium.
For the women, Shiho Nakashima (1st), Naho Mizuki (2nd) and Rana Okada (3rd) topped the podium with Alex Duckworth and Dom Vallee coming in 4th and 5th respectively.
For the full story on the events, and reports on all the behind-the-scenes action, check out snowboardcanada.com.
