Thursday, October 30, 2008

and yet still more post JPI4 coverage...

..it just doesn't seem to stop, the amount of coverage JPI4 is being hit with. Peep this super coolio write up on Snowboard-Mag.com
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my face is on the front page of newschoolers

First let me apologize to everyone on NS reading this and saying, "why I am reading this if it is on the homepage." But I had to let the rest of the world see the greatness of NewSchoolers. Rom Marcucci of The Red Dawn posted a great article on newschoolers.com along with some photos that really sums up what the jibassic is all about, check it out. Thanks Rom!

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tws- jpi4 photo gallery


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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Thirtytwo boots signature feature

Once again Thirtytwo has come through big time to outfit parkstaff with the best boots known to man this season. We lifted a print off of the Lashed Boots as inspiration for the 32 signature wallride. Look for the 32 Wall in its usual home at the bottom of the CORE park accessed by the 49ner chairlift.


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jpi.4 featured on Freeskier.com

Freeskier has placed a great write-up on the homepage. Here is a little excerpt.


The 4th annual Jibassic Pro Invitational went off this past weekend, bringing in some of the top rail talent in the country as well as some local Tahoe-area ams. Tom Wallisch, Steve Stepp, Mike Hornbeck and LJ Strenio are some of the well-known skiers who were able to make the trek out and compete in the annual rail jam...to read the full story and see more pictures go to freeskier.com.
Words and photos by Jason Badgley.

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inside a writers mind at Jpi4

Our friend Rom Marcucci from line skis was kind enough to let us post his notes from JPI4. You can check out his blog post on Lineskis.com. Also look for Rom's event recap to hit newschoolers soon!

Here it is..look inside the mind of an event writer..Rom's notes:
JPI Notes

Wallish: super consistent, slayed it, lot of really good tricks, rodeo 720 off the couregated tube, blind 360 swtich up on double kink, pretzel on high down bar

Hornbeck: so steezy, like a sloth

Steve stepp: blind switch ups middle box, sticky brand new skis, 270 on, 270 off down rail, $100 for blind switch up pretzel 2 out on down rail

Giray: 1 foot swith ups, tons of 1 foot andy parry style tricks, got $100 from Wallish for lip 270, 270 out on down rail

LJ: rodeo 450 off the couregated tube, front switch up pretzel 270, blind switch up, 270 out on double kink, won $200 for blind 360 swtich up pretzel 270 on flat down box

Dylan curry: dope front 360 switch up on double kink nasty, big 270s onto down rail and box, 270 on, pretzel out stopped on down rail

Scott Nickel won moments for best unsponsored rider,
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more Jpi4 video

By: DBMedia

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THE POWER OF RED BULL AND 48 HOURS...

THE POWER OF RED BULL AND 48 HOURS...BOREAL OCT 25TH AND 26TH
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This past weekend Matty Mo, Bode Merrill, Phil Damiankes, Mitch Allen and Nico headed down to Tahoe for the Jibassic Pro and some early season shredding at BOREAL. We drove all night on Friday arriving in Elko,NV around 7 am and we decided to make sure the rest of our trip went smoothly by checking into a Holiday Inn Express.




We only stayed for 2 hours for a nap and Breakfast. It was a good deal and we got the Hunters speacial which included rock hard biscuits and gravy,artificial eggs with cheese spread in the middle and some uncooked bacon. We ate every last bite and headed back on our way.



With no sleep and a damn near toxic breakfast we made it just in time for Bode to get to work. He had multiple hammers through out the night and even scored a few HUNDOS for some crowd pleasing moves including a BS-RODEO off the pipe and multiple 2-7 combos



Bode had no problem getting the crowd of close to 3 thousand spectators stoked. The crowd was loud and psyched on the moves going down.



One of our homies Andy Brewer was the crowd favorite and walked away with 2 grand and a few extra HUNDOS. All in all the event was good….good set up…stoked crowd and its only Ocotober. Thanks to Boreal and Jon Slaughter for putting together the event. Its always good to hear the voice of Pat the EYE Bridges on the mic….NICE WORK BOREAL!!




Unfortunately Matty Mo and Phil Damianakes were unable to get in to the comp so we opted to stay for another day for the whole crew to shred Boreal. It was a no brainer after seeing the weather forecast for Utah that said something about an October heat wave…..It would of been stupid not to stick around for another day. The set up on the public side was about 1/4 the size of a football field and had around 6 features to play on. The jump was crowded and it seemed like a total snake session getting into it but it was still enough for Phil to get a few kids yelling “did you see that guy”



Here Phil probably threaded through 5 kids to get to the jump along with being chased down by another determined rider and this is not to mention the random kids and articles of clothing in the landing. Needless to say there was a ton of kids and all of them were having a awesome time shredding in October.



Matty Mo was pretty busy grinding steel and gapping the entire flat box. Matty seemed right at home on the stair set up and judging by his warm up day at Boreal he’s going to be having a hell of a season.




Bode worked his way through the crowd to pop off a few moves on the jump too. Even on a micro sized jump he was still able to get pretty rad.





By bombing the whole hill and racing through the crowd of kids Bode and Matty Mo had a good session going across the monster green pipe at the end of the hill.




Phil and Bode had a little bit of a no boarding session right up until ski patrol shut the park down for the day.





The drive home might of been the best part of the trip due to the humor of Phil “I’LL DO IT FOR FREE,CHICKEN!!!!” Damianakes. We made it back to Salt Lake late Sunday night and that was a wrap on a 48 hour mission to Tahoe. Hopefully the next shredding post is from Utah with tons of pow but if we have to we’ll allow Phill to entertain for another road trip.



PHOTOGRAPHY BY MITCH ALLEN




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jpi4 gallery-snowboarder mag


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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

this just in from Snowboard-mag.com

Smokin Snowboards Rider Andrew Brewer Wins 4th Annual Jibassic Pro Invitational at Boreal


Andrew Brewer
Photos: Matt Fong

Lake Tahoe, CA: Smokin Snowboards is proud to announce the 1st place finish of Andrew Brewer in the 4th Annual Jibassic Pro Invitational at Boreal Mountain Resort. Andrew ripped his way to first place competing against snowboardings top professionals in Lake Tahoe's winter kickoff, earning him $2000 and airline tickets from Southwest airlines. Throwing it down on all obstacles, Andrew was making it look easy in the one of the most tech and progressive rail jams of recent history. The terrain park crew at Boreal came in with a brand new banger stair case from SNOWBOARD Mag and Red Bull, as well as a public park with its own staircase and jibs on hill making it an amazing opening event. The day was perfect and the night turned out even better with one of Smokin Snowboards own taking it all home. Andrew also won $200 dollars in Fuel TV cash for best tricks on top of the two grand and the Southwest Airline Tickets giving him top honors of the evening.


Smokin Team Manager Binky with Andrew Brewer and 22 $100 bills.

We want to congratulate Andrew once again on his JPI win and thank the Boreal Terrain Park Crew, Jon Slaughter from Boreal, Fuel TV, Southwest Airlines, SNOWBOARD Mag, 32, and everyone else that made this contest happen.

Smokin Snowboards are professionally handmade in Lake Tahoe by snowboarders that understand quality and performance !!!YOU CANT FOOL THE YOUTH!!! check out more of Andrew and our line of Magne-Traction Snowboards at smokinsnowboards.com
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public jib video

No pros, no judges, no money on the line, just kids stoked on snow. Now who doesn't like that. Check out the action going down at the public jib park at the 4th annual Jibassic Pro Invitational. Video by Pat Bridges. Thanks Pat!
Snowboarder Magazine public jib arena video

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Monday, October 27, 2008

jpi.4 coverage

Been nerding out behind the laptop and found some awesome coverage of jpi.4. We got front page on Snowboarder Magazine and FUEL TV. Our friend Zak Shelhamer posted some great shots on PortersTahoe.com.

During the event I ran into Robbie Sell. Luckily I had a media pass in my pocket because Robbie got some banger shots and posted them on the homepage for Transworld Snowboarding.

If you were shredding in the jib park, Eric Gourley of the Auburn Journal may have caught you from behind the lens.

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isn't youtube the best !

Just drinking my morning coffee and surfing youtube and I found this little gem of an edit from JPI4. I'll be embeding all the edits I find so keep them coming!

Thanks to the anonymous comment poster for finding this next one. I guess reelcomp is pretty cool too.

this one might just be my favortite!


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Sunday, October 26, 2008

JPI.4 wrap-up


The sun has set on Boreal's 4th Annual Jibassic Pro Invitational. Over 3,000 spectators were in attendance strolling though the sponsor village, shredding the public jib area, purchasing last chance discounted season passes and cheering on the pro's as they threw down. Chas Guldemond, Mike Hornbeck and Travis Kennedy are just a few of the elite rider's who competed for a piece of the $6000 purse, airline tickets from Southwest and $100 bills from FUEL TV.

As the sun began to fall behind the mountains, the public made their way over to the Pro Jib area with the skier portion opening the event. Skier Tom Wallisch stood on the top spot of the podium scoring $2,000 and two Southwest Airline tickets. John Strenio spun his way down the staircase to take 2nd and Dylan Curry in 3rd respectively. During a short intermission the park crew groomed the arena for the snowboarder portion of the contest while sponsors were throwing out a ton of swag.

FUEL TV handed out $2,000 in cash to rider's showboating for the crowd as well as hooking up a Tahoe local with a skate deck, while Dakine was handing outwear to a lucky few in the crowd. Moment Skis gave away a pair of skis to the best unsponsored skier throwing down in the event, and Snowbomb was throwing out hats, beanies, and sweatshirts.

At the end of the evening, it was time for the snowboarder's to lay it down and local Tahoe shredder, Andrew Brewer proved that he was the champ of the night taking home $2,000 and a couple of Southwest Airline tickets. Bode Merrill took 2nd while Forrest Baily rounded out the podium in 3rd. Many thanks to our announcers, Pat Bridges, Binky and Shawn Hartell. Red Bull kept the vibe alive with a VIP lounge in the pro jib arena with DJ Matt Connelly spinning beats.
















Ben Meester Photography. More coming soon.

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Saturday, October 25, 2008

jib arena open sunday oct 26th

Thanks to everyone for coming out and making JPI4 the best one yet!
We will re-open the jib arena tomorrow, Sunday Oct 26th as well as the comp feature.
It will be hiking only and a $5 ticket will be required just like today.
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Friday, October 24, 2008

Jpi4 public jib


10/25 Public Jib 3-6pm $5
just a little tlc/raking to pimp everythjing out in the morning but here's what we set up today for your jibbing pleasure:
staircase
down box
up box
table top
flat box
c box
mini wall tower tube combo
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Jpi4 update

Full feature in place! Tomorrow it will get it's stairs, some touch up paint and logos...then it's on to grooming out the public jib arena.
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jpi4 update

Work on the public jib arena has started.
projected line up as follows:
last years staircase
c-box
mini wall
various rails from Kidz-x
small jump
flat box
down box
extra goodies if we have time


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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Jpi4 update

D/f/d is in place. Tomorrow we will set the flat/down.

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Friday, October 17, 2008

1st ride on castle peak

We are testing out the lift and doing evacuation training
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Painting continues

Redbull has been kind enough send up two insanely good artists to complete the bus make over.

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most progressive parks



The latest issue of Snowboard Magazine has hit the stands with their list of most progressive parks. Boreal is in some pretty good company on this list!
Aspen
Bear Mtn
BOREAL
Loon
Mammoth
Northstar
Park City
Breckenridge
Summit at Snoqualmie
Whistler

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Monday, October 13, 2008

jpi4 update-public jib arena

We've been hard at it since Thursday night making snow. This year we will have an insane amount of snow to work with barring any Sahara Desert heatwave in the next 13 days. Right now the plan is to hold the public jib arena up on the trail, it will still be hiking only and will cost $5...tickets are required..no exceptions. As it sits right now we have more snow up on the run than we have had any of the past 4 seasons for opening day. It's mind blowing how incredible our new snow making system is. Even with it only running at 30-40 percent(because the power compnay still hasn't given us all the power needed to run every gun just yet) it has put out 2 to 3 times as much snow as last years opening effort. With all of this snow we expect to build the public jib arena much the same as we would for opening day, only just not as long because everyone will be hiking. Before we get to carried away brainstorming ideas we'll wait this week to see how much snow melts before we commit anything to paper. Check back mon/tues for an update, by that time we should have a really good idea of what will be setup.



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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Red dawn film fiesta

Hot dawg eating contest

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Nothing like how it used to be

Oh the joy of trying to stay awake through your first all nighter of the season! Usually its pretty easy because you're on the hill busting your tail doing gun runs, digging up hoses, moving guns and adjusting snow quality. Well things have changed and I'm sitting here at my desk doing a "new gun run"...it's just not quite the same anymore. Just scope the photos of my computer screen. That is a monitor of every parameter of every snow gun and the pumping station. Every adjustment if it isn't already made automatically by the system is then made here. OK, time to go outside for an old fashion gun run because I've got to wake up!



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Friday, October 10, 2008

Getting ready for jpi4

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First in tahoe with snow!

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Monday, October 6, 2008

red dawn film fiesta



Saturday, October 11, 2008 @ Lakeside in Tahoe City. Tickets are only $8/$10 at the door.

We will be giving away Boreal Lift Tickets and the Boreal Golden Tickets (first in line all day, opening day 2008).

Tons of give-a-ways + a silent auction for Alpine Initiatives. Bring your wallets for the charity and some good karma for the give-a-ways. This event is going to be awesome.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008

JPI4 riders list

The confirmations are coming in and the fields are shaping up to the best ever. It's fitting as well as we've upped the ante for the winners this year. Both Southwest Airlines and Fuel TV are stepping up to the plate big time in support of the cash purse. In addition to the $2k cash we are putting up for each winner both ski and snowboard, Southwest is kicking down 4 round trip tickets, 2 each to the winners. Fuel TV is fronting $2k for best tricks in the form of 20 crisp one hundred dollar bills so once again we'll throwing down cash on the spot for the skills that pay the bills!

SNOWBOARD
Lucas Magoon
Mike Casanova
Bode Merrill
Chas G.
Travis Kennedy
Scott Vine
Zak Hale
John Foy
Trevor Jacobs
Brett Butcher
Chad Tarbell
Kad Madsen
Forrest Baily
Jed Hoffman
Jake Devine
Jona Owen
Cornell Agee

SKI
Ahmet Dadali
Sean Collin
Dylan Curry
Daniel Bruton
Andy McDowell
Ben Schmitt
Tom Wallisch
Rich Fahey
Rich Marlowe
Ben Westmoreland
Steve Stepp
John Strenio -
Gus Kenworthy
Nick Martini
Mike Hornbeck
Giray Dadali
alex dorszynski
zach steele
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First walk thru for grand prix

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Polka-dots 'o fun

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