Check out the "Weekly Update" with Boost Mobile on Fox Sports Net's regional networks this Saturday, November 14 as they showcase Boreal's 4th Annual Jibassic Pro Invitational. Catch the action all week long on FUEL TV's "Weekly Update" that airs daily as they highlight the first major rail jam to hit the Tahoe area. Visit fuel.tv for up-to-date info and features.
Another JPI4 viddeo coming to you from SnowboardRevolution. If you want the most diverse and up to date shred info you gotta check them out because they kill it industry wide.
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.comalong with some photos that really sums up what the jibassic is all about, check it out. Thanks Rom!
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.
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, . .
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.
Bodeworked 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 prettyrad.
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.
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 . .
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
Been nerding out behind the laptop and found some awesome coverage of jpi.4. We got front page on Snowboarder Magazineand 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 Journalmay have caught you from behind the lens.
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.
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.
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 . .
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
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. . .
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 . .
Sneak peak at the new feature that will debut at JPI4. It will split down the middle to become two staircases to complement the concrete feature in the 49ner park this winter. One will feature a down single barrel and a very narrow flat down box while the other has a d/f/d single barrel and a very narrow f/d box with and inside banister. One really cool thing about this new staircase is the d/f/d is matched with d/f/d stairs. The old d/f/d staircase did not have matching stairs, rather they were straight and the d/f/d box escalated at the end. That old staircase is being scraped so the two boxes that were on it can be split up in the park this winter. look out for an updated rider list to be posted tomorrow!