Amplid::: Next Level Riding is stoked to bring freeskiing talents Kevin Salonius, Tanner Boudreau, Fredrik Bergan and Alex Neurohr on to the new Amplid Cartel National Team!
Hey everyone out there in NS land, how's it going? Or perhaps I should say "genki desu-ka?" instead, as I am in Japan right now. So, it's been a while since last summer's camp, and the last update, and hey, big things have happened since then!
Last year MIT grad Justin Jensen raised nearly half a million bucks through Kickstarter to launch CineSkates, a camera slider system that adds wheels to GorillaPod Focus tripods. Now Jensen and his startup Cinetics are back again with a new product called CineSquid, which provides a strong suction cup mount system rather than wheels. This [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/85/42/428542.jpeg[/IMG]
In The MOMENT Ep. 4 from Moment Skis on Vimeo. [IMG]http://media.nscdn.com/uploads/site/decor/flash_video_placeholder.png[/IMG]
The spring skiing at Alpine Meadows is spectacular right now! After a better than average winter we are enjoying one of the best snowpack?s in recent memory. With Summit running on the weekends, Fri-Sun, from 9am to 2pm until May 16th, now is the perfect time to get out and enjoy the snow before it [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/81/89/8189.jpeg[/IMG]
Yep! We're in it with a stable of ponies primed for world domination! Utah's Joss Christensen, youngster Mitch Gilman and big air master LJ Strenio will make up the LINE Team at the first Denver Big Air comp this Tuesday, January 25th at Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado. Be there or be square (or just not here, you can watch it online). Click here for all the details and we look forward to a very fun event! Go Line![IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/20/93/32093.jpeg[/IMG]
Heavy Metal Dodge Foam action at Woodward at Copper Summer Camp! Location: Edge Theatre!
It seems Kim managed to find a lift after all.
I never planned to win at Jon Olsson Super Sessions. Colby and I agreed from the beginning that we didn't care about making the winning video. In fact, we weren't sweating the People's Choice award that heavily either. We figured that the predominantly Scandinavian crowd would give it to one of the three Scandinavian teams in the contest. And if not them, probably to Team America, the one with Simon Dumont and Tom Wallisch, who is literally the biggest freestyle ski star in Scandinavia, despite being an American. We just wanted to make a video that would make, as Team Canduh says, bunch people laugh once it hit the Internet. After each video, the announcer held a decibel meter up and asked the crowd to cheer out its reaction. The response to our video was 114 decibels or something like that. I don't really know what that means, but it sounds pretty loud to me. I couldn't believe it. When they announced that we won People's Choice, it, like, totally jazzed me up. And my team. We were all hugging each other, and smiling uncontrollably. I was so happy that I was shaking. Suddenly, Team USA was euphoric with the elation of knowing that we'd completely smashed our greatest expectations. That was important, considering what we were about to find out. If you asked the thousands of screaming spectators at the Mix Megapol Arena in Åre, "My Friend Is A Pro" was the best video of the contest. Tight. The official judges disagreed. In fact, they completely disagreed. Five judges ranked the submissions against each other on five different categories: Tricks, tricks, concept, overall impression, and photo slideshow. The best video each category received 12 points, the worst received 0 points, and the intermediate places received intermediate point amounts spaced at 2-point intervals: Points = 2*((6 - (r - 1))), where r is the team's rank in a particular category. I was told after the awards ceremony that the points system was made up as a device to build the suspense for the awards show crowd, and actually had little correlation with the real evaluations of the videos—except, of course, their opinion that Norway made the best video. Either way, as the scores came out category by category, the first two hurt a little bit. You know, last place and all. Then when the concept score came out as a zero (despite glowing praise from the judges for having made the most entertaining video of the contest), we started to get excited. Could we have gotten shut out by the judges and still made the crowd favorite? It doesn't get much better than that. We got close. Soo close. Our team's photographer, Alex O'Brien submitted the sixth best (second worst? half empty? half full? third world?) photo slideshow, however, blowing our perfect shutout with his two points. WTF, right? What a downer. But in a world where winning the crowd is better than winning the money, 0 points can still be better than 2 points. And 2 points is still a damn good score.
The 7th November, Field Productions arranged a ski and snowboard in-city rail jam! check the result here.
Real Ski Backcountry, Real Women and Real Surf joins Real Street, Real Snow and Real Snow Backcountry in the X Games all-video contest lineup for 2013.
Well after a treamendous amount of snow and some really bad park conditions, the TELUS Park @ Silver Star is making a huge comeback. We are stuck in an Inversion which means cold and cloudy in the valley, but warm and sunny up in the park. Just look at how stoked the park crew is! [IMG]http://media.nscdn.com/uploads/member/pictures/1232306066Resort_Pics_013.jpg[/IMG]
The snow has passed and the sun has come out with Blue Skies just in time to display the newly constructed L/XL Jump Lane in The Telus Park @ Silver Star. So far there are three jumps in a row, with a forth jump platform under construction. You can go 30ft, to 40ft to 50ft or stick to the sidecars that are a comfortable 35ft long. Along with the jump lane the park crew has been busy installing more and more jib/rail features with the jib count sitting at 25 right now. Users can expect to see the Halfpipe, the wallride, and both s-features in the upcoming week, so stay tuned.
If you already didn’t know, the Line Sir Francis Bacon is an awesome ski. Now Powder Magazine is making it their ‘Ski of the Week’ just to reiterate the fact that everyone loves bacon! Go read for yourself![IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/03/33/30333.png[/IMG]
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Campgaw, as you all know, is blowing up NS, especially if you live on the East Coast. Our banners and video ads have been running around the clock, and we are only gearing up for more! We plan on having an NS, all skiers railjam, so read up, and tell us what you think!
Staring Momentum coaches TJ Schiller, Justin Dorey and Ian Cosco.
What do you want for Christmas? How about a session at Ohio Dreams!?
The Whale will be hosting its 4th Annual Beach Party Jib Jam this Saturday.
