Pro Skier Sammy Carlson at Snowboarder Magazine's Superpark

You read it right. Pro skier. At Snowboarder’s Superpark.

The past few year’s Snowboarder Magazine Editor Pat Bridges has extended an olive branch to the once-arch enemy of snowboarders by inviting a select few freeskiers to participate in Snowboarder Magazine’s Superpark. It is a strategic move out of respect for progression of snow sports and park building everywhere. Sammy Carlson has had the honor the past couple year’s of attending and the edit the Poor Boyz crew put together from last weeks Superpark 15 does more than justify Sammy’s presence.

Newschoolers.com put up a great interview with Sammy about his time at Superpark. Give it a read by clicking here.

Be sure to check out the Poor Boyz Productions website to find out more about their upcoming freeskiing movie set to drop this fall.

Snowboarder Superpark Day Five: It's a Wrap

What better way to end a week of Superpark other than a classic method from Bjorn Leines. Photo’s courtesy of Snowboarder Magazine (P) Mike Yoshida

The final day of Snowboarder Magazine’s Superpark went off without a hitch, despite the absence of The House Boardshop crew (we had to dip out a day early). The Snowboarder Magazine editorial crew put together a great recap here- be sure to check it out and watch the Day 5 video edit from them below.

Snowboarder Magazine Editor Tom T-Bird Montessoro- keeping it classy on day five. (P) Kyle Beckmann

Stay tuned later this week for an edit of The House Boardshop crew’s time at Mt. Bachelor and a full week recap.

Huge thanks to Pat Bridges, Mt. Bachelor, Gatorade and the Snowboarder Magazine crew for having us out to witness Superpark 15 history live and in person.

Snowboarder Superpark Day Four: Progression


Day four of Snowboarder Magazine’s Superpark 15 at Mt. Bachelor, Oregon was, in our opinion, the most progressive day yet. Tricks that most wouldn’t even think possible were had, and Mother Nature most of liked it because it stayed bluebird despite the forecast of a cloudy day.

It’s pretty much safe to say that Arbor rider Scotty Vine didn’t strap in his back foot the entire week. Between one-footing the hip channel, the mega-downrail and an (almost) impossible frontside seven on the boreal booter it would be a safe bet to say that Scotty rides better with one foot strapped in than most anyone with both feet strapped in.

Scotty Vine, the man, the myth, the legend. Superpark standout of the year?

House Boardshop team rider Brennen Swanson got some upside-down time in coming off the cannon booter.

This guy was seriously popping off the Boreal jump. Wish we knew his name…

So much more after the jump…

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Snowboarder Superpark Day Three: Fighting the Elements

Day three of Snowboarder Magazine’s Superpark here at Mt. Bachelor wasn’t as kind as day two, but riders got down nonetheless. Fighting bursts of wind throughout the day kept most of the riders off of the big jumps but didn’t stop them from getting nasty on the massive wall ride and nearby hip booter that was sheltered from mother nature’s wrath.

Oh snap! Sneak peek on the wall ride sesh.

Fist pump

The weather started to get iffy towards the end of the day.

The view from atop

More photo’s after the jump…

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Spotted: Team Riders Gabi and Bev at Women's Superpark

Each year our friends over at Snowboarder Magazine host the ultimate girly get-together and invite all of the best female riders from around the world to take part in Women’s Superpark, a spin-off of the widely acclaimed “Superpark” event the magazine put together years ago that boasts the biggest park features and the best riders. The riders all get a chance at one-upping each other by making the most of the unique features in hopes to get a shot in the annual feature that the magazine runs covering the get together. It is an elite honor to be one of the riders that is invited to these events, male and female.

This year Keystone Mountain, Colorado was the host resort for Women’s Superpark and House Boardshop team riders Bev V. and Gabi Viteri were both in attendance. Aside from the feature that will run come next winter, Snowboarder Magazine posted daily updates photo and video updates with sneak peaks at the features and the girls throwing down. Check out all the action here or by clicking on the photo below of our own Ms. Viteri gapping over a massive up-down-flat rail.

Photo by Huggy courtesy of Snowboarder Magazine

VIDEO: Team Rider Kaitlyn Farrington Wins the Copper Grand Prix

House team rider Kaitlyn Farrington was on fire all week. After qualifying second behind Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark in Thursday’s qualifiers at Copper Mountain, CO, Kaitlyn snuck her way past the ever-dominant Clark in Saturday’s finals for her first Grand Prix win.

Snowboarder Magazine wrote of Farrington’s win: “Easily coming out on top for the ladies at Copper was Sun Valley, Idaho’s Kaitlyn Farrington.  Being able to keep her speed enabled Kaitlyn to perform arguably the two best tricks of the day. Farrington followed up her second hit bs 900 corkscrew with a crippler 720. As if this combo wasn’t enough Kaitlyn added a cab seven to the mix to make the win that much more dominant.”

Check out the video Transworld Snowboarding put together of Saturday’s finals, including an interview with Kaitlyn and highlights from her winning run:

How Many Dreams in the Dark?

Follow Chris Brunkhart, former senior photographer for both Transworld Snowboarding and Snowboarder magazines, as he promotes the release of his collection of 90′s-era snowboarding images and new book “How Many Dreams in the Dark?” Brunkhart prefers to shoot with black and white film, which adds a sense of timelessness to his images. He selected 200 images for this book, out of more than 40,000! You can reserve your copy on Brunkhart’s website: http://www.gamafunction.com/dreams/orders.html

Shred to Toe Scott Stevens

Ever wondered what allows Scott Stevens to jib stuff you never imagined jibbable, or Bode Merrill to double-cork into powder? Maybe it was what their mom fed them for breakfast as a kid, maybe it is natural talent, or it could just be the gear they are riding. That is why SNOWBOARDER Magazine and The House Boardshop are catching up with some of the top pros to see what in their arsenal of product for this video series we like to call, “Shred to Toe”.

Snowboarder Mag EXCLUSIVE: Hey Na!

The House has teamed up with SNOWBOARDER MAGAZINE to bring our loyal patrons exclusive content each month. Not only will we tease you with a snippet from a fresh feature article, but we’re going to do you one better and pair it up with stuff that didn’t make it into the mag.

This month we bring you photo’s from the cutting room floor of October’s “Hey Na!” feature where Forum Team riders Stevie Bell, Austin Sweetin and Alec Ostreng stopped by a little known resort in Pennsylvania during the filming of this year’s Forum team video, Fuck It.

Hey Na! PA Shredding

By Huggy. All Photos: Huggy

“Aside from having the largest Amish population in the United States, Pennsylvania is best known for the Liberty Bell, Hershey’s chocolate bars, the Rocky movies, and Michael Scott of The Office. The last thing you would think about PA is having dope freestyle snowboarding, yet all this could change after this year.

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Spotted: Team Rider Gabi Viteri on Snowboardermag.com

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Head on over to Snowboardermag.com for some highly recommended reading with our favorite hip-hop hippie and House Boardshop Team Rider Gabi Viteri. You’ll find interesting insight about everything from why she wants to be Lady Gaga for a day to why she calls Colorado home-sweet-home.

Click here for Gabi Viteri’s Snowboarder Magazine Guestbook full interview.

Shred to Toe Jess Kimura

Ever wondered what allows Scott Stevens to jib stuff you never imagined jibbable, or Bode Merrill to double-cork into powder? Maybe it was what their mom fed them for breakfast as a kid, maybe it is natural talent, or it could just be the gear they are riding. That is why SNOWBOARDER Magazine and The House Boardshop are catching up with some of the top pros to see what in their arsenal of product for this video series we like to call, “Shred to Toe”.

Shred to Toe With Forest Bailey

We teamed up with Snowboarder Magazine to check up with Forest Bailey and see what kind of gear he’ll be rocking this season.

Shred to Toe with Bode Merrill

Five Thousand Dollars & Zero Sense

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Three months and Five G’s later Snowboarder Magazine and Gatorade have pulled off the fiercest online video battle the internet-inclined side of snowboarding has ever seen.

The winner of the bracket-style brawl is non-other than a foreign competitor. Actually, both the finalist were foreign. Scandinavian competitors Helgasons.com took down French Canadian’s NuuLife Cinema for the win.

According to our unofficial calculations, the Helgasons.com crew is walking away with 592,658 Kronas. Sounds like they made off like bandits.

Check out SNOWBOARDER.com for more details and bonus video from the Helgason crew.

‘Merica, will any of you step up to the challenge next year?

Your Vote Actually Matters

Someone is getting 5,000 greenbacks for their Superpark video edit from our friends over at SnowboarderMag.com and Gatorade. And it’s neck and neck right now. So unlike shady November elections, your vote totally counts.

16 vids have been battling it out all summer via knockout rounds and the last two standing are NuuLife vs. Helgasons.com for the final showdown. The best of the best.

Check out the vids and vote. Do it.

NuuLife

Vs.


Helgasons.com

P.S. Press play, then click on the full screen icon to watch ‘em bigger. Way bigger.