VIDEO: Shaun White’s Halfpipe Gold Medal Winning Run in PyeongChang After holding the early lead from his first run, Californian Shaun White slipped to second behind his much younger rival, Ayumu Hirano of Japan. In the third, and final run, he had to put in the run of his life to claim his third career gold medal. Landing a 1440 was not likely to be enough, he would have to match […] Olympics Steven Agar | February 14, 2018 0 Comments
California’s Jamie Anderson does it Again! Defends her Title for Team USA’s Second Gold Medal California’s Jamie Anderson continued her dominance in woman’s snowboard slopestyle by winning her second straight gold medal yesterday in PyeongChang, reports NBC. Due to the high winds, the format of the event pushed all athletes into the finals, which would now comprise of only two runs instead of three. Her 83.00 score in the first run was good enough to […] Olympics Steven Agar | February 12, 2018 0 Comments
VIDEO: 17-Year-Old Red Gerard’s GOLD Medal Run in Men’s Slopestyle https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=kN8cobMoMII The USA’s Red Gerard won gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics yesterday. The kid is only 17-years-old! He’s from Silverthorne, CO and grew up snowboarding a mini park in his backyard. Red’s medal was the USA’s first medal of the 2018 Olympics! Congrats, Red! Olympics SnowBrains | February 11, 2018 1 Comment
VIDEO: David Wise Becomes First Skier to Land All 4 Double Corks During a Contest History was made in Aspen, CO during the X Games Men’s Ski SuperPipe Competition as David Wise became the first person to ever land four double corks rotating in different directions, reports NBC Sports. “I just started feeling the energy of the crowd,” Wise, said about his decision to try all four double corks in one run. “That was my goal at […] Industry News Steven Agar | January 30, 2018 1 Comment
Cardrona Alpine Resort Literally Strikes GOLD While Building Their New Lift According to a Cardrona Alpine Resort Press Release, Cardrona staff member Dave Collett found the 3.1kg nugget on Thursday while operating an excavator working to build their new ski lift. This chunk of gold is the heaviest gold nugget ever found in New Zealand, as it beat the previous record of 3.09kg from 1909. This nugget weights 109.35 oz and gold […] Industry News Chris Wallner | April 3, 2017 1 Comment
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Friday Fun: “SLOPESTYLE the movie” | Starring USA’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medalists The USA swept the medals in the Olympic Ski Halfpipe in Sochi, Russia last month. won Gold, Nick Geopper won Silver, and Gus Kenworthy won Bronze. These guys were famous in the ski industry before, but not these guys are “nationwide” and loving it. They recently made an appearance on VH1 in a funny mini flick about them being ski hunks. This video likely caps off the weirdness […] SnowBrains | March 7, 2014 2 Comments
American Sweep in Ski Slopestyle! | Gold, Silver, Bronze The United States of America swept the Ski Slopestyle Olympic competition last night. This was crazy fun to watch. The tricks going down these days are nutty. Ski slopestyle made it to the olymipcs at the exact right time. Gold = Joss Christensen (Park City, UT) @ 95.8 Silver = Gus Kenworthy (Telluride, CO) @ 93.6 Bronze = Nick Goepper (no poles from Indiana) […] SnowBrains | February 13, 2014 3 Comments
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