Julia Mancuso Surfs Sochi After Winning Bronze Medal Squaw Valley’s Julia Mancuso, the most decorated female Winter Olympian in history, went surfing in Sochi, Russia last week. Julia is a surfer, has a house in Maui, and got invited to surf with Sal Masakela on her last day in Sochi, Russia’s Black Sea. Cool. “It was cold, but it wasn’t bad. I didn’t have a hoodie [an insulated neoprene hood] on, so I only lasted about 45 minutes. I caught four amazing waves. There were some big sets. Most of the waves were shoulder high. I caught some incredible waves all the way to the shore, so I was pretty stoked. We surfed up a storm, literally. There was a storm passing through and it died out in two hours, and the waves were gone after that. We hit it perfect.” – People Magazine […] SwellBrains | February 25, 2014 0 Comments
South Lake Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson Wins GOLD in Snowboard Slopestyle 23-year-old South Lake Tahoe, CA native Jamie Anderson won gold in women’s snowboard slopestyle over the weekend. She smoothly landed two huge 720s in her run, setting her apart from the other competitors. Jamie completed an American sweep of snowboard slopestyle after Sage Kotsenburg won the men’s gold medal. This was the first ever Olympics to include snowboard slopestyle. […] SnowBrains | February 10, 2014 0 Comments