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Photos by Greg DeBoer and G Trevor Phillips
Monthly Archive for January, 2011
Mervin Manufacturing and Snowboy Productions are pleased to bring our Boxes for Days tour to Japan!
This “ridiculously fun event involving a lot of boxes” is free to enter and will happen on Saturday February 5 at Sanosaka Resort in Hakuba from 11am – 3pm.
The event consists of lining up terrain park boxes in a line to create one super-box that is both challenging and very fun!
In addition to top Japanese snowboarders, pro American snowboarders from Think Thank films will be on-hand. Including Lib Tech’s Jesse Burtner and Ted Borland, Dinosaurs Will Die’s Sean Genovese and Chris Larson, and Ride’s Austin Hironaka and Sam Hulbert.
Come out and meet the riders and try to get to the end of the super-box! Great prizes from Lib Tech and Gnu snowboards, Coal Headwear and Garage 902!
After the event join us at UFO Stadium for a great after-party with all the riders!
Thanks to Lib Tech, Gnu, Coal, Think Thank, Advance Marketing, Sanosaka Resort, Garage 902 and UFO Stadium for making this great event possible!
Seattle, WA – After two years of riding, loving and winning on the Gnu B-Pro, Jamie Anderson is making it official. The South Lake Tahoe, CA-local is signing with GNU as the brand’s first “Guest Pro.” As a celebrity guest Jamie will enjoy all of the perks of Gnu pro status including fabulous photo shoots and parties in her honor. She’ll also have the ability to work closely with Gnu’s leading design teams in Carlsborg, WA to develop new snowboards that fit her style and make riding even more fun.
“I love Gnu boards! They’re the best!” exclaims Anderson. Fellow Gnu rider Danny Kass says of Anderson, “Jamie’s a one-of-a-kind rider. She’s fearless on all terrain and pushing the boundaries of park riding for women around the world.”
With a smile on her face and banana between her feet, Jamie’s one of the most celebrated female slopestyle riders ever. This winter she started off with wins at both Dew Tour stops, the O’Neill Evolution and the European Open on the B-Pro. These wins make her the current leader in the TTR series, as well as setting her up for a repeat Dew Tour championship.
In Jamie’s five years competing in pro events, she’s won multiple Roxy Chicken Jams, Grand Prix events, Burton Open Series, World Cups, Grand Prix and even a TTR overall title, just to name a few. The now 20-year-old was named 2009 Female #1 Rider of the Year by Snowboarder and won TransWorld SNOWboarding’s Women’s Rider of the Year. She also holds multiple X Games golds and a silver. Her first X Games win at 15, made her the youngest Winter X Games medalist ever.
“We are honored that Jamie chose to ride the Gnu B-pro for the last two years, while she was on the open market. Now we’re thrilled that she’s signed on as our first celebrity guest!” says Barrett Christy, Gnu Girl’s Team Captain. “We look forward to working with her to perfect our Gnu girls line.”
Gnu’s unique celebrity guest program provides support to the elite ‘celebrities,’ who the brand shares a mutual respect with. For some it may be a launching point for bigger Gnu projects, for others it may be a meaningful stop along the way to their next sponsor.
Jamie’s current ride of choice, the Gnu B-Pro is fine tuned by Barrett Christy with C2 Banana Technology and Magne-Traction. C2 is the perfect combination of camber at each end and Banana Tech between your feet. The camber gives the board end-to-end stability and pop for big landings, while the banana between feet makes for great carving on hardpack and easy float in power. A portion of Gnu B-Pro sales go to Boarding for Breast Cancer. All Gnu boards are handmade at Mervin in the USA with a bio-polymer top material made from beans and fast growing, farmed, eco wood cores.
Mervin Mfg’s Boxes for Days Tour made it’s second stop this past weekend on the sunny slopes of Boreal. Eighty plus Tahoe area shreds took on the ridiculous 240′ up/down/up/flat/down/flat/down/flat/mini-rainbow/down/curve/flat/curve/flat box…also know as the (Lane) Knaack Attack.
Jesse Burtner, Jason Robinson, Maribeth Kramer and Nick Visconti were on-hand to keep everyone stoked and pass out a grip of quality goods from Lib Tech, Gnu, Coal, Snowboarder Mag and Porter’s Tahoe. After three hours of box sliding mayhem, coffin slides and pickle juice shots, Billy Morgan took home the Slippery Banana award and a brand new Gnu Riders Choice snowboard.
Photos by Tim Zimmerman
Thanks to Jon, Eric, Lane and the rest of the Boreal crew, Nikki Sternin and the Nor-Cal Mervin clan and Kasey from Porter’s for making the day BEYOND rad.
Next stop is Sanosaka Resort in Hakuba Japan on Feb 5…Boxes for Daaaaaaays!
Hundreds of thousands of feet of boxes were slid at the first stop of Boxes for Days Tour at The Summit at Snoqualmie in Washington. Think Thank’s Jesse Burtner and Snowboy Productions’ Krush Kulesza give you the recap.
