Sierra at Tahoe March 10, 2007
Spring is in full effect! It seems like we’ve really only had 1 week of winter but the weather this past weekend sure was nice. It set a great stage for the Planet Earth Shop Wars in the Alley Terrain Park for Nor-Cal shops to show their stuff.
The 3 categories for the contest:
1. Big Air
2. Quarter Pipe
3. Rail
Winner takes all in the 3 categories for $1000.00 cash. In the Big Air comp it was a two- man battle between Boards n Motion’s Shane Reed and Porters’ Brandon Cocard. Shane was cabing it out with cab 5’s and 10’s. Brandon was showing a bag full of tricks: front 7’s, back 7’s, backside rodeos and switch backside 9’s all stomped to perfection with not even a hand drag or sketch.
In the QP no one really got they’re groove on until late into the jam. Kyle “Taquito” Earl was throwing down huge backside rodeos all during practice but couldn’t find his line until after the time 45-minute time limit was up. Porters’ Zak Shelhamer landed a nice frontside 9, but then was shown up immediately by Shane Fortier with his own version of a front 9 that was bigger and more corked.
In the Rail Jam it was a showdown between Sierra at Tahoe’s one-man squad Danny Ryan and Porters’ Silas Stannard. I don’t even know how to explain the tricks that they were doing. Rail tricks have gotten so techy as of late I don’t know what to call the moves. But it was “captain tight pants” Danny Ryan in the end to take the cash defeating last years champ Silas.
The deliberations took quite a while. It seems like we were sitting around for an hour before we got the results. The toughest and most controversial finish was in the Big Air between Shane and Brandon…Who should take it a cab 10 that was jerky or a smooth switch backside 9? This has been a debatable question even at pro level contests…but as history has already shown…spin to win. Shane got the cash.
The top 2 teams got an invite to the Shop Wars finals at Windells in Oregon this summer.
1st- Boards n Motion
2nd tie between Porters and Eastern Boarder
I’ll be giving an update as soon as Planet Earth gives us the details on our invite. All in all it was a great contest and a good day of fun in the sun. I even got to do a few laps myself. After the contest the boys and I decided to get some work done and shoot some photos to make their sponsors happy. We found a section to get jibby and had a good time. Photos will hopefully be up for you soon…sponsors and editors have dibs first.
Memorable quotes of the Day:
I’ve made more money judging this year than I have from my snowboarding- Jimi Tomer
ERIC
All photo courtesy of Team Manager and Photo Guy Eric Asistin
