THE MESSAGE  - OCTOBER 2008

Welcome back to another exciting edition of THE MESSAGE.. da da da DUNNNNN.
Good new snow fiends, We got are first dusting on the Sierra's last week, so lets hope that this will be an early season for all us!  THE BLOCK, THE BLOCK is gearing up for Snowboard Season by sponsoring a bunch of snowboard premieres and parties. I just saw the new First Tracks Video,  Knock on Wood at Mont Bleu, and what a great turnout we had, THE BLOCK was soldout and Flick was dope as all hell! 

Hot Dawgs and Hand Rails

If you missed Hot Dawgs and Handrails last month, you done F@cked-up. ! Hot Dawgz & Hand Rails 5th annual snowboarding specatcular tested the skills of some of the best jumpers and jibbers in the world and paid out $15,000 in prize money!  Rio and the entire Bear Mountain Park Staff pulled off the 1st contest of the year with Grand Style!  The Dropin, The Gap, and the rails were epic and riders were stoked to be throwing down for the first time of the Season! Big props to reelcomp.com for broadcasting a live feed of the event besure to check it out on their website.

The winners in the Men's Finals were...
1st Place- Jed Anderson
2nd Place- Chas Guldemond
3rd Place- Scott Vine

and the winners in the Women's Finals are...
1st Place- Desiree Melancon
2nd Place- Marie Hucal
3rd Place- Raewyn Reid

Scott Vine brought home Best Trick. Congratulations riders! Additional Heavy Hitters were Ben Bogart, Scott Stevens, Louif Paradis, Bode Merill, Keegan Valaika, Leanne Pelosi, Elise Borelli, Nick Dirks, Zak Hale and Tim Eddy. J.P Walker, Seth Huot and Hana Beaman were chillin' at Bear and Josh Sherman and Dave Duncan were announcing! If you missed Hot Dawgz this year, we'll see you next September! Big ups to Nam for organizing the afterparty, DJ Slip Matt and Matty Mo held it done hard. If you aint heard Matty Mo got a new mixtape out so be sure to Grab Government Cheese Vol 1. 

THE BLOCK BOOTCAMP 2008

Has been rescheduled to December 1st -13th in South Lake Tahoe. We are selecting 50 lucky recruits from an applicant pool of over 500+ that I received. It has been no easy task going through the applications, so if you were selected congratulations you will be receiving your deployment orders at the end of the week!  Remember that during bootcamp you will be tested to your physical and mental limits. So do yourself a favor and start working out and jogging now. This is not going to be a walk in the park. 

Knock on Wood

Who wants to see some sick snowboarding action for cheap?! Well, South Lake Tahoe based First Tracks Productions is offering a special deal to friends of The Block. If you click on the following link, you'll get to a hidden page on First Tracks' site where you can purchase their new movie, "Knock on Wood" for $10 off retail! http://firsttracksproductions.com/knockonwood091317257375.html If you haven't seen the trailer for Knock on Wood, check it out for free here:

Upcoming Events

Big Bear

October 18th is the last Bear Mountain Job Fair at Snow Summit from 8am-2pm. If you got to ride Bear and cant pass the bootcamp, this is a good option for any shredder.

October 18th and 19th is the 38th Annual Big Bear Lake Oktoberfest! So if you missed the job fair you can atleast Drink it off.

October 19th @ Active Ride Shop in Le Brea - F.O.D.T. Presents "Familia"  and TWS These Days from 7-9pm with DJ Episode! Be there!

Lake Tahoe

Wednesday Oct 15th  Technine's own Eric "MessyHair" Messier aka The Snow Man, will be playing with his group "The Fiz" at Whiskey Dicks with The Mathematicians in South Lake Tahoe.


This Thursday and Every Thursday BAR24 is holding Battle of The Bands until a winner is announced on November 6th, so get down their and show your support!


Saturday, Oct 18th – Late Nite productions brings the Original Wailers back to Tahoe at Moe's Place.


Wednesday Oct 22nd – Collie Buddz  is playing at Whiskey Dicks with Rise of the Revolution and DJ Pee Wee.  Rise kills it so sure to get there early and check em out!


Wednesday Nov 12th – Pato Banton with the Mystic Roots Band and Planting Seeds! Mystic Roots is dope and Pato got love for THE BLOCK so don't miss this show!


Friday November 14th – Finger on Da Trigger presents "Familia" Premiere at Bar24, signing with the Technine Team, Snowbunny Contest, Live Performances by the worlds top VJ; DJ Crime,  Hip Hop by Concise Kilgore from the Cali Agents and more TBA Lots of other bar24 contests for lots of SWAG and giveaways! Be sure you are there!


Saturday November 15th – The Premiere and the team travel to the Sandbar in Sacramento. We got a Snowbunny contest with the Déjà vu Girls and Zsu Swimwear, a Rail Jam in the back, T9 Team Signing and so much more so be there!!!


Tuesday Nov 18th – One Block Radius come to town, Marty James, MDA and Z-Man throw a tough show, pickup there new hit "you got me" and come to the show.


Friday November 28th – Del The Funky Homosapien has been add to host the "Blizzard" Pray for Snow Party with A-Plus and Bukue-one! So mark this one down cuz its going to GO OFF in Tahoe that weekend!


Saturday December 28th– "How The Grouch Stole Christmas" with Grouch and Eli from the Living Legends! I am looking forward to this show the most! So get up on game and go buy his new album that came this past spring and be sure to celebrate X-mas with the GROUCH!!!


Ok that's all I got for ya for now, I am working a bringing a "Familia" premiere to Vegas as well as planning THE BLOCK PARTY 2009 at the SIA Tradeshow. More info when I got it all confirmed but until then, Pray for Snow and see you on THE BLOCK!


-Dirty D from THE BLOCK


PS Check out these Videos:
Live From the PALMS Pools and Bungalows - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru3vhbtu7tI
Live From Hot Dawgs and Handrails - http://reelcomp.com/videos/view/6990

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so, the season has ended.  it went out all weird like too.  had been sunny and perfect for so long and then the last week it got cold, rained and the wind blew like god was pissed at us.  so we couldn't ride for the last 5 days of the season.  sucks too, cuz elle and i were amped to film on the big flat down 15 meter (45+ feet) rail as well as some of the other shi*t that we had scope out.  its always weird when you expect to ride again and then you don't.  we usually know when its our last day and we get our brains wrapped around it, but not this season.  oh well, park city opens in exactly 6 weeks.  guess i'll just spend this time editing vid for the new film.  holla!


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2006 TECHNINE MFM Bindings -- White

$350 for the deck & bindings.
Both are in awesome awesome shape.

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154 atomic polarity 2005 - $200

149 atomic hatchet 2005 - $200

DC men's large Mobius jacket *new still has taggs* - $200
Quiksilver matilda  orangy brown mens small jacket 2004 - $100

Roxy green camo jacket 2004 womens medium - $80

Westbeach Eskimo womens 2005 jacket Large black and white- $120

--SOLD-- Westbeach men’s black snowpants super baggy 2005- $60

Technine team bindings 2004 - $70

Atomic boa tremor boots womens 8.5 -2005  - $180

--SOLD--Anon figment goggles white 2005 with 2 lenses - $50

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Planet Earth Mens Vantage small jacket – 2005 - $150

Planet Earth insulator womens field jacket 2005 large - $50

Planet Earth womens large performance series quest snow pants green – 2005 - $100

Gloves and hats and stuff….

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154 atomic polarity 2005 - $200

149 atomic hatchet 2005 - $200

DC mens Large Lime green jacket -new- - $275
Quiksilver matilda  orangy brown mens small jacket 2004 - $100

Roxy green camo jacket 2004 womens medium - $80
Roxy goggles green frame - $20

Westbeach Eskimo womens 2005 jacket Large black and white- $120

--SOLD--Westbeach men’s black snowpants super baggy 2005- $60

Technine team bindings 2004 - $70

Atomic boa tremor boots womens 8.5 -2005  - $180

--SOLD--Anon figment goggles white 2005 - $50

--SOLD--Airblaster legbag electric blue with tyrrydacl in yellow - $80
--SOLD-- Nomis jean jacket mens small 2005 - $50

Planet earth Migration womens large jacket 2005 - $80

Planet Earth Mens Vantage small jacket – 2005 - $150

Planet Earth insulator womens field jacket 2005 large - $50

Planet Earth womens large performance series quest snow pants in black and green – 2005 - $100

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In the upgrade, I seem to have lost my previous blog type entries... ah well, time to start fresh I guess.

Natural snow finally hit southern California.  Too bad it took until March for it to happen!  But none-the-less, two feet of fresh snow is nothing to complain about, no matter how long it takes to arrive.

So, I finally went to the mountain on Wednesday, 3/15/06.  I have lots of excuses for not going sooner, but they're all lame and I'll spare you.  Took a couple more experienced buddies with me and we made it a good day.

Got up there pretty early... I think we arrived on the mountain at about 9am.  Weather was warmish, so I just took my shell and left all the other layers in the car.  First thing I had to do was pick up my season pass while my friends got their lift tickets.  It took an extraordinary amount of time, considering there was only one other person ahead of me.  In the end, it was worth it, because I managed to come out with an 06/07 pass instead of the 05/06 one I had originally paid for in April of '05!

So, passes gotten, time to hit the snow.  Usually, when I go boarding with the wife, we start on the Green slopes and slowly work our way up.  This is fine, since she's not as agressive as I am in her riding, and it gives me a chance to practice riding switch-stance.  Not this time!  My friends, being more experienced, went straight for the black diamond run!  Not to worry though... You have to take a blue run to get to it.  And besides, I was so pumped on being on the snow finally that I was happy to start with a little more challenge.  Also, the Black runs at Big Bear are only like Blue runs in Tahoe, so it's not too bad anyway.

I forgot to mention that I got a new set of bindings.  I got some Technine Marc Frank Montoya Pro bindings at a good price a couple weeks ago and spent an entire evening getting them setup on my board at home.  I learned a few things about how to tune bindings that night, and made some major changes to my previous binding setup.  One of the changes was setting up the high-back with more lean-in.  My first bindings had them set at nil, so i thought I'd go halfway on the setting for the new ones.  According to the little manual, it's supposed to help heel-toe/toe-heel transitions.

On the way up the hill on the lift, my calves started to hurt.  At first I thought it was just the pain of the board hanging on one foot while on the chair.  Once I strapped in and started down the hill though, the pain just got worse and worse, and by the end of the run it was killing me.  Somewhere a long the way, I remembered having set the high-backs in, so at the next lift, I put them back to nil.  And what do you know... the pain went away!

On the second run I noticed how much of a difference the high-back setting had made on my transitions.  On the first run, I didn't have any trouble making my turns (aside from the pain).  On the second run, and all the runs afterward, I always felt a just a little bit sketchy going from toe-side to heel-side.  I didn't feel like fiddling with my bindings anymore, so I just left them at nil and worked on building my confidence with better technique instead.

The snow quality was pretty good.  It had snowed heavily on Friday and Saturday, and we were there on Wednesday.  It had packed down and frozen a bit, so it was a little hard, but softened up nicely as the day progressed.  I did manange to get a few scratches in the wax on my board though, as well as a really bad one from a rock that I thought was a glove or something equally soft.  No permanent damage though.

We stopped early for a brief lunch to miss the crowd in the Base Food area and were back on the snow by noon.  There were a surprising number of late-comers, as suddenly, there was a line for the lift.  We made several more runs on the less crowded mid-mountain lifts and called it a day at 2pm.  It was a good move, as we hit little traffic on the way home and made it back into San Diego by 5pm.

All in all, an excellent day, and I can't wait for next weekend when another storm is supposed to drop more snow!

(Photo courtesy of Kurt, from his phone-cam)

Runs hit:
-Exhibition: 932 x 6
-Geronimo: 1119 x 4
-Accelerator: 525 x 2
-Amusement Park: 519 x 2
-Showtime-Silver Connection: 791 x 2

Total runs: 16
Total Vertical: 13738



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Total Days Riding: Eighty!!
New Total Season Best

I'd like to thank my sponsors:

CAPiTA Snowboards
Technine Bindings
Thirty Two Footwear
Planet Earth Outerwear
Oakley Eyewear
Grenade Gloves

(Well, not my sponsors, just the brands I ride)


Midwest Open Superpipe, 6th Place!!!

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I ride alone alot, which gives me a lot of time to think. For the last couple days, I've been thinking about what I see missing in snowboarding. The pure and simple joy of riding. I think back to last season and teaching my younger brother how to snowboard. There were a so many things that brought a smile to his face that each and every one of us takes for granted.

• The first time walking out on a real ski hill, not just our backyard. He smiled.
  
• The first time he made it to the top of the rope tow without falling. He smiled.
  
• The first time he linked together a few turns before falling. He turned back to me, was smiling and said "Jake did you see that? I turned both ways"
  
• The first blue run he make, top to bottom without falling. He completely forgot of the other 30 times that he'd fallen that day, and he was smiling.
  
• The first time he got a little air of a roller on the trail. He turned back to me and asked "Jake, did I get off the ground that time?" When I said yes, he smiled.

It wasn't that long ago that you were just trying to stay up the entire tow rope. How about the next time you're out boarding, just smile because you're there.


Year-to-date snowboarding: 50eight days!
New season total personel best!

I'd just like to thank my sponsors:

Capita Snowboards
Technine Bindings
Thirty Two Boots
Oakley Eyewear
Planet Earth Outerwear
Grenade Gloves

(OK, not sponsors, but the brands I ride)

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I ride alone alot, which gives me a lot of time to think. For the last couple days, I've been thinking about what I see missing in snowboarding. The pure and simple joy of riding. I think back to last season and teaching my younger brother how to snowboard. There were a so many things that brought a smile to his face that each and every one of us takes for granted.

• The first time walking out on a real ski hill, not just our backyard. He smiled.
  
• The first time he made it to the top of the rope tow without falling. He smiled.
  
• The first time he linked together a few turns before falling. He turned back to me, was smiling and said "Jake did you see that? I turned both ways"
  
• The first blue run he make, top to bottom without falling. He completely forgot of the other 30 times that he'd fallen that day, and he was smiling.
  
• The first time he got a little air of a roller on the trail. He turned back to me and asked "Jake, did I get off the ground that time?" When I said yes, he smiled.

It wasn't that long ago that you were just trying to stay up the entire tow rope. How about the next time you're out boarding, just smile because you're there.


Year-to-date snowboarding: forty three days!

Oh, by the way. Technine is the greatest binding company in the world! I asked for a replacement part....they sent me a brand new pair of bindings! Support Technine!

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