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 
