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January 21, 2008

Posted by: Stuart Britton 

This Past Saturday, Snow Valley hosted the first stop of the Smith Grudge Match V. The event went off! Lots of good riders of all ages both male and female were in attendance. The weather was beautiful and the park was solid thanks in part to Trevor Jennings who spent days and nights getting the park just right for the competition. The competition was strong and Jamie took out every sucka that stood in his way on the way to the finals. In the finals the competition was fierce and the final had to go to a 4th and final run to decide the outcome. Jamie fought hard, but was narrowly beat out. Still, Jamie took home another 2nd place finish and automatically advances to the finals of the Smith Grudge Match V on Feb 23rd at Mt. St. Louis. The announcing and the MCing was off the chains with L.S. and his DJ spinning live on the one’s and two’s all day. Defending Smith Grudge Match champion, Kevin Scriver, was ripping up the park all day, and the only thing that prevented a repeat of last year's finals showdown was an attempted hand plant on the top of the wall ride that went bad for Kevin. Kevin went up, planted his hand which then slipped out sending Kevin crashing down onto his head. Good thing helmets are mandatory at the comp! Will Johnson was out ripping and put together a solid second run. Trevor Jennings, not only built the park, he was competing too, Trev made the finals but working on the event and riding in the event was tiring for T.J. and he laid down after an attempted on the wall ride. Give the guy a break, he needed a rest. Tev and Keving also advance to the finals along with the remainder of the top 16 competitors. Congrats to all that came out and had a great day. Let's make the Lakeridge stop even better! See everyone out on Feb 2nd at Lakeridge.  Finally, we want to give a shout out to our girl Janelle Leclair who has impressed a lot out west this year, including the crew over at Diviante snowboard show.  Janelle is now getting hooked up by them on top of a long list of awesome supportive sponsors.

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   With last season ending up being a complete bust, due to all the old crew moving for school and not riding together once, we decided to kick off this winter with a different approach. An early snowfall coated the small peaks of southern Ontario at the end of November, coming a month earlier than most years, and the entire crew made a pact not to let the distance ruin another season of shredding. After a few warm up sessions at the smallest hill around, we decided to take our skills to a slightley larger venue. There it was, two small twenty-five ft booters followed by a fifty-five ft'er with a forteen ft lip, along with an arrangement of jibable metal objects. 
   We couldn't have been more ready to kick the season of reunion off to a start. The first few runs were of the warming up kind, me getting used to the new Capita from my unofficial sponsership from the local shop, a couple big airs here, and a couple small spins there. We all decide that this was going to be the year that we remember as the turning point in our snowboarding careers and we decide to up the ante. I go first, lining up the first small booter as a speed gainer for the last. I take off flawlessly backside with a floating three to leave me riding regular for the big underflip that awaited on the larger booter. I spotted the landing and stomped flatbased, lightly sweeping my arm throught the snow during the followthrough, when it hit me. A loud snap that was followed by a numbness in my left arm. 
   With a short stay in the ski patrol hut, followed by a longer one at lakeridge hospital and an x-ray showing that I had broken a fragment off of my radius on the joint where it attaches to the ulna, I was joined by another member of the crew, that had bailed on a radius box and was later told that he had recieved a smaller fracture across the radius of his right arm. 
   What could make a season worse than having two men down with injuries for three months? How about having mother nature cancel the snow and replace it with its close relative, rain. But we were unable to allow this to get us down. We had the whole season in front of us, as short as it is in Ontario, and I was back on the board only a week after the break going just as upside down as ever. 
   With the injuries, rain, and small verticles that filled this season, we came to a conclusion. We're going to move to BC

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YAY FOR 3RD PLACE!!! today was the You Look Good competition @ Lakeridge resort. I haven't ridden there in 2 years, but they're park is SO much sicker now! props to natalie for taking 2nd place and danielle for taking home yet another first place cheque!

BBQ + BOX: for anyone who needs directions to my house for this friday's BBQ and box session, PM me on here or email me: captain_underpants182@hotmail.com and let me know WHERE you're coming from? see you all then!!!!

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I'm going Lakeridge Sunday.

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Riding Lakeridge Friday Dec 2 and Saturday Dec 3



p.s i think im in love with nicoleCJC <3<3

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