Grenade Games Five Is Thrashing
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- April 21 2009
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The elevator was one of the first object to feel Grenade Games’ wrath. Photo: Russell Dalby
Grenade Games Five has consumed Canadia’s little nugget called Whistler Blackcomb. The Monster hotel is under full lockdown, the whole place is booked out and the walls have been a little shaky and plastered with the always-entertaining GG specialty stickers. This morning Danny mentioned something to the tune of “a hundred kids were lined up chanting my name on the hill, someone mentioned I was going to buy them all ceasers.” Last night the Sushi Village was shaking, things were smashed and there were a lot of party growls, no wonder everyone was fiending this morning. We’ve overheard all the locs also saying that the village hasn’t been this busy since Christmas—people are squirming all over the place, it’s a good end of the season send off combined with the Telus festival.
Photos: Russell Dalby
To everyone’s surprise, the resident dreary weather lifted and there was nothing but sun for the poker run, the first event for Grenade Games Five. Sloggy hips and tranny everywhere meant boardin with your poker posse was awesome. From peak to peak, cards were shifted, deals were struck and shady trading was involved in the as teams scrambled to gather a promising hand. In fact, there were so many suspiciously good hands that a lottery was drawn to decide who was making it into the tonight’s high stakes final.
But before that, the high hands had to take on some shred gimmicks to further their way into Grenade Games. One event was the dual slalom course where the top 32 times were used to lock in a spot in tomorrow’s dual slalom mogul run. The other GG original was a no board bullrun over rollers with a mandatory jump at the bottom. Things get loose when they’re not binded.
Dark clouds started rolling in and the crews headed to ante up on the poker finals and check off day two at the Games. The wheels just started rolling and things are going to get weirder no doubt. Check back for photo galleries and more nonsense, but meanwhile keep up to date with all the happenings on Dano Pendygrasse’s Monster blog here:
http://monsterenergy.ca/CMS/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=104
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April 21st, 2009 at 11:25 pm
fifth!!!! wait? fuck.
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:35 am
if only i was there….
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:20 am
I was filming there yesterday
sooo awesome
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:25 pm
good stuff but why does everyone on the hill dress like that these days? it’s not a kevin rudolph video… so gimmicky. all-over prints still?
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Ha ha, you’re talking about peoples outfits. Barney!
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Icy day up top but the spring slush down low has been too much fun. You can throw small jumps and spins from just about any turn the way you sink in. I can’t wait to see the main event saturday night. The athletes here are insanely good. They’re putting on a good show!
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:28 am
and spelling, too. stay in school.
April 24th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
GG5 is SICK! First, if you know whistler, you know there’s a ton of really good riders here. Second, if you know the Telus WSSF, you know it sucks every year (Blame it on the lady running all the gigs in whistler S.E., also responsible for the lack of GG promotion here in Whistler).
So bringing GG5 to was a sweet deal for all the locs, especially those competing. Saturday night is gonna blow up! Grab a kokanee and your pre-rolls and we’ll see you at the big air finals!
April 27th, 2009 at 1:41 am
looks more like the monster games