The Ultimate Boarders
anniefast
- April 06 2009
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The Ultimate Boarder competition checked off the first stop yesterday at Bear Mountain. This is the second year for the new event that draws a mix of old school riders and current pros. The sunny spring course consisted of a kicker with a 25-foot or 40-foot tee (which saw a cab 10 from Bjorn and a 9 from Todd Richards), the kicker led into a hip, into an up box, and a down wall, or a rail into the pipe. Some notable riders on the course were skaters Omar Hassan and Tosh Townend, surfers Christian Fletcher, John John Florence, and Cheyne Magnusson, and snowboarders Dave Downing and Todd Richards.
The scene on the hill was all Dave Duncan’s smoked-out voice, rock-n-roll blasting, and senders like Mugs McGuinness off the hip here.
Individual:
1. Kurt Wastell
2. Shayne Pospisil
3. Chad Shetler
These guys are in pole position for winning the ultimate baorder, but there’s still two comps to go. Wastell still has it for sure—shoulda seen his run through the pipe, and he’s got the skate skill, but can he surf? Shayne could be a contender for the title, he grew up on the Jersey shore surfing, but can he skate? And finally, skater Chad Shetler surprised the field by taking third in the snow comp.
This year a team division was introduced so boarders could participate in the event without having to huck it in all three classes. Bjorn jumped in on Team Hosoi along with Christian Hosoi and Tom Curren for yesterday’s win. Sounds like a winning team.
Team:
1. Bjorn Leines/Team Hosoi
2. Greg Bokencamp/Team Val Surf
3. Tyler Flanagan/Team Volcom
The comp now moves to Ventura for the surf and skate events.
April 7 – 9th: Stage 2 - Surf , C Street, Ventura
April 10: Stage 3 - Skateboarding, Ventura County Fairgrounds
You can follow along at ultimateboarder.com or see the show on Fuel TV June 22 at 8 p.m.
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April 6th, 2009 at 11:04 am
cool course, i like that they had a junp, hip and pipe. rock on
April 6th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
where is lucas debari?
April 6th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
yay smokin!!
April 6th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
skateboarding and surfing are way harder than snowboarding, but it sounds like a rad comp brahh
April 7th, 2009 at 8:26 am
That is a completely subjective statement.
April 7th, 2009 at 10:52 am
so sick mugs…. that board looks mad tite… show these fools whats up hen you get to the surf… and you prolly should have beaten dave downing… i heard from a couple of my boys that were there that you killed it son…
April 7th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
iwillmakedinosaursdie…why must you come out with shitty vibes on everything that this amazing website posts? its so so annoying. i wish you would lose access to the internet.
April 7th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
BALLS!!!!!!!!
April 9th, 2009 at 8:52 am
so stoked for wastell…… in a correct set up for this comp, a snowboarder might have a chance
to win the whole thing.. like kurt, who rips at all 3….
unfortunately, there are only like 4 actual pro shreds…. the rest of the field is stacked thick with surfers and skaters and only a small number who can actually do both.. but with only a small number of snowboarders, they can all place high enough in snow in to get points..
in skate and snow, it’s going to be almost impossible to get the points to win for wastell and this bums me out..
they need to lessen the field and have it be an equal number of competitors to the sport that has the least riders..
we’ll see, though… go WASTELL!
April 9th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Results are in from the surf session. Pospisil is holding it down for the shredders in first overall. http://business.transworld.net/2008/04/16/ultimate-boarder-surf-results/
April 16th, 2009 at 8:42 am
If you like Todd Richards as much as we do, you’ll love our interview with him from the US Open 2009 where he discusses winning the Ultimate Boarder Contest last year, despite not getting a single wave in his surf heat. See it at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y374CA93Qt0
Lauren
director SnowboardSecretsTV onYoutube
http://www.youtube.com/user/SnowboardSecretsTV
April 16th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Check out Todd Richards interview where he tells us about not getting a single wave in last year’s contest at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y374CA93Qt0
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