Judging
I spent the weekend at a couple of snowboard events.
The first was Smith Grudge Match 6 at Snow Valley on Saturday March 6th.
However I was not competing in the contest. I was called upon (to use my two years of experience doing BRO-SESH) to judge the event. It was a great event, it was 34 competitors which included 4 girls and dudes of all ages. Everyone got two runs to show the judges what they had. We the judges then combined the score of the two runs to come up with a final 16 guys. And since there were only four girls they all made it to the finals.
The finals at Smith Grudge Match goes like this; each competitor goes against another, whichever of the two had a better run moves on to the next round. until there is only two. than the final two get 3 runs, best two out of the three takes the title as champ of Smith Grudge Match 6.
After the battle It came down to this guy Craig B Gouweloos
Craig B Gouweloos, Tail pressing into the finals.
And this guy Greg Florio
Greg Florio, 5050 to BS 180 tail grab with extra steez.
Greg ended up winning even after breaking his board his first run and having to borrow a completely new set up to do his last two.
Even though I was judging I still got to shred a little…
Will, picking his nose really hard.
The next day I spent at “Smolik Says” at Horsehoe. Another awesome contest, but this time I was competing. The concept is simple, Ryan, AKA Smolik would call out a trick, than everyone would have to do it. Anyone who didn’t would hear the terrible wail of the siren from the maga-phone. They than would have to give up one of the two pieces of tape each competitor received at the start of the contest. I made it about 7 tricks in. You can read more about the event here on push.ca. See if you can spot me, I made it into one of the shots doing a tail press in the background.
