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Tag: Snowboarding
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2009.02.19
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2008.12.18
23:24:24
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So Yesterday was the Mt. Dew Winter Tour Slope style Qualifiers. I showed up and the jumps were way bigger then anyone would have thought. Got straight to practice, nice and early 8am wooo, and tried to figure out the speed. Heres how the day broke down, first run I just planned on straight airing everything, but when I went into the second jump I apparently had way to much speed and ended up clearing the entire landing. Next run i droped in, spun the first jump straighted the second then went to straight the third and came up on the knuckle. Next run consisted of decking the first jump. As you can tell it started off pretty ruff. I took some more runs and finally got comfortable with spinning them all, even if it was just a 3 over the last. I scrapped my board and was ready for the runs. My first run I dropped in, stomped the first jump great, then through a real good 7 off the second jump which turned out to be way too huge and cleared the entire landing again. So first run is the throw out run, and second run needs to be the show stopper. With butterflys in the stomach I dropped in with one goal, to land on my feet and get through the whole run, gap lip went perfect, Cab 5 stomped, front 7 not perfect but too my feet and with what I thought was plenty of speed for the third. Figured i wouldnt have the speed to do the 9 I wanted so just threw the bs 7 landed it clean and went into the last rail front boarded and was done. what i wanted a landed run. i thought that it would be enough to put me in, but to my suprise it wasnt quite enough. I ended up taking 28th and I have to be happy with that I suppose. On to the next contest and on to the next day of shredding, knowing I need to step up my game a bit.
-Seth
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2008.12.18
22:52:49
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So today Pat Abramson and I, headed up to keystone to train and prepare me for the Mt. Dew tour Slopestyle. We left boulder with the idea that it was going to be pretty crappy up at the mountain, but to our luck it turned out to be pretty nice. I had a very difficult time getting into the groove, but around 1pm something switched and it was game on. Not sure what ticked but i started landing my run, i really wanted to work on the cab 9, but got a pretty good contest run 3 times in a row and called it a day. Day break and ready for the contest. -Seth
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2008.12.09
15:16:20
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Yesterday was a day full of jumping and broing down. Rode up with pat A in the CUST van and arrived at keystone ready to shred. Keystone had there area 51 newly opened, and it was looking great. A pretty damn decent triple line, and people were going off. The triple line consisted of probably a 30 to 50 to 65 which flowed very well. As it was my first day really jumping, I took it easy for a few runs of jumping and getting used to the set up. After I was comfortable I decided to start working on my contest run. The first jump was a little small for the trick I plan to do, but was able to do a variation of it. Definitly was having some issues getting my feet on the ground, and landing straight. but for sure progressed and made the best out of the day. Got back to boulder and the snow was falling. Keep an eye out for my jib blog, plenty of snow in boulder to start jibbing today. (stay strong, and live life to the fullest, and think of every situation in the best possible way) -Seth
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2008.12.07
22:32:58
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Today was one more great day up at echo mt. Nick and I got a bit of a late start but still had plenty of time for some good turns. The snow at echo was at its best and the features smooth and flowing. Great to see the showing of kids wanting to shred and get some good coaching from the echo team, coaches and sims pros. Everyone seemed to be having a great time in the sun, getting there shred on and making stuff happen. After an hour, Nick and I took a couple of photos and video for echo and the echo TV episode 2. Nick was killing it today doing 180 on, 180 off the echo "e" Another epic day and echo mt. (stay strong, and live life to the fullest, and think of every situation in the best possible way) -Seth
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2008.12.07
22:26:39
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So Thursday night was a night of fun and excitement here in Boulder. CU snowboard team and Sig Nu put on a rail jam to donate money for a charity. The set up was pretty legit for a campus rail jam. It consisted of a down bar and flat down box, but speed seemed to be a bit of an issue for the box. Even though the rail was a bit short, it was still fun, and allowed for a wide number of tricks to be thrown down. DJ pat A was turning beats, redbull girls passing out product, and everyone having a great time. The contest was pretty damn full and intense but it was see the interest and want to help out. The contest consisted of skiers, with Nick martini winning. Then the women with Hallie Leach winning, and 3 heats of men with Jason winning that. Definitly a great time and stocked to see good jams going down. Photos to come soon. (stay strong, and live life to the fullest, and think of every situation in the best possible way) -Seth
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2008.12.07
00:36:10
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Once again the story begins were the other left off...In boulder. Jeff picked me up at 9:30 and we headed up to echo. Got up to the mountain, wax the board and got ready for the good times. The mountain was so good today, good snow, good features, good people. After a couple of hours lapping the park my boy lansford showed up ready to take some photos. We started out shooting the big echo "e" and got some really cool stuff. Marc did some sick stuff as well, and Im sure the photos came out great. we took a little break, ate some Qdoba and talked some business then were back to shooting. We went down to the pill and tried to get some stuff there. The pill was going not quite as planed, had to go to fast and light wasnt great. Next onto the Wall ride, unfortunatly it had taken a beating and the tranny wasnt great. The day of shooting ended there, but the fun was yet to stop. Joined the sims guys and took a couple laps, as we took some laps we tried to join the groups of shredders and do a bit of coaching. All the kids seemed to be having a great time and learning lots, so that was pretty sweet to see. Heading up there tomorrow to do the same thing, but well see what special events come out of it. -Seth
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2008.12.06
16:26:28
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So yesterday Friday December 5th, one of my favorite spots opened, Echo MT. Jeff Cormack and I decided to come check out the setup for the opening day. On our way up we decided to scope a rail, and probably should have done it but couldn't quite get our stuff together. So we continued on, on our journey to the moutain. Up at echo, after getting our pass' and some mingling we joined teams with Marc and Steve and took some laps. Echo is definitly moving in the right direction this season. They opened with a pretty nice jump and some very innovative features; including an "e" that stands about 10 feet tall, and a long pill that im sure will get killed soon enough. After some good laps and some good falls on my part, we said our good byes and headed back down to boulder to find some urban to hit. Unfortunatly in the short amount of time we were up in the mountains most of the snow melted, and it didnt look like we were going to be able to do our rail. Marc decided to just head to boulder skatepark for some fun jib. At boulder skate park we set up the mini ramp with a speed bump so we could go back in forth. I was only really able to do 2 times, but cormack and marc got atleast 3. Great little session until snow got to wet and too sticky. We decided to call it a day and get home to relax. Back home to rest and on to the next day. Heading up to Echo again today so stay posted for more... -Seth
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2008.12.05
05:33:40
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hello there and welcome to my first blog here on the Screamer website. My name is Seth Hill, and I am a new additon to the screamer team this year. Wanted to let everyone know that I will be writting a blog for everyday I ride this season. That means, normal training days at the mountain, contests, photo shoots the works Ill be keeping an upto date blog of the season. I hope that you can keep an eye on my blog, and follow me through out the year. Hope that these are intertaining enough, and if you have any ideas or wants just let me know. I hope you can comment and let me know what you think. Thanks so much for checking in, and stayed tuned for more to come. -Your new friendly rider, Seth Hill
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