Rail Wars at Asessippi was a great time. The hill and Xtreme Adrenaline did a great job of putting on the contest and it looked like everyone involved really enjoyed themselves.
For us, the day started with the crew piling into the van in the early morning to make the trek out to Asessippi. Luckliy we had a dvd player and Shrek 2 to keep us occupied for the long drive.
Craig, Mark, Kurtis and Stuffed Animal in the van for the drive up. (Plus a glimpse of an 10.11 Class Five graphic).
The contest was a pretty decent setup with a host of riders from around the area taking part. Being called Rail Wars, the setup was your choice of a down-rail or flat-box, and a then a barrel jib.
Craig looks on as Mark does a 270 into the down-rail.
Some of the highlights were: (1) all three of the Class Five riders at the event making it to the finals, (2) Mark showing Kurtis how to tie his bib around is leg, (3) Kurtis missing the finals because he was doing park laps trying to figure out what tricks he should do for the finals (nice work Kurtis); and (4) Mark and Craig taking first and second place respectively.
Young teaches the old. Mark shows Kurtis how to tie your contest bib around your leg.
A fun event that promises to be even better next year. Thanks for the great time everyone!
For everyone in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Class Five is proud to sponsor Rail Wars this Saturday February 20th at Asessippi. The event is being put on by Xtreme Adrenaline out of Regina and promises to be a good time! There are tons of prizes and an after party.
The Class Five crew will be on hand participating in the radness. Look forward to seeing you there.
Class Five Snowboards and Xtreme Adrenaline Boardshop are teaming up to bring you the biggest one-day sale of the year! Class Five Snowboards is making room for next year’s boards and is clearing out their shop inventory. Limited edition snowboards, remaining 2009 boards, demo boards and prototypes are all marked down to ridiculously low prices. To sweeten the pot, Xtreme Adrenaline Boardshop is offering an unbelievable 50-70% off all outerwear in the store!
But wait, there’s more! Just come down to the sale and you’ll get a sneak peak of next year’s Class Five boards a full year before they hit stores! See you on Saturday, February 27th, at Xtreme Adrenaline Boardshop, you’ll be glad you came!
After a week of blue bird days the finals for the Canadian Open in Calgary were fogged out. Even though the weather wasn’t the best some pretty insane riding went down. Class Five rider Mark McMorris rode well in the finals but unfortunately had a fall in his run that held him back from scoring higher. Mark finished in 9th place.
Here a few photos of Mark and Craig McMorris from the week leading up to the event.
Mark being interviewed after the finals.
Mark Boardslide.
Craig over the channel.
Mark back rodeo.
Thanks to Mitch Crowshaw for snapping the last three photos.
Be sure to check out the live coverage of the Canadian Open this weekend. We are super stoked that our rider Mark McMorris qualified in 3rd place in the slopestyle semi-finals today. That puts him in a great spot going into slopestyle finals on Sunday. Just go to opensnowboarding.com and check click on the Canadian Open to watch the event live. It will be airing on Sunday at 11am MST.
Better yet, if you live in or near Calgary head on down to COP to check the action out first hand. Go Mark!
Kurtis has just started to get back on his snowboard again after having knee surgery. You know that he is going to be jibbing it up as soon as possible. For now check the part below.
With all the snow that we have had here in Regina it was only a matter of time before someone built a mini-pipe in their backyard. I know I have been thinking about it for a while.
Kurtis told me a last week that he was starting to pile snow with plans to construct a pipe about 12 feet wide, with coping, a tombstone and a pole jam. Well he pulled it off and the first session went down tonight.
The pipe road really well with a pretty good set of tricks being thrown down. Now that it is up and running there is sure to be more sessions on it throughout the season.
If this mini-pipe looks like fun to you… I can tell you it is. Get out there and build your own!
Mark McMorris took 1st place at the FIS World Cup slopstyle event in Calgary yesterday, bringing home $11G’s for his results. Mark put down a clean first run that was untouchable by the rest of the competitors. Nice work Mark! Contest details can be found here.
This is sure to boost Mark’s confidence as he preps for the Canadian Open next week in Calgary. Big thanks to Adam Burwell from Burwell Productions for snapping the photo.
Loads of attention has been focused on the technical and dangerous tricks in snowboarding. Much was probably garnered from the unfortunate fate of Kevin Pearce in a qualifying run at the Copper Mountain Grand Prix. Many people have posted opinions and of course the media have chimed in too.
Class Five Super Turbo Team rider Mark McMorris gives his perspective in this video clip from Freecaster.
