Northstar At Tahoe

I rode Northstar this past week, and they got some serious snow. It was pretty much bare when I rolled in, but over the course of 2 days they easily got over 3ft of fresh snow. Danny Garrity, Seth Morrill, Brian Kelley, and I rode some closed stuff with some waist deep turns. I rolled in from the Grand Prix for an Oakley meeting, and brought the snow with me. Great conditions, great friends and great sushi. It was nice to take a trip and not have to watch everyone ride. Cheers to Monkey Fairy and the SPT folks.

-Nelson

US Snowboarding Grand Prix Copper CO

I recently just got home from announcing the Sprint US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Copper Colorado. Copper is one of the coolest resorts that I have ever been to. They also have a Woodward training facility that looks really good. The event itself was really great and I worked with long time announcer Mark Sullivan. Louie Vito won the pipe contest with a pretty crazy run of two 10's, two 9's and a straight air. On the Paul Mitchell Progression Session side of things, I was stoked on Tim Humphreys and Kyle Clancy. The set up of the jump was a bit weird with a cliff drop style kicker, and then the jib was a big hitching post. It was also dumping snow the entire time I was there. I want to give a shout out to Eric Webster, Mark Sullivan, Todd Richards and Andrew Mutty for making the event fun.

-Nelson

Oakley Rev Tour Portsmouth

Oakley is known for throwing huge lavish parties, and the Rev Tour stop in Portsmouth NH was no different. The Rev Tour is a super clinic for Oakley dealers and VIP's. There were over 400 people at this stop and everyone recieved free food, drinks, and goggles. Trouble Andrew played for what seemed like 3 seconds, but I was running around keeping people happy and missed most of it. I got on stage and gave away some outerwear kits for the best 80's outfits, as well as a seasons pass to Waterville Valley for the best hair cut. Everyone had a blast and the event was off the hook. http://www.oakley.com/

That's It That's All Premier

In my lifetime, there are 3 snowboard videos that have changed how I looked at the sport. The first was Subjekt Haakonsen, the second was Simple Pleasures, and now That's It That's All. I was up in Burlington VT hosting the premier for the movie, and I was blown away by the riding and film work that was done by Curt Morgan. Travis Rice really hit his mark with the choice of riders and locations to film. Big thanks to Curt, and everyone at Red Bull and Quicksilver for having me host the premier.

Nelson on Fuel TV this week

If you havent checked out The Adventures of Danny and Dingo on Fuel, you should. Its funny and entertaining, and thats what I am looking for in a half hour program. I had a couple clips in episode 2 when Dingo and I were announcing the Union Square Street Sessions in NYC. Check it out if you get a chance. If you dont have Fuel TV, you can check it out on http://www.hulu.com/

http://www.hulu.com/the-adventures-of-danny-and-the-dingo

Enjoy!

-Nelson

Red Bull Soap Box Philly

I recently hosted the Red Bull Soap Box race in Philadelphia. The production was huge, and a crazy amount of people came out dispite the hurricane that was going on. I was one of 4 hosts and I did the pre-interviews of all the teams with Jenny Johnson from NECN. I was posted up at the judges stand during the event with Preston and Steve (local radio personalities) Kevin Robinson, Ricky Oyola, Brianna from Real World Hollywood, and Gary Gardella. Even though I was completely soaked head to toe, I had fun interviewing the judges after each craft and pumping up the Philly crowd. Huge Props to our other hosts, Dave Farra and Jerry Bernardo.

Nelson At The Soul Bowl

Last week was pretty rad. I was out in Coolifornia commentating the Soul Bowl Event in Huntington Beach. The legends contest was pretty much the most surreal thing that has happened in my life. I know that most people know me from snowboard announcing, but the reality is that I have been skateboarding WAY longer than I have been snowboarding, and I have spent a good portion of my life dedicated to skateboarding history and knowledge. So you would guess I was pretty stoked to be involved with a world class bowl contest. Legends such as Steve Caballero, Lester Kasai, Mike McGill, Tony Magnusson, and Duane Peters were shredding the 12ft elbow style bowl. Pros like Sandro Dias, Omar Hasson, Brian Patch, and Chris Gentry absolutely lit the place on fire. The highlight for me was interviewing Dave Duncan and Eddie Reatagui about how they started the DAGGERS!!! This was a highlight in my announcing career. It was a pleasure working with Eric "Tuma" Britton and Steve Swope during the commentary.

For those of you who got to check out the action, thanks for the support.........

Nelson Wormstead

NEW SPONSOR!!!

To go along with the other best brands in the world (Redbull, Oakley, and Ass-Industries), I have currently signed on to represent SPT clothing for this coming up winter. Big thanks to Monkey Fairy and Gunny!!

GO BUY SOME SHIT!!

Manny Mania

Last Saturday I announced the Redbull Manny Mania. This was an open event, so a ton of people came out to both skate and spectate. After weeding down some of the pre-lim heats, there was some seriously good skating to watch for the semi's and finals. Some of the highlights were Marshell Heath's switch manny tricks. These included switch flip in and out of mannys and switch manny to switch varial heelflip out. Nate Jackson killed the A Frame manny pad with a bunch of sick shuv-it combinations, and Kyle Burroughs showed off his balance with using the a frame as one feature going up and down with precise balance and technique. The winner at the end of the day was Dillon Buss. This kid came up from Cape Cod and shredded everything in front of him. Every manny combination was thrown down, and he looked outside the box and got very technical with flip in flip out combos, and grind in shov-it out combos. Congradulations goes out to Dillon for killing it, and a huge thanks to Matt Fasano, Pete Brinkerhoff, Mary Walsh, the MSI crew, and of course Red Bull and Embasi for throwing down the contest.
-Nelson

New York City........

I was just in NYC hosting the Redbull Experiment for Kevin Robinson. This was a pretty crazy production and there were thousands of people in central park to watch Kevin try to break the world record air on a bike. Things got dramatic when he was having some trouble riding away from the 20ft plus airs. He became a victor and broke the current world record of 26.5 feet by 6 inches. I had a great time and got to meet David Letterman and Talib Kweli. Congradulations to Kevin for a spectatcular event. Thanks to Redbull and EXPN for having me host the event.

-Nelson

Welcome to my blog

Hey everyone.

I am apparently a little behind the times, because everyone has a blog now. I am going to give it a shot, and show people what I have been doing and talk about my travels.

thanks a ton

Nelson