Red Bull Manny Mania Boston

The Red Bull Manny Mania Am Series had their Boston stop this past weekend. I was on hand to host the event and entertain the crowd. Skaters from all over New England rolled into City Hall Plaza to show off their skills on 2 wheels. There was 64 competitors at the event, and only 4 of them walked away with some cash. Pro skater Tim O'Connor and the crew from the Orchard Skate Shop were there with clear eyes to judge any and all manual tricks. There were plenty of flip in-flip out tricks going down from everyone, but it was Mark Dodd who took away the win and the $500 first place prize. The best trick was changed to the MVP award when New Hampshire skater Matty Johnson shredded everything on the course. The weather was great, the crowd was great, and the free burritos from Chipotle were good too. Big thanks to Seth and Pete at Red Bull, Matt Bagley and the Orchard Crew, and all the East Coast skaters that came out to support the event.

Terry Adams Demo

Red Bull had me come out for the Old Port Fest in Portland ME last week. I was their to announce some BMX Flatland demos that Terry Adams was doing. This guy has many qualifications, like X-Games Gold Medalist, and being voted best in the world twice by the big time bmx mags. The demos were really cool and I learned everything there is to know about flatland BMX from Terrys website and a youtube video that was 5:12 mins long on the basics of flatland. Thanks to Red Bull, Terry Adams, Matt Fasano, and all the people that came out for the demos.

Red Bull Snowscrapers

New York City is an unbelievable place. It is also one of the last places that you would think of for 16 of the best snowboarders in the world to be competing under the lights on the East River. Redbull Snowscrapers was the premier event to be at this season. It was a doublesided hip contest that was built by the guys at SPT. There was 20,000 spectators that came out and watched this spectacular contest. Preston Strout, Tricia Byrnes, and I hosted the live event that was also on MSG TV, and webcasted on Go211.com, and Fuel.tv. There was some speed issues for some of the riders, but there were a handful of riders who figured out that little extra that they needed to boost some serious airs with the New York City Skyline in the background. At the end it was Shane Pospisil who took the $50,000 first place check. Terje Haakonsen won best trick for doing a one footed backside air, but I personally think that the best trick was just dropping in on 90ft in run unstrapped. I want to thank everyone at Redbull and the thousands that came out to watch Snowscrapers.

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.