US Snowboarding Grand Prix Killington

The last stop of the Grand Prix tour just went down last week at Killington in Vermont. I was on hand to lend out my commentary skills for go211.com. The 22ft halfpipe looked to be on the bigger side of that, because it was the largest halfpipe that I have ever seen in person. A lot of the big guns were doing world cups out in Europe to get enough FIS points to qualify for next years Olympic qualifier events. Michael "Goldy" Goldshmidt took the halfpipe contest and the Paul Mitchell progression session was clobbered by my friends from Waterville Valley. 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 12th place were all Waterville kids. Sam Hulbert took down the top spot, and his first big podium finish of his career. Check out the highlights of the webcast on http://www.go211.com/

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