Digital Snowboard Magazine

DSM were fortunate enough to be invited to the DC Lab. What we saw is enough to make any snowboarder cream their pants. Boxes, Rails, Walls, Gaps, Log jibs, Stair cases, table tennis, motor bikes, crossbows, shot guns, slot machines, beer, remote control sleds, bullets, clay targets, spa, the list is endless.
Ryan Tiene impressed us all with his fine display of sliding sideways, Todd Hagg snuck in long enough to slide a 20ft missile and Richard Heggarty looked way to comfortable with a loaded shotgun in his hands.
Some great footage and shots were nabbed whilst we were there, look out for it in our upcoming issues. Also DC will be releasing a team video come September, it will be good.

Saturday the 16th of April,
The sun was shining , the crowd was smiling and the ice was melting.
The set up consisted of a flat, down, flat up box thing then into a another flat
box. The riders took awhile to get there legs back, but once they did, the game
was on. Standouts included Andrew Fawcett, Jye West, Saph Farrell .
Ryan Tiene had the moves that impressed the judges and ended up with an easy
$400 for the day of play.
You can see all the action in Issue 2 of DigitalSnowboard Magazine due in
stores mid July.

Utah home of the worlds first KFC.Not only is it the worlds first but it’s ALL YOU CAN EAT.
Thats right for only $6.49 you can chow all the Kurnells finest until your heart cant handle no more.
Look out for A How to ” shorten your life by ten years in one sitting” in our upcoming issues. More grease than you can handle.

After 3-years of preparing Australia sent 9 snowboarders to Torino, which was the biggest team of the aussie camp. They consisted of Mitch Allan, Torah Bright, Andrew Burton, Holly Crawford, Ben Mates, Emily Thomas, Damon Hayler, Emanuel Oppliger and Johanna Shaw.

They all represented strongly in each of their disciplines, but Damon and Torah showed us that they are at the top level, finishing 7th and 5th respectively.
For the full lowdown on what went down, checkout out the bonus 56 page mag with this years issue of DSM. It features interviews with the athletes and a whole lot more. (the mag will soon be available online)

Here are some highlights of what the “athletes” had to say….

”…. I’m not just a snowboard bum, I’m an olympic snowboard
bum.” DAMON HAYLER, editor of http://www.best-online-casino.ca

“”…..my run is the most technical and the most progressive run in female snowboarding, and it can only get better.”
TORAH BRIGHT

“…all I’m thinking about, sun surf and getting driven into the reef by a heaving lip, should be a load of fun.” ANDREW BURTON

“…..it was off its tits, I was pushing people out of the way to walk out in the front row, it was insane hearing everyone screaming.”
MITCH ALLAN

Channel V and Milo got together to put on this event under the roof at Victoria Market. The in run was high in the pigeon filled rafters, bird flu galore. If you got past the pigeons you found a the standard ledge rail ledge setup. The crowd was large, due to the fact that the Veronicas were blasting out their hits and shaking their booty for the live tv thing that the whole shabang was put on for.

Robbie Walker, Chris Boadle, Max Cookes, Mikey Williams, Marcy Baker, Dan Beset, Marcus Boadle, Saph Farrell and Laura Williams all put on a great show for the local groupies. Highlights would include Saph Farrell’s fronstide lips to nosepress and frontside lips to back tails. Robbie Walker fakie nollie backlip tail same way out. Max cookes with switch backside 270 , same way out.

In the end it was the crew was twindled down to a top three. Mikey Williams, Max Cookes and Chris Boadle. All three stepping it up a notch , vowing for the $2500 winner takes all cheque.

Robbie Walker, winner takes all

“and the winner is…….Robbie Walker” , confused , dazed , shocked was the general feeling. As Robbie had not even made the top three, but yet some how had taken out the event. Judging who knows how it works.. but I’m sure Robbie Walker doesn’t care.. he took the $2500 and went back to Mammoth for a few weeks.

The 2006 season, started on a strong note over the weekend.
With 30cm falling a week prior to the weekend, followed by a cold week of snowmaking, Things were looking good for the queens birthday weekend.
4pm Saturday the 10th and the clouds rolled in, Yeh hah another 30cm fell in Thredbo over night and into the Sunday morning. Snow levels were down to 1400m , things were looking just like winter.

Come Monday, I was lined up for first lifts on a crispy cold blue day in Thredbo’s Village. 5mins later I was pointing some chicken and carving up a storm on the mid season like conditions. Nick G, Saph Farrell, Gus Stleon, Woodie were there with bells on. High noon, leg burners and Merrits with a lot more to come.

This was set to be round to the Melbourne event that had taken place 3 weeks prior. The weather loomed to be a shocka, but the rain came and went only during the the setup phase.
Most of Australia’s best jibbers were there, except Melbournes winner Robbie Walker who was still in Mammoth spending his prize money and having great old time.

The setup was wack, high impact into a firm packed landing. This combined with a crew of 30 local wankers , booing, throwing lemons,pears and telling riders that they sucked. Had the vibe between riders a liitle over the whole affair.

After about one hour of some pretty average performances, the riders were twindled down to a top 10. This is where things got stepped up. Nathan Perry rode well, as did Chris Boadle, Dan Besetti, Ryan Tiene, Gus StLeon and Charles Beckinsale. But in the end Max Cookes had the moves to win over the judges and was granted $2500 for his efforts.

All in all not a good event for Australian Snowboarding, organizers of these event need to work with the riders, so that setups work and the crowd get the best possible performance out of the riders.

Saturday the 3rd of June, 2006. Balmoral Boards Courtyard.
This is where the industry , riders, retailers and friends got a sneak preview of what is to come in this years Digital Snowboard Magazine.

The dress code was retro ski gear, which made for some great viewing. Damon Hayler and Ryan Tiene were definatley highlights in that department.

8pm saw the feature film debut in front of an impressive turnout. If crowd reactions are to gauge by , then you to will love the 25min feature film. Stand out parts included Ryan Tiene opening section, Max Cookes, the young Jake Mcarthy and the closing section of Robbie Walker.

All in all a great night , free booze, good tunes and great snow flick.

The greatest wonder of action sports meets one of the seven greatest wonders of the world in an historic, record-breaking initiative, DC Shoe’s multiple-world-recording holding skater, Danny Way has received the blessing from the Chinese Government to jump over the most iconic of world landmarks.

Last month in front of a 50 strong press gallery, eight television stations and delegates from the US and China, Danny Way confirmed his team will be building the world’s largest skate structure, the Mega Ramp and that he will indeed launch over the only man made structure visible from space. This feat will be out of this world.

The nearly 40m tall vertical ramp (over half the height of the Sydney Opera House) will eclipse his previous world-record-titles and gold-medal-winning performance from this year’s X Games X. Danny stands to set new records for distance, height and speed off a ramp and out of a quarter pipe at the Mega X Event. This is a world first and has left the international skating community amazed at the sheer audacity and magnitude of the proposal. Danny is wholly respected within the community, although he is in an elite class of his own, a pioneer, and a consummate sportsman.

The Mega X Event will combine two days of music, fashion and actions sports competitions, culminating in Way’s jump over the Great Wall.

“This jump continues the progression of the sport and highlights skateboarding as a growing international sport to the world’s biggest nation.”

Jindabyne, the home of the bush pigs… not anymore. Jindabyne is now home to the rail event that has set the bench mark for years to come. The set up consisted of a 3 story in run , plenty of set up to a flat down ledge ( with side grinders ) , a down rail and down flat down ledge. All this was set up behind Old town centre in the carpark.

The format was open, so with 101 riders to get through, plenty of jibbing went down. 4 open mens heats , a women’s division , and junior mens section were contested during the day. All providing some great thrills for the local crowd. With judging , comes controversy. Clint Allan was robbed not to make the finals, as was Happy Dave. Who went from being Happy to not so Happy Dave in a matter of 30 secs as they read out the eight finalist.

Red Bull rails, 2005

As the sun set the finals kicked off, Cheyne Southwell rode well considering the state of his pants ( will somebody please give this man some pants ) , Mikey the lady killer Williams entertained the crowd with an array of trickery. Lucas McGra was smooth , Greg Reed and Dylan Champion both utilized all the features. Shay Paxton was ever so calculated, Robbie Walker was Killing it.
But in the end it was the Mt Buller kid , Max Cookes who impressed the judges to take home the money , and one huge concrete trophy. Ah yeah there were also some two plankers there, but I don’t remember anything about them. Hopefully one of them nutted them selves for crowd value.

THE RED BULL RAILS 05 RESULTS

Mens Open
1st- Max Cookes
2nd- Robbie Walker
3rd- Shay Paxton

Women’s Open
1st- Abbi Bright
2nd- Amanda Beckinsale
3rd- Laura Williams

Junior Men
1st- Jake Mcarthy
2nd- Sammy Griffiths
3rd- Zac Lloyd