Articles by schmuck
This Thursday, November 29, be sure to catch the FIRST EVER Prototype showing, along with two mountain bike vids (Lights out NSX 5 and New World Disorder 2) at McGill University in Montreal.
Tickets are $4 dollars in advance and $5 at the door. Show starts at 7:30 pm. Check it out!!!
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Jibtech Productions is throwing a Scandalous/Royalty Premiere at Mammoth Mountain on December 8th, 2001.
Everyone knows that Jibtech productions gives away the greatest prizes (free pair of skis just for a funny e-mail!) and they will continue to amaze at the premiere!
For more details, check...
On December 29th, 2001, Newschoolers.com, Unity Magazine, and Blindness Clothing present to you the first annual Blindness-NS-Unity Festival!
Highlights:Premiering Propaganda from Poor Boys Productions
Showing Prototype from SkibumProductions and Evolution from Crimson Posse Productions
Live...
From the publisher: (I typed it out, so any typos are mine, not 3D0's)
Jonny Moseley brings the first trick-based skiing game to PlayStation2 computer entertainment system. Use Jonny, or a host of other profressional and fictional skiers, to master each of the games Slopestyle and Big Mountain...
It all began one night, while reminiscing about skiing’s past and considering its future: The thought of an online magazine. Brought forth was the idea that an online magazine could bring together riders from everywhere, of all ages and of all levels. A magazine that would retain a great...
By NICK WADHAMS, Associated Press Writer
DENVER (AP) - U.S. ski and snowboard officials will heighten security measures for World Cup and Olympic qualifying events this winter following last month's terrorist attacks.
``Travel and security are always things we look at carefully,'' Tom Kelly of...
Event:
The 30th annual edition of Canada's largest Ski, Snowboard and Travel Show.
Dates:
October 11th to 14th
(Thursday through Sunday)
Hours:
Thursday: 3:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Friday: 12:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location...
Jibtech Production's much anticipated feature film, Scanadalous!, is all wrapped up and ready to go! The film, which many are saying could set the benchmark for all future ski films, is set to be shipped by October 18th.
See the trailer...
Matt Chojnacki, on leave from the U.S. Ski Team until such time as the FIS, the international ruling body of skiing, changes its mind on allowing aerial skiers to compete with quadruple flips, threw one of the outlawed "four-by-fours" into the splash pool at Park City's Utah Olympic Park to...
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Doctors have told two-time Olympic champion Hermann Maier to wait until late December before lacing up his ski boots again, dimming hopes that he might be able to compete at the Salt Lake City Olympics.
Maier still won't be ready to ski at year's end, but doctors will...
It was a wet and dreary day, as we set out for Snowjam in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As we arrived, the sky looked like it would pour on us any minute, and the mud on the ground told us it already had. The 6 story high ramp to the 20 foot quarter pipe looked although it was ready for action, with...
The FRENCH version of the 2001-2002 Rossignol Site is now operational. The site can be found here. http://www.skirossignol.com. Remember to choose France as your country.
Hopefully, the rest of the site will be operational soon for those of us who don't understand a single word on the site!
Thanks to a little digging by a ns.com community member (Bitchassphatz), it had been revealed that Volant has in fact NOT closed down, and has just been having trouble securing financing from it's backers.
Although this news is straight from a Volant rep, it must be taken with some caution as...
MAIER BROKE HIS RIGHT leg when he swerved into a ditch Friday evening to avoid colliding with a car that turned in front of him. In addition to causing the complex open leg fracture, the accident damaged so much muscle tissue that he risked kidney failure, Dr. Arthur Trost told Austrian state...
Most of their bindings and boots are on sale including the Atomic Beta Ride boot and the Rossignol Axial 140 Pro turn-table binding, an excellent jibbing binding.
You can also find lots of deals on stuff like bags, gloves wax et cetera!
http://www.mprattesport.com and the sale is only on for a...
The Snow Jam event, sponsored by Molson Canadian has already made two stops, one in Vancouver and one in Calgary. The tour swings east for it's last three events in Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax!
Tickets are $10.21 in advance, and $20 at the door. You can reserve your tickets by calling...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Double Olympic ski champion Hermann Maier, who was badly injured in a motorcycle accident last month, left his hospital room in Salzburg on Friday to take his first unaided walk since the crash.
With the aid of a walker to support his badly-broken right leg, Maier's little...
Fijian Skier Reaches Olympic Heights
By Geoff Young
AUCKLAND (Reuters) - A lack of snow has not stopped Fijian Laurence Thoms from achieving his ambition -- qualifying for the Alpine ski racing at next year's Winter Olympics.
Thoms will become the first competitor from the Pacific Island...
by Mike Jaquet
reprinted from www.freezeonline.com
In another day of X Games firsts, Jon Olsson used technical tricks and super smooth style to claim the first-ever X Games Superpipe Gold today in Aspen. In his first run in the best-of-three run format, Olsson dialed in a flare toxic grab at...
By Sean Mulligan
EXPN.com
Jan. 17, 2002
For 18-year-old Tanner Hall, things seemed to be under control after his first run in Thursday's Skiing Slopestyle event. Following his second run, it looked like the competition was in the bag. Wrap up the gold medal, then go and collect the fat check...