SNOWBOARD TEAM UPDATE

The Source Team has been busy!

Well yeah I guess it’s almost that time. Like it or not, the season’s been slowly drawing to a close for the past month, and our riders have been scrambling finishing up filming for their respective projects. Let’s see who’s been doing what:

DEVUN WALSH & KALE STEPHENS:
Devun and Kale have been having a pretty buck-wild season out in BC. Currently finishing up their parts for Whiteout films yet to be named bangerfest, these boys are scraping for the final shots of the season. Check out their website to check pics and blogs to keep up to date. Make sure not to miss the new teasers too, coming in both strappin-heat-gangsta and ultra-sensitive-modern-man soundtrack flavours. Check the Whiteout Films website for more info: www.whiteout-films.com
Also not to be missed is the Wildcats sequel to Lil’ Bastards, appropriately coined “Still Bastards.” Check out the all night chugging mayhem, photos, teaser and general flippin mad shit details at www.the-wildcats.com.

TJ SCHNEIDER:
Since hitting Japan in the new year, TJ’s been on some crazy misadventures. While driving out to Alaska filming for Capita’s new movie “First Kiss,” TJ and crew gave up hope and ended up stopping in Terrace, BC instead… For you geography fans (fun, I know), getting from Calgary to Terrace is no small feat. From the sounds of things, the trip was a complete success despite the setbacks. TJ’s also been seen down at Superpark 11 in Keystone, CO. The general consensus was that Superpark heralded its signature wild style craziness. Check out the teaser for Capita’s First Kiss at http://www.eprodux.com/capitalism.htm

JED ANDERSON:
Little Jed is still so little, it’s crazy. I swear this kid has been 15 for like the past 5 years. Jed’s been off the hook this season; he seriously blows me away every time I see him ride. Killing it on all fronts, Jed’s brought home cash in almost every slopestyle he’s entered this year. He’s also been getting it done in front of the camera, working super hard with Defective Films filming for “Child Support.” Check out the teaser at www.defectivefilms.com

DWAYNE WEIBE & RYAN HALL:
These two have been working together a lot this year and I’m not going to say they’re rail nerds, but they are quite smart when it comes to handrails. Basically everytime these boys bring a shot over to look at, you’re left looking super shocked and they just look at you and say “I just wanted to destroy something beautiful.” I think they’re going goth, but hey we’re friends and we support them anyways. Check out their make-up faces and trenchcoats in sandbox’s new release coming soon at www.sandbox.com

Okay I was kidding they’re not goth they’re G’d up from the fee’d up but that’s what makes it funny right?

MIKE SUDERMANN
Sudermann’s been riding strong and traveling lots this year with trips to Quebec, Golden and Superpark. Off to a super strong start filming with Kevin Sansalone’s new Sandbox release, Sudermann decided to try to stomp a 65 foot front 9 on a 70 foot mega-pop jump at Superpark and bruised both of his heels real badly. You can catch him walking around town making “oooh, eeeeh, ahhhhhh” noises with every step; quite disturbing really. Check out some quick shots of Mike in sandbox’s teaser at www.sandboxland.com.

NASH LAJEUNESSE & GRAHAM FOY:
Yeah I know, Nash is having a ridiculous break-out year. For anyone with their ear to the ground out here, they probably already know this kid is having a pretty Captain-Insano type season. Another rider filming with Sandbox www.sandboxland.com, Nash has been on a tear this year, seemingly going after every rider’s job out here. Well that’s all I gotta say about that. Nash shreds and Graham films and occasionally gets his wicked shred on too. Graham’s signature style has left a wake of about 3.724 million Graham Foy wannabes ripping around the slopes and I don’t think Graham could be more stoked. Use your minions for good Graham, not evil. Graham’s bummed cause he broke the top of his arm last week, but he’s stoked cause you’re gunna go check out his production company, Childe Media, and watch his teaser for his new move The Infidels at www.childemedia.com.

MERCEDES NICOLL:
New team addition Mercedes Nicoll’s had a pretty banger run of late. She placed fifth at the US Open halfpipe, and then quickly flew back to Canada to completely school everyone at the Canadian National Halfpipe Championships. In a day and age where halfpipe riding seems so monotonous, Mercedes’ super laid back and smooth style is as relieving as a kitten rolling a ball of yarn in a spring meadow… and who doesn’t find that relieving? I do. I guess Flow does cause too they just turned her pro. Booyaka shot!

BREANNA STANGELAND & RAEWYN REID:
These girls are ripping and they’re better than you so it rules but it kinda sucks? Don’t believe me? They’re better than me and I’m WAY better than you.

PAUL GONZALEZ:
Paul’s been battling a knee injury all year, but has just been paged by Doctor Love with clearance to get deadly. Wasting no time, Paul’s gotten out to whistler and is putting the boy-band lifestyle shots aside for some savage sled ripping backcountry craziness. You can see Paul’s Rocky-esque fight back up to glory in the new Sandbox release. Check out more info at www.sandboxland.com.

STEPHEN BURCHILL:
Burchill rides for Coor’s Light and that’s pretty much all I have to say about that. Not just settling for waking up in a puddle of his own filth every morning and partying all night, Stephen has gone the extra mile and has put some mean stuff together this year. Apart from taking home a thousand beans at the Bigwhite Slopestyle, Stephen’s also been filming with Apro films for their new production E.F.F.E.D and drinking enough Coor’s to kill a large barnyard animal. check out the teaser and more info at www.aprofilms.com.

THE REST OF THE CREW:
Man, and you know the rest of the Source crew’s been rippin it up too:

Tyler Trafford is maybe one of the most exciting local riders to watch. Yes, that’s right I just said that. That just happened! I don’t really know another dude who can stroll through his local parks and throw down maybe the craziest shit you’ve seen in person first-try-no-warm-up-bitch! Although Tyler would never say that cause despite being quite the danger man, he’s still real modest. You should see him ride rails too, my goodness. Okay I’m jock riding. I’ll stop; let’s move on shall we?

Jared Anderson’s been taking some time outta his crazy schedule of snaking pretty much every major contest practice around to get out sledding in the Golden backcountry. I just hope he doesn’t start smelling like gasoline.

Sid Bryant is making sure that footlocker keeps completely sold out of tall tees in the greater Calgary area, and is likely the most gangsta crip to grace COP’s pipe this year.

Well that’s gunna just about do it. Thanks and we’ll have a summer update soon for you. A lot of these fine people will be coaching at your favorite neighborhood summer snowboard camp, so we’ll peep you posted who’s goin where.
Until then, keep your head up and your nose higher!
Love,
The Source.

NEW SUNGLASS BRANDS ADDED TO ON-LINE STORE

Dragon and Anon make their debut at The Source Online!

Joining IS Design in the online store are two eyewear behemoths: Dragon and Anon Optics.

Unveiling their Spring/Summer 07 collections, there’s a lot new with these brands:

Dragon has added new styles such as the Dusk and GG to their already diverse line. The Dusk a clean frame built with mass appeal in mind- in short, if you don’t know what to get, just rock a pair of Dusks! The GG is a much more stylized sunglass, focused on the kids who rock and exude that through their personal style.

Anon has looked to their signature styling to pull out the stops when designing this summer’s line. With heavy hitters such as the stylized Rufus to the slightly more conservative Crusher, Anon’s got the spectrum covered with signature style.

Check them both out in the webstore and keep tuned for more product updates!

SOURCE RIDERS RETURN FROM SUPERPARK!

This week, Source riders TJ Schneider and Mike Sudermann made the trip down to Keystone, Colorado to partake in the big air craziness at Snowboarder Magazine’s Superpark. Now in it’s 11th edition, Superpark is the site of wild-style air wizardry and circus rail hijinks, and this year’s event was no exception.

The stories are slowly flowing, but for now check out this shot of Mike from the snowboardermag.com website:

http://www.snowboardermag.com/freeze-frame/flash/superpark-11-day1/

NISSAN UK SKATE TV COMMERCIAL

Check out this ad from Nissan UK for their new urban SUV the Qashqai:



It’s an amazing bite of Girl’s “Yeah Right” skatetrix antics and is easily the best use of skateboarding in corporate advertising in the past 15 years.

Looks like some ad execs at Nissan might have their heads half screwed on.

IS DESIGN SUNGLASSES NOW ONLINE!

The Source is pleased to launch its online sunglass selection with the introduction of IS Design.
IS Design is known for their on-point aesthetic and design - keeping your game tight and your face looking tighter!

Click here to shop online for IS Design sunglasses.

SOURCE RIDERS PODIUM AT CANADIAN NATIONALS!!!

3 SOURCE TEAM RIDERS MEDAL AT THE 2007 HONDA CANADIAN NATIONALS HALFPIPE AND SLOPESTYLE. March 2007 24&25, 2007-Canada Olympic Park, CALGARY AB.

COP was the site of this weekend's 2007 Honda Canadian National Snowboard Championships. In addition to crowning a new Canadian National Champion, over $15,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs. Men and women competed for junior and senior national championship titles.

Saturday was the Telus Halfpipe, and admist super warm weather and slow snow conditions, Canada's best came out Firing. Starting out with the ladies, Source Rider Mercedes Nicoll took home 1st place with her smooth frontside 5-backside 5 combos, and Breanna Stangeland took home the junior national title with some smooth style and clean 540-540-handplant combinations at the bottom of the pipe. On the men's side, Source rider Jed Anderson made finals, but couldn't put anything together and finished off the podium.

Like Saturday, Sunday's conditions were no help to the riders for the Ripzone Slopestyle. That didn't stop Jed Anderson, who's wild lines left him on the podium in second place for both the Junior and Senior Slopestyle events. Jed's run consisted of a backside 50-50 to backside 3 off the skate-style hubba ledge into a backside 720 to frontside 540 to switch backside 900 through the jump line. The Source's Breanna Stangeland hooked up second in the ladies junior and senior divisions with some clean 180s through the entire course.

A big congrats to our riders for a job well done!

TJ ON YOUTUBE

TJ footage. He's the first rider in this vid.

STREETWEAR NOW IN

Spring is in the air and new clothing shipments are dropping into the Source from LRG, Volcom, Zoo York, Element, Circa, WE and more. Update your threads by coming by the store or order online - we'll ship it to your door and you'll be the first and only on your block to be wearing the latest stylee streetwear.

CANADIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS THIS WEEKEND

CHECK OUT SOURCE RIDERS AT THE CANADIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS THIS WEEKEND!
Canada Olympic Park, Calgary, Ab.

Be sure to check out most of The Source team at this weekend's Canadian National Snowboard Campionships this weekend at Canada Olympic Park. The festivities this weekend will include the Halfpipe event on saturday, followed up the the Slopestyle event on Sunday.

Source Riders in action this weekend include:
Mercedes Nicoll
Jed Anderson
Breanna Stangeland
Nash Lajeunesse
Raewyn Reid
Stephen Burchill

See you there!

Way to go Mercedes!!!!

SOURCE RIDER MERCEDES NICOLL @ 25th ANNUAL US OPEN HALFPIPE!
March 18, 2007-STRATTON, VT.

This week, Source Rider Mercedes Nicoll clawed her way through the halfpipe qualification rounds to shred in the finals at the 25th Annual US Open.

Mercedes' 3rd place qualification earlier in the week solidified her spot in the weekend finals where she took home 6th place among the world's best!

TJ SCHNEIDER IN JAPAN

TJ SCHNIEDER NAME MIP @ ALTS SLOPESTYLE!

March 11, 2007-ALTS, JAPAN.

This week, Source Rider TJ Schnieder took home the MIP award for Most Impressive Rider at The Slopestyle in Alts, Japan. For his efforts, TJ took home 100,000 YEN and a big smile.

To convert YEN to CDN cash go here:.

SOURCE RIDERS PODIUM AT SLOPESTYLE!

SOURCE RIDERS WIN/PODIUM AT CANADIAN OPEN SNOWBOARD TOUR SLOPESTYLE!

March 11, 2007-Calgary, AB.


Amidst ridiculously warm and slow conditions, Source riders Jed Anderson and Breanna Stangeland fought through it all to podium in their respective divisions at the Canadian Open Snowboard Tour Slopestyle event at Canada Olympic Park.

As most of the men were having problems just clearing the jumps, Jed was busy winning: blowing everyone out of the water with backside 7 to frontside 9 lines through the slushy jump line.

Breanna locked down second place with some smooth style and good, clean consistency from the qualifying rounds through to finals.

Congrats to Jed and Breanna, who took home $1000 and $350 for thier efforts.

SOURCE RIDER RAEWYN REID WINS AGAIN

SOURCE TEAMRIDER RAEWYN REID WINS LAKE LOUISE SLOPESTYLE
March 3, 2007 - LAKE LOUISE.

Today Source team rider Raewyn Reid took the podium at the Lake Louise Slopestyle. As some of the boys were getting hauled off by the meat wagon, Raewyn shredded the ridiculously sketchy high down rail up top and then dropped a clean front 3 off the big bottom kicker, good enough for first place.

TERJE SETS HIGHEST AIR RECORD!!

TERJE HAAKONSEN SETS HIGHEST TRANSITION AIR RECORD
March 3, 2007 - OSLO, NOR.

The Arctic Challenge always seems to be the site of ludicrously amazing riding. A few short years after Heikki Sorsa broke the quarterpipe highest air record with a backside air, Terje Haakonsen stepped up this year to not only break the record, but shatter it by doing a backside 3.

Oh yeah, everyone else rode real good too. Click the link to witness.

Terje's record breaking air.

BIG ASS SALE ON NOW!!

Big Ass Sale on NOW!! Snowboard gear, denim, skate shoes! Great Deals at all 3 locations and online!! Volcom, Burton, Ride, Circa, DC, spend big save big. Hurry while the selection is still good!!

SNOWBOARD WORLD CUP TOUR HITS CALGARY

This Friday and Saturday the World Cup drops into C.O.P. Top half pipe jocks from around the world are jonesing to get their hands on the $100,000 cash prize money. Here's the schedule:

March 2 TELUS Half-pipe Event
Half-pipe 0800-1600 Qualifiers
Half-pipe 2000-2100 Finals

March 3 Nissan Half-pipe Event
Half-pipe 0800-1600 Qualifiers
Half-pipe 2000-2100 Finals

Considered the highest level of snowboard competition, the Nokia snowboard FIS World Cup tour makes 21 stops in 13 nations throughout the winter season. Competitors will earn essential World Cup points which are used by each nation as criteria to select their national and Olympic Snowboard teams.

Visit the World Cup website for more: www.snowboardworldcup.ca

DOWNTOWN RAIL JAM THIS WEEKEND

If you haven't doused yourself with Old Spice man-scent lately then you can check out the lastest spray WHILE watching a rail jam right downtown on Stephen Avenue Mall. This Saturday see pro snowboarders on trucked-in snow starting at 3:30...and maybe win a trip to Whistler.

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GOAT SEX

Greg Jackson gets familiar with the Sunshine goat while Source staff pose with spanky new Burton gear for next year.

BURTON 2008 PRODUCT DEMO

After a stylin' ride in the SOURCE LIMO, Source staff enjoyed the hospitality of Burton Rep Aaron Corrigan Monday and Tuesday at Sunshine. Testing out next years killer bindings and boards on decent snow conditions made it more than just another day at the office. Photos: Angel, Steven, Donny, Greg and Chris get down.

SOURCE RIDERS PODIUM @ BIG WHITE SLOPESTYLE!!

Saturday February 10 - 2006 BIG WHITE, BC

Source team riders Stephen Burchill and Raewyn Reid made the 7 hour drive to Big White worth it by both hitting the podium today. Stephen ripped the men's category to shreds and walked away with $1000 and first place, while Raewyn Reid was nice and let someone else win for a change and took home second place and $350. Remember the 10% rule guys!!!