Sunday April 15th was the second annual Monster Energy Shred Show Boarderstyle. This event was created last year and it combines the speed of boardercross with some mandatory freestyle. Competitors race down the course over rollers jumps and boxes with one final kicker at the end where competitors are faced with a mandatory spin.  Imagine going into a jump as fast as you can, knowing you have to spin and then seeing 3 other people flailing through the air with you!  The event was open to anyone so a ton of people tried their luck on the course against Olympians like Justin Lamoureaux and last years winner Jon Versteeg and lets not forget the living legend Terje Haakonsen.  Overall the event was great to watch, fast paced and tons of action. Terje threw a huge tweaked backflip on the last kicker but that only got him 2nd place behind Will Jackways who took home the trophy and the bragging rights that he beat Terje. 

Its Telus Festival time in Whistler and for those who don’t know that means 10 days of contest, events, free concerts and of course parties! This  Saturday April 15th was the first major contest of the 2012 Telus Festival in Whistler.  They started it off with a bang with the Monster Energy Shred Show’s Big Hip Contest.  With $15,00 going to the winner everyone was going HUGE!  The warm weather made the hip a bit sloppy so most people ended up hitting it like a big jump.  Darcy Sharpe Walked away with the $15,000,  Antoine Truchon came in second and Jon Versteeg ended up third.

Here’s NuuLife Cinema’s submission for Intersection last year at the 2011 TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival. The short film follows four of Whistlers popular up and coming photographers and takes you inside their thoughts of a photo shoot. The Photographers: Andrew Strain, Mike Helfrich, Kieran Brownie, Mike Jones.

Intersection takes place on Wednesday April, 18th -Sold Out of Course- It’s a hot ticket around whistler

With only 7 days to shoot, edit and produce a 5-7 minute extreme sports short film.  The only pre-requisites are each team must consist of both a skier and a snowboarder and each film must contain 30 seconds of park footage, 30 seconds of WB in-bound terrain, it must be shot within 100km of Whistler and 75% of all footage must be on snow. Teams will battle it out for the grand prize of $15,000 with each team receiving $1,000 for participating. An 1800-strong audience will enjoy the evening on the big screens in the Conference Centre on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 to find out who will be crowned Best of Show. 

-See you there

Check out some of Last Years Videos.

It All Starts Tomorrow…

Stay tuned for Festival videos on Unofficial Whistler. There is no better place to be during the month of April… Even if you swore off sleep for the next 10 days you wouldn’t be able to see it all. -But you can give it a try- as they say, SLEEP IN MAY 

Whistler Blackcomb still has pow – where as most other ski resorts in North America have begun their closing ceremony complete with beach parities and slush cups.

Here’s a video from last weekend up Joffre Peak on the Duffy. Eliel Hindert and the Unofficial Whistler crew followed Andrew Strain on a walk and ended up at a sweet zone. We built features, hit lines as Andrew shot photo + video. Here’s the shots he captures while “shooting from the hip” 

It’s been tits at Whistler Blackcomb

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The Unofficial Whistler mansion, I mean basement cave … is filled with couch monkeys, soggy socks, stinky boots and wet gloves. What’s also filling up is our Hard Drive. Here’s some shots we dug up and edited together for your viewing pleasure. It features the Brothers Cohn, Eliel Hindert and his morman munchkins from Utah + a few other random humans.

What a Weekend at Whistler Blackcomb The Conditions — All time spring skiing – Blue sky made up 75% of the weekend but the clouds came in today around noon. On Friday … Read More

Locals know the worst thing about Air Jordan is the competition. In order to get AJ untouched you gotta get up early and be almost first in the Peak Chair line up, then once you upload make a B-Line for the AJ mound and hope you beat the Ausis to it. Once in the zone you must quickly catch your breath, ignore the hundreds of people screaming at you from the lift line, and then DROP.

OR

You an hit it on a shitty day and hope you make it.

This was my mistake. Ya see I had always wanted to hit Air Jordan but never wanted to compete with the Australians, British, Kiwis, and Canadians who sideslip into the line. So three years ago on a sub-par day with trace amounts of new snow + howling wind I decided to give’er.

This was a bad move because over the past few days the wind had shaped some (very hard) wind lips in the landing, and removed all the snow off the middle section. “This doesn’t look too bad I thought” -so I went for it-  Bad idea… I got backseat, then launched into the wind lip bounced and hit another wind lip then came to a dead stop. And omewhere in the twisting, truing, bouncing and wind lip smacking I fractured my T12 vertebra.

Circa: 2010

It’s about that time the park skis came out. With still two months left on Blackcomb Mountain some would argue too soon … But not for Dalton Waite, Andreas Unterberger (who spins like a top), Tim Sprague, Justin Jackson and Nick McNutt. Filmed by Maurizio von Flotow. Check out McNutt  from @1:45 in the video -he kills it in the park with fully rockered 194cm powder skis.

There are always freshies to be had on Whistler Blackcomb. Here we find the Surface boys venturing into ‘Bob Ross’. You’ll find it just past the happy little trees, next to their happy little cliff friends. A happy little accident waiting to happen.

For more detailed directions just ask BOB ROSS:

Skiers:

Eliel Hindert, Nick McNutt, Andreas Urtenburger

www.Surface Skis.com