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“Actually I only gave him 300$.” Danny Sheehan on jommy smith win-ning the 500$ purse at the ralston

cup.

QUOTES

“I thought I won but whatever” Goblin on the ralston cup

“I’m going to hang it on my wall” Austin Hironaka on the spenc dog

story.

“been checking the mail box every day with a boner in my pants” Jean Bon on Starfishs late arrival in

Switzerland.

“I never wanna drink that shit again, ever” Spenc dog on moonshine.

“makes me proud to be a snow-skater.” mark edmundson on the bu-

yers guide.

"Thank you for bringing this to our attention. In answer to your que-stion, no, Snowskating is not an

Olympic event. Although, from this web site, they appear to take this

sport very seriously. I have passed your inquiry on to the Vancouver

Organizing Committee for further handling, as this group appears to

be based out of Canada.Ingenious use of Olympic mountain to infer Olympic association, oy

vey". CAROL GROSS of theUNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEEon

nxnw’s blog on snowskate.ca.

The Bonzer PiPe ClassiC is the

largest unorganized snowskate event in the world. i call it an unor-ganized event because organized events usu-ally have things like registration, waivers, numbers, placing, judges and some kind of for-mat. The Bonzer PiPe ClassiC has none of these things. no prizes, no risk managers, pure skating by snowskaters for snowskaters. a vir-tual snowskatopia were the best skater changes every minute because the best skater is the one having the most fun.

By Jack Hitchcock

The event is held annu-ally and seems to last for several daysand things really heat up around the time of the ralston Cup. skat-ers come from all over to hang out, skate, talk shop, party and have fun. The scene is almost like a snowskate trade show, with industry heads from across the country meeting to talk about designs and the future.

The night i was there

it was like a who’s who of snowskate kingpins. Adam Bennett, Paul Elkins, Jake Tomlin-son, Goblin and Danny Sheehan just to name a few. some skated, some filmed, some just drank beer and encouraged the groms. The grom scene was off the chart. There was about a dozen little shredders there, boys and girls all below the age of 15 and all ripping. i’m talking about ripping not like cute little kid

ripping, ripping ripping. They all had shuv-its most of they could do kickflips and they had jump and jib lines all over the yard. By the end of the night at least 3 of them were sponsored by Pioneer. The groms were not the only ones there ripping the big dudes were taking things to a new level. Goblin and Jake pretty much put on a demo. Clarke #3, Donny Green, Jommy Smith, Cam Dog, Ted Amell, Pat Bonzer and a bunch of other guys were throwing down tricks all over the yard for hours.

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Jake

“not like cute little kid ripping, ripping ripping.”

Bonzer Pipe Classic“The largest unorganized snowskate event in the world.“

By Jack Hitchcock

These guys just seem to feed energy off of each other and because we don’t all get together that often it was a feed-ing frenzy of progres-sion. somebody would do a line, i would set up and the crew would just at-tack the feature. Then on to the next feature. Jake came up with the

goblin

“Paul elkins was ridiculed relentlessly by the Tahoe

crew.”idea of jumping off the roof over the sidewalk and onto a tranny that nobody could even see. The Rocker Team will pretty much do anything Jake says, so within about a half hour a jump and runway was con-structed on the roof and something gnarly was gonna go down. The ses-sion was on Jake, Ted and

Clarke started launching of this sketchy jump, off the roof and into the yard. i don’t think any-body landed it. i don’t even no if it was landable but is always exciting to watch a skater commit to a line that just does not look good and crash, turn around and try it again. Unfortunately the only really gnarly that happened was i watched Ted fold his knee about 90 degrees to the side. it was gnarly but not the kind of gnarly i had hoped to shoot. Ted was out for the rest of the trip but the session raged on elsewhere in the yard.

as the night went on the focus changed from snowskating to talk-ing about snowskating, snowskating design and distribution. Paul elkins was ridiculed relent-lessly by the Tahoe crew. I believe on his flight home elkins suffered through and agonizing re-appraisal of his entire design.

later adam B. put on a drinking demonstration for the groms. More like how to drink like a grom. First adam passed out in the snow next to one of the jibs later he some-how made his way out to the street for a quick nap and finally ended up passed out on the couch with a bunch of sugar wired groms rallying around him. i offered a free subscription to sTarFish to any of the groms capable of light-ing the Florida Powder execs hair on fire. Adam woke up before any of the groms got a chance. obviously it was time to leave.

The Bonzer event is the most disorganized event in snowskating. it also one of the funner ones i have been to. Definitely worth the pilgrimage from anywhere. see ya’all there some time next year around March.

Story Tim Stanford

3/28-3/29 Winter storm warning in effect!

The Olympics

normally, if there's a sign of a slight wind

or a snowflake, the Hur-ricane ridge road would be shut down for the day. But not last week-end. This was the last weekend the rope tow was running and rumors of 100 snow skaters would enter The olympic national Park to par-ticipate in the "strapless Weekend" snow skating contest held at hurri-cane ridge. There ended up being about 20 to 30 snow skaters total for the 2 day strapless ex-

travaganza. The week-end started off Friday with a nice, cold 30 pack of Busch and sunny skies. after several road shots of slightly crusted hot pow, the 10 of us helped almost legendary snow skater and park creator Brendon shovel, rake and sculpt the 10 main features of the terrain park. Talk of a winter storm warning was brewing and everyone was a little skeptical about the road even opening on saturday.

at 9:00 aM saturday morning the road was open and conditions were less than perfect with snow, wind and fog. The contest consisted of a 1 hour park jam with a 1/2 hour final for the best 6. snow skaters from Canada to Cali-fornia blasted huge airs, grinded corrugated pipe and sessioned a volcano tire jib. When it was all said and done, Tedly Amell won the first prize of a brand new lib Tech snow skate pro-to type with c2 power Banana

(rocker between the feet and camber under both feet) second place went to Jake Tomlinson and at 52 Years old hold-ing down the 3rd place position was rob skala. The evening was topped off with a skate session at ridge loc, Jeff "hendo" henderson's ramp

Then came sunday, the season ender which proved to be a bender. Blue skies and 7 inches of fresh. The day started with a free riding pow-der snarf feast as snow

Jordan Armstrong

“The weekend started off Friday with a nice, cold 30 pack of Busch

and sunny skies.”

skaters did several road shots down hurricane's east facing bowl called sunrise. The actual contest kicked off around noon with a Chinese downhill powder race down the south West fac-ing bowl better known as Poma face. Jordan armstrong straight shotted the face and plowed his way to victory, followed by Jake. Being a local i have to laugh... no one knew it was going to be a 1/2 hour hike out.

next came the almost legendary Baked slalom. With a squirlly run through the trees it was all about holding on and making it through the course. in the most gnarly section race fans posted up, poured mimosas and pounded brews to say the least. every time some fell, the motley crew attacked with an artillery of snowballs forcing some racers to quit the race and join the party. The contest ended with a series of best tricks, prizes and a raffle. Many laughs, and much stoke went down at this contest and proved to be a great season wrap up at The ridge.

results of the almost legendary Baked slalom -

1 Jake Tomlinson 27.882 Clark hurlbut 28.133 Jeff henderson 30.324 alan Gerlach 31.755 Ted amell 32.667 Jordon 33.078 stanford 33.359 Dustin 34.5910 Brendon 34.88

Powder Downhill-Jordon armstrong

saturday's snow skate Jam -

1 Ted amell2 Jake Tomlinson3 rob skala

Many thanks to the whole hurricane ridge staff especially steve, Craig , Frank at north By northwest surf shop, Brendan and girl, Fitz, ethan, Pete and Mike at lib Tech and the whole group that helped make this event a success..

oh yeah - For The reCorD: iT is le-Gal To ConsUMe alCoholiC BeVer-aGes in a naTional ParKit's hard to beat a beer in the moun-tains.

Allan Gerlach

Rob SkalaPhoto by Dane O.

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cup

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By Jack Hitchcock

honestly, i really did not wanna go to the

ralston Cup and i tried to get out of it every chance i had. The ral-ston Cup is the biggest event in the snowskate world, a timed race and a slope style event at sierra Tahoe with $1000 in cash prizes and tons of other prizes. how

could i avoid such and event?

Why would i want to?

Well, there was the obvious reasons, i had a couple of cracked ribs so i couldn’t even skate, we

had like 3 new feet of new snow at home, i was broke, the organizer of the event who was giv-ing away $1000 owed me money and was refusing to pay me, the event had absolutely no media budget and apparently

nobody would be taking photos but me. There was other photographers but not one of them would let sTarFish use their photos. i felt like i was being asked to come down and do my job for free, actually less than free, i would also would

“how

could i avoid

such and event?”

goblinGoblin goes huge, it’s a shitty photo but really it is huge.

not as huge as Jommy. Jomi’s head would have been cut off but you have to wait for The interview issue to

come out before you get to see those photos.

be paying for everything myself.

Then there was the death threats i had been receiving from the Pio-neer snowskate Team. Would i get the shit beat out of me just for show-ing up? on top of all that i new sean D. would be down there. sean is the only person to actually steal money from sTar-Fish therefore it seemed inevitable that quite a few of us would make fun of him.

one thing i have learned about doing business

with Californian’s is to get the money up front. hon-estly i was sur-prised when after Jommy smith won the slope style sheehan actually gave him cash. i figured Sheehan would have said something like “i’ll mail you a check

sometime in the next few months” or “the checks in the mail”.

on the other hand adam, Jake, Craig , Kurt, Gob-lin and Clarke would be there. if i could avoid bankrupting sTarFish and getting the shit beat out of me by the Pioneer thugs it could potentially be a pretty fun trip.

Paul elkins called from Colorado and said he was going. rocker Trucks bought me a plane ticket and it was official. Like it or not i was going to Tahoe. No use fighting it I figured...

so there i was, stand-ing in some typical small

town gas station some where outside south lake Tahoe. it was like 7:30 in the morning Carke #3, Goblin and myself all waiting in line each of us with a 12 pack of beer and a few doughnuts in our hands. Provisions secured we headed down the road to sierra Tahoe. sierra is a perfect snowskate mountain, parks sun-shine and lots of inter-mediate runs. it is also located directly across from ralston Mountain and is the stomping ground of the ralston snowskate Team.

i grabbed my camera gear and headed into the lodge and registra-

Donny Green has always ruled. his ollies rule a better photographer would have captured that ruling.

Qualm

Donny Green

“There was the death threats i had been receiving from the Pioneer snowskate

team”

tion. The ralston Cup had everything that the Bonzer Pipe Clas-sic did not have. after the night before’s de-bauchery the scene was almost shocking. i felt like i had gone to sleep at a Thrasher skate rock concert and woke up in the Mall. The ralston Cup had it all, tons of ski patrollers, registration, liability waivers, more

“The ralston Cup had every-thing that the

Bonzer Pipe Classic did not

have.”

liability waivers, times, runs, a chair lift, groom-ers, outrageous entry costs, outrageous food costs and most impor-tantly cash. Cash is the best way to get a bunch of skaters to act like a bunch of jocks.

The course was essen-tially a bunch of table tops varying in size from about 45 feet to about 10 feet. a properly motivated skater could hit four or five table tops in a row. There was also a few jibs set up but i remember thinking they should call this event “table top style” not “slope style.”. Goblin and Jake rallied around the course jumping everything in

sight. off almost every jump one of them would go off it and then the next rider would one up whoever had gone first. it was awesome, like just watching progression.

Unfortunately for these two veterans who were used to duking it out for first and second it became obvious pretty quick that there was a new force to be reckoned with.. a third person was following Jake and Goblin as they tore around the park. That person was 13 year old Jommy smith from south lake Tahoe. as Jake and Goblin would ride around one upping each other Jommy would lurk behind and school

Goblin stuck this back-side 180 ollie. i don’t

know who actually won the best trick contest

because i was not paying attention but this 180

should have won.

i have no idea who this dude was because i really wasn’t paying attention. he did this trick like three times

right in front of me. it was sick.

goblin

Some dude

“By the end of the event it was pretty obvious to everyone Jommy had won it.

he was the table top master.”

them both. This kid had all of the tricks that day and he had them all big , smooth and fast. By the end of the event it was pretty obvious to every-one Jommy had won it. he was the table top master.

other notable perfor-mances were put on by Clarke #3 in The World, Donny Green, and Qualm. ironically event organizer and judge Danny sheehan placed himself in 5th. if the judge wants the podium the judge gets the podium. let’s not waste time putting to much thought into it.

There was also some kind of race being held that day. really, it was pretty silly. a timed race through cones that were about three feet apart. The set up looked almost identical to a 1960’s skateboard slalom. The race was timed, so sheehan couldn’t rig it. Jake won and i think that pretty much covers the race.

actually, that pretty much covers the whole event. Jommy won the money, Jake won the race thingy, i got sunburned, i got a bunch of shitty flat light photos. You got a shitty story with i a re-ally shitty ending. i guess you get what you pay for.

There was a few jib features. Craig Fauria matched his pants to the rail for this shot.

When a real photographer is in the budget you can see more photos of Jommy. Till then you have to

wait until the interview issue comes out

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Didn’t Happen.By Logan Triplett

Where should i start? Well, that’s a question i’ve been asking myself for

around eight months now. Truth be told, i still don’t know where to start with this thing. and for that matter, i don’t know where to end. in short, this entire project was an entire blur for me. You are probably wondering what the hell i’m talking about by now. Sit back, relax and let me fill you in.

around this time last year, a friend of mine Bjorn r-G (amateur for Premiere snowskates at the time) came to me with an idea. Basically, he wanted to try and make a high quality snowskate production. When we first started, we didn’t really know what to expect. The idea was to create a five

or so minute short promotional video that looked really nice, and call it good. We could have all of our friends in it, and it would be Bjorn’s last sponsored season, as he didn’t feel that he was connected to premiere in any way shape or form. We began one weekend by filming a “hype” promo. The promo consisted of Bjorn standing in front of a gigantic stair set, and then him being revealed as he pulls down his bandana, obviously ready to skate the humongous set.

To be honest this promo was a complete joke

“sit back, relax and let me fill you in.”

Phil smage

although we did plan on making a short production, we had created this little teaser to simply kill some time on a weekend. i liked the way it turned out, so i ended up posting it on the premiere forums. it was here that we first started to get some flack for it. People began to take it way too seriously. at this moment i was like, shit, probably shouldn’t have

done that, oh well. While some people heckled us, others saw potential. soon after i received an e-mail from alex Blais, owner of ambition snowskates, wanting to help us in any way shape or form. at this time i sat down with Bjorn and said, “either we make this all the way, or we don’t make it at all.” From that point on things changed from the 5-minute promo, to what

would be snowskating’s first documentary.With a new goal and direction in mind, we

began by searching for more recruits. Blais was nice enough to help get any of his riders down that wanted to join. Bjorn began by recruiting alan Gerlach. alan, pro for ambition snowskates, is an amazing rider. People often comment on how much style the kid has. Well, this is very true; he is probably one of the most stylish snowskaters

ever. however, alan is so much more. his level of creativity far surpasses anyone in the snowskate world today. To be honest, he is one of the very few people that is doing what he is doing. alan has opened an entire other side to snowskating, and for this, we should all be greatly appreciative of him.

alan was very excited to join in on the endeavor, and with a phone call later, we had our first pro on the project. Bjorn next enlisted Phil smage. Phil was a little harder to persuade but took alan’s word on the legitimacy of what we were doing. i don’t blame him for being skeptical, as in all reality i had not even released as much as a montage for snowskating.

Phil is interesting in the fact that you would never guess him to be a professional snowskater, much less one of the most legendary (if i can call him legendary). Phil rides at a level that no one can really touch. Everything he does is flawless, and one step above the last trick he did. he also is one of the funniest people that i have met. not a day goes by where Phil doesn’t talk about his favorite food: subway. seriously, i think he eats it everyday, which actually causes problems between him and alan, as alan thinks, “he could make a better sandwich at home.” Phil takes offense to this, and the

“To be honest this promo was a complete joke.”

pole jam allan gerlach

two often end up in an argument.

once Phil and alan were on board, things really started to take off. although no one but alex Blais and a few other people within the snowskate world (thank you Jordan armstrong) thought we had any type of legitimacy, it was comforting knowing that we had two of snowskating’s biggest and most diverse pros to film with. For weeks on end, Bjorn and i began planning for what would become the winter of hell.

Filming officially started in Butte, Montana. alan and Phil spent all night driving from rail gardens, but still managed to make the drive. Our first session was at a nine stair that

came out of a tall chain link fence. This is where I first saw the level that both Phil and alan were riding at. They both hammered out tricks in no time. it was at this point that i realized, “hey, we could actually making something that didn’t suck.”

The next few weeks were full of adventures and frustration. i can recall a few instances where Bjorn, Phil, or alan would put so much into a trick, that it would leave them almost in tears when they couldn’t do it. it was awesome to see people putting so much into what they were doing. This pushed me to work harder and harder, and probably a little too hard for my own good. some

days we would be so tired from waking up so early that we would get to the spot, skate, and leave before even realizing what we had done. Things were a blur, but it was good.

With about a month under our belts, and Phil already back home, things began

to slow down a bit. not by choice, but by necessity. instead of being extremely cold and snowy (as is the norm for winter in Montana), the state began to warm up, and instead of gaining snow we were losing it, fast. This posed a gigantic problem, and i began to stress. now i was worried that we would never be able finish what we had started. Failure is not a good word when you are potentially half way through a season. First of all, its’ not a good word for your sponsors who are well invested into you by now,

“i realized, “hey, we could

actually be making something that

didn’t suck.””

Allan Butters

Allan Butters

and second of all, its not good for your riders who already invested half a season into you. Despite this, we decided to do what we could. This meant a lot of resort snowskating and mountain footage. honestly i think alan liked this better anyway. Truth be told, alan can snowskate on a snowboard park better than most snowboarders can.

Weeks went by, and things began to get even more stressful. The entire project had lost its sense of fun. We were all exhausted, and didn’t know if what we were doing was even going to be all that good. alan left late February. We all talked of coming back in the spring and finishing up, but by the looks of the weather, it wasn’t going to be a possibility.

Weeks went by, and the snow began to melt. so much so that i began to get calls to skateboard film. This was the last thing that i wanted to hear. Then when all hope seemed to be lost, the snow began to fall. At first it was only an inch, then two inches, then pretty soon a foot. a

foot turned into two feet, and then three. We had snow, and about damned time. later that day, me and Bjorn made the calls, and a spring break trip was planned. it would be Phil, alan, Bjorn, Cam (our photographer), Max Konopatzke, two Canadian ams, austin Welter, Mitch serbu, and myself. We chose to travel to Kalispell Montana: a larger MT town that both Bjorn and i had grown up in. That way we could not worry about wasting our time looking for spots.

everyone made their way to Bozeman. it was, as they say in jock sports, “crunch time.” alan made his way in “the gas saver”( a nickname we had given his saturn). Phil on the other hand had to be pampered, so he was flown in. A half-hour off the plane, i took Phil to a handrail while we were waiting for Bjorn’s car to get fixed. Not only did he hit the rail, but he threw a quick kick flip front board down it. at this moment, i knew that we would be safe. everyone’s batteries were recharged, and ready to get out there and finish what we had

started.The first few days

of the trip were a bit of a struggle for heat. although we had all of this snow, it was spring, and the snow was fairly soft. Bjorn had also had a rough time on the 30 stair sized wooden rail we had gone to. he took

about 40 falls, and ended his sesh after trying to clean up his landing, by falling on a gigantic boulder. We soon began to realize that we could only snowskate in the morning and at night. From this point on we started to stack footage again. With

Byorn r-g

“Bjorn, Phil, or alan would put so much into a trick, that it would leave them almost in tears when they couldn’t do it.”

night sesh’s in full effect, the entire crew was just pushing themselves, trying to get whatever they could out of that night’s session.

Probably one of the coolest parts of the trip was the creation of what we called “the sliver.” That day we traveled out to my father’s ranch where we found a gigantic telephone pole. We pulled it out with some heavy machinery and then proceeded to work on an obstacle that we would pull into with a six wheeler. The completed obstacle consisted of

a telephone pole that was elevated, one side more than the other. one side rested on a seven-foot snow pile, while the other was on a two or three foot pile. We then had a jump and a tranny landing. Basically, we would pull in, hit the jump and grind up the pole and land. after about eight hours of building we all took a break, and later returned. We spent about 3 hours pulling extension cords into a field and lighting the obstacle. By the time we started hitting it, it was around 11pm.

after hitting it for a while, we soon realized how dangerous it was. everyone took a good fall, and for once i was almost worried for everyone’s safety. But at four aM with a trick under everyone’s belt we decided to call it quits.

The rest of the trip went really well. The two Canadian kids killed it, and gave me hope for the future of snowskating. They

brought a “younger” style to the project.

after a week of dealing with slush, it was time to call it quits. Phil flew out, along with the Canadians. alan, Bjorn, Cam, and i all left for Bozeman. The drive home was one of the best i’ve ever experienced. i slept most of the way, and just let it all sink in. although i had no clue if it was going to turn out, at that point, i didn’t give

Allan Gerlach

“The entire crew was just pushing themselves, trying to get whatever they could out of that night’s session.”

a damn. it was what it was, and we worked hard. hard enough, that i was going to be happy even if the film was shit. so where do i start? and better yet, where do i end? Well, even after writing about the whole thing, i still don’t know. i guess, in reality, we have only started, and have a long road of new experiences ahead of us. i think a better question is what did we get out of this? Well i think that the answer would change depending on whom you would ask. For someone like Bjorn, for instance, he jump started his love for snowskating again, and even found a new home for a company he loves: ambition. For me, it was an amazing opportunity where i made some new life long friends, had some fun, struggled, and

learned. and now, i have a 40-minute video to look back upon and remember what we did, and how it all went down. honestly, that’s more than i could ask for out of any project, way more.

Be sure to check out the full Free hD version available online at http://vimeo.com/7129969

special thanks to all the people I filmed with this year, Jordan armstrong, and Bjorn r-G

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