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Joey Dryer Infocus

REELcomp Team — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:45:33 +0000

My name is I am originally from Minnesota and Rode Hyland Hills the best resort ever. Now I live in Colorado and go to school at CU boulder. I ride for Nitro snowboards, Raiden bindings, Smith optics, Dakine, and the Alternative Bike and Board shop. I am also on the CU snowboard team and have been filming for this years Freeride video as well as the Boulder Snowboard Group film. Check out this edit my bro made for me last year with a couple days back home and at Copper.

High Fives Presents the Annual Trains Slopestyle Contest on Saturday, April 10

REELcomp Team — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:25:43 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

High Fives Presents the Annual Trains Slopestyle Contest on Saturday, April 10

Sugar Bowl, CA, March 24, 2010: The High Fives Non-Profit Foundation, Marker Bindings, Smith Optics, Volkl Skis and Sugar Bowl Ski Resort are proud to host the 2010 Trains Invitational Slopestyle Contest on Saturday, April 10 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a truly rider-driven event, featuring top local and pro athletes mixing it up in the Switching Yard Terrain Park. The unique team-oriented format rewards creativity and style in a progressive environment. With music from DJ One Truest and King of Hearts and chicken wings on the grill, this is not an event to be missed.

High Fives is a Tahoe-based 501.c.3 non-profit foundation dedicated to raising money and awareness for athletes who have suffered a life-altering injury while pursuing their dreams in the winter action sports community.

Contact
Roy Tuscany
High Fives Non-Profit Foundation
P.O. BOX 3212
Truckee, CA 96160
(802) 522-9838
roy@highfivesfoundation.com

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FOR MORE PICS AND VIDEO OF LAST YEAR’S TRAINS EVENT CLICK HERE: http://highfivesfoundation.org/flickrgallery/web/media.html
High Five,
Roy

A day with DC Homedawgs

REELcomp Team — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:12:13 +0000

Last week was so dope. Got a chance to link up with Standard Films crew and shoot with Torstein, Halldor and Lonnie. Fresh of the their kick-ass performances at the XGames, Tmo and Halldor were stoked to get in some powder jumping time. For his part, Lonnie had spent four days building and pioneering this huge kicker that you see him charging his cab 5 into.

What went down was nothing short of amazing. Both T-Mo and Haldor killed their hip stye booter and called it day stoked.

Lonnie is a bad-mofo. He sent his shred stick well over 100ft cab 5 and fs7 into his appointed landed. He so stomped his 7 it looked absolutely effortless. Killer Lone Wolf strikes again.

Moments before he hit that thing he yelled out “Haldor” as if channeling his jumping ability,, then proceed to stomp the shit out of his jump.. Insane…

Northstar TransAM 2010

REELcomp Team — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:41:48 +0000

REELcomp was in fact filming the 113 riders at the Northstar TransAM event that took place March 6, 2010. The event started off with an hour long jam, which qualified 40 riders into the finals. Local rider Johnny Brady and women’s impressive Emily Blewitt took top honors. Both Johnny and Emily were awarded with swag and flight vouchers to the TransAM final in Bear Mountain, California. The level of riding at this event was top notch. Check out REELcomp’s edit of the event, and see the 113 riders killing it.

Transworld Trans AM 2010 – Northstar

Men’s Winners
1st. Johnny Brady
2nd Colt Morgan
3rd Sam Elliot

Women’s Winners
1st Emily Blewitt
2nd Stacie Anderson
3rd Jamie Madrid

Pint Sized Ripper Award
Graham Haley

Standout Trick
Fredrick Parry
(one-footed front board)

Celia Miller at The DC Mountain Lab

REELcomp Team — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:35:36 +0000

Hey all you Reel Comp Fans! Just wanted to let you all know how my DC mountain Lab trip was. Reel Comp hooked me up, flying out there and putting my up in a great place to stay! I got up and met up with a shuttle that took us out to the Mtn Lab’s secret spot. They had everything completely catered for us with a huge food buffet stocked by a house chef the entire time so anything we needed was available! Most of the DC team was there as well. Haldor, Devun, Torstein, Jonas, and Andrew were just a few. So it was pretty cool being able to shred a private park with those dudes. They had their tow rope going all day with jumps, boxes, rails, hips, wall rides. They also had an air bag set up in the front of the house that we had to drop in from the deck! So you could go grab a snack, strap in on the deck, then drop and get inverted into the air mat… pretty much the coolest thing ever. I worked on some backs and rodeos. Some kids were trying to throw doubles which was pretty entertaining to watch. Ken Block had few of his Subaru’s laying around the lot all stickered up. Not sure if they were ones he had raced yet but it was sick seeing these racing machines up close and personal. All the kids that got to go to the Lab for the weekend were really stoked on the place.

I also got to go explore downtown Park City one night too. I have never really spent time in park city before and I love the feel of the town. I got to see a piece of priceless Banksy art that was painted on the side of a restaurant from the Sundance film festival this year. If you haven’t heard of him look him up. He’s got a pretty cool story and history behind his art.

I took a bunch of photos so you all can get an inside look at the lab If you ever get a chance to go there its a pretty sweet place! Enjoy! Thanks again Reel Comp

xoxoxo

Celia Miller

Olympic Heritage Rail Jam January 15, 2010

REELcomp Team — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:17:07 +0000

The level of riding at the Olympic Heritage Rail Jam was impressive. Northstar’s park crew once again put together a perfect set up. To ensure perfection Nothstar brought out a groomer before the start of finals to groom the course. Northstar at Tahoe is on top of their park game. With some heavy hitters throwing down to win some cash brought out Cody Boan, Andrew Brewer, Dylan Lynch, Johny Brady, Ryan Kittredge, Ben Rice, Alex Hereford and many others to compete.
Check out the footage:
Olympic Heritage Rail Jam 2010

Results
Men
1st Place Johnny Brady
2nd Place Cody Boan
3rd Place Andrew Brewer

Women
1st Place Danyale Patterson
2nd Place Fancy Rutherford
3rd Place Bella Rodriquez

Campus Rail Jam Tour mobilized by Cricket and Ford – U of A RECAP!

REELcomp Team — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:43:01 +0000

Words: Taylor Murray
Photos: Darcy Bacha
For the full photo gallery click HERE!

The Arizona desert is a weird place. Maybe it’s the 700 year-old cacti, the awkward co-existence of frat boys and gypsies, or the fact that it just snowed more in Flagstaff than anywhere else in the country. Regardless, the crew from the Campus Rail Jam Tour was stoked to explore Tucson and feed their appetite for the bizarre. Check the first Weekly Update video below to see what went down before the event.

With an amazing debut in Tucson last February, the Tour is no stranger to the University of Arizona. The crew was welcomed with open arms as they skated through campus spreading the stoke and making friends with every attractive girl to walk by. Tucson may not be the breeding ground for the next LNP or Tom Wallisch, but the locals sure do love snow. That being said, the crew was psyched to add their own blend of bizarre to the desert and swap sand for snow in the middle of campus.

If there’s one thing learned from last year, it’s that Arizona locals love to skate. So when students walked out from classes to the sight of snow and a brand new mini ramp, it was like Christmas came early to the UA campus.

When the event kicked off at noon, classrooms must have been emptier than a box of doughnuts in a cop car, because over 3,000 kids were on-site enjoying the snow and skate. The UA students must have liked what they saw last year, because over two times as many people applied to ride in the contest. Not bad for a place where most people have never even seen snow! Snow-hungry co-eds flooded the sponsor booths, making custom t-shirts at the Cricket Wireless tent, and entering to win the FordDrivesU Ultimate Snowboard Getaway.

Only two female snowboarders came out to play in the big snowcone pile, and both walked away with more product than they could carry! Kristin Swanson was all smiles and took home second place along with a limited edition snowboard from Ford. Tour veteran, Emily Astiz started things off with mellow slides on the rainbox-down box but soon started eyeballing the 10-foot gap box. With the crowd roaring, Emily flawlessly floated the gap and powered through the box. Needless to say, Emily landed in first place with and new banana traction board from Roxy snowboards.

Emily pushes over the rainbow

(L-R) 1st place – Emily Astiz, 2nd place – Kristin Swanson

For many of the male shreds, the three rails on the new setup were bigger than anything they’ve hit all season. However size didn’t seem to concern the AZ rippers as they attempted to pull out everything in their bag of tricks to impress the judges. Colin Ofloy went into the finals dropping hammers with 270s and 360s onto the gap box. Judges awarded Colin third place and a full kit from Bonfire Outerwear. Second place went to Tempe local, Loren Brinton for his proper 5-0s and frontboards on the kink. At the end of the day it was David Biner in first for his buttery combos and smooth style. David slayed all three rails and was hooked up with a new board from Salomon Snowboards for his effort.

270 to frontboard by Loren Brinton

(L-R) 2nd place – Loren Brinton, 1st place – David Biner (3rd place – Colin Ofloy not pictured)

Skier Alex Gaynor came out on top for the two plankers and walked away with a fresh pair of Coreupt Skis after throwing down stylie 270s on the gap box . Andrew Salter followed closely in second and was rewarded for his efforts with some sick new Bonfire Outerwear. Last year’s winner, Nate Johnson rounded out the pack in third scooping up the Neff x CRJT collabo hat and some other goodies.

pushing two planks through two kinks

(L-R) 2nd place – Andrew Salter, 1st place – Alex Gaynor, 3rd place – Nate Johnson

With the first event in the books, the Galvanic crew packed up the semi, waved goodbye to new amigos and is headed towards Tempe for the second event of the Campus Rail Jam Tour to take place at Arizona State University. The rail jam will be the main attraction of “Devilpalooza” this Friday the 19th. Be sure to hit up www.campusrailjamtour.com to apply to ride and for more info on the tour.

Great things happened and greater things are coming

REELcomp Team — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:29:51 +0000

I hope you all out there have had as good as time as I over the last couple weeks. In Tahoe it was practically summer, which was a nice break from what we got in the last month… but alas it is winter and she is gonna return with a vengeance next week. Ya ya… Got a chance to shoot with Jake and Tresten today, really weird weather but sick riding going down.

As all of the televised capable world knows, Shaun White was stellar yesterday and got a very deserved gold… Ad another million or so to his pile.. Congrats for the insane run.. Imagine if Kevin Pierce was there, it may have been a USA dominated podium.. Heal up Kevin..

Been shooting a bunch and lemme say things are on blast. I really look forward to the return of winter because there is mad potential for amazing backcountry potential. I scouted areas that are literally in my backyard and for some reason, I never looked at. Lemme me know where’s it going down, what’s going on. I will keep you posted on what I know and where things may be headed. Keep looking out for the premiere of our Photo Gallery it is going to be amazing, we got some heavy hitting photogs getting ready to bring some eye candy your way… Ciao for now. Stay tuned.

Celia Miller crowned winner of REELcomp’s First Women’s Snowboard Video Contest

REELcomp Team — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:20:39 +0000

REELcomp is stoked to be sending DC Contest winner Celia Miller on an all expense paid trip to the DC Mountain Lab! The contest, judged by DC Snow Team Rider Kimmy Fasani, was a call to women snowboarders everywhere. Riders had from January 11 to February 16 to submit a short video of their best trick on a park or backcountry jump. The winners came from across North America, from California to Canada.

This was REELcomp’s first women’s contest and we were happy to get such sweet footage from these ladies. These girls ride hard and I’m sure have guys staring in awe as they cruise by. The winner, Celia Miller, goes bigger than most girls (and guys for that matter), and tears it up in the backcountry! She is sponsored by Bolle Goggles, Bula Hats, Evo Energy Drink, Keystone Resort, Betty Rides, Pow gloves, Ogio, and K2 Snowboards.

CHECK OUT THE WINNING BEST TRICK SNOWBOARD VIDEOS:

Celia Miller of Breckenridge, Colorado stomped a HUGE backside 360 in some backcountry powder, by SixEleven Productions:

First runner-up, Charlotte Trundle from Quebec, Canada, shows her spinning skills with this video:

And second runner-up, Fancy Rutherford from Kings Beach, California, showcases her skills at the resort and through the trees:

Want to see more videos of these ladies shredding?

Videos of woman snowboarder Celia Miller

Videos of woman snowboarder Charlotte Trundle

Videos of woman snowboarder Fancy Rutherford

Incredible 3 weeks in Tahoe

REELcomp Team — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:11:54 +0000

The goods just keep coming… It has snowed for the better part of three weeks and it looks as if more is on it’s way. Three weeks ago my son (9 years old) was able to participate in 2 day private lesson at the Burton academy at Northstar @ Tahoe.. Needless to say he was stoked but beyond that he learned a grip of techniques and tricks. The Burton academy is one of a kind thus far and dedicates itself to one on one or very small group instruction. For more info check out Burton’s website and go to Learn to Ride, I highly recommend it for any one wanting to improve their shred skills.

The next two weeks it proceeded to dump and super shreds from all over the globe poured into Tahoe. Got to have some freshies with Mads Jonsson and EJack. Marius Otterstad came rolling through for a brief warm up before he heads out to India then Turkey.. Stay tuned on that one as I will be receiving updates on how that mission is going. Marius of course of broke it off in the Donner backcountry and didn’t bounce before he stomped the trick of the season, dbl cork 10.. Funny thing about that trick,, don’t forget it was David Benedek who was the first to stomp that thang over 5 years ago, now its the trick to know if you have any aspirations of going anywhere in snowboarding. Progression is a funny thing.. Oh yeah and Freddy Kalbermatten was the first I saw stomp it off a straight jump some 5 seasons ago. Back to the future, I guess.

This week brings more snow, more fun and more SHOTS… Speaking of shots, stay tuned for the introduction of REELcomps PHOTO GALLERY.. Ya heard? I’ve recruited some of my photog friends to join me in building a eye-candy photo filled section on these lovely cyberpages… In the works now and it will be nothing short of awesome. This just in, 2ft at lake level over the next few days… If your in the area drop a line. Be stoked to hear from you.. Stay tuned for the winner of out DC mountain lab contest and also details on the Take the Lake contest coming in march.. BIG THINGS in the WORKS.. STAY SAFE and have FUN!!