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Scotty Do Good.

As you may have read in our previous post... or if you havent had your head in the sand for the last few weeks... you would of heard that Scotty James, at 16, competed at his first Olympic Games on Wednesday the 17th. Scotty came 21st in the Halfpipe event, which is a pretty impressive result, only four places from making semi-finals. So on behald of the rest of the Comrades I would just like to take this opportunity to congratulate Scotty - we're real proud of you buddy.

You also would have heard of Torah Bright (Scotty's training partner / defacto big sister) winning herself the gold medal in the womens event. This medal was well deserved and the first ever medal won for snowboarding in Australia. Torah has done us.. and all of Australia proud.
On this note a big pat on the bag is due for Ben Bright who coached both Torah and Scotty.

Also a big well done to Holly Crawford and Ben Mates who cam 8th and 17th respectivelly.

JW

SCOTTY JAMES QUALIFIES FOR GAMES (hey that rhymes)

Yes that's right, Comrade Scotty James did it. Finishing in 13th place at the FIS World Cup in Calgary yesterday easily sustains Scotty with enough FIS points to ride at the Olympics for halfpipe. This is the best possible scenario since the devastation of Nates injury. What this means is that if Nate is unable to compete at the games Scotty (at the age of 16) along with Ben Mates will head to Vancouver next month, this is surely to be a life altering experience for the youngest Comrade.



Scotty your an absolute champ! Do us proud buddy!

The Comrades

Not so good news.

As most people would have heard, be it on the grapevine or in the Australian media, Aussie Olympic Team member and Comrade Nate Johnstone injured himself in Otsego Resort, Michigan.

Nate was learning cab double corks into an airbag at the resort earlier this week and one one attempt landed one awkwardly leaving him with a fractured fibia (ankle / lower leg). Now without speaking the obvious it is unlikely that our friend Nate will be able to compete in the games, but hey crazier stuff has happened. As Ben Mates (who was with Nate in Michigan at the time) put so well on his blog 'It is a huge bummer for Australian Snowboarding' but 'he will be back bigger and better. Nate will be well missed at the games, it certainly wont be as exciting for us to watch, that's for sure.

Here is a photo poached from Matesy's blog of Nates ankle.


If there is a silver lining to this devastation it would be that comrade Scotty James is now able to qualify for Nate's position. Scotty just needs to finish up in the top 19 places in the next world cup in calgary. Good Luck Scotty!

Keep your chin up Nate, we hope you have a speedy recovery so we can ride together soon!

The Comrades

'check out Ben Mates Blog @ http://www.benmates.com/

Fresh Blood.

Hi everyone. We have a new comrade by the name of Patrick Davis - Meehan. We have been riding with Patto (a.k.a The Big Man, a.k.a Onyx) alot over the last year or so and he has really stepped up his riding. Being that he is riding sweet and the fact that it is pretty difficult not to have a good time with Onyx around, we thought it was a good time to make him one of us. Keep an eye out because I expect big things from this one.

Here are a couple of bad photos from Pattos' facebook.




Check out Pattos website @ http://www.patrickdavismeehan.com/

JW

Colorado...

This week Tyson, Jarryd and Jason arrived in Colorado, USA and will be riding Breckenridge and other resorts in Summit County. On top of this Nate, Kim and Scotty are traveling a bunch as well, so stay posted for regular blogs.

However Charlie and Samboss are at home in Jindabyne recovering from knee and shoulder reco's, so we wish them a speedy recovery.

The first Northern Winter blog update will be up soon. So don't forget to check back.

Dew Hut Jam TV

Hey Hey,
The video series for the Mountain Dew Hut Jam has been released.
There are a few shots of Jarryd and Tys so check it out.

If you want to see the rest of the videos in the series (total of 9) check out the Do The Dew blog @ http://dothedewblog.wordpress.com/

[Note. In video 007 Team Nitro (Jarryd and Darragh Walsh) are mislabeled as Team Rome (Tys and Cohen Davies) and in video 006 the first shot of Team Rome is actually team Nitro]



JKW

p.s. Hit up the COMRADES group on Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16408513666&ref=ts

Meet Fred

This is Fred.
Fred is the freshest face of comrades thanks to the creative works of one Sam Murphy.


Look out for Fred on Comrades' boards and apparel soon!
And check back here at the comrades blog soon for an 09 Aus season summary.

Peace

Rip Curl Freeride Pro

Last week the Rip Curl Freeride Pro was held on the Bluff up at Thredbo. It is one of the funnest comps on in Australia and Nate and Jarryd were both there representing Comrades!!!

The first day (wednesday) was pretty average with rain, wind a very poor visabilty, but both of the comrades qualified for finals the next day.

The weather was a fair bit better on thursday, but not perfect. Nate had 2 awesome runs, throwing down 3's off the rock drop, a switch back 5 off the hip and in his second run half cabbing an awesome rock butter down the bottom of the bluff. Jarryd kept it a bit more simple with a 3 off the hip, gapping the same rock butter Nate hit in his first run and hitting the rock butter in his second.

Nate and Jarryd's solid riding paid off with Nate taking out 1st place and Jarryd tied up for 3rd with Pete Long... Ben Mates pulled up 2nd.


Check out the official video @ http://www.ripcurl.com.au/?2009freeridepro

Hut Jam

So on the weekend Tys and Jarryd did the Mountain Dew Battle for supremecy.
The set up was crazy. starting with 2 down bars at the top, then a picnic table and a tyre bonk leading into the infamous hut.
There were a fair few options for the hut, you could gap it, gap to the downside of the roof, ride up and down the roof, hit the box-downbar, and the list goes on.

Congrats to the Quicksilver team who took out the event, and the Burton team who took out best trick.

Theres a video on the popmag website @ http://www.popmag.com.au/videos/ (you might have to scroll down a bit). We will post some pics as they come in. And wil lgive you a heads up when the event will be televised.

Peace.