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.

Comrades doing the Dew!

On August 1/2 Mountain Dew is hosting the Battle For Supremecy - Dew Hut Jam at Buller.

The dealio is that 10 companies put up a team of 2 riders to session a fully Jibbable hut which will be set up on Bourke Street.

Comrades Jarryd will be riding for the Nitro team, and Tyson will be representing for Rome.

It's going to be a sick event so if your round you should definately come to check it out.. if not photos and or video will be posted soon after the event.

Check out the dothedew blog for more info http://dothedewblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/battle-for-supremacy-dew-hut-jam/

Comrades in snowboarder mag again!

This week Snowboarder mag issue 2 droped, and guess whos in it? none other than Comrades Charlie Steinbacher and Sam Murphy... both on the same page... as a matter of fact the photo's where both taken on the same day... weird?
Mr Steinbacher himself also has a little check out in there... a good insight indeed.

Anyways be sure you grab a copy for yourself and have a look...



Also dont forget to peep the other comrades blogs... links are over there to the right...

peace

SM

Ny Addisjon å Kameraten

If you can't understand Norwegian it says 'new addition to Comrade's' (at least thats what it's meant to say).

Yep, Norwegian Kim Rune Hansen is now a Comrade, and we're excited to not only have a flippin sweet rider amongst us, but also our first international Comrade!

You may have seen Kimmi in Burton flick 'It's Always Snowing Somewhere'. [Clip Below]


Also make sure you check out Kim's Website @ http://kimrunehansen.com/

WELCOME KIM! :)

Tyson + Rome = Goodtimes

We would like to be the first to congratulate fellow Comrade Tyson Pollard for getting sponsored by Rome Snowboards. Good on ya mate! You deserve it.

Home

Over the last week in Mammoth the weather started closing in. We got about 3 days straight of rain, and to add to this the pipe cutter broke. Considering the parks had already closed the first week of out trip this left us with very little to do. So we made the call and decided to come home early.

30+ hours of travel and we finally arrived home to Aus. Sam, Nate and Charlie flew Reno> San Fran > Sydney... but Jase and Jarryd got the milk run. Parting from the other guys at San Fran the then went > LA > Sydney > Melbourne.

Now we await the Australian season, which by the look of the webcams today, isnt too far off.

Ouch!

Unfortunately on Sunday Comrade Jason Maxfield dislocated his left shoulder for the 7th time. We wish Jase a speedy recovery and hope to see him back on the hill ASAP.

Friend of Comrades Kendall Brown also cracked some ribs and headed home early. Get well soon KB!

Mammoth MTB

Sam – Jason – Nate – Jarryd – Charlie (Van Dutie)

So after a few days on the hill it was time for a day off.
However rather than just chilling by the pool and taking in the sun we piled in the Red Rocket (The beautiful maroon beast pictured below), rented some mountain bikes and headed up the road to the top of Mammoth.

We did about 4 runs from top to bottom, each time trying to find new trails and pedalling up a storm to make each other eat dust... which there was lots of.
Jarryd claimed the first bail... and the second one. Going off the trail and over the handlebars. We all had a rad time bush bashing and trying not to lose it as we hit little patches of snow but after a couple of hours we were pretty beat so we packed it in and headed to Pita Pit.

Who Shot Ya!?

Over the last week Nate has spent about 3 days taking photos with Tyler Henderson, a US photographer from the East Coast. They got a whole bunch of incredible shots in the Mammoth Main Park and Pipe and down at the hot springs. The photo's will be in the next issue of Tranfer Magazine, so be sure to check it out.


Here's a little video of Nate shredding over the last week or so.