what a day/night!!!
So 120 skiers and snowboarders showed up for Belleayre's Thanksgiving Railjam and 8 of them were skiboarders. The park was open all day for people to practice and at 3pm it was shut down for 2 hours so they could groom it for the main event. At 5pm an open jam session was to begin for an hour and a half. In their normal fashion, Ben and Adam showed up and 4:50.
All the skiboarders held their own despite being termendously out numbered and we were all really happy to hear one of our own actually made the list of 10 finalists. Ben Wannamaker went on to the finals which consisted of 2 runs per competitor. After Ben's second run (butter 450 to 270 on the flat box + 360 switch on the battleship) it looked like the crowd favorite, and only skiboarder in the finals, would take first place. unheard of!!. But we all new that couldn't happen at a comp. with 113 skiers and snowboarders.
After 30 minutes in the bar celebrating the awards ceremony began and Ben was awarded 2nd place along with the accolades of many skiers, snowboarders and fellow skiboarders.
Thanks to everyone who drove so far to spend so little time doing what we all love.
More pics and video to come.
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So 120 skiers and snowboarders showed up for Belleayre's Thanksgiving Railjam and 8 of them were skiboarders. The park was open all day for people to practice and at 3pm it was shut down for 2 hours so they could groom it for the main event. At 5pm an open jam session was to begin for an hour and a half. In their normal fashion, Ben and Adam showed up and 4:50.
All the skiboarders held their own despite being termendously out numbered and we were all really happy to hear one of our own actually made the list of 10 finalists. Ben Wannamaker went on to the finals which consisted of 2 runs per competitor. After Ben's second run (butter 450 to 270 on the flat box + 360 switch on the battleship) it looked like the crowd favorite, and only skiboarder in the finals, would take first place. unheard of!!. But we all new that couldn't happen at a comp. with 113 skiers and snowboarders.
After 30 minutes in the bar celebrating the awards ceremony began and Ben was awarded 2nd place along with the accolades of many skiers, snowboarders and fellow skiboarders.
Thanks to everyone who drove so far to spend so little time doing what we all love.
More pics and video to come.
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