Sessions Log Jam is taking place on March 14th at Boreal Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe.

Registration is now available online at www.sessions.com for .00 per entry plus discounted lift ticket purchase. Online registration will be available until Wednesday, March 10, 2010. On site registration will be at Boreal on Saturday, March 13th, 2010.

Discounted lift tickets are available for all contestants, ages 19+, for 13-18, for kids 5-12.

Register early to make sure you can get in.

Email contests@sessions.com with:
1. Contestants Name
2. Age & DOB
3. Division: Snow, Ski, or Women’s
4. Address
5. Sponsors

Our good friends over at Brighton are putting on the second annual JAZZ JAM this upcoming Saturday. Heard last year was a blast. If you are in Utah be sure to check out this event!

If you are in Montana make sure to check out this event!

For all you entered in Log Jam here is event schedule!

The 1st annual Shred with Sessions Day took place this past Saturday and Sunday at North Star Ski resort. The event was an amazing success with over 75 snowboarders and skiers showing up to meet, hang out and ride with the Sessions Team. We arrived at North Star on Saturday to find over 8 inches of new snow on the mountain so we spent the morning riding Lookout Mountain and the stash. We met up with another group of kids for afternoon runs in the park and stash.

Sunday greeted us with warm temps and sunny skies. It seemed as though the nice weather brought the people out in droves. We all met up at the Sessions tent at ten and headed to the park. It’s pretty cool to see a pack of thirty people cruising through the park hitting every jump, bump, rail and box that stood in their way. At the end of the day legs were tired, boots wet, stickers gone, autographs signed and everyone had huge smiles on their faces. Thanks to North Star, Wahoo’s and 92.3 for being a part of Shred with Sessions and a special thanks to everyone that came out to Shred with the Sessions Team!

Thank you to our sponsors: Wahoo’s Fish Tacos, 92.3, and Northstar-at-Tahoe!

See ya next year!

March 1st, 2010
By Brett Butcher

Last week was the busiest of the winter so far. It started off with Nial Romanek, Kyle Miller and myself taking a trip to Santa Cruz to visit the new Sessions offices and do an autograph signing at Wahoos Fish Tacos to promote "Shred with Sessions" event held at North Star this past Saturday and Sunday. Once all the product was handed out, the posters gone and our belly’s full with tacos we
headed back to Tahoe with reports of a foot of new snow in Reno. Usually this means the Sierras got hit hard but this storm was different. Only a few inches fell over the mountain passes. So it was off to Reno to shoot some rails and other features with Andreas Gidlund, Kyle Miller and Nial Romanek for a couple days.
Another storm hit us mid week but this time the white stuff fell in the Sierras. Or goal was to hit the Forth Of July jump. Mack Dawg, People and other crews have made it famous. I have always wanted to hit it but you have to be on it to beat the sled necks. The best way to go about hitting this jump is to go out the day before the weather breaks and build it in the storm. It took about four hours to break trail to this thing and another three to build it. We put it at about 90 to a 100 feet to the landing. Everyone got shots so it was a very successful day!
Check out the slide show.

February 24, 2010

Our thoughts and love go out to CR and his family after a tragic fatal fall at Squaw Valley USA this afternoon. We wish family and friends the best.

R.I.P. CR Johnson

Behind the scenes video of Tahoe Dangerzone’s feature on CBS 13 News Sacramento that aired Super Bowl Sunday. Shot on location at Boreal Mountain Resort, featuring Nick Visconti, Joshua Parker, Brent Oftedal, Danyale Patterson and Brett Butcher.
Please head over to www.tahoedangerzone.com to check out episode 13!

Filming and editing by Tim Bradley.
News footage courtesy of CBS 13 News Sacramento.

If you are in Southern California you should make it up to Mt High and watch Sessions riders Andreas Gidlund, Ian Thorley and Taylor Carlton compete for a chunk of the 25,000 cash purse!

Check out this Video clip sent to us by our Friends from China. It was aired on Chinese National TV as part of a 25 minute segment on snowboarding in China. The video was on 15 channels and had 300 million viewers.

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ2NzYyNzY0.html

Tara Dakides, Brett Butcher and Billy Flick show you some of the new 2011 Sessions pieces. Check out the video on the Sessions Blog or easyloungin.com!

This weeks question is from Aaron Parker to E-Man Anderson:

Since boarding is all about having a good time with your bro’s, who is your favorite friend or group of friends to snowboard with? Where and why?

Thanks,
Aaron

What’s up Aaron? For me, boardin is just going up the hill and meeting up with whoever is around. It’s good to shred with different people. If I had to pick one or two peeps that where my favs to grind with I’d have to say Brian mcclatchy and Graydon kavanah. Mega high speed laps in the blackcomb park on a sunny spring day with any homies is fo sho what’s up.
Every day I go snowboarding is my best day of snowboarding.... Love it like your own mother.

E-man

Erika Vikander and the Shred Betties staff checked out the Sessions 2011 outerwear line at SIA 2010. While a lot other companies were playing it safe for the 2011 season, Sessions stepped it up, with some fashion forward designs. Our favorite: a super styley and functional long jacket designed by pro rider Tara Dakides.

Check it out on the Sessions blog or at

http://www.shredbetties.com/gear/story/2011_gear_preview_sessions/

Juniors
1. Gus Warbington 1:55.14
2. Odin Barnett 1:59.95
3. Jacob Krugmire 2:01.01

Congrats Jacob!

February 8, 2010

Check out Tucker Perkins with his 2nd place podium finnish at the last stop of the Dew Tour!!

http://www.allisports.com/videos/video-title-info/

Thats right. Ian Thorley took 3rd at the last stop of the Dew Tour!

Winter Dew Tour Men’s Slopestyle Final Results
Mount Snow, VT
Friday February 5, 2010
1. Torstein Horgmo
2. Sage Kotsenburg
3. Ian Thorley
4. Sam Hulbert
5. Chas Guldemond
6. Brandon Reis
7. Nick Poohachoff
8. Ulrik Badertscher
9. Eric Willett
10. Tyler Flanagan
11. Nick Julius
12. Scotty Vine

Thats right. CBS 13 News in Sacramento will be airing a segment on Tahoe Dangerzone directly following the Super Bowl post game show. Here are some stills. Tune In!

Sessions is pleased to announce that Sessions is know a sponsor of Tahoe Danger Zone! Go to the Sessions Blog or www. tahoedangerzone.com to check out the video!

The Sessions Canada Team has been getting it done this year. Check out the slide show.

The 3rd annual Green Horn Games went down last Saturday at Summit at Snowqualmie ski resort. The Green Horn Games is a contest open to snowboarders of all ages 13 and under. The idea is to have a great day of snowboarding, learning new tricks, meeting new friends and maybe getting some prizes along the way! Here are some photos from last Saturday.

February 4, 2010


Check out theses great rates on a charter bus day trip to Sierra Summit!

Everyone at Sessions is excited to have Tara Dakides back in the Sessions family. She has put a ton of work and time into her signature line. Stuff looks amazing! Check it out!

Boarding for Breast Cancer is a non-profit, youth focused education, awareness and fundraising foundation. Their mission is to increase awareness about breast cancer. The importance of early detection and the value of a healthy lifestyle. Donations by Sessions to B4BC in memory of Lynne Long. Artwork by Amanda Mendiant

Sessions is also supporting Boarding for Breast Cancer by auctioning off a one of a kind (Sessions snow 2011 graphic) canvas painting by Amanda Mendiant herself in October 2010. All proceeds made from the sales of this painting will be donated to B4BC.
For more information check out www.sessions.com in September 2010.

Congratulations on your new M4 Jacket Cameron! Everyone in Quebec look out for Cam bumpin it on the hill! A big Thank You to everyone that entered and keep an eye out for future Sessions contests.

Introducing the Chris Benchetler signature jacket,
"Designing my pieces with Sessions has been all time. It was my goal to create something that everyone will enjoy. Finding a balance between conservative and bright colors is difficult, but filming in the back country requires colors to pop for photos and film, so the goal was to create something simple that would also get it’s fingers and toes on the cutting edge."

1/29/10

The X Games Slopestyle Qualifiers just wrapped up and Tim Humphreys is sitting solid in the 4th spot with a 90.00! Be sure to catch the Slopestyle Finals this Sunday from 12 - 5 on ESPN.
Congrats Tim!!!

1/28/10

Every year the snowboard and ski industry come together for the annual SIA trade show. It’s an opportunity for shops to check out next years lines and prebook orders. Over the next few days I will give you a sneak peak at some of my favorite pieces from the 2011 Sessions Line. Enjoy!
Brett Butcher

1/23/2010

Tune in to the daily habit this Wednesday the 27th to check out X Games gold medal winner and Baja 1000 driver, Tara Dakides is back on the Habit, joined by X Games host Sal Masekela. Plus, NASCAR and Baja 1000 driver Boris Said stops by. Also, actors Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell and Kevin Zegers are here to tell us about “Frozen,” a thriller that takes place on a ski lift. TaraDakides’ sponsors include: Vans, Sessions, Omatic, KMC Wheels, Wide Open. Boris Said’s sponsors include: Spy, No Fear. Sal Masekela’s sponsors include: Quiksilver, Nixon, and Celtek

For more information, check out www.fuel.tv/thedailyhabit

January 21, 2010

One of the all time greatest, Terry Kidwell is putting his first prototype sims board up for auction. Please watch this video to find out more and show your support!

Whether you’re a baller or a skater, you’ll recognize this game as one of your favorite face-off competitions. Based on the skate park’s classic game of S.K.A.T.E., this is Sierra-at-Tahoe’s version on the snow. Get ready for the debut of our totally refurbed and absolutely street inspired stair set. Cash, snowboards, and prizes will be awarded to the teams that claim the Game Title and Plays of the Game. Skiers and snowboarders are invited. 
 
FORMAT:
This new contest will be held in a tournament style with divisions for snowboarders and skiers. Teams of three must be formed with a team name in order to register. Ladies, gather your teams for your own face-off or join a guys team. As the competition gets going and tricks are set, each team will be able to select one of three team riders that’s best conditioned to complete the trick. You want to have the most versatile team with strong offense and defense.  
 
OFFICIATING: 
-In each division, an offensive team will be chosen at random to set the trick. One member of this team will make their play, i.e. announce a trick and attempt it. If he or she finishes the play completely clean, then this will be the trick for the rest of the round. If the first team does not complete their offensive play, then the next random team can take their shot. Offensive moves are not penalized by the referee. 
-Each team, with one chosen defensive player, will attempt the play. The goal is to avoid a letter card from the referee. The trick must be landed fairly clean and without penalties. Penalties include one-footers, hand drags, hand plants, inverts, and manual landings. 
-The team to avoid S.H.R.E.D. moves on until a Game Title is earned for the tournament. 
 
REGISTER:
It’s free! Be in Sierra’s Aspen Cafe from 9-10am. The tournament starts at 11am.

January 20th 2010
By Brett Butcher
If you have been following the weather you know Tahoe is getting pounded with snow. Tim Humphreys and Ian Thorley flew in this week to hang out and shoot photos. The first night we set up the big jump in our back yard park and yesterday we rode Alpine Meadows. Here are some from the last few days!

January 20, 2010

Check out the quick link on the bottom of our home page for more information on event registration!

January 19, 2010

Come out to Bear Mountain March 12-13th and enter War of the Rail for a chance at a $2,500 cash purse. Entry fee is $30 and remember its Skiers only!

Check out the slide show above!

New snow in Tahoe means fresh powder fun! DangerParty members Brett Butcher and Taylor Carlton take on Old Highway 40, aka ASI.
Filming and Editing by Tim Bradley
Check out www.sessionsteam.blogspot.com or www.tahoedangerzone.com to check out the video

January 15, 2010

Brighton Resort UT. - Brighton Resort will be donating $1 for every lift ticket sold this Saturday, January 16th, to the Healing Hands For Haiti International Foundation to support earthquake relief efforts. Guests will be given the opportunity to match the donation.

"We’re glad to be able to help the people of Haiti in our own way during this extremely difficult time," said Randy Doyle, General Manager of Brighton Resort. "Hopefully people will come up and support the cause this Saturday while taking advantage of the improving conditions," he added.

For more info contact
Jared Winkler
Brighton Resort Marketing
801-532-4731 x 268

January 15th, 2010
By Brett Butcher

Tahoe has been in quite the dry spell as of late. It was feeling more like April than January. The jet stream and weather has finally shifted and bringing Tahoe much needed snow. One of my best friends and photographer Abe Blair (www.blindmanphotos.com) came up from San Francisco to get in on the fun at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort. Here are some photos from the other day. Rumor has it that Tahoe is going to get 5 to 10 feet next week!

January 14th, 2010

From February 13th through the 19th, Snowboarders and Skiers from around the World will be Flying into the Portland International Airport to come to Windells, a place to experience mind-blowing powder days and endless park runs suitable for beginners through Expert. Mt. Hood Meadows, Timberline Ski Area and Mt. Hood Ski Bowl provides lap-able parks, pipes, natural halfpipes, wind lips,rollers, banks, tree runs, steeps, cornice drops and wide open cruisers. Your coach is your guide to these secret spots, including the best place to build a BC booter to stomp your first backy ever!

Mt. Hood Meadows and the Timberline Ski Area are where some of the most advanced Winter riding in the world happens and their parks are among the best in the country. Campers will also have the chance to ride a fully lighted park at Mt. Hood Ski Bowl, America’s largest night time resort. Their is Still Time to Signup for Presidents Camp, along with Windells Easter and Spring Break Camps. Please Visit www.windels.com for more information.

January 14th, 2010

SALT LAKE CITY, UT (January 13, 2010) Snowboarder Kevin Pearce (Norwich, VT)
is continuing to recover at the University of Utah Hospital. He consistently
encourages his doctors and family with the strides he is making.

Elaine Skalabrin, MD, Medical Director, Neuro Critical Care, and one of
Kevin’s doctors, states, “Kevin continues to improve and is actively
participating in his therapies. He is making progress on a daily basis.”

Pia and Simon Pearce, Kevin’s parents, have been by Kevin’s side at the
hospital since his arrival. They would like to share: “ We cannot say enough
good things about the doctors, nurses, and support staff here at the
University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. They have shown Kevin and
our family the best of what modern medicine can offer and have been
completely caring and supportive throughout this entire process. We extend
our heartfelt appreciation and admiration to everyone involved Kevin’s
recovery.”

Kevin’s Facebook Fan page, Well Wishes to our Frend Kevin Pearce, is still
the preferred site for people posting their get-well wishes and for getting
the most current and reliable information.

January 12th, 2010

Andreas Gidlund is currently filming a TV show with Disney. The purpose of the show is to mentor an up and coming snowboarder or skier. There are 3 skiers and 3 snowboarder pros mentoring the kids. Here is an update from Andreas.

France has been pretty fun!
My main mission here is to guide and be a mentor for my norwegian kid Stian. We’ve been shredding pipe and jumps.

It was fun to get to know stian a bit, his a real talent, quite shy but i guess your shy when your 12 years old…
He did really good during these days and at the contest,
i think his strong points are jibbing and kickers!

The hotel we were staying at was super nice! Sick rooms and super good food!

Im pretty happy im not a movie star… because having 5-6 huge cameras in the face the whole day isn’t super fun.
And especially not when you have to wait around a lot and do a lot of retakes. One scene we did we had to walk 10 meters, and we had to do it 10+ times!

Anyway its been quite fun to do it and i think its good their doing something like this for kids!
Its a great way to show the sport and get more kids involved!

So keep your eyes open for this show.Disney will show 6-8 episodes during 2 months. 1 new each week, then a 30 minute episode for the final.im not 100% sure when its suppose to air but i know the Final show is in April so should be feb – march i guess!

So get Disney Channel XD right now!

This weeks question is from Dallas Scharf to Tara,

Tara,
There has been alot of epic riders on sessions over the years. I’ve been riding since 95’ and now that I am 30 I don’t keep up on the most current riders anymore. I came across the FB challenge to ask so,eone on the team a question,. I was suprised to see you are the only one left that I really know of. So my question to you is , ’Who is your favorite past sessions rider that you’ve shredded with"? I think my favorite sessions rider ever is a toss up between T.J. and Stephen Duke. Thanks!
-Dallas Scharf

Dallas....sessions has had a lot of great riders but my two favs are probably Jamie Lynn and Mike Ranquet. It was good times traveling with them and Matty Goodman...you should check out the old video Viva La Sessions if you haven’t already.
Some good time before snowboarding got to Olympified.
Have a great season!!
TD

If you have a question that you would like a member of the Sessions team to answer, email your question to www.sessionsteam@gmail.com. If your question gets picked you will receive some goodies in the mail!

Brett Butcher’s backyard birthday bash! Featuring Nick Visconti, Joshua Parker, Brendon Drury, Brandon Cocard, Jason Robinson, James Brumfield, friends and the birthday boy himself.

Filming by Tim Bradley and Leland McNamara.
Editing by Tim Bradley.

Head to www.tahoedangerzone.com or the Sessions Blog to watch the video!

Go pick up the February issue of Transworld Snow and read up on some Sessions history!

January 7th, 2010

January 5th, 2010 was a great day. The sun was out, it was warm and Brett Butcher was turning 29. I have always been envious of friends that live in homes with a hill in their back yard. Up until this winter, all of my yards have been flat. So needles to say I was super excited to learn that our new home has a hill to build a back yard park on. We have been working hard for the past couple weeks to get this park ready for our friends to ride and play on. The yard has it all, BMX rhythm section, tree bonk transfers, wall ride, jumps to the roof, a big jump and even a down canoe! I won’t go into details about the day, lets just say everyone had an amazing time and things got boarded on hard. Danger Zone was there to document the action. Look for an edit to hit the world wide web in a few days! Thanks to everyone who came out to laugh, play, hangout and make this one of the best B-Days ever!

Photos courtesy of Jeffhehlen.com

January 5th, 2010

The Summit at Snoqualmie, Snowboy Productions and new title sponsor GNU Snowboards are stoked to bring you The Coolest 13 and Under Contest in the World!

Yep, the Greenhorn Games are happening again on January 30th at Greenhorn Acres at Summit Central and it’s gonna be sweet.

This event is totally FREE and is open to snowboarders of all levels age 13 and under…the idea is to have a great day snowboarding, learning new tricks, meeting new friends and maybe getting some prizes along the way.

Tons of amazing prizes from GNU Snowboards, Sessions, Oakley, Snowboard Connection, Skullcandy, POW and new additions Snowboarder Magazine and High Cascade Snowboard Camp.

Registration inside the Main Lodge at Summit Central from 9 – 10:30 AM

Practice from 10 – 11AM / Event from 11AM – 1PM / Awards onsite following event

Helmets are required and each entrant must have a parent’s signature on the liability release available here.

January 4th, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Kevin Pearce, (Norwich, VT) was injured last week while riding half pipe at Park City. He come up short on a cab double cork and hit the lip of the pipe just above his eye.
Kevin Pearce remains in critical condition at the University of Utah Hospital intensive care unit in Salt Lake City. Doctors indicate that his condition is stable
and that he is continuing treatment for a head injury sustained on December
31, 2009 while training in the halfpipe in Park City, Utah. Pearce was in
the process of completing a cab double cork (a twisting double back flip which he has landed before) when he caught his toe-side edge while landing. Pearce was wearing a helmet at the time of his fall. Kevin was airlifted to
the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City where he is being treated.

One of Kevin’s doctors, Holly Ledyard, M.D., a Neurointensivist (a physician
with specialized education and training in critical neurological conditions) at University of Utah Health Care statesS.³Kevin sustained a severe traumatic brain injury. He is currently in intensive care and in critical condition, but stable and has not needed to undergo surgery at this time. He is intubated and being kept sedated. The focus over the next week will be watching for any swelling in his brain and keeping his brain pressure
normal. Kevin has a long recovery ahead of him.

Family and friends remain positive and are thankful for the outpouring of
support. The family has created a Facebook Fan page, Well Wishes to our
Frend Kevin, where followers can receive information and updates on his
condition and show their support for Kevin.

For media inquiries please contact Danielle Burch, danielle@shpny.com and/or
516.850.9275.

Jan 4, 12:19pm: Kev just had a great exam…responding well to treatment…Your thoughts and prayers are definitely working! -Adam Pearce

Today is New Year’s day and the majority of the population is regretting decisions made in last night’s debauchery and swearing-off various vices. A new year is like a new beginning, and what better way to start off fresh than with a new snowboard jacket from Sessions. Tell us your Snowboard Related New Year’s Resolution and your entered to win. One lucky New Years Resolution-er picked by us will receive a new Replay Jacket courtesy of Sessions.

Here are some examples:
-always find a bed by 2 am the night before a powder day
-never grab your boot and try to play it off like you didn’t
-never stop when ski patrol says “stop”
As always you can increase your chances of winning by marking your comment with your Gravatar!! Gravatars are the small images that appear next to your name in comments and will automatically appear once you sign up at Gravatar and enter your email below!
Shipping only to US and Canada.
Contest ends Wednesday January 6, 2010.
Jacket is a size Large.
Check www.sessions.com for more.

December 30th
By Brett Butcher

Getting an On Deck is not an easy feat anymore. You have to be one of the top up and coming riders in the game for Snowboarder to dedicate two pages to you. Now imagine getting an On Deck in the annual Snowboarder guest editor issue, whom the guest editors are JP Walker and Jeremy Jones. If that’s not enough, how cool would it be to have JP Walker pick you out of all the potential riders out there and have him interview you and write your intro to your On Deck.
Pretty crazy. Well that is exactly what happened to E-Man Anderson. Congrats on your On Deck E-Man! Go pick up a copy of Snowboarders new Guest Editor Issue, on the shelves now!

December 29th, 2009
By Brett Butcher

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December 28, 2009
By Brett Butcher

Congratulations to Jokey for qualifying into the 8th annual Red Bull Nanshan Open!
Jokey is sponsored by SESSIONS, FLOW, GIRO, DRAGON.
The Nanshan open is taking place 1/6/2010 - 1/13/2010

December 26th 2009

Mark it on Your Calender!

December 26th 2009
By Brett Butcher

This weeks question is from Kelly. I sent it over to Mr Kyle Miller.

There is a human boy, a shark, and a donkey in a pool. Who wins?
and,
Do you have any tattos?
If so where, and what is the meaning behind them?
Thank you for taking the time to read my questions.
(:
Kelley.

Yo Kelley,
As for question one, the human boy wins. The shark dies because he is in fresh water and the donkey dies because he cannot swim. Right???
I do not have any tats though. If I could get some tats that would go away in like a year or two I would load up on em. Full on neck, back and sleeves. I have some friends that do the sweetest illustrations that I would love to slap on the ol body. I would like to get some Montana stuff cause that is where I am from and grew up. Some beavers, lions, sharks and stuff doing human actions would be sweet too. Like a big fat beaver smoking a cig or chewing on Pinocchio’s leg would be ill.
Miller

December 22nd 2009
By Brett Butcher

Tahoe Dangerzone has been making quite the name for itself lately. Sessions riders Kyle Miller, Taylor Carlton, Nial Romanek and Brett Butcher are all on the Danger Zone crew and will be filming webisodes throughout the winter. This is Danger Zones latest offering, "Thrasher" Check out tahoedangerzone.blogspot.com daily for DANGEROUS INSIGHT INTO THE EXTREMITIES OF TAHOE LIVING!

December 19th 2009

Tomorrow December 20th is World Snowboard Day. Get out there and support your local resort! For more information please visit www.world-snowboard-day.com

December 18th 2009

Dew Tour Qualifiers went down today and Tim Humphreys is sitting in the 5th spot. Check back this weekend to see how he does in the Finals!

Mens
1- Halldor Helgason
2- Stef Zeestraten
3- Nick Julius
4- Heikki Sorsa
5- Tim Humphries
6- Ulrik Badertscher
7- Seppe Smits
8- Nate Kern
9- Marius Otterstad
10- Robbie Walker

Do you have a question you are dying to ask a member of the SESSIONS Team? Maybe you want to know Tim Humphrey’s favorite contest to compete in, or Tara’s favorite summer hang out? Submit your questions to sessionsteam@gmail.com and we will pick one question per week to have a SESSIONS team rider answer. If your question gets selected you will also receive a goody in the mail from SESSIONS!

December 16th 2009

Swedish Sessions rider Niklas Mattsson just keeps stepping up his game! He made his World Cup Big Air debut in London earlier this fall and placed 9th in Stockholm a couple of weeks ago. This weekend he managed to top that in Seoul, Korea and ended up 6th in the final after being 2nd in the Qualifications.

Our Union Shredder Zebastian Landmark was also in the competition and ended up in the 19th place. Hats of to both our young guns!

December 15th 2009

This weeks question is from Danika Richard,
Tara, Im a 14 year old girl and I want to become a pro rider like you....so I
was wondering what are the best (small) contest you have been to when you where younger and started snowboarding?

Hey girl, when I was 14 I had just barely started getting into contest so good job in getting out there and givin it a go. There are a lot more contest these days. I did some USASA and Grand Prix’s. Those maybe a little harder to get into now but Jams like the Peanut Butter rail jams are cool and fun.
Small contest pop up all the time like the Flaunt it Tour....I don’t think that going anymore but just keep your eye out for ones like that and register early. I’m sure your local mountain does some to. Any contest is good experience and a good way to be seen to get noticed. USASA’s are more of a circuit but they are GREAT!! And very Organized.
Hope that helps and hope to see you out there. Ill remember your Name.

Keep having fun!!

TD

December 15th 2009

Everyone at SESSIONS would like to wish Tim Humphreys Happy Birthday and cheers to another great year!

December 15, 2009

Check out World Snowboard Day China on December 20th!

Check out these photos NAKU scored in the latest issue’s of Slammer Magazine

December 11, 2009

Follow Sessions at www.twitter.com/SessionsSnow

December 11, 2009

Sessions is pleased to announce the addition of Ian Thorley to the International Rookie team. Ian is a threat in any contest he enters. Look for him at the Dew Tour stops as well as the US Open.
For more on Ian check out his Bio and some summer footage on the sessions blog!

Want to know how to get sponsored? This weeks question is from Chris Vojick,

Hey guys i got a question for everyone on the team. How did everyone get sponsored or noticed? I’ve read tons of interviews with pros and when asked how they got to be pro they always kinda shy away from it and just say they competed and got noticed. This is probably true and all, but a dream of mine would to be pro someday in the sport i love more than anything, and i was just wondering how exactly these guys got their big break, whether it was one contest or through a friend. I just wanna hear a real non BS story. Thanks

Hey Chris. I must say I worked pretty hard for it, but got lucky as well. I was just riding a lot, and accidentally met an older Finnish pro who talked me to a brand. I got a chance to travel and shoot a lot of photos, film etc. and of course meet new people, and somehow things started rolling. I went to few contests as well, but mostly it was just a slow process of riding a lot, believing in myself and having a bit of luck in the mix.
cheerios
-NAKU

Well growing up in northern Minnesota where there isn’t much snowboarding going on except for at your local hill. Once i graduated from high school I moved to Tahoe to ride some real mountains. So towards the end of the first year i was at Northstar I met this filmer who was shooting a edit for twsnow.com. I ended up filming with the guy and I got a few shots for the edit. About a week after the edit was posted a rep from flow called me up asking if i wanted pick up some gear. At the time I was riding one of my friends boards that i broke while borrowing it from him. The next season there was a couple pros from flow in Tahoe shooting for the week. They invited me up to ride with them. I got a photo that made it into snowboarder-Mag. After shooting with them that week they put me on the team.
Nial Romanek

I just rode for fun everyday at my home mountain Mammoth. I became friends with a local shredder named Matt Downey. He got me hooked up with the Burton rep and it stemmed from there. Just start out small and work your way up. Don’t ever forget that your snowboarding for fun and that you want to get better for your own satisfaction and nothing else. If you have to, move somewhere where there’s a higher level of snowboarding going on. It will help you progress and it’s easier to meet people with connections and get noticed. Contests are a good way to win money but not very good for getting new sponsors. And the truth about "Sponsor me" videos is that they usually just provide a lot of laughs for whomever you send them to. Hope that helps. Cheers!
Peter Benchetler

Hello there Chris,
So basically my story is pretty simple. I was in high school and was riding for the local board shop in my town in Montana. I was riding super hard everyday I could and the shop owner hyped me up to some reps. At this time I was also filming for a movie based in Montana and the reps really liked that cause it gave them some exposure appose to just riding the resort everyday. Anyway, so I got to meet some reps and I had made a full written resume with photos and video. They got pretty stoked on me and things were going really well then when I had started getting a lot more exposure the reps had pushed me onto the team managers wing and I have been doing that for the last couple years now. It all just started from being a little grommet getting the 20% discount at the local board shop then eventually got put into the right hands. Hope that helps you out Chris. Go Boardin!
Kyle Miller

Sessions Pro E-Man Anderson scores a two page spread in the new Snowboard Canada!

December 4th, 2009

The latest issue of Snowboard Canada just came out and once again the Sessions Snowboard Team is all over it!

Sessions has been in the game since day one, a total of 26 years now. They get it, do you? Win these Sessions Achilles Pants. All you have to do is tell us what the meaning of life is. Best answer gets the GOODS. Easy right? Or is it? Search your soul…….. Too deep? We also like to laugh, so you might try humor. Good luck!

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December 5th 2009

Innsbruck, 04.12.09 ‐ The pairs for the first rounds of the Billabong Air & Style Innsbruck-Tirol
09/II are fixed. At the public drawing right in the center of Innsbruck exciting competitions
occurred in front of hundreds of fans. The top favourites Travis Rice and Peetu Piiroinen
have already in the first rounds to kick out some strong riders, just to make it into the final
four and to have a chance for the great demanded Ring of Glory.

Here the pairs of the first rounds:
1) Mikkel Bang (NOR) – Elias Elhardt (GER)
2) Pat Moore (USA) – Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI)
3) Chas Guldemond (USA) – Werner Stock (AUT)
4) Antti Autti (FIN) – tba (standby rider will be announced)
5) Peetu Piiroinen (FIN) – Gigi Rüf (AUT)
6) Risto Mattila (FIN) – Eero Ettala (FIN)
7) Travis Rice (USA) – Andreas Wiig (NOR)
Torstein Horgmo (NOR) – Tim Humphreys (USA)

December 2nd, 2009

Your presence is requested at the San Diego premiere screening of
SUPERCHARGED - the TIM BRAUCH documentary

This SATURDAY evening 7pm @ Two Roses Tattoo Shop 2181 Logan Ave. San Diego
92113

Free & All ages are welcome. Samuel Adams beer will be available for those
over 21.

The screening will be outside and projected on the wall of the adjacent
building. Bring a blanket and a chair and be ready for a truly inspiring
film about one of the best and motivated skateboarders this planet has ever
witnessed.

November 30th, 2009
Sessions is proud to announce the release of Tony Hawks RIDE.
Most are familiar with Tony Hawks games. Tony Hawks Ride is different because instead of using the standard gaming controller you have a custom board shaped like a skateboard. The board is covered in sensors that detect which way you’re leaning, whether the nose and tail are raised, or even if you are reaching down to mimic a grab. Tony Hawks RIDE will surly up the anti in the gaming world.

Sessions is stoked to be a sponsor of Tony Hawks RIDE!

Check out http://www.thride.com/us/#/media/videos/9 to view the teaser

For more information please visit www.thride.com

November 29th, 2009

This weeks question is from Kenny Mullet....

For E Man, i would like to know how often he breaks his nose, since after watching this video sucks, and on sessions site he said he broke it twice this winter alone, is it like a routine thing every year?

So heres the deal. I was so damn good looking that all the dudes in whistler sat me down one day and asked me to help them out. So i decided that breaking my nose a few times might be the perfect solution for them..... Thats the only real reason i broke my nose....it was all calculated and for the homies.

E-man

November 27th 2009
Tune into ABC tonight to watch Sean Busby on the show Super Nanny. He joins Jo and the McGrath family to help their five year old son cope with his diabetes. 8/7c

RESULTS BAJA CHALLENGE (Subaru-powered, identically-equipped Baja touring cars)--1. Nick Baldwin, Mission Viejo, Calif./Brian Nix, Lakewood, Calif./Matt Cruson, Irvine, Calif./Nick Johnson/Tom Cook, Anaheim, Calif., 21:42:05 (31.00 mph); 2. Boris Said, Escondido, Calif./Tara Dakides, Oceanside, Calif., 23:15:40; 3. Jay Culbertson, Portland, Ore./Todd Clement, San Juan Capistrano, Calif./Joe Baguio, Canby, Ore., 24:08:35; 4. Mike Cassling, Omaha, Neb./Craig Donaldson, Mission Viejo, Calif./Marco Guerrero, San Juan Capistrano, Calif./Mike Mitten, Omaha, Neb., 24:14:10; 5. Christian Hammarskjold, Extgen, Pa./Dominic Fitzsimons/Conor Fitzsimons, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., 25:14:34; 6. Brian Valentine, Bellevue, Wash./Eric Lockard, Sammamish, Wash./Matt Swann/Pete Pigott, Seattle, 27:30:13; 7. Bill Weber, La Mesa, Calif./Garrett Golden/Joey Boyle, Virginia Beach, Calif./Steve Mackie, Brea, Calif./Bud Brutsman, Burbank, Calif., 27:58:45.

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Tara Dakides just finished the Baja 1000 this morning. She and Plake took second. One rough ride but they pulled it!

Nov 10-11, 2009 - Winkie Island Review

Antarctica averages around 30-40 sunny days a year.  So far we have had three in a row, so roughly closing in on 10% of Antarctica’s clear weather.  We are keeping our fingers crossed and knocking on wood that this will continue.  Yesterday we set anchor in the Port Lockroy area and rode amongst dramatic mountains such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the highest peak on the Peninsula Mount Francis (9,456 ft straight out of the sea).  I can’t even begin to tell of how gorgeous the weather has been.  I come close to fainting from the overwhelming feeling that I get from the scenery here.  As you hike up, you look over your shoulder and see glaciers as old as time, gnarly ice falls, calm ocean water reflecting the majesty of all the mountains and ice flows and icebergs creeping along with the tidal currents - then add in the sounds of penguins and seals.  WOW!

Anyways, yesterday we started our tour by taking the zodiacs from the ship loaded with our gear to a landing point on Winkie Island.  Once we organized into our rope teams we worked our way up and across the glaciers.  On our way we passed by hundreds of penguins and a couple of seals basking in the sunlight on the snow.  We quickly went at our objective which was straight in front of us and began skinning up as far as possible.  When we could no longer use our skins, we all shifted into boot pack mode with crampons and short roped the remainder up the ridge, ready to self arrest at the slightest misstep with our ice axes.  Skipping the fixed rope that was set up by another rope team near the ridge, we took our steps very slowly and maneuvered around cliffs and across the fall line until we reached safety.  We kept the rope tight and were all ready to fall instantly into self arrest positions should anyone slip and fall.  Our slope looked almost glacier free, but was loaded with crevasses and weak snow bridges that were hiding beneath us in the snow.  This made the experience even more interesting.  I got to look down a few of these hidden death zones as our boot pack would occasionally break through and give us clear sight of their dark eerie abysses.  I remember this place being loaded with crevasses from last year, but they weren’t hidden like this. 

The day ended up, despite its beauty, being quite sketchy.  There were numerous reports of snow bridge collapses with other rope teams that had many punching through and looking into these gnarly crevasses and even one person who took the plunge of over 35 feet.  This marked the end of our day, and began the start of a 6 hour rescue to get the victim out of the crevasse and onto the boat.  The rescue went fantastic and quickly and we have God to thank for the clear weather and for the victims safety.  Being down in Antarctica, you are essentially days away from help and an emergency of this magnitude can turn to life threatening quickly.  Everything that could go right went right and the victim was in good spirits despite the ordeal.  Due to the fall occurring while he was still in his crampons, he caught sides of the crevasses walls which broke his bones above his ski boot in his leg as he fell down the giant crack.  It is amazing that he survived this fall and that the crevasse was not bottomless or jagged.  Once he was brought onto the boat, the crew tried to get him an emergency evacuation from the US Antarctic research base - Palmer, which was two hours to the south of us.  Unfortunately, we found out that they would be unable to get him flown out and that we would have to head up to the South Shetlands (18 hours) to get him flown out by a C130.

Today we reached King George Island in the South Shetlands during the afternoon and the plane was there waiting with engines running.  It was definitely a different sight to see in this part of the world.  He is expected to be in an American hospital in the next 48 hours.

We are now planning on going back down to the Peninsula to an area called Hope Bay.  We should be there by tomorrow morning.  In the meantime, I am going to enjoy the views of frozen ice floating in the ocean and waves crashing upon them.  I also need to get ready for my live satellite broadcast to Wasatch Academy tomorrow.

PowderLines.Com,
Sean Busby

Tara is still leading the race! She will be at mile marker 400 in one hour. In a gnarly section of whoops right now.

We have been under an
emergency situation the last 6 hours. We encountered tons of
crevasses today with multiple people punching through. We are on an
emergency run to the US Antarctic Station - Palmer. We had an
accident with one person falling 35 feet down a crevasse and taking a
heavy beating. Will keep you all updated. I think things are going
to be fine but the Palmer Station has a doctor and equipment to make
the appropriate care.

-Sean Busby

Hi all,
We are heading back to the South Shetland Islands now to do an
emergency air lift of the crevasse victim. Will let you know what
turns out and if we will head back down to Antarctica.

-Sean Busby

This weeks question comes from Mitch Giles.

Hey Tim,I am just wondering what you keep yourself busy with during the off season? Right now its driving me nuts, trying to find everything possible to shred, but whats your vice?
Thanks
-Mitch Giles


Oooohhh mannn, The things that I keep myself busy with in the offseason. I would have to say that my biggest vice is skating. Itrequires the least amount of effort to go from the couch to shreddingthe gnar. It’s also alot harder then snowboarding so I feel like I’mlearning tricks and little things that will help me out in the winter. Surfing would have to be a very close 2nd. It’s alot more difficult forme though because I have to wait for there to be waves, and then driveat least an hour to the shore. When I’m not skating or surfing, I’mprobably shredding road in my STi. It’s a nice change up for when I’mtoo beat up from the latter. I always have a good time going to thistrack with some friends and dragging some 1/4 miles : ) I’ve also beendoing that gym thing when I can. Hopefully I answered your questionMitch. Shred On!
Tim

On Nov 6, Scotts Valley High School paid Sessions a visit, as part of our on going community service. Two groups of enthusiastic high school kids came through and participated in a Q&A with Cindi (Company Overview), Robert (Design), Katie (Development), Billy (Marketing), and James (Logistics). These students were a part of SVH Marketing Curriculum, and visiting Sessions was part of their continuing education in this program. We were pleased to have answered their questions and were very happy to have had continuing efforts in the positive promotion of the Sessions brand. Thank you Scotts Valley High School.

Everyone at SESSIONS would like to wish Mr Peter Benchetler a very happy and memorable Birthday!

Well, I am in that overwhelming feeling again. However, this time
its hitting me all right now instead of months following the
expedition. At 8:00 pm last night, we came across our first iceberg.
It was magnificent and had a glacier pool of turquoise colored water
in the middle of it. Due to rough seas, we changed our plans a little
and headed right to the Continent rather then the South Shetland
Islands. Our first destination was Ciera Cove. This morning (despite
the 2-3 hours of semi nightfall) I woke to bluebird conditions,
massive icebergs, leopard seals, penguins swimming, a whale blowing
out its blow hole, and an eerie and desolate Antarctica with massive
mountains and glaciers. All of this which was accompanied by freezing
winds blowing off of the Antarctic ice cap. I quickly ran back to my
room - layered up, tripping over all my gear in the process as I
struggled to get right back outside as quickly as possible......I
don’t remember Antarctica being this cold - HA! Wind chills and
fighting the waves into Ciera Cove made exposing skin begin to numb
and burn, but adrenaline was the fire to keep looking onward. Around
noon we launched from the boat out on our zodiacs and headed into the
mountains surrounding Ciera Cove. We quickly skinned up and were on
our way. I decided it was time to rock about three different body
layers to conserve as much warmth as possible. The Antarctic sun,
quickly had me feeling like I was taking a walk through the Mohave
Desert and I found myself stripping as many layers as possible,
followed by freezing again. As we skinned up one peak, I fought off
my sea legs and the heavy temptation of vomiting from what the Drake
Passage had given to me. There was no time for nausea, I was enjoying
the outstanding scenery too much. I couldn’t help but think of those
struggling in Monday morning traffic jams in the cities while I stared
out among remote ice and ocean. I was able to fully enjoy being
completely out of the element down here once again. On top of the
mountain, my sights were unrestricted and I could see for miles upon
miles of glaciers, soaring jagged mountains, and icebergs. Lifetimes
worth of ski and snowboarding descents. God’s ultimate backcountry
Mecca.

Tonight we are heading down into the Neumayer Channel. The Neumayer
was one of my favorite locations on my last expedition down here. The
mountains are our dreams and other peoples nightmares. They are
extravagant, vivid, and plain out gnarly. The Neumayer even contains
the Peninsula’s highest peak at around 9,100 ft - straight out of the
ocean. The objectives for tomorrow in this area are Winkie Island
and Anvers Island.

Tonight, I witnessed a giant avalanche rip out of a peak and roar down
into the ocean with a gigantic powder cloud. I quickly ran to my room
and grabbed my camera. By the time I got out side, the sun was
setting with a tangerine orange color dead ahead of our ship.
Alpenglow was setting on the iceburgs and mountains behind us. As we
made our way further, the mountains lost their alpenglow and gained a
purple, pink, and blue color. We passed by more icebergs with
penguins on top and saw whales once more literally in front of the
setting sun. It was gorgeous and is by far the most beautiful sunset
I have ever seen. I will never forget these memories and the
remarkable snowboarding.

It is 11:30 pm and the sun is now rising again. We are only a couple
degrees from the Antarctic circle so we should now have sun light 24
hours a day. In a few more hours, the sun will be beaming into the
port holes of the ship and it will be time to begin another day.

Powder Lines,
Sean Busby

Come celebrate the life and times of Tim Brauch!

December 5th, San Diego at Two Roses Cafe. 7PM
Free all ages show

November 21st, Milan Italy

For more information please go to www.timbrauch.blogspot.com

Go check it out and become a follower of Tara’s twittering!

www.twitter.com/taradakides

Last week, Really!?3 went down at the Interpark Village center court in Utsunomiya Japan. 30 invited Japanese pros came out to show the judges and crowd of 700 their snowboard talents. Thanks to all the sponsors that supported this event! SESSIONS, Muraki Sports, Skullcandy, Endeaver, DVS, Matix

November 17, 2009 -- Venice, CA -- The Baja 1000 is the biggest off-road motor sports event on the planet -- drawing over 200,000 spectators from around the globe to watch over 350 trucks, buggies and bikes from 40 countries. These bold souls contend with flash floods, dust storms and the all around rowdiness of the Baja peninsula for, get this, no prize money. Instead, these enthusiasts race for the pleasure and honor of the race alone.

This year five-time winter X-game gold medalist Tara Dakides is teaming up with three legends from their respective fields -- Glenn Plake, considered the father of extreme sports; P.J. Jones, Nascar racer and son of famed Parnelli Jones; and Boris Said, the Nascar driver and overall motorsport enthusiast -- to take on the infamous Baja 1000.

Founded in 1973 by the mythic Mickey Thompson, the “one thousand,” as the racers and support teams call it, is quite simply the most dangerous, exciting, pure motor sport in the world. This year’s Baja 1000 travels a loop through barren and technical desert starting in Ensenada and winding back to the start. Like past years, the race will have various types of vehicle classes such as small and large bore motorcycles, stock VWs, production vehicles, buggies, trucks, and custom fabricated race vehicles.

The 2009 team was set up by Baja WideOpen (bajawideopen.com), the final word on everything Baja. Their interests and talents encompass extreme tours and motor sport specialties. To get the game rolling, Dakides and her team have been outfitted with a 1300 class buggy aptly named “Ménage à trois” to tackle the treacherous run through Baja.

This year marks Dakides’ third year racing the “one thousand.” She holds notoriety as part of the first all-women’s team to finish the off-road challenge from tip to tail. This year is especially amazing because the team of guys she gets to run with – all legends. She’ll be a driver and co-pilot with Plake, Jones and Said.

What’s not automatically apparent to industry insiders is that Tara has been working with well-respected driving coach Peat Hidalgo for the last 7 years and getting behind the wheel to race off road in SCORE and CORE "Champion of off road racing" last summer. She has also put time into road racing, her most recent in September 2009 at the AMG race school with Skip Barber at Lime Rock Raceway. In October she finished 3rd in her class at the Powder Puff off road race in Barstow where there were over 250 Driver entries. To Tara, the “one thousand” represents an opportunity to challenge herself and her fellow drivers. The honor of racing with this team in particular marks 2009 as a milestone in Dakides’ Baja career.

Dakides – “I feel ready mentally and physically to take it to the 1000 especially coming off our 3rd place finish in Barstow. You cannot ever get enough seat time as a driver and in every corner there is something new to learn, to improve your skills.”

You can track Tara Dakides and her team at www.taradakidesdoesthebaja1000.com or follow her Twitter at twitter.com/taradakides

For more information about the Baja 1000 visit www.score-international.com

Or to find out about Wide Open go to www.wideopenbaja.com/

For more information about footage or photos contact Shanti Sosienski: Shanti@sos-communications.com

November 8th, 2009:

Around midnight, the temperature of the ocean water dropped 3 degrees,
meaning that we crossed the Antarctic convergence. We are making some
good progress today as our engines are going full tilt. Being on a
boat this long sure gets boring, especially when you make the mistake
of forgetting to pack some books to read. Thankfully, I found the
boat’s library filled with books about the Arctic and Antarctic. My
days so far at sea have been spent either in bed, juggling a soccer
ball, or looking out over the open seas. Occasionally, a ski movie
gets thrown into the mix to keeps things sane. It will be interesting
to see what these seas will do to us this afternoon as there are some
waves crashing over the bow and its getting ugly again. Earlier today
we had a spectacular sight which unfortunately I missed since I was
taking a nap. About a dozen Fin whales were spotted swimming next to
our ship. I do hope that there will be plenty more of these sights -
maybe some Killer whales, Sperm whales, Minkes, and Humpbacks. Last
year I got to witness a mother Humpback and her calf playing around
ice burgs and it was rad. There are currently hundreds of birds
around our ship gliding slightly above our now stormy seas. There are
Albatross, White Chinned Petrels, Southern Giant Petrels, Cape
Petrels, and many others all entertaining us with spectacular gliding
capabilities. We are also now under iceberg watch and should be
snowboarding and skiing come morning in the South Shetland Islands.

Iceberg dead ahead!
Sean Busby

Nov 6-7, 2009:

Around 1 am we rounded Cape Horn and entered into the Drake Passage.
The snow outside is really coming down. The seas are much rougher
this year. About 25 - 30 foot waves so far. I placed a soccer ball
in the lounge and watch it pick up speed last night and roll from one
side of the room to another. By 3 am we were really rocking and
rolling. I spent most of the early hours laying awake in bed
listening to cabinets open and slam close. The boat makes giant
creepy creeks as it plows through these large swells and with every
few waves, our boat gets slammed and shakes violently from end to
another, just like a wet dog. We are going up and down and side to
side, I am nervous and am not used to the seas. Waves are hitting the
windows and allowing water in through some of the port holes. The
waves are hitting us from all ends and this will continue till we get
down to Antarctica. The toilets have been swishing about all over and
the shower curtain keeps sliding open and closed. Another large wave
hits and I hold onto the side of my bed to keep me from falling out.
A few waves later, we are slammed again and this time I hear what
sounds like to be a human body thrown into the side of a wall in the
hallway. I can’t sleep and am exhausted. This lack of sleep keeps me
up till early breakfast. At breakfast, I struggled to walk up the
stairs and through the halls and I could only take my steps when the
waves allow me too, always holding onto a railing or taking an
athletic stance to counter the waves. I arrived at the dining room
and there are only a few others. Most are still struggling to sleep,
some are passed out from medications, and others are hugging toilets
back in their rooms. Some of the boat staff struggled to set up
breakfast as the tables that weren’t bolted into the ship slide side
to side, knocking food off the table and silverware. About every 4
waves, we are hit by a big one, and glasses of orange juice or coffee
slide across our tables. Some are caught, others are not and shatter
on the floor. Plates are also falling to the ground and a lady flips
back out of her chair onto the ground. It is going to be a long day
for most of us.

Looking forward to getting on land,
Sean Busby

Sean Busby is a snowboard Olympic hopeful in the slalom, giant slalom disciplines and living with type 1 diabetes. He is currently on an Antarctic expedition finding first descents. Check in daily to see how his trip and story unfolds! Trust me, you don’t want to miss it!
For more on Sean check out www.seanbusby.com


Hi everyone,
I have been out backcountry touring everyday and just haven’t found the
time to get an update out. Anyways, the snow is fantastic. The month is
equivalent to about May down here and its been snowing everyday - even down
at sea level. I have been riding the backcountry of the southern most city
in the world - Ushuaia and it is epic. These Patagonian mountains are
gorgeous and the lines are plenty. I could live here year round and find a
great new line each day. With a drive through town you will see some of the
most perfect "U" shaped valleys between the mountains! Yesterday, my rope
team and I met up to do one last glacier travel practice. We all seem to be
dialed in which is very important. For those of you who don’t know much
about rope teams - on a rope team, everyone holds each others life in their
hands should anyone fall into a crevasse of get blown over and exposed peak,
etc. Everyone must be in tune with each other and we move together as a
team. It is one of closest teams required compared to other sports and you
must put your full trust into others. We all have to take steps at the same
time to keep the rope from getting tight or having slack. I am really
looking forward to sharing these turns with these guys on the rope. They
are a great group from Colorado, California, and Jackson Hole. Big Mountain
Jeremy Jones is also now down here in route to Antarctica to film for his
new movie Steeper. Everyone is pumped. We now all get to charge the
roughest seas for 50 hours with our first stop off point being Deception
Island. The sea forecast is for about 30 feet on Saturday along with 50 +
mph winds.

Powder Lines,
Sean Busby

Go check out Autumn Line’s newest creation "Montevideo" featuring Sessions riders, Kyle Miller, Brett Butcher, Taylor Carlton and Andreas Gidlund!

Check out these photos of the Sessions team rocking super park!

November 11, 2009

Mt Hood Meadows and Timberline are open this week with over 5 feet of new powder! You know the winter/spring windells sessions are going to go off with this much early season snow. Get over to windells.com and sign up for a session today!

Air & Style 09 – Riders List

1. Peetu Piiroinen (FIN)
2. Antti Autti (FIN)
3. Risto Mattila (FIN)
4. Werner Stock (AUT)
5. Seb Toutant (CAN)
6. Chas Guldemond (USA)
7. Gigi Rüf (AUT)
8. Travis Rice (USA)
9. Torstein Horgmo (NOR)
10. Tim Humphreys (USA)
11. Elias Elhardt (GER)
12. Mikkel Bang (NOR)
13. Pat Moore (USA)
14. Andreas Wiig (NOR)
15. Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI)
16. Eero Ettala (FIN)

CONGRATS TIM!!!!

Jeremy Thompson has an interview up on snowrev.... head over and check it out!
http://www.snowrev.com/News/All/5_Minutes_With_Jeremy_Thompson

November 9, 2009

Last Saturday and Sunday kicked off the 2nd annual San Francisco Ski & Snowboard Festival put on by Snowbomb.com. Everyone from the Bay Area came to check out their favorite vendors, buy gear, and test out some of the Bay’s best beers and wines. This year was even better than the last, offering extreme sports shows, professional athletes, and the best deals on ski and snowboarding gear that you will be able to find, not to mention the beer and wine! Sessions headed up to the city to set up a tent and give away some great prizes and offer some great deals throughout the weekend, and luckily it was extremely nice weather so we got check out SF’s great nightlife!! Snowbomb.com will be throwing another event this coming weekend, November 14-15 at the Santa Clara County Convention Center so be sure to come down for a chance to catch some free Sessions swag or maybe just hang out with all the Sessions homies in out tent lounge area. Hope to see you all there!

Check out the slideshow for some pics from the event!!

If you are in LA, go check out this premier!

Photos by Jeffhehlen.com

If you are in Beijing be sure to check out this party at the song club on November 7, 2009!

In keeping with their age old tradition of the secret, free show, The Cribs will be playing a secret ’hometown’ (for Gary, at least) show in Portland, OR this Sunday!! It will be at the downtown Jackpot Records, and will be the first US performances of any of the Ignore The Ignorant songs, and the band are excited to do this in Portland, all ages, and for free. Info is below, from Jackpot Records. Free, all ages live show to celebrate the release of THE CRIBS "Ignore the Ignorant". Unless you’re wintering in Belgium or holding tickets to upcoming Letterman tapings, chances to see the The Cribs in person anytime soon are minimal to nil. simply walk through the door of Jackpot Records on Sunday, November 8th 2 PM. For an instore performance w/ The Cribs free at Jackpot Records (Downtown Location) to promote their new album "Ignore The Ignorant" The brothers Jarman, along with new brother and guitarist Johnny Marr, will be rocking an absolutely free, all ages instore at our downtown location. Topping their previous honor of selecting Jackpot Records as one of three places IN THE WORLD to sell the deluxe Roses (they’ve really taken to their new Portland homes) Edition of their latest album “Ignore The Ignorant”, they’ve picked us as the launch pad for their upcoming tour. After this they’re off to a Letterman taping, a few coast dates and then the world. In all practicality, this is it for seeing them this year until they return to America to tour in January 2010. Come early to find a spot and brace yourself. We predict a swift transition from SRO to SOL. If you’re unfamiliar with a Cribs gig, it’s not exactly an evening with The Chordettes. Be safe Jackpot Records
SHOW INFO:
Sunday, November 8th – 2 PM
Jackpot Records (Downtown location)

203 SW 9th Ave.
Portland, OR 97205
2 pm

GIGS

09/11 // The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA
12/11 // Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
13/11 // Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
17/11 // Batschkapp, Frankfurt
18/11 // Röhre, Stuttgart
20/11 // Sportshalle (w/ Franz Ferdinand), Hamburg, DE
21/11 // Lotto Arena (w/ Franz Ferdinand), Antwerp, BE
22/11 // Heineken Music Hall (w/ Franz Ferdinand), Amsterdam, NL
24/11 // Arena (w/ Franz Ferdinand), Berlin, DE
25/11 // Phillipshalle (w/ Franz Ferdinand), Dusseldorf, DE
26/11 // Le Zenith (w/ Franz Ferdinand), Paris, FR
28/11 // Le Liberte (w/ Franz Ferdinand), Rennes, FR
30/11 // Medoquine (w/ Franz Ferdinand), Boreaux, FR
02/12 // Academy, Birmingham
03/12 // Brixton Academy, London

Do you have a question you are dying to ask a member of the SESSIONS Team? Maybe you want to know Tim Humphrey’s favorite contest to compete in, or Tara’s favorite summer hang out? Submit your questions to sessionsteam@gmail.com and we will pick one question per week to have a SESSIONS team rider answer. If your question gets selected you will also receive a goody in the mail from SESSIONS!

Look for Nick riding up at Big Bear this winter. He rides for Sessions/Flow/Freestyle/ Kicker audio. Welcome to the Sessions Family Nick!

About The Gatorade Free Flow Tour

The Gatorade Free Flow Tour, the official amateur series of the Winter Dew Tour, holds competitions at resorts across the country throughout the month of January, providing a platform for amateur freeskiers and snowboarders to showcase their skills. The inaugural winter leg of the Tour consists of 10 regional events across the U.S., featuring freeskiing (superpipe and slopestyle) and snowboarding (superpipe and slopestyle). The winners of each regional event earn a trip to compete in the Gatorade Free Flow Tour Finals held in conjunction with the Dew Tour’s Toyota Championship, Feb. 5-7, 2010, and the overall champions in the four disciplines automatically earn a spot to compete against the pros in the first stop of the 2010-11 Winter Dew Tour. Gatorade’s partnership with the Free Flow Tour began in 2009 and its presence and commitment to uplift amateur freeskiers and snowboarders and provide an extended platform to grow action sports enabled the creation of the winter season of the Gatorade Free Flow Tour. Fuel TV will broadcast select coverage of the Gatorade Free Flow Tour and allisports.com will be the home of all digital content and Tour information.

January 9th - Big Boulder Ski Area, Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania (slopestyle only)
January 9th-10th - Vail Ski Resort, Vail, Colorado (slopestyle & pipe)
January 16th-17th - Tyrol Basin Ski and Snowboard Area, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin (slopestyle & pipe)
January 17th - Mountain High Resort, Wrightwood, California (slopestyle only)
January 23rd-24th - Killington Resort, Killington, Vermont (slopestyle & pipe)
January 23rd-24th - Keystone Resort, Keystone, Colorado (slopestyle & pipe)
January 23rd-24th - Bear Mountain Resort, Big Bear Lake, California (slopestyle & pipe)
January 30th - Brighton Resort, Brighton, Utah (slopestyle only)
January 30th-31st - Loon Mountain Resort, Lincoln, New Hampshire (slopestyle & pipe)
January 30th-31st - Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, Mammoth Lakes, California (slopestyle & pipe)
February 5th-7th, Mount Snow Resort, West Dover, Vermont (slopestyle & pipe)

Sessions Canada team rider Kevin Griffin had a three page interview in the new Snowboard Canada
Sessions Canada team rider Phil Jacques was featured in the road trip section. You can also check Phil out in the new movie from Brothers Factory “Time Is Now”
Great work guys!

November 2, 2009

It’s a was classic Bear Mountain vibe on opening day last friday. The Crowds lined up to catch the first riding of the season at 830 am. Cheers roared from the lift line as the first chair approached and the riders started to load. The snow was good, the sky clear, and the DJ was blasting some ill beats. So-Cal Rep Chris Dunham and riders headed over to join the fun and enjoy the early season sun and 9 features that they had set up! Overall it was a super sick day...and thats just the beginning!

Scotts Valley, CA, October 22, 2009- After 10 years of building her talent and winning the reputation of the “Best Female Snowboarder in the World”, Tara Dakides signs back up with Sessions joining the U.S. Pro Team. Sessions was Tara’s first outerwear sponsor when she first began snowboarding and winning awards and today we are pleased to announce that she is back with us.
“Life really does come full circle… Sessions was my first sponsor back in the day (19 years old) when a girl getting sponsored was few and far between. It’s a trip to come back after all these years with a new outlook and more experience. I’m excited to have more creative freedom with my outerwear designs and to be able to work with such great people who love to ride. Sessions is one of the few core snow/skate companies alive. I say core in the sense that they have kept it real and true with there riders and the people who work hard to build the brand. It’s nice to feel a part of helping build something and appreciated in the process. It’s good to be home!” –Tara Dakides
Tara has had many accomplishments in her career to date from Transworld and Snowboarder including winning such titles as Best Freestyle Rider, Best Overall Female Rider, Female Snowboarder of the Year, Best Rail Rider, Gold Metal Winner for the X-Games in Slopestyle and Big Air, 1st Place Vans Triple Crown, and the list goes on and on…
“I’m stoked to see Tara back with the Sessions family. She is so passionate about what Sessions stands for- snowboarding, skating, music and friendship.” –Joel Gomez
“Snowboarding has a lot to thank Tara for. In a time when women’s snowboarding was not as popular as it is today, Tara was breaking boundaries. She was not only progressing woman’s snowboarding but snowboarding as a whole. She paved the way for the Gretchen’s and Torah’s of today and opened up everyone’s eyes to what was possible. Cheers to you Tara and welcome back!”
- Brett Butcher, Sessions Team Manager
Everyone at Sessions would like to thank Tara for everything she has done for snowboarding and we are very excited to have her back in the Sessions family!
Look out for Tara’s Signature Jackets and Pants with Sessions for Snow 2011.

October 15, 2009

Sessions is cruzing down to join the boys at Lost Italy, for a huge Season Kickoff Party and Sessions Sale. Tons of fun, music, drinks and great deals on Jackets, Pants, tees and accessories. What more could you want to start the season.

I realize that maybe Rome Italy, is maybe a bit far for many of you, but if your in the area....

Cheers! Here’s to a good season.

Pray for snow!

October 15, 2009

Yes, once again the "Photo Sessions" booth was in full action. Here is a sample of the pics. Good stuff.

Thanks again to all that participated and Sessions will be in touch to announce the winners, real soon!

Sorry Tim, your out of the running for indecency...

Clap!

October 14, 2009

Europes largest freestyle event moves to Berlin for the first time, this past weekend and Sessions was there (naturally!) for another round of chaos! Again we saw Tim Humphreys, Antti „Naku“ Piirainen and Nico Vugnier, just missing on their qualifying runs. No matter… Sessions represented undoubtedly, with another episode of insanity, in our (now famous) “Photo Sessions” photo-booth. New friends and lots of good laughs, rounded out the event. Berlin is such a rad city and all the kids there were real cool.

Thanks to Tim, Naku and Nico, for such a great performance. Also special thanks to all the kids in Berlin that were chilling at the booth and having fun. You know who you are.

Cant wait till next year!

October 13, 2009

Come check out the premier of the Tim Brauch Documentary "Supercharged" at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz this Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 7:30PM.

0ctober 24, 2009

Check out Sessions ski team rider JT Holmes on 60 minutes! In his air titled "The Bird Man," JT shows us the ropes in wing suit base jumping. This is crazy! Click the link below to check it out!!
CLICK HERE!!

Scotts Valley, CA - Sessions is very pleased to announce that Tim Humphreys has Re-Signed with Sessions and will be representing the brand for another two years. Tim’s great skills and hard working personality have placed him at the top of Sessions’ Professional Snowboard Team where Tim will continue to stay.

“I’m excited that Tim has chosen to stay with Sessions! Aside from his obvious snowboard talents, Tim is a great kid and a perfect ambassador for Sessions,” says Team Manager, Brett Butcher.

“I pumped to be back with Sessions for another 2 years! Sessions is by far the best company I’ve had a chance to work with in my experience,” says Tim. “Everyone at Sessions has always been straight up with me from day 1, which is something that is very difficult to come by these days. We’re working on a signature piece right now, and hopefully there will be more to follow!”

Sessions is looking forward to seeing Tim’s great skills on the slopes this coming season.

Check out more on Tim Humphreys at Sessions.com

About Sessions:

Sessions is a leading snowboard and action sports company that designs, merchandises, sources, and distributes high performance snowboard apparel, accessories and apparel for the core, youth-driven sports segment. Sessions was the first snowboarding company to incorporate Gore-Tex fabrics and Recco avalanche reflectors into their products. Today, Sessions is considered an innovator in technical outerwear.

October 5, 2009

Come check out the Lets Get Together Tour 2 for a night of food, drinks, Snowboarding, and great prizes!

Click View Slideshow to check out the other upcoming events!

October 5, 2009

SOS outreach has opened its doors to New Zealand! After originally opening a youth charity program in Vail, CO to help under privileged youth learn how to ski and snowboard with a free week of lessons, equipment rental, and clothing. They have recently added this program to New Zealand’s Cardrona resort, and expect it to be as huge of a success as the first.

September 27, 2009
This weekend Sessions kicked off the 11th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Skateboarding contest at the Scotts Valley skatepark in Scotts Valley, CA. This year was one of the biggest years yet with over 100 skaters from the grom to grandmasters level, and boy were they all destroying the courses. On Saturday the groms and ams got down on the street contest, competing for a ton of great prizes from our sponsors. The bangers were out that day in the amateur division showing off some sick tech skillz, and killing all aspects of the street course. Are 360 flips the new kickflip? I don’t know why but it seems that everyone has those dialed these days, and so steezy.
On Sunday day two of the contest, we switched up the park to the Lake Cunningham Regional Skatepark in San Jose, CA and prepared for the heavy hitters in the girls, Local, Pro, and Grandmasters divisions competing in the sixteen foot skull bowl to take home the 1st place prize purse. Hosoi, and Caballero ended up in the finals battling it out for first place, but Hosoi’s continuous 6-foot blasts out of the skull bowl couldn’t match Cab’s flow in this round. Cab stole the show with his unreal flow and buttery slides leaving the judges with no other choice but to put him on top of the podium. The turn out was great this year and we appreciate everyone that came out to support Tim Brauch! Also, thanks to all of our sponsors and everyone who made this event possible!

Results:

Grandmasters Division:
1. Steve Caballero
2. Christian Hosoi
3. Tony Mag
4. Mark Partain
5. Josh Nelson

Pro Division:
1. Brad McClain
2. Michael Brookman
3. Steven Pineiro
4. Sky Siljeg
5. Josh Rodriguez

Locals Division:
1. Chris Henderson
2. Cory Juneau
3. Jerry Gurney
4. Brad McClean
5. Shane Sullivan

Girls Division:
1. Lindsey Adams Hawkins
2. Allysha Bergado
3. Priscilla Lee
4. Lizz Armanto
5. Erin Wolfkiel

Ams Division:
1. Tommy Werner
2. Adam Emery
3. Anthony Anaya
4. Dylan Hilton
5. Christian Lanza
6. Nate Linford
7. Zach “Ducky” Kovacs
8. Skylar Bowers
9. Stephen Moulding
10. Jeremy McNamara
11. TJ Lewis
12. Jesse Boudreax
13. Stephen Smith
14. Konnor Adney
15. Brogan Robinson

Groms Division:
1. Jake Selovar
2. Drake Riddiough
3. Ryan Sanders
4. Joshua Douglas
5. Ethin Montes
6. Kalani David
7. Matt Beaton
8. Ricky Williams
9. Reid Nikolaieff
10. Shane Sullivan
11. Justin Miller
12. Jack Doran
13. Pero Simic
14. Koa Cortina
15. Stephen Hill



Photos by Jones

September 28, 2009

As was mentioned in the last report, at freestyle.ch, Sessions presented "Sessions: Photo Sessions". It was an amazing success and kids from all of Europe jumped in our little photo booth, dressed in our clothes and showed their sessions style....I guess. Maybe sometimes a bit more. We took and printed approximately 1000 pics and here is just a sample. Grand prize winners are going to have to wait a day or two, because there are simply too many photos to go through.

Thanks to all of those who came to the stand and went crazy. You’ll hear from Sessions soon, regardless if you win or not. So... without further delay, here are some samples. Best of the best will be posted in the next days.

Cheers. Hope to see everyone again in Berlin for another Photo Session!

September 28, 2009

Landeweise Zurich saw a record sellout of 47,000 visitors in 3 days! Sessions was there, representing with 4 riders, hitting the big air. Nick Franke was on the scene shaping all day and testing the big air. Nico Vugnier hit the freeski action getting good placement in qualy rounds, but unfortunately not making the finals. Same story with Antii “naku” Piirainen and Tim Humphreys, getting 5th and 7th in their qualifying rounds. Regardless of the athletes not having their best performance, the event was killer and tons of kids came through to show their SESSIONS style. Sessions Presents “Photo Sessions”, was a huge success and we built a photo booth for kids to try on the clothing and show their craziest Sessions style. We gave out prizes every hour for best photos and the grand prize winners will be contacted shortly to collect their prizes: 1st place - Sessions full outerwear kit. 2nd place - Sessions jacket of choice. 3rd place - Sessions softshell, of choice.

Thanks to all the kids for coming out and showing their style! See you in two weeks at Freestyle Berlin!!! Oct 9-11. Tim Humphreys, Naku and Nick will be there to rip the jump again. And you can of course count on a super good time at our booth in the LabelWorld!!!

Cheers, see you soon!

September 25, 2009

Vote for Rick, CEO of Skullcandy, for Entrepreneur of the Year. Vote now!

http://www.skullcandy.com/vote-for-rick

September 22, 2009

By presenting this coupon at one of the three Wahoo’s Fish Tacos location’s listed, a portion of your purchase will go to the Tim Brauch Memorial Fund and help support the local skate scene in the bay area

Zak placed third this last weekend at the 6th annual Hot Dawgz & Handrails contest at Bear Mountain!

Check out a little blog action and some pics on transworld!

http://snowboarding.transworld.net/photos/scott-vine-snags-first-at-hot-dawgs-and-handrails/

Be sure to stop by the 11th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest after party at Wahoo’s Fish Taco in Cupertino.

RS2 Solid Sound will be rocking the joint so don’t miss it!

Sessions Presents The 11th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest September 26th & 27th , 2009

Ten years after the tragic loss of a great friend and highly respected skateboarder, Sessions is holding the 11th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest. Sessions team rider, Tim, was always true to his roots as a skateboarder and possessed a positive attitude that did nothing less than inspire friends, family, and the community around him. Tim’s untimely passing in 1999 at the age of 25 (read more about him on www.timbrauch.com), led Sessions to create the Tim Brauch Memorial Fund, which donates 100% of the funds towards skateboard park development and scholarships.

Tim always believed in good values and clearly recognized how important the youth of skateboarding was. Whether traveling to far away countries or hitting up a local spot in San Jose (his hometown), he would always take the time to teach the kids how to skate and make sure they were having a great time. “Skateboarding was something that brought Tim that youthful feeling every time he hopped on a board and it most definitely showed up in his style. Fun is the name of the game in skateboarding and Tim was out to prove it. “ – Scotty Greathouse

One donation made from the Tim Brauch Memorial Fund went to create the Tim Brauch Memorial Skate Park in Scotts Valley, CA, which continues to host the street portion of the contest. The street contest is great competition for kids of all ages and is divided into Groms (12 & under) and Am Divisions. This year’s street contest will be held on Saturday, September 26, 2009 beginning at 10:00AM. Sessions will be raffling off great prizes from Skullcandy, Dakine, Bones Wheels, etc and DJ DFunkt will be mixing it up all day.

The 11th Annual Bowl Contest which can now claim the title of the “Longest Running Bowl Event” is hosted by the World Cup of Skateboarding and will be held at the year old Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park in San Jose, CA on Sunday, September 27, 2009. The Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park opened early in 2008 as the largest skate park in California at 68,000 square feet. The park also features the world’s longest full pipe, tallest vert wall, and largest cradle. We expect the turn out in 2009 to grow from previous years and continue to help push the future of youth skateboarding among communities. This year the contest will take on a more festival feel in the celebration of Tim as we will be having local artists display their work at the contest with live art shows. This year we are also excited to announce that 5 bands (all featured in the Tim Brauch Documentary “Supercharged”) will be playing live at the Bowl Contest; the bands include No Use For A Name, Clay Wheels, Whiskey Sunday, Shitkickers, and Street Core. The contest After Party will be held at Wahoo’s Fish Taco’s in Cupertino on Sunday, September 27th at 7:30PM with a live performance from RS2 Solid Sound.

In addition, 2 daily raffles will take place giving away great products from our participating sponsors. Food and drinks will also be sold to competitors and observers. This is an event you won’t want to miss!

We bring you the 11th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest to re-live the positive aspects of skateboarding that Tim brought to the table, while also incorporating art and music, two things that were equally important in his life. Tim would have loved to be here for this event and will forever be remembered as a legend in the game.

‘Supercharged’, a documentary about Tim Brauch, will premier on September 26th, 2009 at Camera 12 Cinema in San Jose, CA. It will be showing at 7 and 9PM. The film will also be showing at San Francisco Victoria Theater on October 1st at 7:30. The last stop of premiers will be showing at the Santa Cruz Rio Theatre on October 15th at 8PM. Tickets are available online and also at the box office on the night of the show.

To register in the Street or Bowl Contest email: contest@sessions.com

Check out our very own E-Man Anderson killing the cover of the latest Updown Mag issue!

He’s also got an interview and a sessions ad in there, click on the link below to check it out!

http://nlintel.com/2009/09/sessions-e-man-anderson-interview-in-updown/

You can also find E-Man in the latest release from 32/Stepchild. Click below!

http://www.stepchildsnowboards.com/v2/thisvideosucks/

September 11, 2009

The premier of "Everyday is a Saturday" presented by Nimbus and Poorboyz is September 12 at the King Cat Theatre in Seattle, WA.

look out for Sessions Team Riders Matt Walker, Chris Benchetler, and Andy Mahre.

September 11, 2009

That’s right…Newschoolers.com is 10 year old! Celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the most popular freeskiing website in the world at the NSX Party with Sessions as the main sponsor. There’ll be no finer and wilder way to kick off the third annual IF3 than with the newschoolers crew, Sessions crew, and all the staff will be on hand along with a host of nostalgia, surprises and special guests to celerate 10 good years of good time on Newschoolers.com.

Featuring the DJ talents of Sessions own Matt Walker, Andrew Hathaway, Matt Harvey, Doug Bishop and DJ A-rock, as well as a world premier of Outdoor Graduation, this party is one not to be missed.

Be there on September 17th!

September 8, 2009

Check out Chris Benchetler’s interview on Chilenieve.com! Only thing is...you gotta know how to speak spanish! So for all you Spanish speakers, check it out! Otherwise, you will just have to look at the pictures or put it into your Spanish translator!

CLICK HERE TO SEE INTERVIEW!!

September 8, 2009

Check out Squaw Valley, CA local Tim Dutton representing Sessions in the World Heli Challenge last week in NZ. Tim ended up finishing third in the big mountain event, and 2nd in the free-ride event! Congrats on the podium positions Tim!

Click one of the below links to check out the coverage from the event!

Tim Dutton on TheSkiChannel.com
Tim on ESPN.com
Tim on Snow.co.nz

September 8, 2009

Check out Robert Trujillo rocking his sessions boardshorts while playing a tour stop in France! Rock on!!

Tune in tomorrow, Friday Sept. 4th to watch Nick Ennen, Pat McCarthy, Joe Bosler, Kurt Jenson and Thomas Meyerhoffer promote the new film "How The NW Was One". Don’t miss it, the movie is gonna be rad!!

September 3, 2009

Day 4 South America Snow Sessions

It is day four of our adventure here in Bariloche, Argentina in South America. We began our journey at the end of the first weekend of August and settled into a hostel in the MicroCenter of Buenos Aires. During our weeklong stay, we explored, tasted, and enjoyed all the city had to offer. We have been blown away with the beauty and elegance of this country, but that does not even start to explain the regions of the Andes we have been apart of these past few days.

We will be spending two weeks with the snowboarding camp South America Snow Sessions, or SASS, that specializes in backcountry style snowboarding with a side note in searching out the best tree lines, natural features to ride and big mountain riding. There are 85 other campers that come and go within the session, including professional snowboarders and skiers who are out to train and explore the area.

This session at the camp has combined with MGT, More Good Times, an all girls company that organizes and hosts all girls snowboarding camps. We have been riding at Cerro Catedral Resort, and have been in the middle of a weeklong storm with has delivered more than 4 ½ feet of fresh powder. The local patrons at the mountain are mainly found riding the groomed trails of the mountain, which leaves dozens of untouched tree runs that stretch the entire length of the mountain open for us to shred.

Although we have only spent three days out snowboarding, Krista and I have racked up more powder runs, cliff jumps, and tree runs, than we have in all our past seasons combined, and have also found it necessary to take a day off to rest and recuperate for the rest of our days here is Bariloche.

Cerro Catedral is known for its access to multitudes of powder and long trails, but it is also known for its dangerous terrain, which often is associated with avalanches. All the campers are required to be wearing a working beacon carry a pack with a probe and shovel, in case of an emergency. We have daily beacon drills, where our guides and coaches hide an active beacon, and we take turns being timed to search and retrieve the beacon.

Although the campers and guides have fun doing these activities, we all have a solemn approach and acute awareness that perhaps we will actually need to use these new learned skills in a real avalanche.

As for now Krista and I are having fun being taught and coached by seasoned veterans of the sport and meeting new friends and chairlift buddies!

Until next time! Adios! Monica and Krista

You heard right, its premiere time! Autumnline’s "MonteVideo" will be premiering at Fifty-Fifty Brewery in Truckee September 10 at 9:30 p.m. Cast & crew will be attending, don’t miss it!
 

Premiere dates for the Tim Brauch documentary ’Supercharged’ have been set. Here’s the info:

Supercharged World Premiere; Camera 12 San Jose Sept 26th,
2 shows- 7pm and 9pm, 250 seats. tix available online and at box office.

www.cameracinemas.com
After party at Benders bar, www.bendersbar.com



Santa Cruz Rio Theatre Oct.15th . 6oo seats. 8pm.
Tix avilable soon.

www.riotheatre.com


Also be sure to check www.timbrauch.blogspot.com and www.timbrauch.com for film updates.

If you haven’t heard about it yet, Liberty University in Virginia has just had the grand opening of first and only Snowflex park in North America. Snowflex is an artificial snow surface that simulates the closest possible thing to riding on the real white stuff, it even has such features as a 20ft kicker, 10ft quarterpipe, and even some jibs set up. Once Sessions got word of this event (we are sponsoring the one coming to Califorinia) back about a month ago, we decided that it would be a worthwhile idea to go and check this stuff out to see if it actually works.
Tim Humphreys and I (Billy Flick) hopped on a plane last week to go and test this stuff out and see how you could actually preform on it. As it turned out it was a lot different than we expected but still really fun to ride on, as long as you didn’t try to carve to hard on to your edges. It took us about five runs or so to get the hang of it, and then came the jump session. We got to shred the park for at least an hour by ourselves until a few other guys came out to ride with us and turned out to be a damn fun session "Shradical!" Once we were too tired of shredding we headed back to the hotel to wash up so we could go and check out the local snow/ skate shop SCENE3, and have Tim autograph some stickers for the kids. We then went out to dinner and checked out some of the VA nightlife, which there werent actually to many places to go but there were a couple of good spots to hang out, just a whole lot different than we were used too.
On Saturday we woke up early to go to the grand opening of the of the mountain and set up a tent so we could give out some goods, and talk to the media. Tim hung out at the tent for a while then went up to shred in the opening day ceremony demo that the mountain was putting on. He pretty much killed the show for only having one day to ride on it, not to mention it was in front of a 3,000 deep mob of spectators. After the demo we went and relaxed in the freshly built lodge deciding that it was worthy trip overall, even though it was a little unusual to be riding in 90 degree heat with humidity.

Sessions Is the official outerwear sponsor of the Morgan Hill Snowflex Center coming to the bay area, expected to open in the next three years.


-Billy Flick

September 1, 2009


Zurich, Switzerland, August 27, 2009-Sessions is proud to introduce Skye Darden as the new European ski and snowboard team manager. Skye has been on the SESSIONS European team for only two seasons, but even as a regular team member, he has managed to take up the slack and put together ideas and action immediately, to bring the team to a new level in Europe.

“The appointment of Skye to the position, was a no-brainer. He has the respect of the old schoolers and the skill on the hill of the young guns. He has amazing connections in Europe and is full of energy and better yet… creativity.” Says, Daniel Fitzgerald, SESSIONS European Managing Director. “Skye is a fun dude, but he takes his job seriously. I’ve only met a handful of people that are as passionate, as Skye is, about the sports they represent.”

Skye is no stranger to the team manager position having done the job for LINE skis for the past 4 years. He has been in the European snow sports scene for the last 12 years, working with such companies as Marker, POW gloves, and Electric goggles. Skye has also worked for Air & Style and Shred Empire as a player in the snowboard scene.

“SESSIONS represents one of the truest ski/snowboard brands since the beginning and have shown that they continue to keep it real throughout the company’s history.” Skye Darden commented. “I am honored and privileged to be a part of the brand, the philosophy, and the future. I look forward in taking part in bringing the European division to the highest level possible.”

Check out a little Q & A with JT about what’s on his agenda for the Chilean winter!

http://www.freeskiingworldtour.com/article.php?id=132

Check out an interview from the Sessions team’s newest addition, Dania Assaly!!! She won the New Zealand Open Slopestyle Champion and seriously rips. Click on the link below and read up!

http://community.freeskier.com/articles/article.php?article_id=4011

Check out a little blog from Chris Benchets on Freeskier.com for the latest news.

Also take a look at the pics - He’s wearing his new proto for the snow ’11 line and it looks sick!

Click the link below to check it out.

http://community.freeskier.com/articles/article.php?article_id=4005

Check out Nor-Cal rider Victoria Guinn’s podium shot from boardercross at the New Zealand Winter games!!! (Shes on the right).

Check out some photos from the 2009 Vans Warped Tour Pre-Party! It went down Wednesday night at Wahoos in Cupertino. Sessions was there giving out some Tees and stickers. Fighting the Villain was rocking the house and the Wahoos tent did a raffle and some prize giveaways. Tacos, music, and free stuff? No wonder the kids were stoked! Thanks to John Hampton at Wahoo’s for making the party happen!

Sessions Presents The 11th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest September 26 - 27, 2009

Ten years after the tragic loss of a great friend and highly respected skateboarder, Sessions is holding the 11th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest. Sessions team rider, Tim, was always true to his roots as a skateboarder and possessed a positive attitude that did nothing less than inspire friends, family, and the community around him. Tim’s untimely passing in 1999 at the age of 25 (read more about him on www.timbrauch.com), led Sessions to create the Tim Brauch Memorial Fund, which donates 100% of the funds towards skateboard park development and scholarships.

Tim always believed in good values and clearly recognized how important the youth of skateboarding was. Whether traveling to far away countries or hitting up a local spot in San Jose (his hometown), he would always take the time to teach the kids how to skate and make sure they were having a great time. Skateboarding was something that brought Tim that youthful feeling every time he hopped on a board and it most definitely showed up in his style. Fun is the name of the game in skateboarding and Tim was out to prove it.

One donation made from the Tim Brauch Memorial Fund went to create the Tim Brauch Memorial Skate Park in Scotts Valley, CA, which continues to host the street portion of the contest. The street contest will be held on Saturday, September 26, 2009. Am riders from all over the West Coast will come to show their support of Tim and compete for top place. The 11th Annual Bowl Contest hosted by the World Cup of Skateboarding will be held at the year old Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park in San Jose, CA on Sunday, September 27, 2009. The Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park opened early in 2008 as the largest skate park in California at 68,000 square feet. The park also features the world’s longest full pipe, tallest vert wall, and largest cradle. We expect the turn out in 2009 to grow from previous years and continue to help push the future of youth skateboarding among communities. This year we will be having local artists display their work at the contest with live art shows and will be having several bands play throughout the day. In addition, 2 daily raffles will take place giving away great products from our participating sponsors. Food and drinks will also be sold to competitors and observers. This is an event you won’t want to miss!

We bring you the 11th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest to re-live the positive aspects of skateboarding that Tim brought to the table, while also incorporating art and music, two things that were equally important in his life. Tim would have loved to be here for this event and will forever be remembered as a legend in the game.

ABOUT SESSIONS: In 1983, a retail shop was started in Northern California, when the world of skateboarding was introduced to plywood ramps and street style skating and opened a the first skateboard and snowboard retail outlet. Sessions is now a leading action sports company that designs, merchandises, sources, and distributes high performance snowboard apparel, accessories and apparel for the core, youth-driven sports segment. Today, Sessions has placed itself within the realm of music, snowboard and skateboard culture.
More about Sessions at www.sessions.com ABOUT THE TIM BRAUCH MEMORIAL FUND: The Tim Brauch Memorial Fund is an independent scholarship fund and skateboard park development fund established in 1999. The fund was created to continue to keep giving back to the kids and the sport of skateboarding that Tim loved so much. By giving scholarships and donating to skateboard park development we are promoting kids to be active outside. Our vision is that through skateboarding kids will develop discipline, confidence, motivation, and other traits that encourage success.

11th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest

Street Contest
September 26, 2009
Scotts Valley Skate Park

Bowl Contest
Hosted by World Cup of Skateboarding
September 27, 2009
Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park, San Jose, CA

Registration will open online August, 2009

Tim Brauch Documentary "Supercharged" will premier Saturday, September 26, 2009 at Cinema 12 in Downtown San Jose, CA

If you would like to register in the Tim Brauch Memorial Contest please email contest@sessions.com with your name, email, age, and if you would like to compete in the street or bowl contest and you will be sent out a registration form.

Sessions Friend Johnny Marr has been working with the Cribs. Click the link below to check out their new single ’cheat on me’!!!

Cheat On Me - CLICK HERE

The single is also available on iTunes and will be physically released on the 31st of August.

It’s the first single to be released from their new album, ’Ignore the Ignorant’, which will hit stores on September 7th.

Check out an ESPN interview with Adam Porter for an inside look at Autumn Line’s upcoming film, ’Montevideo’. The video will appear in Fall 2009 and it looks SICK!!!! Click the link below and take a look at the teaser: K Miller, Gidlund, and Brett Butcher are killing it!

Montevideo Teaser CLICK HERE

Below is a little update from Sean Busby on summer riding in New Zealand. Check it!


Hey everyone,

Not much to report from this last week as winds were a nightmare and put backcountry plans into the books and made room for much reading time. Nothing really to write home about in regards to good snow conditions. Just tons of wind tortured slopes with the goods only in loaded areas ready to slide - a great gaper combo.

I did have an accident a few days ago that resulted in some mess. While touring in the Craigieburn Range I dropped into a beautiful well pitched chute and hit some hidden snow covered rocks while riding riders left into the apron at the end of it. The rocks ended up cartwheeling me into a boulder garden as my touring partners got a NASCAR styled scare. Thankfully, my hand took most of the impact, as it ended up eating a large jagged rock that went through the glove and deep down towards the bone of my palm and wrist. After peeling my hand free, the use of foul language, and creating a giant red snowcone colored massacre, we were able to get things stabilized by wrapping multiple bandannas and maxi pads to the burly wound. We then managed to mangle everything into a cardboard splint and transfer me out of the backcountry. A hitched ride back to the car about an hour later and I was then finally in route to a hospital in Darfield.

I am happy to report that the healing is going nice and well and that is has only played a minor role in with my guiding that has now started - I did have to make a few alternative route plans for our first few days to allow less use of my hand as it is pretty immobile. We are reversing our routes now and working backwards. I will be doing everything while in a heavily padded cast and everyone is in good spirits. It looks like the nasty weather may be out of here for a time being giving us all systems go. I am keeping "something" crossed that avy conditions tame some and that we may be able to access those wind loaded areas. The extra weight on my front arm just makes for easier turn initiation when mobbing it - so it worked out perfectly ;)

Today we did make it into Arthur’s Pass and were greeted by sun, waterfalls, kea parrots, and beech tree forest with giant snow capped mountains. Tomorrow we will be working on some avalanche skills and effective snowboard touring techniques.

Cheers,
Sean Busby

"This is the second of 2 teasers for "How The Northwest Was One". Plenty of new footy to give you more of a taste of what the movie will bring, enjoy!

...It’s 2012, and the economy has crashed completely. The snowboarding industry is non-existent, and Washington is brought back to the times of the wild west. Outlaws and renegades struggle to survive in the mountains.
In the Pacific northwest there is a small band of riders who’s passion for riding and filming still fuels there will to live, and there is a bounty out to collect footage of these outlaws. But bounty filmers are few and far between, and the competition to film is deadly. Watch the riders push there skills to new levels, in a quest to film a video part. It won’t be easy, as their is more to filming now than just riding. They must face each other in fierce competition for a filmer, and end up in a unforeseen twist of fate.......this is "How The Northwest Was One!""
Involves Wild Card.

The Sessions team has been out at Windells camp Session 5 and high cascade the past week doin some little summer shredding! The camp groms were stoked to get to ride with the big boys. Matt Walker, Jeremy Thompson, Andy Mahre, Tim Humphreys were out doing some coaching, hitting features, and passing out swag. The skate facility was also insane!!!! It was overall a great session.

Jeremy Thompson and Tim Humphreys will be back for Session 6, wrapping up the summer camp and getting in a few last days of riding.

For more photos and summary of Session 5 at Windells, visit the Sessions blog at http://sessionsteam.blogspot.com and check back next week for more updates!

Nimbus Independent and Poorboyz Productions have teamed up! Come check out the world premieres of their 2009 films, "Every Day Is a Saturday" and "Contrast".

It’s goin down on Saturday, September 12th in Seattle, WA at the King Cat Theatre. Doors open at 7:00pm until 11:30pm. Get there early to claim a good seat!!!

There will be athletes from both films in attendance, FREE SWAG give aways, and all kinds of raffles and prizes.
Visit facebook for more info:

Nimbus Independent at Facebook

Poorboyz at Facebook

Also, if you haven’t seen the trailers or want more info check out:

Poorboyz.com

NimbusIndependent.com

Peep it!

Tune in tonight! (Thursday July 23) And watch Chris Benchetler’s crash segment on the new show "Moments of Impact".

The episode will air at 9PM and will include an interview with Benchets about his slam at Superpark a few years back.

We all like to see a good bone breaker once in a while so don’t miss it! Click Here for a little preview of the show.

Check out a preview of the film at brothersfactory.com. The movie has some really creative street lines so peep game! It’s all around a good, high quality movie. Enjoy!

Paste the URL below in your browser and check out an interview with Anna on the new Australian website ’Wintervolume’, where she talks about her gold medal in Slopestyle at the Winter X Games.

http://www.wintervolume.com/ski_article_details.php?id=15

P.S. the website has asked Anna to write a blog for them so make sure to check back soon!

Check out Andy Mahre and Chris Benchetler in a lil’ interview on Newschoolers.com with the Nimbus Crew for their new movie Contrast!!!

http://www.newschoolers.com/web/content/news/news_id/2770/

Sessions brought some serious style to the "World’s Shortest Parade" this 4th of July in Aptos, CA. The sessions car was a huge hit - check the photos!

Our sessions kids also passed out some t-shirts, hats, stickers, and candy to the crowd and people cheering on the parade.

Everyone had a blast, and the parade really got 4th of July started off right. Uncle Sam would be proud!

Check out Farmboy’s new ad for Untitled Skateboards in this month’s issue of Thrasher Magazine! Smith bigspins all day - Peep the shirt!

July 1, 2009

Earlier this season Sessions team rider Peter Benchetler and crew from Signal snowboards headed out to the shred ranch to meet up with Jeff King and get down on a little built to shred action! The episode airs on Sunday July fifth so be sure to check it out!

For more info and pictures from the shoot log on to: http://www.fuel.tv/BuiltToShred/blogs/view/48164?item=48985&type=Blog

Matt Walker: Business student?? Check out his interview on ESPN.com and discover what goes on inside this guy’s head, both on and off the snow. Follow the link below:

http://espn.go.com/action/news/story?id=4284059

Also, be sure to visit http://dahoodhouse.com/ for some photos, vids, and updates on Matt’s summer sessions at Windells.

Check out a little Q & A from Canadian rider Dave Fortin after his gnarly bail at the Grenade Games on nlintel.com.

Check it out Here! http://nlintel.com/2009/06/sessions-team-rider-dave-fortinafter-the-slam/

June 22, 2009

Once again George Crossland from Snow Rev is back on the road to give us more updates on some of our riders. This time he headed up to Beartooth Pass in Montana to meet up with Sessions regional riders Kyle Miller and Shane Stalling Check out more on this story on the Crossland blog at http://crosland.snowboard-revolution.com/snow-skate/beartooth-pass-montana/

June 18, 2009

Check out Big Mountain banger Sam Smoothie killing the cover of New Zeland Skier Mag with a sick glacier pillow drop...SO ICY!

May 13, 2009

Sessions Outerwear is now an official sponsor of the Morgan Hill Snowflex Center and could soon be headed to a mountain near you!!! Due to open in the next two years, this project will offer you a rideable, shredable, jibbable mountain 365 days a year with no snow at all!! Paste the link below in your browser bar to see more!

www.morganhillsnow.com

P.S. IT’S GONNA BE SICK!!!

Everyone woke up after day one super sore, tired and sunburnt. Andreas’s back was sore from knuckling the beast, Tim’s heal was hurting from overshooting a jump, Kyle Miller was still recovering from a ankle sprain and Peter found out he needed surgery on his shoulder from a previous fall. So broken and battered we headed to the mountain with high hopes for less wind and new features to hit. The wind actually got worse on day two and it was more of a fun relaxing day.
Around 4 there was roomers that the giant hip was going to open up. Everyone commuted over and the session got under way. The 20 foot mark was hit by a few and Nate Farrell reminded everyone that he is a tranny master sending it over the gatorade banner.
Day three saw the wind die down and after a mellow day two, the guys where excited to get after it. Big Bear built a pretty unique feature. It was a giant table that had a bowl enclosed in it. Hip on the right side, that you could hit right like a normal hip or left witch put you into the bowl. There were two entrances into the bowl on either side of the lip that if hit sent you over the whole feature. This thing was only limited to the imagination. Nate Farrell and Greg Bokencamp where coming into the bowl from opposite sides, wiping around the bowl and slapping hi fives. Tim was airing into the bowl, shooting across and hand planting the other side. Andreas and Kyle where playing on the outside hip. Everyone was having a blast with this thing.
There was a lot of creative stuff pushed up at Super Park 13. One of the more popular features was a 40 foot gap through a few trees. Drift right or left and you are coming face to face with a tree. Come up short and you are stacking into a wall of snow boulders. Miller threw some methods and backside 180s through the gap. Humphreys was doing some frontside 180s and Taylor got a pretty frontside 360 taping the top of a tree halfway through his rotation.
Day three finished off with another session on the big hip. Andreas, Nate, Tim and Miller all got in on the action each hitting the 15 foot mark.
Today is the last day of Super Park but we had to depart early to get Andreas to the airport. Hats off to Snowbaorder, Mammoth, Big Bear and Loon for putting on one of the best Super Parks ever!

Super park 13 started out with a bang today with nice weather and great friends. Most of the Sessions team is down here for a full on reunion and as usual where throwing down. A few highlights where, Kyle Miller, Peter Benchetler and Zak Hale destroying the moto/BMX section. Andreas Gidlund and Nate Farrell stepping up to the 90 footer, Andreas got a front 9 and 10 over the beast. Billy and Brett throwing some sweet moves over the industry jump. Early in the day Billy hit this channel gap and completely over shot the thing, didn’t catch an inch of trany. He came away with a smile on his face. Later in the day, Bridges opened the BIG boy. Its about a 100 feet to the knuckle with a 30 foot tall lip. This thing is a beast. Only a select few were giving the OK to hit it today and Andreas got the nod. After watching Jonas Carlson go deep, Andreas took one to many speed checks and came up a board length short. We were all sitting up top and it looked pretty bad. Andy came away unscathed but broke his headphones in the fall. Check back tomorrow for more photos and story’s about day 2!

Antti Autti’s Shredbangers Ball hip-contest took place this past saturday. "Naku" took 1st place and took the highest air title!

E-Man, Zak Hale and Dave Fortin ran the show at the Grenade Games finals last weekend. Check out this video. Hopefully Fortin is OK after that slam.... ouch!!!

http://gnarcore.com/?p=2072

4/27/2009

Last Saturday, Sessions employees teamed up to give back to their local community in, "Come Fly With Me," a fashion show to benefit the Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition. The event was put together by Angela Chesnut and Marilyn Calciano to ensure compassionate, comprehensive care for children with life-threatening conditions. Among those in attendance were Laurie Butterworth and Devon Dabbs (the Co-Founders of “Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition” in Santa Cruz County). In addition, Susana Glina worked as a volunteer for the event and former Senator Bruce McPherson and his wife, Mary proved to be exceptional models in the runway show. Sessions rocked the runway wearing bright colors and catching everyone’s attention from the moment the models hit the stage. The entire team that came together to make this whole event possible worked very hard and the end result was a positive one. Sessions is very happy to support the Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition. Look forward to seeing more support from Sessions for this great cause in the future.

Click View Slide show for more pictures!

Congrats to "Naku" for taking 3rd in the Survival Of The Fittest contest in Crans Montana!

4/23/09

Brotherhood Snowboard camp is launching on July 4th and aims to represent tru snowboarding in the fullest!


Click here check out more info on Transworld biz

4/22/09

While creating high quality apparel in the interest of all the riders out there, SESSIONS is also dedicated to the interest of the environment around us. In order to make a positive impact on the world and help create sustainability, SESSIONS has implemented the Going Green Program. This program has 11 steps to assure that as a brand we are producing less waste.

Sessions is a proud supporter of Earth day and hopes that everyone will make the difference and pack their trash wherever they go. It’s the little things in life that make a difference!

-Sessions

4/21/09

Sessions, a leading snowboard outerwear manufacturer, is seeking talented individuals for a summer internship. Marketing interns will be responsible for MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter accounts as well as updating the Sessions’ website and blog. Interns must be able to work independently and follow direction within the work place and need to be trustworthy and hard working. Responsibilities include web updates, uploading product to website, event set up and tear down, guerilla marketing, promotions, and writing press releases.

Qualifications: Must be knowledgeable in MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and blogging. Must be proficient in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop. Other desirable qualities but not mandatory are video editing, flash, and html coding.

This is an unpaid internship. Internship can be used for school credit.

To apply please send cover letter, resume, and letters of recommendation to info@sessions.com Subject Line: Marketing Internship


ABOUT SESSIONS:
Founded in 1983, Sessions is a leading snowboard and action sports company that designs, merchandises, sources, and distributes high performance snowboard apparel, accessories and apparel for the core, youth-driven sports segment. Sessions was the first snowboarding company to incorporate Gore-Tex fabrics and Recco avalanche reflectors into their products. Today, Sessions has placed itself at the cutting edge of the music, snowboard and skateboard culture. Sessions is one of the last remaining independently owned brands.

More about Sessions at www.sessions.com

4/20/09

Sessions is a company that has been involved in snowboarding since the early 1980’s when Joel Gomez opened the first snowboard only store in the world. Now they make all sorts of kick ass stuff; clothing, outer wear and so on. Anyhow, the good people at Sessions had arranged for a little photo shoot up in Lake Tahoe with some of their team riders. Pretty much anyone would jump at that chance; Tahoe in spring, good riders, good weather, time to head up interstate 80 and on to Tahoe! It also happened to be the final weekend for a lot of resorts in the area.

For the whole story and more photos, check out
http://crosland.snowboard-revolution.com/snow-skate/tahoe-final-weekend/

April 20, 2009

Check out the latest webisode from the Nimus Crew "En Route America," feturing our very own Andy Mahre and Chris Benchetler.

http://www.nimbusindependent.com/videos/webisodes.html#top

4/19/09

Second day at Alpine was even more sweet!

super tierd after today!!

Brett was filming beacause he was feeling a bit sick…
George from SnowRev was there shooting photos for my interview!
Jump was fun and weather was amazing…
We ended up shooting lifestyle pics.
Went down by the river, we got some cool once when i was standing right in the middle of it…
yey…
Tomorrow were going to Squaw Valley again to shoot!
Hopefully the have finished their new kickers!

cheerios

4/19/09

First day at Alpine! super super fun! kind of warm and slushy but it was alright, they had a pretty fun jump! Hard to get the speed because of the slush but we got some stuff!

Tomorrow we’re going back there with SnowRev.com to shot a interview and film some more.

Highlight of the day!



We were just cruising around and Tayler showed us a natural jump.

He told us to POINT it because there is no way to overshoot it...

So first they go and it looks just fine.

Then Brett drops in and just overshoost the hell out of it!

Maybe 4 m flat then a 5 m landing then a hill up on 3 m but he went over all of it... to his ass....

So I was like god damn… I’ll chill a bit with the speed...

Ye right.... pointed but instead of going over to the flat, I land in the uphill and faceplant...

No one got hurt but if we would have got it on film it would have been so fun to watch.... Now its barbecue time!!!

April 17th, 2009

We have been in Tahoe for a few days since the Colorado trip.

We had a bit of bad luck in Colorado with the snow. They had a dust storm the week before we got there and that made the new snow that landed on top of the dust super bad…

Warm weather and dust under = bad conditions….

Kind of bad for a 13 hour drive for 1 day of shooting then 13 hours back.

We all got shots from Colorado, so we were happy about it anyway… we had allot of fun during the way so it was all cool!



Since returning from CO, we have been shooting at Boreal for a couple days, got some cool and fun stuff!

Went up one day and checked out North Star as well, shot some trick tip stuff for our blog!

We’ve had a few days of sunshine witch has been awesome, snowboarding the whole day and barbecue and chill after!

Next few days we will be shooting up at Squaw Valley, we are looking forward to it!

Keep checking in for new and fresh updates!!!

Drew has been working hard filming his part for Pirate Movie Productions and he is headed back to Europe at the end of the week to finish that up for this season. Drew recently did a trick tip for Twsnow last week at Keystone so that will be coming out in the mag and in the 20 tricks vid next year. Also check out the spot we did for Skullcandy TV here... http://www.skullcandy.tv/channel--media-16999-title-Lift-Interview-with-Drew-Fuller.html
Drew’s having a great winter. Look for all his hard work to pay off in the magazines the Pirate movie and TWsnow 20 tricks video hitting your local shop this fall!

Beaver Creek, CO April 15, 2009 -

Malay Day is an event held each year in honor
and loving memory of snowboarder Josh Malay who lost his life while
snowboarding in 2004. Malay Day is celebration of Josh’s life, where friends and
family are inspired to "live and love life" in his memory.

For the 6th consecutive year and the first with Beaver Creek as the host, Malay
Day was a smashing success. More than one-hundred (100) competitors signed
up as crowds of on-lookers were scattered throughout Beaver Creek’s
snowboard park. The park staff did a great job laying out three (3) different
sections for riders to hit including; the upper “Lumber Yard”, the “Half Barrel”
half-pipe and the main “Rodeo Terrain Park”.

The top to bottom competition was judged on overall performance throughout
the entire park. As the sun emerged, the “Rodeo Terrain Park” became the main
session of the competition, where riders were expertly executing the rails and
hip. There were many standout performances during the day, but in the end, it
was clear that Billy Rodriguez was the overall winner. Please visit
http://www.snowboard-mag.com/?q=node/35045 for event photos and results.

Final Results:

Men:

1st Billy Rodriguez
2nd Andrew Steward
3rd Ricky Rodriquez

April 14, 2009

Check out Team Manager/ Rider Brett Butcher and Swedish phenom Andreas Gidlund having some fun during Andy’s first ever Tahoe shred sesh! It was a good one!

April 9th, 2009

Come out to the Beaver Creek Park tomorrow for prizes, music, food and drink to celebrate Josh’s life.

April 3, 2009

A memorial service for Shane McConkey will take place at 4:30 pm on Sunday, April 5th on the Olympic Plaza Sundeck (base of KT-22) in Squaw Valley USA. A Gathering of Shane’s Friends will follow at 6:30 pm at the Olympic Village Lodge (OVL).

Even though he travelled the world, Shane’s presence in Squaw Valley was ubiquitous. From the many pairs of rockered skis that dangle from the chairs lifts, to the scores of 18 to 30 year-old Shane-idolizing dream chasers – in Squaw Valley, Shane is everywhere. People live here because of Shane. People come to ski here because of Shane. They find euphoria skiing on skis invented by Shane, while skiing lines they saw Shane ski in a movie. Shane McConkey’s influence and resounding affect on the members of this community cannot be quantified.

When word of Shane’s death first hit, disbelief, sadness, and the looming question “why?” ran rampant. Today, the flags in Squaw Valley hang at half mast still, but slowly a sense of humor has begun to come back. Reminded of Shane’s satirical genius and hilarity through good times and through bad, we strive now to conjure these traits in ourselves. Shane is life, hyperbolized. May we smile and live loud for Shane - his life and his legacy.

March 27, 2009

Sessions is extremely sad to announce the passing of long time team rider and friend Shane McConkey. Shane, who has been a part of the Sessions’ family for over a decade and was known for his incredible big mountain skiing and base jumping, passed away on March 26, 2009 from a base jumping accident in the Italian Dolomites.

“Shane did a double back flip in perfect McConkey style. As planned, afterwards, he went to release his skis in order to fly away from the wall and safely deploy his parachute. This is where the jump went wrong. He was not able to release either of his skis. He remained focused on releasing them by reaching down towards his bindings. This put him into a spin/ tumble/ unstable falling style, that may have appeared out of his control, but in reality, Shane was not concerned about flying position or style; just concerned with reaching those skis so that he could get them off and fly or deploy his parachute. He succeeded in releasing both of skis and immediately transitioned into a perfect flying position.” – JT Holmes. Although Shane was able to release his skies he was unable to deploy his parachute in time.

Shane had completed over 700 successful base jumps in his career and was filming with Red Bull and Matchstick Productions when the accident occurred. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all who knew him especially his wife, Sherry, and his 3 ½ year old daughter, Ayla. He will be missed dearly.

Friends and family have started a website in honor or Shane. Please visit http://shanemcconkey.org/ donations and wishes to his family can also be made on this website.

Shane’s Memroial will be held at Squaw Valley USA on Sunday, April 5 at 4:30pm.

March 27, 2009

Yesterday I lost a very dear friend... I’m saddened and devastated....... Words cannot express the loss. The last time I was this sad was when I lost my father. My heart is breaking for Sherry and Ayla, their loss is incomprehensible.

I cannot remember the first time I met Shane McConkey but it must have been 15 years ago or so at Squaw Valley. Jimbo Morgan and Brad Holmes told me that I should meet this guy Shane that had big cajones….from our very first introduction I grew to love, respect (and laugh my ass off with) Shane.

Shane was passionate about life. He was funny, friendly, creative, patient, and one of the most loyal friends I have ever known. He was a devoted Husband and Father. I had the unique good fortune to ride with him many times over the past 15 years. Although I could never keep up with him, he would always be patiently waiting for me at the bottom of the run, smiling, ready to ride the lift back up.

Over the past 25 years I have had the opportunity to know and sponsor some of the greatest skateboarders, snowboarders, surfers, skiers and musicians in the world. Shane was the very best of the best. Next to Steve Caballero, Shane McConkey has been sponsored by Sessions longer than any other athlete in the Sessions family. He will be forever missed.

Joel Gomez

March 26, 2009

A nice late season dump in Tahoe leaves us with a little extra pow to tide us over for the rest of the season!

March 24, 2009

Our very own international rider, Antii "Naku" Piirainen, gets the title spot of cover on March’s Issue of Onboard Magazine. Naku also scored a 12 page interview in the same mag issue.

Check it out!

Hump’s run looked like this,
Switch boardslide to frontboard tap to fakie, Half cab 5050 on the down rail, backside 7 nose, front 9, cab 9, switch miller flip over the barrel to finish it off
Congrats Tim!!!!!

Donner ski Ranch was one of the first resorts to allow snowboarding and in 1985 held the World Snowboard Championships. Tahoe’s roots go deep into snowboarding and every winter the Tahoe Legends pull out their vintage gear and come together to play in the snow, share old story’s and listen to some good ole rock. This year the venue for the event was a hand dug halfpipe complete with hits, jibs and bonks. In order to compete you had to meet one of the following criteria below.

a. 1983 – 89 World Championships
b. 1983 – 89 US Open
c. 1985 – Sierra Snowboarding Championships, Soda Springs, CA
d. 1986 – Subaru Snowboarding Championships, Donner Ski Ranch
e. 1987 – 89 California State Snowboarding Series or Ragen’ at the Ranch Snowboard Series.
f. Any OP PRO snowboarding events or the US Open, 1989 or earlier.

Chris Roach, Jim Rippey, Rocket Reeves, Jeff Brushie, Mike and Tina Basich, Noah Salasnek, Joel Gomez, Terry Kidwell and Tom Burt where just some of the legends that came out to ride and hang out.

It was pretty amazing to stand next to the pipe and watch these guys shred the pipe with the same gear and style that they did in 1985. If you are anywhere near Lake Tahoe in March next year, I highly recommend you make it up to Donner Ski Ranch to partake and support the Tahoe Legends of Snowboarding.

March 17, 2009

Sessions would like to thank everyone for participating in the South Lake Tahoe USASA series this season! It was a huge success and we were glad to be apart of the fun, and we are looking forward to next season!

March 17, 2009

Check out the latest edition of "En Route" with the second webisode filmed in Austria featuring our very own Chris Benchetler and Andy Mahre. Check it out

March 16, 2009

Here is a photo of some team riders hangin with the animals at one of out 2010 meetings!

3/16/09

Congratulations to Canadian Sessions rider Dave Fortin for winning the TELUS Triple Big Air Challenge this weekend! Dave walked away with a nice check for 3500.00 for his effort!

March 16, 2009

The Nimbus crew are at it again and this time they are in Poland. Check out all their travel details and pictures on Powder. Click Here for Full Story

March 13, 2009

Sign up with Sessions Search & Win site and redeem points that can be used for Sessions gear. It’s super easy and it’s free.

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1. Search the web and get results directly from Google + Ask.
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It’s free and anyone can join:
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-The Sessions Team

March 12, 2009

Check out Tim’s runs from the Toyota Big Air event in Japan landing him in a 2nd place podium spot!

Click here to watch!

March 12, 2009

Molly Milligan took 2nd overall and 1st place in the rail contest at the recent BILABONG FLAUNT IT event at MT Seymour.

Congrats!

March 11, 2009
Come out and support your roots at the Legends of Tahoe Snowboarding Classic taking place Mar. 14th, 2009 at Donner Ski Ranch!

Entry Fee: $20.00 towards the purse.

Public: you started snowboarding in 1990 or later, you’re not a legend but you’re important and you’re rad! Prize will be awarded to top riders, all ages invited!

Snowboards: pre 1993 or earlier! Must be approved by Mike Chantry.
We are not so concerned about bindings.

March 11, 2009

Zak Hale took 2nd at Brighton’s first Utah Jazz Jam. Congrats Zak!!!

March 9, 2009

Here is a picture taken from the top of Kirkwood resort looking down into a nice fresh powdery chute before it gets slayed!

-Billy Flick

March 9, 2009

Come out to Sierra at Tahoe Saturday March 21st for the 3rd annual "Buckle Up Big Air" contest! Anyone can enter and there will be cash and prizes for winners! See you out there!

March 9, 2009

Check us out on Twitter and leave your comments.

http://twitter.com/SessionsInfo

3/8/09

February has been a great month for Tahoe. Multiple 3 - 5 foot dumps and the snow pack is finally starting to get stable. We woke up at 3:30 the other morning to take a stab at a popular Tahoe jump. We hiked through the dark woods for about an hour and finally reached our destination only to find that Andreas Wiig had beaten us by five minutes. We were a little bummed but than after watching the sunrise and finding a perfect face full of lines to ride the smiles came back and we quickly started to set a boot back to the top of the face.

March 5, 2009

Its a GIRL!

Congratulations to the Greg Oakley family on the new addition to the Sessions family, "Ava Taylor Oakley" born last Friday.

March 5, 2009

Check out Chris Benchetler’s North Cascade Heli trip on freeskier.com! Yet another epic pow day for Chris! Click Here to check out the article

March 2, 2009

Hello All,

Please check out our (Nimbus Independent’s) ’En Route’ webisode from Japan- http://www..nimbusindependent.com/videos/webisodes.html

As you have now seen (if you click the link), we moved forward with our second year of free HD and iPod downloadable webisodes, as well as restructured our website- www.nimbusindependent.com

The second webisode from Europe will be releasing on the 15th of March.

Enjoy. Hope everyone is well...

Chris Benchetler
www.chrisbenchetler.com

2/28/09

Tim had a great showing at the Asian open taking 5th place in the slopestyle.... look for Tim later this month as he defends his big air title at the US Open.......

2/24/09

Tahoe was amazing last week, once the sun finally came out we got out there and bagged some air time for Autumn Lines new movie.... Montevideo

Feb 24, 2009

Check out the Brighton Jazz Jam on March 7, 2009 at the majestic park at Brighton Ski Resort! Registration starts at 9-10:30 am and the event begins at 1pm! Join the fun for some great riding and awsome prizes!

Feb 24, 2009

Congratulations to Sessions Ski team shredder Matt Walker on his Dew Tour finnish! He ended up taking home an 11th place overall finnish on the tour and was consistently tearing up the finals at every stop! The Sessions team also stepped out to beautiful Northstar, CA for the weekend to support Walker on his stop... check out some of the pics!

Tim has been in Japan for the past few weeks riding bottomless powder. He took a break from all the gostly trees to compete in the Toyota big air, and came out of there with a 2nd place finish!!! The only rider to top his performance was Eero Ettala. Not to bad. Congrats on the strong finish!

Feb. 18, 2009

Come and check out the Pop Unknown reunion show on Saturday Feb. 21st at Mohawk! Then join Pop Unknown and Friends at the Rehab After Party the following day from 3-8pm at the Good Life Team Headquarters! Food and drinks will be provided!

Feb 13, 2009

After unwillingly being split from his twin at birth, Sessions team manager Brett Butcher was finally reunited with his brother! During Damage Inc Concert at the Sessions booth after tuesdays SIA convention Brett’s brother was spotted slam dancing in the crowd. After he was mistaken for Brett by an employee of Sessions he was brought back stage to show Sessions TM the remarkable resemblance. This sparked some kind of weird bond between the two, leaving them to discuss their lives leading up to the encounter. Brett told his brother that he was the TM for Sessions outerwear, and also a pro snowboarder. In return his bro explained to him that he had been shipped to Kentucky at birth to become the son of two nascar crazed Irish farmers, leaving him to believe they were his real parents due to the red pigment in the hair. Weird as it may seem he did not even show up to this event because of snowboarding, but because he had heard word of mouth that there was going to be a savage ass Metallica cover band (Damage Inc.) at the Sessions booth inside the SIA event. Once again congratulations on the reuniting!

Feb 11, 2009

Sessions would like to thank everyone who helped to rock the party at ISPO and SIA Vegas this year! The turnout was great at both events and Sessions blew away the competition with their award winning innovations and live band appearances! Vegas and ISPO had a year to remember with fly after parties (thanks to Skullcandy) and a great atmosphere! check out the some of the pictures!

February 12, 2009

Sessions won the acclaimed ISPO Board Sports Award for the Apparel Category for Snow 10 innovations. Sessions Ignition Stripe Jacket won the award for the hidden mitten available in select men’s and women’s Snow 10 Jackets and all softshells. Sessions also won an innovation award for the Breakaway pant that allows you to take off your underlayer without having to remove your outerwear pants, allowing for maximum convienience.

Check out our tech page soon to see these new features.

February 10, 2009

I recently went on a trip to Niseko, Japan to film with the Nimbus Crew (Eric, Pep, Chris, Justin, Ike, Erin, and Dave). We were shooting for our first webisode of the year, called “En Route”. We were blessed with plenty of fresh snow and nice people. We may not have hit the biggest jumps or cliffs ever, but we did ski pow for two weeks, and get a lot of good footage for the webisode which will be online February 15th at www.bnqt.com.

DayOne – Here is Chris, Eric and myself getting ready for Japan shred day number one. Justin Wiegand on the camera.

Staple_JAPAN – Here I‘m holding a staple that was put in my head from a crash. I paid $135 to have it put in, so I pulled it out myself to save a few dollars.

-Andy Mahre

Come out for a night of fun and great drink specials Feb. 11th at Lakinuki!!! There will be a live DJ and NO COVER!! GET THERE!!!

Last week Las Vegas said goodbye to SIA. The annual trade show is moving to Denver next year. Sessions had Damage Inc (a Metallica cover band) play and play they did. They went on for 3 nights straight at the Sessions booth. Things got rowdy... check out the photos!
Photos by Jeffhehlen.com

Anna Segal braved the fierce stormy sky’s to take home the gold in the slope style event at Winter X. The course was slow and the light was flat making it hard to see. Anna was the first girl to drop and was able to put down a run that couldn’t be topped all day. Gap to the down on the down flat down box into a FS 360 on the first jump, a Lincoln loop on the second and a 540 on the “money booter” to finish it off!
Way to go Anna… Congratulations and thanks for all the support!

Women’s Slopestyle Final Results:
1) Anna Segal
2) Grete Eliassen
3) Kaya Turski
4) Keri Herman
5) Megan Olenick
6) Kristi Leskinen
7) Sarah Burke
8) Kim Lamarre

Tim finished with a very respectable 7th place finish today at winter X. The field was stacked and the riding was insane. Tim put down a very solid 2nd run and at one point was sitting in 3rd. As the contest went on the ridding got better and better, you truly had to bring your A game and than some to get on the podium. A big congrats and thanks to Tim for his strong showing and for representing Sessions!!!!

Watch Tim go for the gold in the X games slopestyle finals tomorrow! Tune into ESPN at 3ET.....

Mini Session’s shred Jacob Krugmire took first this past weekend at the Greenhorn Games at Summit at Snoqualmie. This is a contest for the young guys. If you are over 13 don’t even think about it! Its a great time for the little guys to have the park all to themselves and push each other. Congrats Jacob!

Drew Fuller has a two page Skull Candy add in the February issue of Snowboard-Mag

Brett Butcher has a full page Gallery photo in the February issue of Snowboard-Mag

Tim Humphreys has a Sessions add, a Flow add and a full page Elements photo in the February issue of Snowboarder

And finally check out Andreas Gidlunds Sessions and Celsius adds in the February issue of Transworld Snowboarding, his Bataleon add in the February issue of Snowboard-mag and his couple shots in the Route 66 story in the February issue of Snowboarder!

January 16th, 2009

This weekend marks the grand opening of the Sessions snowpark in Greece. The park is up and running for 2 years and is a huge success. This weekends festivities include the grand opening, NIght riding provided by blow-up light gloves in the park and of course, the big shin-dig. So, if your willing and able, head 2 hours north of Athens to Fterolakas and bring your party pants.

Jan 5, 2009

Come check out college night @ Mt High resort for great savings on riding, drinks, and food, plus a ton of free swag and hook ups by the sponsors!!!

The Sessions family would like to wish Team manager/ Rider Brett Butcher a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Sessions showed their support for World Snowboarding Day at Squaw Valley USA on the 21st of December, by setting up their tent in the village and passing out stickers to snowboarders who were out on the mountain to support the cause. Followed by a little work in the village the Sessions crew got to take some fluffy turns in the fresh powder leaving the day a total success and a great day to be onboard!!

Tim Humphreys and Andreas Gidlund are both going to be competing in the Slopestyle event at the TTR 6 Star, O’neill Evolution tour this week. Slopestyle Qualifiers are Wednesday the 7th and Finals are Friday the 9th. If you are over in Switzerland head to Davos and check it out!

December 21, 2008

Congratulations to our Virtual Best Friends contest WINNER !!! The prize will be awarded to 19 year old Andrew Kong!

Once again congrats and everyone at Sessions and Skull Candy hopes that you enjoy your ill new jacket!

December 19, 2008

Sessions would like to announce its’ participation with World Snowboard Day. World Snowboard day is a great way to get out on the slopes and show your appreciation to the kids and people who make the snow industry possible. World Snowboard Day on Sunday, December 21, 2008 is a day to have fun and shred it up.

Sessions and Squaw Valley USA have teamed up to make this day visible in the Tahoe Area. Sessions will be supporting this day by setting up a booth near the Squaw Valley Funitel and holding games for great giveaway prizes including outerwear jackets.

Come stop by the Sessions booth at Squaw Valley USA for plenty of fun and prizes.

We’ll see you there!

For more information on World Snowboard Day check out: http://www.world-snowboard-day.com

Dec 18, 2008

Sessions would like to congratulate Tanya and Justin on their new addition to the Sessions family a BABY GIRL! We are all very excited for you and wish you the best!

-Sessions

Today was the Mens slopestyle Qualifier for the Dew Tour. There were 50 guys battling it out for 16 spots. Some heavy riding went down for a qualifier. Tim Humphreys qualified 3rd with a run that went, front side 900, cab 900 to backside 720. Semifinals and Finals are this Friday!

Tune in on Friday, December 26th at 6pm PST/9pm EST on Fuel TV and later again that evening at 9pm PST/12am EST. 
 
The show rebroadcasts the following weekday on Monday, December 29th at 11:30am PST/2:30pm EST and again later at 2:30pm PST/5:30pm EST

Hello everyone,
Our latest Red Bull project up in Whistler was another great success and a ton of fun! On December 12th Whistler/Blackcomb opened their new Peak 2 Peak Gondola which connects the two mountains from the top. To help "launch" this amazing new engineering marvel myself, Miles Daisher, Chuck the Chuckin and a few other members of the Red Bull Air Force - Andy Farrington, Luke Aikens, Jon DeVore and Eli Thompson - got to launch ourselves off one of the gondola cabins from its highest point, about 1,427 feet above the valley floor. To see the video go
here:
http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/webcast/index.htm
Click on the middle video link - the one with the Red Bull logo on it.
See if you can spot Chuck.
We all had an amazing time in Whistler enjoying their incredible mountain and village. That place is a lot of fun and the skiing up there is pretty dam sweet. Whistler/Blackcomb and Red Bull Canada worked together to put on this great event and all went very smoothly.
There were a lot of other things going on as part of the launch besides our base jump. It turned out to be a very big event with a lot of logistics to organize but we were all very impressed with how smooth the entire operation went. It was a pleasure to work with everyone there. The event was scheduled for Dec 12th but due to what looked like some snowy weather that week we decided to get up to Whistler a week early to nail the jumps during some good weather. We all got 3 jumps each for the cameras so that we would insure having the footage in the can for the official launch on the 12th. All went great and we traded off filming each other on the jumps. On one of the jumps Miles got directly underneath me so I pulled early. This earned me an embarrassing altitude abuse ticket! I got to do a bunch of flippy doodles on a couple of the other jumps so that kind of made up for it.
Miles got some great shots of me while jumping with me as the camera man. This is usually harder than doing flips or tricks. The next week we flew back to Whistler for the official launch but the weather wasn’t very good for filming the jumps. The event production used the footage of the previous jumps for the live ceremony and for the web cam but we still all jumped right during the ribbon cutting anyway. Nobody saw that except for the people in the gondola with us but we didn’t care. It was still fun as hell! Our still photographer, Yorick Carroux, got some great shots. They are attached. The ones that have more snow in them are the ones from the Dec. 12th official launch. http://www.carroux.com/ or http://www.redbull-photofiles.com/Photofiles/PhotofilesModule/ShowShootingImages?shootingID=1229127831538-1824928553
There was also a crew from the Discovery Channel there to document everything. They have been following the construction of the Peak 2 Peak for one of their shows. We might appear on Discovery Channel after all! The Peak 2 Peak Gondola travels a total distance of 2.73 miles (4.4km). The highest point is 1,427 feet (436m). The ride takes approximately 11 minutes. There are 28 gondola cabins which can hold 28 people, 22 sitting and 6 standing. Each cabin departs every 49 seconds. Its capacity is 2050 people per hour each way. I believe it is the longest unsupported span in North America. Its pretty dam cool!
For more information go here: http://ww1.whistlerblackcomb.com/p2pg/
Thanks to all who made this project happen! It was a ton of fun.
- Shane

The new Snowboarder Photo Annual recently hit the book shelves and the Sessions team is all over it!

Tim Humphreys, Nate Bozung, Antti "Naku" Piirainen and Drew Fuller all have one page editorial shots

Andreas Gidlund has a Sessions add

NW Sessions rep rider Shane Stalling has a two page spread

Go pick yourself up a copy and check out all the action!!!!!

12/14/08

The Grand Prix, "Progression Session" took place last night under snowy skies at Copper Mountain. Tim Humphreys was in town to compete for a chunk of the prize money.
The setup was a flat step down style jump into a hitching post jib with transitions on all for sides. 20 riders took to the course and five were giving the nod to ride in the finals. Tim rode supper strong in qualifiers and made the cut.
Finals were best of three runs. On Tim’s first run he landed a picture perfect cab 900 but fell trying a miller flip hand plant on the hitching post. A run that would have landed 1st or 2nd place. Tim went for the same tricks on his next two runs but with snow pilling up on the run in, speed was becoming difficult to obtain. He wasn’t able to put down a perfect run in the finals but still came away with a very respectable 5th place. Great job Tim!

December 13, 2008

Sessions is sponsoring the weekly shred night in Reno at the Pub N Sub with Out of Bounds.

This sunday is Tim Humphreys birthday!!! Hope its one for the ages... happy birthday Tim!!!!

December 11, 2008

Congratulations to our Virtual Best Friends contest WINNER !!! The prize will be awarded to 16 year old Connor "Newschoolers" Johnson!

Once again congrats and everyone at Sessions and Skull Candy hopes that you enjoy your ill new jacket! As for the rest of you, there is still time to enter for a chance to win because we will be choosing one winner a week until December 25!

December 3, 2008

Tim Humphreys and Taylor Carlton will be at Copper next week to compete in the Triple Line contest. If you are in the area go check it out. It kicks off at 7PM on December 13th!!!

December 2, 2008

Congratulations to our Virtual Best Friends contest WINNER !!! The prize will be awarded to 29 year old Linda Johnsen!

Once again congrats and everyone at Sessions and Skull Candy hopes that you enjoy your ill new jacket! As for the rest of you, there is still time to enter for a chance to win because we will be choosing one winner a week until December 25!

11/29/08

Pirate Movie Production Team: Danny Larsen, Sani Alibabic, Kalle Ohlson, Drew Fuller

and Joshua Sherman – Tuesday 12.02.08

Today, Pirate Movie Productions team members, Danny Larsen, Sani Alibabic, Kalle Ohlsen, Drew Fuller and Joshua Sherman shred onto the Habit. Plus, our own Jordan Morris goes to the rodeo to find out if he’s got what it takes to grab the bull by the horns. Also, correspondent John Cowan went to Whistler, BC to check out the Crankworx bike festival. Danny Larsen’s sponsors include: 32/Etnies, Spy, Whiteout Outerwear, K2, Clast and Sessions Boardshop. Sani Alibabic’s sponsors include: Analog, Burton, X-Double and Clast. Kalle Ohlson’s sponsors include: Vans, Smith, Bataleon, Union Bindings, Neff Headwear and Haze Streetwear. Drew Fuller’s sponsors include: Celsius, IS Eyewear, Sessions, IM Streetwear, Rossignol, Rockwell Timekeepers, Skullcandy and Dakine. Josh Sherman’s sponsors include: Salomon, Smith, Bonfire, Active, Breckenridge, Elm and Drop.

This one on Methodmag.com

21.11.2008
Amidst the mayhem of booze, cheese, and bad weather at Le Mondial du Snowboard at Les 2 Alpes, France we ran into Flow’s freshest meat, Tim Humphreys. After last seasons triumphs at the US Open Big Air and other events, this young rider from New Jersey has been launched to the center stage but found the time to sit down with us and give us his quick two cents on the French, New Jersey, Flow, and what the 08-09 season has in store for him.

Name -Tim Humphreys
Age-20 years old
Hometown- Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Sponsors- Flow, Bolle, Sessions, Eesa, Neff, Skullcandy

How is it that someone from such an unsnowy and dirty place as New Jersey has so much skill?

Well in New Jersey, you learn very quickly not to fall because it’s icy and you falling equals you getting hurt, so I think that’s why a lot of the east coast guys are so consistent because we learn quickly that falling isn’t an option.

Do you have New Jersey Pride?

Oh yea! I mean it’s dirty, it’s scummy, it has like 3 or 4 of the most dangerous cities in the US, it might have like 108 toxic waste dumps, but you gotta love it. The euros might not know too much about it but they will.

What are you doing in France?

"It’s an opening season industry jam" in Les 2 Alpes called the Mondial, some sort of tradeshow contest but the event was cancelled. I was just told I’m going to France and that’s it.

What is one good thing about the French?

They have some really good food here. I haven’t had one bad meal yet. No matter where I go it always seems to be tasty.

What is one bad thing about the French?

It seems like people here run on French time. Every time I’m supposed to do something in 20 minutes, it ends up being like 2 hours later. Things just seem to move a bit slower here... but hey I hear Spanish time is even worse. This interview is the first thing I have done on time so far.

If you could go back to one country you have been to, which one would it be?

Japan, for sure. That place is the best. They get dumped on super hard and being from New Jersey where you barely get fresh snow it’s nice to get 2 meters in a week. It’s definitely a nice change.

Do you prefer big comps like the Open or do you prefer a day out with the homies?

I like both, I definitely like riding with my friends but I am a fan of contests, growing up I did a lot of comps and so I feel comfortable and enjoy competing.

What do you have to say to anyone that doubts the Flow binding system or hasn’t tried it?

Well if you haven’t tried them or doubt them, they should go get a pair, maybe a demo, borrow some and see how they feel and find out what all the hype is about. The NXT AT’s are the real nice. While they’re at it they should try a Flow board too. I recommend the Era or the Quantum.

What do you say to the people that are calling you next "Big Man" at Flow?

I’ll take it, I’ll take it.

So just to wrap things up, what are plans for this season; filming, competitions, girlfriends, pets....

Well I don’t have a girlfriend, maybe I’ll film some stuff but I’m not really with any film company yet, maybe if someone is looking… hint, hint, I might be available. Definitely have a lot of competitions coming up; the first Dew Tour, some of the (Burton) Opens, I am gonna try to make it to the European Open, definitely the US Open, the Honda sessions, Toyota Big Air, and probably a bunch more that I can squeeze in. I’ve got a list long that is as long as hell of things I’m supposed to be at. I’d like to tell myself I’ll spend some time learning new tricks and filming but just seems like I always just end up doing comps.

-By Alexis
-Photos by Rami Hanafi

November 25, 2008

Congratulations to our Virtual Best Friends contest WINNER !!! The prize will be awarded to 25 year old Luke Sparkman!

Once again congrats and everyone at Sessions and Skull Candy hopes that you enjoy your ill new jacket! As for the rest of you, there is still time to enter for a chance to win because we will be choosing one winner a week until December 25!

Sessions B4BC Madonna Jacket will be featured on FuelTV tonight.


Monday, November 24th at 6pm PST/9pm EST on Fuel TV and later again that evening at 9pm PST/12am EST.


The show rebroadcasts the following day at 11:30am PST/2:30pm EST and again later at 2:30pm PST/5:30pm EST (however, check local listings in your area is it could vary from location to location). You will therefore have four opportunities to catch the show in a 48-hour period

November 21, 2008

Check out Andreas Gidlund goof around and throw down in Hintertux, Austria
Click on videos and check it out!

November 20th 2008

November 20, 2008

Congratulations to our Virtual Best Friends contest WINNER !!! The prize will be awarded to 25 year old Jenny March from Fairbanks, AK!!! Once again congrats and everyone at Sessions and Skull Candy hopes that you enjoy your ill new jacket! As for the rest of you, there is still time to enter for a chance to win because we will be choosing one winner a week until December 25!

November 12, 2008

Congratulations to our Virtual Best Friends contest WINNER !!! The prize will be awarded to 14 year old Tyler Sammons from PA!!! Once again congrats and everyone at Sessions and Skull Candy hopes that you enjoy your ill new jacket! As for the rest of you, there is still time to enter for a chance to win because we will be choosing one winner a week until December 25!

November 12, 2008

Tim will be competing in X Games slopestyle for the second year in a row.
Congrats Tim!

November 6, 2008

Congratulations to our Virtual Best Friends contest WINNER !!! The prize will be awarded to 16 year old TJ Marriott from Chatham, NJ!!! Once again congrats and everyone at Sessions and Skull Candy hopes that you enjoy your ill new jacket! As for the rest of you, there is still time to enter for a chance to win because we will be choosing one winner a week until December 25!

November 5, 2008

Sessions is pleased to introduce Matt Walker as part of the Sessions Ski Team. This Aspen, Colorado native had his very first big win at age 18, with the AM competition called Young Gun. It was telling that he was destined for greatness.... Following that win, he’s gone on to win the Kick Aspen Big Air in ‘07, as well as taking 5th place in both the U..S Open Slopestyle. and the Nippon Open slope over in Japan; while his main competitive accomplishment was in winning the ‘08 Aspen Open Slopestyle.

“Great choice guys, couldn’t have picked a better guy!” - Doug Bishop, Newschoolers.com

Aside from Matt’s ski slope success, he’s also made some room for a few film accomplishments. In the past two years he’s been filming with Poorboyz; Yeah Dude in ‘07 and now he’s also got a segment in Reasons coming out this year.

Keep an eye out for Matt this coming winter as he represents Sessions throughout the U.S. and Europe. As you’ll see, he’ll be a force to be reckoned with this Winter!

“I am STOKED to be on the Sessions’ Ski Team and to have another epic, fun, healthy winter!” – Matt Walker

More about Sessions at www.sessions.com

November 4th

WINTER IS HERE! Today was amazing. All summer long your thoughts are on the first day you can pull the snowboard out and take some turns, hit a rail or get some airtime. Today was that day and it ranked as one of the best first days I have ever had……
The plan was simple, drive to Mt Rose, hike the ridge and find powder. James and I weren’t the only ones with this idea, we rolled up around 9 and the parking lot was filling up fast. We quickly laced up our boots as our noses took in the crisp cold air. Not a minute into the hike we ran into Jake Devine, Brendan Hayes and Brandon Dreary. After high fives were thrown we continued up the ridge into a winter wonderland. A little ways up the trail Jake spotted this hip step down into a pretty deep pocket. After a quick pat down the session was on. Front threes and methods were the tricks of the day. Halfway through the session Brandon Cocard, Tim Eddy, Taylor Carlton and Alex Horgan came hiking up the ridge. More high fives were tossed around and they got in on the session. After the hip was torn to pieces we moved down and hit every bump, rock, tree and cliff we could find. It was an epic day and the smile is still on my face. If today is a sign of things to come it will be a winter for the ages!!!!

Brett Butcher

Sessions was on hand this past weekend for the SF Ski and Snowboard festival. With colder temperatures and snow in the forecast, people’s thoughts are changing over to winter fun in the Sierras. The weekend was split up into two days. Day one’s theme was wine and ski and day two was beer and boards. Over a hundred breweries and wineries where on hand for people to sample there product. Consumers could also purchase their season passes from there favorite Tahoe resorts, check out new products from industry leading companies and buy new winter gear from the many shops on hand. Both days were packed and the Sessions blue ball toss was a hit! The event was a success and should be bigger and better next year!

November 2, 2008

Report by Sessions EU team skier, Skye Darden.

"Awright geezer?", some bloke said to me with a serious cockney accent. I was to learn that he was just calling me a dude. He must of seen all the sessions gear i was sporting, and knew what time it was. A couple of other "dudes" have come from across the Atlantic and all over Europe to compete in the first big air event in London. The London Freeze saw 32 of the best skiers in the world hit the old Freestyle.ch style jump in front of the massive and very iconic Battersea power station. The event included a knockout judging system lead by head judge, and the ultimate "dude", Tanner Hall. Other riders included Simon Dumont, Jacob Wester, PK Hunder, and Colby West battling it out against some of the best new up and coming athletes. One of those up and coming riders is Breck’s own, Matt Walker. The newly acquired session’s rider stoked the crowd with his great style while spinning his 9’s and 10’s. Due to the difficulty with the snow, the in run was very dicey as many guys had problems with their switch tricks. Matt sailed through the first round to go on and face Austria’s Fabio Studer. Fabio threw some very stylish 7’s with great grab combos and wowed the judges enough to edge Matt. But what do most of the session’s guys do when they are done competing? PARTY!! And Matt came through in true form by helping plot an "emancipation" plan to free a bottle of Jack. It worked, and as of the time that this report was written, have not seen, nor heard from Matt. I just hope he made it home. I’m sure he did, after all... he is a dude! PEAZ

0ctober 30, 2007

What up everybody! The Tim Brauch 60 min Doc. is comming soon! Untill then you can check out the trailer by clicking one of the links below! One love Tim!
Trailer in English
Trailer in Spanish
Trailer in Japanese

Oct 30th 2008,

Sessions would like to announce a new member to the Sessions web family. www.sessionsteam.blogspot.com is another place to go to get all the news, videos, story’s and happenings from Sessions riders all over the world. Check back daily for new content and spread the word!

Sessions

Check out Shane McConkey’s Interview about his new ski video "Claim" on The MSNBC Today Show!(a href= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27338223#27338223>Click here to view

October 28, 2008


Come check out the railjam and raffle @ The Valencia Club Friday Nov 14, 2008!!!

Oct. 25th, 2008

Boreal’s 4th annual JPI went off with a bang high atop the Sierra Mountains on Saturday, October 25th. The JPI is a great event because it really kicks off the snow season in Lake Tahoe and this year was bigger and better. With cold temperatures the past few weeks, Boreal was able to blow a ton of snow. This enabled them to open a public jib area witch included a stair feature, down boxes, C boxes, wall ride and a 20 foot jump. It was a complete zoo, with as many as 500 kids hiking a patch of snow and trying to avoid collisions! Sessions had a great presence at the JPI with riders Nate Farrell, Taylor Carlton, Zak Hale, Brett Butcher and Kyle Miller all in attendance hanging out at the Sessions tents, singing autographs, throwing out Sessions tees, hats and stickers. The main event went down on the custom-built staircase feature when the sun set. Zak and Kyle competed and had a strong showing, both just missing the podium. With over 3000 spectators JPI4 was a huge success and an event you should mark on your calendars to attend next fall!

October 24, 2008

Sessions would like to introduce Brett Butcher as its new Snow Team Manager. Brett has bean a part of the Sessions family for quite some time, working up through the ranks from a flow am rider to getting ads and representing Sessions on a professional level.

Brett brings to Sessions over ten years of experience as a sponsored rider competing in contests such as Red Bull Heavy Metal, Vans Triple Crown, and Boreal’s Jibassic Rail Jam. He has also been featured in and worked with production companies such as Straight Jacket Films, Think Thank Productions, Mack Dawg Productions and Autumn Line.

“Working for a company as a team manager has always been something I’ve wanted to do and I couldn’t be happier to work for Sessions,” says Butcher. “They have supported me through my entire career as a snowboarder and there isn’t another company out there I would rather be involved with. Everyone at Sessions has a common goal to build it bigger and better, and I feel honored to be a part of that!”

Sessions team includes Tim Humphreys, Andreas Gidlund, Drew Fuller, Nate Bozung, Nate Farrell, and Zak Hale.

October 28, 2008

My flights into Ushuaia turned out to be a struggle once I arrived in Buenos Aires.  Everything was going according to plan until I got through customs and waited to grab my bags to fly on my domestic flights.  As you may have guessed, from the title of this entry - none of my bags showed up.  With little time to spare, I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off.  I couldn’t find anyone who understood my situation or who spoke a bit of English.  Oh how I really wished I payed better attention in my Spanish classes!  I ran from terminal to terminal only to be sent to another.  Finally I had to run over to the terminal where my next flight was and check into.  the airline attendant stressed that I needed to have my bags before boarding the flight and that I couldn’t get my ticket until I checked them through customs.  After she said that, she awkwardly handed me my ticket.  I then took that ticket and struggled getting through military police at the security checkpoint.  The X-ray machine was a joke as no one took off or out any metal and you were expected to beep when walking through the metal detector.  Everyone seemed to do it so I did it instead of sending my stuff through the machine.  The security would just pat you down and that was much easier then taking my belt off, cell phone out, watch, and wallet.  My diabetes syringes, pump, and needles were a whole new ball game.  In fact, the security seemed pretty ticked off with me.  Not understanding anything they were saying, I kept repating: med-i-cation, med-i-cation, diabetes de juvenile.  I think finally they were so fed up with me that they just let me through.  I was then herded onto a bus and driven to the airplane.  I kept my fingers crossed about my baggage and was planning on just dealing with my lost baggage through expensive phone calls to the airline carrier.  I was sick to my stomach.  When I landed in Ushuaia I surprisingly found my bags waiting for me.  I was stoked!  I still haven’t figured how that one worked out, because I was supposed to take my bags through customs upon first arrival in Argentina.  Whatever it matters, I am glad to have my bags now with me. 

I am in Ushuaia currently and am patiently waiting for my departure to Antarctica in a couple days.  Tonight I met up with John Griber, Doug Stoup, and Andrew Mclean at a local restaurant.  Doug has rented a truck and tomorrow we will load in our gear and head up to the Patagonia and into the Martial Glacier area to earn some last minute turns.  He also informed me that only one student is joining us on this expedition, I think age 10?  The snow line in Ushuaia is still very close to the valley floor here.  It appears that they had an excellent winter and we are all very excited to see the conditions down in Antarctica 

Ushuaia, from what I have learned, used to be a place that convicts were sent to.  Today it is the capitol of Tierra del Fuego and seems to display a strong and proud Argentinian culture.  Today a brief storm rolled in and out and brought some strong winds, brief rain, and white caps to the Beagle Canal.  The storms seem to come and go continually down in this part of the world and the sun isn’t setting till about 10 pm.  Temperatures have also been averaging about 40 degrees and another front is working its way in tonight.  From my bedroom window I can see Chile which also happens to be directly across the Beagle Canal.  Most of the restaurants close down after lunch and reopen for dinner.  Around dinner time, the main street is packed with all sorts of people.  There are street barterer stations in business entrance ways and windshield washers at traffic lights.  The sound of horrible American techno music bombards your ears from the street cruisers and school children run pack the ice cream parlors.  I am a stand out tourist in this town and my Spanish is very poor.  My bright style of clothing also sends out a different cry to the locals.  The snowboarding and skate culture is a huge minority down here.  The food is pretty good and cheap with the American dollar.  Meat is the popular choice out here, especially lamb and steak.  One thing that I could use is a fruit smoothie, which would be rare to find in this part of the country.  I am going to try and seek one out at the local grocery store. 

I am currently staying in a hostel with two Australians and a French backpacker.  They are nice company and have some great stories too from their recent travels.  The operators of this hostel are a Canadian girl and her boyfriend.  Being able to get the local tips from them in English has been a great resource. 

I am going to hit the sheets now so I can have an early start tomorrow and catch up on my jet lag. 

Powder lines,
Sean Busby

October 28, 2008

Close to a year in preparation the time has finally come for the anticipated departure date for the long journey south to the end of the Earth – Antarctica.  I left Salt Lake City International Airport this morning bright and early to make sure all my bags were within the strict weight limits and verify that my climbing gear could make it through airport security.  With enough time to spare, I meandered through the airport looking at the vistas of the surrounding Wasatch Mountains out towards the east.  They were naked, and only clothed up high with some early season snow remnants.  Possibly, by the next time I return to Salt Lake City, they will be more conservative in their attire and will be fashionably displaying their winter season base layers of powder snow from top to bottom.  But for now the air outside is cold, the leaves are piled on the ground in colors of brilliant red and yellow, and my summer skin is chilled.  After all it is fall in the Wasatch, but even more exciting - spring down in the Antarctic.  Today will probably be my last day of wearing flip flops and shorts until next April. 

Within the first hour of my flight I flew over Colorado, my favorite of all the States I have been.  I reminisced on how Colorado has impacted my snowboarding career and all the friends I have made along the way.  I think of them and wish them luck, I know they wish me the same.  Most of my racing buddies are out there training currently and appreciate my respect for the sport and the change I made to be focused more on expedition and big mountain snowboarding.  In fact, Colorado is where the idea of Antarctica came up many years ago as I was watching a Warren Miller Film.

I am now sitting in the Atlanta, Georgia airport waiting to hop on a jumbo set of wings and fly south down over Cuba, Venezuela, Columbia, through Brazil, and down into Buenos Aires, Argentina.  From Buenos Aires, I will then fly to El Calafate and then finally into Tierra Del Fuego "The Land of Fire."  I will land in the southernmost city of the world, Ushuaia (Argentina). 

Ushuaia will be the link up point for all team members of this expedition.  I am arriving early, followed by Jackson Hole’s John Griber, in hopes of the possibility of riding some big backcountry in Patagonia.  It will also be nice to jump back on our boards once more before setting upon the frozen land filled with penguins, seals, and crevasses.  The last time I happened to be on my mountaineering setup was nearly two months ago on my Middle Earth Expedition through Southern and Northern New Zealand.  For Griber, it was also a few months ago at Gasherbrum II in Pakistan (riding at 22,000 ft.).  It will be nice to brush off some of the dust from our crampons.

After a few days in Ushuaia, we will board a ship (along with scientists, zoo specialists, and adventurers) that Doug Stoup has set up through Ice Axe TV.  We will then set way through open seas for over two days.  We will cruise down the Beagle Channel and out past Cape Horn before trying to convert our mountain legs into the sea legs required to cross the dreaded Drake Passage, known as the roughest body of water in the world.  My mind has been set on the Drake for a couple weeks now.  I have been monitoring the Southern Ocean swells and have taken a fine interest to the 20-30 ft. wave averages.  I have an arsenal of motion sickness wrist bands, Dramamine, and patches.  The seas are foreign to most of us and when we cross the Antarctic Convergence (49 / 55 degree south latitude) we will encounter a sharp drop in temperatures and possible changes in the atmosphere.  If the weather is calm we may see a sudden fog bank, multitudes of feeding sea birds, and/or a line of turbulence.  Our eyes will then be searching for the first set of icebergs followed by pack ice. 

The wildlife of Antarctica, especially the spring time wildlife, is promised to be amazing.  Of one of the penguin rookeries, we are expecting 60,000 pairs plus their chicks.  We will encounter many species of penguins and seals as we hike to our lines in the frozen wilderness.  I can’t imagine what to expect, I can only day dream right now.  I am stoked for this opportunity of a lifetime!

I will talk to you all next from Ushuaia.

PowderLines.Com,
Sean Busby

October 27, 2008

Come check out Cab’s art show "Gears, Gas, and Grease" taking place November 1st thru December 15 at the Black and Brown in San Jose, CA.

Oct 22nd, 2008

Its premier season and every Wednesday at the 5050 brewery in Truckee they showcase a new movie. On the menu for this week was Autumn line’s “Technicolour” and Think Thank’s “Stack Footy.” This week was extra special though because Nick Visconti was able to get the Hunks of Metal to come and play. With the likes of Bob Klein, Shawn Farmer and Terry Kidwell rocking out, you know it was ragging!
A huge thanks to Sessions, Pow, Bataleon, Boreal and Hoven for all the free goodies, to 5050 brewery for letting us party and to the Hunks of Metal for putting on an amazing show! If you weren’t there, you missed out, check the photos!

Come by the sessions tent form 4 -5 to meet and get autographs from Zak Hale, Nate Farrell, Kyle Miller, Taylor Carlton and Brett Butcher.
Than at 6 hang out and watch Zak and Kyle compete for a chunk of the 6000 dollars on the line!
Its going to be a great evening. Hope everyone can make it!

Come and join Sessions and other sponsors for the "Twas the Night Before Boreal" rail jam and video premier at Fritz’s bar and grill! Rail Jam at 8pm, video at 9pm! see ya there!

October 20th 2008

Check out Nate’s interview on Snowrev.com!!!

http://www.snowboard-revolution.com/rider/Nate-Farrell-Interview.html

October 20, 2008

The Votes Are In- Donny Denton for Sessions Nor Cal Sales Rep

Sessions is pleased to announce the recent hiring of Donny Denton as Sales representative for Northern California and Nevada.

"Sometimes you meet people that just fit," says Sammy Nigh Director of U.S. Sales. "Donny fits with Sessions. He understands the brand, the people, our purpose and has been wearing Sessions outerwear for over 10 years! He comes to us with great relationships with his retailers, a strong dedication to the brands he represents and a great passion for snowboarding! We are pumped to have him on board."

“I’m so stoked to be part of the Sessions’ family,” Says Donny Denton. “As a grom growing up in Nor Cal... Sessions has always been my favorite brand, so it’s an honor and a privilege to represent a brand I’m so passionate about! It’s also super rad to work with a brand that JUST GETS IT and that’s exactly what goes down at Sessions!”

For information on Sessions unique products or to get in touch with a Sessions Sales Representative please email info@sessions.com

ABOUT SESSIONS:
Founded in 1983, Sessions is a leading snowboard and action sports company that designs, merchandises, sources, and distributes high performance snowboard apparel, accessories and apparel for the core, youth-driven sports segment. Sessions was the first snowboarding company to incorporate Gore-Tex fabrics and Recco avalanche reflectors into their products. Today, Sessions has placed itself at the cutting edge of the music, snowboard and skateboard culture. Sessions is one of the last remaining independently owned brands.

October 18th 2008

The Icer Air rolled into San Francisco this past Saturday. In recent years it has bean all about your standard scaffolding setup with a strait jump. This year Icer incorporated a catapult ie. Extreme machine, setup for riders to get speed. They would hold onto a rope and get pulled into a hip at 30 to 40 miles per hour. Most of the riders had never used a device like this before, so it took some time to figure it out. After all the kinks where worked out and the riders got comfortable on the setup, some good snowboarding went down. Sessions riders, Tim Humphreys and new recruit Taylor Carlton made the trek to San Francisco and both rode well. Check out all the photos!

Sessions is Proud to Announce Andreas Gidlund to the U.S. Snow Team

Scotts Valley, CA, October 10, 2008— Sessions is pleased to introduce
Swedish powerhouse Andreas Gidlund to the team! At 20, Andreas is emerging
as one of the best jumpers in the game. Last winter he took first in a TTR 5 star
event and filmed a part in Factor Films “Note.”

“Imagine riding all day eating nothing but candy, then hit the bar
until early morning, catch an hour of sleep before getting up in the
early AM and because its the only chance you’re going to get at hitting
this scary 90 foot kicker. Not my idea of a good time but this spring
I saw Andy do all that, stomp a huge 10 and ride away with that grin
on his face, just to do the same thing all over again.”
Daniel Blom, SNOWBOARDER Magazine Senior Photographer

Keep an eye out for Andreas this coming winter as he represents Sessions
throughout Europe and in the U.S. Get ready because we’re sure Andreas is
going to go big this winter.

Check out Andreas’ Video Here

This week on the Weekly update. The 10th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest. Mikey
O’Friel wins the amateur event, while Christian Hosoi wins the legends
division, and Benji Galloway takes the pro division.


The Weekly Update: On FUEL TV, tune in on Saturdays at 11:00am, 4:00pm,
7:00pm and 10:30pm ET (8:00am, 1:00pm, 4:00pm, and 7:30pm PT); Sundays
at 11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:30pm, and 2:00am ET (8:00am, 11:00am, 2:30pm,
11:00pm PT), and Monday through Friday at 3:00pm, 6:00pm, 10:30pm, and
2:00am ET (12:00pm, 3:00pm, 7:30pm, and 11:00pm PT). To see if you get
FUEL TV, visit www.fuel.tv .

Sessions would like to give a shout out to our NW Sessions Rider Nick Ennen with his COVER shot from this month’s WakeBoarding Magazine!!!!
Not only is Nick a ripping wakeboarder, but he also destroys Mt Baker on his snowboard! You can catch him in the new flick by Nate Lind, “Winter Renaissance”

October 3, 2008

Well you asked for more, so here it is. Sessions rocked freestyle and here is more proof. Once again; i want to thank all of those who came and had fun at our booth.

Stay tuned the Sessions teeshirt design winner will be announced soon!!!

September 29, 2008

This year’s 10th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest took place this past weekend and was definitely the most memorable event to date. Friends, family, and local skaters all came out this past Saturday and Sunday in memory of Tim Brauch, who was and is one of the most respected skaters of all time. Tim’s great talent and willingness to help local youth in skateboarding is what has kept this contest going for 10 years and that is why the leaders of skateboarding came to compete in this great contest.

Saturday, September 27 street contest that was held at the Scotts Valley Skate Park built in memory of Tim Brauch through the Tim Brauch Memorial Fund was a huge success with 35 groms and 82 ams entries all of which skated to the music of DJ D’Funkt. Sessions held 2 raffle drawings each of the contest that included prizes from Skullcandy, Vans, Zune, Dakine, Dragon, Consolidated, Dwindle, Thrasher, Bones, Foundation and many more. Press including FuelTV were there on sight to catch all the action at this years contest including Best Trick made Blake Svendsen which got him hooked up with a Wahoo’s Fish Tacos Gift Certificate

The kids who took home the bacon or this case a TMB Pimp Cup all incrusted with rhinestones at this year’s 10th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Street Contest were:

Groms:
1. Alex Midler
2. Ty Hjortland
3. Drake Riddiough

Ams:
1. Mikee O”Friel
2. Tommy Werner
3. Anthony Anaya
4. Jesse Andres
5. Steven Smith

Sunday’s contest hosted by World Cup of Skateboarding was at the new Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park in San Jose, CA. Throughout the entire day this park was referred to as the “Best Park in the World” most likely because it is the largest skate park in California at 68,000 square feet and because it features the worlds longest full pipe, tallest vert wall and largest cradle. Not only was the 10th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest at the best skate park but we also had the best pros and legends of skateboarding come out to compete in the contest including Christian Hosoi, Steve Caballero, and Duane Peters, Benji Galloway and Jimmi the Greek.

The ladies went first in the day and totally killed it! Congratulations!
Women:
1. Julie Kindstrand
2. Megan Brown
3. Annie Sullivan

Some of the biggest legends then competed in the Grand Masters Divison. You would have never known that this was Christian Hosoi’s first contest back with him busting out method and lean airs. Sessions very own Steve Caballero was also there to compete in memory of Tim and pulled a few elguerials.

Grand Masters:
1. Christian Hosoi
2. Steve Caballero
3.Duane Peters
4. Jason Parkes
5. Greg Aguilar

Next up was the local division where the top 3 advanced to compete against the Pros.
Locals:
1. Nate Linford –Sunnvale, CA
2. Morris Kyle -
3.Josh Balogh– San Jose, CA

The last division of the day was the Pros runs where Serge Ventura did a McTwist and Cookie Head Jenkins busted Backside Airs and Big Madonnas.
Pros:
1. Benji Galloway
2. Tim Johnson
3. Josh “Skreetch” Sandoval
4. Sergie Ventura
5. Josh Balogh

Taking “Trick of the Day” was Duane Peters whose wheel flew off in the middle of an revert and kept going on 3 wheels; he won a gift certificate to Wahoo’s Fish Tacos. Congratulations to all of the winners! This day definitely goes down in this contest history as one of the best!

After all the skating and awards were finished at the Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park everyone headed over to Wahoo’s Fish Tacos at Santana Row to celebrate and have some drinks while listening to RS2 Solid Sound perform.

Thank you to World Cup of Skateboarding and all sponsors who participated in this great event such as Etnies, Wahoo’s Fish Tacos, Skullcandy, Vans, Transworld Skateboarding, Thrasher, Red Bull and Dragon, Dakine.

For more Tim Brauch videos go to http://www.sessions.com/images.php and click on 10th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest.

Watch the 10th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Skate Video

September 29th, 2008

Europes largest boardsports contest went down this past few days in Zurich at the Landeweise on the Zurisee. It was a huge success with literally thousands hitting the sessions stand to design their own tee-shirt, play the swiss game of "nails" and meet riders like, Andreas Gidlund, Skye Darden, Peter Strom and Tim Humphreys. Truly an amazing event with sooooo much fun I can’t report everything at once. More story and photos to follow in the next days.

A huge thank you to all of those that helped with the show: Andre, Rony, Mischelle, Irit, Cassandra, Menno, Peter, Five, the savognin crew, Skye, Ski-Unit, the Lakeside Jerks and too many others to mention here.

Stay tuned for more photos and story!

Sessions and Stepchild am E-man Anderson’s video featured on Twsnow.com! Go watch it......

Congratulations to Sessions riders Tim Humphreys and Andreas Gidlund for being invited to Europe’s largest outdoor boardsports contest, the Freestyle.ch in Zurich.

September 23, 2008

Sessions is proud to be one of the main sponsors of this years release from Yeahh productions, entitled, "Yeahh, Love". On Friday October 17, 2008, Yeahh Love will have its World Premier in Zurich at the Rote Fabrik. So come down to check the show and show support for Sessions and the film! See you there!

September 23, 2008

Europes largest outdoor boardsports contest is going down this weekend in Zurich. Sessions is set with a 60 square foot stand where we will have a tee-shirt designing competition and play the Swiss game of "Nails"! Tim Humphreys will be competing in the snowboard big air competition and tons more Sessions athletes in attendance. So come on down to the Landeweise on the Zurich see and check the action. See you there!

Everyone at sessions would like to wish Drew a wonderful birthday! Cheers to you Drew....thanks for all your support!

Big Bear was the place to be this past Saturday. Hopefully you made it out to the 5th Annual Hot dawgz and Hand rails contest to watch snowboarding’s best riders battle it out for a chunk of the 11,000 on the line. Big Bear Local and Sessions young buck Zac Hale come out of a heavy field with a 4th place finish! Great job Zak. Keep a lookout for videos and photos popping up on your favorite snowboard websites throughout the week!

September 16, 2008

For the 3rd year in a row, Tim Humphreys will be competing in Esurance Icer Air. Make your way to San Francisco on October 18th and come support Tim!!!

September 16, 2008

Congratulations to the Sessions Nor Cal Special Olympics golf team for their gold medal victory! The athletes came together with a coach of their choice, in a alternate shot showdown against some of Nor-Cals best Special Olympics athletes and their teams for the Nor-Cal section championships. The Sessions team took the to the range early in the morning looking strong in all aspects of their game. They came to the course looking strong, confident and ready to bring their A game thus earning them the gold! Thank you Sessions and a great job to all coaches and athletes!

As an appetizer, Fallen team rider and skater, Terell Robinson hits the habit. For our main course, Flow Team riders Scotty Lago, Antti Autti, Tim Humphreys and Mercedes Nicoll stop by to help us gear up for snow season. Finally, for desert, the team from Road Trip Nation – Mike Marriner, Ashley Luther, and James Karhu roll up in their RV to join us. Terell Robinson’s sponsors include: Fallen, Dragon, Split, Darkstar and Active. Scotty Lago’s sponsors include: Flow, Smith, Billabong and Grenade. Antti Autti’s sponsors include: Flow, Kustom, Giro, Billabong, Rockstar, Dakine and Skullcandy. Tim Humphreys’ sponsors include: Flow, Osiris, Bolle, Sessions, EESA, Neff, Skullcandy, NXTZ and 525 East. Mercedes Nicoll’s sponsors include: Flow, IS Eyewear, Powder Room, Mammoth Mountain and The Source. Tune into Fuel TV tonight @ 9 ET/PT

Pro snowboarder and Rossignol team rider, Drew Fuller is on the habit. Plus, author of the critically acclaimed Miki Dora book, “All for a Few Perfect Waves” - David Rensin is here. Also, our amps get shredded thanks to today’s musical guest, Darkest Hour. Drew Fuller’s sponsors include: Rossignol, Celsius, IS Eyewear, Sessions, Imperial Motion, Zola, Rockwell Timekeepers, Dakine, Skullcandy, Park City and The Click. Tune into Fuel TV Tuesday the 9th @ 9 ET/PT

Congratulations to female ski team killer Anna Segal on a 2nd place finnsh at the New Zeland Open slopestyle event at Snow Park NZ! Keep up the good work Anna, and dont spend all that cash in one place!

September 2, 2008

Anyone like to fly high? Well check out Shane McConkey Spreadin’ his wings and taking the plunge in The World Base Race on this months issue of Skydiving Magazine! For more info check out Worldbaserace.com!

August 31, 2008

This past Saturday Sessions Switzerland participated in Sessions’s global Spitshine effort by cleaning up the beach in Arbon, on the Swiss side of the Bodensee. Switzerland is definitely pretty clean, but after searching for trash we were able to fill a ton of bags. Funnily enough, the same day it was front page of the “Thurgauer” newspaper, how dirty the lakeside was becoming. Needless to say our efforts were noticed and appreciated!

Thanks to everyone that participated!

See you next time.

August 28, 2008

This event brings together Music and Graffiti art to a downtown Seattle Parking lot near the waterfront.

Plywood walls and lots of spray paint come together to show some of Seattle’s amazing graffiti artists.  The idea here is to create an event where these artists can show off in broad daylight in a legal fashion.

My part in the event was to handle all of the recycling and trash for Artoleptic.  My theory here is that if you provide a place for recyclebles, then people will use them!  I bought some nice mid-size trash cans and created a Trash and Recycleble receptecals as well as collected cardboard.  The sessions booth became the DJ tent complete with some plants for the concrete scene.  Overall the 2nd annual event was a success and I am stoked Sessions was able to make a difference!

Kyle

The rain cleared up long enough for our Australian friends to get down to Fitzroy Bowl (Alexandra Gardens) for a clean up shred & Sausahe in Bread as part of Sessions 11 Step Program for Going Green.

Great job guys!

August 26, 2008

Once again, the Sessions team came together to help out the environment by cleaning up 26th ave beach in Santa Cruz, CA. This local skimboarding hotspot and hangout seems to generate a ton of traffic weekly and seemed to be the just the right place to find trash on the beach and for the Sessions team to clean. After a sweep of the beach we accumulated a large amount of trash and recyclables which we then disposed of in the correct manner. Thank you Sessions! and remember PACK YOUR TRASH!

August 22, 2008

I am on my way to Auckland and speaking at New Zealands prestigious Children’s Hospital tonight - Starship Hospital. I think I will spend my birthday tomorrow at New Zealands indoor ski resort in Auckland for a change of things. Then I will be heading up to snowboard on "Mt Doom" from Lord of the Rings.

I had the most intense day yesterday of riding in my life. Ridglines that led to amazing looking mountains and endless rewards. I spent the whole day poaching heliskiing lines off the ridges with Gully and we cranked in some serious vertical. The best day I’ve ever had riding in my life. We had a few little slides and proferation in the snow. We stayed out of areas with obvious aspects of wind loading and did various slope cuts to safe zones.

-Sean

August 21, 2008

For the first time ever, the New Zealand Snowboard team sits atop the world rankings.

Based on strong and consistent performances at the first two stops of the Ticket to Ride (TTR) World Tour, the New Zealand Men’s team is currently ranked the No. 1 in the world. Auckland’s James Hamilton leads the men’s individual world rankings – the first time a New Zealand snowboarder has been in this position since the start of the TTR World Tour in 2005.

The first event of the tour was the 5-star Burton Open at the beginning of August. With a strong field of international heavy hitters in both the halfpipe and slopestyle disciplines, competition was fierce.

Japan, the USA, Finland, Australia, Switzerland, Norway and China were well represented in the first two events, and the New Zealand team, riding on its home turf, demonstrated that they will be a force to be reckoned with this season and in the lead-up to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Hamilton finished the Burton Open with the strongest overall rankings in both disciplines with an eighth-place finish in the halfpipe and 11th place finish in slopestyle. Other kiwi finalists in the slopestyle discipline were Mitch Brown (12th), Stef ‘go for broke’ Zeestraten (16th), and Nick Hyne, who posted the top New Zealand score, placing eighth.

In the women’s halfpipe, Wanaka’s Juliane Bray placed fifth, and Kendall Brown sixth, while Shelly Gottlieb was the top ranked Kiwi woman in the slopestyle, taking fourth.

Bray took top honours in the quarterpipe night event of the Burton Open, finishing first overall competing against 2002 Olympic Gold Medallist Kelly Clark (USA). Unfortunately, Mitch Brown 2007 NZ Open halfpipe champion, suffered a knee injury in halfpipe training and was unable to make it through to the finals, finishing in 22nd position.

The second leg of the tour, the 3-star Billabong Snowstock provided another strong international field in big-air and quarterpipe disciplines. With tricky headwind conditions for big-air finals, Zeestraten was the top kiwi finishing in fifth, with James Hamilton taking 11th place.

In the women’s Big-Air, Gottlieb went one better than her Burton Open result finishing in third. In the quarterpipe, Hamilton took the ‘highest air’ award in the men’s while Bray took both ‘highest’ air and ‘best trick’ categories in the women’s event.

With his big air, technical difficulty, style, and consistency, Hamilton moves into the No. 1 position on the TTR World Tour ranking. Based on the combined performances of New Zealand’s top five men -- Hamilton, Zeestraten, Brown, Ben Stewart and Jake Koia, the New Zealand men’s team gained the top ranking.

“The whole team is stoked to be sitting at the top of the perch,” said head coach Tom Willmott. “They expected to be close to the top following two home-turf events, but the fields for the first two stops of the tour were strong.”

Part of the team will travel to Australia for the next events on the TTR tour, but riders focused on the halfpipe will opt to miss the next 5-star event (The Australian Open) to stay at home to train for the LG World Cup Halfpipe at Cardrona Alpine Resort on 6-7 September, the first event of the 2010 Olympic qualifying campaign.

For more info checkout www.ttrworldtour.com

August 21, 2008

New Zealand Sessions rider is currently holding the 1st place title in the TTR Tour after the last stop at the Billabong Snowstock in New Zealand. Also placing high is Tim Humphreys in 7th place. Next stop on the tour Stylewar in Australia.

Great job James and Tim!

August 21, 2008

Sessions teamed up with Swiss based Yeahh productions, on their new film project, entitled “Yeahh Love”. The film will feature some of the top global snowboarders, including Sessions team rider Jonas Gustafsson, from Sweden. The film will also be distributed to all of Sessions retailers in Europe and we will have premier parties at select retailers in Europe and Switzerland.

Without further delay, check out the trailer!!! Enjoy.

http://www.yeahhproductions.com/yeahh_love_teaser.html

August 20, 2008

Sessions and Taylor Made Water teamed up for the SIA.08 tradeshow to provide free water and reusable waterbottles to attendees and have made it into Curator News. This is just one of the many steps in Sessions Going Green Program.

August 20, 2008

Every year Sessions employees, reps, and distributors alike take part is "Spit Shine Sessions" a day to give back to the communities we live in by cleaning up local beaches or parks. This is just one of the many steps in Sessions Going Green Program.

Sessions Swiss family and friends are planning a beach clean up on the Swiss side of the Bodensee. So if you are in the area please feel free to stop by and pitch in with the clean up.

August 19, 2008

I woke up to a beautiful sky, quickly got dressed, ate, and then headed over to meet up with the crew. Most of the roads in the mountains are closed today due to avalanches. Today’s weather stated for partly sunny skies, the first in days - before the next storm cycle rolls in tonight. I quickly threw my gear in the heavy duty trucks and made a run for the hills. This drive was going to be gnarly. On the way up into the Southern Alps range, we came across the classic New Zealand roadblock - sheep - and hundreds of them! Sheep out here dont move unless you make them move, so we just keept driving and watched as they scattered out of the way. It was something else!

We then made our way up to the snowline and loaded chains on every tire. Heather (one of the owners and guides *she also works as ski patrol in Kirkwood, Ca during our winters*), stated the importance that I wear my avalanche beacon as we drive up. I quickly scoured for it in my pack and confussinly put it on. Why would I need to be wearing my beacon for driving? I quickly found the answer to my personal question when we came upon a sign that read "chains and courage required." Then I saw the .... uh ...one lane off road trail covered in snow. Next I saw where the off road trail went and the consequences of cliffs to slide off of. I checked the security of my seatbelt and was then told to take it off followed by a story of when they had to bail out of the vehicle before. I was pumped and my nerves by this time were pretty high as my addrenaline was rising from the terrain we was surrounded by. This was going to be a whole new way to get off the beaten path.

A few miles and some tense white knuckle grips later, we finally arrived at the first helicopter point. The heli approached in over one of the steeper ranges and blasted us with ice pellets as it landed. Gear was then quickly loaded in and I captured my first glimpse of some parrots wandering around.

The snow up top was incredible. I was standing in literally waist deep as I tredged around. Exhaustion was hitting me hard. I was sleep deprived and had swollen summer feet smashed into rock hard cold boots. From gathering info on the latest storm cycles and seeing wind blowing snow all over the place, my concern was for wind blown slab avalanches. Pit studies were also showing considerable danger in many spots. Also, New Zealand snow is far from dry. This stuff out here is wet and plastery. If you aren’t on your back foot, your done! Its not Utah.

In the later afternoon, the winds had picked up and pockets of flat light were happening all around. The snow also began to display a crusty like top layer that you would punch in and out of. We made our way under an area called Little Alaska and into some chutes. There were 3 long chutes side by side of each other and the snow was less crunchy. However, there were signs of obvious wind loading so I put my Avalung (avalanche support breathing system) into my mouth. All three chutes curved at the bottom and shot out into a giant open bowl. I made the drop into the first chute called the wife swapping chute. I took the lead of another rider as I wasn’t familiar with the chutes outrun and was concerned about the wind loading. On the 4th turn down I saw obvious signs of an unstable snowpack and started a traverse over to a safe spot I distinguished before my drop. Hell then broke out and the whole chute broke apart into a medium sized slab avalanche. I was at the top of the crown of the break but still struggled to remain on my feet. I watched in awe as the snow turned into a liquid like motion and broke apart to the shape of mattreses. It encompassed everything and molded to the terrain. All I could spot was my fellow rider’s helmet and an occasional arm as he struggled to swim in order to remain on top. Next he was out of my sight as the chute turned. I radioed to the others in the next chute - notifying of the avalanche and the unstable snow. I heard nothing. I quickly dropped back into the area of the slide. The crown was about 3 feet deep. About a quarter of the way down, I encountered gnarly debris that was impossible to snowboard in. There was an opening to the left that had not slid. I took to this with caution and and then saw I had triggered giant slough slides coming from above. I shot far off to the left making a drastic slope cut. My partner was not fully burried and was coherient. I worked my way back and assited in helping him unburry. I still had no response or sighting of the others from chute 2 right next to us. However, my radio was going in and out in a fluttered like state. The others had their own situation....A slab had broken in the middle of chute # 2. One was burried and Heather was severly injured.

Once everyone was recovered and assessed, we radioed for help. Heather was in severe pain and began to start shaking. She was going into shock and needed to be airlifted out quickly. We then began to stomp out a landing point on a near by flat area and marked it with some dye. It took about an hour for the heli to safely land. Heather is still at the hospital tonight and we should know more information tomorrow.

Plan is for a mellow day tomorrow. They haven’t seen storms like this out here in over 15 years.

Powder lines,
Sean Busby

So I finally made it to the South Island of New Zealand and winged it into Methven this afternoon. This has been interesting, not really having set plans until I get back onto the North Island on the 20th. Once again - the Kiwis are some of the nicest and most welcoming people I’ve met. My taxi driver wouldn’t even accept a tip, especially after he gave me an hour half tour from Christchurch to Methven. My hope for tonight is to catch up on sleep and then hitch a ride up to the high passes tomorrow morning and evaluate snow. As it stands now - I am pretty much stranded due to the heavy snowfalls that have been dumping all week long - most of the roads are blocked off by avalanches. The winds are also pretty gnarly, so should make for some good crud snow in areas for ice axe descents.

Methven reminds me much of a Whistler with a Squamish local feel since it is away from the tourist and tourist traps - an Alaskan type mountain town. Pure middle earth with gigantic mountains, huge rivers, giant dairy cows, and thousands upon thousands of sheep. If you put Colorado, California, Utah, and Alaska into a blender - you would have New Zealand - add in some Wisconsin and you got Methven. Methven is a town filled with young people who live and play for the mountains. Oh, and by filled, I mean a tiny population of about 1,000. No condo lands, hotels, etc. Just homes, bars, and junky cars filled with skis or boards. There are tons of heli skiing operators and backcountry guide services that line the main street and a sweet indoor skate park. Most of the stores don’t open up until the evening due to the snow. Powder clause seems to be in effect full force here. The air is pure, cold, and crisp with an aroma of burning firewood tonight.

Earlier, I met up with Symon, the owner of Black Diamond. Depending on how the weather plays - I have been invited on some free heliboarding and hut tours for next week. Black Diamond (not BD LTD. from the States), is setting up a touring operation for next year that will take clients out into the backcountry via their helicopter, then ride down from various drop off points to snowmobiles. Next clients will take the snowmobiles to huts and hike and tour their hearts out for days. Until next year, they are having to go out and take care of all the red tape via drawing out terrain traps, avalanche slide zones, heli ports, riding the terrain, etc. With that being said, they would like to here my perspective and send me through their loop to check it out. We are shooting for next Tuesday as the snow should settle between the storm fronts. We also may have a clearing on Sunday, if so I will be going out with them to ride Mt Olympus backcountry and Craigieburn areas. Should make for a very good week and some fantastic Antarctica preparation.

Talk tomorrow,
Sean Busby

August 19, 2008

Hey, Sessions Canada wants to help too!!! We’re gonna clean up some skateboard parks in Vancouver BC on August 22, 2008. Our goal is to clean up the area and make a safe enviroment for skateboarders and spectators. If you’d like to lend a hand you’ll be able to find us at Coquitlam’s “Rail slide skate park”, North Vancouver’s “Lonsdale skate park” and Vancouver’s “Hastings skateboard park”. This will all be happening from 1pm onwards.

Click the link to check out the latest interview from Sessions Ski team ripper Chris Benchetler: http://www.raiders.ch/

We at Sessions would like to congratulate Tim Humphreys on his invites to the Toyota Big Air Japan, and Freestyle CH in Switzerland! Good Luck Tim and bring us home a victory!!

August 13, 2008

Come join Sessions outerwear this sunday, August 17th for the Artoleptic skate jam, art, and music festival in Seattle next to the Waterfront
Snowboard Connection. Also, as a part of Sessions going green, we will have a tent set up where we will be collecting recyclables so be sure to stop by and toss us your empty cans and bottles!

August 13, 2008

The 10th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest will take place on Septemer 27th and 28th, 2008. The street skateboard contest will take place on Saturday, September 27, 2008 at the Scotts Valley Skatepark built in memory of Tim Brauch. The bowl skateboard contest hosted by the World Cup of Skateboarding will take place on Sunday, September 28, 2008 at the new Lake Cunnigham Regional Skatepark in San Jose,CA. This park is the largest park in California at 68,000 square feet and features the world’s longest full pipe, tallest vert wall, and largest cradle.

Online Registration for the street contest goes live on www.sessions.com Monday, August 18, 2008. To register for the bowl contest please contact World Cup of Skateboarding.

August 8, 2008

Thank you to the Sessions Interns who helped out all summer long! Tara, Brandon, and Billy seen in the picture were a great help in addition to seasoned intern Lauren that has helped Sessions over the last three years. Thanks again and have a great winter!

August 7, 2008

Yesterday afternoon Sessions employees left the office a little early to take part in the first ever Stop Bitch’n Start Pitch’n horse shoe tournament. In this event, the different departments grabbed a partner went to battle in a 2 vs 2 double elimination winner take all tourney which crowned interns Billy Flick and Brandon Castillon as the UNDEFEATED champs(6-0). Following up the tounrament was an egg tossing contest which left about 20 people covered in yolk and ready to pack it up. Thanks For the great day Sessions!

Skateboarders of all ages and skill levels will have a great time riding along the bike path of Lake Tahoe, and the Santa Monica boardwalk at Skate the Lake 2008. Presented by Tahoe Longboards, the event kicks off Saturday August 23rd, and August 30th with the goal to raise over $10,000 for Boarding for Breast Cancer.
Skate the Lake is an exciting, one of a kind relay along the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe and the Los Angeles coastline. Athletes can sign up to skate a two-mile stretch of the skate or all 27(Tahoe) 19(L.A.). Sponsored by Tahoe Longboards, the goals of the event are to raise money, increase breast cancer awareness, and educate about the importance of early detection and the value of an active lifestyle.

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women today. The chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some point in a woman’s life is about 1 in 8. It is estimated that in 2008 about 213,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in U.S. women, and 1,700 in men.
Breast cancer rates have been on the rise since the 1980s. The State of California
has an average of over 21,000 cases each year, and North American women have the highest rate of breast cancer in the world. Between 1997 and 2001 alone, over 600 new cases of breast cancer came from the Lake Tahoe Basin.
The good news is there are over two million breast cancer survivors in the United States, and death rates have been declining as a result of early detection and improved treatment options.
All proceeds from Skate the Lake will go to Boarding for Breast Cancer, a non-profit; youth focused education, awareness, and fundraising foundation. Their mission is to increase awareness about breast cancer, the importance of early detection, and the value of a healthy lifestyle.
There will be a registration party the Friday before each skate, featuring three bands, August 22nd Tahoe (Lakeview Tahoe City) and August 29th L.A. (Arbor Boards Venice). The registration parties will have raffles and giveaways (complete long boards) as well as three bands. Each athlete will receive a goodie bag full of sponsor product.
The entry fee for Skate the Lake is $20, but fees will be waived for those who find sponsors willing to donate more. For additional information on Boarding for Breast Cancer and a list of their events, go to www.b4bc.org. For more information regarding sponsorships or to register, log on to www.skatethelake.org.

Join us for a Evening of tribute to Joe Strummer on saturday August 16, 2008 at the W.O.W. Hall to benifit skater’s, Eugene skateparks and Strummerville!!

August 4,2008

All eyes were on New Zealand’s, Snow park this past weekend where the NZ Burton Open went down. Tim Humphrey’s was out riding strong and flying the sessions flag. Congrats goes to to Humps for his very respectable 5th place showing in the Slope style contest. Watch out for Tim this winter, he is coming off an amazing season and will be a force to reckon with for many years to come!

August 4,2008

I just returned from my 7 weeks in Norway. This is a trip report to share some of the highlights and to show some of the images and video clips from Norwegian.

The first place we stopped at was Stryn, the summer ski mecca of Norway, plus it offers surfing nearby and amazing base-jumping. After talking with the queen of Norway’s personal mountain guide we were on our way. Our Stryn adventure consisted of crossing glaciers, base-jumping and also some paragliding.

Next on the stop was Voss for the Ekstremsportveko, or Extreme Sport Week. Each day the competitors go off on the mountain and film a mini video segment and submit it at the end of the day. Segments range from : skiing, mountain biking, BMX, paragliding, base-jumping, skydiving, climbing, kayaking or skateboarding. Here is footage from the BASE day at Voss. I am seen a few times in my red wingsuit. I am the guy flying past the massive Norwegian flag with smoke on my foot: http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/383797

The Freeride skiing competition at Veko was cancelled due to lack of snow on the competition venue, but we were still hell bent on finding some good skiing. I met up with Fred Syverson, Kjetil Isaken and the NRK news crew was also on board again to document everything. The snow was insane. Firm and carvey up top and like butter down low. NRK aired it on TV the following night. A shortened version is still online at: http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/383299

Now Shane was in town for a couple weeks so we got right into a groove of hiking and base-jumping. We made it over to Romsdalen for the World Base Race. Shane managed to get second place and go home with some bragging rights and some cash. Lucky for him he never got seated against me in a heat or he would have been done! Here is a shot of me crossing the finish line at WBR:
http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-img-show?G_ID=G0000kM93VkqxBc0&V_ID=&P_ID=&start=91&pagtotal=100

I want to give special thanks for all my friends that showed me around Norway and to my sponsors for helping make the trip happen. Thank you all and thanks for looking at my trip report!

-jt Holmes

Aug 1, 2008

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July 31, 2008

Once again, the SIA media event is a huge success for Sessions giving us some awsome new opportunities and a chance to show off some of our latest and greatest in snowboarding outerwear. Thanks to everyone who helped to make it happen!!

July 31, 2008

It was a summer to remember, if you made it to Windells or HCSC for some slushy shredding you know what I mean. With over 850 inches of snowfall this winter there was and still is a huge amount of snow at timberline. I made my way up to the Govy this past week to hang out with session’s young buck Zach Hale. Zach is your typical sixteen year old kid that loves to goof around and hang out with his friends. We had a great three days of snowboarding, cobra dogs, skating, dodge ball, premiers and of course volcano cones. Zach will be busy this winter shredding around Big Bear, fending of his groupies and making his nipples red…. Ask him about that one if you see him! If you can, there is still time to get up to hood and experience this historical summer… you wont regret it!

-Brett Butcher

Also, be sure to check your iTunes Podcasts under SESSIONS for some of the most recent footage of Zak Hale kickin it and tearin’ up the Oregon summer camps...

July 30, 2008

Congrats to Sessions skate team member Steve Caballero on his 2nd place finish in this year’s invite-only Soul Bowl skate contest. The Soul Bowl is part of the World Cup of Skateboarding and a sanctioned event that was held in conjunction with the U.S. Open of Surfing down in Huntington Beach this past weekend. Awesome job Cab!

July 29, 2008

So this was the 7th year of the redmond, wa skate contest. a few years back the local shop, Ride On, went out of business. so since then its been kind of hard to get the word out about the contest and get prizes. for the second year in a row the city asked me to gather prizes... and for the first year... judge. so sessions, bacon, dekline, and bones really stepped up. many for the second year in a row. as you can see from the photos it went off pretty good. there was a big group of beginners this year... showing there is a future out here on the east side of seattle. big thanks to everyone at sessions, colin at bacon, kevin at dekline, and rob at bones... as well as nancy and chris at the redmond teen center for putting on a great time.

July 25,2008

NCproductions presents "Almost Dead" our 2008-2009 release will be available in stores and online for download September 2008.

Featuring the talents of Skylar Thornton, Lucas Wilson, KYLE MILLER (Sessions Montana ripper), Vincent Remmel, Kyle Martin, Aaron and Jason Robinson, John Malanga, and Friends.

Click here to check it out!!!

Recently Sessions decided to take a little afternoon fieldtrip, so we left the office a little early on Friday July 11, and headed just up the road to the Byington winery. This beautiful nine-acre vineyard nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains gave for some great wine tasting beautiful scenery of the landscape and some other fun events. We took a tour of the facility and along the way got to test some of their very finest wines. After the tour, and once everyone had their fair share of wine, we took to the bocce ball courts for some friendly head to head competition to wrap up the day. We would like to thank Sessions and Byington Winery for a wonderful afternoon! Thanks guys!

July 18, 2008

On the 26th of July Sessions and Stale bring you the Barbeque Pool Party 08. So make sure to go on down to Pitea Sweden’s skatepark for Music, Skateboarding and the almighty hamburger. Contest is from noon to 4:00pm.

See you there!

July 18th, 2008

Today and tomorrow, if you are in Sweden, make sure to get on down to the Trästockfestival. Sessions is proud to be a main sponsor of the Mini-Ramp masters Series.

See you there!

July 14th, 2008

Hey everyone!

Im at the moment sitting at the airport in Vancouver, on my way home from Whistler.
Been there now for a little bit more than 2 weeks, at the Camps of Champs.
Its been so much fun!

Started of with a trip to the airport 3am, same night as my birthday.
We had a nice party then we went for the airport...
At the airport we met up with some other boys from the Bataleon crew, My team manager eric and Kalle ohlson.
Me and Magnus were already at the airport since 3 hours...
Everyone was kind of hungover 8am at the morning....
Not to nice to get on a Airplane for 12 hours after being drinking!! hehe

We surived the trip there at least, First day was just chilling and checking out whistler.

The coming days was Sunshine and slush!
I must say im impressed by whistler, its such a nice place to hang out at.
Skate whenever you want, and you can go out partying everyday and meet alot of nice people.
The weather is the only thing that can be sketchy there...
Even though its sunshine in the village it can be cloudy up at the glacier...
But we got lucky and got 4 sunshine days the first week!
We filmed and were shooting photos and you can see more from that on twsnow.com and bataleons website later on.
It will probably be called Bataleon Team week.

After this first week, everyone from the bataleon crew went home.
But i stayed longer with the Frontline crew to shoot more film and photos and get some more partying done!!

Frontline week was also really sweet.
We had nice weather and nice days of riding and shooting.
Also some sweet evenings at the beach.
We ended up that week with a huge houseparty that ended up without breaking a single thing in the house... so happy about that hehe :P
beacuse last year alot of stuff broke when they had the final party!

Were also here doing a Team week movie that will be posted on twsnow.com and flsnow.com


Also i’ve been shooting with a filmer named johannes brenning that is making a movie from the whole camps of champs. its going to be a movie on around 10-15 minutes.
This movie will be on all snowboard mags.
Snowboarder,Onboard,Methodmag,Transworld.. etc..
Also he got some kind of deal with MTV, so it will be something there aswell


Going to go and catch my plane now... Not to stoked right now, had to pay 150 bucks for having to much weight... haha...
Hope everybody is having a nice summer.

///
Andreas Andy Gidlund

July 10, 2008

Hello everyone,

Just finishing up our annual base jumping trip to Norway. Once again it was mind blowing. Traveling with base jumper friends JT Holmes and Cliff Ryder (yes that is his real name) and our Norwegian buddy Tom Erik Heimen. Norway is stunningly beautiful. I highly recommend a visit there sometime. We made 18 base jumps in 16 days and hiked up a total of around 16,000 meters. We only didn’t hike 2 days and that was due to needing to drive to the next town. Tons of fun charging up mountains with Norwegian base jumpers. They are all in very good shape. It is common to see old men and women 1,000 meters up in the mountains in places you would NEVER see Americans hiking let alone old ones.

We did some very cool flights in Voss and in Stryn. One really great canyon flight and then ended the trip in the Romsdalen area where base jumping has some deep roots and a lot of history. Here we entered the World Base Race which is basically a wing suit speed flying competition to see who is the fastest flying human in the world. Very very cool and exciting competition. It is head to head, duel format heats. First guy across the vertical finish line wins and moves on to the next round. Amazingly I placed 2nd and won 1,000 Euros! So for 1 year I can claim to be the 2nd fastest flying human in the world!

http://worldbaserace.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=2&Itemid=32

JT and Cliff also entered and flew very well but everyone who weren’t flying Vampire suits didn’t stand a chance against them. The Vampire wing suit is incredibly fast. They were jumping the S-Fly Expert suit which is a very easy, fun and great suit for proximity flying. We stayed with some Norwegian friends in Romsdalen who’s kids became our cheering section and fan club. Very cute little girls! When we were in the town of Stryn we were able to rent a very cheap car from a friend of a friend of a friend. Everyone said that it suited our loud American style.

It was another great trip and an incredible learning experience. Norway will be on the schedule for years to come now!

Shane

August 22, 2008: As part of SESSIONS’ Going Green Program we have created and implemented our own Annual Clean Up Day appropriately called “Spit Shine SESSIONS.” SESSIONS employees, distributors, reps, and local community members all come together every year to clean our surrounding communities, whether it be a beach, highway, or a local park. We encourage everyone to please join us this day to do our part in cleaning our local communities.

For the past nine years, SESSIONS has held the Tim Brauch Memorial Skateboarding Contest in memory of Tim Brauch who was one of the most respected skateboarders and beloved SESSIONS’ team riders of all time. His love for skateboarding, friends, and fun inspired everyone who met him. Tim’s untimely passing in 1999 at the age of 25, led SESSIONS to create the Tim Brauch Memorial Fund, a non-profit organization that donates 100% of the funds towards skateboard park development and youth scholarships.

One donation went to create the Tim Brauch Memorial Skateboard Park in Scotts Valley, CA that hosts this event annually with Sunday’s bowl contest being part of the World Cup of Skateboarding’s “Concrete Bowl Series.” Every year riders and pros from all over the West Coast come to this contest to have a great time and skate in Tim’s memory. Prizes include cash, SESSIONS clothing/accessories, assorted skateboard products and stickers that are donated to the contest, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place trophies. The past years 9th annual contest trophies were commemorative Tim Brauch decks done in gold with Tim’s signature artwork. The “Spirit of Tim” award is also given out to the rider with the best attitude and most determination.

The event is co-sponsored by Etnies, Vans, Dragon, Skullcandy, Red Bull, Dwindle, and Santa Cruz. The event includes band performances, DJs, raffles, food booths and many pro visitors each year including SESSIONS’ rider, Steve Caballero. Past raffle prizes include a Schecter electric guitar, complete Cab skateboard, decks , wheels, t-shirts, hats, and a whole lot more. All proceeds made from the event, including raffle money, go directly into the Tim Brauch Memorial Fund. Promotions for the event included a radio broadcast by KDON, radio interviews on KSCO, website links on SESSIONS homepage, Tim Brauch website and sponsor sites, and fliers distributed throughout Northern California skate shops.

The 10th annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest will be held on September 27 and 28, 2008. Saturday’s street competition will be held at the Scott Valley Skate park and Sunday’s Bowl Contest hosted by the World Cup of Skateboarding will be held at the Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park in San Jose, CA.

July 15-16 Sessions is hitting the streets of NYC to attend the third annual SIA summer media event. Along with some of the top brands in snowboarding, there will be hundreds of journalists from newspapers, mags, and action sports channels, all there to check out some of the latest and greatest in fresh gear for the upcoming season. Sessions has had great success there in the past and hopes to land some new product placement opportunities. Good Luck Sessions!

June 27, 2008

Sessions is glad to be attending Warped Tour again this year. We will be at the Denver, CO stop this Sunday located at Invesco Field At Mile High.

Stop by and check out our booth!!

June 27, 2008

Sessions is proud to sponsor Bowl Series #14 in summer 2008. Coming to a location near you...

July 1st: Seylynn
July 13th: Griffin
August 10th: White Rock
August 23rd: Squamish
August 24th: Whistler

June 25, 2008

Here at Sessions we do all we can to help the environment and save energy. We’ve developed an 11-step process to ensure a better life for those here now and in the future. Show us how you’re Going Green and you could save some green and win a Sessions Jacket.

All entries should be in one of the following formats: essay no longer than 1 page, video no longer than 2 minutes or pictures.

All entries must be submitted and in-hand at Sessions by September 1, 2008.

Send entries via e-mail to brandonc@sessions.com or mail to:

Sessions
Attn: Going Green Contest
60 Old El Pueblo Road
Scotts Valley, CA 95066

June 25, 2008

Congratulations to our J-PEG Me Online Contest winner Brianne Bradfield. The winning photo (posted to the right) was definitely an odd one that grabbed our attention.

Congrats and keep your eyes open for more contests coming soon!

June 23, 2008

CLICK HERE to see a little Q&A that Drew Fuller did for Andy Blumberg and EXPN.com

June 19, 2008

Woodland Skatepark is a new park in the Greenlake area of Seattle that has been in the works for over 4 years! The park is a great mix of a flowing street area, a tranny bowl with cradle, and a sickter tiled vert bowl. As soon as the concrete was poured on this park, the word was out that North Seattle finally has a destination park near both I5 and HWY 99.

The festivities for the day included a visit from Mayor Greg Nickels who also announced the plan to open 2 to 3 new parks the next couple years in the Seattle area! For anyone that has followed the Seattle Skatepark movement over the years, this is a huge step that has taken a lot of positive effort and time from many area skateboarders.

Snowboard Connection here in Seattle asked Sessions to show up for the day to help hype up the Opening event and we couldn’t resist! The Sessions tent was up and handing out shwag and stickers as well as sampling some sweet ZOLA drinks for the thirsty Skaters and crowd. Sessions also sponsored the Flat Bar in front of the crowd and held an informal competition midway through the day. The rain held off and a full session was had by all!

Here are some links!

http://snocon.com/blog/lower-woodland-skatepark-opening-photos/
http://seattleskateparks.org/?p=286
http://www.skatedesign.com/

Woodland Skatepark
5201 Green Lake Way N.
Seattle, WA 98103
WEBSITE

Yep, that’s right. We said it! J-PEG Me! This is a good, old fashioned, best photo takes the cake contest. Send us your funniest picture and you could win a Sessions care package that will include 3 shirts and a beanie.

With your photo include the following:

1. Name
2. Age
3. Address
4. Phone Number
5. Ski/Snowboard/Thumb Wrestle

Submit your photo and answers to the 5 questions listed above to brandonc@sessions.com

All entries need to be submitted by 6/20/2008. A winner will be chosen the following week!

June 18, 2008

CLICK HERE to check out this interview Chris Benchetler did with Rip.tv.

You can also find it on the home page of www.newschoolers.com

June 16, 2008

CLICK HERE to watch "Hunting Yeti" WEBISODE 3 featuring Sessions’ riders Chris Benchetler and Andy Mahre.

WELCHES, Oregon (May 29, 2008) – The withdrawal from skiing can be hard during the summer, especially the first month after lifts close. Luckily Nimbus Independent is here to make it just a little easier with the release of their third “Hunting Yeti” webisode on June 15th.

This latest installment has a fun, end of the season feel. Watch as the Nimbus Crew packs up their gear and heads out for some volcano camping on Mount St. Helens and Mt. Hood. Nothing like campfires, hot dogs and PBR during sunset sessions. Then there’s playing on a cornice, doing natural wall rides. Also check out Chris Benchetlers neighborhood as the group converges on Mammoth Mountain, meets up with Garrett Russell and gets laps in at Snowboarder Magazines Superpark.

Nimbus, along with Rip.Tv and its partners, is building a new model for filmmaking and what it means for audiences, athletes and sponsors through exclusive online distribution. “Hunting Yeti”, presented by K2 Skis, is streamed using the Rip.Tv media player on our supporting partner websites: K2 Skis, Evogear, Helly Hansen, Oakley, Tecnica, Marker, Dragon, Dakine, Atomic, Line, Bern, VAS Entertainment, Freeskier, Fri Flyt, Transition, Fall Line Skiing, Skieur, Freeskiers.net, Raiders.ch, Skizofrenia, Chill Factor, Poor Boyz Productions, and Rip.Tv. The webisodes are also available for free as iPod and HD computer downloads. You can find it all on our producer’s page at www.rip.tv/nimbusindependent.

“Hunting Yeti” is presented by K2 Skis and produced by Nimbus Independent in association with Poor Boyz Productions. Nimbus is producing five webisodes premiering on the 15th of February, April, June, August, and October. Check out the final cut of “Hunting Yeti – The Film” in early September on DVD or on tour in a city near you.

May 28, 2008

Hey Seattle area shredders!!!! Come over to Greenlake on Saturday,
June 7th to check out the Grand Opening of Seattle’s newest skatepark!

The mayor will be officially opening the park and there will be some
pros skating including Sessions’ own Shralper - Jesse Nelson. Come
say hi at the Sessions Tent, maybe score some shwag and sip on some
Zola drink...

May 23, 2008

Kyle Miller has been traveling around this winter to spots outside Montana and has been filming with the NC crew outta Tahoe and Colorado! He also got a 1/4 page editorial shot TWS wearing his Sessions Outerwear. Congrats!

May 23, 2008

My journey to mammoth started March 15th when i won the Finnish PBJ stop at Serena – a small ski resort near Helsinki. I qualified for the PBJ eurochamps and I was probably more stoked about pulling 4 new tricks that day in Serena. I must say that I wasn´t riding for 2 months before the event because of injuries and pneumonia. The eurochamps were held on April 12th in Grindelwald, Switzerland. There I came second in the 16+ division and I won trip to Mammoth with three other lukcy and highly skilled euroshredders. The Mammoth PBRJ Champs was supposed to be held just two weeks from the eurochamps and i was thrilled about my first trip to the states ever.

So the actual trip to land of yellow cabs and cadillacs started on April 21st when I boarded from Kuusamo to Helsinki, just 1 hour 15 minutes. I spent the night at my friends place and continued my trip on tuesday morning to Paris, 3 hours to Charles De Gaulle airport. The biggest airport I have ever been to, just the approach roll from the runway to terminal took about 15 minutes. I had to wait about 5 hours before our plane took off to LAX and I was supposed to meet the two norwegians, an Austrian guy and the Volcom euroteam manager at the CDG airport, and I did - just before boarding started. 11 hour flight overseas and we´re all excited about finally making it in the states and more than anything super happy about not having to sit in airplane anymore. Quick stop at Avis and we got ourselves a nice Ford Expedition to roll in. It was already getting late and we decided to crash in Howard Johnson, a hotel right next to LAX.

Around eight we left the hotel to denny´s breakfast diner, we all ate a traditional american breakfast (Two buttermilk pancakes, a slice of grilled honey ham, two bacon strips, two sausage links and two eggs sunny side up, plus grits and some bread and orange juice.) now we were ready for six-hour-drive through the desert up to the mountains! The landscapes and views were quite different than what we have in Finland, spectacular though. On Wednesday we didn´t make it to the slopes as they were closed as early as 4 pm but we had plenty of time for the jacuzzi. When I was mounting my bindings back to my board I noticed that my baseplate had broken. Plus i noticed that my railboard, that has totally round edges by the way, was broken from yet another place. I was kind of bummed but I didn´t let it bring me down. I was in The States for the first time in my life and I was going to ride the world famous Mammoth park the next day, so what if there was some part of my boards edge sticking out.

First day in the slopes, yeah!! In the morning everything was super hard and icy in the slopes, I couldn´t beleive that I used to know to ride.. I couldn´t stay on my board almost at all :D thanks to not having edges.. So I hurt my hip quite badly and later I landed on my head so that I got a huge. I took a break by the van, drank 1,5 litres of water just like that and slept for a while. After the break I took it a bit more easily, cruising around the park and luckily the snow had started to get a lot softer.

In the afternoon I was super happy to pick up new pair of bindings from local snowboardshop. I had better hopes for Friday. In the evening we went to this insanely sweet skatepark at mammoth village. I hadn´t been skateboarding for 6 months so I was kinda lost, actully i couldn´t do anything. First try over a miniature spine and I bent my left ankle, rolling over it. More pain. For the rest of the time I just decided to take it easily and watch the other guys & girls killing it at the park. But after a while i wanted to try a little more, with some unfortunate consequenses. So i fell on my back from 360 shove-it on flat, the result was super sore hip from the other side and even more pain in both elbows too. I had hurt my both elbows at this one construction pipe that we were shooting in Ruka, Finland before this Mammoth trip.

Friday was also a rough day for me as I hurt myself even more and the ankle and other previous injuries kept on aching. I took my ”spareboard” with razorbade sharp edges and stiff as a log. Well you know how it ends when you try some moves on rails with a board like that, i usually end up hurting myself as i did once more :D i was a little depressed and decided to leave rails for sunday. Just simply laybacks, splashing snow and small jumps was my cup of tea on friday.

Starurday morning, bluebird again! Wakeup at 7am, 8 am at the registration. Warmups just one to each obstacle to make sure they are creepy as Crueger himself and the landings were solid ice. So i decided to wait till the actual contest starts. You had 20 minutes for all 3 obstacles and on each one hardest trick was counted. The California sun is burning hot. When you are hiking almost 100 meters each try it is like between heaven and hell as you are swetting like a pig but still happy that the sun keeps everyone such a good spirit and lets not forget that the snow starts to melt.

In the finals i felt optimistic as it was so much softer and the organizers had given up with the salting. Girls and juniors were up first. The level of girls division was super amazing! Kari from Norway placed 3rd! WORD! After the finals i was asked how do i think i will place, i didn´t have any idea. During the 20 minute heat you didn´t have much time to watch what other guys were pulling on these obstacles. You had two or three tries on each one.

Tricks on pipe: 1st try bs270 hardway in fs270 out, 2nd try: nollie bs tailslide 270 out from switch and on 3rd i tried to pull the same but
middlerail: bs270 hardway in fs270 out
up-flat-down-flat-down: cab1 in to fs 50-50 to bs 270 over the first flat section to bs boardslide through down and flat to fs boardslide down the last section.

On sunday morning the others woke up early and letf for the slopes but i had decided to chill in the mammoth village as i was so broken physically but really happy as it was fourth day of bluebird and i was cruising around with jan´s skateboard. I had to get another travel bag as i coudn´t fit everything in my boardbag anymore.

Monday morning wake up at 6, drive through the desert, 30 minutes shopping in Beverlyhills center, another 30 minutes with my relatives. Me and the norwegian kid, Øivind almost missed the plane to Paris in LAX, luckily we made it. 10 hour flight to paris, 5 hour wait and then 3 hour flight to Helsinki, next day i continued to Kuusamo in the north of Finland for the traditionally legenday wappulounas, it´s like the end of the season event in Ruka and its wicked! It was beacouse of wappulonas that i didn´t stay in the states for logner. Hopefully i get to go back there some day.

-Anssi

May 19, 2008

Our very own Steve Caballero placed 2nd in the Masters Division at the Protec Pool Party on May 16th. Cab also placed 1st in the Thrasher/ Vans Longest Boardslide Contest.

Congrats!!

May 19, 2008

Click here to check out expn.com for an update on Chris Benchetler’s current Snowboarder Magazine Superpark adventure...

May 16, 2008

The lib tech pack your bags contest is on May 26 in Port Angeles, Washington so come on out and compete for your chance to advance to Sweden’s QS Bowl Riders Series and are very own Jesse Nelson will be there.

May 14, 2008

A decade ago Riksgransen was one of the hottest spots in the world for snowboarders and now 10 years later the King of the Hill comp. was back in Riksgransen. After two days of of bad weather the competitions could finally start on Friday and longtime Sessions rider Peter Strom snagged 3 place in the Big Air event.

For more info check out http://transition.se/blog.aspx?id=2819 or http://www.koth.se/

May 14, 2008

New NW regional rider Shane Stalling gets a shot on www.twsnow.com from a recent trip to cooke city!

May 5, 2008

Jt Holmes placed 2nd place in the Roldal Freeride 08!

"I was in 2nd after finals day one and finals day two brought another solid run, but I was not able to take over the lead. It was super
close and I am totally happy with 2nd. The field was packed with good skiers form Norway, France, Sweden and USA. Both days were really hard core skiing. I was fully peaking on adrenalin up top."
- JT Holmes

Congratualtions JT!!

May 2, 2008

Chris’s Excellent Adventures...

It all started with opening weekend on the death strip up here at Mammoth Mountain. I unfortunately ended up breaking my clavicle the second day and needed surgery. Not the best start I’ve ever had, but I stayed determined and rehabbed until late December.

January 1st, Jp Auclair and I headed over seas to the wonderful land of crouching tigers and hidden powder- Niseko, Japan. To sum up the trip; it was the deepest, most consistent, and best powder skiing I’ve ever encountered. I think it’s safe to say Jp and I will be going back every year.

After nearly a month of skiing in heaven, I met up with my film crew, Pollard, Pep, and Mahre, for “Hunting Yeti” produced by Nimbus Independent.. We went straight to Whistler, BC where all was looking great, until the second day of sun when I decided to send a big cliff and re-broke my clavicle.. I wasn’t to happy about that one. (You can check out our webisodes every 2 months documenting our travels.. www.rip.tv/nimbusindependent)

The next couple months consisted of constant shoulder rehab to try and avoid the three-peat. And now, 2 months after my second break, I headed up to Valdez, Alaska with the whole Atomic family. We went to film for the Atomic movie and test new ski products. The snow conditions were quite variable, but the sun shined the entire time. Literally! It got dark around 10:30 pm..

The crew was Daron Rahlves, Myself, Eric Guay, Loris and Nico Falguet, and all the boys behind the scenes that are driving the brand..

The crews were split due to the size of the heli capacity, so Daron and I were in the same crew. I tried to show Daron what it’s really like to go fast, but he’s just such a scaredy cat... Ha. Yeah right.. With a mix of those mountains, and seeing someone like Daron charge big lines was very humbling.

So yeah.. There’s the end of my Excellent Adventures thus far, but stay tuned in because my clavicle is feeling great and the filming for “Hunting Yeti” will continue long into the summer...

Cheers,

CB

You can also check out the story on an updated blog online at Powder:

http://www.powdermag.com/

April 30, 2008

Download the "POWER NORMAL" for your ipod. Director David Rouleau, himself a SESSIONS rider, is known for producing edgy, creative films. In addition to Rouleau, The Power Normal also includes footage of SESSIONS rider Molly Milligan and Dave Fortin.

http://gnarcore.com/?p=411

April 24, 2008

Lomg time friend of Sessions Eddie Vedder should his support for Sessions and the Kelly Slater Founation that raised over $350,000 for environmental causes. View the full story at: http://www.surfline.com/surfnews/article_bamp.cfm?id=14987

CLICK HERE TO WATCH “HUNTING YETI” WEBISODE 2. Feautring Sessions team riders Andy Mahre and Chris Benchetler.

WELCHES, Oregon (April 8, 2008) – The wait is over! It’s been two months since Nimbus Independent premiered their first installment of a five part webisode series titled, “Hunting Yeti”. Now on April 15th, the Nimbus crew delivers another stellar episode of documented ski culture and filmmaking. Witness the crew of Pep Fujas, Chris Benchetler, Andy Mahre, Ike Smith, Justin Wiegand, Eric Pollard, Christian Sirianni, and Shin Campos as they hit the backcountry slopes around Whistler, BC, Sonora, CA and Cooke City, MT.

April 16, 2008

Sunday April 20th at 9pm at LaRumba in Denver Orphic Pro Presents the world premiere of Dead Air. This event will also have entertainment from Ooh La La Burlesque and 1865 a bay area hip hop group. Giveaways from Sessions, Pow Gloves, SkullCandy, Colorado Freeskier, Jibij Pro Shop, Monster Energy Drink, and Jiberish Clothing. Riders Include : Richie Paradise, Sam Tarolli, Pat Sewell, Travis Redd, Stephen Smith, Matt Walker, David Lesh, Adam Delorme, Clay Bryant, JF Bruegger, Matt Philippi, Paul Cotter, Chas Waters, Everly Gohman, Mike Clarke, and SESSIONS very own Tanner Rainville and Ben Wiltse.

April 16, 2008
CLICK HERE to watch the movie trailer of "SHRED" featuring Sessions. The movie was filmed in BC last season and features Tom Greene and Dave England.

April 15, 2008 CLICK HERE to check out the new teaser from Alterna Films, the video comes out in September 2008.

CLICK HERE to view the 3rd Annual Lumberjack Log Jam held at Squaw Valley on March 22nd, 2008.

April 9, 2008

Over the course of last week, the Brittish invaded Laax, Switzerland for the Britts, the British Snow Open. Our Partners in the UK brought their team down and as you can see from the pictures and from the overall standings below, SESSIONS was a dominating force at the event.

Results for the Sessions British team are as follows;



Boardercross Mens Open Gold- James Foster

Boardercross Junior Women Gold- Rebecca Cullum



Big Air Junior Girls Gold-Rebecca Cullum

Big Air Womens Open 13th place- Rebecca Cullum


Big Air Mens Open 9th Place- David Graham

Big Air Mens Open 13th Place- Angus Leith

Big Air Mens Open 19th Place- Scott Penman



Halfpipe Ladies Open 9th Place- Rebecca Cullum

Halfpipe Mens Open 6th Place- James Foster

Halfpipe Mens Open 8th Place - Angus Leith



Halfpipe Ski Masters Division Gold- Dave Young


Slopestyle Ski Masters Division Gold- Dave Young

Slopestyle Ski Open Division 9th Place- Rob Taylor



Unfortunately, the Slopestyle results are not yet available and Ski big
air results have also not been posted. I suppose 5 gold medals at teh event is not bad for the Sessions team. Congratulations and thanks to all for representing.

See you next year!

James Hamilton of New Zealand made it to the finals of the US Open halfpipe comp proving once and for all that kiwis CAN fly. Congrats James and keep up the good work

March 24, 2008

The 3rd Annual SESSIONS Lumberjack Log Jam went down at Squaw Valley on Saturday under clear blue skies and a packed Easter Weekend!

The course was fun and good times were had!

Results
Men’s snowboard
1. Chris Bosco
2. Kyle Earl
3. Zak Hale
4. Jonny Lazzareschi, Johnny Brady (tie)
5. Benny Urban

Women’s snowboard
1. Femke Henriques

Men’s ski
1. Zach Steele
2. Ben Westmorecan
3. Kevin Malone
4. Alex Dorszynski
5. Jordan Seldin

PHOTO: Terren Gomez

MArch 23, 2008

Tim Humphreys has laid it down at the big contests this season and scored another solid 2nd place behind Shaun White at the US Open Slopestyle. He was not done yet...he did every trick in the book from frontside and backside 1080s, backside and switch backside 720s and a backside rodeo 540 to win the Big Air title as well.

Not a bad week...a 1st and 2nd and some serious loot to go with it!

Stay tuned for more news and photos on the event....

March 21, 2008

Congrats to James Hamilton for placing 3rd in the pipe comp at the World Cup in Valmalenco, Italy and qualifying for the semis at the US open. Read more at

http://nzsnowboard.com/news/664/world_cup_podium_for_new_zealand_snowboarder

March 19, 2008

Drew just got back from a wicked trip to Silverton with the DaKine team and FUTURE for a story you will all see in the magazine sooner than later. In the meantime you can get a sneak peek here.

http://www.futuresnowboarding.com/2008/03/silverton-colorado-w-dakine-team

March 19, 2008

Anna Segal took the podium in the Orage European Open, which was held in Laax Switzerland. She took 2nd in the slopestyle and completed a switch 5 in her final run... Attached are some podium photos.

Congratulations Anna!!!!

March 17, 2008

Sessions can be seen on tv’s across Australia and New Zealand on the show “Goin Ballistyx" which reachs approximately 250,000 viewers each week nationally on the community station. Fuel TV has also just recently picked up the show.

Attached is a photo of presenters…Dave Clarke wearing a Sessions sweat, Natasha Ferre wearing a Sessions jacket and Steve Watts wearing a Sessions softshell.

March 17th, 2008

Last week Sessions represented at the European Freeski Open, hosted at Laax, Switzerland.
Tanner Rainville was in attendance, as well as our new shaper and rocker Skye Darden. But best of all, we had two of our Greek skiers make it all the way up to the event, compete, rock and roll all night and miss their flight back home. (Dimitris and Konstantin, you owe me 320 Swissies) ☺

Another highlight for EVERYONE in attendance was Skyes, famous banana bar at the bottom of the halfpipe. Sessions was there for sure.

All in all it was a sick time and Sessions will be representing hard with the Euro freeski action from now on. Thanks to everyone that made it down, up and over to help spread the Sessions love.

For more information on the event and to read Skyes blog, check out: www.newschoolers.com

March 11, 2008

TJ walked away with a solid 3rd at the RedBull GAP SESSION in lovely Garmisch. The jump was insane and some serious Sh*t went down.

Sessions riders are on a podium tear this season!

Well done.

May 10, 2008

Check out Chris’s Japan trip as the main section under ski at

http://expn.go.com/

March 10, 2008

Base jumpers participating in leap year by jumping off the top of the Gran Hyatt in San Diego. Check out the clips below:

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/parachuters-take-the-leap-in-citys-first-legal-base-jump/850725258

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYLo9jeDsvQ

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080229-0752-basejump.html

March 10, 2008


Andreas Gidlund from Sweden stood high atop the 1st place podium in Mayerhofen, Austria on Saturday, taking home 850 TTR ranking points, two thousand dollars, and a brand new Suzuki 250cc motocross bike. But thats not all, as he then turned around and won the rail competition for an additional thousand dollars and a brand new BMX bike. Not bad considering the event is a 5-star Stop on the TTR tour.

Congratulations Andreas! Now Andreas is off to join Method mag on a few weeks tour accross europe.

Check out more at: www.ttrworldtour.com/

Mar. 10, 2008
Young Nick wanted to check in and let us all know that he scored first place in both USASA halfpipe comps yesterday.
Giving me the San Gabriel USASA slopestyle and halfpipe series
championship!

Nice work!

March 4, 2008

The Sessions mimi Park opened last weekend in Greece at Fterolaka – Parnassos, the main snow ressort near Athens. And already many people are enjoining the park and trying out all obstacles the park has to offer. The first SESSIONS contest at the park will be held this coming weekend and is called the SESSIONS YOUNG GUN snowboard and ski Contest. Kids 17 and younger are encouraged to enter. Winners will receive great products from Sessions, Protec, Electric and Nixon. The Event supports the local shop Vertical and www.thespot.gr.



Attached is the contest poster and some pics from last weekend at the mini park. After the event I will sent you some pics and the story.

This past weekend Feb. 28 thru March 2nd the 4th Vans Cup took place at Northstar-at-Tahoe. SESSIONS set up tent at the event Thursday thru Sunday and had much excitement at the tent with raffles occurring twice a day and shwag being thrown out into the crowds.
On Friday night the Rail Jam went down at the Village at Northstar where the following riders placed:
Men’s Results-1. Chas Guldemond (Truckee, CA) $10,000 2. Brandon Reis (Dublin, NH) $7,000 3. Kade Madsen (Sparta, NJ) $3,000

Women’s Results-1. Molly Aguirre (Mammoth Lakes, CA) $3,000 2. Desiree Melancon (Riverside, CA) $1,500 3. Cheryl Maas (Biarritz, FRA) $1,000

Saturday was the Slopestyle event with the following riders placing:
Men’s Results-1. Andreas Wiig (Asker, NOR) 93.7 $20,000 2. Mason Aguirre (Duluth, MN) 90.7 $14,000 3. Robbie Walker (, AUS) 88.0 $7,400

Women’s Results-1. Cheryl Maas (Biarritz, FRA) 79.0 $15,000 2. Kjersti Buaas (Trondheim, NOR) 75.5 $7,500 3. Chanelle Sladics (Newport Beach, CA) 66.2 $3,000

Sunday Superpipe Results:
Men’s Results-1. Danny Kass (Vernon, NJ) 92.1 $20,000 2. Louie Vito (Bellefontaine, OH) 90.3 $14,000 3. Iouri Podlatchokov (Zurich, SWZ) 88.3 $7,000

Women’s Reults-1. Elena Hight (South Lake Tahoe, CA) 92.0 $11,000 2. Lizzy Beerman (Weston,VT) 81.0 $6,500 3. Kjersti Buaas (Trondheim, NOR) 75.0 $3,000

The event will be aired on FuelTV this Spring.

USASA stopped at Sun Valley this past weekend and one of the qualifying events for the finals. USASA aims to have encourages any level of rider to sign up and comepte in a fun environment acroos Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. All compeitiors must register with USASA to compete. Results for the Sun Valley Contest will be posted soon.

March 2, 2008

This Saturday was the first of a long future of Sessions Savognin parties. The Bar Terre is our spot and we held it down hard, with half price drinks, tons of giveaways and prizes, tunes spun by world renowned DJ Snoopy, and tons of fun by all. Next season, we have plans to open Savognins (voted best family resort in Swiss 2008) first ever snowpark. To be named the Sessions park at Savognin, we will come in next year with tons of events and parties on snow and off.

Special thanks to Mike at the Bar Terre and my big guy Rony, for all his help in organizing. Looking forward to do it again!!!!

If you happen to be in the Netherlands around April 13th, make sure to stop by the Montana Snow Center in Westerhoven. Sessions is sponsoring the number one event in the indoor hall titled, "the Brabant Open". Prizes include Ski/Snowboard holiday, tons of gear and the Redbull Trophy.

You can find out more about the contest at: www.montana-snowcenter.nl/brabantopen

Pictures of the event will be posted after the fun goes down. Stay tuned!

Feb. 26, 2008

Nate Farrell won best trick with a switch, or un-natural, back 5. The setup was pretty dope and it was quite the 1/4 pipe showdown with a stacked field. Nice work amigo!

OZ Bowl-A-Rama 08 Results

Results are in from the 4th annual Bowlarama at Bondi Beach¹s coast side
bowl in Australia and our very own Steve Caballero placed first. Congrats!!

Here are the rest of the results for Masters:
1st Steve Caballero
2nd Mick Mullhall
3rd Kevin Staab
4th Lester Kasai
5th Pat Ngoho
6th Sasha Steinhorst
7th Cameron Dowse
8th Johnny McGrath
9th Luke Foster
10th Danny Van

On February 23, 2008 the Inaugural etnies Goofy vs. Regular contest went down at Bear Mountain, CA and Sessions was there to show our support.

Goofy riders and Regulars competed at the competition to find out who really rules the mountain. And this year the Regulars came out on top.

The Goofy team, made up of FUEL TV’s Goofy Footed riders was lead by John Stouffer and the Transworld Snowboarding’s Regular Footed captain was Kurt Hoy. The Regulars won the competition with 2747 points over Goofy’s final score of 2345.

Regular Team:

1. Team MVP Jusso Lavisto
2. Keegan Valaika
3. Stian Solberg
4. Erich Dummer
5. Robbie Walker
6. Austin Smith
7. Dave Fortin SESSIONS’ RIDER
8. Scott Vine
9. Markku Koski
10. Corey Cronk
11. Corey Noble
12. JP Walker
13. Joe Sexton
14. Beverly Vuilleumier
15. Desiree Melachon

Goofy Team:

1. Louie Vito
2. Forrest Bailey
3. Clayton Shoemaker
4. Tyler Flanagan
5. Jonas Michilot
6. Nick Dirks
7. Simon Chamberlain
8. Siguard Haga
9. Alex Sherman
10. Cody Boan
11. Kimmy Fasani
12. Harrison Gordon
13. Ryan Thompson
14. Gabi Viteri
15. Chris Bradshaw

At the end of the contest Ghostface Killah played a free contest at the base of the mountain.

Awesome job to Sessions’ team rider, Dave Fortin, who was definitely one of the main people to watch throughout the contest!!

The etnies GVR Snow will air on FUEL TV on Monday, April 7 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. For more information, please check www.fuel.tv for local times and listings.

For the Stigmata in Greece they bring down snow from the mountains around Athens with trucks.
On the first day a rail and a wall were the obstacles. The riders will choose the overall winner after the 2 days.


The photos are of 12 year old Nikolas on the rail, Goerge Ouzounis and Dimitris Papakonstantinou on the wall.

As some and many of you may already know, Eric Pollard, Pep Fujas,Myself, and Andy Mahre have all joined forces this season to create and build a new model for filmmaking and what it means for audiences,athletes, and sponsors by using online distribution.

This new movie, "Hunting Yeti" produced by Nimbus Independent in association with Poorboyz Productions, will document our travels and everything involved with filmmaking. We will be releasing 5 full- length 28-minute webisodes every 2 months for computer and iPod
viewing, available for download off of the producer’s page at www.rip.tv/nimbusindependent

Each webisode will be premiering on the 15th of February, April, August, and October. With a final cut of "Hunting Yeti - The Film" in early September on DVD, or on tour in a city near you.

"Hunting Yeti", presented by K2 Skis, is now streaming using the Rip.Tv media player on our supporting partner websites: K2 Skis, Evogear, Helly Hansen, Oakley, Tecnica, Marker, Dragon, DaKine, Atomic, Line, VAS Entertainment, Freeskier, Fri Flyt, Transition, Fall
Line Skiing, Skieur, Freeskiers.net, Chill Factor, Poor Boyz Productions, and Rip.Tv

A huge Thanks to everyone involved, and we hope you enjoy the web releases and stay tuned for more.

Sincerely,

Chris Benchetler & The Nimbus Crew

Jacob Krugmeyer shredded it up at the Volclone PB+J rail jam and placed 3rd place in 15 and under which gets him into the finals in Mammoth!!!! Pretty good considering he is 12!!

Also - Sessions shredder Andy Bergin-Sperry placed 3rd in the Open division as well!!!

story at:
www.snowboard-mag.com

This is a new event at Summit at Snoqualmie near Seattle, WA. It is an event just for snowboarders 13 and under! It’s great as the younger shredders don’t have to worry about hitting huge jumps or getting intimidated by High School Jocks!

The day was snowy and cold. Kris and I got there nice and early for prime tent and banner placement. As we were setting up, we started getting reports that there was a ton of kids at registration!!

Krush, Summit’s Youth Mkt director, was hoping for 20-25 kids. We ended up with 58 kids!!!!! Insane!

Once practice started, I knew this was going to be one of my favorite events ever. Kids were hiking, sometimes running!, to get more runs in!
Jesse Burtner from Think Thank Movies was on the mike and absolutely putting everyone in stitches! The kids loved it! Sean Genovese and myself were judging away with a full on Jam Session. It was tricky as they were dropping left and right and attacking the full course dinner of a setup! Boxes, Rails, and Mini-Booters!

Sessions mini-ripper Jacob Krugmire was there to throw down at this event based on him and his crew. Jacob ended up taking the 10-11 age category!

Here are some pics I snapped and more info is up here:
Event Results:
http://summitatsnoqualmie.com/info/winter/event_results.asp
Photos:
http://summitatsnoqualmie.com/info/winter/greenhorn_gallery.asp

Make sure to check out Jesse and Sean’s teaser for the new Think Thank movie: Stack Footy!
http://www.thinkthank.com/

Sessions sponsors Red Bull Stigmata Rail Contest.

Feb. 20, 2008

If you have ever been to Athens, Greece, or know anything about the climate there, you can imagine its extremely rare that they get snow on the ground. (in fact I believe this is the second time in 10 years!) The Sessions boys at Board Tech didn’t waste a minute to get out there and take full advantage of the situation. Check out these extremely insane shots from downtown Athens.

Enjoy it while it lasts boys!

Feb. 19, 2008

Check Zak Hale in yet another Sunday in the Park feature video on TWSNOW.com

Check the video here.

http://www.transworldsnowboarding.com/video.jsp?ID=1000005271

Things are popping...TJ is in Japan, Drew is in Montana with a bunch of Euros, Bozung is in Greece and it has not snowed in Athens for 20 years, until now!

Global warming is amazing.

fFeb. 14, 2008

Go to Transworld and check out Drew getting his sledneck on and showing some of the TWS crew around the Utah Backcountry while filming for their new movie project.

It is Valentines Day and Drew loves all of you.

http://www.transworldsnowboarding.com/video.jsp?ID=1000005263

Feb. 8, 2008

Check Tim getting grilled. The kid is on a roll and we are stoked he is part of the familia!

http://www.themustachio.com/index.php?item_id=2028

Feb 6th, 2008

A few days after ISPO, it is safe to say Sessions rocked the show. With “front and center” position and live punk rock, courtesy of Cloris and live art exhibition, thanks to Amanda Mendiant it was a guarantee that we grabbed your attention, even if you went to the ISPO to buy tennis rackets. Four long days later of partying with the Bozman and 12 other Sessions EU riders, distributors and partners from around the world, it was time to go home. Thanks to everyone who contributed in making the show a grand success.

Amanda’s paintings will soon be available for bid on www.sessions.com with all proceeds to be donated to B4BC. So keep an eye out.

Feb. 5, 2008

Benny is in Tahoe for the season and is loving life he says. Riding everyday and not missing home in Germany. The kid is a ripper and super nice, so go say what up to the youngster.

The winner of the "Win a Day of Skiing with Shane McConkey" Contest, Steve Crowe, brought his wife with him from Canada to Squaw Valley USA January 26 - 28. On Sunday Steve and his wife enjoyed an excellent day of skiing with Shane McConkey in very heavy snow fall.

As winner of the contest Steve recieved 2 airline tickets to and from Canada, lodging at the Village at Squaw, 2 two day lift tickets at Squaw Valley USA, and lots of shwag from Powder and Sessions, including a Shane McConkey Gore Jacket.

Check out all his great pics here

Jan. 23, 2008

It is official, Tim Humphreys got the invite for the X Games Snowboard Slopestyle and Tanner Rainville on the Ski side as well. If you are in Aspen go check them out or even better watch it on ABC or ESPN in HD on your couch and eat some cheetos! Good luck doods, get eXtreme and bring home the gold. Just watch out and don’t get hit in the head with any "energy drinks" while your standing atop the podium.

Jan. 22, 2008

If you happen to be in Beverly Hills on Wednesday you can go catch Drew Fuller making some turns on Rodeo Drive for a bunch of Yuppies buying 500 dollar "vintage" tees and getting 2500 dollar perms. He will be at the intersection of Rodeo Drive and Willshire Blvd. from 11am - 2pm. I hear after his shred session he is hitting the IVY with Lohan then some late night clubbing with her and her sober friends. I guess she likes snowboarders, so she had her "people" contact Drew after she found out that he was indeed an actual snowboarder?! Weird. GO DREW! Slay the dragon.

January 21, 2007

by Tom Willmott, Head Coach of the New Zealand Snowboard Team

Straight after a successful end to the European Open campaign with Ben Stewart making the finals and placing 13th, the team packed their bags and hopped on the bus for the 6 hour drive to Bardonecchia Italy and the site of the 2006 Winter Olympics. James Hamilton was already there, had made it through qualifying so both Ben and James lined up against the Finns, Swiss, French, Italians and US riders for the “Rock the Spot” TTR 4-star night event which involved a made for tv halfpipe competition with rock bands on stage at the bottom of the pipe, and fireworks going off left right and centre.


James was enjoying the pipe, had some fantastic training runs and was locking in cab 1080’s and backside 900s. Ben made it through to the semi-finals in the first heat, however James, despite landing his first cab 10 in competition and scoring higher than first heat qualifiers failed to make the cut with a stacked second heat including most of the Finns. Ben stepped things up in semi-finals and went for a frontside 1080, but couldn’t hold onto the icy landing, and had to settle for 10th place. James ended up 15th, but was stoked at the end of the comp to win the “Best Trick of the night” award taking home a signature model Epiphone guitar!! The snowboarding was finished by 10pm and the guys got to hang out and watch Juliette and the Licks on stage.

In 4 days time there is a World Cup event in the same halfpipe, so we are staying in Bardonecchia to train, take afew days off and prepare for the next one. After that it’s back to Colorado for a month of training to pick up the pace for the second phase of competition in the US in March.

Jan. 17, 2008

Tim Humphreys represented and snagged a solid 3rd place finish at the Burton European Open Slopestyle. He completed the US rider podium sweep with Shaun White in 1st and Chaz in 2nd. Nice work Tim. Keep rolling.

Jan. 11th, 2008

SESSIONS Grom ripper is holding it down in the NW! Jacob Krugmire is his name and he handles his business. I think he just learned how to walk and barely turned 2?

Saturday, January 26 Summit at Snoqualamie will play host to the best of the best Northwest minishreds in a no-holds-barred competition for the 13 and unders. The contest is sponsored by SESSIONS, Ride Snowboards and Oakley. SESSIONS Northwest Rep Kyle Phillips is stoked for the event, and will be on hand with a SESSIONS tent, adding to the festive atmosphere. Also there will be SESSIONS minishred Jacob Krugmire. The success of Jacob and his peers is a big part of the inspiration for the event. You can find more details about the Greenhorn Games and other events at Summit at Snoqualamie by clicking here.

January 10, 2008

Customers visiting the Sessions Warehouse Sale leading up to Christmas were invited to bring in canned food and unwrapped toys in exchange for raffle tickets. Community involvement is an important part of what Sessions is about, and the holidays are a great time to help the less fortunate. The raffle winners, Cindy, Mary Pat and Kyle, received full outerwear sets from Sessions: a Sioux Star Jacket and Swizzler Pant, a Sioux Plaid Jacket and Achilles Pant and a Shamrock Jacket and Achilles Pant. Congratulations to all three winners.

9th Annual Transworld SNOWboarding Riders Poll held at the Joint located in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Thursday January 31, 2008.

This party is being held during the SIA Tradeshow in Las Vegas. Sessions known for its huge SIA parties decided to join up with Transworld to present the years favorite riders. This invite only event brings out top snowboarding pros to cheer on their own picks for the top spots in the sport.

The nominees are:

Men’s Rookie Of The Year
Torstein Horgmo
Kevin Pearce
Austin Smith

Women’s Rookie Of The Year
Kimmy Fasani
Desiree Melancon
Spencer O’Brien

Men’s Rider Of The Year
Nicolas Müller
Wolle Nyvelt
Andreas Wiig

Women’s Rider Of The Year
Hana Beaman
Torah Bright
Marie-France Roy

Women’s Video Part Of The Year
Annie Boulanger - Absinthe/Optimistic?
Marie-France Roy - Rome/Any Means
Cheryl Maas - Yeahh/Purple Yeahh

Men’s Video Part Of The Year
John Jackson - Standard/Catch The Vapors
Wolle Nyvelt - Absinthe/Optimistic?
Austin Smith - MDP/We’re People Too

Standout Of The Year
Terje Haakonsen’s Record Breaking Air
Torstein Horgmo, Eddie Wall, Jonas Carlson, and Ken Block, DC Snow Park Session
Andreas Wiig X-Games Gold

Sponsors include: Sessions, Gore-Tex, New Era, Vail, and Transworld.

The night will consist of an award show, cocktail hour, and DJ after show party.

Scotts Valley, CA , January 8, 2008- Over the past few months you have submitted your hilarious videos showcasing your snow sport talent in hopes of winning a day of skiing with Shane McConkey at Squaw Valley. Out of the videos that we received some could have been classified as quirky, others were movie quality, a few demonstrated phenomenal skiing, and others were just down right hysterical! But when it came down to choosing, only one could be the winner and since this contest revolves around Shane we decided there would be no better judge than Shane himself. So between shooting a TV show, traveling for photoshoots, and skiing Shane watched every video that was submitted and decided on one. And the winner is…(drum roll please)…”Creation of Sensation” by Steve Crowe.

“I don’t know, there’s just something about dummies and babies and the impossibility of the thing up righting itself every time and skiing out of horrendous crashes that really did it for me. I just about pissed myself watching that one. And that is exactly what I wanted these vids to do.
“Creation of a Sensation” is my winner. “ – Shane McConkey

Steve and a friend will receive 2-nights lodging at The Village at Squaw, round-trip airfare (anywhere in North America), 1 day of skiing with Shane McConkey, 2-day lift tickets to Squaw Valley and Steve will also receive a Sessions Signature Shane McConkey Gore Jacket.

Special thanks to Powder, Recco, and Squaw Valley for making such a great contest and RipTv for posting the videos!!

Finnish SESSIONS rider Antti-Juhani "Naku" Piirainen is off to a strong start this season, with two new video releases. He appears in Roistola Films’ release "The Heartbreakers" and in a new Ruka Park

Check it out here

by Christopher Kvaernberg (SESSIONS Rider from Norway)

January 8, 2007

I started off in Oslo the 14th of November and it was too early to remember with two of my buddies Eirik Haugo and Hakkon Tonnesen. Some drinks, terrible meals, turbulence, bears, one-and-a-half hours of sleep and some more drinks, and there we have L.A.

You could call this a detour, but you need some surfing and some chilling out before you hit the snow. We picked up Andreas Wiigs’ car that we were going to drive up to him in Breck, (thank you for that, buddy!) We hooked up with Logan in Solan Beach for some surfing and some serious bar to bar rounds.

Next stop Viva Las Vegas, and all I can say about that place is that it’s evil and that we instead should have been driving straight through and throwing money out of the window!!! No F… that place is fun man, but it’s evil!!!

After eleven hours or so of driving way too fast, we’re finely in Breck! Next day we’re up in Keystone hitting the park, which at that time was consisting of only rail, but a lot of them! Can’t tell you how stoked you are when you’re finally on your snowboard for the first time of winter and knowing that you have a whole winter in front of you, hell yeah! Picked up my friend’s car down in Denver-- that, by the way was a sick car (Range Rover Sport). Thanks for letting me use it, Gussi!!!

The next day we were shredding up in Breck and it was pretty much the same set-up as at Keystone, but a little bit better since it was an easier walk (hike) to get up to the rail park. After a week or so, Breck opened two jumps, and we were stoked! Pretty much for the next two weeks the only thing we were doing was hitting those jumps, except for one day where we went up to Arapahoe for some powder shredding, with the rest of the Norwegian crew! I twisted my ankle on the end of the trip. When the other guys were riding I had to spend time on the couch, and I can tell you one thing that sucks too much to describe!!!

I’m up and going right now and will see you in the states in February, peace out!!! Happy New Year’s!!!!

Jan. 6th, 2008

SESSIONS welcomes Tim Humphreys to the family. Check out more info on Tim on the TEAM page.

January 2, 2007

Sessions Finnish rider Antti "Naku" Piirainen and photographer Rami Hanafi got Shot of the Week from Method Magazine. You can download the wallpaper by clicking here. Congrats to Naku and thanks a lot to Method Mag.

January 2, 2008

Sessions wunderkind Benny Urban will be be coming to the United States this January and staying through through the end of June. Benny has already built a substantial name for himself in Europe. Now, recovered from a shoulder injury and surgery that plagued his last season, he’s ready to bring it strong for 2008. Benny will be in Truckee attending school and making it to the mountains as often as possible. "My dream is coming through!" said Urban.

Jan. 1, 2008

Nate Bozung scores another interview, this time it is a feature in the new issue of HIGH TIMES. This mag has crazy amounts of circulation, way more than any shred mag! We are not saying that we support this type of behavior or condone the activity of smoking certain products and/or substances...we just back Nate!

Nice work Boozy! Check a peek here...

http://www.hightimes.com/ht/entertainment/content.php?bid=1525&aid=24

December 18th, 2007

The park at Brighton is getting dialed and SESSIONS is a proud sponsor and hyped to be a part of one of the best resorts in the world!

Get off your ass and get up there.

December 17, 2007

Tim was on point again and bagged another win and some serious loot at the Paul Mitchell expression session at the Breck GP. Look for it all at a later date on NBC.

Nice work Tim and welcome to the family!

December 17th, 2007

UK freeskier Dave Young gets himself the covershot on Fall Line’s January issue.

Good on ya’ Dave. Keep it up.

Dec. 13, 2007

I know this is a bit late but, Tim Humphries won the rookie challenge at the NOKIA AIR and STYLE! The kid killed it and beat out a stacked field. Well done Tim.

December 10, 2007

These kids are off the hook! In addition to the girls’ team, Sessions sponsors a boys’ eight and under soccer team. Check the slide show for more photos.

A high five goes to Sessions Ski team rider Chris Benchetler for getting the cover of the Powder 2008 photo annual. Now go out and buy it.

December 4, 2007

A Sessions-sponsored girls’ soccer team closed out their season recently, with some fantastic shots to show for it. These girls played well throughout the season, showing lots of heart and hard work. Keep at it!

December 3, 2007

Recently, Sessions teamed up with online greeting card company Rattlebox to produce a snowboard-oriented e-card. You can check it out below:




So happy holidays, and don’t forget to get your shred on.

November 20, 2007

TJ Scheinder is a busy man cranking out his weekly videos "Snowboard Realms". Check out episodes 2, 3, and 4. You can also visit tjschneider.com or youtube.com/snowboardrealms

Episode #2


Episode #3


Episode #4

November 18, 2007

Are you crazy enough to jump off the top of a building, 360 feet in the air into a parking lot while wearing skis and a parachute?

You might not be, but base jumpers Shane McConkey, JT Holmes, Miles Dasher and Jesse Hall are.

They jumped off the top of the Silver Legacy Saturday from a 25-by-35-foot ramp that was packed with ice. After they jumped they pulled their parachute and glided down into the Eldorado Casino parking lot across the street.

The ski base jump kicked off a full day of events to promote the Warren Miller and Make-a-Wish fundraising event hosted by Bobo?s Mogul Mouse Ski and Board.

At noon, Casey Stiteler, a University of Nevada, Reno student who benefited from the Make-a-Wish program, was flown in on a helicopter with McConkey.

Stiteler had an inoperable brain tumor and went through years of intense chemotherapy and Make-a-Wish put a batting cage in his front yard. Now he is 18 and he helps out at Make-a-Wish.

McConkey made the first jump of the day, just after 1 p.m. and amused the audience with a front flip off the ramp. He pulled his parachute, flicked off his skis and easily made the landing.

?No one has ever done this,? McConkey said.

People have base jumped and jumped on skis in the past but no one has jumped off a building on skis, McConkey said.

?I always wanted to do an urban ski base jump,? he said. ?Plus, I get to do it with my bros.?

Dasher made the next jump and did a back flip and landed on his skis, only to be dragged to the ground by his billowing parachute.

Hall and Holmes followed suit with their jumps while the crowd cheered them on. The jumpers were scheduled to jump every hour starting at 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. However, the wind began to blow and they canceled the 2 p.m. jump.

Finally at 3 p.m., Holmes, wearing a Make-a-Wish parachute, jumped again, followed by McConkey.

Hall made his second jump of the day, the most complicated of them all with a double back flip. Coming out of the second flip his left ski became tangled in the parachute. He landed on the intersection of Sierra and 4th Streets.

?He over-rotated double back flips,? McConkey said.

The crowd cheered when Hall stood up, letting them know he was ok. An ambulance pulled up and brought out a stretcher but he hobbled into the landing area leaning on the arms of McConkey and Holmes.

?He has a sore knee and some road rashes he?s proud of,? Lynette LaCert from Bobo?s Mogul Mouse said.

Dasher made the final jump of the day and landed smoothly in the parking structure. The last set of jumps was also canceled.

?I?m feeling lucky right now, I might go hit the roulette wheel,? Dasher said after his final jump.

LaCert said the event was spectacular. They were able to make half of the jumps that they expected to make and was happy to get them off of the ramp, she said.?We feel really victorious,? she said.

The wind did play a large part in the days? event. McConkey said the wind was bad but that it did not affect their jumps.

?It affected our nerves,? he said.

Holmes admitted he was nervous before he jumped.