Athletes Eric Jackson, Leanne Pelosi and Director Travis Robb heat up “Winterpeg’s” Premier of “Black Winter” . Prairies Tour Part 2 of 2.

Next on the Black Winter “prairie tour” was the fine city of Winnipeg, Manitoba featuring an IMAX screening of the movie and a hang session with athletes Eric Jackson, Leanne Pelosi and director Travis Robb. The crew at Royal Sports and Kings Snow, Skate, Surf along with Monster Energy wrangled up the snowboard community which is pretty hefty considering the town’s proximity to the mountains. But in spite of its isolation from anything considerably vertical and snowy it has produced some great riders and more recently the young Andrew Geeves (also in the movie).

Premiering the movie on an IMAX screen raises the energy level a bit especially when the director is also in the house and excited to see his work projected on a 72 ft wide x 53 ft high canvas. The fine detail of the athletes “crash-face” comes across much better on a screen that size and so do those sketchy but salivary big mountain lines. But better than IMAX is having the ‘real thing’ present and have the riders connect with the audience in person by sharing stories and signing autographs. Turns out some of the best stories came from the locals, like the history lesson that Leanne Pelosi got from a Flin Flon local. Yes, Flin Flon is a town in Manitoba and it’s named after a man called Flintabody Flonitan. Let that fun word combo soak in a minute….
As the movie progressed, the crowd showed their love for Leanne and Eric’s parts and gave the “that’s our boy!!” props for Andrew Geeves.  After seeing many of these premieres in the last few weeks I would say that Chas Guldemond’s part always leaves a hush in the audience as people try to wrap their brain around the number of rotations he does.

Monster Energy team rider James Balzer spent plenty of time up North in British Columbia this summer riding everything his home-province had to offer. Here's an exclusive clip of him shredding the Okanagan via sbcwakeboard.com. Looks sick Balzer!

Black Ice Highway Driving and Standard Films Black Winter Premiere Blows Across the Canadian Prairies. Part 1 of 2.

 Winter has officially arrived in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan. And by ‘parts’ I mean, in its entirety. I’m not aware of any balmy pockets of the prairies that Mother Nature has stowed away. Except for when Chinooks roll through. Regardless, the black ice on the local highway validates my hunch that winter has coated the region. The temperatures are not yet savage but seeing your breath is painful, yet thrilling because you know those fun park days and deep pow days are looming. In the mean time, looming more urgently were the movie premieres in Edmonton (presented by The Easy Rider) and Saskatoon (presented by Momentum and Outtabounds).

The prairie tour began with Edmonton at the Garneau Theatre on Wednesday October 7th. The night was presented by The Easy Rider snowboard shop and a bunch of the shop’s new guard and old guard were in attendance. If there was ever a shop that bore witness to snowboarding’s awesome development to it’s current bonafide Olympic sport status it’s The Easy Rider. The shop launched an annual snowboard contest back in 1988 around the time that Transworld Snowboarding Magazine launched and Calgary, Alberta hosted the Winter Olympic Games (10 years before snowboarding could take part). Ronald Reagan was US president and Madonna wasn’t a Material Girl yet. So it’s safe to say Waide Currie and his brother Scott have been staples in the Edmonton scene for a long time and it’s very cool to see them tirelessly supporting snowboarding to this day. The 22nd Annual Easy Rider Snowboard Cup runs April 2010. Call the shop (780-413-4554) or become friends with “The Easy Rider” on Facebook for more information.

Montreal Supercross
Olympic Stadium
Montreal, Quebec
October 3, 2009
 
This past weekend the Monster Energy Leading Edge Kawasaki Team traveled to Montreal, Quebec for the annual Montreal Supercross in the Olympic Stadium.  
The team brought two riders, Brock Hoyer from Williams Lake, BC to ride in the Canadian only MX2 class and recently crowned Canadian MX2 National Champion, Teddy Maier from Fort Dodge, Iowa who was riding the new fuel injected Kawasaki KX450F in the MX1 class.
 
During Friday’s practice Teddy felt very comfortable aboard his new bike and clocked the fasted lap times, showing some veteran champions that he was serious about stepping up to the MX1 class. Meanwhile in MX2, Hoyer would log the fourth quickest time in qualifying. These lap times ensured both of the Monster Energy Leading Edge riders a good gate pick for the Main Event.
 
In MX2, the gate dropped and Brock Hoyer would get pinched off on the start. Despite being a ways back from the leaders, Hoyer put his head down and began to charge, logging the quickest lap time of the event in the process. Slowly Brock worked threw other riders into 4th and had a good battle with 3rd place finisher, Brady Sheren but couldn't make the pass before the checkers. Still a great ride for one of Canada's most promising up and coming riders.

Last week the team at Monster Energy and HIFI club sat in a circle and linked arms in the presence of a toothless clairvoyant. She instructed everyone to stare deep into her steamy Halloween cauldron and with a moldy crooked finger she stirred the pot until there was a ghostly dancer apparition.

The beautiful melancholy dancer spoke of the historical GRANDE theatre built in 1912 and how it’s one of the last few remaining pre-World War I buildings in Canada. She said there is no rest until she shakes it to the ground to a music menu featuring some of Canada’s most incredible party rockers including the MC and DJ duo of Thunderheist (you might recognize their track “Jerk It” from the 2008 critically acclaimed movie The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke).

Alongside Thunderheist will be the otherworldly turntable skills of Mat the Alien, bone crushing party rhythms of Smalltown DJs and casting spells on everyone will be Vinyl Ritchie who’s medium is records only – no digital music. And no parapsychology. Just real deal deadly dance floor anthems.

Rounding out the GRANDE THEATRES most haunting performance will be the supernatural Homebreakin' DJs featuring Wax Romeo, Lorne B and Cal Bass. Hosted by the fiery and lovely Miss Ange from the Vibe 98.5 fm.

9 DJs / PERFORMERS
2 ROOMS
1 HAUNTED STAIRCASE
ALL IN THE HISTORICAL “THEATRE JUNCTION GRANDE” IN THE MIDDLE OF DOWNTOWN.

TICKETS $10 in advance at GIANT 45 and CLUBZONE.com.
A very limited number of tickets will be available at the door.

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Momentum, Outtabounds and Monster Energy have teamed up with Standard Films to bring you the Saskatoon premier of their latest film, "Black Winter" at the Roxy Theatre. Afterwards everyone is heading to Scratch for the afterburner featuring DJ Wax Romeo!

Address:  320 20th Street West, Saskatoon, SK CANADA

Doors: 8PM Movie: 8:30PM

Presented by Momentum, Outtabounds, Scratch Bar and Monster Energy. 

Facebook Event page:  HERE