Ashbury

Sunday, June 8, 2008

And Joey Wins Another Poll! Backside 360 On is the Heaviest Trick for it's Time!

Joe Sexton's backside 360 5050 wins in a landslide! With Scotty Wittlake, Justin Hebbel, LNP, and Nima Jalali coming in the top five as well. This video below was supposed to have all five tricks, but I didn't have Scotty or Justin's tricks on DVD. So it's the best I could do. (Ok, my video failed uploading on Youtube. I'll try to get it to work, hopefully with the Justin and Scotty's tricks soon)

Although all the tricks listed deserve to be honorable mentions, I'm going to mention just two. JP Walker's frontside boardslide on the kink was unbelievable at the time. A lot of pros were still learning frontside boardslides properly and not many people were doing kink rails. But then again, JP has been changing how we snowboard, what we do on snowboards, and where we snowboard pretty much since he went pro.

The other honorable mention got one vote, mine. This trick went virtually unrecognized, in fact I'm probably the only person who cared. In the Revival Ali Goulet did a fakie front lip (think nollie boardslide, but fakie). I think the reason this trick went under the radar was because he did it at a time when you had to do one of three things to make a banger: 1) slide the rail with your butt facing down hill, 2) spin on, or 3) jump on something scary. In fact, the only person besides Ali who I've seen do this trick is Matty Ryan.

Feel free to comment, I'm interested in what people think on this one. Any bangers I missed?

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Gas Prices Too High?

Not if you're Big Mountain Mike and just won $10,000 in gas.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Active Mailorder

Can't find Ashbury at your local shop? Click the link above. Our summer softgood line is now available online at Activemailorder.com!

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

In Cold Blood

We got this as a myspace comment, and I think it's amazing. If you haven't seen the bootleg Thunders documentary that leaked a while ago, get your hands on it.

ADD US to your myspace

Monday, June 2, 2008

Five Minutes with Joe Sexton on Snowboard Revolution

5 Minutes with Joe Sexton on Snowrev.com. Click the image above. Here is an excerpt to get you interested:

Riley: why did you go with coke instead of a Malt?
Joe: because fries were extra and I didn’t know how big the burger was. The malt was expensive and they have flavored Coke.

Runway Teaser

Check out Desiree Melancon in Runway's teaser for their new video See What I See. Just click Desiree's face!

Lasts with Cody Comrie

1) Last time you left Salt Lake:

Team Thunder Gold Country road trip, was the best time ever.

2) Last pow day:
  
Sometime in March, I wore some jeans and was bummed.

3) Last rail mission:

Car tow, step up a loading dock to a mellow down rail... was the
biggest pain in the ass ever.  Me and Harry got some shots.

4) Last time you were embarrassed:

Left the blinker on on my motorcycle. Makes me hate myself.

5) Last time you were impressed:

My friend Nate played a blues riff while I poured two beers down
his throat, he didn't miss a note.

6) Last thing you learned:

5-0 front shuv.

7) Last time you were bummed because the Lakers knocked the Jazz out
of the playoffs:

Fuck the Jazz.

8) Last thing you created:
 
Ben, Harry, and Me made a step down dirt gap, step up to a bowl
pocket, step down to a step up dirt gap.  It was nuts, you'll have to
watch Gold Country to see it.

9) Last show you went to:

Something at Urban Lounge in Salt Lake, real good, I bought the
CD, I cant remember the name.  Shit.

10: Last snowboard video you watched:

Love Hate baby.

Myspace Comment

We got this on our Ashbury Myspace page and thought it was kinda fresh. His name is Jason Rowe and he kinda looks like a cross between Bob Dylan and Napolean Dynomite, in this portrait that he made for school anyway.