Canadian Burton Open 2011

Halfpipe Finals Friday night:

Mens

1 Kohei Kudo JPN

2 Scotty James AUS

3 Christian Haller SUI

Womens

1 Kelly Clark USA

2 Cilka Sadar SLO

3 Mercedes Nicoll CAN

Canadian Burton Open

Slope Style finals

Mens
1 Sam Hulbert USA
2 Zak Stone CAN
3 Francis Bourgeois CAN

Womens
1 Jamie Anderson USA
2 Silvia Mittermuller GER
3 Ty Walker USA

2010 Mission Girls Rail Jam

Big congrats to my girl Jenna Mae for winning the Missions Girls Rail Jam at COP tonight.

Check out the rest of the pics on Flickr.

Ladies 16+

Under 16 (Hi-Fives all round)

Top left: Jenna Mae  Top right: Nicole

Bottom: Jordana

Killing it!

2010 Billabong Flaunt it - Mt Norquay

Saturday February 13, 2010 

 Billabong Flaunt it at Mount Norquay 

How can I sum up the contest that just went down yesterday . . . Pure Awesomeness! These ladies were seriously pushing the level of riding to new heights and motivating each other along the way.
If you were watching the slope style portion you would be oohhh'ing and aaah'ing over the steezy grabs, 180's, 360's, 540's, a 720, can't forget the switch tricks and back flips.
The Rail Jam was insane, with tail slides, frontsides, 180 on/ off, 270 on's 270 out's, switch ups . .  you name it and it was thrown down in style

So picture wise, this is what I got from the contest. Ladies if you like what I got let me know, we'll set something up to get some of these pics out to you. If you don't see any pics of you here check out my flickr site or email me or FB and I will see what I can find.

And just remember to be kind and remember the photo credits.

-Katherine Calnan

katherinecalnan@gmail.com
www.flickr.com/photos/katherinecalnan

P.S. Also check out Jan MacMillen for even more photos on the event: Jan's Flickr

Thanks to Billabong, the judges (Char!!), and the commentators.

Jenna Mae 

 

Christy Prior, Rail Jam Winner. Watch out for this for lady!  

First place Slope Style prize, along with the big $700 chq, travel bag and billabong goodie bag.

2010 Burton Canadian Open

Friday February 5, 2010
Slope Style Semi-Finals

Jon Versteeg. Seriously, amazing style.

Craig Beaulieu another Canadian with great skill.

Saturday February 6, 2010 
Half Pipe Finals
Absolutely gorgeous day with the sun warming up the pipe. 

                                          Iouri Podladtchikov

HP Men's Finals

1. Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI )

2. Justin Lamoureux (CAN)
3. Markus Malin (FIN)

HP Women's Finals

1. Kendall Brown (NZL)
2. Sarah Conrad (CAN)
3. Mercedes Nicoll (CAN)


Sunday February 7, 2010
Slope Style Finals
Where did this weather come from? Such a difference from the past two days of sun and blue skies. The fog rolled in or shall I say frosty fog, and made viewing and photographing kinda difficult, not to mention cold as well. Check out the results and the pics (attempted pics).

Womens's Finals 
1. Enni Rukajarvi (FIN)
2. Lisa Wiik (NOR)
3. Sina Candrian (SUI)
4. Breanna Strangeland (CAN)

Men's Finals
1. Brett Esser (USA)
2. Jon Versteeg (CAN)
3. Robby Balharry (CAN)
4. Mark Sollors (CAN)

For full final results check out the Burton Open site:
http://www.opensnowboarding.com/Home.aspx?openid=CNO

Fernie Kinky Rail Jam

January 16, 2010 Fernie Kinky Rail Jam.

Saturday morning started very very early with my alarm clock ringing at 4am + 10 minute snooze. I was out the door by 4:40am and on the road to Fernie with the girls, Jenna and Kylee, by 6am.

My intentions for travelling out to fernie initially, was to practice using my new dSLR and maybe enter the comp if the park looked fun. So as it turns out the park setup looked really cool with a variety of boxes and rails from S-L, the sun was shinning and just to add one more argument in favor of signing up, it turned out to be mathematically logical to enter the competition.

- cost of entry = $20+gst
- iff you enter in competition you receive 20% off lift (approx. $20)
- $20 bib deposit, fully refunded with bib returned
- bag of treats = chips, chocolate bar, candy (how easily I am persuaded)
- a comp volunteer also volunteered to hold onto my camera incase I wanted to take pics for other heats

=  SOLD and now contestant #16

The contest was Jam format and the ladies group was combined with the men's. OK here we go second contest ever.

The Girls hiking, werk it werk it

As the jam started (12.30-1.30pm), I quickly learned alot about myself in a few runs:
1) left over christmas weight was making my feet quite heavy  2) I am out of shape 3) my hiking technique could be improved from tiny strides to something normal . . . I wish the magic carpet would magically appear (I have become so spoiled at COP).

I have to admit I had such a great time participating and I don't just mean shredding the park. All the girls were so friendly and encouraging to one another. The volunteer events team were so nice and really helped make the day so pleasant with big smiles on their faces non-stop.

Top: Events team showing where. Over Where? Over there!

Bottom: New friends

After an hour of hike and drop in jamming; Jenna, Kylee and myself hung around the park for another hour or so, took some pics and worked on a few tricks. Jenna was killing it on the metal death rails and the crazy kinked box, just attacking it . . . full speed ahead captain. Kylee added three new tricks to her bag (I don't know anyone who gets three as in 3 new tricks in less than 30 minutes).

Top:Jenna on the Kinky Box

Bottom: Miss Kylee Front Siding

I want to thank these wonderful ladies for the early morning drive, the song that was stuck in my head all day, the powder turns, star fish slides, MJ's to log rolls, to slow-mo body rolls and car dancing and singing and ofcourse high beaming . . . YUP, YOU KNOW THIS. . . Ah Yeah

So Good: Kylee, me, Jenna