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2nd oregon TRIP

 last weekend me and my coach made our second trip to oregon for the USASA Slopestyle at Timberline. It was fun, with a new Savai snowboard under my feet I probably had the best two days of snowboarding in a long time. After having a small rail session the night before it was time to compete. around 10:30 we were registered and had an hour for course inspection. being the biggest jumps ive hit since my shoulder injury i was pretty nervous, but i powered through it and just straight aired them. once the competition started i was still nervous. Most of my points came from my jibs, due to my lack of practicing on the jumps i had only been straight airing them in the competion and ended ina fifth place finish. however, its a different story for my coach. Stomping his run with a Backside Rodeo 5 to switch 1 to frontside rodeo 7? he ended up in second place making a place for him in the mens open category for the USASA Hood Series. Congrats!

OREGON

This weekend I traveled to Oregon for my first event of the season. The USASA Hood Series rail jam, well before i tell you anything I would love to tell you I managed to get first place taking a "gold" (colored) ha ha medal home. The competition ended up being extremely chill with only about twenty people showing up. the setup was easy with a small flat box to a small kicker and then a flat up mail box to a 60 foot flat box. the people were great and good competition. with three runs I scored a 17.6 putting me in first place and overall winning.

Competition #1: Rome's Premature Jibulation at Summit at Snoqualmie

The title says it all. On Saturday my Coach/Friend (Corey Bayless) and I (nick sommer) stopped by the Summit at Snoqualmie to get in on the action. Unfortunately because of my recent shoulder surgery I was unable to compete. However, Corey killed it, he rode hard and had fun. There were a good amount of people; by my count at least thirty to forty participants showed up for a good time and free stuff! When the riders meeting had settled down and the practice had ended it was time to start. Being the first competition of the year everyone went hard the first couple of minutes and didn’t really pace themselves. So you can imagine it was exciting for the first hour and then near the second hour it kinda dulled down a little bit. Once the snow had settled and the lifts were beginning to close they announced the winners. Sadly I have not been graced with such information as to the names of the winners however I do know that one of our local lady shreds, Cassidy McDowell, took first place in the women’s category grabbing herself a pair of Rome bindings. Here are some photos I took during the event

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When you hear the word competition, what are some things that come to your mind? Hard, scary, stressful? This all may be true but in the snowboarding world those three words are becoming obsolete. People are becoming more and more comfortable in their snowboard boots and taking it to new levels everyday. The competitions that fuel this progression are everywhere, and more and more people are joining in on the fun. This season will be epic and unheard of. Stay tuned for more updates.