Brooke Geery

Meet: bHappy Films

For these crew profiles, we've mainly been talking to the main filmer/editor guy, since they're the ones who hypothetically make the movie part happen. But this week, we interviewed bHappy, a crew all about love and togetherness, and it just didn't seem right to only interview Paul Heran about the crew. So to help you get to know bHappy Films, Colton Morgan, Sammy Spiteri and Durell Williams chimed in too. Location: Tahoe, SLC. Riders: Colton Morgan, Sammy Spiteri, Durell Williams, Cole Atencio, Ben Strause, Shane Wright, Dylan Thompson, Ian Bigley, Casey Detweiler, Zander Blackmon, Sean Anderson Filmers: Paul Heran, Bryce Hymans, Sammy Spiteri, Ben Strause, Durell Williams, Tim Bradley, Rob…
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Texas, Before the Flood

Believe it or not, I didn't just travel down to Texas to check out my first flash flood. I was actually already there and the flood just happened! Why, you might ask, would anyone be in Texas already? On this occasion it was in fact a cable wakeboarding contest that Alliance was sponsoring. I took pictures, got a sunburn, and generally killed it, as usual. Here are a few pictures that were taken during my moments of artiness, and not really appropriate for the wakeboard website. If you want to see all the hot action shots, check out the posts here and here. Rupert!
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Flash Flood!

It seems every time I go to Texas I manage to bring some sort of weather-related disaster. On my last trip to Dallas, the Cowboys practice stadium collapsed a mile away from me, and this time, it was a flood. The rain had kept me up all night, pounding so hard on the roof along with frequent thunder and lighting. I went back to sleep in the morning after it somewhat subsided, only to be woken up by a wailing siren. I immediately thought tornado, but this time the siren meant they were opening the flood gates, literally. Once the first siren sounds, you have about ten minutes before hell…
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Meet: Ice Coast Kills Shit

Location: New York State. From NYC to the North Country Riders: John the Third, Mark Blondie, Buddy Pendergrass, Toothy, Little Brudder, Triscuit, Erich Fonz, Jeffree, Kahn, VInsanity, Anderton, B Rad and many other homies. Filmer/editor: Callaghan Why the name Ice Coast Kills Shit? Is your mom offended by the swear word? The name is about being proud of where you're from regardless of how wack everyone else thinks it is. You also need a name that'll catch some attention when you're a crew of unknowns. We also we wanted a name that anyone from the East would be proud to rep, not just our homies. And lastly you gotta mix…
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Stuff People Care About

Writing about snowboarding is fun and all, but let's be honest, this time of year not even you really care about it. One of the few things I've learning running a website on this here Internet is if you want the hits, you gotta write about the shit people are interested in. But here in lies the problem. When writing about snowboarding, very little effort and research is required. You can just make shit up, add a bro, and you totally sound like an authority. When writing about real issues, people demand accuracy and facts, and frankly, I don't have that kind of time. So today, I scoured the 'net…
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Meet: Magic Hair Productions

MAGIC HAIR PRODUCTIONS Location: Boulder, CO/ Chicago Riders: Kent Leng, Connor Southard, Cole Linzmeyer, Alex Carver, Colin Ofloy, Tim Lyons, Jordan Emerson and the whole Bang Show crew. Filmer/Editor: John Cywinski http://magichairproductions.com/ This week in the hot seat we have Magic Hair Products. You may recognize the name from when you hated on one of the Magic Monday edits earlier this year, but no internet bullies are going to stop John Cywinski from making Magic Movie. With Midwest roots, the crew's third effort will offer a greater variety of terrain and riders, but with the same down home sensibility. Here's what John had to say about the forthcoming video. What's…
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Girls Skateboarding!

Brendan Gouin is a friend of Pat Fenelon from RI, which makes him a-ok in our book. He recently sent some links to various skate videos he'd made, most of which included some fancy trickery and neat-o shots. With full intention of posting this one, I clicked over to Brendan's Vimeo and found something better! This video of Saara. As a girl who occasionally dabbles on a skateboard, I am well aware of the fascination that comes with a girl who drop in, ollie, or really do anything at a skatepark other than scam on HOT GUYZ. So I posted this one instead. Saara -- if you come to Portland…
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Hump Day Gets Fresh with Nick Visconti

Food fight! Photo: Robbie Sell While many pro snowboarders can be fit in a box, Nick Visconti lives in a world of his own, clearly filled with unicorns and gypsies and the occasional handful of glitter.  Possibly the Internet's biggest snowboarding celebrity (more so than Pete Wast even) and certainly not afraid to be himself, Nick has had people scratching their heads for awhile now. But if you have ever had the pleasure of meeting him, you'll know all that flamboyance and sarcasm is just part of his charm, and while he may not go the biggest or try to one-up the next guy, he's certainly keeping snowboarding interesting. How…
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Bathroom Before and After

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses, or so they say. I'm not really in the market to sell my house actually, but the peeling linoleum floor, industrial plastic trim, half-working toilet and press board vanity in my bathroom needed to go anyway. I happen to have a resident handy man, so when Obama hooked me up with a decent tax return this year, it was on. Over the past four years we've almost redone every thing in my house, inside and out, but I was in no way prepared for the joy of ripping out and redoing the house's main bathroom. Luckily we have a sort of workshop half bath in…
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Last Hurrah with Shane Flood

You get more speed when the sun goes away I’ve been bemoaning the end of the season for a few weeks now, mostly because filling a snowboard site with new and interesting posts every day is a lot harder when you’re not actually going snowboarding. I find though, that like the majority of the population, once spring break wraps up it can be hard to motivate to make the trek to the hill. It is with some regret that I admit my local hill, Mt. Hood Meadows, has in fact been open for business up until yesterday. But with my cred on the line, when the e-vite went out from…
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