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Filed under: day in review, snowboarding | Tags: , day in review, school, snowboard
Good reed needs a new camera…one was stolen, and the other one came in a cereal box. If we are to continue providing our superb journalistic services, we needs a shutter, holler.
-Another quarter of higher education down, here’s the highlight:
1) I retained my title as smartest kid with the worst grades….hell yea;
2) Major changes is up to six;
3) Slept through 60% of my classes;
4) Still have no idea what I am doing in school.
-It is snowing…again….
-Wine+cheese=the bees knees. Homeboy through a new puppy/christmas/getsaucedferthehelluvit shindig. Erbody was having a nice time, keepin’ it classy, until SOMEBODY thought it would be funny to sticker my whip….Fools learnt their lesson, when i snapped they necks…
-Went snowboarding…it was pretty neet…more to come on that.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: burton poaching for freedom poach alta toas sabotage st
It was recently brought to my attention that there was a head hunter reward to fellow snowboarders who could “poach” one of the remaining FOUR resorts in North America that have policies against snowboarding. Presented by none other than, Burton.
1. Mad River Glen, VT*
2. Deer Valley, UT
3. Alta, UT
4. Taos, NM
To all the 700,000 menace kids out there, I feel bad for the newly created position at each of the following resorts, titled “Burton Poacher Competition Regulator” who is going to have to deal with numerous incidences over the next 3 months of this contest.
You have two sides to the story here.
Side A. Snowboarding has made huge steps over the last 15 years overcoming the gap between skiers and snowboarders. Snowboarding has become socially acceptable at the majority of ski resorts and has become a globally recognized sport. Exactly. SO what makes these resorts so special to set policies keeping snowboarders off the state land. I do not have the answer to this. But apparently Burton does. A marketing campaign by the name of “Sabotage Stupidity or Poaching for Freedom” encouraging kids to wage an all out snow assault on each resort, video it, enter a Burton sponsored contest and then cross their fingers that their creation was good enough to win them a smooth $5k. This being a good thing and hopefully the resorts will decide to change their mind (or should I say ritual) of only allowing skiers on mountain.
Not bad.
Side B. Kids getting arrested. Kids taking things to far. Disturbance of the peace. A bad rep for Burton? (doubt it) As I was recently informed from a fellow co-worker, RedBull does bail athletes out of jail if arrested during a brand building/awareness stunt. Maybe Burton will take on the same reigns. I’m not saying that I wouldn’t participate in this event, but for a company that now partners with HP and WalMart, you would think that they would stay away from such a liability pit like a poaching/breaking rules contest. But I guess that’s what makes snowboarding cool. It’s a rebellion. At least it was in the 80’s.
