Meet Team Rider BJ Linne, Bj has been riding for Shoreline for about 4 years now. He is really commited to snowboarding, and is a great encourager to others on the team. BJ is always willing to to put others first while riding. He is great with a camera too, he’s one that sees what has to be done and does it. If you get a chance to take a run with him, enjoy it, because he truly is fun to ride with.

Check out the teaser for the new snowboard film by Grow UP Productions titled “Time Flies.” Featuring Shoreline Team riders BJ linne and Scott Hoffman, as well as riding by Tahoe Shreds Nicki Weiss, Jordan Nield, Ross Patton, Mike Orlick, Ethan Guggenheimer, and friends. Enjoy!

Over the past the past few years that Mike has worked for Shoreline we have had an on going conversation about Skating and Snowboarding as an art form. My first red neck response of course was BS! It’s just random hits and spins that’s not art. This reaction did have a bit of history behind it, I think the word “art” has come to mean anything, I mean all you have to do these days is poop in a jar, add a carrot and a door knob and call it Pop art. This mindless junk that has been cranked out for the last 40 years has worn out its welcome. Art should be disciplined, orderly, and be highly intelligent.
After seeing this filmed at Sierra at Tahoe I’m convinced that this is true art in its finest form. Mike and Anthony combine Athletes and Cameras to produce really great art work. This kind of imagery should receive higher recognition, but how do you measure such a thing? This kind of creativity will continue to be taken for granted by most who don’t realize that this is art.
The demand to consume these visual works of art have been increased by Youtube, this a good and bad thing for film makers, its great to have a medium to show case the great works but with this medium comes the copy right violation, the justification that action videos should be free. With that mind set soon this form of art work will become impossible to produce.
There is an old stereotype “the starving artist” this was the common pattern that an artist would work his whole life painting works of art, in total poverty. Some never getting recognition while alive. This could be the case too for skate and snowboard artist who struggle to be respected by a generation that demands and steals their artwork with little or no remorse for the artist.

This is the teaser for the new snowboarding movie, Droppin’ from First Tracks Productions. Check out our site later this summer for more info on the release!

Riders: Alexis Roland, Nick Brown, Cody Lewis, Chase Harriman, Mike Abeliuk, Ryan Johannesen, Jordan Nield, Ben Wynn, BJ Linne, Brent Meyer, and more…

Sponsored by: Head Snowboards, Shoreline of Tahoe, Contract Snowboards, Avid, GenArts, Videoslider, Snowboard.com, X-Rack, Banshee Bungee

Buckle Up Big Air 2009, the Shoreline of Tahoe Ski & Snowboard Team Will be at this event in full force. MIKE ABELIUK, JOANNA “PNUT” DZIERZAWSKI, BJ LINNE, LANE POWER, IRVING SANCHEZ, DONNA VANO, CIERRA XAVIER, and maybe more! The buckle up big air is growing in popularity, the community really comes out for this event. We have very difficult roads for our kids to learn to drive on and in the past years we have had 6 high school students die in car wrecks. Some were on our team, and all have been greatly missed. This event helps get out the message to buckle up. So join us march 21st for an event that is a rockin good time, with a purpose.