Shoreline of Tahoe loves this event because Skiers and snowboarders unite to throw down on a slopestyle course in memory of Sierra Freestyle / Freeride Skier, Greg Smith and to spread Seatbelt Safety Awareness.
Stop by and enjoy the fun, competition and great music. Feast at the outdoor BBQ and win great raffle prizes.
Amateur divisions will jam on a custom rail and/or jump line. Your choice! Prizes from the sponsors to top 3 in each division will awarded.
The Open divisions will jam on the custom jump line, with an emphasis on style, execution, and putting down a solid run. Cash purse will pay to top 5 in each Open division and top 3 in the Women’s division.
CHP will be onsite to share Seatbelt Safety Awareness.
All proceeds go towards the Sierra Education Foundation and towards building a signature feature for Greg.

Divisions Include:
15 & Under Snowboard Am
15 & Under Ski
16 & Over Snowboard Am
16 & Over Ski
Open Snowboard
Open Ski
Women Snowboard
Women Ski

Registration:
Registration will be held in the Aspen Cafe before the contest from 8:00am to 9:30am. The entry fee for the amateur divisions is $25 and the pro divisions is $40. Lift tickets for competitors can be purchased at registration for $35. Competitor Parents can purchase a discounted ticket at registration for $49.

Prizes:
The 4th annual Buckle Up Big Air is boasting a $4,000 cash purse! Our judges will be expecting your tightest game. There’s awesome prizes from our sponsors for the amateurs. Here’s the breakdown for the Open and Women’s divisions:
Open Snowboard 1st Place: $800; 2nd Place: $500; 3rd Place: $200; 4th Place: $100; 5th Place: $50
Open Ski 1st Place: $800; 2nd Place: $500; 3rd Place: $200; 4th Place: $100; 5th Place: $50
Women Snowboard 1st Place: $200; 2nd Place: $100; 3rd Place: $50
Women Ski 1st Place: $200; 2nd Place: $100; 3rd Place: $50
*Best Snowboard trick: Lib Tech Snowboard *Best Ski Trick: Lib Tech NAS
skis

Spectators:
This is an event not to be missed! Enjoy the BBQ, the music and the great raffle prizes. All spectators will be required to remain in the Spectator Village. Access to the course will be limited to registered athletes and those with credentials as stated above. Please note that the contest is held on our Backside- lift access is required to get there.

What’s Up Tahoe is a show hosted by long time friend of Shoreline Curtis Fong. Now with the RSN network, Curtis is a one man production, Camera man, sound technician, and Talk show host. Now just so you know he didn’t edit this, So someone else made me look and say dumb things…..

A B-Grade snowboard is a snowboard that has a cosmetic or other blemish that does not adversely affect how the board rides. B-Grades come with the same manufacturers warranty as regular retail models. The B-Grade or Factory seconds are priced 20% Off the regular price, Buy yours now, because just like last year, all the great Mervin snowboards are selling out.

Lib Tech Travis Rice Pro Model BTX Pointy B-Grade

Lib Tech Skate Banana B-Grade

Lib Tech Skate Banana Narrow B-Grade

Lib Tech Skate Banana Wide B-Grade

Lib Tech Skunk Ape BTX B-Grade

Lib Tech 1986 Snow Mullet BTX B-Grade

Gnu Billy Goat C2 BTX B-Grade

Gnu Danny Kass Split Personality C2 BTX B-Grade

Gnu Women’s B-Nice BTX B-Grade

Gnu Youth Girl’s B-Pro Mini BTX B-Grade

Roxy Women’s Ollie Pop BTX B-Grade

Mervin manufacturing has a long history of playing with words, a few years back, when Burton used the term “Carbon I beam” to describe a feature they had in some of their boards, Mervin the next year offered a whole line of price point decks under the name “Carbon High beam”. To my surprise, after selling about 100 of these boards, I found out that there was no carbon in the board. I said to the rep, how can you sell a board, called “carbon high beam” that has no carbon fiber in it? He told me its just a name, not an ingredient. Other word games from our friends at Mervin, “Tear Yea”
The Gnu Carbon Credit does nothing for the environment, except get you out into it for less money. Enjoy the great out doors for less on a brand new Gnu Carbon Credit, This is the best value on Banana Tech ever.

This is Classic Mike Olson at his best, talking up some of his crazy Ideas that have made him one of snowboardings’ most loved founders. In this interview he tells us about a board no one else has ridden, he claims it is the best board he has ever ridden! The Magic Banana is some what of a mystery board, over two years in the making, launched under the nick name “Skate Obama” then never delivered under that name for fear the president would try to pay off the national dept by talking over Mervin manufacturing. Now finally it is ready for 2010 season. We did ride one last Spring, the feed back was off the hook.

The GNU Park Pickle

At the North American sales meeting for Gnu Snowboards, plans for the GNU Park Pickle were unveiled. The Patent Pending Proprietary Park Pickle Product will be included in the 09/10 Gnu Snowboard line. Based on the idea that heelside turns require more leverage than toeside turns, the Park Pick will have a deeper sidecut on the heelside. The board is a true twin shape with a centered stance so it can be ridden with either goofy or regular and includes Mervin Mfg’s exclusive use of Banana Technology.

Flash Back the 1990′s Santa Cruz had a similar designated heel side design…..Can any body remember what they called it?  not me My brain is fried….

Pete Saari, VP of Marketing at Mervin had this to say. “The Park Pickle achieves perfect balance through asymmetry, a deeper sidecut and asymmetric core on the heel edge balances your foots asymmetry and the different turn mechanics between heel and toe turns. Twin Asymmetric Banana Magnetraction design is the future of all terrain freestyle performance snowboards. Pickle Power!”

A limited run of 300 Park Pickles for North America will be built and released for sale to select Authorized Gnu Dealers in mid December. (from snowboard-mag.com)

Shoreline has at least ten coming in Sooooooooon

We Caught up with Mike Wilson at the Buckle up Big Air Event at Sierra at Tahoe, he rips it up an the NAS ski from lib Tech, Mervin manufacturing.

Lib Tech Nas Pow Magne Traction Ski

Lib Technologies NAS Freeride Alpine Ski is a great fatty ski for powder and ATV riding! With a 98mm-103mm underfoot (depends on length) you will definitely be able to float in the powder. These skis have a sick design and they are a twintip ski so you will not have a problem landing switch off of a huge cliff in the powder.

Lib Tech Nas Park No Surprise Ski

The Park Series skis are all sold as singles $300.00 for the right ski and $300.00 for the left ski, to further show how crazy Mike Olsen is, compared to his competitors. Three different top sheets are available and, like the other skis from Lib Tech, the Park Series incorporates the company’s signature Magne-Traction technology, which puts seven serrations in each edge, effectively looking like wiggles. These serration, each with a specific purpose, create a more catch-free tip and tail and better control for jumps and tricks.

Lib Tech NAS Pipe reCurve Ski

The Freeride Series skis are also sold as singles with various top sheets and feature the Magne-Traction technology. it’s wider under foot and longer in lengths the the park, the Magne-Traction technology edges help the ski hold on ice and give more stability for steeps and big-mountain adventures.

Lib Tech NAS Pow reCurve Ski

Mike Wilson, Jamie Pierre and the Lib Tech ExperiMENTAL division are proud to introduce the reCurve Magne-Traction, camber/rocker combination. reCurve NAS are designed to give you the float of rocker in the pow and crud and liveliness and performance edge hold of camber on hardpack and ice. The rockered tips pre initiate turns and integrate smoothly into the cambered body of the ski as it is pressed out into an arc during a turn. Shorter contact increases edgehold. The reCURVE rides short and agile on hardpack and floats long and easy in pow and crud.