This is an eerie vid clip made all the more eerie with the back ground music from Robin Trower. This shows my age, Robin Trower is known to be one of the 70′s best guitar players. I haven’t smoked pot in over 20 years now, but this music almost brings back the high. Just slought back in a chair, make you eyes like slits, and travel back in time with Robin Trower to the 70′s…Hold on here, Snowboarding wasn’t around in the 70′s I’ve mixed and rewritten history in Shoreline’s image. Wow that was very post modern of me!

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.

Mike Abeliuk shows what not to wear to work. feel sorry. very sorry if you work for Bob, from Shoreline, he is always dishing out the crap, if you suffer from low self esteem, you had better not try to work here! put downs after put downs, the only attention you’ll get from him is bad attention. Save yourself some pain and go on unemployment, you’ll live longer…Dress code rule # 12 you may not wear rude clothing to work, who’s definition of “RUDE” yea that would be my definition. a rule of thumb would be if you wouldn’t want your mother to see you in it then don’t think that anyone else would either. I hope all your Moms are desent people, it your Mom is wilder then you….Awh…tell her to grow up! what every you do don’t send your Mom after me, I’m scared of her.