Onside Kicks and Frontside Boardslides at the Downtown Throwdown

Downtown Throwdown October 27, 2007 Sea-Town, WA

The last couple months have been filled with snowboard movie premieres teasing us with the prospect of getting on the snow and without much hope of actually doing so before Thanksgiving. A month away. Sigh.

Well bless Snowboy Productions, for bringing some live action satisfaction to a hungry-for-winter Seattle crowd! Downtown Throwdoooooown!!! Krush does it again with an impressive roster of riders: Scott Stevens, Zac Marben, Sammy Luebke, Chris Beresford, Pat Milberry, Jed Hoffman, Ben Bogart, Johnny Miller, Gus Engle, Austin Hironaka... holy proly. Not to mention judges: Sean the Canadian Jon Kooley and Zach Leach! ... and merciless announcer Mr. Burtner.

The Snowboy crew painstakingly built and maintained a beautiful set-up for this rail jam, with one down and one down flat down rail... and matching quarterpipes to boot. "Ohhhh!"s and "wooooo!"s pierced the crowd. More than one jock-o-rama stripped to the tank top layer. The trickiest tricks were treated. Feathers are in? So is turquoise. Air was had. Conversely, heads and limbs slammed into the snow. Demolition-derby-collisions, tandem moves, and glory criss-crossed through the air. As did schwag for the crowd: one had to pay attention so as to avoid getting nailed by the scores of shotgunned wax bricks.

Luckily, the clock wore out about the same time as the riders' energy drinks. The results: Austin Hironaka won the Most Laps award, Bogie got Third, Robin Hood aka Johnny Miller got Second, Tiger Beat cover model Nick Visconti took Best Trick... and would you believe it, but that same guy who won the Backyard Bang -- Jed Anderson, finished First Place? Everyone was a 110er that night. Even the crowd got to 110-it to the afterparty across the thoroughfare for an apres-ride effort. Winnas all.