Big Bear Mountain Resorts celebrates 20 Years of Park Development! The invitation only weekend event includes 2- FREE days of riding. Bear Mountain and Malakye team up to provide you with the best weekend ever. Office Boyz 2010 Olympic Edition is a “Desk Jockeys” daytime event with a private party being held Saturday night February 27 at the Boardroom with DJs, dancing, food, drinks, raffles and more! A portion of the proceeds will be donated to B4BC.
Schedule of Events Saturday February 27th2010 Office Booyz and Industry weekend registration - 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the Boardroom Contest Hours - 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Awards - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Party - 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 p.m.
I just commandeered these video’s off Danny’s site; www.dannylarsen.net , sorry Danny, you know I am a pirate at heart. It’s too good for the world not see!! Thanks buddy and Whiteout establishment
K-Dub wins his heat race and grabs his 3rd podium finish of the season. Kevin Windham has been riding awesome all year and keeps pushing for more. He won his heat race in style and led the first half of the main event. Kevin later was passed by Ryan Villopoto and Ryan Dungey and ended up 3rd.
Grant Langston had his best finish of the year with a 7th place. Grant has been getting stronger as the series moves on and looks forward to each and every time he get to race his dirt bike.
Nick Wey finished 8th on the night. Nick will be filling in for Chad Reed on the factory Monster Kawasaki team for one more race in Atlanta this weekend before heading to Daytona.
Spy Optic’s Arenacross team could not be more dominate this year. We have swept the podium 3 times and we are top 3 in points with a huge 40 point gap on 4th. Josh Demuth grabbed his second straight victory and third overall win of the season.
Tyler Bowers was dominating the majority of the 25-lap main event. However, as the race drew to a close, Demuth put forth one of the most impressive surges to close the gap on his teammate and steal the victory. With the win, Demuth gained another three points on Bowers in the season standings, reducing the deficit to 12 points with five rounds remaining. Bowers held on for second while fellow teammate ,Chad Johnson finished 3rd and helped give Babbitt’s its third podium sweep of the 2010 season.
Anaheim 3 had a cool vibe going on with a huge breast cancer awareness program in place and everyone rocking pink. The track, bikes, riders, and fans were all decked out in pink. They had tons of gear signed from all the riders for a huge auction they held for all funds to go towards breast cancer. All of the Monster models and Spike girls were rocking the sweet new pink Spy STRATOS II shades, and hey check out Dano from DVS shoes sporting his pink Spy Trons.
Kevin Windham had a great race and proved once again that he still has what it takes to run up front. Kevin finished 3rd this weekend giving him his second podium finish of the season. Kevin has been fast every race this year and says he is really enjoying racing.
Nick Wey got an awesome start in the main but stalled his bike and was dead last. Nick rode strong the entire race and finished 10th, not bad coming from last! The Monster Kawasaki team had some cool pink graphics for the day, check it.
Grant Langston was riding awesome in the main and was in 6th moving forward until he fell in a corner. He had some trouble getting going and was in dead last, he came back to finish 13th. Check out Grants style, he loves those boobies!
The good peeps at Coors Light were nice enough to invite the Spy crew up to their exclusive mansion in Whistler for an Olympic kick off party. Check this place out, it rules.
Moving forward, tonight we have figure skating. Awesome. Be sure to check back for more exclusive behind the scenes Olympic action reported live from the Spy Team.”The guy behind the guy”…..if you will.
Spy Optic has absolutely been dominating the Arenacross series winning ever race with Tyler Bowers, Josh Demuth, and Chad Johnson. All three riders are sitting top three in the points battle after 10 rounds of the 19 round series. We are stoked to be a part of the Monster Energy, Babbitts, Kawasaki team and appreciate all of their great efforts.
Josh Demuth, of North Richland Hills, Texas, raced to his second AMA Arenacross class win of the season. Chad Johnson got the hole shot in the main and was up front for the first half of the race but would end up 4th. Tyler Bowers finished 8th place on the night and now only holds a 15 point lead over teammate Josh Demuth, Chad Johnson is only one point behind Demuth in 3rd.
On February 13 & 14th Texas Ski Ranch hosted the seventh annual FreezeRide to kick off the 2010 season. After a long off season, FreezeRide always launches the Tournament season at TSR and reminds us just how fun TSR can be when the sun is shining and people are riding! This year riders from as far away as California, Minnesota and Florida joined the always-present group from Kansas City Watersports that are anxious for the start of their season. Local riders such as Tom Fooshee and Bret Little had an ever-increasing group of riders that made it even more difficult to defend their home site. Aaron Reed is still recovering from an injury that has kept him sidelined, but was a huge part of FreezeRide by hosting the second of three Obscura demos for this spring. Obscura brought in heavy hitters like Danny Hampson and Grant Roberts to promote the new line from Liquid Force. While Danny was also recovering from injuries, Grant competed in both the boat and cable competitions whenever he wasn’t tied up with the wakeskate demo that was being held on the Rixen Little Bro two tower system. Add all of the unbelievable riding to the Texas Hold’em Tournament, Spring Break Style Show and festival atmosphere and you get one of the best FreezeRides ever.
The morning began with frost on the grass and the competitors being able to see their own breath. FreezeRide lived up to it’s name with morning temperatures in the 30’s, but as the sun rose over the cable lakes, the temperatures climbed and the smooth glass conditions were ideal. Marshall Lewis (TSR) distanced himself from the other intermediate riders while Ryan Sanders (KCW) was able to beat out the advanced field made up predominantly of Kansas riders. Ryan will be attending Texas State in the fall and Mike Olson (KCW owner) was demanding some sort of trade all weekend long as the fear of losing one of the top cable riders in Kansas was almost to much for him to handle. The only consolation we could offer was the first and second prize in the Texas Hold’em Tournament that went to Mike and Bob Sanders, Ryan’s dad, who took the prize money and felt the game should be renamed Kansas Hold’em.
The pro divisions were as impressive as always with most riders showing no signs of rust from the offseason. Bret Little uncharacteristically had two falls, which opened the door for the rest of the wakeskate field. While Oury Yarbrough landed flip trick after flip trick it was Grant Roberts backside three and backside bigger spin that took the title. Grant had won boat competitions at TSR before but this was his first ever win on the cable. In the pro wakeboard division 80% of the riders rode a board that had Tom Fooshee’s name on it which may explain why he walked away with the FreezeRide title. 2009 USA Wakeboard National Champion Cody Johnson rode well and Josh Rice, 2005 World Games Champion, made a strong showing after a long lay off to finish second and third respectively. While the three riders are among the top cable riders in the world, Tom showed that his domination of the WWA World Series over the past two years will be showing no signs of slowing down for the 2010 season.
While the action was going on outside, things inside were heating up with the 2010 Spring Break Fashion Show. TSR displayed the latest fashions from Nike 6.0, RVCA, Reef, Volcom, Billabong and many more. The shop also hosted a “Style Your Sole” event where customers could hand paint their TOM’s shoes with whatever unique style they desired.
On Sunday TSR hosted their first boat lake competition in some time. This was the first event in which TSR utilized three different lakes for riding, if you don’t include our winch pond. As always the event was pulled by the Nike 6.0 X-star from MasterCraft, and with a full lake the wake was better than ever! Marshall Lewis and Marshall Waters took home the intermediate and advanced wakeboard boat titles in the first events of the day. In the wakeskate division Oury was able to flip the script behind the boat and beat out Grant Roberts who had won the cable event. Bret Little was able to salvage the tournament with a podium spot and third place finish. On the wakeboard side of things Tom Fooshee was able to edge out the defending champion Brett Hickey for yet another title. If Tom wasn’t such a nice guy we might get tired of seeing him on top of the podium and writing his name on the checks!
In the end everyone was ecstatic to have the boat lake back and be able to have multiple tournaments simultaneously. A tradition that TSR began back in 2003 with Cable, Boat and Winch events all in the same weekend! If you missed FreezeRide there is much more to come in 2010. On April 23-25 TSR will host the Corpus Christi Invitational as part of the Texas International Boat Show with over 40,000 spectators and $15,000 in prize money. Also here at Texas Ski Ranch we have the 8th annual Cablestock competition and festival coming up May 7-9. Wakeboarding, live music and girls in bikinis walking the beach are just a few of the many attractions that make up Cablestock. For additional information visit www.TexasSkiRanch.com. For information on sponsoring events please email blake@cablewakeboard.com
Pro Wakeboard Cable (Top 5)
1. Tom Fooshee
Pro Wakeskate Cable (Top 5)
1. Grant Roberts
Pro Wakeboard Boat (Top 5)
1. Tom Fooshee
Pro Wakeskate Boat (Top 5)
2. Grant Roberts
