Nic Zic at ORF rail jam

Few weeks ago, we were at Orford to session a nice little setup. Nic Zic tried some new maneuvers and you can tell there weren't easy.
Here are two shots filmed just before the camera died.

Shred B rider: Sam Samson

Birth Year: 1987

Occupation: College student & working at AXIS boardshop in St-Sauveur
Snowboarding since: 1997

Stance: Regular; 15,-15; 23.5inches


Sponsors: FORUM, FourSquare, Electric, Neff, Axis and support from Adio footwear.

What’s the shred B. for you: The guys I’ve been riding with since DAY #1 (back in the days at St-Bruno). Funniest and craziest homies you could have!

Dream session: A good spring day riding with the homies.

What’s playing on your iPod right now: Pretty much everything from Paris Hilton to some gangsta rap!


XS SLIM FIT or XXXL-TALL: Large and XL I guess…


Shootouts: To Charlow A.K.A macko A.K.A. Kingkong, Ju Lauzon, Nic St-Pierre, J-S, Ju Lévesque, Nick Dignard, Mat Richer, Chouin, Nic Rochon, Max Marchand, Scott, Jéré, Dano, Rufio, Devo… and the list goes on…

Shred B rider: Nicolas St-Pierre

Birth year: 1989

Occupation: actually working at universe boardshop (l'univers des extremes)

Snowboarding since: does black snow count ?

Achievement: I almost won some contest and almost nailed cute girls haha

Sponsors: Universe Boarshop, Rome, Technine, Nomis

What's the shred b. for you: a bunch of good buddies who snowboard for fun

You've been filming with: my friend binjamin who's always down for a session and with ju and macko for this year, I think it's gonna be a good winter.

Props: family friends and everybody who push me for having fun snowboarding, you make my life way better !

Julien LV at it again.

This trick is without a doubt the crazyest thing my Macbook pro as ever captured. Tow in snowboarding, it's night, the set up is skecthy and the ledge is gnarly and not very smooth, but that, Julien doesn't care! Lot's of gaz and laps later....

LV getting kinked out!

Ju LV told us he wanted to get better at spinning out of rails this year. None of us thought he'd be that creative!!

My 5 favorite pictures of 2006-2007

#1 Macko, b-lip
D70, Tamron 11-18, B&G Polarizing filter
Charlow, second hit, got the shot. I love the colors about this one and the dynamic expressed by Macko.

#2 Julien Lauzon, blip - to sw fb, Mont Royal
D70, Nikon 28-70 f3.5-4
Probably the most hitted rail in Montreal. Julien brought his own flavor to the rail; tight jeans and gnarly blind sided tricks.

#3 Julien Lauzon, bs180 switch tailpress
Nikon D70, Tamron 11-18, B&G Polarizing filter
We were driving beside that rail very often and never thought this would it was really doable, the run in is extra short. Julien decided we should give it a try. It turned out to be worth it.

#4 Young Gun Alex Lopes, Front Board Pretzel, Stadium Rail (RIP)
Nikon D70 setted steadily on manfrotto 055clb + 488RC2, Tamron 11-18, B&G Polarizing filter
Young portuguese Alex totally killed it at this session.

#5 Macko, Backside tailpress
D70, Tamron 11-18
I really like this picture. Macko came up with this angle idea for this trick, it turned out awesome.

A rail called Kenky

So we headed near the water, to a new rail Nic Zic (Universe) found. The rail was very kinky, there was a tree right in the middle of the landing but that's nothing to discourage our Carebears (Calinours en français) look-alike courageous shredders.

Love-a-lot Macko

Tenderheart Ju LV

Funshine Nic Zic

Merciernaries

Last week's session in Mercier was almost a complete failure. We got there in late afternoon because we got stuck in traffic. The 132 to get there is like a blvd Tashereau but indian flavored. Which means there are tax less, maybe illegal cigarette shack every 10 meters and those giantnormous ads from companies we've never heard of.

Ju Lauzon with a swift backside nosepress


Macko, front side f-huge-000000

The RCR jump ban story: how decisions are made

As many of you already know, Resorts of the Canadians Rockies (RCR), decided to ban jumps from ALL their resorts. RCR controls many important resorts such as Lake Louise, Stoneham and MSA. It really sucks for those who were riding those parks. You can sign the petition Here even tho I doubt it is gonna change anything. What should make a difference is boycotting their ski hill, they still offer a 22ft half pipe and rails, but still try to avoid Stoneham and Ste-Anne. this is the only way to have them reverse their decision

We, the Shred B guys are scared that this non-sense might be spread to all the ski hills in Canada, especially in Quebec through ASSQ. I did a little search on the subject, calling and e-mailing people.

The ASSQ is the organisation (non profitable) who is representing 90% of the ski hills in Quebec. Last year, they are the one who were held responsible by the Quebec riders for the mandatory helmet but this isn't the complete reality. The decision process is much longer and involves much more people than we first thought it did. The ASSQ can't be held entirely responsible for the helmet being mandatory in Quebec's terrain parks. The ASSQ has to respond to the legislative body present in Canada and Quebec. This means that if a law is passed by the governement to, let's say, ban snowboard that are shorter than 2 meters, they have to follow through and "force" their members to apply the rule. So what happened for the helmet all started when a rider killed himself on a jump at Mont Joye, three years later, the attorney decided that helmet should be mandatory and asked the doctors organisation (College des Médecins du Québec) for other recommendations. The latters required a maximum lenght for jumps of 12 feet!!! The ASSQ said that they couldn't reduce jump to such a small size and then end up agreeing on 18 feet (which happily, isn't respected by any resort!).

Hence, I doubt that the jump ban will spread to other ski hills before a huge law suit or some other stoner kid dies on one of them.
(Thanks to Emmanuel, Operations Manager at ski Mont Saint-Bruno for answering my questions)

Shred B rider: Charles AKA Macko Beauregard

Birth Year: 1986

Occupation: Student - full time
Snowboarding since: 1995

Achievement: I stopped skiing and became a proud member of shredb

Sponsors: Rome Snowboards, Neff and Ultimate

What’s the shred B. for you : The best crew to do what ever you can imagine.

You’ve be filming with: My partner in crime; Julien Lauzon AKA èl Bino

JS' Comments on the Macko: Macko is a very energetic character with a very strong work ethic that shows through his riding... no no no, we're not pipe jocks or contest machine here, we snowboard for fun! In reality, Macko is ony funny dude with skanky dancing moves and continuous happiness with just a small glimpse of occasional hate.

Props: to all the crew, especially èl Bino and JS for correcting and editing this very bio.

Shred B rider, videographer and graphic designer : Julien Lauzon

Year of birth: 1987

Occupation: Full time student at the school of graphic arts of UQAM

Snowboarding since: I have stop ski.

Achievement: Mcgill Kink.

Sponsors: Holden, Is design, Empire & Nitro.

What's the Shred B. for you : Having fun with friends that are trully pationned.

You've been filming with : A Panasonic Dvc-30, it's not to bad since it's a 3ccd.

Props : Friends&Apple.

Shred B rider: Julien Levesque

Birth Year: 1987
Home resort: Bromont
Place you call home: My car
Top 3 snowboard influences: My friends, JP Solberg, Legend
Tool of choice: My lovely skin flute
Favorite Spot: Spring gnarly park
Achievements: Recycle it baby!
Time of your life: Anytime I'm with my buddies, shredding a neatly groomed park or gnarly street rail

Sponsors: Smith Optics, Infiny-T, Technine

Shred B rider and photographer: Jean-Simon Beaudry

Name: Jean-Simon Beaudry

Year of Birth: 1986

Birth place: Quebec City baby!

Occupation: Full time student in Public Accounting (CA) at HEC Montreal

Snowboarding since: 1997, good memories, we actually had snow back then.

Achievement: I guess having fun?

Sponsors:http://www.infiny-t.com/

What got you into photography? Well, it kinda just happened. We were shooting with a videographer I'd rather not name and he wasn't very reliable so Julien and Macko bought a 3 Chip Pana camcorder. I had some extra money at the time and I decided to give photography a try. I totally loved it.

What gear do you use? I use a Nikon D70 (which I don't feel the need to upgrade by the way) with a couple lenses, tripods, and speedlights.

Props: Julien Levesque, Julien Lauzon Macko for being such nice friends and giving me motivation to keep doing what I like best.

Photo by Chuck O.G.
http://www.chuckphoto.ca/

A new chapters in the history of Shred B opens

Hey all,
We, the Shred B crew, are happy to welcome you to our new blog.
This blog was created to give us, the Shred B riders, photographers and videographers a little glimpse of the exposure we think we deserve to express our love for our sport. We are not pro snowboarders, pro photographers or videographers, we do this just because we have fun doing it. We will update the site with session reports, contest reports and our own comments on matters that affect our sports and our lives.
In between, we decided to write this blog in a unilangual english. This is not because we deny our origins but because in our past quests, we've met riders from all over the world and english is a universal language
We hope you guys'll enjoy our journal.

JS