KMS 2010 Summer Snowboard Camp in New Zealand

2010 USASA NATIONALS

Max, Mitch and Alex went all out at USASA Nationals and did well in all their respective events. Some highlights include a 3rd place finish for Mitch in halfpipe and a repeat 2nd place finish for Max in boardercross. It was great ending to a excellent season!

Mitch awaits his first halfpipe run

Alex hikes the pipe during warmups

The crowd gathers for awards on Sunday

Mitch taking home the bronze

Mitch waits his turn at the slope venue on Monday

Max in the gate during Tuesday's semi-final heat

Max takes home silver in the boardercross

Kim Gaines and Christine Feehan at the KMS booth

Max's second giant slalom run

Coach Coates and Max before GS finals

KMSST Week 19 & 20

The team resumed training after finally recovering from the long travel back from Oregon. We hit up the Dreamaker park, halfpipe, plus a little Stash sprinkled in between. Unfortunately, the weather was not too cooperative, which allowed the boys to revisit the Rutland Bowlerama for final bragging rights on the greasy hardwood.

To wrap up the season - all four boys qualified for USASA Nationals at Copper, CO! We will be traveling for the week long competition beginning April 2nd. Alex qualified for halfpipe, Mitch for slopestyle and halfpipe, Chris boardercross, and Max giant slalom and boardercross. Be sure to check back for results and updates.

Chris Boera

Alex at Bear

Max Elles

Mitch at Bear

Mitch Heberer

The team at the Rutland Bowlerama

Mitch shows some sweet form

Max goes for the spare

Sir Alex gets his strike in the 5th frame

Chris's chance to take the win

And the winner is...

The boys exit the building for the last time

KMSST Week 17 & 18

Where does the time go? Back at the airport once again. The team flew out of Boston on the 14th of March for the last stop of the Revolution Tour and two NORAM boardercross's. The team managed to get on the hill for training on the 15th despite the late traveling. The slopestyle event took place on Tuesday. Alex got 42nd, Mitch 29th, and Chris 27th. Wednesday was halfpipe. Alex got 38th and Mitch was close to making finals with an 18th finish. On Thursday Chris and Max took to the boardercross course with Chris getting 43rd and Max 37th. The boys took the following day off. Max had his first NORAM boardercross on Saturday and finished 33rd... just missing brackets. The other three spent the day at Timberline. Max finished the week with his second NORAM boardercross, but this time he did make brackets with a 32nd placing in his time trial. He managed 3rd in his heat which included a couple of Canadian National team members. After the competition, the team loaded up the Suburban and headed to Portland to kill some time before the 11pm flight(from hell). We arrived back at KMS at 7pm the following day. Needless to say, we took Tuesday off. The team is now preparing for USASA Nationals in April at Copper, Colorado. We will be flying out on the 2nd for some slopestyle, halfpipe, boardercross, and giant slalom competition.

Once again... it begins in Boston

Happy in their new Hood

Chris at the Hood Meadows slope course

Chris on course

Alex selects the perfect tune for his run

Mitch drops in during Wednesday's halfpipe competition

Alex waits his turn during pipe

Max's time trial on Thursday's Rev Tour SBX

Chris on course

Whats Hood without mentioning Huckleberry shakes

I'm pretty sure Max won this hand

Max on course during Sunday's NORAM time trial

Max in the gate during the 1st Heat

Gotta buy Nike in Oregon

Chris's 51 pound bag clears... and he's loving it!

KMSST Week 16 Review

The week began with more snow and more fun. The team spent some time in the Stash early in the week before traveling out to California for the 3rd stop on USSA's Revolution Tour. The team stayed at Northstar so they could get some quality riding in on their day off. Competition began on Friday with Max's boardercross. Max qualified with a decent time trial run but got edged out by half a board length during his 1st heat run. He finished 24th at the end of the day. Saturday was halfpipe. Alex came in 47th and Mitch 42nd in a huge field of high quality riders. Alex and Mitch competed the following day in slopestyle. Alex got 55th and Mitch 26th. After the competition the team squeezed in some extra riding time before heading back to their red eye flight out of Sacramento. Alex and Max were able to nail their first on snow back flips. Both were grinning ear to ear and talked about back flipping for the rest of the day. The team heads back to Killington for a week and then will be flying out to Mt. Hood for the last installment of the Revolution Tour at Mount Hood Meadows, Oregon.

Max enters the Stash

Alex

Chris revisits the Stash shack

Chris airs off the pole jam

Max 50's the stairset

Mr Cash hands out a little Stoke before the team leaves for CA

Max during Thursday's SBX training

Alex trains at the top of the slope course

Max's board chills to temp before his run

Max during his time trial




Nothing like taking the boots off at the end of the day

Alex with fellow Wisco Scott Moline at the halfpipe competition

Mitch and fellow Wisco Alex Kondo during HP warm up

Mitch waits for his run at the pipe on Saturday

Sunday's slopestyle warm ups.

One big tree

Alex at the top of the slope course on Sunday

Max's last minute free ride fun

Alex flips out!

Alex's back flip at Boreal 3/7/2010

Parking lot / Packing lot

A little California fast food before the flight home

Max making friends with the Sacramento TSA

Boston bound!