KSC/KMS and KMS SNOWBOARD TEAM

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!

KMSST Week 15 Review

Killington was blessed with lots and lots of snow this week. The parks were completely buried for a couple of days which forced the guys to do some free riding for a change. Once the parks were back in order the team prepared for the weekends USASA SVSS slope and halfpipe events at Mt. Snow. Chris got 8th, Alex 10th, and Mitch 13th in slope. Alex got 5th and Mitch 2nd.

And then there were two... while Chris and Alex take Juggernaut too?

Mitch on course

Chris and Mitch check out the other competition

Mitch at the top of the Mt Snow halfpipe

Alex waits for his run in the pipe

Mitch receiving his silver medal for slope

KMSST Week 14 Review

The team was back at it and training at Killington once again on Monday. Most of the week was spent in the dreamaker park and halfpipe to help prepare for the the weekends slopestyle and halfpipe competitions. Chris Boera traveled to Smuggler's Notch on Saturday for a Northern Vermont USASA slopestyle competition and took home 4th place. Mitch and Alex traveled to Waterville Valley for a New Hampshire USASA halfpipe competition. Alex came home 6th and Mitch gold. All three athletes used the out of series events to better their chances of making USASA Nationals. On Sunday the guys were at Stratton competing in their home Southern Vermont series. Chris got 14th, Alex 6th, and Mitch 3rd in the slopestyle event. The team will be leaving for Boreal, CA for another stop on the Revolution Tour March 3rd.

Mitch's board fatal rodeo attempt

Mitch's broken board

A little dreamaker fun

Chris's nose grab... Eddie would be proud!

Mitch visits Waterville once again

Mitch leaves with the gold in halfpipe

Alex at the top of the Stratton slopestyle course

KMSST Week 13 Review

The Revolution Tour's freestyle events took place on Monday and Tuesday. Mitch and Alex competed in the halfpipe on Monday. (HP results) While Mitch, Alex and Chris competed in slopestyle competition on Tuesday. (SS results.) The team rode Copper on Wednesday and then traveled to Winterpark at days end. Winterpark was on the radar because the boys wanted to check out the Dark Territory Park... and they were not dissapointed. They had some monster jumps that challenged everyone. I think Mitch was the only one to leave without any sort of minor injury. The team traveled to Boulder the next day to visit the Colorado University at Boulder campus. Chris, the only senior on the team, was just accepted and was very excited to get the opportunity to check it out. Alex's sister Caitlin is a freshman there and was kind enough to give us all a tour of the campus. The team headed to Denver for some dinner after visiting the campus and then took in an NHL hockey game. It was a great game that had the Avalanche beating the Phoenix Coyotes 2-1. The team then jumped into the Suburban and headed straight to the airport for a red eye flight home.