the BMB

Carmody lives near Ymir and mostly rides the interior backcountry. see i know of these guys because i'm a fiend for this ***. but most of the bmb is huh wut about these guys.

true that. That's mainly because these guys never made it into the American Shred though and 95% of the people on here have probably never seen a Snowboard Canada.


Which if you haven't is really a shame because IMO it blows Transworld, and Snowboarder out of the water.

for sure. the in the know know about it LJJ likes it so it must be tha sheet

ah yeha

keep in mind as mush as i dislike him for reasons that i know

his riding is still top notch

and what else

the mammth handrail

he killed it

i shot eli after they stole feb 6 delberately

me and eli were supposed to watch shaun

everyone knew was going to win

bvecasue i predicted it twice

even chris knew shaun was going to win

but

eli

thats the real goods

ill never meet shaun or see him comptete

burton willl never hook up a setup for me or eli

but they pay shaun lots

and me and eli shredded whistler and blackcomb

togetehr that is

both snowboarding at the same time

when we do *** like that we kill it

'youd have to watch to belive it

eli is a crazy shred

hes good on a skate

but with chris shredding with eli

tops

we start busting mad butters and laughing at each other

and so id be lying if i didnt think i was shaun white

and sometimes i rememebr a little

like wheni watched the michael moore film

i was like woah

so know you know my dirty little secret

i am shaun white

and i snowboard better then you could ever imagine

keep in mind since i dont remember and you mess witht he calendars

i must really be having a good time

relaly i must love being fearless on a board

to bust trick like stalefish 5

hot damn

oh well

atleast sometimes i think i am shaun and wake up

damn

i think all my dreams are real

but i never remember and just wake up with a feeling like wow what a fucking crazy dream

know i think everytime i am dreaming i was just off being a different person

which leads me to my point

i can see elis tat

but i dont see them on shaun

its fucked

all the tats have a story

and there is one who has all of them

fucked

i know

but eli is the ***

becasue hes imaginary

that means if eli did something it was chris

but it wasnt chris

it was eli and he switches and so i hang out with eli

till they fucking stole him

you shouldve heard ian beg for his life

what a whiner

he was like oh god please dont kill me

please

you think burton was happy?

they shouldve gave chris a snowboard couldve prevented a lot of crytal meth injections

...

ian sneddon

plus you know what im talking about as shaun the fighter he fucking snapped handcuffs from behind the back and then beat up yet another swat team that he had beat up 3 motnhs before

the first time

that swat team

one of them ran and cried

and then we were sizzla all over the world

the king of reggae

and then we woke up and they had extensive renovations

yeah shaun has psycosis nos

and schizoprenia

but me and shaun and eli all have the EXACT same delusions/hallucinations

and chris aint a liar

word

ill be shaun in whislter and yes he has atleast 2 dozen girls in whistler and atleast two babies concived there too.

bring on the snow

It's sorta funny how everyone likes to hate on someone because they're succesful.

As for the JP comment I don't know how old he is but I bet mid 30s. So what if you weren't impressed by his riding on the hill. I highly doubt he goes up the hill thinking "hmmm what can I do to impress the kids today" I've got lots of friends who make a living from snowboarding. Most ride the backcountry so when they do go on the hill it's just to keep the shred on. Most of them never even hit the park jumps just because it's not their thing. Snowboarding is sort of a job to them so they aren't going to be hitting jumps or anything to prove themselves if a filmer isn't around. They're mostly likely going up to have fun and ride what they want to ride(whether it's just linking some turns or little side hits) or if they've been hurt just test how they're recovering. A lot of them are starting to hate being seen on resorts because of people like you assuming because they get paid well to do this, they need to prove themselves.... that's not too good for snowboarding

Shandy's not really up north, him and randy are running a sled tour group(for snowboard companies and films) in the trout lake-grand forkes area. that's east.

As for the comment about good kids not getting hooked up, well that's because there's an over abundance of wicked kids, and I highly doubt many of them are actually better then the pros they complain about who are doing well career wise. Im willing to say 99% of of the unsponsored riders don't really deserve it. Todays pros work really hard to get to where they've gotten. Sure theres the odd ones that slip through that aren't all that great, and of course the women(don't get me started on that) but for the most part every pro deserves at least every dollar or more they've gotten from snowboarding.

Moral of the story, don't judge till you've been in their shoes... or well just don't judge, there's no need for the negativity

oh is there any way we can get rid of this elijah kid?

everything I said I still firmly stand by. There are lots of pros who kill it, are super cool and deserve everything that they get if not more. The reality is though that there are a lot of douchebags in the industry making good money when they are doing very little to push the sport in a positive direction. And I feel my feels towards JP are 100% justified. JP has always been and always will be one of my favorite riders. I have no doubt that he's taking it easy on his park days, like you said none of these guys want to get hurt just playing around when snowboarding is their source of income. I just know what I see, from JP and the ridiculous number of other pros and ams on a daily basis. JP, IMO just doesn't have the style or the bag of tricks a lot of up and comers have these days. I'm not passing that judgement on one of my favorite shreds every after seeing him ride once. Im making that assessment based upon having seen him ride on a number of occassions, on a wide variety of terrain, in all types of conditions. It's pretty easy to sit behind a computer and make excuses for people but the truth is that these guys need to expect that people are going to look at them and be critical. I don't expect to see JP throwing double corks over an icy table when he's got no reason to but I'd at least hope that when he's hiking a box with 5 random little kids no one has every heard of before that he'd be the most impressive one there. I'm not saying either that he needs to be pushing new tricks all the time, and always going for broke but I think it's a fair expectation that the only pro snowboarder in a group of riders be the most impressive one there. Say you were told you'd be riding with a group of 5 guys, one of which is a huge name pro, would you not expect that when you got there you'd be the most impressed with the big name guy?


You saying you know lots of guys who ride backcountry for a living. Well so do I, and when I see them in the park I have completely different expectations than when I see someone like JP. I don't expect some guy who drops cliffs into pow all day to be able to front board a huge kink when he hasn't seriously stepped to a rail, but JP is supposed to be the jib king, so the expectations I think are a little bit higher when he's in the park as opposed to say a Kale Stephens. Also I could also take the approach that JP should be pushing himself in the park since that's the training grounds for what he does. I'm wiling to bet most of the tricks JP's done over the years that were considered groundbreaking at the time he learned in the park, probably not all them but a lot of them.


Anyone who's spent anytime in the shred industry knows how many insanlely cool people there are. Unfortunately there are poeple who just suck, not in their riding abilities but as a person. Just because a company has figured out a way to properly advertise a guy in magazines, and he's landed a couple small video parts doesn't mean he's a cool guy who deserves tons of respect. I think I may see he worst side of it all living in Whistler and getting to see just how douchy some shreds are on a daily basis so I may be tainted.



I could go on for days about the female pro shreds I see on a daily basis, and how bad some of them completely suck. Or the fact that apparently all it takes is the ability to 3 a small jump, slide a couple boxes and smile for a camera to crack into the industry as a female. I live with 6 people, all of whom ride and all of whom fucking rip. Of the 7 of us(myself included) the only person who will likely ever see a dime from snowboarding is my female roomate, undeniably the worst in the house. The only one not spinning over 3's, the only one of us who'd rather do a lot of other things than snowboard, the only one of us who can barely noseress or boardslide anything, in addition to those things she never stops talking about herself and how good she is and how cool she is. In fact she didn't even know what a nollie was until a day on the glacier last month when i had to explain it to her. She still can't do them though. Yet at least once a week a fat package shows up on our doorstep with her name on it, shes got her name all over team websites and she travels endlessly, all expenses paid of course(currently in NZ for the rest of the summer). At the pace she's currently being moved through the ranks of the companies she's with she'll be on the global teams before she's ever learnt to frontboard a tiny flat box. But, did I mention she's blonde, pretty and has big ***. AKA team managers and cameras love her.

the difference between pro women such as Natasha Zurek, Priscilla Levac, MFR and Annie Boulanger and some of the other ones out there is ridiculous.



and I don't really care where Shandy is. I answered Doc's question based on what I remember reading, which was half right. He's off riding pow in BC, just in the east instead of the north, my bad. I answered the question(albeit incorrectly) mainly because I knew I'd likely be the only one to do so.

confused:

oh is there any way we can get rid of this elijah kid?

it seems to usually take months of stupid posting to have someone removed. It's unfortunate that we don't have moderators who are around more frequently.

Iced_endeavor:

I could go on for days about the women pro shreds I see on a daily basis, and how bad some of them completely suck. Or the fact that apparently all it takes is the ability to 3 a small jump, slide a couple boxes and smile for a camera to crack into the industry as a female. I live with 6 people, all of whom ride and all of whom fucking rip. Of the 7 of us(myself included) the only person who will likely ever see a dime from snowboarding is my female roomate, undeniably the worst in the house. The only one not spinning over 3's, the only one of us who'd rather do a lot of other things than snowboard, the only one of us who can barely noseress or boardslide anything. In fact she didn't even know what a nollie was until a day on the glacier last month when i had to explain it to her. She still can't do em though. Yet at least once a week a fat package shows up on our doorstep with her name on it, shes got her name all over team websites and she travels endlessly, all expenses paid of course. At the pace she's currently being moved through the ranks of the companies she's with she'll be on the global teams before she's ever learnt to frontboard a tiny flat box. But, did I mention she's blonde, pretty and has big ***. AKA team managers and cameras love her. the difference between pro women such as Natasha Zurek, Priscilla Levac, MFR and Annie Boulanger and some of the other ones out there is ridiculous.

Although I haven't seen a great deal of pro women riders I think know what you mean. Obviously if you are not particularly easy on the eyes and still promoted chances are you got some serious skill but that is by far the minority. Just look at Molly. From my impression she seems to be riding pipe less these days and doing slopstyle contests more (so I guess she can be considered a jibber) but yet I have yet to see her hit anything remotely close to a handrail. It's really quite depressing. Nothing against Annie. She definitely pretty and she's got some serious skill too but I found her recent video parts to be kind of dissapointing too. She's dropping big features and doing 3s but it just looks horrible cause she arms are flailing around like she has no control. MFR...now she's a beast. That girl is sick.

Iced, you got any pics of this roomate of yours? :)

I think it's kinda unfair to compare pros passed their prime to the younger riders of today. For example, we all know Terje is a living legend. If you compare his jumps tricks from back in the day to that of now, then of course he's going to look inferior. But back in the day, he was way ahead of anyone, and still kills it. The bar has been raised so 1080s are nothing now. Or like if you saw Peter Line riding the park today, you wouldn't be impressed when compared to the kids riding the park, but Peter Line has contributed a lot to snowboarding. Those talented kids, they just really good riders, but I doubt they are ahead of their peers like Peter was back in the day.

So yea JP Walker isn't jibbing to the level that kids are at nowadays. I'm sure he would admit that. But he's had a huge influence on jibbing in general.

Iced_endeavor:

I could go on for days about the female pro shreds I see on a daily basis, and how bad some of them completely suck. Or the fact that apparently all it takes is the ability to 3 a small jump, slide a couple boxes and smile for a camera to crack into the industry as a female. I live with 6 people, all of whom ride and all of whom fucking rip. Of the 7 of us(myself included) the only person who will likely ever see a dime from snowboarding is my female roomate, undeniably the worst in the house. The only one not spinning over 3's, the only one of us who'd rather do a lot of other things than snowboard, the only one of us who can barely noseress or boardslide anything, in addition to those things she never stops talking about herself and how good she is and how cool she is. In fact she didn't even know what a nollie was until a day on the glacier last month when i had to explain it to her. She still can't do them though. Yet at least once a week a fat package shows up on our doorstep with her name on it, shes got her name all over team websites and she travels endlessly, all expenses paid of course(currently in NZ for the rest of the summer). At the pace she's currently being moved through the ranks of the companies she's with she'll be on the global teams before she's ever learnt to frontboard a tiny flat box. But, did I mention she's blonde, pretty and has big ***. AKA team managers and cameras love her. the difference between pro women such as Natasha Zurek, Priscilla Levac, MFR and Annie Boulanger and some of the other ones out there is ridiculous.  .

Kelly Clark is a perfect example that you don't have to be attractive to be a pro, but that is kind of off topic.

Annie kills it, yes he is not the best but she is up there, she has skills and is extremely attractive (IMO at least) which is a plus.

Snowboarding is a business, and the most marketable and not neccesarily the best riders are the ones that have to most success.  As much as it sucks it is true.

Gnu325:

Iced_endeavor:

I could go on for days about the female pro shreds I see on a daily basis, and how bad some of them completely suck. Or the fact that apparently all it takes is the ability to 3 a small jump, slide a couple boxes and smile for a camera to crack into the industry as a female. I live with 6 people, all of whom ride and all of whom fucking rip. Of the 7 of us(myself included) the only person who will likely ever see a dime from snowboarding is my female roomate, undeniably the worst in the house. The only one not spinning over 3's, the only one of us who'd rather do a lot of other things than snowboard, the only one of us who can barely noseress or boardslide anything, in addition to those things she never stops talking about herself and how good she is and how cool she is. In fact she didn't even know what a nollie was until a day on the glacier last month when i had to explain it to her. She still can't do them though. Yet at least once a week a fat package shows up on our doorstep with her name on it, shes got her name all over team websites and she travels endlessly, all expenses paid of course(currently in NZ for the rest of the summer). At the pace she's currently being moved through the ranks of the companies she's with she'll be on the global teams before she's ever learnt to frontboard a tiny flat box. But, did I mention she's blonde, pretty and has big ***. AKA team managers and cameras love her.

the difference between pro women such as Natasha Zurek, Priscilla Levac, MFR and Annie Boulanger and some of the other ones out there is ridiculous.  .

Kelly Clark is a perfect example that you don't have to be attractive to be a pro, but that is kind of off topic.

Annie kills it, yes he is not the best but she is up there, she has skills and is extremely attractive (IMO at least) which is a plus.

Snowboarding is a business, and the most marketable and not neccesarily the best riders are the ones that have to most success.  As much as it sucks it is true.

Kelly is good at what she does. My roomate is a serious contender for the Canadian Olympic pipe team and can't spin 5's in the pipe regularily, and when she does they are never above the lip, and never, ever, ever grabbed. To watch her in the pipe, and then see some of the other, less attractive girls riding helps to make one realize how much looks matter on the female side of the industry.

Annie is one of the few females going out into the backcountry. The majority of the females who are are doing it together with crews like Runway, Annie is going out with the guys and holding her own and riding similar stuff to them, and that's a big reason she's got the respect she does. She's also thoroughly impressed me everytime I've seen her ride in person, more so than in the parts of hers I've watched.



I'm not denying that the industry is all about marketability. I know that very well and realize that's why people like my roomate get hooked up while some of the girls I rid with who kill it ten times as hard as her don't see anything in the way of free anything. It's unfortunate, but it's 100% a business when people start to get sponsored it's for a reason, and that reason is, the majority of the time, that they are going to help their company sell product. Some riders help sell based on their video parts and competition results while some riders help sell product just by being a pretty face in the mags.

Gnu325:

Snowboarding is a business, and the most marketable and not neccesarily the best riders are the ones that have to most success.  As much as it sucks it is true.

this is exactly what I'm saying with everything I've written. There are a lot of factors at play with pros aside from just their riding abilities.

So where are the photos Iced? Since we are friends on Facebook maybe you can just direct me...haha.

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