To sum up the 2012 edition of the Grenade Games, take your pick from the following words: madness, mayhem, carnage, bedlam, awesome. With an epic snake run-inspired pipe, a waterslide, tit hits, Chinese Downhill moguls and slopestyle race along with a regular booter or two, all of the above apply. Watch the highlights.

Sure, it’s a pretty long edit and includes lardy middle-aged women bogling, but how fun does that ‘Monster Mega Pipe’ look?

Spencer Schubert and Brandon Hobush shred Bear Mountain during the Grenade Games event.

Cameos: Jordan Small, Parker Worthen and Pat Lynch

Big Bear Mountain hosted the Seventh Annual Grenade Games March 26-27. Danny Kass, The Dingo and their cohorts rolled up to host the kind of contest that snowboarding needs in these days of overblown seriousness. It’s got a fricking Chinese Downhill on a mogul field and a dual slalom jib race for chrissakes…

The course, built by Clayton Shoemaker and the Bear Mountain crew, featured a channel gap, quarterpipe, mini pipes, big kickers, little kickers, dual slalom course, mogul field, and an infamous pond skim. The open jam session let riders session simultaneously leaving no jump, jib, or rail untouched. Chris Bradshaw, Keegan Valaika, Danny Kass, The Dingo, Zak Haleand, Dustin Craven and more were all in attendance along with a laundry list of other top riders.

Grenade Games 7 has kicked off Stateside, with Danny Kass, his erstwhile companion The Dingo, and crew of Grenerds bringing the goodtimes back to shred ‘contests’. Check the video from day 1. The mini pipe looks SOOO fun!

Bringing the funtimes back to their backyard – Bear Mountain – for the 7th edition of the Grenade Games, Kass and co pulled together an awesome double mini pipe, a transfer kicker dubbed ‘The Great Divide’, a bunch of fun jibs, a boardercross with waterslide, and even a moguls course. Then the let the likes of Louie Vito, Dustin Craven, Eddie Wall and more loose on it, shook their asses to The Game, and generally had more fun than a bucket of boobs. Check the video – let the goodtimes roll…

Welcome back to our daily review of the 12 months that made up 2010. After the Olympic month of February and the TTR title fight in March you would have thought things were rather mellow in April. But in retrospect it wasn’t only the Eyjafjallajökull volcano that exploded that month…

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April seemed to be the month for snowboard teasers. The Sandbox teaser dropped, the teaser for the Buffalo session at Cerler was released, and so was the Sanesation trailer, the so-fresh-it-drops-in-2011 Rome movie The Shred Remains and the Finnish Unionfive teaser.

Then the Intercrew comp goes down in Chamrousse and the Twisted Tricks session in Tourmalet, which maybe made April more of a late contest month. Further proof was added with the Absolut Park Spring Battle, the Ride Shakedown in Canada, the PBRJ in Laax, and the legendary Onboard/Vans Junk & Funk comp (it is so legendary not even a video exists of it). And of course there’s still the Wängl Tängl – Europe’s true indie comp. Here’s the Highlights Show.

In other event news Roope Tonteri became World Rookie Champion, again, and Enni Rukajärvi continued her winning streak at the Oakley Girlssession in Finland. Oh, and there were a few noteworthy team trip edits: The Head Team went to the US. The Völkl team travelled to Spain, and the Nitro team did Bulgaria.

Regarding riders and their antics the month saw a lot of videos, and interviews: Kazu and Torstein ripped Northstar. We caught up with Marco Smolla. Elias Elhardt curtailed his winter. And we spent a whole day with Mario Käppeli.

What else? The Grenade Games went down again, almost half of our team went to the Kamp K2 and is still stoked about it. Martin Kalliola became the Horsefeathers King of S.N.O.W., the Rookie Fest highlights dropped, the DC Monster session went down in France, the second teaser for the Peace Process drops, and finally the Vans Dawn of the Shred movie got a whole island excited.

See you tomorrow for the month that was May 2010…

Finally, we can bring you all the best of the action from all the days of Danny Kass’s annual shredfest.

Here it is in one video money shot, the major goings down in Whistler from this year’s Grenade Games. Pipe, booze, parties, paintball, kickers, jib, piñata bashing and Monster girls… it’s all in there. If you were ever unsure what exactly snowboarding is all about, this is it…

Video Highlights of the Ender Bender

GG6 wraps up with some tasty kicker action, jibber jabbering, a decent dose of carnage and one hell of an ender bender. Happy days.

Some heavy slams and a decent dose of bangers to tease yo’ asses for the full final Grenade Games edit – dropping soon…

After paintballing, sushi boozing and dual mogul slaloming, the Grenade Games takes to the pipe.

Check it out for some awesome radicalism, 139 rental razzing and one deeply un-radical dude.

Let Danny Kass and his boys organise the Olympics.

Dual Slalom Moguls? Shame they didn’t don skinsuits, but what sounds like a recipe for carnage pretty much is. This shit sure looks way more fun than that sideways skiing that they call GS, and there’s something that reminds us of that classic Jeff Brushie shot about this too. Kass for President of the FIS!

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