JP Walker and a bunch of dudes like Scott Stevens, Marko Grilc and Chris Grenier throw handplants for days in this edit. Pure radness.

JP Walker brought together a group of snowboarding’s most talented riders for the day-long Handplant Holiday at Bear Mountain. World class planters were treated to a set up unlike anything seen before, created by the innovative park crew at Bear. The exclusive set up, unique team aspect, and jam format, combined with the relaxed and friendly vibe, gave the riders the opportunity to concentrate on their handplant progression as they went for tricks from the hard to undoable lists. Featuring: JP Walker, Jeremy Jones, Simon Chamberlain, Scott Stevens, Marko Grilc, Chris Grenier, Pat Bridges, Cody Rosenthal, Tim Eddy, Ben Bilocq and special guests Dave Downing and Dale Rehberg.

Unique Scoring Format Makes JP Walker’s inaugural Handplant Holiday at Bear Mountain a Total Success.

It was an idea that JP Walker conceived on the comfort of his couch: bring a group of snowboarding’s most talented riders together for a day-long handplant contest. But what was supposed to be “no big deal” to pull together took seven months of intense planning that culminated on April 20, 2013 in the highly successful first annual Handplant Holiday at Bear Mountain.

At Bear Mountain, world-class planters were treated to a set–up created by the innovative park crew unlike anything seen before, which included several transiton based variations ranging from a wall ride, channel, spine, hip and extension.

The riders not only got creative on the feature, they got creative with Sony Action Cams, adapting the mounts to get rare POV video and capture unique angles and technical tricks. In the end, it was JP Walker who took home $1000 of high end Sony electronics gear for Sony’s Best Shot of the Day contest by capturing his perspective of stomping an Eggflip.

What nailed the event home was a unique team aspect and jam format—which Walker came up with specifically for the event—that gave the riders a chance to ride when and where they wanted throughout the day, to session individual sections or lap several features in a row accumulating points for their team. Because of this scoring format, the vibe during the contest was relaxed and friendly—though there was never any doubt that both teams wanted the win.

Both teams benefited from the expertise of their captains, legendary snowboarders Dave Downing and Dale Rehberg. Downing and Rehberg kept track of the riders points, coached, motivated, strategized and even got in the mix throwing down some plants of their own.

Under the guidance of Dave Downing, Marko Grilc, Chris Grenier, Jeremy Jones, Cody Rosenthal and Scott Stevens got down to business early in the day to secure valuable points. Dave’s experience in transitions and coaching came into play helping his team lock in their tricks.

But it was Dale Rehberg’s Team One, which included event mastermind JP Walker, Ben Bilocq, MVP Simon Chamberlain, Tim Eddy and Snowboarder magazine Editor Pat Bridges, who threw down variations of handplants throughout the different features with a combination of talent, teamwork, creativity and experience to earn the win. Team One split the $6000 prize purse and each member received a Sony Camcorder Cradle with LCD to use with the Action Cams they used for the contest.

“Being the Captain of Team One was not only an honor, but also a damn good time. Watching these guys go through the trick list as if it was no big deal pretty much blew me away, especially since the trick list was incredibly difficult. What an insane group of talented riders, who got it done,” said Rehberg.

It was a tight race between Marko Grilc and Simon Chamberlain for the honour of Plant of Day, but Chamberlain took the win with a Switch Andrecht on the Bear Mountain wallride, which also earned him an additional 150 points and a Nixon Player XL Black SR valued at $1200.

Chamberlain also landed several handplant variations including tricks from the undoable category such as a Switch Eggplant Tailgrab and a Phillips 66 over the channel to gain a total individual score of 1270 points. With a final tally more than 400 points above the next highest score, which secured him the Most Valuable Planter award, he ultimately took home the MVP trophy. For this, he scored a Nixon Player XL Gunmetal watch that he graciously gave to Marko Grilc, who Chamberlain felt was “deserving of a win for slaying the features from morning to night.”

“Handplant Holiday was the most fun I have had all season. Team One killed it on every challenge. It’s just that much better sharing the win with your homies. Winning the MVP and best trick was such a surreal feeling. To get those awards riding with all these amazing snowboarders was for sure humbling,” Chamberlain said.

JP Walker knows what’s up in the hood. At least in Helsinki he does, where handrails abound and the local big dogs are fluent with the jibberish. *legal note: they are in fact speaking Finnish* . How to make the best edit we’ve seen all week when you’ve slammed one too many times to get any more shots? Do what no man – white or otherwise – has ever successfully done before you: pen some flows on the trials and tribulations of urban shredding. Kind of sounds like Orishas on rewind, but big up yourself, JP.

Ch ch ch ch check out what they’re on about, according to our friendly neighbourhood Googler:

I pökötti in traffic again and now

maximum speed it satakakskyt
unless oo downhill or uphill
when we come hoodeille saw their all yes
vihree beetle rolls well and is smuutti such a young woman
and the ride is not a concern oo
but hovers people just want does not have to step eye Vitos
ku motari stops and starts in urban
I tightened my gas skidisti feet
but if you’ve duunis and take care of business too
en their brakes by the intersection of gender
and if Henkes For you are expensive
their pököttii you rob me if you see the Tallis
and if you want me to maintain Sun Pallis
ees sure to check out their you can see some of the pököttii ku Tallis

motarilla ohittelee and rybää
downhill sataaneljääkybää
parkkiksel was lying in my pökötti
mitää no negative nothing but good

motarilla ohittelee and rybää
downhill sataaneljääkybää
my pökötti ends with löpötki
is low along the village’s difficult kruisii

Simples.

Website - AbsoluteJibberish.com

Even though Flachauwinkl has a lot more to offer than a few down rails and a tracked windlip, this ThirtyTwo edit is quite enjoyable.

Featured riders: Kas Lemmens, Danny Larsen, Chris Grenier, Joe Sexton, Benny Urban, JP Walker

Stepchild gathered together all the footage shot of their team of dudes last winter and tied it all together in this 20-minute montage. Peep the likes of JP Walker, Joe Sexton, E-Man Anderson getting business DONE.

Stepchild have just dropped the teaser to their team movie that’s set to show “what our boys got up to last season!” From the look of this they were mostly dropping HAMMERS.

Like their asses on Facebook, where they’ll drop the movie on December 10.

Here it is, one of the greatest snowboard movies of all time featuring one of the greatest teams ever assembled: MDP’s The Resistance with the Forum team in their pomp. This legendary slice of shred cinema dropped in 2000 and showacased the Forum team when they were arguably in their prime. Line, Walker, Jones, Malmi, Walsh… it doesn’t get much better than this.

Whatever your opinion is on the brand and it’s recent demise, one thing’s certain: they certainly made some legendary movies in their time. RIP, Forum.

Up until moments ago, this post only contained a video of Markku Koski, acclaimed Finnish ThirtyTwo team rider. But then it dawned on us that maybe the famous boot brand produced those video for every of their team members, like JP Walker, Scott Stevens, Toni Kerkelä, Chris Grenier, Joe Sexton, Brandon Hobush, and all the other great riders on their team. And they did. Which is why we had to change this post completely. All 20 bios contain some good shredding, so get on it, in total it’s 34 minutes of awesomeness!

In their latest Jibberish episode, Simon Chamberlain and JP Walker visit High Cascade Snowboard Camp at Mt Hood, and get busy skating, snowboarding playing dodgeball, and being awesome.

JP Walker, Jeremy Jones, Simon Chamberlain, and Seth Huot shared a Signature Session filled with epic snowboarding on the glacier, street skating, miniramps, dodgeball…basically the stuff of dreams. After all that riding the crew cools off at the legendary “Punch Bowl” cliff jump. That looks like 80 plus feet!