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.

Cab 9s for days in this Burton Snowboards clip featuring Danny Davis, Mikkel Bang, Marko Grilc, Christian Haller, Mark McMorris, Seppe Smits, Peetu Piiroinen, and Roope Tonteri. Flat spins, cork spins, double cork spins, and even Seppe’s crazy spin-rewind thing all look good during these spring park sessions from last season.

A good clean rodeo is surely second only to a method when it comes to style. Those who can do them know it makes them kings of the world for about a second a half. Those of us who can’t are forced to marvel at the neat simplicity of both spinning and flipping at the same time, without dizzying us. And whatever kind of snowboarding floats your boat, the same applies: throw a rodeo over a pillow, out of a pipe, round a tree, off a wall, even in the dark, and the stoke will beam across your face all day. Burton know this too. So naturally they’ve cut and pasted an orgy of them together with the kind of reckless abandon usually displayed by small children filling a bag of pick and mix right to the brim. Let Peetu Piironien, Mikkel Bang, Marko Grilc, John Jackson, Danny Davis and their chums do all the work. All you have to do is press play, and your eyes will widen for two whole minutes. You know you want to.

A bunch of new snow means the avvie danger is high, so Grilo and his homie Matevz Pristavec slash some mellow pow and huck some doubles.

Marko Grilc bagged himself first place in the style session at the recent 20-year anniversary Air&Style in Innsbruck. Check his take on proceedings, and on why style is so important in snowboarding. Oh, and WINNING!

In times of 1440s and triple corks, the good old 540 is … hang on, this is almost exactly what Burton say about this video! Here you go:

In the world of 1260s and triple corks, 540s are easily overlooked these days. While a slow, stylish frontside 540 isn’t as technically hard as spinning your face off, it is much harder to make look good. Here are a bunch of 540s from Mikkel Bang, Mikey Rencz, Jussi Oksanen, John Jackson, Danny Davis, Mark Sollors, Kimmy Fasani, Marko Grilc, and Enni Rukajarvi that you won’t be forgetting any time soon.

Finally, all those Yu-GO First efforts culminated in this full-length snowboard flick featuring some of the best riders from the Balkan (or in their words: Ex-Yugoslavia). Unfortunately, this also marks the end of the Yu-Go First movement, but we’re sure these guys come up with more cool shit from the South-East.

“Yu-GO First” was a snowboard video project with the idea to have most of the relevant snowboard riders from the ex-Yugoslavian region in one video. Movie was edited by several different editors and riders themselves.

With this full length movie we are closing the “yu-go first” movement. Thanks to everyone who helped to make this movie happen!

Filming by: Rene Gallo, Matej Gostinčar, Luka Stanovnik, Hambalkó Bálint, LegitFilms, Iztok Šumatić, Andraž Žan, JK Media, Matej Potočnik, Blaž Tomazin, Clemens Prankl, Bruno Purić, Dominik Istenić, Lukas Lerperger, Peter Podobnik

Featuring: Vid Barić, Žiga Rakovec, Aljoša Krivec, Dejan Hodžić, Nejc Pucko, Žiga Erlač, Mitja Kodrič, Erik Harc, Peter Podlogar, Luka Podlogar, Palermo, Matic Zavodnik, Marko Grilc, Ana Rumiha, Urška Pribošić, Matevž Pristavec, Andrej Marinčić, Luka Jeromel, Nejc Ferjan, Luka Krajnik, Rene Strgar and Peter Štrafela

Oh, what a nice edit of Mark McMorris, Mikkel Bang, Seppe Smits, Roope Tonteri, Werni Stock, Marko Grilc, and Peetu Piiroinen slushing about at Heavenly and Sun Valley.

Usually spring is the time when most riders start to hang up their gear, but for riders like Mark McMorris, Mikkel Bang, Seppe Smits, Roope Tonteri, Werni Stock, Marko Grilc, and Peetu Piiroinen, it’s the time to start laying down the hammers. Those guys sure tore the spring kickers at Heavenly and Sun Valley a new one. Check out all the carnage in part 1 of the Spring Park Sessions.