The NASJA West fall trade fair was held in conjunction with the ICER Air Exhibition in San Francisco Nov. 3-4. Some of you may recall this event, which was inaugurated on Fillmore Street in San Francisco in September 2005. The event was attended by 15,000 people but was opposed by local residents, so for 2006 it was held in ATT Park, home of the SF Giants (As a 27-year Dodger season ticket holder I'll refrain from editorial comment).
This event was organized by Glen Griffin of ICER spraywax, and the ramps were built on scaffolding by Snow Park Technologies, a leading terrain park construction company for many ski areas since the earliest Winter X-Games. Jonny Moseley was the promoter and emcee for both events. During ski season Moseley will be representing Telluride, and I recently met him in L.A. on a pre-season Telluride marketing tour. At that event I explained to some of the other media people that I had photographed Moseley's "dinner roll" at the 2002 Olympics from the terrace viewing area near the lower jump. Moseley will be graduating from U.C. Berkeley in December and he still lives in Marin County during the off-season.
On Friday afternoon the NASJA West members had a tour of ATT Park with Glen Griffin of ICER and Jeremiah Pedley of Snow Park Technologies. They began spraying crushed ice at midnight Friday on the 32-degree slope landing ramp. The upper ramp leading to a 28 degree takeoff lip had to be covered with the crushed ice by hand. The upper ramp started at the top of the scoreboard 100 feet above the ground.
There was a 30 foot gap between the ramps with a safety net below. This was fortunate because one of the women snowboarders lost her balance and slid over the lip into the net. I was surprised to read on TGR http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/show ... hp?t=66235 that the organizers had not planned for a net, but the athletes insisted, so one was brought over from a local gym. Both ramps had metal guard rails, but the landing ramp had open wood near the edges. Female skier Kaya Turkski stuck a 540 but her landing momentum was slightly diagonal. Thus she skied off the snow, fell onto the wood and took quite a beating sliding half the length of the ramp on wood. She was hospitalized, but is expected to have a full recovery. I had wondered whether the bottom of the upper ramp was sufficiently rounded and some of the TGR posters critiqued that also.
T.J. Schiller and Travis Rice won the skiing and snowboarding competitions, each receiving $10,000 and an FJ Cruiser. There was a wakeboard exhibition in the bay behind right field and a skate ramp where Tony Hawk performed. After each final Jonny Moseley did an exhibition jump, first a straight backflip to dial in the landing, then the 360 Iron Cross from the 1998 Olympics. Attendance was later estimated at 25,000.
I sat high in left field to get a good perspective of the jumps and a great view through my 10x binoculars. Unfortunately my pictures at 3x are not so good. For better ones check out the TGR post http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/show ... hp?t=66235 .
This event was organized by Glen Griffin of ICER spraywax, and the ramps were built on scaffolding by Snow Park Technologies, a leading terrain park construction company for many ski areas since the earliest Winter X-Games. Jonny Moseley was the promoter and emcee for both events. During ski season Moseley will be representing Telluride, and I recently met him in L.A. on a pre-season Telluride marketing tour. At that event I explained to some of the other media people that I had photographed Moseley's "dinner roll" at the 2002 Olympics from the terrace viewing area near the lower jump. Moseley will be graduating from U.C. Berkeley in December and he still lives in Marin County during the off-season.
On Friday afternoon the NASJA West members had a tour of ATT Park with Glen Griffin of ICER and Jeremiah Pedley of Snow Park Technologies. They began spraying crushed ice at midnight Friday on the 32-degree slope landing ramp. The upper ramp leading to a 28 degree takeoff lip had to be covered with the crushed ice by hand. The upper ramp started at the top of the scoreboard 100 feet above the ground.
There was a 30 foot gap between the ramps with a safety net below. This was fortunate because one of the women snowboarders lost her balance and slid over the lip into the net. I was surprised to read on TGR http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/show ... hp?t=66235 that the organizers had not planned for a net, but the athletes insisted, so one was brought over from a local gym. Both ramps had metal guard rails, but the landing ramp had open wood near the edges. Female skier Kaya Turkski stuck a 540 but her landing momentum was slightly diagonal. Thus she skied off the snow, fell onto the wood and took quite a beating sliding half the length of the ramp on wood. She was hospitalized, but is expected to have a full recovery. I had wondered whether the bottom of the upper ramp was sufficiently rounded and some of the TGR posters critiqued that also.
T.J. Schiller and Travis Rice won the skiing and snowboarding competitions, each receiving $10,000 and an FJ Cruiser. There was a wakeboard exhibition in the bay behind right field and a skate ramp where Tony Hawk performed. After each final Jonny Moseley did an exhibition jump, first a straight backflip to dial in the landing, then the 360 Iron Cross from the 1998 Olympics. Attendance was later estimated at 25,000.
I sat high in left field to get a good perspective of the jumps and a great view through my 10x binoculars. Unfortunately my pictures at 3x are not so good. For better ones check out the TGR post http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/show ... hp?t=66235 .
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