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Wonder what it’s like to take a run through two halfpipes side-by-side? The Red Bull Double Pipe is going down at Aspen, Colorado and some of the best halfpipe riders in the world have congregated to drop into the behemouth double dude tube. Fourteen-year old Gabe Ferguson, who wowed spectators at the US Open, strapped a GoPro to his helmet and filmed a run from his point of view. Here’s what it really looks like to take a run in the Red Bull Double Pipe.
Alex “Littlest” Sherman goes on a road trip starting in Southern California, to Mammoth, and out into Utah … This season started out a little slow so we had to improvise to keep things fun and start shredding. Bear Mountain is always a favorite hill to hit up when you’re down in Southern Cal, so this is where Cody Rosenthal and Alex started out, riding spring-like conditions… Then they traveled north to meet up with Shayne Pospisil in Mammoth Lakes for some training before Sochi in the halfpipe. They then drove out from there to Utah where again, the conditions were not that ideal, but they wound up making the most of it.
Once upon a time contests were a place for like minded people to gather and push one another with new tricks and creativity. Somewhere along the line of uniformity and mass appeal something was lost. Snowboarding’s style pioneer Terje Haakonsen has been trying to do something about this, and recently he invited some of the best half pipe riders in the world representing all kinds of style and riding to join him in Norway for the 2014 Arctic Challenge to try to come up with a new way of looking at half pipe contests. The pipe that SPT built in Norway was a beast with hips, extensions, mailboxes and a wall ride. Terje led a jam session format with riders like Ipod, Ben Ferguson, Benji Farrow, Kent Callister, Markus Keller, Arthur Longo, Scott Blum and many more. In the end Danny Davis took home the title by demolishing everything and seemingly dropping a different run every time he rolled into the pipe. Hopefully we see many more events like this in the future.