2008 Snowboard Nationals - Followup

Well the USASA Snowboard Nationals at Copper are all done and we made it back home safely. Spencer and I had a great time there. The conditions and events were great. As I mentioned in the previous post Spencer did a great job.

Spencer finished the week in a great position. Especially being his first year in this age group. A summary of the major accomplishment are:
- 5th out of 50 for Slopestyle
- 3rd in boardercross
- 12th out of 42 for superpipe. This is great considering Spencer hardly rides pipe since we do not have one near our home.
- Overall Freestyle (ranking based on pipe and slopestyle) is 5th
- Overall Rank (based on all 5 events) is 4th.

So Spencer is Nationally ranked 4th in his age class. He has told me he plans on improving that even more next year. We already can't wait until next Snowboard season.

On our off time we continued to do some more free riding. Spencer did some more tree runs. Also, Spencer did a 15 foot cliff drop. This was amazing to see. He just snowboarded off a cliff that was approx 15 feet high and landed in the powder below, and kept going. I wish I had a camera to capture this.

Spencer also entered into a rail jam. It had no age class and was very cool to see.

I should be getting some more pictures next week to show some of the event shots for Spencer. I will try to post some as I get them.

Well, still trying to catch up at work. Have fun all.