Farrington surprised everyone by upsetting reigning Olympic Halfpipe Gold Medalist Torah Bright by a full two points. Using her Gnu C2 Power Banana, Kaitlyn linked together an impressive run featuring a backside 540, stalefish air, backside 900, frontside 720, and cab 720.
Gnu Women’s Team Manager, Barrett Christy, shared her enthusiasm. “Kaitlyn has been getting better with each event this year. At this first European X-Games she threw down a run to rival gold medalist Torah Bright’s; it was technical, powerful, and smooth. I love how they are both pushing the level of women’s riding these days with big cab spins, inverted rotations, and style for miles. Kaitlyn has what it takes and I’m not at all surprised she won Euro X! I’m so proud of her, she deserves it and I can’t wait to see what she’s going to do next!”
Kaitlyn’s European X-Games gold medal has been another great achievement in an outstanding season for the promising young 20-year-old. Earlier this year she secured the 2nd Annual Dew Cup Halfpipe Title by winning the third and final stop at Mount Snow, VT.
GNU Team Riders, Mathieu Crepel, Kaitlyn Farrington, and Danny Kass will be riding their Bananas and Pickles at Winter X Games Europe March 10-12, held in Tignes, France.
Unless your in France your best bet to watch the action live is on ESPN 360
Gnu’s Forest Bailey will be bringing his Pickle and a huge sack…of tricks to Summit West this Friday and Saturday.
Head up to Summit and witness the future of freestyle snowboarding as Forest throws down his brand of hot banana pickle action right in your face! Gnu is the Northwest’s original snowboard brand. In the early 80’s Mike Olson pioneered the modern finless snowboard and deep carving sidecuts up at Ski Acres now (Summit Central) and Snoqualmie Summit now (Summit West).
Revolutionary award winning industry changing Banana Magne-Traction Technology was first tested and refined at Summit Central… Forest is going to be riding a Park Pickle twin asymmetric banana for ducks and some Backdoor bindings. Support Forest and Gnu “the home team”, every Gnu snowboard is handmade by snowboarders with jobs right here in Washington State.
Get Tickets for a $50 two day pass/ticket, it is the best deal out there.
You can get them at Evo, Sno Con, and US Outdoor Store (PDX).
Mervin Manufacturing, nestled at the base of the Olympic Mountain range near Canada in the USA, would like to congratulate Lib Tech rider Greg Bretz, Gnu’s Mathieu Crepel and Roxy’s Gold medal winning Torah Bright for their outstanding performances on Banana Technology and Magne-Traction in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic half pipe event. Nice work all! Ride a Banana on the world stage in the Olympics or anywhere else..! Torah, Greg and Mathieu do! Temple Cummins rode a banana when he won the 2010 Mt. Baker Banked Slalom! Forest Bailey rode a banana when he won almost every rail contest he entered this year. Forrest Burki and Shannan Yates ride bananas when they win North Face Masters big mountain freeride events…Travis Rice rides one too…The world’s best ride bananas because bananas are easy to ride!
Banana tech is not “Rocker”, Banana tech is rocker between your legs! For more info on revolutionary all terrain performance Banana Magne-Traction technology (patent pending) check the Mervin websites…mervin.com
Mervin Manufacturing “the world’s most environmental and innovative snowboard factory” handbuilds every Lib Tech, Gnu and Roxy Banana Magne-Traction snowboard near Canada in the USA.
The GNU GIRLS have been actively involved with the Woodward Women’s Camps in Colorado. The last session had 17 women signed up! The women had an awesome time shredding GNU Bananas with the coaches including GNU GIRL Sandra Hillen.
They were stoked to walk away with such awesome GNU prizes!
+SUMMER CAMP SESSION
Get $200 off if you sign up for Session # 3 (June 27th through July 3rd) before March, 26th!
Call 888.350.1544 to make a reservation.
More information is always available at www.woodwardatcopper.com Sandra Hillen is one of the pro coaches at the Woodward day camps!
Lexi just got her first photo published in Bl!sss Mag!
Congratulations Lexi, the first of many to come! She’s been busy juggling highschool, powder days, winning regional USASA competitions in the Slopestyle, Halfpipe and Boardercross events. She’s looking forward to competing in all 3 disciplines at USASA Nationals next month in Colorado, this looks like the best kind of training!
