Not sure if Brandon Cocard, the winner of the weekend’s Brodown Showdown at Bear Mountain has a girlfriend or not but if he does not, ladies get on it, he is the next big deal. After a 3rd at the Triple Air, top 5 at the Dew Tour and 1st at Bear it seems as if Brandon is on his way. Brandon did not beat a bunch of slouches either; it was pleasantly surprising to see the talented group of rippers that showed up for the fun event. Tons of great riders showed up to enjoy the 65 degree weather, mushy snow and plethora of obstacles that Big Bear has to offer. The course set up had smaller features but was fun and had a lot to offer; the riders hit up to 4 different obstacles including a choice of rails, a hip, steps, jumps and a halfpipe. In order to get on the podium you were supposed to hit all the obstacles so say you completely killed the jumps (or vice-versa) but slacked in the rails, you would not win. The jumps were smallish but riders still managed to pull 900’s and someone even tried a 10. It looked super fun and really made you wanna snowboard. Brandon Cocard won buy getting tech on the rails or 270 on, doing a switch back seven over the jump, switch back 9 and killing it overall in the 45 minute final jam. Thanks to Bear Mt. Active and everyone else that helped with the event! Harrison Gordon welcomes you to the Active Brodown Showdown at Bear Mt, CA Here is a view from the top of the course. The right line included a down/flat/down bar into a small BMX style jump then a left hip and into the halfpipe. The middle line included a choice of two rail obstacles, into the big jump and into the pipe. The left line included the same two rails as the center line then into a few different rail features and a stair line then into the pipe. The riders seemed to favor the jump lines All features on the course mentioned in the previous caption funneled into this little mini pipe at the bottom Ben Rice does a front board Eric Fernandez with another front board on a different obstacle Zak Hale and you got it, a front board Brandon Cocard sends it off the biggest jump in the competition and got sent home to Tahoe with $2,500 in prize money Cody Rosenthal has got mad style and was rewarded for his efforts with 3rd place Danny Toumarkine was killing it Greg Bretz, along with others, made the journey down from Mammoth Nirvana was one of the three girls in the finals, along with Jamie Madrid and Desiree Melancon. Spencer Link came to the San Bernardino Mountains from his usual haunt, Mountain High Brandon Cocard snaps the tail of his board Not sure who is sending it here, either Bailey or Brian maybe? Cody Rosenthal over the hip Cornell, back 180 Danny Toumarkine won the triple air and ripped today, he is another one to watch Ashbury dude? Desiree Melancon Harrison Gordon tweaking off the hip Second place finisher Joachim does what looks like slob air with his back foot tweaked but he brought it back around backside to land fakie Johnny Lazz alley oop melon Nate Ferrell blasted over the hip and attempted to take the heads off of everyone standing on the deck Spencer Link brings the tailwhip from the sport of motocross to snowboarding. He brings this stalefish around to 270 and almost to 350 but takes it back to just a frontside over the hip Nacho Libre l-r, Joachim Krogstie, Brandon Cocard and Cody Rosenthal Results 1 Brandon Cocard $2,000 2 Joachim Krogstie $750 3 Cody Rosenthal $250 Best Trick Brandon Cocard $500 Switch Backside 7