Transworld's 8th Annual Rider's Awards Report
White Doubles Up at Riders Awards
Yessirre, Shaun White took two awards at Transworld's 8th Annual Rider's Awards last night. After that, Mack Dawg premiered one of its movies. The whole shindig was pretty much a raging success. Things went down at On Broadway in downtown San Diego. For snowboarding it was a formal affair, a collared shirt was required to get in. The place was set up really dope, they did a fine job. Because I am lazy I am going to talk about who was not there because that is a much shorter list. Terje was not there although he was at the E-scramble premier last week, Hannah Teter and Pat Moore were in South America, David Benedek was not there, nor was Mason Aguirre. Other than that, name a snowboarder and they were probably there. As Ed put it so well "if someone put a bomb in here, the snowboard industry would have a hard time on Monday" Even Josh Feliciano showed, thought he was in jail. The party was pretty mellow and fun. When we left around 11:30 the drunks were starting to show their faces, mostly in a good way; making out on couches, getting a little rowdy but nothing too nuts.
Right after the awards was the Mack Dawg premier. Wait, we gotta straighten this out. This was not actually the Mack Dawg premier. This movie is called People and it was made by Pierre Minhondo (formerly of Neoproto) and Justin Eeles (formerly of Kids Know Productions). Those two fellas were taken in by Mack Dawg and they made their own movie under his name. Kind of like CVS buying Sav On drugs. The actual Mack Dawg premier is tonight at Spreckles theatre and is free for everyone. Back to People, this movie may very well be the artiest movie to come out this season. It had a heavy metal soundtrack coupled with an 80's tight pants kinda feel. The riding was primarily urban style with some sick rails and gap to rails going down. There were a few crazy lines through rocks too. Who was in it? Stephen Duke, Etienne Gilbert, Nima Jalali, Pat McCarthy, Jordan Mendenhall, Robbie Sell, Curtis Woodman, Bryan Fox, Justin Hebbel, Jon Kooley, Shaun McKay, Josh Mills, Marius Otterstad, Jussi Tarvianen, and Ryan Thompson. Arty, urban, rails and tight pants sums it up. A good flick overall.
Congrats to all the winners, fuck it, congrats to any of the snowboarders that make a living from snowboarding!
Transworld Riders Awards:
- Stand out performance of the year - David Denedek, double cork 1260
- Women's rookie of the year - Elena Hight
- Men's rookie of the year – Danny Davis
- Women's rider of the year – Hana Beaman
- Men's Rider of the year – Shaun White
- Women's reader's choice award – Leanne Pelosi
- Men's reader's choice award – Shaun White
- Tranny award – Larry Balma and Peggy Cozen, founders of Transworld Snow and Skate
On the wall across the street
Molly Aguirre like most snowboarders has a busy schedule, something like South America – North Carolina – San Diego – Mammoth – Hungary – Chzeck Republic and on to places she could not remember
The elaborately decorated room
Andreas Wiig
Cheryl Mass
Take the stage
Kass had a place sitting next to Shaun White here but actually sat elsewhere, with his girlfriend and Todd Richards. Travis Rice was supposed to sit here but he was getting trashed, ha.
Dingo and Peter Line
Alexis Waite and Eddie Wall
Rookie of the year Danny Davis "I was just down in Chili with Joel Muzzey (from Snowboarder). We were supposed to see Slayer tonight in South America, so this goes out to Slayer"
Hana Beaman (Women's rider of the year), Leanne Pelosi (Readers choice award winner) and Cody Dresser
Ian Ruhter in the plaid shirt, un known and Danny Kass
Dingo, Tara Dakides and Taylor Knox
Peggy Cozen's (founder of Transworld) and Sal Masakela
DJ Jamie Lynn
Heikki Sorsa
Shaun White and Elena Hight