screw woodward skatepark (just joking, can’t wait to ride that one) but the mellow rail park is freaking massive! shred-able tomorrow.

marco and the boys are working hard to get the nanshan open park ready one week in advance so the kids can practice the hell out of it. pls check below what marco, that crazy bratan, is up too…

overview of the not ready yet but going to be massive park

marco loves to stick things in the snow so that they look like...

mini jib wallride. just think what u could do with that one!

LOTS OF manpower for the BIG (sorry, actually huge) wallride

qualifier made it into snowboard-mag.com. stoked. even more stoked for andrew who can now get some incentive from his sponsors (hint hint eli). he has to buy one of those remote controlled helicopters u know…haha

yeah, the above is a link...

RB made a dedicated nanshan open webpage on sina.com, the biggest chinese news webpage out there (just a couple million clicks a day…there is lots of chinese surfing the net out there u know). yeah…its not the best style and the pics they choose are kinda lame but u know what? it brings snowboarding to the masses…and thats good. for core and good info hit up what u always hit up: mellowparks.cn

click thumbnail to check out the nanshan open sina.com webpage

wasn’t so happy with all the 5000 pics (no joke…i start to dislike digi cams…really) i had to go through from the qualifier…BUT 5 mins ago ba sent me shxxloads of pics. so sick! the man is good and i am happy again

check mellowparks.cn for the full image gallery. some of u are going to be STOKED. tomorrow though cauz i am seriously to tired to upload that now.

thx ba. love u long time.

…even if it only was 2 runs. nice. not easy to get shred lately…

guess what - we actually pulled it off after having the whole ski resort covered in dust for a day…the event itself was sweet, 50 something riders (which makes this qualifier the biggest up to date) and a lot a lot of new faces. not the easiest conditions cauz windy and freezing but pretty fun.

a big high-five and congratulations to Andrew (who got first yesterday), He Wei, Li Jie, Ming Ming, Li Penghuan and Jokey Tong for qualifying into january’s 8th Red Bull Nanshan Open!

andrew floating BIG with a nice bs 180. click click to get the full story.

the boys are stoked...its ON now

the suitcase of money (actually "only" 1000 rmb but looks sweet) and my new yellow shades. nice. they match my gloves too! haha

park is set up and ready (kicker and rail-line) and the boys are training like crazy. qualifier for the 8th red bull nanshan open this weekend. 6 chinese kids will qualify for the finals on the 9th and 10th of january 2010.

click the event “artwork” (or whatever u can call that) below to get all the info and check the brand new set up obstacles as well.

mini wallride got set up first...yep we have not one but 2 wallrides this season!

qualifier rail-line view from the second kicker

wallride and butter-box feature. nice huh?

we got the red bull for the nanshan open delivered today. 150 cases a 24 cans…do the maths (for those who are bad in maths: 3600 cans).

if i drink one every day i can drink nearly 10 years. glad its for the actual event…haha

sooo much we had to get the snowcat to move them

oh yeah. 3600 of those golden cans