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Downtown Throwdown on the streets of San Francisco |
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 Posted by content on Friday 28th October, 2011 @ 08:57 GMT |
News Category: World Events | Visited 334 times |
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This Saturday (29th Oct) on the streets of San Francisco there will be an urban snowboarding competition including a rail-jam. |
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The event, which is named the Downtown Throwdown will bring with it 100,000 pounds of shredded ice and 25 professional snowboarders.
People of San Francisco will be getting geared up to witness what should be an awesome competition as the riders battle it out for $10,000 in prizes.
Event organizers and snowboard companies Lib Tech and Snowboy Productions promise “non-stop shred action,” along with food, music and raffle prizes.
Krush Kulesza, Snowboy Productions President, told the San Francisco Examiner: “The idea is to get people excited about snowboarding and also kind of show people what goes on in snowboarding by bringing it into The City.
“For a lot of people, probably their only connection to snowboarding is what they see in the Olympics.”
This will be Kulesza’s first event in San Francisco, but The City is no stranger to snow-based competitions.
Icer Air brought Olympic competitors to San Francisco between 2005 and 2008, firstly in Pacific Heights, and then at AT&T Park once the Pacific Heights residents complained.
The annual ski and snowboard competition went belly-up when a major sponsor terminated its contract and Icer Air was unable to pay its talent.
So if anyone is in San Francisco this weekend why not pop along for a taste of urban snowboarding. |
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