| Welcome to the Icarus Shreducation Blog! March 20th Well were here at the Burton US OPEN. YAY! The Weather is crap as usual and the snow is withering away. I honestly dont want to see the snow here or anywhere for that matter. Im Over it. AS far as Icarus riders here there are 18 of them. As far as icarus riders that are competing in the US Open there are again 18. That means everyones a happy camper with the bib, the bag and the right to say they competed in the worlds biggest and most respected snowboarding event in history. Pretty cool huh? Heres a couple of links to check out the news and such on the happening s that are going down. www.fuel.tv www.futuresnowboarding.com http://www.futuresnowboarding.com/2008/03/world-quarters-return Mar 14th THE TELUS TRIPLE CHALLENGE!!!!!!!!! GOOD TIMES AND RESULTS FOR ICARUS. 
JEZ 
THE ICARUS SHREDUCATION BANDITOS! Well here are the results from th TELUS TRIPLE CHALLENNGE www.triplechallenge.ca Jez and Diane Won the Big Air, Scotty Brown Placed 3rd overall coming 2 close spots away from winning the car with a 3rd place finish in the pipe and a first place finish in the rail jam. Anthony WOlfand and Mini Shred placed 2nd and 3rd in the Half Pipe and Derek Livingston won the Mens AM Slope Style. Harrison Gray came second to Browner in the Rail Jam taking home 400.00 and overall I thought it was a good showing by the boys. ZAk Stone had to call it short with a blown out knee and is currently in North Carolina getting MRI's and Orthopods to make sure that he will be good for the summer in NZ at the Icarus Elite Camp at SNow Park. On the girls side We had some great Podiums, Palme Taylor wont the Womens Pipe, Kiersten Higginson Placed a first and a 3rd, MFB Mackenzie Frost Brown) had a 2nd placing and L'il Liz baines placed First in the WOmens AM slopestyle. KILLA. Id say thats a pretty sweet weekend to write home about. 
BOYS SLOPE PODIUM. GOTTA LOVE HOW MINI IS SOO MINI. 
WOMENS PIPE PODIUM. 
MENS PIPE PODIUM. 
STOKED! 2 NEW ELECTRIC RIDERS, 2 BIG FAT ASS CHEQUES! 
RAIL PODIUM. 
RESULTS OF RAIL PODIUM. Mar 3rd 2008 
JEZ IN FIRST WITH THE 10 LARGE, HARRY IN THIRD WITH THE 3 SMALL. Okay lets tally this up.... podiums this weekend for the team = 15 Cash winnings this weekend for the Team = $35,000.00 It Looks like the proof really is in the Icarus Shreducation pudding! Icarus wins the Provincials, the Redbull Crystal, The FIS world Cup and The You look Good. I'd say thats a nice start to the spring blitz. Now we just have the Telus Triple Challeng, the USSA Grand Prix, The US Open, The Canadian National Champs, The Shreducation Photo Shoot, and The WSSF in Whistler left... AKA " the spring Blitz!" Lets Start fromThe beginning. Heading to Tremblant to the Crystal Big Air we encountered 40 invited riders who handled one of the gnarliest set ups I have ever seen in all my years as a pro and a coach. 
A SHOT FROM THE BOTTOM WITH HARRYS MUG ON THE SCREEN. 
SCOT DOING HIS BLUE SCREEN WITH THE TV PRODUCERS A 30 foot high step down over a huge Jumbotron tv with petruding boxes and a massive flat bar rail that was about 25 feet in the air and when you hit it you had to gap 10 feet to get on and then fell almost 50 feet off it to a super firm landing. BALLS! Then you would finish it up over a massive illuminated Ice sculpture rainbow rail. See pictures below. 
SCOT WAS THE FIRST RIDER TO HIT THE BOX...5050 TO BS 3 OFF TO 40 FOOT DROP! Jezmond, Harry and Scotty killed it and 2 ended up on the Podium. Harry at the ripe age of 14 Stole the show with his stomped landings, massive back 900's and insane energy. Taking home 3000 bucks and giving his # to over 5000 people in french with the hopes of a call from a girl. All that money, all that fame all that dope riding.......no call. 
HARRY WITH A SOON TO BE STOMPED BS 900, NOTE THE SIZE OF THE SKI PATROL COMPARED TO THE SIZE OF THE RAIL AND JUMP....MASSIVE! 
THE CROWD WAS PUMPED! Harry cracked up the crowd and kept the energy high for the riders and the fans as we all struggled through the brisk temperatures of -32 and lower. Jez took home 10,000 big ones with a massive inverted backside 720 nose. 
HARRY AND JEZ KICKED IT IN THE WARM RIDERS TENT AND HAD A COUPLE RED BULLS WITH SOME REALLY ANNOYING HOTTIE. 
THE SETUP 
Celebration ensued and we were driving back to ONT before we knew it. Tired and cold, but super pumped on how awesome Red Bull throws an event. Thanks Red Bull. check out the action at www.redbull.ca 
THE CHAMPAGNE WAS FLOWING IN THE WINNERS CIRCLE. STOKED! As we were heading home Taylor " minishred " Watling was doing cab 5's and backside nines aiming to win the contest which he easily did. Apparantly our slopestle coaches know what they are doing. Also on the Podium was Kevin one of our slope coaches in First and Jez in 3rd. Diane Rudge won the womens open and concidering she had never hit rails or jumps until 3 months ago I'd say that is a pretty sweet feat to conquor. In the FIS World Cup Brad Martin took home # 1 while Jeff Batchelor took 2nd place for the second time in 3 weeks on the worlcup tour. Jeff is now ranked # 2 in the WORLD. Yep World. On sunday, and basically exhausted we hauled it over to Alpine Ski Club for the Ontario Provincial Championships where we won both Open events not to Mention a straight sweep with the Ladies. Palmer Taylor, Diane Rudge, and Kiersten Higginson had the top 3 scores of the day. Liz Baines got 3rd in the Ladies junior division. Mini Shred took home 3rd for the Novice Catagorie and Harry Gray and Scot Brown placed 1st and srd in the Open Mens with Brandon Davies popping off the Pro World Cup tour to stop by and take second. Jake Egan and Dylan Bartlett are back after thier injuries and pumped on charging it. Good to have them back on the horse again. Congrats to the whole team for a great weekend and all thier hard work and dedication. You rule!
PROVINCIAL NOVICE PODIUM 
PROVINCIAL JUNIOR WOMENS PODIUM 
PROVINCIAL MENS PODIUM 
PROVINCIAL WOMENS PODIUM WIIIIKED MON! FEB 27th Well Here is the start of the Spring Blitz as we like to call it. This weekend 4 of the Icarus Shreducatino riders were invited to compete in the RED BULL Crystal at Mt Tremblant. Unfortuantely only two of them can make it, While Zak and Josh are stuck in Cali rippinn it down there Scot and Harry will competing against the likes of 40 invited only riders for 20,000.00 $ Not bad. Well see how they fend against boys like TJ Schnieder and Seb Toots. For event info check out www.redbull.ca/crystal The Rest of the crew will be competing in The Blue Mountain You look Good www.youlookgood.ca to win some dough and qualify for the Canadian National Champs. Also on Sunday will be the Ontario Provincial Champs at Alpine ski club, which means Scot, Harry and I have to haul our asses back from Quebec and be completely spent for that bad boy... Great! Non Stop. Sooner or later I will get a chance to unpack my bags. Hopefully. Upcoming events for the rest of the Season include: Telus Triple Challenge, USSA Grand Prix, Burton US Open, Canadian National Chapionships, Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival, West Coast Invitational, Grenade Games, Super Park , Transworld Team Challenge and the Burton Abonible Snow Jam. Feb 25th 2008 After a week in Cow Town were Back. Thank fod as that place is dusty and dry and if your competing at C.O.P your usually stuck at the FOur Points on the side of the highway hating life. There were 12 athletes that attended that contest and rode thier asses off. Super stoked on everyones performance. Congrats to Calynn Irwin who qualified for the Wrld Cup this coming weekend. That make 3 of our Athletes competing in the World cup this weekend. Not bad huh? Good luck to Jeff Batchelor, Calynn Irwin and Brad Martin. Feb 23rd.
 Well were her in Calgary at the Nor AM trying to score some FIS points and such. The team is riding well. Harry qualified 3rd but slammed hard in the finals. Antoine was at it aswell. Palmer after 2 consecutive knee surgeries powered back into the circuit and finished fifth along with Caylynn Irwin in sixth. Also big news was Icarus Shreducation and Icarus Skate and Snow team member Jeff Batchelor finishing second at the World cup in Japan. Cograts to the Batch and well see him soon for triple challenge at Blue Mountain for the 6th of March. Giddeup. Feb 10th. Well Wholy Shit! Scot Brown kills it at the Honda Session in Vail Colorado. After being invited to the contest as one of the 4 FLOW pro team riders along with Tim Humphries and Scotty Lago the defined Mr. Brown goes down there and Whoops ass! Good for you Scotty. Were always stoked on how our riders do especially when it is at one of the worlds biggest events. BOOYA! Check out the links below for more of the slabtown boys story. You can also watch the rail finals at: www.go211.com www.futuresnowboarding.com/2008/02/sessions-rail-comp http://www.sessionvail.com/ 
January 17th After Zak killed it at the BEO ( Burton European Open) we are getting tired. This contest wears on you since there are no rest days from the time you get here until the time you get back home. Check out go211.com for live feed of the BEO and a sick site overall. Zaks winning info right here : http://www.futuresnowboarding.com/2008/01/beo-junior-pipe-results. Its Minishhreds birthday today so were going to rock a fondue party at the coaches place and eat some swiss chocolate. Cool sites to follow the BEO are www.futuresnowboarding.com, go211.com and of course opensnowboarding.com January 7, 2008 - Tomorrow morning we're off to Laax Switzerland with the Shreducation team to compete in the infmous Burton European Open. We are excited for the trip but not the day of travelling on 2, planes, 2 trains, a car and a bus to get there..... Oh and lets not forget the 7 hours of crappy ass layovers. I see a presidents club membership in my near future to help pass the time in the Airport. On this trip we have our new Team manager Dez Price joining us for the adventure along with The Shreducation T.V. crew and the boys... Zak , Bruno, Harry, jake, Josh, Garret, Anthony and MiniShred! December 18, 2007 - Ok friends...if you haven't already joined "we all just love shreducation" group on Facebook you STILL HAVE TIME. We now have over 1000 members and we're still growing! The buzz is catching and everyone so far seems to love what we're doing....now how do we get rich from this....hmmmmmm. www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6085738385 > Check out Mini-Shred (Taylor Watling) being held high by Danny Davis, Luke Mitrani,
Mason Aguirre, Shayne Posposil and Scotty Lago December 16, 2007 - Back from a 1 week training trip in Colarado with the Icarus Crew. Here are some pics of us tearing up the park and getting some press while we're at it. www.transworlsnowboarding/snow/photos/slideshow/0,26821,1695235-8,00.html www.futuresnowboarding.com/2007/12/breck-gp-warms-up December 10, 2007 - Well...here is the brand new (and improved) Icarus Shreducation website. We've brought together some of the country's leading talent to redesign and enhance our website. With the creative direction of Carlos Alonso and the wonderful people at Terra Nova Concepts, Inc. we've been able to bring our vision into reality by showcasing the awesome young talent that is the Icarus Shreducation Crew. Additionally, we've connected our site to www.shreducation.tv which features sneak peaks from each episode of our new Reality TV show "Shreducation". This show is being aired on The Score Network in Canada every Tuesday at 6:30PM EST. Check it out and if you like it let the Network know. We're working towards getting the show picked up in the US and Europe soon as well. 
Minishred being held high by the FRENDS crew. Danny, Luke, Masenutz, Shayne and Scotty. |
