Skate Practice & Colorado Daily Cover Page!

Happy Friday!

The First Skate Practice
On Monday, the teamsters headed out to Broomfield skatepark for the first skate practice this year. Skate coach Steve Pleines drove the team van full of 12 riders to the park, including 3 beginners.

The Broomfield skatepark is full of fun boxes and bowls, the team spent a good 3 hours hitting all the features and practiced our filming and photography.

We practiced follow cams and worked with different angles to produce the best footage, and next skate practice we will begin actual filming for our skate edit. If you are wanting to be in the edit, or learn how to skate, come to skate practice! The next practice will be announced at the next meeting.

Everyone had a great time, but there was one injury. Of course, it was me... who else?

I decided to pick a fight with a mini ramp and lost. Landed on my hand and hyper-extended my elbow. Like a champ. Here is a picture from 3 days later, the bruise is a bit healed up but still pretty gnarly.

TONIGHT is the MAGIC MOVIE and BACK TO THE BONEYARD movie premier

7:00pm in Math 100 for only 5 bucks be there!
Facebook Event Page

The CUST Double Feature is this Monday! September 27, 2010
Doors at 7:30pm premiers drop at 8:00pm in Chem 140

If you haven't yet, I would suggest you pick up a copy of the Colorado Daily.

On the cover page is our own team rider Seth Hill, and we have a whole page artical in the sports section!

The premier is Monday and it is F-R-E-E-!!!

Come see 4Reel Media's DUB Reel and the 2009-2010 season team edit "Degrees"

Check out the Facebook Page for teasers and more information.
What else do you have to do? Come get rowdy with us!

Also, it is our Media Director, Lani Finer's birthday, come celebrate with us after the premier, more information to be released at the premier.

It's going to be a great weekend, see you guys there!
-Kaily B

Snowboard on the Rocks

Let me recap the event for those of you who were unfortunate enough to miss it.

Snowboard on the Rocks made history Friday night, taking over Red Rocks for the first time ever! The night consisted of crazy shenanigans, with live performances from Bukue One, London Dungeon, DEL, and the Cool Kids! Not to mention movies from three great production companies, Standard Films, Think Thank, and Colorado's own Never Summer.



This whole event was put on by four of the coolest people I know, Adam Schmidt, Andrew Heard, Carissa Bisnar, and Pat Milbery, but they couldn't have done it with out the huge support group and dozens of people willing to help out. Congratulations on a successful event!

The team started off the night with an awesome BBQ at Sam Bell's house. Everyone was there, and it was a great opportunity to meet all the other teamsters before we headed off to the show.

We had the COOLEST bus driver ever, Mike Alan, who transported 37 members to Red Rocks. Yes, we rode a school bus to Red Rocks. Badass.


"Y'all were a dope ass group" Mike told me later.



The bus ride was awesome, full of rowdy kids stoked to see this ground-breaking event.

When CUST arrived, everyone snagged a spot in the front 5 rows of the venue, a prime location to watch the premiers.

It was pretty crazy to be able to walk down any of the first 5 rows and run in to a bunch of CUST members. We took over! During the musical acts, everyone was dancing and singing along - even if they didn't know the words. A sea of hands bounced to the beat with over 6,000 people in the venue; it was UNREAL.

Lani and I got to hang out back stage which was really cool. We even got to watch skate coach Steve Pleines in Never Summer's MIA from behind the screen, so everything played backwards. With The Cool Kids of course. Kind of a big deal.

Steve asked me later, "Did you see me on the big screen??" He could barely contain his excitement.
He said, "It was really rewarding to see myself as a rider in front of all those people. Especially to be associated with some of the bigger names like Ryan Cruze and Cooper Hoffmeister."

We couldn't be more stoked for him.

After MIA, Think Thanks film Right Brain, Left Brain played. Pat Milbery and the crew slayed on the big screen. Pat sat out in the crowd so he could watch his part, backstage we could hear his excited voice over the radio.

Pat told me, "Watching my video part at Red Rocks was one of the coolest feelings I have experienced yet. Especially after all the hard work it takes to put a video part together that you are proud to be [a] representative of. Thanks for all the support Colorado!"

And of course, I got to meet my idol, snowboarding legend Torstein Horgmo aka Mr. Triple Cork! He was a little underspoken on stage, but that didn't mean that everyone wasn't hanging on every word he said. You could definitely see the vast amounts of respect everyone else on stage had for him as they watched him speak to the crowd.

Torstein introduced Standard Films, The Storming, and all we could do was watch the huge screen with awe. I was absolutely blown away by his raw talent and pure skill... and the crowd was nearly silent at the end of his video part, in anticipation of the first triple cork caught on film in snowboarding history.

I think the show prepared everyone for the 2010-2011 season, this season is going to be the best yet. The crew was ready to head back to Boulder, but not before a potty break!

The bus ride back echoed with CUST members sharing their stories from the show, and discussing what their favorite parts were.

Overall, the event was breath taking, and CUST was glad to take part in it. For all of you that missed it, this event marked the first of many snowboarding events to take place at Red Rocks, one of the best venues in the world. So there is always next year...

In other news...
TONIGHT is the first Skate Practice with our own big screen celebrity Steve Pleines. Come get his autograph, haha.
We are meeting at Satellite at 6pm, and carpooling over to the Longmont skatepark. The lights stay on until 10pm so expect to be back in Boulder by 10:30pm, if not earlier.
Any questions contact Steve or myself. See you tonight!
Steve - (339) 793-1812
Kaily - (303) 408-9487


It is the start of a great year! Can't wait for more fun times.

Kaily B
CUST Social Media and Secretary

FIRST MEETING AND AFTERPARTY!

Tomorrow night is the first informational CUST meeting at 7pm.

We are all so excited to meet the new shredders. Come meet all of the Board of Directors, Coaches, and Captains, and have an opportunity to win free stuff. Find out more about the team and ask whatever questions you may have.
You don't want to miss this we are giving away a FREE SNOWBOARD.

We will be selling Snowboard on the Rocks tickets for only $20
Information will be released about the pregame BBQ Kegger as well. GET STOKED

There is also a huge SALE and AFTERPARTY at Satellite boardshop exclusive to the snowboard team. At the meeting you will get all the details, it's Thirsty Thursday!


One last announcement for this blog.
THE FIRST SKATE PRACTICE IS THIS MONDAY
more information will be released tomorrow night at the meeting

See you all tomorrow night :)
-Kaily Blackburn C.U.S.T. Secretary

It's premier season!

FINALLY! It is premier season, what better way is there to get hyped for the ski season? There are so many HUGE premiers dropppin within the next few weeks that you do not want to miss. Here are some of the ones I highly suggest you attend. I'll get right in to the good stuff happening this week.

Gawn Git Suum Wit Us 09/14/10 doors open at 7pm
The Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO

I have been stoked for this movie since the beginning of last year, Nathan Minatta is a ski/snowboard film prodigy. Featured in the film are our own CUST Team riders Seth Hill, Corbin Clement, Joey Dryer, Sam Bell, and a few shots from others. (one shot of me! haha)
Check out the trailer, get your tickets, get stoked! See you all there!

Skeptic Productions Teaser - Gawn Git Suum Wit Us from Nathan Minatta on Vimeo.

Next up is the biggest world premier snowboarding has ever seen. Or should I say "premiers." And the venue? A ginormous outdoor amphitheatre carved into beautiful red stone. Red Rocks!!!

Snowboard on the Rocks 09/17/10 doors open at 5:30pm

There will also be awesome musical acts, such as DEL and The Cool Kids - who I am pretty excited to see! They are giving away tons of free product at the event, including a free lift ticket to Echo Mtn Park with every purchase of a Snowboard on the Rocks ticket. THIS EVENT WILL MAKE HISTORY and I strongly suggest you don't put off purchasing your ticket. Tickets can be purchased through CUST for only $20, avoiding any convenience fees you would have pay from buying them online. Contact me on facebook if you still need a ticket.


Check out the trailers if you haven't already.
Neversummer's Made in America

Our own rider and skate coach Steve Pleines is in this film, and we couldn't be any more excited for him!

MIA Teaser 1 from Never Summer on Vimeo.

Think Thank's Right Brain and Left Brain

Right Brain Left Brain trailer from Jesse Burtner on Vimeo.

Standard Film's The Storming

STANDARD FILMS: The Storming Trailer from Lib Tech on Vimeo.