End of a Season…

April 17th, 2012

There wasn’t a lot of Snow this year, but we still made the most of it… Check out a Sample of Simple Snowboarding’s Winter…

Quiksilver Downlow Heats up at Louis

March 30th, 2012

(Photos left to right: Andy Stewart, Craig Gouweloos, Kevin Scriver)

The Quiksilver Downlow finished up the season at MSLM on Sunday March the 18th in 22 degree weather.  It was once again the Kevin show with Simple Snowboarding coach Kevin Scriver battling 3 time winner Kevin Konings.  Simple Snowboarding coach Craig Gouweloos was in hot pursuit however and pushed hard all day in the modified Behemoth sized park features all built by Mt. St. Louis-Moonstone’s master park shaper Craig Burley.

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Horseshoe Open… Primrose, Gouweloos and Crighton Podium

March 30th, 2012

Craig and Christian took out the top two spots on the Big Air podium

The Horseshoe Open Simple Snowboarding’s Christian Primrose put his season of training to work and took out the Horseshoe Open big air with some double backside 1080s and a double backflip thrown in for good measure.  Christian was battling with one of his coaches, Craig Gouweloos who earlier in Read More…

Jones Soda Provincial Champs

March 30th, 2012

Jesse Loucks with a Jones Soda Celebration after 2 wins at the Provincial Champs

The AOS Provincials aka “The Jones Champs” Took place at Moonstone over the last weekend.  Tough weather conditions forced a double up event on Sunday with back to back Halfpipe and Slopestyle events.  It was a bright Sunny day but extremely Icy and all the competitors did well to stay on their feet and walk away from the day uninjured.  Jesse Loucks was the top performer from Simple with a Boardslide to Switch, Switch Backside 5, Huge Backside 7, Read More…

1st, 2nd, 3rd at Canadian Shield in Calgary!

February 29th, 2012

Simple Snowboarding coach Craig Gouweloos took out both the best trick and the Pro mens Win at the Canadian Shield Calgary stop over the past weekend.  Simple Snowboarding team members Mike Rotsaert and Natalie Allport also found themselves on the podium with a 2nd in the Pro Womens for Nat and Mike Joining Craig on the podium for a 3rd place spot.  Craig threw down a Switch back 5 Mute, Backside 900 Stalefish (Taking out best trick), Cab 9 Melon, 5050 Front 3 into the bank, Front blunt 270 out.  Mike threw a Switch back 5, Cork Back 7 Indy, Front 7 Melon, Front Lip Popover, C-wood Shuffle

Coach Craig Gouweloos 1st (Centre) Mike Rotsaert 3rd (Right)

Check the SBC Report HERE

Check the Push.ca Report HERE

Coulton Conway finishes 2nd at World Rookie Fest

February 29th, 2012

Simple Snowboarding’s Coulton Conway once again stepped up to the podium at the World Rookie Fest at Horseshoe this past weekend.  Congrat’s Little man!

Check the Push.ca report HERE

Simple Groms Pepper the Podium again!

February 20th, 2012

Coach Kevin Scriver with Riley, Cole, Liam, Becca, Reece, Brandon, Winston and Kiran at Alpine Ski Club

The Simple Snowboarding Grom team was all over the podium at the Alpine Superpipe stop of the Grom Series.  The crew spent a few days learning to ride pipe with Kevin in the Junkyard Mini pipe and Outback Superpipe at Louis before heading over to Alpine.

Congratulations to the following team members:

Kiran Pershad 1st Boys 11-12

Reece Crook 3rd Boys 11-12

Becca Ballantyne 2nd Girls 11-12

Riley Dillon 1st Boys 9-10

Liam Brearley 2nd Boys 8 and under

Cole Silverthorne 3rd Boys 8 and under

Coulton Conway takes out the MVP Title at the Vans Big Air Series Ontario Stop!

February 18th, 2012

Simple Snowboarding’s 14 year old Coulton Conway put a lot of the older riders on notice at the Van’s Big Air series at Horseshoe Resort today. Coulton tore up the park with a Cab Cork 5, Back cork 5, Frontside 360 true nose, Front 1 on Switch Back 1 out, Cab 270 and a Back Lip… All done with Coulton’s signature super smooth style.. Congrats Coco!!

Coulton with another novelty Cheque.. A blank one!

CoCo took the following awards along with some extra cash for some other tricks on the jumps:
M.V.P.
1st in the Rail Jam
Best Switch Method

You can check out the Vans report HERE and the SBC Report HERE

Check the Video from the event below:

Armed:Tim Crighton

February 18th, 2012

Check out Tim’s gear for the Winter.. Tim Rides for Flow, Billabong, Von Zipper and Fathom..

Tyler Nicholson Early Season Footage..

February 13th, 2012

Check out some footage of Tyler riding at Keystone, Breck and home base MSLM so far this season…