Keith Brouillette, Samm Denena and the Simple snowboarding team dominated the weekends podiums at the Horseshoe TTR AOS Halfpipe and the Fathom TTR AOS Rail Snow events last weekend.  Keith and Samm both took back to back victories in both the open mens, womens and overall categories.  Simple Snowboarding walked away with another 16 Podiums (9 at Horseshoe, 7 at Craigleith) after a solid weekend of competition.

Simple's Keith Brouillette raises his Nitro Snowboard at the top of the men's podium for the second day running, Simple's Jono Skelton at left in 5th, Mike Rotsaert at Far Right in 4th

Simple's Samm Denena with another overall win and Paycheque!

The Fathom Rail Snow saw a solid turn out and a beautiful, if somewhat cold day.  The complete opposite of the windy and snowy conditions at Horseshoe the day before.  The competition format was a new one that ended up evolving into a morning Rail Jam on the upper two features, finishing with a Big Air on the bottom jumps.  Michael Rotsaert, Mikey Ciccarelli, Tyler Nicholson,Tim Crighton, Jono Skelton, Coulton Conway and Samm Denena all laid down a barrage of tech tricks but it was Keith Brouillette’s 180 press, change up press spin out that took the top spot in the Jam.  Little Riley Dillon and Becca Ballantyne took to the rail section and pushed themselves on the set-up, with Riley attempting some extremely difficult switch 50-50 gap switch boardslides!

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Simple Snowboarding team members out-rode the rest of the field at the Horseshoe AOS TTR 1 Star Halfpipe event this last weekend.  Keith Brouillette and Samm Denena walked away with the open Mens, Womens and Overall titles on a windy poor-weather day at Horseshoe.  The entire field rode well despite the testing conditions and everyone had a great day riding and competing. Michael Rotsaert ended up in 3rd place while the13-15 Podium was a clean sweep for Simple With Mikey Ciccarelli, Tyler Nicholson and Coulton Conway rounding out the field…

Simple's Keith Brouillette takes the win in the open mens closely followed by Michael Rotsaert in 3rd

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Men's Overall Podium 2nd Place Simple's Tyler Nicholson

Women's Overall Podium, 1st Place Simple's Samm Denena

86 riders descended on the Beaver Valley Terrain Park to do Battle in the Beaver Valley Park Brawl today.  Despite the freezing temperatures, the sun was shining keeping everyone stoked to spin, tap, slide and flip down the hill all in pursuit of cash and a whole lot of loot!  With the newly introduced judging format where all riders are scored on the same judging scale, there was an assorted mix of heights, weights and ages in the final where 110 pound thirteen year olds, battled it out with 26 year olds hoping to secure a share of the $1000 in Prize Money put up by sponsors Simple Snowboarding and SBC Snowboard Canada.

Simple Snowboarding’s 15 year old Tyler Nicholson Lead the way for almost the entire event out-qualifying the field for the finals, just getting pushed into second overall on the last (more…)

Team Rider Trevor Niblett just got back from the FIS NorAm in Calgary where he finished in 6th in the Superpipe and 5th in the Slopestyle events.  As a result he received a starting spot in the upcoming FIS World Cup Pipe and Slopestyle events.  Well done Trev! (more…)