Adult Team Riders

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Founding Members:

Name: Jill "Shredder" Cohen
Age: 42
Favorite Riding Sports: Snowboarding & surfing
Favorite Mountain: The Canyons, Park City, Utah
Favorite Trick: Just going down the hill!
Favorite Food: Chocolate
Favorite Band: OAR
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Name: Wayne “Cobra” Cohen
Age: 43
Favorite Riding Sports: Snowboarding, surfing, kiteboarding & skateboarding
Favorite Mountain: The Canyons, Park City, Utah
Favorite Trick: Method. But also going steep and deep.
Favorite Food: Chinese. Definitely Chinese. Kung Pao Shrimp
Favorite Cartoon: Lost World
Competition Results:

2/2/08 PBR/Ski Center Rail Jam
1st Place (Boarders 40 & Over Division)
1/26/08 Whitetail Under the Sun Rail Jam
3rd Place (22 & Over Division)
1/5/08 Whitetail Rail Jam
1st Place (40 & Over Division)
2/23/07 USASA Bordercross

1st Place (Legends Men Division)
2/10/07 Ski Liberty Big Air Competition
1st Place (40 & Over Division)

Sponsor: H2Air
Quote: "I love to ride - last year I did 50 days surfing and 32 days on the mountain. How awesome is that?"
Videos: Click here to see Cobra's YouTube videos!

Cobra started riding with Suggs (below) when he was 12 years old in 1978. Cobra rides goofy, and in 2007 won his division for bordercross in the 40 & over division of the Mason Dixon Series of the USASA.
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Name: Scott "Uncle Buck" Jorss
Age: 46
Favorite Riding Sports: Snowboarding, surfing (but only on Walden) & skateboarding (but only longboarding)
Favorite Mountain: The Canyons, Park City, Utah
Favorite Trick: Nose roll
Favorite Food: Porterhouse steak...no veggies like Cobra
Favorite Band: U2
Competition Results: 2/2/08 PBR/Ski Center Rail Jam
2nd Place (Boarders 40 & Over Division)
1/5/08 Whitetail Rail Jam

2nd Place (40 & Over Division)
Quote: "Bring it hard or don't bring it here."
Video: Click here to see Uncle Buck's YouTube video!
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Name: Greg "Suggs" Miller
Age: 45
Favorite Riding Sports: Surfing, snowboarding & skateboarding
Favorite Surf Spot: Namotu Island, Fiji
Favorite Mountain: Heli at Whistler .
Favorite Skate Park: Suggs Skatepark
Favorite Food:: Fish (No Sharks!)
Team: K-Coast's Longboard Challenge Team
Competition Results:

3/2/08 Whitetail Boardercross
2nd Place (31 & Over Division)
2/2/08 PBR/Ski Center Rail Jam

3rd Place Tie (Boarders 40 & Over Division)

Quote: "My wave!"
Suggs has been snowboarding for 28 years and surfing for 25. He's known as a hard-core inland surfer and became a soul-surfer while living in Santa Barbara in the 1980's.
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Adult Team Riders:

Name: Natalie "Noodles" Bowers
Age: 18
Favorite Sports: Snowboarding and skimboarding
Favorite Trick: (Grab) Melon
Favorite Band: AC DC
Competition Results: 3rd Burton Boarder X
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Name: Beny Christakis
Age: 40
Favorite Riding Sport: Snowboarding
Favorite Mountain: Monashee Backcountry
Favorite Trick: Stale Fish 360
Favorite Food: Sushi
Favorite Band: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Quotes: "Drive it like you stole it!" and "No friends on a powder day."
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Name: Scott "Scuzzy" Clarke
Age: 40
Favorite Riding Sport: Skiing
Favorite Mountain: Jay Peak
Favorite Food: Yes!
Favorite Band: The Cult
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Name: Tony "Guns" D'Angelo
Age: 43
Favorite Sports:: Surfing and SUP
Favorite Surf Spot: Indian River Inlet, DE
Favorite Food: Coffee
Favorite Band: Motley Crue and Frank Sinatra
Favorite Quote: "Leave the gun, take the cannoli."
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Name:
Ryan "Flava Fabe" Faber
Age:
25
Favorite Riding Sports:
Surfing & skiing
Favorite Other Sports:
Mountain biking, ATVing, salt water fishing
Favorite Mountain:
Still Searching
Favorite Surf Spot:
Nauset Inlet, Cape Cod
Favorite Food:
Seafood
Favorite Band:
A.F.I.
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Name:
Matt Fitzgerald
Age:
42
Favorite Riding Sports:
Snowboarding & surfing
Favorite Mountain:
The Canyons & Solitude
Favorite Surf Spot:
Little Hawaii, The Rivermounth - Guanacaste, Costa Yoco, & Ocean City, MD
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Name: Jon "Curly" Halle
Age: 40
Favorite Riding Sports: Surfing, skimboarding, skiing & wakeboarding
Favorite Mountain: Rockies
Favorite Skate Park: Streets
Favorite Surf Spot: Ocean City, MD
Favorite Trick: Back Scratcher
Favorite Food: Seafood
Favorite Band: Bob Marley
Quote: "No worries."
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Name: Luke Hopkins
Age: 31
Favorite Riding Sports: Paddlesurfing, kiteboarding, and snowboarding
Favorite Mountain: Jay Peak
Favorite Surf Spot:

Skookumchuck British Columbia

Favorite Trick: Still searching for the moment and the move combination
Favorite Food: Louisiana Sushi
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Name: Kenny Inouye
Age: 45
Favorite Riding Sport: Skateboarding
Favorite Skate Park: Cherry Hill
Favorite Food: Japanese or Ethiopian
Favorite Band: Bad Brains
Quote: "This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
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Name: Sarah "SJ" Jones
Age: 29
Favorite Sports: Surfing and Diving
Favorite Surf Spot: Honolua Bay, HI
Favorite Trick: Headstand on longboard
Favorite Food: Mexican
Favorite Band: Dropkick Murphys
Quote: "Man, I shoulda just said 'yeah' ". - Mitch Hedberg
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Name: Howard "Tiny" Kandel
Age: 44
Favorite Sports: Skiing and Stand Up Paddle Boarding
Favorite Mountain: Snow Bird
Favorite Trick: Not getting hurt :)
Favorite Food: Pizza
Favorite Band: Incubus
Quote: "How come my kids are getting older and I'm not?"
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Name: Mitchell "Stinger" LaBorwit
Age: 43
Favorite Riding Sports: Snowboarding, kiteboarding & skateboarding
Favorite Mountain: Aspen Highlands
Favorite Skate Park: Olney Park
Favorite Surf Spot: Outer Banks, NC
Favorite Trick: Rock and roll grinds
Favorite Food: Pizza
Favorite Band: Nickelback
Quote: "Live to ride - ride to live."
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Name:
Norm "G-Pop" Miller
Age:
72 years young!
Favorite Riding Sports:
Skiing & body surfing
Favorite Mountain:
Mount Baker, Washington
Favorite Trick:
Mute grab backflip
Favorite Food:
Oysters
Favorite Dog:
Black Lab
Favorite Band:
Elvis Costello
Quote:
"Speed kills and injures you."
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Name:
Brett "Tski" Orlove
Age:
44
Favorite Riding Sport:
Snowboarding
Favorite Mountain:
Beaver Creek
Favorite Skate Park:
Palace 5ive
Favorite Trick:
Landing
Favorite Food:
Sushi
Favorite Band:
Grateful Dead
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Name: Steve "Pape" Papermaster
Age: 42
Favorite Riding Sports: Snowboarding & skateboarding
Favorite Mountain: Jackson
Favorite Skate Park: Rockville
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Name: Dan "Poop" Pupek
Age: 39
Favorite Riding Sports: Snowboarding and skateboarding
Favorite Mountain: All of 'em!
Favorite Skate Park All of 'em!
Favorite Trick: Boned out stalefish
Favorite Food: Mac-n-cheese
Favorite Band: Metallica
Quote: "It is what it is."
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Name: Hunter "Rudy" Rudasill
Age: 30
Favorite Riding Sports: Surfing and Stand Up Paddle Boarding
Favorite Surf Spot: North End, VA Beach
Favorite Food: Seafood
Favorite Band: Donavan Frankenreiter
Quote: "Livin' the dream."
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Name:
Robert "Bobby" Seal
Age:
19
Favorite Riding Sports:
Snowboarding & skateboarding
Favorite Mountain:
Breckenridge, Colorado
Favorite Skate Park:
Ocean Bowl
Favorite Trick:
Handplant
Favorite Food:
Pepperoni pizza
Favorite Band:
The Strokes
Quote:
"No fear."
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Name:
Matt See
Age:
28
Favorite Riding Sports:
Skiing
Favorite Mountain:
Whitetail
Favorite Food:
Hot Wings and Chinese Food
Favorite Band:
Dave Matthews Band
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Name: Chris "Spike" Shanahan
Age: 44
Favorite Riding Sports: Surfing, snowboarding, & skateboarding
Favorite Mountain: Magic
Favorite Surf Spot: Hatteras
Favorite Trick: Pigdog-switch in the tube
Favorite Food: Breakfast
Favorite Band: Lauren Glick Band
Quote: "Never go left on a wave that breaks right."

Spike has been surfing since age 11. He is a long time ESA member and also a co-owner of K-Coast Surf Shop in Ocean City, Maryland.
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Name:
Scott "Water Wookiee" Shenton
Age:
35
Favorite Sport: Snowboarding, surfing, skateboarding, diving and fishing
Favorite Mountain:
The one under my feet
Favorite Surf Spot:
Rodanthe Pier
Favorite Trick:
Drop knee cutback
Favorite Food:
Crabs
Favorite Band:
Pink Floyd and Tool
Quote:
"Exercising my constitutionally protected right to be awesome."
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Name: Eric "Hannibal" Siegel
Age: 45
Favorite Riding Sport: Snowboarding
Favorite Mountain: Snowmass, Colorado
Favorite Trick: Staying up!
Favorite Food: Steak
Favorite Band: Guster
Quote: "Make love, not war."
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Name:
Brad "Bomber" Stearns
Age:
53
Favorite Riding Sports:
Snowboarding & skateboarding
Favorite Mountain:
Whitetail
Favorite Skate Park:
Columbia Skate Park
Favorite Surf Spot:
Emeral Isle, NC
Favorite Trick:
Backside 180
Favorite Food:
Pizza
Favorite Band:
The Doors
Competition Results:
2/2/08 PBR/Ski Center Rail Jam
3rd Place Tie (Boarders 40 & Over Division)
Quotes:
"If the slopes are open, I'm there!"
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Name:
Brendan "B-String" Stringer
Age:
19
Favorite Riding Sports:
Snowboarding, surfing & skimboarding
Favorite Mountains:
Snowshoe, WV & Mount Tremblant
Favorite Tricks:
Noseslide & sack tap
Favorite Food:
Chinese
Favorite Bands:
7L & Esoteric
Quote:
"Watch me dude watch me."
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Name:
Melanie "Monkey" Webb
Age:
35
Favorite Sport:
Snowboarding and SUP
Favorite Mountain:
The Canyons
Favorite Trick:
Method
Favorite Food:
Ice Cream
Favorite Band:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Favorite Quote:
"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it, begin it now!
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Name:
Steve "W-Bomb" Weisbaum
Age:
46
Favorite Riding Sports:
Snowboarding, skateboarding & skiing
Favorite Mountain:
Jackson Hole
Favorite Skate Park:
GM Half-Pipe, Potomac, MD
Favorite Surf Spot:
Outer Banks, NC
Favorite Trick:
Skiing on consecutive days
Favorite Food:
Roys
Favorite Band:
Beatles
Quote:
"That looks steep."
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Name: Ryan "Wibbs" Wibberley
Age: 37
Favorite Riding Sports: Snowboarding, surfing & skateboarding
Favorite Mountain: Kirkwood, Lake Tahoe
Favorite Skate Park: Suggs Skate Park
Favorite Surf Spot: Zippers, Baja Sur
Favorite Trick: Avoiding exposed reef and rocks
Favorite Food: Italian
Favorite Band: Foo Fighters
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Name:
Gary "Gonzo" Williams
Age:
39
Favorite Sport: Surfing
Favorite Surf Spot:
San Diego, CA
Favorite Food:
Chocolate Chip Cookies
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