Saturday, December 27, 2008

Arctic Blast of 2008


As many of you know the Northwest and most of the country got hit with a few slam'n storms.  Portland was buried with about a foot and a half of snow, and there is about three feet at my house.  The snow amounts are amazing.  Of coarse with all that snow, we are flocking from the mountain to the city to go snowboarding.  While the folks of Portland aren't leaving their homes, the mountain has been dead.  The people of Portland find the urban snowboarding to be interesting, unlike the Salt Lake folks. The Rome boys were nice enough to let me tag along on their trips around town, offering a few words of encouragement.  My friend Halo was awesome enough to shoot the attached photo.  Thanks to my homies for the support.


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Tokidoki Party






On Dec. 5th, Evo and Ride Snowboards held a party to celebrate the Tokidoki series that was created for Ride.  I've never heard of Tokidoki until I received a Tokidoki board from Ride, but there are lots of other people who know who Tokidoki is.  There was a line out of the gallery into the shop to get a signature from the artist.  The artist is Italian, but has made his success on animated Japanese style art.  There was an awesome crew of people up there.  Some of the attendants were Pat, the Sweeny twins, Dan, Kyle, Austin and Austin, Chris, Molly, Justin and the rest of the Evo crew.  There was free beer and  and lots of happy faces.  Many good times.


Monday, December 1, 2008

Back Yard Bangerer at Timberline



On Sat the 22nd, the back yard bang took place in Portland as did an early season jib session at Timberline.  With the way things worked out, and for better reasoning, I attended the jib session at Timberline. The event turned out to be a blast.  It was great to see lots of familiar faces.  Epic snowboards was there, Nick the local DC rep, lots of ladies (Amanda, Lauren, Destiny, Christine, Krysta, Julia, and more), and local homies.  The atmosphere was chill and the box was fun. It was great to ride with lots of friends and I am grateful for the experience.  I would have loved to have had the chance to ride along side my good friend, Megan Ginter, at the Back Yard Bang, but instead I can be proud to say that she took first place at the event. Cheers to Megan!!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Stronger

This is  short video to show what I've been up to in Colorado this mid November.  I've been trying to get back on my snowboard after breaking my neck this summer.  Thanks to Diana Sciandra Distrola and ShredBetties.com I was able to pull this footage together in a few days.  

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Back on Snowboard


For those of you that don't know who I am, my name is Randa Shahin.  I have been snowboarding on Mt. Hood for that last 6 years and have had my fair share of snowboard trips around the U.S. and overseas. This past June, I broke my neck over shooting a jump.  It was the first day of the summer and my last day of the summer.  I had to wear a halo on my head for 4 months.  Thankfully, the halo came off my head Oct. 15th.  Now I'm shredding it up in Colorado. Colorado appealed to me because they usually have a good early season jump start.  I wasn't sure what the stability of my neck would be so I expected to just ride around and appreciate being on a board.  Amazingly, I am doing way better than I expected.  I have been able to stomp most of my stock tricks on rails and even learned a new trick today.  It's official, I'm back in the game. My goal is to be 100% by the first of the new year.  At this rate, maybe even sooner.  Thank you to all of my friends, family, and sponsors that have supported me through my injury.  Something so traumatic turned out to be a positive experience in my life.