Bear cub rubs a dub while sippin on bub

Hello fearless comrade! Aight so Russia ain’t really like that anymore, I mean some of it is, but for the most part it is a thriving place with lots of good old fashioned American capitalism. And hey guess what? Yes, you got it I got a chance to go there to mountainboard up a storm.
I arrived with a million sketchy dudes asking me if I needed a taxi and I was like, ”naw mang I gotz me a whip to scrape up wif dem whips near by.” I’m sure they had no idea what I was saying. My boi 2netz, the main mang in Russia for mountainboarding, picked me up on a beautiful day in Moscow. I had the feeling this was gonna be a good trip.
We scoped out the venue and I must say I was impressed. The contest was called the Adrenalin Games, which featured skateboarding, bmx, rollerblading, wakeboarding, and mountainboarding along with bands and other fun stuff for the kids. It took place in an ice speed skating rink where the Olympic team trains. Pretty legit and so was the ramp set up. It was what has become standard big air set up in mountainboarding in an urban or flat setting. We are talking about a wooden 20 ft.ish roll-in with 20-24 ft. jump and roll-in esque quarterpipe just for good measure. We gave our input to what we wanted to see how and big we wanted to go then we bounced from that Igloo.
The contest was two days with prelims the first day and the finals the next. The prelims consisted of 3 jumps with the two best runs getting peeps through to the next round. I qualified second after the Siberian Cowboy. Most of the time I got use to the set up which was actually pretty amazing. I was stoked to be in an indoor stadium along with the other sports and young, hip crowd chillin out. I felt like a rockstar getting backstage to all kinda places and hanging with big name skateboarders. All the sports killed it on the street course and the flatland bmxers showed what was up with balance. I neva got to see the wakeboarders but I must say they must have been gnarly for the cold conditions during that time of year. Just a bunch of baaaaaad men.
The finals were a heated affair with the 8 best riders doing their best stuff. The Siberian Cowboy was a beast throwing his stuff down with solid style on every run. Local heroes Oleg Melnikov, Alexander Pavlov and Pasha Peshin defiantly showed the progression that was happening in Russia with switch backflips, frontside inverted 5s, cab 3s, frontflip backside 180s and tons of styles to keep the crowd cheering. I had two tricks landed and two tricks I fell on and it came down to the last run. I was the last rider to go and simply said to myself,” I’m landing this niz straight bolts.” I rode away from a frontside 7 and then slipped out on a backflip on the quarterpipe. It’s whatev cuz I was stoked to land the 7 with clean steeze.
The results were Pasha Peshin third, Siberian Cowboy second, and me in first. After all that turmoil in Europe this summer it was great to go back to Russia for this awesome event and even better to take home the W. I gotta send love to all my friends that be livin in Russia, 2netz for driving me around all of the place and most of all the 1-5 click for givin me the passion again for mountainboarding. We gonna be shralppin your hood so ya’ll be good and u will be understood.

Bear cub