Come to San Francisco for a race through Golden Gate Park, on 1/28/2012. This is an event for every one of every skill level and their grandmothers. Dodge iBlivious yoggers, swerve ‘n’ curve ‘round the resident crackheads and push passed the buffalos down to the BBQ at da beach. Invite your friends; this event is for the community. Prize giveaways for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

After winter starts and all the golf courses are closed there’s only one option left for Ontario shredders, and that’s to have a Winter Slide Jam. A day dedicated to tearing it up through salty slippery goodness.

There were two locations for the day’s events but as private roads go the first one was shut down before the event even started. After loading cars full of groms we headed to the second spot.

Nicely tucked away in a low traffic location we whipped out a small kicker and the shredding began. A truly mild winter left us with a road half dry and half wet which made for some interesting riding. Even more interesting when there was a slalom course set to force you into the biggest piles of salt, sketchy wet patches and sewer grates.

From "Unkle" Lee Cation:

Vancouver, BC - The 2012 Whistler Longboard Festival will be held at the Whistler Sliding Centre on the base of Blackcomb Mountain on July 13th-15h 2012. The UNKLE Event team was ecstatic to host the inaugural event last year and the Festival was a huge success! This years Festival is expected to be bigger and better drawing over 2000 spectators, many will be locals coming from the action sport mecca of Whistler, BC.

With a total of 13 corners including seven (7) 200 degree hairpins, racers have put the Festival at the top of their list for 2012.

The UNKLE Event Team is looking to add a second event to the Festival. A distance race is being planned at the Whistler Olympic Park in the Callahan Valley home to the 2010 Winter Olympic Biathlon and Ski Jump. UNKLE is still working hard on that relationship and hopes to announce full details once plans are finalized with the Whistler Sport Legacies.

Brock Newman from Vancouver has put together an amazing edit of last year’s event complete with new overhead cable cam footage of the Junior, Open and Master race finals. Check out the WLF channel and new video:

For more information about how to get involved with the Festival please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Our 2012 website is still under construction. It can be viewed at http://www.longboardfestival.com

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The event video is one of my favourite trends of 2011. The idea of getting a professional film crew together to make a kickass video of a race or freeride seems like it should have been an obvious one a long time ago but it's certainly taking off now. Here is a particularly nice example from the recent Hot Heels race in South Africa. Watch it, get stoked, and start figuring out how you're going to get there next year. Aweh!