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This is the sixth installment of the Sunday Sequence program. Enjoy.

Snowrev.com founder John Centi loves riding all terrain; including icy East Coast parks. This is a sequence photo of a boardslide 270 out on an up box at Holiday Valley in Western New York. This shot was taken today Sunday March 2nd after the Shop Wars contest at Holiday where John was representing his shop Suburban Blend.

-Bill Bacon photo

Another Sunday another Sunday Sequence. Check out this weeks photos from Valentines Day in Utah and early December in Mammoth. This is the fifth installment of Sunday Sequence to see previous weeks photos check them out HERE

- Mac Spedale Valentines Day present to himself… Brighton double line.

- Lonnie Kauk flowing through the chair 12 wind lips in Mammoth

- Johnny Centi - Smugglers, Mammoth

This week we got three sequences for ya. All of them from the past three major contests that have gone down this past month.

X Games- Slopestyle

Natural Selection- Dicks Ditch

NYC Union Square Street Sessions- Rail Jam

- Andreas Wiig taking 1st place at the winter X games 12 slope style: Here is his winning run switch backside 900 over the gap jump.

- Kyle Clancy at day one of the quiksilver Natural Selection in Dicks Ditch tree tap to back one in some deep pow.

- Lucas Magoon killing the Red Bull wall ride at the 2008 NYC Union Square Street Session rail jam. Gooner backtail 450 out

Photographer: Andrew Miller

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II

Lens: Canon 70-200 mm L

Lighting: Natural

ISO: 100

Rider: Elliot Levett
Location: Grizzly Gulch, UT

Trick: Slash

Elliot is a radical dude straight up. Anytime you hang out, shred or party with this kid its always good time.  This particular day was the first clear day in Utah after almost eight solid days of snow.  While the rest of the crew was building jumps Elliot went for the all natural approach scoping a face that took him around 30min to hike around and up the back.  I got the radio call to head over, I got set up and after jimmyin his way down a sketchy rock infested chute and sending a cliff Elliot railed into this radical slash on this small natural transition.  I love shooting slash photos.  I would not mind it if all I ever shoot was these kind of photos…  I never get tired of shooting or looking at them.  So here is Elliot with my favorite slash photo of the season so far!

-AM

My first Sunday Sequence features Billy Cooley at Rail Institution in New York. This place is one of the sickest rail locations I have ever seen, its comparable to rail gardens in Salt lake City. Rail Institution holds it down for the East Coast and offers plenty of variety in this zone. Bill Cooley is a Snowboard Revolution employee, he is also one of the most solid up and coming snowboarders out there. Hes young, hes tall and he has enough liquid natural flow to fill the Great Lakes. Check him out.

- JOHN CENTI

Big Bill is no marketing gimmic, nothing fake about him, just pure talent. Skateboarding and Snowboarding. Eduaro told me “I want to meet him, he looks very real” Billy gives Ed the thumbs up.

Bill Cooley : Back 5050 frontside 180 out at Rail Institution in New York. Frozen lakes are dope backdrops for photos.

Bill Cooley : Frontside Boardslide, tow in by the Revolution Transport Module. Thanks to Mack Dawg Productions/ Absinthe Films-Mikey LeBlanc for the inspiration on how to properly tow in to rails using the car. Billy is solid as can be.

Photographer: Andrew Miller

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II

Lens: Canon 17-40 mm

Lighting: Vivitar 285HV

Rider: Lonnie Kauk

Location: Mammoth Lakes, CA

Trick: bomb drop

A week ago I took my first trip back to Mammoth for the year and we were greeted with 40 inches of new snow in two days. With all this new snow and the first clear night Lonnie Kauk and Johnny Centi went on the prowl from some urban shit to do. About an hour later I got a text from Johnny saying “strap up”, I threw on my gear and headed out not sure what they had found.  I rolled up to Lonnie climbing around the top of the ski trail/ car tunnel pointing out where he wanted to drop it. Minute later I had set up all my gear and we started banging out shots.  We got a banger photo on the right side and after, Lonnie dropped the smaller left side for the hell of it. Even though it was on the smaller side it turned out to be a pretty sick photo and I was stoked. Lonnie is the man he just recently signed a two year deal with DC, filming with Standard again and is about to blow shit up. We are all stoked for him and he deserves every bit of it!

-AM

Hot and fresh out photoshop check out this new batch of Sunday Sequences 12/23/07 . This week photos coming from Utah and California featuring Joe Carter, Lonnie Kauk, Johnny Centi and Sam Spedale. Hope you enjoy and until next Sunday… adios

- AM

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- June Mtn is back in action this year - Joe Carter 360 bonk

- Lonnie Kauk shredding the chair twelve wind lips over at Mammoth Mountain

- Sam Spedale frontflip at Park City

- Johnny Centi getting his swerve on at Mammoth

A Brand Spakin new feature here to the Photo Blog : SUNDAY SEQUENCES
Check here every Sunday for a few sequences animated for your viewing pleasure. This week we have back flips to powder slashes all coming from Utah. Enjoy em and see you next sunday!

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-AM

- Black flip Joe aka Sam Spedale getting inverted son!

- This snow was made for slashing….Elliot getting a afternoon spray..

- Sam Spedale with a little help from Smoksph

- This week should be Sam Spedale Sunday Sequences…. get low!

- Epic day at Brighton… Sam Stomping some fresh

- whoaaaa brooooo - Joseph

Photographer: Andrew Miller

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II

Lens: Canon 70-200 mm L

Lighting: Vivitar 285HV x2

Rider: Jeremy Black

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Trick: Ollie

There is always one kid anywhere who is down.   Doesn’t matter if your going to set up a 30 stair,  hike for two hours for one line, jib a picnic table or in this case set up skatepark bowl.   Jeremy Black is one of these kids… He was cool enough to solo mission it with me to the local skate park not sure what we were going to hit just that I convinced him it would be a rad photo.  This is not the hugest trick and by no means gives Jeremy’s talent justice but it represents just having fun and being stoked to shred anything.  Our session was just a test run;  The park has so many options and we will definitely be back once it snows again.

Photographer: Andrew Miller

Camera: Canon EOS 20D

Lens: Canon 70-200 mm L

Lighting: Natural

Rider: Johnny Centi

Location: Mammoth Mountain, CA

Trick: Layback or Slash if you prefer

I began to write this post and got to were you fill out the trick info but was wondered what the hell to call this…… A Layback, Spray or Slash? Well I figured I could turn to the all knowing Google and typed in layback - spray - slash - snowboarding. This it was I came upon first: Snowboardinghelp.com….haha (go figure). They go into a in depth and detail report on the origin of the “layback” and “slash” plus a step by step on how to master both of these extremely advanced skills. Pretty funny check it out the article HERE.
Anyways I have decided thanks to snowboarding help that the first photos would be more of a “layback” and 2nd photo would fall into more of the “slash” category. So I guess I’m satisfied with providing you with the correct term. I will wrap this up with a bit from the article:
“As you can imagine layback maneuvers are fairly hard to achieve but are also very glamour and very impressive when completed. Having an extremely advanced snowboarding ability is an absolute must before attempting as is having the proper safety gear. However, the work and effort are more than worth it once you too can do this and impressive everyone on the hill..”

Well here you go a man who is a master slasher- Johnny Centi smacking Dave’s other wave in Mammoth. Like totally sick brahhh!