Superpark Showdown: Videograss vs Amane Ohta

07.25.2010 // 17 Comments

Superpark Sunday Showdown Week 6 of The Superpark Sunday Showdown proved that you can’t come into Play Big’s house and think you’ll dominate. Greg Weaver and his Mammoth-based Big Play Productions sent Dump Em back to Tahoe with just 42% of the votes. Looks like the Loonie Bean was the place to be this week as Weaver and his constituents put in overtime ensuring that their entry would advance. This is no surprise considering riders like Tyler Flanagan were sending out personal email blasts supporting the cause. Just another example of how a sick edit and ingenuity will take you far in The Superpark Sunday Showdown.

Week 7 is now upon us and we have two more Superpark Sunday Showdown contenders, with Videograss going head-to-head against Amane Ohta. Vote for your favorite video and help them advance to the next round and potentially win $5,000 compliments of Gatorade. Voting is allowed each day, so check back to make sure your favorite is winning. Voting will end 7/30/10 at midnight.

Videograss VS Amane

Amane

Videograss

You can watch the vids at 300 pixels wide, or click the icon and watch them full screen once the video starts. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite video.

What’s your thoughts, who’s going to take it this week?


Videograss
With a crew more known for urban assaults and backcountry exploits than inbounds antics, Videograss called up their industry reserves for this offering. With a pedigree of upside down stunts born out of boredom in the Big Bear park, Lance and Mike Hakker took to Mammoth’s Chair 14 with reckless abandon and little regard for personal style or safety. Two other men, one part Mexican and part Indian, the other part Mexican and part Canadian join the brothers Hakker in their quest to prove that the behind-the-scenes players can still hold it down. The final product leaves one wondering how Chas Guldemond could have beaten Oli Gagnon for the Superpark Standout title. On a side note, both of Videograss’s two filmers, Sean Mccormick and Jan Snarski, edited up submissions for this contest and let the Videograss riders themselves vote on which of the two edits to submit. This edit is the one produced by Jan Snarski, we believe. For the record, Java Fernandez had clips in both edits.

Amane Ohta
Not only do the Japanese make good video cameras they also make good video camera users. This week, Mammoth’s own Amane Ohta brings us his edit which includes High Sierra staples like Tyler Flanagan and Lonnie Kauk alongside Seven Samurai standouts Takaharu Nakai, Takahiro Ishida, Shota Suzuki, Fumiyuki Murakami and Daisuke Murakami. Despite using a rip-roaring rendition of Redman’s Light It Up as the soundtrack and perhaps the most compelling angle of Jeremy Thompson over-shooting the Centipede, this video is best summed up as “Superpark 14 from the knuckle.” Also, be warned that the music doesn’t fully kick in until about 30 seconds into the edit.

About Superpark Sunday Showdown
The Superpark Sunday Showdown is presented by Gatorade. This interactive contest is a weekly video faceoff where two Superpark edits go head to head with the victor being decided by you, the snowboardermag.com viewer. The entry that receives the most votes each week advances to the next round. All told, there are 16 film companies in contention, each with hopes of advancing all the way to the end of the brackets where they will receive the $5,000 grand prize courtesy of Gatorade. Keep in mind that only one vote a day will be counted per viewer, per browser, so keep coming back to www.snowboardermag.com daily to support your favorite vids.

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Comments

  1. Vermont200
    07/25/10 - 12:35 am

    amane killed it

  2. tbt
    07/25/10 - 2:29 am

    Amane’s was so boring. Same boring shots over and over… And the music? I’m a fan of rap with snowboarding but I think they could have done better.

  3. weird
    07/25/10 - 9:37 am

    Lonnie Jeremy and Chaz killed it in the videograss video. Im sure it was intended to be funny how they put those other riders names on their shots and then did those little interviews but it wasnt that funny. Those guys deserve the credit for their riding, not to be mocked by minishredders.

  4. MD
    07/25/10 - 10:01 am

    Expected more from VG but it was still better then Amane.

  5. b.
    07/25/10 - 10:45 am

    Both we’re not good. Going with Amane tho

  6. csm
    07/25/10 - 12:05 pm

    vg was awesome, finally a video that actually for the most part only showed the riders in their crew, not the same tricks everyone else has watched 50 times

  7. Superpark Contesto « Videograss
    07/25/10 - 2:23 pm

    [...] Superpark and filmed some stuff. Jan made this edit and now they need your help.  Click above and VOTE for Jan and Sean if you think they deserved it. If they win the get $5g’s and they need the [...]

  8. mark
    07/25/10 - 4:49 pm

    that amane edit was bad. imovie status right there, pathetic

  9. speekda troof
    07/25/10 - 11:00 pm

    It’s so hard not to be racist after watching amane’s edit. like 95% sure it was shot and edited on an iphone. And videograss sucked because it didnt have jed anderson in it and everyone knows that jed anderson is the best snowboarder ever ever.

  10. Superpark Showdown week 7 with Videograss | JumpClub.no | SAVE SNOWBOARDING!
    07/26/10 - 9:08 am

    [...] Aussie filmer Jan Snarski put it together. Riding from the usual suspects. [...]

  11. nater
    07/26/10 - 10:05 am

    amane was poor, airs only. at least vg had airs and grinds. vg won

  12. B.
    07/27/10 - 11:45 am

    Will tudenham looks like Desiree while snowboarding.

  13. terrible
    07/27/10 - 5:45 pm

    Both of these were so incredibly terrible

  14. nottryingtohate
    07/28/10 - 2:43 pm

    but how many times can you hit the same jump in one edit and think it looks sick

  15. flynn
    07/28/10 - 7:00 pm

    videograss wasnt indie enough, i think they need to use a shittier camera

  16. allnighter
    07/29/10 - 9:18 pm

    Lonnie, Chas, and Jeremy kill it, i hope they are boss for sure… and in every video

  17. Official Superpark Sunday Showdown Brackets | JAQ News
    08/25/10 - 1:49 pm

    [...] out of every five votes being cast in favor of America’s Videograss over Japan’s Amane Ohnta Week 7 of the Superpark Sunday Showdown presented by Gatorade amounted to your classic blowout. Some [...]

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