Martock was all about the ladies this past weekend… Snowed In and Feast on Saturday and Flaunt It on Sunday. The day started off REALLY cold… with girls showing up bright eyed and bushy tailed. The sun was shining and the girls were ready to ride. Billabong’s “Flaunt It” is a unique competition, being a slope-style and rail jam FOR LADIES ONLY, that brought talent from other provinces which was awesome because it pushed our local ladies even harder. Twenty ladies competed (the youngest being only nine years old!!) but only a few could walk away with some AMAZING prizes! All the girls who competed did really well, pushing, encouraging and interacting with each other… All who were involved had a great time with great things to say about each other. The day started with the slope style comp going first… ladies throwing down, with the quality of riding surpassing that of last years very quickly. Afterwards there was a quick lunch-break/cool down, with a bbq and tons of hot chocolate from the NIXON tent. After some nourishment, the ladies got back to it, pushing it in the rail jam and trying to throw down the best trick somewhere along the line. A few nasty falls, bruised knees and a broken board later…. the prizes were awarded!

The Winners for the Slope style part of the comp were;

1st DALLAS ROURKE (she won $700 bucks, a Nixon 42 20 Gold engraved watch, air-fare to the finals and tons of swag from Dakine and Billabong) 2nd Marie- Helene Tremblay 3rd Stephanie Meagher 4thLaura Bloomberg

The Rail Jam Winners were;

1st Laura Bloomberg 2nd Stephanie Meagher 3rd Marie-Helene Tremblay

Best trick went to Laura Bloomberg

Rider who progressed the most went to Lydia MacLean

And a prize went to Isabelle Allen for being the youngest girl to ride in the comp! Watch out ladies, she’ll be ripping past you in a few years…

The NIXON tent was busy all day, with people wanting to demo the NEW headphone styles and to receive some hot chocolate in the nose and moustache cups. The headphone demo had the Whip and the Trooper, two great styles for snowboarding in that are really affordable. People were stoked on the new product and got to grab a few stickers too.

The over all feed-back was awesome; everyone was so excited on the format and laid back feeling of the comp. This event gets better and better every year, and the ladies look forward to it for the next year right after it’s done.

Congrats to all who won and participated in Flaunt It! And hopefully the ladies from Quebec and Ontario will bring more ladies with them next year; you guys were all so lovely!

If anyone has some photos or videos of Flaunt It that you want posted, send them to info-progirl@hotmail.com attn Sarah.

Thanks again to all the volunteers, participants, Martock and Catherine, Nathan and Chrissy from Billabong and Mark from Nixon and VZ,  it wouldn’t have been possible without you all!

 xo Sarah