Ultra Natural Progression of Athletics

Last year I rambled on and on about Travis Rice and Brain Farm and how they were revolutionizing athletics with the Super Natural Contest. It was the first footprint to a brave new world in which sports blows past boundaries and controls and the status quo to create a revolutionary way of showcasing competition and urging on progression in sports which still have plenty of room to grow.

As a follow-up, I have to note that T Rice and crew have done it again with this year's Ultra Natural. The beauty about such sports as snowboarding and surfing is that they depend not only on the skill of the competitor but also on the blessings or curses of nature and in such highlight the added element of having to adapt to changing surroundings. Football used to have more of this before domes and warm weather stadiums and turf and global warming made it possible to nearly control nature and its effects on the players. But I've seen how surf competitions in shitty waves showcase true skill as the WCT elite boosted big airs and threw deep slashes on two-foot swell. As such, the Ultra Natural contest has shown the effects that changing snowpacks can have on one of the sickest man-made obstacle courses in action sports history. Leaving the controlled, groomed kickers and halfpipes behind and showing the best throwing down in virgin backcountry on a course known as "Scary Cherry".

For example, last year they had more snow and Travis Rice dominated throwing huge and technical airs into decent powder. This year, with Nelson BC's snowpack coming in at weak at best Rice didn't even - well you just gotta watch. And just like last year, you CAN watch.

Yup, the Ultra Natural will be big airing to your home on NBC tomorrow at 1:30 EST,  10:30 PST. Filmed with Brain Farm's signature mind-blowing technologies and techniques, it's a sporting event that even a non-snowboarder can't miss. Edited to take out the downtime, it promises to be all hammer and no filler. Want a preview? You got it.

So while you're sitting around, nursing that Friday hangover with a good spicy bloody, double vodka, click on the old boob tube and sit back for the best in the world throwing it down in the most innovative athletics competition on earth.

I guarantee it's better than watching the Women's Tennis Sony open and endlessly more fulfilling.

Here's to a life of adventure - happy Friday.

- Ryan