Modan Productions

CAMPUS RAIL JAM

2010-02-25T15:44:00.000-08:00

VERN!

Every season, the U of U puts on a campus rail jam, right in front of the Union, where all our homies go to slay and grab some prizes. This year, V - Ron went into the contest, being the only girl out there with the boys, getting a hold of a ton of prizes, and showing off some fancy footwork... Sorry we were not there to join you V, but glad you went and SLAYED!!!

HOMECOMING!

2010-02-25T15:33:00.000-08:00

DANIA ASSALY

Kristi Leskinen puts on a great event! For the second year now, an all girls contest is put on at Seven Springs, PA, who had a killer park, great jumps, sun and lots of snow! We all had a blast, girls throwing down from misty sevens, to big 9s, to switch 7s and 5s. The buffet meals were extravegent, we shot skeet, and needless to say, aside from skiing, Keri Herman, Jen Hudak, Meg Olenick, and Dania Assaly won for partying. ;)

BRIGHTON, UT

2010-02-18T14:09:00.000-08:00

The ladies have been having some awesome days of powder and sunshine park laps in Utah this season. Learning more and more everyday, Utahs Cottonwood mountains allows you to learn to ski the deep stuff and explore easy access back country. With the sunshine 6 out of 7 days a week, you also get to lap Pick and Shovel and Kings Crown at Park City from 9-3:30 everyday! What more can you ask for? With 20 of your closest ski buddies to hot lap with, life doesn't get much better :)When I arrived back from X Games in Aspen, I got to experience some myself! First pow day of the season, and oh how good that felt!!!! Yeah Brighton, how I love thee...

Anna Segal 2010

2010-01-20T21:46:00.000-08:00

Here is a mini edit from our own Anna Segal! Killin it already in the early season, can't wait till all of us beezys can get together and shred :)

MODAN! sayyy somethin!

SNOWBASIN DEW TOUR - words from D

2010-01-19T18:28:00.000-08:00

As the Modan ladies are all busy KILLIN it in Park City, the Winter Dew Tour stop 2 came through Utah.

We had a blast skiing with some different homies for a few days, lapping through Pick n Shovel and Kings Crown... V Ron gettin her jump on, Molly getting blunted, and Anna cruisin Kings with her Colorado friends in town for Dew Tour! Ange has been nice enough to let me crash on her couch the past week, and has been keeping me positive! Veronica's skiing is looking as hot has her new brown hair, and Molly is waiting for the snow, to get ready for the Freeskiing World Tour stop she is attending in Feburuary!

I went to Snowbasin to compete in the pipe contest! Third day back on snow, and just happy to be rippin around PC with all the MODAN chicas again, I decided to go into this contest with ease, after being out for the past month and a half with a heel bruise. It went well, and through the pain, I had a TON of fun skiing! The boys and girls throwing down, and the people of Utah came out to support their local favorites! Tom Wallisch and a well deserved slopestyle win, Jossi Wells winning Pipe, and Sarah is back on top after being out almost a full season last year! CONGRATS TO YOU ALL! Yeah Tommy, way to kill it on snow and the 4-9 at 4bi9. ;)

Hopefully toward the end of this month and in Feburuary, we will have some edits to put out!

WAY BACK WHEN

2010-01-07T18:59:00.000-08:00

Little edit from last season in the spring. Just bringin it back for fun!

MORE TO NEW EDITS COMIN SOON! 2010 !

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MODAN back in action!

2010-01-05T22:04:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! 2010 is going to bring GREAT things our way!

MOLLY ELLOWITZ

Modan is back at it in Park City Utah! 2010 got under way with the girls are killing it, 9-4 everyday till school starts... ( Might still be 9-4 days knowing the ladies)! Stoked to see more pictures and videos to come!

Pipe is open, Kings and Pick n Shovel are going off, and the Dew Tour stop 2 is heading to Snowbasin soon, so lets go and cheer on the Modan girls that are competing!

VERONICA KELLY

DEW TOUR: BRECK STOP

2009-12-20T15:39:00.001-08:00

Mike Riddle, Halfpipe Winner at the Breck Dew Tour

SO! Despite the fact that us ladies were selfishly excluded from the Breckenridge stop of the Tour, it did not stop the boys from absolutely crushing the 18" halfpipe!

So proud of the top 12 guys, (most of whom threw dubs) showing that our sport is still rapidly growing, and there is barely time to catch up if you're behind!

My fellow teammate Banks Gilberti was a busy boy the past few days, making finals in superpipe, and semi finals for slopestyle! With his smooth style, blunt grabs, and stomped landings, Banks made his way up to the top 15 in Slope Semis, and placed 8th in Pipe Finals!! Congrats friend!

Banks Gilberti

Jossi Wells

Winner of superpipe last night was MIKE RIDDLE! My best friend and teammate absolutely KILLED it on his second run, going HUGE, grabbing hard, and stomping doubles! With a 93.00 points, he was the clear winner last night, with the lovely Kiwi, Jossi right behind him, also stomping his first two dubs in contest! So so proud!! The frenchies were on their game as usual too, with Xavier and Rolland coming 3rd and 4th, respectively. Justin Dorey, also going HUGE in this tiny pipe, landing his double first hit to get him into 5th place. SO proud of all the boys!

Justin Doery

Today in Slopestyle finals, Andreas Hatveit took the lead, with Tommy Wallicsh comin in 2nd, and Sammy in third. With most of these boys throwing doubles on two of the three jumps there were, the competition gets tight, and the boys have to be on their game!

Lets use this as inspiration girls! Lets spin more, grab harder and more consistently, and get tricky on rails! Show everyone we can do it too!

Next Dew Tour stop expects to add Women's Freeskiing Superpipe event, with a field of 20 ladies, and a 20,000 dollar purse... Now what do we say to that? As happy as I am, this is only a step in the right direction for this contest, as they have yet to add women's slope. Lets get on this! We have to be treated the same as everyone else, and we still have to make them realize that we are not happy and are expecting more. :) SOON! Let's get'em ;)

Signing out,

MERRY CHRISTMAS! See you in the New year!

I Got Colors

2009-11-27T07:51:00.000-08:00

Early season laps at Breck with Banks, Keri, Bishop, and Dania! So fun!

KAYA TURSKI

2009-11-24T23:19:00.000-08:00

Slaying as usual, Kaya Turski has something to say! Check out this video from her spring and summer 09. Girl knows how to absolutely push it, and brings her rollerblade game to the snow! Coming a long way from a hard couple years of injuries, she is back with real impressive tricks, always lookin so damn good on jumps and rails, i have seen her in the pipe to0.... girl knows how to bring it! Yah Kaya, keep leading the way to bigger an better things, and stay stoked!
(A little rollerblade Destructure part too, daymn it's no wonder this girl can ski!) SO ill!

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MEGAN GUNNING

2009-11-24T23:09:00.000-08:00

Little hometown chica Megan Gunning just showing them BLUNTS what up!!!
From Calgary Alberta, Megan is only just turning 17, goes SO big in the pipe, and can grab blunt on those 7s better than most guys I know! Slaying the pipe and slopestyle scene, Megan is one to watch for, if you have not skied with her already!
She is the illest, and one of the MOST fun and positive girls you will have the pleasure of riding with :)
YEAH girl! keep killin it!

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com

SOOOOO ILLLLLL!!!!!!

2009-11-24T23:03:00.000-08:00

Talk about steppin it up ladies! DAYMN! Check out Lynd-z in the pipe just Killin it!

Time to take a stand

2009-11-21T10:44:00.001-08:00

This season is certainly going to be a different one for majority of female skiers in this crazy industry. With the exclusion of women in the 2009/2010 Dew Tour Circuit thus far, it is time to take a stand together and prove that we should be included just as snowboard women are.

Instead of thinking negatively on this topic, lets get our ski on harder than ever! Lets ride for ourselves, film and make edits, compete where we can, and have the time of our lives! This does not control how we ski, where we ski, or the people we ski with. This is not about proving ourselves to anyone, because in my opinion we have already done so and got shut down.

This is about ladies coming together, pushing each other even harder, and having a blast while doing so.

We need support, and to have this, lets show them what we have got by filming and writing... Any girl is welcome at anytime to post up edits on our Modan Blog. The whole idea behind this is to have girls that slay on the mountain get together and come up from under! It is a blog for chicas like us to get our footage out there, talk about what is going on in our lives, and keep up with the ski world we are all a part of! Lets get this blog rolling, have it be a foundation where girls can show off their talents and anyone can and will see it! Blog pictures and videos, stories and comments.

If we all do this the right way, maybe we can get the support we need, not just from others and those who dictate where our sport "should be going", but support from each other! That, is really the start we need to make a difference. So lets begin!

COLORADO!

2009-11-19T19:54:00.000-08:00

For the past ten days, I have been out shredding in Co! It is awesome here right now, with almost nothin but blue sky, rails, jibs, and YUMPS!

Keystone opened with about 12 rails, and one perfect size early season jump.

AND! Breck has a perfect fun little three set in Park Lane we have been hitting for the past week.... Hot laps are in session.

Keri Herman is KILLIN it, I'm loving jumping again, and workin on my rail game! We are definitely getting some filming done so that is great! My little HD camera is working stupendously, and Jake Strassmen is helpin us out on camera too :) He is so awesome!

There have got to be about 150 snowboarders and skiers lapping Breck all day, so much fun!

Come out and visit!!!!

MODAN!

D is a Ninja

So the next couple weeks are going to be NUTS, thanksgiving break and all... but I will keep you posted! Get some chica footy up soon :)

BRIGHTON MINI SESH

2009-11-07T17:28:00.001-08:00

MODAN! It's startin!

Today was EPIC! Blue bird, 60 degrees, and about 200 people at Brighton for a mini sesh.

There were about 8 rails and boxes set up, and everyone was crowding around to get their early season rail skills on! Hiking on a hot day, skis and snow pants on, Tall Tees poppin.... Nothin but FUN!

D, makin that ISHT pop.

V Ron was straight KILLIN it today! Gettin mad tricky on her skis, even them boys were scerrd.

Anna's day at snowpark

2009-11-05T23:54:00.000-08:00

So this is my first post on the Modan blog. It's kinda crazy that I'm still in Australia (just gotten back from the pool) and all the Modan girls are over in Utah and CO already getting their ski on.

Anyways, yesterday I spent my time at work making a mini edit. This is one of the rare sunny days I experienced in NZ this August. Thanks to Sean Kaldhusdal for the wobbly filming and sound effects.

2009-11-05T12:29:00.000-08:00

Dania For Surface

This season I am stoked to be riding for Surface! This is a great company, that will allow me to share my ideas, and be a part of its fast growing market. I love the team, Mike is a wonderful team manager, and I can't wait to work with them!

Photo shoots and filming, pow skiing and Utah! Thanks Surface, for a season that I cannot wait for!

Check out www.thesurfacelab.blogspot.com.

2009-11-05T11:53:00.000-08:00

HALLOWEEN!!!

The Modan girls got WILD on halloween! Molly was Princess Frostine, Becca was little red riding hood, Dania was a rockstar and Sandy from Grease, V Ron was a cop, Jordan was an Indian Princess, Josh was a hardcore rockstar, and Anna beezy was a NINJA!

Here are a ton of pics that make me laugh

everytime.

BECCA GETTING INTO SOME mad FIGHTS!

2009-10-10T20:09:00.000-07:00

DANIA ASSALY

A little skiing this summer in Hood! What an amazing place with great people and a ton of wonderful adventures. :)

2009-09-13T10:01:00.000-07:00

FALL BREAK

Home away from Home

Girls are back at school in SLC, I'm back at home in Edmonton AB!

Stoked to be home for a minute, take a little break, visit with the family and friends out here, but I am definitely missing all the parties and school activities that go on in Utah right now! Plus, I hear it has snowed in CO, so hopefully but the time I get back to Salt Lake in the late fall, we will have some pre season hiking to do!

2009-08-24T01:35:00.000-07:00

Hi it's Dania here! Just in NZ right now hangin out in a pretty Hood house in Wanaka! I am staying with all the Canadians, so I feel right at home! Wanaka is so great, a beautiful little town right on the South Island of NZ. The town surrounds a lake, and you can see mountains where ever you look. Those that live here must wake up everyday and think they are the luckiest people on the planet! You really realize that the world is a beautiful place when you live somewhere so pure and natural :)

It is winter again, and there has been three days of competition in about 5 days... So, wild ride but they have been going really well! Two slope contests and one pipe. Three different mountains all offering a little somethin different... Snowpark is real fun, good rails and jumps, Remarkables was in Queenstown, where the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen took place, and my favorite resort so far, Cardrona, has a perfect pipe and really fun jumps.

Here are some pictures from sunrise, mountains views, and skiing! Enjoy and I will make sure to keep up with the blog and share more from down unda!

MODAN summer in the SLC

2009-08-04T18:12:00.000-07:00

As we all know two of our girls, Anna and Dania have traveled off for the summer to ski and play in beautiful Hood River, OR skiing, hitting up the coast and keeping the boys in line. However the rest of us not as fortunate have been holding it down in the SLC. It has been quite the hot summer but in between our efforts to roll in a little bit of money we have discovered some pretty cool activities to keep ourselves cool and entertained. Between Weber float adventures (and injuries), echo cliff jumping, Gallivan Twilight series and Cottonwood Heights pool, shooting the tube, parties and summer time cookouts many stories are to be told! Molly is off to hood today to meet up with the girls to try and get in some late summer skiing in the 102 degree heat and maybe hit up the beach with some long lost friends! I recently started working for Saga Outerwear as their intern and they have been a blast to work with. They are an amazing group of people with a lot of passion and hard work in their company. The designs these guys throw out on a day to day basis is astounding if you get the chance check out their blog www.sagaouterwear.com and their twitter they update a lot more often and have some funny stories and links to keep you entertained. Here are some pictures of our adventures.

Cottonwood heights pool

Gallivan Twilight

Good times yet to be had
kicking it with saga goers!

The crew we got to float the weber

Till next time...

2009-07-07T08:13:00.000-07:00

All I have to say about Hood, is BEST SUMMER in a while! So much skiing, so much sun, surf, beach, friends, new tricks, campers, yoga, and chillin! Wow it was great, and campfires under the stars on the beach is far better than falling asleep in a bed. Sending it hard on Canada day in another country is far better than your own because everyone thinks you are insane, and skiing in the sun lapping so many times a day is the best feeling ever! Dahoodesthouse... Now those chicks know how to rip almost as hard as MODAN. ;) Yeahhhh Hood.

2009-07-06T21:09:00.000-07:00

WSI 2009! and a little Britney ;)

Its me, Dania! WSI, just like every other year, was OFF THA HOOK! There is no better place to be than Whistler in the spring for this event. The music was amazing, the skiing was ok, the weather was awful, but the peak to peak chair and the park jump set up was sooo sick.

For me, WSI started off with the Britney Spears concert in Vancouver... yah... you can IMAGINE my excitment. She was so damn hott and so damn amazing. really, nothing better ;) We all dressed up as her in a different video and looked SMOKIN.

SO WSI started off with a kicker party, not as much Max Fish as there normally is, but a ton of pole dancin and chargin the dance floor at Buffalo Bills. It was a busy busy week for me, felt awesome though! Big Air Quals started the

contest off, and my lil homie Megan Gunning won and i came second, so we were STOKED to be hitting the big jump the next night! We threw down with the boys in front of a hugeee crowd feelin awesome! We got to watch Roz G throw a sick 10 to take the win and the boys throw as many double corks as they could. Exhausted after, i decided to sleep instead of party so i could ski in Orage Masters the next day!

Team Dynastar (aka, 70s basketball team) consisted of Riddle, Trennon, Rainville, McCrea,

Me. Through the storm and fog, we tried our best to look awesome, make some baskets, and use team work to our advantage... In the end it was the Volkl team that took the win, but we did leave Surface a wee bit disappointed with kickin them out first round ;)

Next day was pipe Quals, and through a fuzzy morning from a long night dancing, I made it through to finals, meeting Ange already there! Angeli on Finals day was going bigger than most of the guys on her first hit... It was insane and SOOO sick! I had not skied pipe in about three months, so i just went for it, trying the run I was used to and having fun with my friends in the sun! Lots of smiling and dancing and picture taking! Suprise to find... I WON! I had no idea, until all the girls were finished, and I was so stoked! WSI has always been a goal, so being up there with Ange in second and Megan in third was EPIC! I was so pumped for my chicas and we had a blast all day! Another WSI going down in the books ;)

MOUNT HOOD, OR! summer time :)

Hey its Dania again! Reporting from HOOD! Let me tell you, if you are not out here, you should be! I began my June off with a phone call telling me that i could come down to Hood for a dollar less than a penny, and ski everyday! So

i took it and immediately started livin the ark life... Oregon is the most beautiful place on earth, and I do believe i need to marry and American so i can someday live here :) The vinyards and trees and mountains are so gorgeous! The ark life (where i am currently residing), is pretty

much a run down motel, infested with kids like me, just livin in Hood to ski and have pretty much the most laid back, awesome life you could ask for... We are here to ride, and timberline mountain is open all year round! Windells has offered us one of the sickest summer parks out there, and the best crew of employees to shred with everyday...

THE

ARK

So skiing started out for me GREAT! I was skiing in the sun and occasional fog, and learning a handful of tricks! Didnt like my after skiing job so much, so I stopped that and kinda somehow got away with making up my own! I am now a pipe coach for a couple hours a day up on hill, and a yoga instructor! LEGIT right!? sooooo life is good! I currently have a terribly bruised tail bone, trying to heal and get back out there soon... Meanwhile, Anna Segal is killin it doing rodeos and sick 5s... showin her little campers how its done! Moo was also out here for two sessions kickin it and skiing with us! Windells has a new Tow Rope for s few rails and some 30 footers that are super fun, a new bag jump which people are LOVING, and a real sick pipe!!!

We are enjoying our ski time, party time at DA HOOD HOUSE, (all of dem crazy boys!) THE ARK, and surfing and beaching a ton on the coast! Lots of beach trips and Portland trips, boys and dress up, mess and trampolines, camp food, late nights and early mornings! I sent it hard for Canada Day :) have to represent, and for the 4th we took a trip to the Coast for some surfin, beachin, yoga

on the beach, and sleeping on the sand under the stars.. :)

Hell Yeah Modan!

2009-05-24T01:47:00.000-07:00

The season wrapped up and I couldn’t ask for more. It was a slow beginning but the MODAN girls killed it. We traveled across the world and took home some big titles! With the MODAN productions shirts being repped at X-Games, World Cup, WSI, Orage Masters, and Winter Park this company is stirring up quite the talk and I have to say we couldn’t be more excited. This next season we are hoping to take it even farther and make this more available to the public and all the girls out their! Here is a thanks to the girls and congratulations. These girls have accomplished so much this season traveling all across the world from France and Japan to Canada and Mammoth there was nothing that could stop them. Thank you for taking us with you on your adventures and letting our name be known! We captured some great moments of the girls showing off the MODAN name!

The Adventures of MODAN- World Cup Finals & Winter Park Open

2009-05-22T21:00:00.000-07:00

World Cup at Park City!

Blue bird skies and a freshly cut pipe invited some of the greatest pipe skiers to go at it again. The girls and I made a drive up to make some turns and watch the competition. As the girls made their first runs we cheered on the crew but it was a hard pipe being that one side of the pipe was in the sun and one was a sheet of ice made for a lot of injuries. Dania didn't get to make a run in finals due to the fact that she hit the deck on her pre-qualifiers breaking her scapula. It was a rough day for a lot of friends after Dania crashed Jen, then Roz, then Matt, then Mitch went done coming out with pretty minor injuries. It was great to see some people just kill it though Angeli walked away with first place and Meg Gunning rolling in at second. Even seeing our friends go down it was a good day sun was out and it was rad seeing Ang kill it!

Congrats Angeli!

Winter Park Open

Dania headed up to Winter Park to hit up the Winter Park Open here is a little excerpt that Dania gave me from her time up there.
"I ended up going to Breck for a day, and skiing with Carrie Roseman, killin it in the park lane, and she was stompin swtich 3s and 5s all day, as I was jumpin and tryin to improve my rail skills :) leaving to Winter Park the next day, it was SICK to be staying with Steve and Gary and Trevor... we brought the heat to the park and had so much fun skiing a new park! blue bird days for both days of the event, we were all throwing down and lookin good doin it ;) boys killed it, and I landed my 3 to 7 to 5 to box to 9 !!! then on my second run i fell, but found 20 bucks in the landing so I was stoked !
Finals day we hit the big jump and it was so rad, best 5 tricks big air format. the boys were so fun to watch, and Kristy Johns and I were throwing 9's to take it... I ended up doing my first victory lap! It was quite fun :) ! It was way to much fun! Mike Rogge and Dave made the announcing at comps something that the crowd really wanted to listen too!"

Sounded like a fun in the sun comp for sure congrats to all our friends! Congrats to Dania taking first and $750!

MODAN HATS

2009-05-22T19:22:00.000-07:00

Molly and Jordan came up with some sweet hats for MODAN and that will add to next years collections! We are getting shirts, hats, bandannas and bracelet's made up! Just wait!

Here are the hats we got and the shirts from last year! Can't wait to release the 09/10 gear for you all to see!

power fist-- hell yeah!

A day at PC with MODAN

2009-05-22T17:21:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately due to injuries and traveling we were unable to get a full edit out this season but next year we promise well will have a legit edit to really show off how good our girls are. However, good friend and DOS media filmer Evan Heath was nice enough to spend a day filming some of our girls late season and putting together an edit for us. Hope you enjoy.

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com

MODAN

Quit Verning Around!

2009-05-20T09:36:00.000-07:00

MODAN member Veronica Kelly came out with her 2009 promo edit which sparked an enormous amount of results. She strait kills it! We are so stoked on this. Check it out!

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com

Veronica is back in Massachusetts for the summer so keep in touch for summer rail jams results.

The Adventures of MODAN- World Cup and X-Games (more to come)

2009-05-17T17:32:00.000-07:00

The Adventures of MODAN!

So here we are after our first season of MODAN our girls traveled all over the world bringing home the big bucks and the trophies. The season went out with a banger with a big team win at WSI and a new team member. So here is the winter through the eyes of MODAN recapping the wins, the losses and the parties that came along with the competitions.

World Cup

Dania Assaly started her season by heading off to France to compete at the FIS World Cup Pipe competition at Les Contamines. She got to stay at a beautiful house at the base of the mountain with friends and the only way should could explain this adventure was "amazing, amazing, amazing!" Fellow Albertan team members were there competing and cheering eachother on making the trip even more enjoyable. With fine wines, cheeses and foods the girls got to explore all that this quaint town had to offer. Dania killed it after only four days of training at Copper Mountain prior to jetting accross the world. Dania tied for 3rd but came out in 4th with nothing but a smile on her face and a fire behind her knowing she wanted to only do better. We were stoked none the less and she left us anxious to see how far she would go in the season to come.

Some pictures from France that Dania took in her travels.

X- GAMES!

After the World Cup came not only training but a big reunion and some glorious blue bird days at world famous Park City Mountain Resort. Everyone was there training for the biggest competition in freestyle skiing the X-Games. Dania returned to catch some air on the beautiful pipe along with fellow team member Angeli Vanlaanen and other friends and big names including Byron Wells, Tyler Peterson, Tanner Hall, Peter Olenick, and Simon Dumont. Filmers were out and skies were blue and training was underway. Dania started landing her nines and nailing her right 5's getting ready to prove her spot as first alternate, it was so fun standing on the pipe filming next to the big names. Dania and Angeli headed down a few days early to train on the X-Game's pipe. Angeli got the hook up with a great condo provided by Red Bull Energy Drink one of Angeli's sponsors. The first days were strictly training and skiing but at the events started going off so did the parties. Red Bull started the night festivities with a bang with a Santagold concert. Angeli obviously got the hook up and the girls danced the night away. The second day rolled around and the rest of the MODAN girls headed down to Colorful Colorado to cheer our friends. With a two queen bed hotel room and seven girls it was crowded to say the least. The next days were filled with several competitions, which we were able to get some class A viewing spots. Girls had practice and then Dania showed me the kind of living that they were experiencing as athletes I got to roll into the athletes tent and meet some of her good friends and biggest named athlete's both skiers and snowboarders it was a humbling experiencing to say the least, food everywhere, big screen TVs, and video games X-Games takes care of their athletes. As the day wrapped up everyone was exhausted Dania, Angeli and John Riddle went to a sushi joint in downtown Aspen to wrap up the night. The next day rolled around and the contests we had been waiting and training for arrived. Tension was on but it was so fun to watch the girls kill it in training. Unfortunately Mirjam Jaeger kept her spot in the X-Games despite injury so Dania was unable to compete in finals however were able to cheer on Angeli who killed it ending up in 6th place. It was a great show by all and celebrations were to take place at the Powder awards. So glad we got the opportunity to go with great friends. It is an experience I will never forget. I just hope next year we can make it next year to see Dania go big!

Here are some pictures from the trip.

The MODAN Girls! Angeli Vanlaanen

2009-04-24T15:11:00.001-07:00

Angeli Vanlaanen

Hometown: Bellingham, WA
Current Residence: (winter) Breckenridge, CO (summer) Bellingham, WA

Angeli has been skiing since she was the ripe age of 8 and followed the influence of her big brother entering the world of freesking in 2005. Angeli rides for some of the biggest names in the industry including Red Bull, Atomic, Oakley, DNA and Breckenridge Mt. Angeli signed on with her biggest sponsor, Red Bull energy drinks, at the 2008 Winter X-Games. Angeli jams out to everything from Bob Marley, MGMT, Santogold, Tom Petty, Beyonce and of course the one hit wonder all my friends are pro by John Symms and Colby West. Although Angeli’s main focus is in the pipe she finds her favorite trick a 540 in the park. Angeli’s biggest influences in skiing include Tanner Hall because of his outstanding work ethic, Adam Delorme’s flawless style and Sarah Burke who has done so much for women’s skiing. Her season goals were to stomp her tricks at X-Games which we were all lucky enough to be at to cheer her on. Angeli stomped both runs holding her own in the biggest skiing competition to date. This summer you can find Angeli at Mammoth, CA. Mt. Hood, OR and possibly even New Zealand and South America continuing to ski her heart out all year round. Angeli is not only an amazing skier but also a gifted dancer she danced for 9 years doing Ballet, modern dance, jazz and hip-hop, she was even chosen for even chosen to dance for the Pacific Dance Works Ballet Company. Angeli, aside from skiing, loves dancing, art, cooking, baking one of a kind birthday cakes and other goodies, writing, camping, skateboarding, and surfing. Angeli is one of the most amazing people I know and I am so glad to have her as a part of this team. Angeli always has a positive attitude and smile on her face. With a film segment in Atomics 44 days with Tim Durtschi, Jossi Wells, Chris Benchetler, Dylan Natale, Brandon Becker, and Kevin Brower you can see just how much this girl kills it in the pipe, backcountry and urban jibs. Angeli is surely making her way to being one of the top skiers in the industry while maintaining a down to earth and positive attitude that we are so stoked on!

07/08 season stats:
-3rd US Open Pipe
-2nd NZ Open Slope
-1st NZ Open Pipe
-Xgames finals

08/09 season stats
-Xgames finals
-1st World Cup Pipe Park City, Utah
-2nd Whistler ski invitational pipe

Check out the adventures of Angeli for yourself! at http://www.angelivanlaanen.com/

The MODAN Girls! Moo Eakin

2009-04-09T23:29:00.000-07:00

Moo Eakin

Home town: White Pass, WA
Current Residence: Bend, OR

Moo is our youngest and newest team member and we are so excited to have her! Moo is at the ripe age of 14 and has only been skiing since she was 9! Moo switched from snowboarding to pick up freeskiing just 5 short years ago. Moo is already riding for Salomon, Oakley, Mt. Bachelor, Rockstar, Northwest Kids, and Skjersaa's ski shop. From the minute you are around Moo you will have a smile on your face. Moo is always in a good mood and dying to ski. Her favorite and signature trick is a spread eagle just trying to keep it steezy and fun. Looking up to Grete Eliassen, Michelle Parker and of course Ashley Battersby, Moo is always improving her tricks and her style. Moo is always bumping a variety of music that keeps you going including Lil Wayne, E40, Mac Dre, Mistah, F.A.B and anything that gets her hyphy. Moo wanted to improve her spinning this year and has definately gotten her air control on lock. Moo will be ripping it up at Hood this summer with a bunch of the MODAN team. Moo had a broken leg and although she is just coming back from that she is absolutely throwing down. All of us are so stoked to see how Moo shapes out. With an amazing amount of support from her friends and family I have no doubt Moo will push the limits of skiing in upcoming years. Moo recently just placed 5th at Copper Nationals even after getting a pretty bad concusion in the pipe.

Moo's Excerpt from her time at nationals this year:
"Nationals is so rad. There are over 1,600 skiers and snowboarders of all ages that come from all over to compete in this week long competition. It's always at Copper Mountain, which has a great park, and a really nice pipe. Everyone is super friendly and always down to shred which is the way it should be! Like I said I only got to compete in pipe, but all the girls killed it in slope this year, and everyone had a lot of fun!!"

We are so stoked to have this fun outgoing girl on our team. Moo definitely pushes the other girls to improve their skills because she is so quickly catching up to their skill level!

The MODAN Girls! Molly Ellowitz

2009-04-09T19:20:00.000-07:00

Molly Ellowitz

Hometown: El Paso, TX
Current residence: Salt Lake City, UT
Age: 19

Molly Ellowitz is one of the originals of Modan productions and is thoroughly excited to see this actually coming together. Molly moved to Utah with her family at a very young age and has been skiing the Wasatch Range since she was 3 years old. At about the age of 11 Molly started keeping up with her brother and family in the big mountain including the infamous peaks of Alta and Snowbird. Around 3 years ago, with the influences of her good friends she picked up park skiing here in Utah and quickly developed a niche for the sport. Molly has been skiing with Salomon skis and Alta Sports for 3 seasons and Scott goggles for 2 seasons. Using girl skiers as influences including Sarah Burke, Ingrid Backstrom, and good friends Ashley Battersby, Dania Assaly and Veronica Kelly as immediate inspiration in pipe, on jumps and on rails. While Molly skis she jams out to Lil Wayne, DL Incognito, Cool Kids, Bob Mary, Cali P and of course Britney Spears. As Molly's forte is jumping her favorite trick is a mute 5. Molly this season has focused a lot on getting her air sense down and you can tell that she feels good and confident throwing anything in the air now it has been so fun watching her improve this season I can only imagine where she is going to take skiing! Molly took some time off competing this year to play in the powder and hang more with her friends this year she competed in the queens cup which she and her team won the previous year. Molly tweaked her knee at queen's cup which unfortunately put a little damper on her season but she is heading down to Mt. Hood with fellow team member and good friend Anna Borgman to shred Windells for the summer. Molly is always down to party and has a positive outlook on life, she loves to climb, travel, camp hike and so much more. Being that Molly grew up so close to the mountains and the outdoors Molly became a very outgoing person and loves to be outdoors. Molly is a great girl and an amazing skier and we are so glad to have her on our team!

The MODAN Girls! Anna Borgman

2009-01-21T11:40:00.000-08:00

Anna Borgman

Hometown: Bend, OR
Current Residence: Salt Lake City
Age: 21

Anna Borgman maintains a laid back personality and always a positive outlook on life on and off the hill. She grew up skiing Mt. Bachelor but only started skiing at 13 a couple years ago she moved down to Salt Lake City to shred the infamous Park City. Having the whole 4bi9 crew in her backyard and a part of her closest friend group Anna adopted amazingly confident style on the hill. Anna looks up to her friends Henrik Harlaut, Tom Wallisch and Mike Hornbeck along with Phil Casabon and Adam Delorme to find the style of skiing for her. Everytime Anna is on the hill she works to learn new tricks or perfect the ones she already has. Anna's ski playlist includes Method Man, E-40 and Nas. Anna decided to take this years competition schedual easy and just compete in the annual Queens Cup Open this year. Although the slopes in Utah are coming to a close Anna will continue to grace the slopes and some metal after the season is far from over back in Oregon with all her great friends at Windells at Mt. Hood. Aside from skiing Anna enjoys art, photography, cooking, traveling and getting down. This girl has a good head on her shoulders and quite the future ahead of her in skiing or any other endevors she decides to take on in the future! I hope to maintain Anna as a friend for years to come!

The MODAN Girls! Veronica Kelly

2009-01-20T18:40:00.000-08:00

photo: Sean Kaldusdal

Veronica Kelly

Hometown: Lanesborough, MA

Current Residence: Salt Lake City, UT

Age: 19

Veronica Kelly is our wild card rider. This up-an-comer moved out from Lanesborough, Massachusetts this last August to strut her stuff at infamous Park City Mountain Resort and attend classes at the University of Utah as a business major. She began skiing at her family's resort Brodie Mountain in Massachusetts at the age of two but didn't enter the competitive world of freeskiing till the 05-06 season when she received 3rd in the Jeep Terrain Series. During the 06- 07 season Veronica received 1st in the USASA grassroots competition which sent her to Windells and pushed her into competing at the Mount Snow Open where she received 4th and Queens Cup Open where she received 1st place overall in rails with a 270 blindside switch up on the up-down box and a blindside switch up on the down rail during the 07-08 season. Until this season Veronica perfected her moves at Jiminy Peak, MA and Mount Snow, VT. Looking up to her now good friend and fellow Modan member Ashley Battersby to improve her style. With the help of Molly and Dania, Veronica is looking to use this year to improve her jump skills. She shreds Park City almost every day trying new tricks with hopes to improve her rail style and ability, maybe even catch a chair with some cute boys. Veronica is 5 ft 1 and a ball of fire, known by her friends as Vern, V-ron, or Eastcoastbiddi. When I asked Veronica what some of her other hobbies were she casually and very seriously stated that they included, kicking it, public transportation, wizard staffing, fine pottery, stunner shades, getting hyphy and cracking jokes. Veronica is always high spirited and outgoing always listening to Lil Wayne and having a good time. She is currently filming with good friends and fellow east coasters, Rockthrill, as well as Evan Heath keep an eye out for their edits on Newschoolers and Vern's debut.

The MODAN Girls! Dania Assaly

2009-01-19T20:00:00.000-08:00

photo: Anna De Masi

Dania Assaly

Hometown: Edmonton, AB

Current Residence: Salt Lake City

Age: 21

Dania Assaly grew up in Edmonton , AB. Skiing since she was 3 years old, she began her career skiing in Jasper, AB skiing at Marmot Basin she became involved with competitive freeskiing at the age of 15 and never looked back. Dania is currently riding with some of the biggest names in the pipe and is sponsored by Roxy and Smith Optics. Using infamous skiers such as Roxy team member Sarah Burke and Mike Henitiuk to look up to, Dania has become a well know name in women's half pipe skiing. Dania relates her greatest accomplishment two major injuries and ability to come back strong and place well in a variety of competitions in the 07/08 season. Her stats from the previous year and her recent participation in the Breckenridge Dew Tour has allowed Dania to be the 1st alternate at this years X-Games one of the biggest competitions in the skiing industry. I am excited to say we will all be there cheering her on this Thursday as the X-Games kicks off at Aspen/Snow Mass. Keep an eye out for this blonde bombshell whether she is dancing in the street singing her heart out to Britney Spears or slaying it in the pipe this girl never has a dull moment or a bad attitude! We are all excited what the year holds for Dania.

Dania 07/08 Sats:

1st at Aspen Open pipe

1st at Big Bear Open pipe

1st at Mount Snow Open pipe

1st at Part City Noram Pipe

3rd at Mount Snow Open slope

3rd at Nippon Open Slope

3rd a Calgary Noram pipe

1st WSI qual pipe

08/09 sats:

3rd Breckenridge Dew Tour pipe

4th FIS World Cup pipe Les Contamines

MODAN Productions

2009-01-18T14:00:00.000-08:00

We all found each other in random ways and became friends for one specific reason: we loved the snow. Modan productions started as an idea derived about a year ago from the minds Molly Ellowitz and Dania Assaly. The idea is to create an outlet to display women's skiing. As more of us came together this last year we decided to try and make it happen. Women's skiing today is overlooked and we, a group of friends who are trying to progress the woman's sport of skiing together, want to change that. This is just the beginning of where we want to take this.

The year started out with a bang at Colorado's infamous resorts. Breckenridge and Keystone opened up and we rushed at the opportunity to show off our tricks meet up with old friends, make new ones and share some laughs. The likes of Molly Ellowitz, Dania Assaly, Kim Pickle and Ashley Battersby among others hit up their jibs and embraced the lack or snow just to have some fun and slide some snow. The weekend passed and we gathered again to share stories and attend classes. Finals came and went and the girls could actually get their season started. Dania finished her time at the University of Utah to take some time off to focus on her skiing with the idea to finish up her education up in Canada studying acupuncture after a little rest and relaxation time. The rest of us still have some time to go and lightened our class load or took the time off to get ourselves on the snow. Ashley and Dania were excited to get their season started and train for their upcoming competitions which include X-Games, Dew Tour and France's World Cup. The time had come, Ashley packed her bags to couch surf in Colorado and prepare her runs for the X-Games and Dew Tour. Unfortunately there was quite a turn of events for Ashley, the week before her first competition, the Breckenridge Dew Tour stop she had an unlucky landing and blew her second knee with an ACL tear. We were all crushed to say the least, knowing that she had all the potential to take this year’s competitions by storm, instead she headed back to hang out with the family and get back on her feet. Ashley had surgery on January 6 and is on her way to a speedy recovery but will not be competing this season. On the other spectrum Dania Assaly was blessed with some great opportunities at our good friends despair Angeli Vanlaanen who broke her collarbone while training in the pipe Dania was giving the opportunity to strut her stuff at the Breckenridge Dew Tour in the pipe while Angeli recovered. Dania started off taking 3rd in her first competition of the season and called us with great hopes to make it to the top by the end of the season. After that Dania flew to France to compete in the FIS Freestyle World Cup at Les Contamines she was able to stomp her 9 in the pipe to place 4th in the competition while improving on her French. As Dania graced half pipes around the world Molly Ellowitz, Veronica Kelly, Erica Durtschi, Jordan Modine and Anna Borgman among others reunited in Salt Lake City to take advantage of Park City's park, which put into full swing with the opening of King's Crown Super Park. The girls took on the guys and ripped through Pick and Shovel as well as strutting their stuff on the King’s jumps or in the super-pipe. The Modan adventures are just beginning as all of us head to X-Games to cheer on, and compete hope to see you there keep an eye out for Modan Productions on our girls!

Back to basics

2008-12-19T13:36:00.001-08:00

The day we had all been waiting for had finally come. It was early November and I opened my door to find a fresh blanket of white. It was what we all needed, a much needed relief to what seemed to be never ending anticipation. The air was crisp and the peaks of the Wasatch front were covered in snow, four feet to be exact. Our spirits had finally been lifted and a new sense of light-heartedness had come into our lives. Our adventures were about to begin. As we gathered together ear-to-ear smiles were inevitable. Our love for the snow was the reason we had all moved to Salt Lake City and we were finally able to immerse ourselves in the champagne powder that Utah provides. Some hiked up through the waist deep powder to the bowls of Alta to make their first runs of the season in untracked powder and hopefully get that face shot we have been dreaming about. Others hiked up Brighton or Guardsman's pass to hit features and get some new tricks in their bag before the resort openings, as well as some preseason footage to show everyone back home that we had snow and were ready to pick up right where we left off last season.