Dane ferguson x games

Currently, the club is working with the Mat-Su City Council in hopes that they will support the community-minded, Lions backed club. We show them how to operate safely and let them learn something that gets them outdoors.

We collect food for the food pantry at our events. The Sno-X Lions Club invites you to come and show your support for their endeavor. In the meantime, Ferguson is forging ahead with his vision to create a champion class of future Alaskan snowmachiners in the National and international sno-x, freestyle, and backcountry scenes. Like most kids growing up in the North Country, his big dreams for the future involved hockey.

Snowboarding got him into fighting gravity, and he had countless crashes while learning how to flip, spin, and jump cliffs. Throw motocross in the mix, and Ferguson was starting to dial in his big-air destiny. A crowd of people gathered around Ferguson to find out if he was ok. This scenario repeated itself throughout the day with the crowd interest growing more with every crash. That was another lesson that helped him find his future calling. Ferguson got into the sport when a friend, Josh Murphy, bought him and another friend, Christoph Von Alvensleben, sleds so that they could ride together in the backcountry.

Ferguson was the one usually holding the camera while his two buddies pulled off the big stunts. Ferguson grew tired of always being showed up by his two friends, and it pushed him to go beyond his limits. Tragically, Alvensleben lost his life in an avalanche while riding in the backcountry in His whips seemed to be a little bit more inverted. Everything he did was always a little bit better. I tried to call it a monkey flip, but nobody would call it a monkey flip.

Innovation and adventure have always been the itinerary for Ferguson. In the winter of , he performed with a world-class group, the Slednecks, in Red Square, Moscow. The crowd of 30, tore the jacket off his back when he got too close while throwing DVDs to the rabid fans. Not daunted, Ferguson rode the qualifier anyway, on one leg. So I flipped around this whole thing with one broken leg and loose handlebars. That day he got both. He brought home the gold.

Ferguson remembers the early days of freestyle competition when a high percentage of Alaskans were representing the sport. He hopes for those days to return with this next generation of riders he and the Sno-X Lions Club are raising. That is what seperates the men from the boys and Levi that is the only way to explain this to my children.

Post a Comment. With Winter X Games coming up in 2 weeks January the list of invited athletes is finally on the verge of complete. This years X Games will be bigger than ever, wtith the bar raised from last years tricks, a new Snowmobile event called "Next Trick", and everyone wanting to get that top spot in Snocross - it should lead for an exciting X Games.

Many more updates will be posted for Winter X Games - so stay tuned. In the mean-while, here is the list of invited Athletes for Winter X Alternates: Willie Elam, Brett Turcotte.