Simon Dumont, one of the most decorated freestyle skiers and world record holder for the highest air in a quarterpipe joins the WEND Wax Elite World Team.
Dumont dominates freeskiing history with more victories and awards than any other halfpipe skier in the world. In addition to countless awards and podium finishes, Simon is known for setting the world record for highest air in a quarterpipe and also organizing the famed "cubed pipe" photo shoot at Squaw Valley. He rounds out the WEND Elite Team of Daron Rahlves, Lindsey Jacobellis, Kazu Kokubo, Heather McPhie, Nick Goepper, Grete Eliassen, John Teller, Anais Caradeux and Travis Gerrits.
"There are times, when even in a halfpipe, my event can come down to who is running faster, so my wax is as important to me as my whole set up," said Dumont. "WEND gives me the confidence that I will have the speed I need in the halfpipe no matter what the conditions, and with the Olympics coming up, I don't want to leave anything to chance."
"I'm super stoked to be working with Simon," said John Dahl. "Our innovative WEND waxes should give him that push that lands him on the podium."
About Simon Dumont
Being crowned the first ever AFP World Champion and with nine X Games medals, Dumont is notable as one of the best freestyle skiers in the world today. Dumont had a rough start to last season, just coming back from knee surgery, Simon crashed while training for the Dew Tour shattering both wrists. After a 3 hour surgery of plates and pins being put in, Simon came back to X Games with only 1 week of skiing and without the use of poles and once again climbed up on that podium with a bronze medal. Fully healthy and ready for 2014, Simon is excited to finally see his sport in the Olympics.
WEND, a brand owned by Wax Research, Inc., is a sophisticated line of Fluoro and Natural racing waxes, overlays, bars, pastes and a full range of tuning shop waxes and base treatments. Wax Research, founded 1972 in California, is a family owned company as well as a global market leader in the action sport wax and accessory business. They have produced private label snow waxes since 1972 for some of the top brands of the sport.
WEND waxes are the official competition supplier to the U.S. Ski Team, U.S. Snowboarding, and U.S. Freeskiing.
WEND, a high performance snow wax brand, has entered into a four year agreement with the U.S. Ski Team as an Official Competition Supplier for all three of the USSA Disciplines: U.S. Ski Team, U.S. Snowboarding and U.S. Freeskiing.
Arbor Snowboards is proud to announce the return of the FACE/OFF amateur and open rail competition at Seven Springs Resort in Pennsylvania on Saturday, February 16, 2013. Wend Waxworks is the official snow wax sponsor for the event. Arbor team riders, Sean Black and Brandon Hammid will be at the event to ride with competitors and judge the qualifying rounds.
“This is our forth rollout of the FACE/OFF event that seems to be gaining momentum. This year we are very happy to announce a series of FACE/OFF events across the country with $1000 cash on the line at each competition,” says Arbor’s marketing advisor, Brad Farmer.
This year Arbor has expanded the event to the following dates and locations:
FACE/OFF Seven Springs, Pennsylvania: Saturday, February 16, 2013
FACE/OFF Cranmore, New Hampshire: Saturday, March 9, 2013
FACE/OFF Trollhaugen, Minnesota: Saturday, March 16, 2013
FACE/OFF Boreal, California: Saturday, April 6, 2013
Wend could not be happier to be apart of this Amateur rail contest tradition.
Wend Waxworks is proud to be the official wax sponsor for the 2013 TransAM this Saturday, January 5, 2013 in Waterville Valley, NH. Hosted by Transworld Snowboarding and Skullcandy.
