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Ken Block and his Subaru Impreza WRX STI Showing Everyone Up
Ken Block Co-Owner of DC Shoes was featured in this months December issue of Snowboarder Magazine, Check out the Press Release. *Read all the way at the bottom we added in a video of Ken busting a 170 foot gap in the desert.
SUBARU DRIVER KEN BLOCK FEATURED JUMPING HIS RALLY CAR ON THE COVER OF SNOWBOARDER MAGAZINE AND IN THE NEW DC SNOWBOARD VIDEO
Subaru Rally Team USA driver Ken Block and his Monster Energy Subaru Impreza WRX STI rally car have landed on the cover of the December issue of Snowboarder Magazine, hitting newsstands this week. The cover shot features Block getting airborne in his Subaru at New Zealand’s Snow Park Resort with DC Shoes pro-snowboarder Torstein Hargmo flying alongside the car on his snowboard.
Block, an avid snowboarder and co-founder of DC Shoes, recently brought his Subaru to the snowboard park at New Zealand’s Snow Park Resort to join the DC Snowboard Team for a multi-day session that combined filming, snowboarding, and driving for a unique experience captured for DC’s second full-length snowboarding video, Mtn.Lab 1.5. Along with the cover shot there is a multi-page feature full of photos from the session and a double sided pull-out poster featuring two more photos of Block’s rally car catching air in the park.
Block had the impetus for hitting the snow with his Subaru rally car after successfully jumping it 171 ft. for the Discovery Channel show Stunt Junkies late in 2006. After several attempts to set up a snow jump in the USA, the opportunity came together in New Zealand and Ken Block joined the DC Snowboard team as they filmed at Snow Park Resort in New Zealand’s South Island.
“After I completed the Stunt Junkies jump last winter, I started kicking around the idea of trying a jump out on the snow,” explained Block. “I’ve been a snowboarder for a long time and have loved driving in the snow since I first got behind the wheel. It was always a dream of mine to take a rally car to a ski resort and really see what I could do with it. I started talking with Mtn.Lab 1.5 Director Pierre Wikberg and some of the guys from the DC Snow Team and we decided to film it for the snow video and see what would come out of the idea.”
Block and the team of DC snowboarders filmed together in the Snow Park Resort’s main park on several obstacles and the crew built a 55ft tow-in kicker on flat ground to create a unique playground for the rally car and snowboarders alike. Block towed the snowboarders into several park obstacles behind his Monster Energy Subaru Impreza WRX STI rally car which was equipped with spiked ice tires from BFGoodrich Tires. Block then successfully jumped his car over 70 feet, with the snowboarders jumping beside him, creating epic photo sequences, one of which is featured on the cover of Snowboarder Magazine.
“All in all I’m really stoked on how well it went,” said Ken. “In all the experiences I’ve ever had, it truly was one of the most fun things I’ve ever done.”
Video of the entire rally car/snowboarder session will be featured in DC’s Mtn.Lab 1.5 set to release on DVD early November 2007. Additional video clips will also appear in Travis Pastrana’s next DVD, Nitro Circus 5 ‘Thrillbillies’, which will release in late November 2007.
Here is a link to a brief history of DC as well as the Team Riders Section of Subaru
Video Ken Block 170 ft Gap
Posted by Chris on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 in Snow.
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December 12th, 2007 at 6:10 am
man, wonder if that would work in my Legacy GT? Pow!
December 12th, 2007 at 6:22 am
good god how did he do that
December 12th, 2007 at 7:16 am
hey thats really daring work. I loved the first picture. How did you guys manage to do it ?
Rajj
December 12th, 2007 at 7:23 am
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December 12th, 2007 at 8:49 am
nice job
December 12th, 2007 at 9:15 am
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December 12th, 2007 at 11:33 am
OMG.. What a stupid waste of gas.. What a bunch of stupid noise.. What a stupid thing to do to your car – and most importantly – to your *spine*! What is the point? If you drive a car real fast over a jump, it will fly through the air for a moment.. ‘Yay.. We get it now can we see something actually interesting? I wonder if this guy will reconsider how ‘cool’ he think this is when he develops a spinal injury later in life.. OMG how friggin dumb..
December 12th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
That was the worst video editing ever.. Maybe next time lets see the car actually in the air from jump to landing, and not show other shots in between.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
you know what would be cool? seeing the F&*%$#* jump instead of everyone reacting. This video was LAME
December 12th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
You know whats worse than what everyone is complaining about? critics. Get off your collective fat asses and you try something … Make sure it’s perfect too because you wouldn’t want anyone critizing you.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
That blonde host guy of Stunt Junkie’s is such a TOOL!!!
“That was the worst video editing ever.. Maybe next time lets see the car actually in the air from jump to landing, and not show other shots in between.”
HERE HERE!!!
December 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
is there any video of this jump in the snow??
January 8th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Bad editing or not, that video was badass! Can’t wait to see how they top it. Only a Subaru could take that and still drive back to the fans.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I just found some clips from the snowboard park jump. They are sick!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u555jg3uu8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NsiphQ5kKI
March 30th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Is this Monster Energy Subaru Impreza WRX STI rally car still alive after this snow party?
what was the damage??
April 8th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Dude that is a gnarly photo cover.. I could only imagine what it would feel like flying off a snow mountain!!! Such a rush!!! Great post!!
May 9th, 2008 at 10:17 am
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!RALLY DRIVERS AND RALLY CARS REALLY ROCK
January 27th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
lame. block’s talladega nights down under was and remains lame.
if i wanted to read about his love for cars, i’d subscribe to car sites and mags…but i don’t…still i get to see and hear all about this bro-cal’r and his mall rat shoe/boot company.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:03 am
Those pics are out of control. I can’t believe I sit in an office all day.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Jumping a car is easier than you may think depending on the situation. I have jumped my 93 celica gt for a full summer on a road behind my house. Usually hit it going 75mph just enough to catch some air and then we took the video camera out there and I hit it going 110mph on a one lane tree lined gravel road. The hardest part is keeping control when you land. You cannot jerk the wheel or your done depending on the circumstances. Truthfull, this is more impressive: http://video.kenblockracing.com/flash/player/ Watch the first video
September 8th, 2009 at 5:50 am
The tool that was complaining about seeing something interesting ….. I would love to see you attempt a gap half that size!! I have raced Motocross all my life and hitting a 171ft gap on a bike that is build for it is NUTS!!! Let alone a car, if you don’t think that this is interesting well then you need to move out of your parents house and do something!!!! And by the way, the point of jumping something like that is knowing that you had the balls to do it! This is why we call it EXTREME SPORTS! Know what your talking about next time before you make and idiot of yourself!!!
Ken Block rules!!
Keep it sideways !
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