{"id":1129,"date":"2011-01-26T21:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T13:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdnphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:21:31","slug":"extreme-winter-nanshan-snowboarding-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2011\/01\/26\/extreme-winter-nanshan-snowboarding-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Winter: Nanshan Snowboarding Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition001.jpg\" alt=\"Busting a fat trick at Nanshan during the Nike &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" title=\"Busting a fat trick at Nanshan during the Nike &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Nanshan is making a big push this winter with more and more kids strapping on snowboards and taking to the slopes. Although Nanshan might be an over-glorified hill, it is still home to one of the <a title=\"Mellow Parks Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mellowparks.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best snow parks<\/a> in China and remains the closest one to Beijing. Every year it hosts The Red Bull Nanshan Open, now considered a top-level slopestyle competition, and attracts snowboarders from around the world with its large cash purse. Otherwise, it has been hosting a series of events called the Nike 6.0 &#8220;Five Gates&#8221; Jam Series which, &#8220;replicates the historic Three Kingdoms story of a captured General and the five gates he had to fight through to return to his rightful home and family \u2013 in this case replacing gates with obstacles and battles with jam sessions!&#8221; Quite an interesting way of incorporating Chinese history into a snowboarding event. All the same, it is bringing more and more snowboarders out to Nanshan and helping pave the way for yet another extreme sport in China. I predict we will be seeing many more visits like Shawn White&#8217;s during the <a title=\"Air &amp; Style Beijing: Shawn White Visits Beijing\" href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2010\/12\/13\/air-style-beijing-shawn-white-visits-beijing\/\">Air &amp; Style competition<\/a> in the coming years. These photos were taken at  the first Nike 6.0 &#8220;Five Gates&#8221; Jam Series event entitled The Ledge. There are still two more events left on February 12 and 26 at Nanshan. Catch a bus and head for the hills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition002.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd watches the show at Nanshan during the Nike &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" title=\"A crowd watches the show at Nanshan during the Nike &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntriplel size-full wp-image-1145\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition003.jpg\" alt=\"Overlooking the course at Nanshan during the Nike &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" title=\"Overlooking the course at Nanshan during the Nike &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntriplec size-full wp-image-1146\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition004.jpg\" alt=\"Snowboarders battle it out during the Nike &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" title=\"Snowboarders battle it out during the Nike &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntripler size-full wp-image-1147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition_portrait003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition_portrait003.jpg\" alt=\"Competitors take the tow to the top of the course at the first of the NIke &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" title=\"Competitors take the tow to the top of the course at the first of the NIke &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1133\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition_portrait005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition_portrait005.jpg\" alt=\"Competitors take the tow to the top of the course at the first of the NIke &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" title=\"Competitors take the tow to the top of the course at the first of the NIke &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition_portrait001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition_portrait001.jpg\" alt=\"Competitors take the tow to the top of the course at the first of the NIke &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" title=\"Competitors take the tow to the top of the course at the first of the NIke &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1131\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition_portrait004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20101206_beijing_snowboarding_tricks_competition_portrait004.jpg\" alt=\"Competitors take the tow to the top of the course at the first of the NIke &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" title=\"Competitors take the tow to the top of the course at the first of the NIke &quot;Five Gates&quot; events\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanshan is making a big push this winter with more and more kids strapping on snowboards and taking to the slopes. Although Nanshan might be an over-glorified hill, it is still home to one of the best snow parks in China and remains the closest one to Beijing. Every year it hosts The Red Bull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[39,79,155,264,284,315,356],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_category","category-youth_category","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-extreme","tag-mellow-parks","tag-nanshan","tag-portraits","tag-snowboardings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}