Happy Helmets | Elk River Snowboard & Ski x Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah
Elk River Snowboard & Ski x Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah
Hey Friends!
First and foremost, thank you for tuning in & following along for Brain Injury Awareness month! Hopefully you all enjoyed the giveaways, fun facts and shared experiences.
Upcoming in April we’re ecstatic to announce that we have been chosen as the supported non-profit for The Bomb Hole Cup! This is a 2 day long (April 2-3) community gathering at none other than Brighton Resort, UT and will be fun for all ages & levels. If you’re in the area, come by! If not, be sure to check out the extremely entertain podcast, The Bomb Hole.
Happy Helmets:
For April we’re grateful to have partnered up with Elk River Snowboard & Ski as well as Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah!
Elk River Snowboard & Skis is an exceedingly generous local shop with a couple locations, based in West Virginia! They’re specialty is snowboard & ski rentals offering an array of brands for every level. Not only will they outfit you with the latest and greatest equipment but they also offer softgood rentals. Out of the kindness of their hearts they’ve donated a bunch of helmets to our Happy Helmets program! If you’re in the area check them out!
Our January Recipient: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah helps children realize their potential and build their futures. We nurture children and strengthen communities. And we couldn't do any of it without you. Their mission is to “Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.”
They have community-based, school based and a few other programs for children. Click HERE to see how you can get involved and if you would simply like to learn more click HERE.
Roxy Highlight:
Roxy has been hard at work to deliver the most adorable, sustainable swimwear, activewear and everyday favorites! Click HERE to see their sustainable pieces across all of their new lines!
Happy Helmets | Darkside Snowboards x Youth Sports Alliance
Darkside Snowboards x Youth Sports Alliance
Hey All!
Boy oh boy, do we have a PACKED March agenda for you, buckle up! March is Brain Injury Awareness month and our inaugural celebration, with our own spin on it for the cause.
We’ve been fortunate enough to partner with Redbull, Roxy, K2, Skullcandy and Anon for virtual activations throughout the month. Make sure to follow @saveabrian on IG to participate in “Save A Brain Month” packed with giveaways and auctions!
Happy Helmets:
Not only were we able to have support of the incredible brands mentioned above but we were actually able to partner with an OG Darkside Snowboards for March’s Happy Helmets!
Darkside Snowboards opened in Killington, VT in 1989 - when snowboarding was still in its infancy. Darkside prides themselves on supporting the snowboard community in Vermont. For the past 27 years, Darkside has been helping riders pursue the snowboarding lifestyle. Through various snowboard academies, college snowboard clubs, high school snowboard teams, and local mountain town dwellers, Darkside has provided generations of snowboarders a place to make friends, progress their skills, meet their favorite pro, and most importantly, get their first or tenth setup. The Dark Park has played host to many a snowboard contest and is always FREE to come and ride. Just make sure you sign a waiver!
Learn more about Darkside Snowboards, HERE!
Our January Recipient: Youth Sports Alliance:
We’ve also decided to partner with Youth Sports Alliance for a second month in a row, they are a Park City based nonprofit. Youth Sports Alliance focuses to support winter sports activities for youth in Summit and Wasatch counties, promoting good sportsmanship and healthy lifestyles through participation, education and competition.
They’re growing at a rapid pace and making huge impacts within the community! Click HERE to read more about Youth Sports Alliance and see how you can get involved!
Roxy Highlight:
Roxy athletes continue the untamed successes at the Olympics! These women are an absolute inspiration.
Chole Kim Brought home the GOLD for US - Women’s Snowboard Superpipe
Tess Ledeux took Silver for France - Women’s Ski Big Air
Kelly Sildaru - took Bronze for Estonia in Women’s Ski Slopestyle. She also competed in Superpipe and Big Air. (EE)
Maggie Voisin - Women’s Ski Slopestyle & Big Air (US)
Meg Oldham - Women’s Ski Slopestyle & Big Air (CA)
Katie Ormerod - Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle & Big Air (GRB)
Emily Arthur - Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe (AUS)
CONGRATS on being an olympian and showcasing your talents & passion to the world!
Happy Helmets | Roxy x Youth Sports Alliance
Welcome to the 13th consecutive month of Happy Helmets! We just surpassed our official 1st year marker of the program in January (see recap HERE), and we have the pleasure of teaming up again with the very 1st supporter of Happy Helmets - Roxy! Roxy has allowed us to accomplish a bunch of firsts - our first Happy Helmets, they were our first brand partner and they were there to see our first in-person event. We have nothing but love for this brand and the women behind it.
We’ve also partnered with Youth Sports Alliance, a Park City based nonprofit, to be the recipient of February's Happy Helmets! Youth Sports Alliance focuses to support winter sports activities for youth in Summit and Wasatch counties, promoting good sportsmanship and healthy lifestyles through participation, education and competition.
Roxy x Youth Sport Alliance
Hey Everyone!
Welcome to the 13th consecutive month of Happy Helmets! We just surpassed our official 1st year marker of the program in January (see recap HERE), and we have the pleasure of teaming up again with the very 1st supporter of Happy Helmets - Roxy! Roxy has allowed us to accomplish a bunch of firsts - our first Happy Helmets, they were our first brand partner and they were there to see our first in-person event. We have nothing but love for this brand and the women behind it.
Roxy is an all women’s’ action sport brand that has been encouraging as well as supporting other women to #MakeWaveMoveMountains since 1990! Not only are they an all women’s brand paving the way for the future, but they make just about everything you can imagine to be active with style all while sticking to their sustainability efforts (to read click HERE).
Our February Recipient: Youth Sports Alliance
We’ve also partnered with Youth Sports Alliance, a Park City based nonprofit, to be the recipient of February's Happy Helmets! Youth Sports Alliance focuses to support winter sports activities for youth in Summit and Wasatch counties, promoting good sportsmanship and healthy lifestyles through participation, education and competition.
“The Youth Sports Alliance (YSA) -- initially known as the Youth Winter Sports Alliance (YWSA) -- was established after the 2002 Winter Olympic Games to spearhead a community-wide effort to increase the number of children participating in winter sports in the greater Park City area. Today, YSA supports seven competitive winter sport teams, after-school programs including Get Out & Play (GO&P) for elementary school students and ACTiV8 for middle school and junior high school students. YSA also established an endowment to provide need-based scholarships for junior athletes. Through these programs, we engage more than 2,800 youth each year.
Current programs range from introductory offerings for 1st through 9th graders that keep kids active, engaged and away from their screens to teenagers aspiring to Olympic competition or National Team status. Through our programs and scholarships all local children are offered the chance to participate in sports and learn the true meaning of SPORT, our core values: Sportsmanship, Perseverance, Optimism, Respect, and Teamwork. regardless of financial status.” See how you can get involved HERE.
Roxy Happenings:
Roxy athletes have been on fire this winter! After seeing many of them on podiums across an array of events (superpipe, slopestyle and big air) at Dew tour, they came back in full swing for X-Games.
Kelly Sildaru - 1st in Women’s Ski Superpipe
Tess Ledeux - 1st in Women’s Ski Big Air & 1st in Women’s Ski Slopestyle
Megan Oldham - 2nd in Women’s Ski Big Air & 3rd in Women’s Ski Slopestyle
Haruna Matsumoto - 3rd in Women’s Snowboard Superpipe
Congrats Ladies!! We’re excited to continue to cheer on the Roxy women at the Olympics!
Happy Helmets | Giro x SOS Outreach
Thank YOU to everyone that helped to spread the word and/or donated to our Giving Tuesday efforts! We had an amazing outcome and couldn’t be more thrilled to give the gift of brain health to those in recovery - thanks to you.
We hope that everyone is enjoying the winter season thus far! Tis the season to get back on the mountain, and that might mean it’s time to start looking for a new helmet. If you ever have any questions about helmets please don’t hesitate to reach out to us via IG or email.
Giro x SOS Outreach
Happy New Year everyone!
We hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season! This past month has been jam packed for Save a Brain so buckle up as we take you for a ride!
January marks 1 full year of our Happy Helmets program! Thanks to all of the support of brands, we saved over 350 brains in 2021! We’ve been extremely lucky to have the support of Giro, a helmet company that has been a pillar within the action sports helmet industry since 1985. They started out as a bike helmet brand and launched their first snow helmet in 1999 and have been unstoppable ever since. We’ve decided to donate these epic Giro helmets to SOS Outreach. SOS is a CO based nonprofit that focuses on giving every child an opportunity to thrive, starting with the outdoors! They’re an incredible non-profit and this is our second time donating our Happy Helmets to their foundation!
Huge Thanks to Giro:
Giro’s mission is extremely admirable and unique: “You Make Us Do It. KEEP STRIVING FOR FURTHER, FASTER AND BETTER. WE’LL KEEP MAKING THE GEAR THAT GETS YOU THERE.”
“You, doing things that most people wouldn’t even consider. Drawing a line that’s rarely inbounds. Descending at speeds that would give your underwriter pause. Pushing yourself in ways nature and gravity never intended. As long as you’re relentlessly pushing forward, we will too. When you stop, that’s when we’ll stop. We’re obsessing over your passion. Destroying more helmets in testing and development than some brands even create. We’re agonizing over vent sizes and inseam lengths. Pouring our years, our hearts, our sweat, into one insole, one goggle, one helmet at a time. Plainly said, being there when you need us most.”
To read more about Giro, click HERE.
Our January Recipient: SOS Outreach:
“When we humbly began more than 25 years ago, we took 15 kids from the big city of Denver to the fresh air of Vail Mountain to snowboard for the first time. Those kids left that day forever inspired by the transformative power of the outdoors.
Over two decades later, we’ve grown SOS Outreach into a national nonprofit spanning from the Cascades to the Sierras to the Rockies to the Midwestern hills—serving more than 4,000 youth each year across 15 locations in 9 states, and offering year-round programming at several of our sites.
Our life-changing programs combine outdoor exploration, positive adult mentorship, leadership skills and community service to help youth discover joy, feel included, overcome challenges, improve their mental health, and become strong leaders.”
SOS has impacted an abundance of both youth and their adult mentors in the outdoor community! To see how you can get involved click HERE.