By Tara Miller

September 11, 2000

In the midst of all the downtown ASR/Street Scene chaos that took place in San Diego, California throughout the last few days, Alphanumeric threw a grand ol� party at Ol� Madrid on Saturday night that included the premiere of Kingpin Productions� Destroyer. The doors opened at 7:00 p.m. with a VIP feeding frenzy, and by 9:00 p.m. the line to get in was out of control.

As the lights dimmed around 10:00 p.m., everyone�s attention was entirely focused on the screen and the vibe of the crowd came alive. After so much talk about the hilariously creative skits in this flick, no one knew what to expect as far as the riding went. Well, no need to worry because Destroyer definitely has some of the most insane footage around�what more would you expect from Whitey? He has an incredible talent of figuring out who the up-and-coming riders are, such as Gigi R�f and Brandon Bybee, but also includes veterans like Todd Richards. Other big names in this film include Risto Scott, Andrew Crawford, Scotty Wittlake, Jordan Mendenhall, Jason Murphy, Lukas Huffman, Mikey LeBlanc, Chad Otterstrom, J2, Nate Bozung, and Josh Dirksen.

The majority of Destroyer consists of freestyle riding�lots of rails shot in D.C. and Breckenridge, and huge hits. Gigi�s and Lukas� parts especially stand out from the rest in that they include more backcountry freeriding and dropping cliffs. Destroyer is by far one of the best snowboarding videos to date and is a must see. To read more about the making of the film and the specifics of the skits, look for the feature article Whitey wrote in TransWorld SNOWboarding�s December issue�it�ll be on the shelves in November.