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Some 70,000 fans showed up for the show outside the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. “The main statue is of Lenin, who is, from what we have gathered, their George Washington,” writes Tyler Tobin.

First it was Yekaterinburg. Now it’s Novosibirsk. Heath Frisby, Joe Parsons, Isaac Sherbine and the SCS/Red Bull Sledstyle crew are taking Russia by storm—here’s the latest report from the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Feb. 28, by SCS’ Tyler Tobin.”Novosibirsk, Russia. Revolution on Machines. February 28… RED BULL RUSSIA AND SCS PRODUCTIONS BIGGEST EVENT IN HISTORY!!!”

“Stop 2 on the Red Bull Revolution on Machines tour is complete and let’s just say that history was made in Novosibirsk, Russia. The SCS crew pulled off the biggest sledstyle show to date with 70,000+ spectators in attendance to watch Heath Frisby, Joe Parsons and Isaac Sherbine. The setup was a little bit different than our event in Yekaterinburg: Instead of two ramps with two landings, we mixed it up and built two ramps with one giant landing. Needless to say, the venue and course worked and flowed much better with this new setup, and the crowd definitely enjoyed it. Frisby and Parsons were able to flip side-by-side and you could see it in the Russians’ eyes—they were in complete awe.”

“We had a four round setup with Round 1 consisting of each rider getting a total of 10 jumps. Then the crowd judged the top two to move into a final round. Frisby and Parsons were selected. However, Sherbine definitely did not disappoint and is emerging with some excellent tricks and professional showmanship (even though he did have a pretty nasty get off in practice that ended up totaling a sled). (Thanks again to Rosan Distributing of Russia for providing us with ample Ski Doo equipment to get another sled ready for Isaac.)”

“Round 2 was the Best Trick round and this really started to set the stage for what was in store. Isaac threw an amazing stripper which the crowd screamed for and he was pumped up for sure. It was one of the best strippers I have seen in a long time. Parsons came out second and threw a super flip and a pendulum flip—two of his best flip variation tricks to date, super extended and smooth. Frisby came out third and this is where it got interesting. Instead of a flip variation, Frisby threw something completely new: A one-handed Hart attack to Rock Solid. Steve and our incredible announcer Tim, who was fresh off a trip from Egypt for a surfing competition after Yekaterinburg, was standing next to Steve Miller in the middle of the landing and each of them were amazed and absolutely blown away by the creativity and shear sickness that Heath brought out.”

“Round 3 consisted of Parsons and Frisby each throwing down another ten hits from Round 1, which was again an amazing show. Flip variations, huge extended tricks and classic Parsby showmanship!!”"Round 4 was where history and crowd amazement were made. For all of the previous rounds I had been communicating with the riders down at the production tent so I was unable to get the full effect of what was happening. However, I picked up my video camera and traversed my way up 30 feet of scaffolding where Devin Karr had been shooting photos all night and he told me to get ready for the show. I got the camera out and began shooting and each rider threw down in what we decided on to be a finale/jam session for 10-15 minutes. I am not sure if the crowd stopped screaming seeing two riders jumping simultaneously and throwing the same sick tricks as before. Parsons and Frisby were throwing huge flip variations simultaneously and then Sherbine was right behind them both flipping as well. It was so awesome to witness this in Novosibirsk, Russia, and when it was all said and done the photos and video will prove the statement that this was the biggest sledstyle events to date and we made it happen here at SCS.”

“All of us at SCS would like to take the time to individually thank all of people and companies that made this event possible. First, Red Bull in Novosibirsk and all of the employees that came from Moscow headquarters truly were a huge help and their efforts are greatly appreciated. Second, the production company Modific out of Moscow made a gigantic effort to make the setup and look of everything extremely professional and we are grateful to Gleb and his crew for working day and night on setup. Lastly, we would like to thank and give support to Joe Parsons. Steve informed me that he has not seen Joe ride that good yet. Steve also told me that Joe rode better in Novosibirsk then he did at X Games!! Keep up the great riding Joe, but also each rider rode above and beyond what we could have even expected!!”

“On a lighter much funnier note, we had a little mishap occur during the day before the event. While we were all working on the landing and preparing the final touches to it we all decided to have shovel racing down the face. However, it was not normal shovel racing. We decided to stand on the face of the shovel and try to ride it down like a board or some odd thing that is more than likely to cause some form of injury. One of our colleagues Markass was the last to attempt and he was against the whole idea entirely because he says to us that when he does stupid things he usually gets hurt (and that is what happened). Our peer pressure got the best of him and in his attempt to ride down he managed to break his ankle. Needless to say, we got a good laugh out of it and look at it with fond memories, but our condolences go out to Mark and his infamous right boot!! We are all with you buddy!! He told us that the ambulance ride (or shall I say ride in an empty box van) and hospital that asked for no information was quite the memorable experience!”—Tobin