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Published February 07, 2013, 12:00 AM

Smoosh Board races


The Frequent Fliers display their award-winnning costumes. The team members are Melanie Berg, Erin Rabideaux, Julie Goetzke and Rachel Markie. They also won the 2012 Best Costume Award, when the dressed as the Master Spitfires.

  • The Frequent Fliers display their award-winnning costumes. The team members are Melanie Berg, Erin Rabideaux, Julie Goetzke and Rachel Markie. They also won the 2012 Best Costume Award, when the dressed as the Master Spitfires.
  • The Frequent Fliers were the crowd’s pick for winners of the best costumes award. The team members, from left, are Melanie Berg, Erin Rabideaux, Julie Goetzke and Rachel Markie.
  • Team iTed, foreground, starts an elimination race against Mexican Winter, a team from Chicago.
  • A team stumbles shortly after leaving the starting line.
  • Two teams from Chicago battle for third place. At right is Mexican Winter, comprised of Tina Rice, Molly Ullenberg, Kathy Soroka and Gabriel Pontones. The group said they’ve been coming to Hudson for the Hot Air Affair for five years.
  • A local team competes in the Feb. 2 Hot Air Affair smoosh board competition.
  • Team iTed displays its Smoosh Board Championship trophy after winning the Hot Air Affair competition Saturday afternoon. The team members, from left, are Isaac Young, Tait Saterbak, Dmitri Roth and Ella Young. At right is competition emcee John Knutson in a “Majestic Flyway” theme bird costume. The perennial champions of the competition, the Smoosh Bucklers, were on a South American tour, Knutson reported.
  • An also-ran smoosh board team takes a fall.
  • Colorful announcer John Knutson calls a race. His costume was in keeping with the "Majesty Flyway" theme of the 2013 Hudson Hot Air Affair.
  • The key to success in the smoosh board competition is custom-make bindings, like these on Team iTed's boards.