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Over The Hill Gang rips it up at Glen Helen

Dirt, sweat and motocross were the main events at the annual Over The Hill Gang South Nationals at Glen Helen Raceway Park in San Bernardino October 18 & 19, as riders from all over southern California and beyond competed in one of the top events of the over-30 motocross circuit.

The highlight of the two-day event was the Pro Class featuring riders like 8-time veteran world champion Doug Dubach and perennial top-five finisher Terry Fowler catching big air and fighting hard in the turns.

"They're the fastest dudes out there," said OTHG President Jim Pierce, who raced in the 45 and older intermediate class with a still-mending collarbone.

"Yeah, I was going a little slower than usual," said Pierce, who heads the 700-member Southern California chapter of OTHG.

The annual competition to determine the top OTHG riders was held for the first time this year at Glen Helen after many years in Mammoth, and featured more than 300 riders, each competing in four motos over the two days.

The weekend included a Saturday night barbeque with BBQ chicken and Tri-tip, adult beverages, and raffle prizes from several OTHG sponsors.

Sponsors and raffle donors included N-Style Graphics, Too-Tech Suspensions and Shock Therapy, giving away free suspension rebuilds and other fun prizes.

"We try to be like a big fraternity, everybody is real friendly and guys aren't knocking each other down," during races, said Pierce.

Over The Hill Gang, or OTHG, has been around for more than 30 years, and has about 1,000 members throughout California. It's a gang of friends in the true since of the word.

"You have to be over 30 to be in the club, and all the officers are riders and members first," said Pierce.

The OTHG riders also seemed to enjoy their ph otographs, which were provided by Action Shooters Toby Oliver and Hakan Benkert, who flew down from the Bay Area to join in the fun.

"Your reputation precedes you," said Pierce, noticing the hoard of riders surrounding the photo booth all day on Sunday.

If you are an OTHG rider and didn't get a chance to purchase your photographs, just go to the "Customer Request" page here at actionshooters.com, fill out all the spaces, and we will contact you by telephone to let you know what we have. Moto and bike number are required to locate you photographs.

2003 OTHG South National class winners were as follows:

30 Beginner	Dennis Call
30 Novice	Bernard Daily
30 Intermediate	David Dubois
30 Expert	Mike Giem
30 Pro	Craig Davis
38 Beginner	Chuck Willetts
38 Novice	Jim Wentz
38 Intermediate	Joe Crouch
38 Expert	Tony Pulliam
38 Pro	Willy Musgrave
45 Beginner	(no first name) Resinger
45 Novice	(no first name)Carver
45 Intermediate	Rudy Chavez
45 Expert	Bob Casper
Support	Tony Pulliam
Kids Support	Bryan Duke

A.S. breaks into private schools' market

Action Shooters recently won the contract to provide action photography services f or all youth sports at Windward School in West Los Angeles.

The contract brings Action Shooters' premium quality services to private middle and high school students throughout the Los Angeles west side.

"It's unbelievable because so rarely do you get a chance to take good photographs of your teenager," said Windward Photo Co-coordinator, Ellen Perliter.

"And to get photographs of this quality is amazing," she added. "It's like Sports Illustrated photos."

Action Shooters is photographing all two-dozen sports teams at the private school of about 425 middle and high school students.

"We shoot hundreds of youth teams throughout the state every weekend, but except for the spring baseball season, our weekdays are relatively quite" said Action Shooters CFO Toby Oliver. "This is a chance for us to keep our shooters busy during the week, and reach a whole new market."

Windward is the first of several private schools that Action Shooters is looking at to provide a complete package of photography services. The photographs will be presented to parents and used in the school's year book, end of the year sports banquet montage, and other school publicity activities.

"It makes my job easier and makes the parents happy," said Perliter, who spearheaded the drive to bring Action Shooters and Windward together.

If you are involved with a private middle or high school and want to bring Action Shooters professional services to your school, just send us an email at socal@actionshooters.com, or norcal@actionshooters.com and ask for more details.

Windward School, one of the top grade 7 to 12 schools in Southern California, was founded about thirty years ago by Shirley Windward, a former teacher at Paul Revere Junior High School in West Los Angeles, and has many PHD teachers on it's teaching staff.

"The teaching staff is incredible," said Perliter. "The atmosphere is academic but very comfortable."

If you are a Windward parent and didn't yet get to view your child's photographs, email Perliter at grinart@aol.com, and in the subject space write "Action Shooters."