Road Trip

After spending a week in Tahoe with Tyson, Belmore, Woods, Ash, Maddie, Madison and Caitlin at Caitlins house we mannaged to get a bit of filming done for our moive and cut a few laps at Northstar. Most days we headed up to Donner Pass and set up features and filmed, we set up a sweet wallride and a pretty big booter off an old railway line bridge. We also hit a wooden kink rail that backed onto the lake and got a few good shots on that. It was a pretty dope week hanging with mates for spring break and filming. Here are some shots. Enjoy.

Fun Times

We were about to head home, I was waiting at the bottom of the pipe for Belmore to come down when Michaela said come do some hand plants on the quarter pipe, awesome idea have'nt done handplants in ages. Soon enough everyone was hitting it with us, Tim and Henry were getting shots and Belmore was filming it, the weather was perfect. Here are some photos of handplants, rodeos and some other kinds of spins.
Photos by Henry Gosper

DOUB RODEO

Another sunny day at Brecks perfect park!
After sessioning Freeway (the bigline) I headed over to the last jump in parklane and decided it was time to try a trick i've been thinking off for a few days, Double Back Rodeo. First attempt went really well I got the rotation perfect, I just landed really deep and blew out on the landing, same thing happend again second shot. Just gota take it to a bigger jump tomorrow. Staty tuned.

DOUBLE BACKIES!!!!

After calling it yesterday that I was going to get a double back flip today I headed up the hill with Dhanu. The weather was epic, blue skies and fairly warm weather which made it pretty much perfect conditions apart from one factor, I never though the snow could be that quick and be a bad thing. It made it a bit of a challenge to get the speed right and made overshooting look like it was going out of fashion.

After back flipping every single jump in one run I was feeling good and decided it was time.
Back flipped the first jump and came into the second/last jump with a fair amount off speed and went for it. Got the grab and kept rotating then stomped it taking it deep on the landing. So stoked. Ended up stomping all of them and made them cleaner each time. Epic day.
I'll get some footage and chuck it up asap.
Peace

New Stunts

So over the past two snowboarding days I've managed to learn two new tricks. One being a Backside Rodeo and the other a Switch Backside Rodeo. I had a session at Woodward with a few of the boys and learnt a double back rodeo off the ramp into the foampit. Cant wait to get them down on snow as well as a double backflip! It's a big step up though.

One not so sunny day at Breck

Made it home!

After 2 weeks of getting back into snowboarding and getting tricks back we (Tyson, Belmore, Dhanu,Ash and Tim the photographer.) made the trip down to Boulder CO. Arriving late we decided to get some rest for an early start.
Friday morning bright and early we packed our gear and went to the first destination after meeting up with Stags and Woods, this was a barrel down bar exiting an underpass check photo. Tim was there taking photos, Stags was there filming for the Ballistyx Snowboard Show and we were also filming for our movie Spare Change (Wet Socks Productions).http://wetsocksproductions.blogspot.com/

Half way through a State Ranger rocked up questioning what we were doing but after some sweet talking she had no problem with it and even tried to help us out with different locations. The money shots were taken so we moved on.

The second spot was an up rail with a drop off the side located in a park, we all got to work setting it up, forming the run in the lip and setting up the Bungee Rope. The snow was perfect to make the lip but every minute after the heat was dramatically affecting the run in and was forming it into a wakeboard course. I managed to get the shot with the help of all the boys pulling the bungee and filming. Cheers bros.


We headed to the Dorms where the College students live to scope some features, found a few sweet hits but didn't end up hitting them, another time.

After a successful day a few of us decided to go out with our College friends to a few Frat parties and what not, good night.

Up early again but not as early as the day before, we all headed to a local school to hit a down rail with a decent size donkey dick on the end. Upon arrival we found that the in run was a lot smaller than expected and to make it worse it was right under a roof drainage pipe, so while strapping in we were standing under a waterfall. A few tricks were thrown and a few shots were taken and that was a wrap for our Boulder urban trip! We ended up making it home Saturday night at midnight.



Also some other photos of what I've been up to lately.