Monday 18 November 2013

Tux, Pleasure Jam, home in Courch

My last few days in Tux were good, snow was amazing, although only 1 sunny day so spent most of the time hitting the rail line, did manage on the good day to land a fs1080!

Slashing the powder filled pipe! with Rowbag and the Kern, cheers for pic Trinder!



Was a sick month riding with these guys, hopefully same again soon..


We all headed over to the O'Neill Pleasure Jam in Dachstein Austria, was fun park and comp was good. Landed my first run and then sketched a bit on my 2nd really stoked though as i landed a sb9 in my run and have never done that before :)

O'Neill rainbow at the Pleasure Jam



Straight after the O'Neill Pleasure Jam, me, Jamie trinder and Nate kern headed to Munich and home.. on the way we went to the Red Bull Hangar 7 at Salzburg airport, if you haven't heard of this place it is amazing, museum with everything to do with Red Bull, cars, planes, even Felix Baumgartner capsule and suit..


and then it has an awesome bar overlooking the museum, that does Smart food that is soo good and all served in glasses, menus for brain, beauty and mood. You get 3 courses and a drink, amazing..


Got back home to Courch and snow in town! hit up a hand rail


and also found a little street slopestyle line that we shaped was super fun, roller to skip rail to quarter.. 


Can't wait, i leave for The O'Neill Shoreditch Showdown in London on Thursday and then of to America!

Monday 4 November 2013

Saas-Fee, Hintertux & Stubai

My winter season started earlier in October..

1st stop for me was Saas Fee in Switzerland, to ride pipe, it was sick soo stocked to get back into it, was only there for a short stay, now cant wait to ride pipe again will have to wait until December!


From Saas Fee i headed across to Austria and Hintertux, the best place this time of year for jumps, was a fun few weeks with loads of Team GB out here. and rocking my new O'Neill outerwear which is siiick!


Last week there was a comp at Hintertux, the Zillertal Valley Rally, stoked that i won best trick with a switch backside 900! and also big shout out to my Team GB riding buddies Jamie Trinder & Rowan Coultas for taking 2nd & 3rd in the slopestyle comp.


The judges faces when i threw the best trick!! And the video of the comp with me at 3:44


I have also been over to Stubai a couple of times, me and Jamie went over for opening day, set up was real good. Then last week i was back there for a photoshoot for Head's new products, was fun and hopefully got some shots that will be used in the catalogues / website.

I am still out in Austria, now just me, Jamie Trinder & Nate Kern riding as much as we can when the weather is good! has not been this last week!!


Have also been skating when i can, this is in the indoor Innsbruck skatepark


Later this week is the O'Neill Pleasure Jam at Dachstein Glacier Austria, this is always a real good early season comp, high standard with loads of the top riders there and the first big event on the World Snowboard Tour. Hopefully the weather and winds are good, as it is prone to being real bad weather up on this glacier!! and that us Brits kill it again over there!!

I will then be heading back home to Courch for week or so before going to the UK for an awesome looking event that O'Neill are putting on in London and i am stoked to have an invite for..


A fun few weeks coming up!.. check back to see how it goes..


Sunday 29 September 2013

Summer 2013

This summer i passed driving test, snowboarding at Cervinia and Les 2 Alpes, turned 18, had an awesome holiday, played some volleyball and brought my 1st set of wheels!

For my 18th the plan for the day was, snowboard, skate and party! we went to the 2 alpes to snowboard, the park and pipe was still in perfect shape for late July.  On the way back from L2A is Crolles skate park and huge bowl one of my favourite places to skate, only got a short skate in as a thunder storm surrounded us, never skated with lighting before haha. Then party at The Drop Inn until late. All in all not a bad 18th.

The rest of the summer was spent hanging out at home in Courchevel, first time have done this for a long time, nice and relaxing and ensuring my knee / leg is back to full strength. Most of the time was mainly spent playing volleyball!!

At the end of August Me and Dave Matthews entered the Frappadingue which was 12.6km assault course through the woods with an obstacle every 400m was very fun and tiring! haha, going to get more of us to do it next year!


Look of relief, we made it to the end!!
here is an edit of the Frappadingue:

Frappadingue


Straight after the frappadingue i went on a 3 week holiday with my parents in our campervan Forrest. First off we drove down to St Tropez on south coast of France, swam in some amazing waterfalls and spent a few days in a campsite with its own private beach at Port Grimaud.


Then we drove across to the west coast of France. On our way stopped at the coolest campsite, Belrepayre Airstream and retro trailer park in the foothills of the Pyrenees, was an awesome place the people who owned it were really nice and the old guy did pretty much everything and was the dj in the bar later on haha.


On the west coast we stayed in Capbreton at H2O holidays with Jim, Annie and Thatch at their cool surfhouse http://www.h2oholidays.com/ Real good fun week with these guys, rode some waves, good food, wine, bridge jumps, go-karting, oysters and my first trappiste! bottled beer at 9.5%! and skated at awesome bowl at Saint-Jean-de-Luz.


Next we headed down to Spain and in particular to Rioja for wine tasting! we visited a number of Bodegas (vineyards). The Marques de Riscals was an amazing place and really good wine! another we went to was Bodegas Vina Herminia, it looked closed until all a sudden someone just appeared from no where, we got a personal tour around the caves and then more wine tasting, even asked me if i was doing wine education as i knew what i was doing haha.


On our way back to France we stopped off in Andorra and visited a bar where they sold a few hundred different beers, was mental. Back in France we went to some amazing swimming places, gorges, rivers, waterfalls, lakes. We found some natural hot springs in the woods in middle of nowhere, just the hot spring creating a stream and then pools that people had made with rocks etc. hot natural bath so good.



an Amazing Summer! looking forward to the winter now!!! and travelling in my new van..




Wednesday 13 February 2013

Copper, O'Neill Evolution, Courchevel, Knee injury

Sorry for the mega blog! been a bit lame getting stuff up. I had a busy start to the season and then Christmas and New Year at home in Courchevel, just didnt get around to updating. Now laid up due to rubbish injury (see below) and have loads of spare time.

At the start of December i was out in Copper with the GB team riding pipe we were all staying in this massive house that was an old bed and breakfast, haha we had a massive TV and a pool table in there was awesome few weeks. Whilst out there i worked on my bs5's and fs7's to cab7's sooo stocked!!




During January i was at the O'Neill Evolution was a fun few days the pipe was good i was really struggling to ride it though as was so different to the pipe in Copper, but still not to bad, in my first run i fell on my fs9 first hit and 2nd run i landed fs5 bs air fs7 and then did a hand drag on my cab7... but still ended up finishing 20th,



The big air / slopestyle was good, but i fell both times... ended up in 27th was a good few days well done to Katie Blundell who finished 4th in slopestyle!!




After O'Neill i came back to Courchevel and Henry Shackleton, Ollie Jackson, Jamie Trinder and Tom Hunt arrived to stay with us at The Drop Inn. Parklife Series is up and running! make sure you follow us we will spend most of our time in Courchevel riding Meribel park and Courch family park, and our travels to comps and trips planned to Mayrhofen, Turkey for Junior Worlds and Tignes for The Brits..

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Had a fun few days riding with Parklife but unfortunately some guy took me out on the piste and have had to get my knee stitched up... hopefully ill be on the hill very soon when my knee has healed..




Hopefully ill be back on the slopes soon! :)