Sunday.

Sorry for this late post I've just been waiting on the photo's from Shirvo.

We got up the hill pretty early on Sunday. Did a few laps of the park while we waited for the Filmer Kris. Once he got there Charlie and i went over to finish off what we had semi set up the day before.
Charlie and I rock paper scissored to see who would hit it first. It came down to the last draw and unfortunately i had the pulled the short straw and was up first. I was a little bit scared but thought that it was pretty make able so i just sucked it up. We waited a bit more for Shirvo our photographer to get there and set up. Then i did some run-ins to see for the speed, and hit it straight away.
Stomped it first try but needless to say it defiantly wasn't the most stylish thing i have ever done...
Second try didn't stomp. went tumbling straight over the top into a tree further down the landing which we all thought would be the worst case scenario of this hit. Glad to get that out of the way early.
Charlie had a few goes. first try not quite enough speed and he hit the rock... pretty scary.

We kept sessioning it for a bit longer until Shirvo had to go back to the burton demo tent to finish up the day.

Although the light was super flat and Shirvo couldn't get his flashes working we still ended up getting some good shots.

Here are a few from the days work.

Spare Change...

So tomorrow will be the first day of filming for the Wet Socks production Spare Change. I've been told not to give out too much info on the whole project but you now know that i shall be in a movie this year.

Today we spent most of the day building stuff for tomorrow so we can try and get a few things done.

We have found about three or four possible things to do. So it should be a fun day.

Here is a little sneak peak at what we have planned for tomorrow.



So we are going to be taking off from where I'm standing at the top and landing in the bottom right of the frame. well... That's the plan anyway.

I'll put up another post with some more photo's after tomorrow.

SM

Shooting Guthuga

Friday afternoon i got a message from Photographer Mike Cooper asking if i wanted to do some photo's the next day. Of course i wanted to get shreding but i wouldn't pass up a chance to get some good photo's.
So saturday morning, myself, Charlie Steinbacher and Matty Gillings all met up in Nuggets at 9 and discused what we where going to do. We all decided to head along the road to Guthuga and try to find something along there somewhere that would look cool.
We found something pretty quickly, it was a tree tap type deal.
We started to build the jump right away so we could session it. The speed for the jump was super fast and it didn't put you up very high so our approach changed a bit and we decided to start jumping through the tree we where tapping and another tree that was only about 1 or 2 metres away to the left.


Here are a few photo's from the day.

Issue two of snowboarder magazine.

The second issue of Aust & NZ Snowboarder magazine has hit the shelves and i seem to have managed to score myself a nice little photo. Super stoked on this as it's my first real published photo.
The photo was from one of the days that Mike Cooper charlie and i went out to Charlottes and worked hard to get shots. Well all that hard work seems to have paid off and we both got shots from those days. Charlie's photo is the big one, mine is on the right.
anyways here is a snapshot of the page for you to have a look at. Also stayed tuned for my checkout coming in issue three.

First shred at the new perisher not so blue.

I had to go and get my pass from the ticket office this morning which i couldn;t get without my letter from NSWIS. So after signing about 10 pages of forms i got my letter and then went and got my pass!
By now it was around noon so Andrew, Grace and I headed up the mountain for a bit of a shred. There was a lot more snow at perisher than i expected which got me stoked to go riding.
There where heaps of little hits around front valley and off to the sides. It was quick laps on the V8 back to the top. They have some little boxes up there which where fun to session.
For only one lift being open it was a very fun day.



SM

Home

After 30+ hours of travel I'm finally at home in Jindabyne!
So i'm not allowed back at school for another week because of Swine Flu and what not, which i guess is kind of good because i can catch up on some of my school work.

It's pretty cold here at the moment and it's been raining alot too. Hopefully this rain turns into some snow so we can get up the mountain soon enough. The resort officially opens this weekend but aparently they are only going to have a rope-tow up on front valley.

Anyways i'll put up another post when i get to go riding or when Perisher gets some jumps up.

SM

Coming Home Early.

Seeing as it's been raining for pretty much 3 days straight and it's getting even hotter we have made our decision to head home early as it is becoming near impossible to get good training sessions out of the pipe and there is no park.
On top of all this the pipe cutter is broken.
So we are leaving tomorrow morning to Reno at 7 in the morning then get some stuff done in Reno then fly from Reno to San Fran, the to Sydney i believe then I'm not sure if i go from Sydney to Canberra but I'm hoping i do.

My time in Mammoth has been super fun seeing as most of the time it's sunny in the morning then the clouds come over in the afternoon and let out a bit of rain. which isn't bad because we are usually off the hill by about eleven or twelve o'clock.
In the afternoon we usually go to the gym and have some fun on the tennis courts and do a bit of a workout.


Here are some photo's of where we where staying.


Jason, Myself, Charlie and Pat hanging out at the bottom of the pipe.



These two are our place. The second is where the pool is and where we can kick a footy and what not.


This Bird would come to our window ever afternoon.

So yea spring in Mammoth has been super fun now it's back home for our winter! I'm really looking forward to this season hopefully it will be just as much fun as the last.