Baw Baw night shoot photo's.

Jason sent me an e-mail with the photo's from the Baw Baw shoot a few weekends ago in it. The photo's turned out really well. Brendan started his photography life as a fashion guy and is trying to make the switch to snowboard. I must say he is a very talented behind the camera.
He was very picky about getting the shot and Charlie ended up doing about 20 gap back lips on the double kink rail just for Brendan to be happy with himself.
Once again it was a very fun weekend and thanks everyone who joined in.


Gap back lip. Charlie


I dont even know what this is but turned out to be a dope shot. Chris


Back One over the rail. Me

SM

Friday Film.

On Friday i went up the mountain with Andrew again and this time I took my camera. I was just planning on taking pictures but we ended up searching everywhere for some cool stuff we could film which I would turn into a little video for here.
The blog has been a bit boring lately so i thought i should make a little movie to spics things up.
I know this is no Mack Dawg Production but it's kinda cool and I had fun making it...
So here goes.

Thirty Second Friday.. from COMRADES on Vimeo.

Thanks for watching.

SM

Avalanche?

I must say that today was probably the most fun i have had riding in a long time... I rode with my sister's boyfriend Andrew and some of his friends. We got up around 9:30 and went pretty much straight over to Interceptor quad chair. Then we hiked out over the top to North Perisher T-bar. We found some pretty sweet lines over there and did some more laps on the t-bar. After we shredded that for a bit we hiked over the top again and Andrew dropped in to the right and i went to the left to hit this little rock line. After I landed I heard Andrew yelling and looked over and saw that he had set off a little avi. So that was one of the small highlights of the day.



Such a fun day shredding!

Tomorrow we are heading up again hopefully its just as fun as today was...

SM

Tripping to Baw Baw

On Friday afternoon Charlie and i Ventured our way down to Victoria for the Forum Battle At Baw Baw. We stopped at most of the little tourist destination's along the way to waste some time.



And even stopped in at Super Cheap to buy some flood lights.


The Competition was on Saturday morning so we stayed at Jason Maxfield's place in Mansfield, woke up the next morning at 5:30 to continue down the road to Baw Baw which none of us really knew the location of, so it was a bit of an adventure. The drive there wasn't exactly cruisy... after the long stretches it was a solid hour of narrow windy.



We arrived at about 9:30 and sorted out our lift passes and parks pass for "The Hulk" (my car). After that stuff was all sorted we pretty much got straight into practice for the rail comp. Now as some of you may know I'm not the best rail rider so i needed some practice for sure.
The rail comp didn't finish till and 2:30 with Robbie Walker taking out the open's and Andrew Roth taking out the juniors. Once this was over we got some food to eat and decided we wanted to do a night shoot on the stair case rail the competition was held on.



The view from the top of the mountain was pretty cool, it looked way down into the valley and all the plains below.



Sunday was a super bad weather day so we had a meeting the with producer of the Ride productions movie and spoke about her ideas and our ideas and really brainstormed and asked alot of questions. We also got given our contracts so this is pretty legit now. Just waiting to get a bunch of filming done.

On the way home as we where going through Wodonga i copped a speeding fine. Not very fun at all, $243 and three demerit points for going 99 in an 80 zone. I didn't even mean to be speeding, there where cars both in front and behind me. I must have just vagued.

I was super excited for this trip on Thursday and Friday and it more than exceeded my expectations! Was super fun hanging out with Jason again.

Sorry for such a long post but... Thanks for reading!

SM

Transfer blog post.

Just after i got back from Mammoth i was speaking with Russel Holt the editor of Transfer snowboarding magazine and he asked me to write up a blog post for his "Pro-Blogs" section of the Transfer website.
It seems that he likes what i wrote and posted it up on his website. there are some cool photo's on there and a little video that has been featured on here too.

Click HERE to have a look or jump on over to transfersnowboarding.com and navigate yourself to the pro-blogs section.

Hope you like it.

SM

Flagged.

Just as we got to perisher this morning to go riding we where walking across the bridge towards front valley. Then Jarryd yell's out "oohhh ssaammbboosss" i was a little puzzled at first then i looked back and saw him pointing at one of the flag's up ahead. It seems one of the photo's from a shoot with Ryan Willmott last year ended up getting used by perisher. Super stoked!



This was a good way to start out the day which turned out to be super fun just shredding around the mountain.
Perisher is still yet to get up a decent jump. When they get some more features up i'm sure a few posts will come with this.

SM