while you where sleeping.

Sunday nights are usually very relaxing and it's a time to goto bed early.
But for Charlie, Belmore, Ash, Willy, Cohen and i we went out to hit this kink rail in Jindabyne.
I turned up without any boots... silly me. So Charlie was pretty much the only one hitting the rail.
Like all street rails it took a while but he got the shot in the end...



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Stylewars finished.

Stylewars finished up on Friday with the only day on the jump. We had one hour of practice in the morning then from elven o'clock until one o'clock we had a judged session on the jump.
The jump was around 70 foot but unlike other 70's i have hit, you had to take alot of speed into this jump, which i wasn't too stoked on at first. After warming up on the jump a bit i started to throw some tricks...
The winner of the event was Sebastian Toutant with a backside double cork 1260 then a cab 270 onto the down bar and a 50-50 back 360 out of the flat bar.
Mikkel Bang won best trick with a switch backside 1260.

navigate on over to SNOWBOARDERMAG to check out some photo's and a video. I'll post up dome photo's soon.

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Stylwars - 28 Stairs.T

The Stylewars nighttime rail jam was on last night. The setup was the same as last years but defiantly still pretty gnarly.
Everyone was throwing down and it was really good to watch. I decided to let the rail dogs do their thing while i watched from the sideline and took some photo's.
Charles Reid and Sebastien Toutant shared first place which was cool because they where both throwing down all night and pretty much running back up to get in as many hits as they could.

There is a full wrap up over HERE at snowboarder mag or HERE at the Stylewars website.

Stylewars day two.

This morning we woke up at about 8:30 to hot breakfast which was amazing... the weather outside really wasn't very good... 100km/h winds up the top of the mountain so the contest got called off. Andrew, Charlie, Cohen and I still decided to go out riding so we could check out the jump. The jump looks like it would be super fun, it's not too big and not too small. it's around 60-70 feet.
Hopefully tomorrow is better weather and we get to hit the jump even though the forecast isn't looking too good.

Again i cant upload photo's because every man and his dog is using the internet here. I'll try upload some when it's a bit quieter.

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Stylewars day one.

Saturday night Andrew, Charlie and I arrived at Mansfield for Jason Maxfield's 18th birthday party. Hectic to say the least...


We found an even better trestle bridge then the last one we came across on our way down this way.




The next day we got back in the car and drove to Mt. Beauty and stayed the night listening to Charlie breath like a Lama, as we thought our accommodation for stylewars did not start till tonight, Monday night... it turns out we were wrong.

This is a sweet lookout we found on the road from Bright to Mt. Beauty.



In Mt. Beauty this morning the weather didn't look too bad but on our way up the mountain the weather came over and started to rain, all the lifts where on wind hold until about 12 when we when out for a few turns. We got a chance to check out the Jump which I'll post a photo of tomorrow when i get to hit it.
As you can see there isn't heaps of snow here at Falls.



Check out the Stylewars website for more updates on the event.


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Teenage Rampage

Today was the pipe event of the Ocean and Earth Teenage Rampage at Perisher.
The weather for the event held off which made for a fun day shredding.

Lauren dropping in for her first run.


The format was 30minutes practice then two runs, best run counts. I only did about three practice runs which kinda sucked and didn't get all the tricks i was hoping for. But my run seemed to be big enough and clean enough and i pulled through to impress the judges who put me in first place. I was pretty stoked with the result even though i knew i could have rode better. As this is the only halfpipe contest for this season I'm even more stoked to have taken it out.
Well done to the other boys especially Ben Randal who was riding really well on the day.



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NSWIS blog and Snowboarder mag video.

A while ago Chris who manages the NSWIS website asked me to write a blog for their website. Sometime last week i wrote it up and sent it off to him.
Here is what came of it.
CLICK HERE

Also Ryan Willmott has a post up on the snowboarder mag website about our shoot on Sunday with a little video CLICK HERE to have a look.

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Busy Busy.

This weekend has probably been the busiest weekend i have had in a while.
It all started by having to wake up at 3am on Saturday morning to let Jason and Simone (Jason is the rider manager and Simone is the producer of a movie I'm doing for ride productions.)into their accommodation as i had the key because odiously they couldn't check in at 3am.
Them on Saturday morning at a reasonable time i went up the mountain to meet Kris who was going to be filming Nate and I this weekend. Kris and I went out to find some drops and stuff that we had in mind. after we got that stuff done it was about lunch time so we got some food then rode the park with Nate and got some really cool shots...

Saturday night i went out to dinner with Jason, Simone, Nate and Benny A to discuss more about the movie and discuss idea's. Benny also told me about a photo shoot that Ryan Willmott wanted to do in the morning.

So on Sunday morning i woke up at 6:30 to catch the 7:20 tube up the mountain so i could get some riding in before Ryan showed up and i had to throw down for the camera's.
I was pretty flogged by the afternoon so i just chilled while about 4 people filmed Nate... i found it kinda funny.

This first photo was from when i woke up at 6:30. I thought it was cool so i put it up.


The gang chilling after our pipe session.


Kris getting the cool angles with Nate. A bit hard to see in this photo but he's up there.




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Big man big flip.

Every Friday afternoon we have a trampolining/gymnastics session in the gym with Anthony. We've learn stuff like standing back flips on the ground, front flips on the ground, all sorts of hand spring stuff and a bunch of stuff on the tramps.
But what we did today was the creme de la creme... we learnt those crazzy running up the wall then flipping things that you see in the movies. Pato was the only one to get them without being spoted. i got a few good ones round but wasn't confident enough to go solo. Jarryd also got some nice ones.

When you watch the video below look at how high Pato goes... and how far from the wall he lands...

Pato wall flip. from COMRADES on Vimeo.

Such a fun afternoon in the gym.

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Pipeing.

Sorry for not really keeping this updated the last few days. I've been flat out with school and riding.
Anyways, Perisher got its pipe up last weekend and i'm pretty stoked that it's up now. We've been working on trying to ride it switch a bunch so we can eventually move onto switch backside tricks.

Here is a quick photo of the pipe.


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Stepping Up

Last Wednesday the new issue (Issue 3) of Snowboared Magazine came out.
Towards the end of last season Ryan Willmott sent me some questions and told me he would run a check out for me in the second issue. Turns out the checkout got run in the third issue which is still pretty cool.
So if you get a chance, go and grab yourself a copy.

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