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Big man down...

The other day Patto took a pretty big hit on the tramps out at sport and rec... The big man was trying double corks and landed kinda funny on his ankle.
Anyway turns out he took a chunk out of his tibia and has a spiral fracture of his phibia.
He's out for about 6 months i think which is really unlucky because he was killing it this season...

Image courtesy of Jarryd Williams.

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New Blog/Website

So i've been working on a new website.... it's going to be a somthing somthing .com which will be good as it seems a bit more proffesional...

I've been working on it for about 2 weeks now and it's coming along nicely i just have to write up all the about me and contact and upload a bunch of photo's.

Anyways thats all for now i'll put up another post soon as there has been a bunch of stuff happening.

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First weekend.

Wow it's been a while since i updated my blog... i promise from now on to update more... sorry guys.

Last weekend was the Demo weekend up at perisher. I got to meet some really cool people which was good and had a fun day shredding with friends.

Shaun Belmore from Wet Socks was up there with his camera and we made a little video of a park lap... now you all know that i'm no good on rails but i try haha. Take a look at how bumpy the park is after about half a day of  a million people riding it.

Here is what we came up with...


Sam Murphy. Perisher Park Lap from Shaun Belmore on Vimeo.


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Spare Change Premiere

This Saturday the 5th of June at the Strike Bowling Bar on Chapel street is the premiere of Wetsocks Productions' Spare Change.

If your in the Melbourne area make sure you come down to check it out....

See you there...

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Spare Change Teaser

Yesterday Shaun Belmore sent me the Teaser for his latest project Spare Change.

Spare Change is a movie showcasing Australia's best up and coming talent in the snowboard industry.

Anyways make sure you check it out.

Tell your friends.

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Apointment with surgeon.

Today dad and i once again got up super early to head upto Sydney to see DR. Bokor. I slept most of the way up as I'm pretty sick from Tonsillitis.

We had an 11am booking but rocked up at 10ish and they got us in to see him pretty quickly.

Bokor moved my arm and shoulder round a little bit and did some comparison with my other shoulder and pretty much said everything is going really well. He said I was good enough to get back on snow at the moment but another two months wouldn't hurt.

On the way home we went to a place called Tempe Tyres... biggest wheel shop in all of Sydney... Lets just say the forester is getting some new shoes soon...

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Lupe Fiasco

Last Night i was in Canberra to see Lupe Fiasco play at the University of Canberra. He was supported by local crew Koolism and some other people who I didnt get to see...

DJ Danielsan was there and he wasncrazzy. But the main focus was of course on LupeAs soon as he appeared on the top section of the room the whole crowd went crazzy.

I was towards the front of the crowd at the start but it got way too hectic so i moved over to the side where i could still see.

Lupe's set was amazing... he had a drummer and an electric guitarist with him which made the experience just that little bit more interesting. The drummer had by far the fastest double kicks i've ever seen, He was insane.

Here are a few photo's.

Then today I came home and tonight I went fishing with my friend Dunk and his boss Craig... it turned out to be a pretty good night and we caught ten fish... pretty stoked.

I know there are only seven in this photo but trust me we caught ten.

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Cribs

Jarryd just sent me through a link to Patto's cribs episode...

Patto is living in Jarryd's walk in robe because Benny and Anthony are staying with them for about a week.

So this is Patto's crib...

Enjoy.

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Skate

James is my friend from Maleny in QLD. He came down to do the season in Jindy and he found something about this lovely town attractive so he decided to stay for the summer...
I found out the other day James is a sick skater, we went for a skate yesterday and straight out of the block he busts a double kickie... i thought it was pretty sweet then he bust's a hardflip to fakie on the big bank at Jindy skate park. The rest of the day was followed with countless tricks i could only do on xbox and cool lines...

So today i asked him if i could take some photo's of him skating. Luckily he agreed...

This is what came from today...



This was pretty gnarly... there is about a two foot ollie up just to clear over that little wall...

Hard to tell because of my crappy composition but He is ollieing from the top of the box thing over the rail and into the bank...

This was by far the gnarliest thing all day! i think that's like a 6 foot bowl... He ollied down into the flat! not only that but stomped first try!

the consequences

Not really skate related but i thought it was cool lighting...

That's all folks.

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Down Time

So i've had alot of time to just hang out, and be a kid and have some time at home.

Christmas was really good, first one i have had at home in about 5 years so that was nice.
New Years was a bit of a let down i didn't finish work untill 11:30 then had to work new years day at 10 which wasn't fun.

So pretty much my days have been filled with either working, hanging out down in Canberra or going out on the boat that we acquired. It's pretty sweet it's got 50hp on the back which is enough to wake skate behind.

Oh also lately i've been skating a bunch and taking photo's of my friend James who kill's it! switch hardflips and what not... yea pretty crazy...

sorry for the lack of photo's in this post... I promise i'll make it upto you in the next one!

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Post Surgery.

Sorry about being real slack with updates lately... I've had a fair bit going on and I've been in canberra most of the time since surgery.
Everything went really well with the surgery apart from the not having the right tools and me having to wait an hour while I was super high on something they injected into me, and being asked about 20 times which shoulder is being done... It made me wonder if they knew what was going on?
The surgery took about forty five minutes and only left two little puncture holes on my shoulder which I'm pretty stoked about...






It's been about 10 days now and i just got the stitches out this morning, the front cut wasn't quite healed so another three stitches where put in just to make sure.
I can start my usual gym program up again in about 4 weeks but for the time being i'm just riding on the bike for about 40-60 minutes a day to stay a little bit fit.

Until next time.
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Sydneeyyy.

Usually I don't like doing posts without any photo's or video but I think this can be an exception as it's kind of important in relation to what's going on with my shoulder.

Last night we got to Sydney at about 5:30 or so. We checked into our hotel which is pretty cool, it's right in the city so yeah we went got some dinner at The Red Lantern... So good!

Our booking with the surgeon was at 9:15 this morning. He pretty much just looked at the MRI's and gave me three options. 1. do nothing 2. try a strength program (which we've already tried) or 3. get surgery and have 6 months off.
When he first said 6 months off I was a bit bummed... but I guess that's not so bad... At least I get to have a christmas with my family and it gives me a chance to get a job and make some cash. I should be back overseas for a Spring camp if it happens again this year.

We hung out in the city for ages today I got some new jeans and shoes. pretty stoked.
Anyways now we are waiting at the airport for my plane back to Canberra. Hopefully I'll hang out with Rob, Phoebe and Grace tonight and maybe go out in the city... should be good.

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Canberra

So it's Wednesday and I'm in Canberra hanging out at my dad's place.
This morning I went to Canberra imaging to get an X-ray and an MRI done on my shoulder. If you've ever had an MRI you'll know that it's super scary, they give you these ear muffs and it's still super loud. I was stressing the whole time.

Here are the MRI photo's... it makes no sense to me...



I've always though X-rays looked cool...



After we got this stuff done I got some COMRADES stickers printed i should be able to pick them up on monday.
Now I'm just killing some time before we fly out to Sydney to see the surgeon.

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Drifties at Luke's

So seeing as i haven't been able to go riding lately. Today I went out to my friend Luke's place. He lives on a pretty big property and for a while now we have been meaning to make some sort of rally track. After a bunch of rain over the last few days this weekend was the perfect opportunity to do it.

So this is the first track we carved out of the countryside. It's just a mellow figure eight the corner at this end is pretty long then the one at the other end is nice and tight.



Charlie getting sideways in the Hulk...



It was inevitable that this was going to happen. Kane just got unlucky in his RX Imprezza.



Such a fun day. Although I'm not sure how much more of this kind of punishment the hulk will be able to handle...

If you know anything about rallying/throwing your car around aggressively... send me an e-mail murphy.sam@hotmail.com thanks!


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Shoulder Surgery... lame

So about a week ago i thought it would be a sweet idea to learn backside rodeo's at the bottom of the pipe... it seemed like a good idea... the snow was soft and it was a super sunny day. i wasn't getting them at first they weren't flipy enough then i decided just to throw it straight over and it turned out pretty sweet until i landed. i put my arm out to brace myself. i felt that same pain i've been feeling everytime i put my arm out when i fall for the last year or so.

My shoulder has been progressively getting worse so it was inevitable that surgery was down the road somewhere.

I was my surgeon today and he's given me a reference to get an MRI and an Xray on the shoulder then we'll go from there and see if surgery is the only option.

I'll keep everyone posted on what happens with it when i know more info.

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Charlotte's road gap.

Sorry for not updating this past week i've been pretty tired and busy.
but about a week ago now Charlie, Pat, Ryan Willmott and some filmers went upto Charlotte's pass to hit the road gap.
the weather on the day wasn't the best but we still made the most of it and got some cool shots.
We rode upto the resort in these sweet over snow bus type things what where pretty fun.


And this is a photo of the road pat with Pato standing under the road gap.



Sorry for the short post but i have to get off to work.

Come back tomorrow for another post on a photoshoot in the pipe with Clint Shirvington

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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.