1 Down 4 to Go

The 1st Grand Prix is over. Good contestVictory Laps are nice to have.

Danny rode well all weekWinning never gets old

Day 1

The 1st step towards the Olympics started today. The riding was retarded. It really awesome to watch something progress this quickly.After 85 riders Vito stepped up and threw down an amazing run. Seriously, so heavy.
Shaun goes next.
Starts with a 15ft fs air and proceeds to back it up all the way down the pipe.Pretty nice score. 9.9's all the way across

So many guys rode amazing. I wish i had more photos. Danny, Jack, Bretz, Cravan, and Charles to name a few. Tomorrow is gonna be even more amazing.

GroundHog Day

Everyday I wake up and see amazing pipe riding right before my eyes. This contest season is gonna be rediculousElijah Teter
Broc Waring
Shaun, early morning warmup

Congrads GRILO

Grilo wasn't even in the Air and Style today, he was an alternate, somehow got in at the last second due to an injury. And he WON. Biggest jump contest in snowboarding. I wish I was in Innsbruck to celebrate with the Boy Band. Bigs Ups Grilli!I took this photo off Fischi's facebook, thanks Fischi

Winter has arrived

Its been super cold at Copper Mtn...This morning it was -6....The pipe has been going off. The Grand Prix on the 11th of Dec will for sure be the heaviest pipe event ever seen.Luke's been riding really wellSo has Shaun

Another day in Spain

Drew and I were too sore from skating so we walked around a took some photos. Barcelona is so photogenic!

Barcelona Por Favor

Drew and I made another trip to Barcelona last week. It was a good time and we got to skate some really good spots as expected...These photos were shot in an area of town called The ForumI wanted to take this photo last year but there were way to many people around. The sky was milky clouds which made for a perfect backgroud. DoubleClick to enlarge

The architecture in Barcelona is crazy. Everywhere you look there seem to be super cool buildings. I wish we did this kind of thing in the US with all the strip malls

The Rain Skit

A while back Brad told me about this awesome idea for a skit he thought of while watching a Japanese cartoon. We had a day off in Tahoe during the B shoot and we got a chance to shoot it. Shaun was not supposed to get drenched this hard. The firefighers misfired..It was hilarious

Meetings are fun

when you get to hang with these dudes.We had our team meetings this week in Burlington. Had a great time and got some good stuff done. It was great to get together with the dudes and dudettes.Cyril maybe even got some emails done, maybe.

NZ farm girls

We ran into some rad farm girls that gave us a ride on their little 4 wheeler contraption. Its apparently called. "Sack Sliding", which in Kiwi translates to "Sex Sliding"...The accent gets you every time. Luckily there were no rocks in this field.

Chicago Furniture

While waiting for a cab the other night I noticed Ikea's worst enemy.

A room with a view

Last week we stopped in Chicago for The B tour...The hotel room had this view

Best Backyard Ramp Everrr

Actually, I just remembered Gordon Eckler had the best backyard ramp ever in Maryland circa 1996....JP's is really close though. 5 footer. Super wide. Skatelite. So fun. 

Pat kills trannies.

Justin got crailslides pretty much everytime

Aimee was in town and hung out for the session

I had time for a quick bs ollie as well..

As always, thanks for letting us skate JP

The Day of Days

On our last full day in New Zealand and around 4pm Bud asked us, "Hey, do you guys wanna go out to my friends place, have dinner, and ride around on dirtbikes?"....we were kinda tired from snowboarding earlier in the day and actually thought twice about going. Were we freakin crazy?????Those guys were already out and about so we had to jump on the little bikes to go out and meet em.
Once we got out there we all got our own bikes to cruise around on...Greg showed us an amazing time....This field was full of 1 year old sheep....chasing sheep on dirtbikes is damn fun.
The sheep tried to stay as far away as possible
After chasing sheep for 20 min we came to another field where these 3 awesome country girls were towing each other around on this sac thing with a 4 wheeler....We all had to try it...It was retardly fun....almost like tubing behind a wakeboard boat.
We then road out to the edge of Lake Wanaka to check out the sunset and take a group photo of the day...This is my favorite shot of the day. Bud must have been freezingThanks to Greg,Nancy, and Benji for an amazing day.

Arrrrr, Helsinki

You might have seen these on Blotto's blog, i really wanted to get them on here as well. Here a couple shots from a day in Helsinki this summer. This old dude was super drunk and somehow let me take his photo. It kinda looks like a painting?