Yay Old Footage!

Okay, so last season I did what never happends, I had my best riding days of the season coincide with filming days! I know it's rare, but I had some unreal footage! I had follow cam jump lines with sw right 7's to sw left 10's. I had all four 720s, I corks and sw corks, and I had sick rail shots like 50/50's on an urban set up park rail, and sw ups to sw 50/50s. It was amazing...then the even more rare, a Macintosh computer crashed! On the Mac's hard drive was all that footage, and since the footy was taken off a hard drive camera (damn that technology to hell) there was no hard copies since the camera had been long cleared to make way for new footage.

So here is the best of the minor amount of footage that I had on my camera from last year. It's more of a joke edit, but you'll like it, enjoy!

December Surf

So no big deal December 28th, snow on the ground, surfing Lake Superior. Mike (my little bro) and I drove from Thunder Bay, to Terrace Bay for his virgin surf experience.

I had kind of convinced Mike earlier in the week to come out with me on the next decent day so he could try some surfing for the first time. I think we where supposed to leave at like 8 in the morning. We didn't end up leaving until around 11, but that was okay because the weather wasn\t that nice and as we were suiting up the sky went blue bird and it warmed up! There ended up being 5 of us in total and the session was pretty sick. Mike did really well and got some experience under his belt, I figured out that fancy looking wax jobs are not always functional and big ups to Chris for the hot shower and hot food!

(in the picture is Mike starting to paddle out for the first time)

First Hand Rail Of The Season!

So what you see above, is my first hand rail of the season. It was boxing day and it was just Van Bailey and myself seshing the most hit urban in Thunder Bay, the Sir John A School down bar; more commonely known as SJAM. It was a sick, warm, (high was -7.5 according to a weather site) blue bird day and no box store super deal could keep me from riding that day.

For the session we used a bungee for speed. One of us was filming or taking pictures and whoever was dropping in was left to pull the bungee back on their own, which was not easy. At the end of the day I felt like I had just gone wake boarding for the first time of the season.

It didn't take long to start greasing the rail, then moving in to 2 out's. Once we were comfy we started toying around. Van, got it unnatty, which I have always wanted to do but after watching him drop the bungee in between his legs on the first try and eating it, I decided I would wait for a drop in ramp. I didn't even realize that was possible at that point! He also went for the 2 on, trying to be (to the best of my knowledge) the first person to get a 2 onto that rail. As for me I worked into a sweet nose press I'm super proud of (seen above). I was realing hoping for a front side switch up to front 2 out, but with time running out and family functions to go to we agreed to come back another day.

Late Post, But Merry Xmas!

So I hope everyone had a merry Christmas. I know this is a couple weeks late as I was a little all over the place this holidays (drove over 5000 kms in a few weeks), and am just getting back to the computer!

The holidays were sweet, spent time with friends and fam and came back to Calgary for a sick weekend in Banff with Audrey! I have 4 more blog posts coming up over the next few days with some of the stuff I did during Xmas. I figured the best way to do it was update my blog every second day.

As for this update, I just wanted to say a belated Merry Christmas and happy holidays hope everyone had fun.

I aslo want to thank Rossignol, and Denis Leclaire and Maire Allaire for the gear, support and being just plain awesome. In this picture I am wearing new Rossi hoodie, gloves, touque, head band and neck warmer they gave me as well as holding on to a new pair of S4's with FKS bindings on them. Also thank you Ski Hause for mounting them for me! I'm also standing behind a wall of some of the skis I've aquired through my years of sponsorship with Rossi if you didn't notice!

Lake Louise Preview

 Preview of the fun

Blog jacked!

Rail Comp at Lake Louise Saturday! footage and pics up soon!

Ski And Surf In the Same Day? In Ontario? In November?

So last week I was back home in Thunder Bay, Ont. I was there to get my braces off and help out and ride in Rollin Thunders' 3rd Annual Chairty Jib Jam. If I was lucky I was also hoping to use my new surfboard on the lake (thanks a ton Jakko from NatriBros Surf Shop)!

So, up until Thursday night of that week, I thought I wasn't going to be using my new board at all. Then the forcast shifted and the waves were lining up perfectly for the evening the day of the jib jam. I thought to myself "Perfect! I'll hit up the jam, it's usually done by 3:30 at the latest, then rip out to Terrace Bay, get a dusk surf in then fire up the geny for a couple hours and be back by midnight for some sleep before catching my plane in the morning".

Well I had some major issues renting the generator (the size I wanted was rented like 20 minutes before I got there) and had to go to the jib jam with out it. The jam was sick and everyone was throwing down! It started pretty mellow being most guys first day. By the end though, it was a mini air comp over the car with some sick stuff being tossed on to the step down boxes. Big thanks to Brian from Rollin' Thunder in Thunder Bay, Ont. for putting it on and letting us take over his parking lot!

With the jib jam ending much later then I had thought and all my leads on a generator falling through, I opted to rent the big beast. Because it was so big we had to strip down just to get into my dads Jetta wagon. With me was Dillon Montenarh, and we were on our way to meet two Terrace Bay locals at the beach. When we got there, we quickly got everything up and running and got in the water. It was awesome, but hard and so worth it. The waves were a decent 4 feet (any bigger and this probably wouldn't have worked). It was really hard to catch stuff though because wave would cast a showdow behind it until it broke. Basically you couldn't see a set coming and you had very little time to react (either catching it or realizing your inside). All in all super fun.

I would like to appologize for lack of surf footy in the video below. A week earlier was a crazy storm that had a recorded swell height of 26.7 feet and it trashed the beaches. The break we surfed used to be alot closer to shore which the camera could have picked up, but unfortunately the break is now a bit furthur out to the point where we were getting to the far range of our lights.

Anyways heres a video I made from that day! Also gimme a break on the editing I had to use Windows Movie Maker!