All Up 'n Down

The 8 hour road trek to Jindy fully complimented the immense hang over that slowed down the team sunday morning. Yet with all our strength we hitched up the trailer, load it full of jibbits from generators to drop-in ramps, and lugged that beast all up and down the alpine way.

Upon cracking open sleep crusted eyeballs to catch first sight of early

 morning, we were caught by the homie Patrick Davis-Meehan, who beamed with excitement to share with us his newly captivated shred-vantage. The PT Cruiser was loaded up, and we headed to Perisher to find a Ben Randall,

 and one Jackson Collings awaiting our arrival. 

'Twas glorious. A gaping 12-ft rock drop stood before us, waiting to be sessioned.  The building comenced and after some shoveling and scraping, 

the drop was underway. Pat dropped first, sparking his edges, pinging the rock face.

 

After some minor adjustments took place, the chute proved more up to par.

The next day was the Freeride series at Thredbo. Among the competitors were Shaun Belmore, Pat Davis-Meehan, Ben Randall, Jackson Collings, Billy Haymen. Despite the awesome turn out, the weather turned for the worst with blinding white out conditions and strong winds. The competition was forced to be called short, canceling everyone's second runs with only several riders left to go. Pat came out third in the Men's Snowboard Open, and Billy ended up second in the Junior's Snowboard. Congrats to all those riders as well who qualified for the series. 

Next stop was a 4 hour cruise down to Falls Creek to catch all our riders competing in Style Wars. The Weather in Victoria was far from pleasant, making possibilities for the slope style bit not even in the air. But the rail jam commenced. 

 The set up was a pile of 28 stairs under lights, a down bar to the right, a flat kink in the center, and kink bar on the left. Tom Pelley was the guinea. The 28-stair long set looked staggering as the first few riders choked to the stairs. More riders showed up and more steeze flew through the air. 

The last of the warm up laps wrapped up and like blasts from an AK in east Compton the event exploded. The dj was spinnin, and the riders were steezin and the people were eager. Like balls from a cannon blast the homie French Canadians, Seb Toots, and Charles Reid blew themselves to some prize money with some gnarly gapping to down on the kinks. It was no question that these two deserved to be crowned stairmaster, and as the crowd headed inwards to the bars, they both received the title and a fat check to share. 

The day following, the weather was still weak as. With chairs closing all up the backside, riders were left scooping lifts from sleds to get back home all warm and cuddly with some school work and hot drinks. 

With the weather on the shits, the big air comp was postponed another day so a couple of us decided to head back to Jindy to prepare for the Boost Sno Sho wild card competition. And the show truely was wild!

 

With the world record for the world's longest rail on the line, all the competitors sucked it in as they popped the 100 meter rail, and held on to their toes for dear record breaking. Each slide brought the competitors further and the competition tighter.

The next night was the main even of Boost. WetSocks riders Jye and Charlie showed what they were made of. Congratulations to Jye for making finals alongside some major names on the international scene.

Stay tuned for our next post were we hit street rails then change up to road gapssssss.....