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Sunday, January 17, 2010

DeCampo Film Day.


Today it was a day with DeCampo. After he had a couple of warm up laps in the medium park we head over to the big line. Expecting Decamps to just do a speed check or a warm up run, he gets straight into it with a huge cab5 to front3. Then it was time for business stomping some super clean cab9's.

After hiking the big line all after noon he landed what he was after in front of the camera and decided it was time to sunbake and embrace the beautiful weather before again stomping an amazing clean run on the way home. 

Tomorrow we are heading to Keystone, you never know what there park has to offer.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Handrail Hunt



So two days ago now Ash and myself headed to a secret location in Colorado in search for some EPIC street rails. The following images are rails that we stumbled across in our search.

This are a few that we found there are definitely more lurking in the woods but this was enough for one days activities.
 

Monday, January 11, 2010

Riders Blogs

If you want to keep track of what all the riders are getting up to here are some of there blogs check em out......




Sam Murphy-http://sammurphysnowboarding.blogspot.com/



TENNIS??



Today Iver, Nick, Timmy, Tyson and myself set out on a mission (not to far from our front door step) to film a tennis court fence. There was no slope what so ever so we had to improvise with the help of some rope from Wall-mart and a very nice car from our good friend Caitlin.

When Iver, Nick and Timmy arrived we got straight into setting up both Timmy and Iver's features.
Then a quick bite to eat and they were ready to go. Timmy was up first testing out the car system. He warmed up to this concept pretty quickly. After a couple of speed checks he attacked the fence and stomped first hit, but Timmy was determined to get the best shot so after a couple for hits, a little pain it all paid off.
Iver had his fair share of hammers also. Showing us he can change his tricks up when filming the one feature.

 Overall a very sunny, fun, and successful day. Well done everyone.
Stay tuned for the next day of SpareChange shenanigans.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Vail... less powder than expected.

Today myself and tyson headed down to Vail after watching the snow fall all night at our place we thought it would be perfect to shoot some pow turns and cliff drops at Vail. When we arrived it was a blue bird, but after our first lap we realised there wasnt as much snow as we first thought. So we decided to go on an adventure around the mountain searching for that waist deep powder we dreampt about. We did manage to find some fresh satshes through the trees but nothing worthy of filming just good times.

Back to Breck tomorrow for some training before the USASA slopestyle comp at Copper on Saturday.

Goodnight for now all.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

BACK IN COLORADO


So i have arrived back in Breckenridge, Colorado where i will be based for the season shredding shooting hammers and having an awesome time.
here's a little edit from the other day.
Stay tuned for all the activities the wetsocks crew gets up to over the season.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

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.....