Last week we travelled to one of Canada’s hot spots for urban snow stunt acrobatics. Along for the ride was a team of young jibbers including Cam Schuster, Scott Sych, Ryan Hartlin, Uncle Schwank, Ontario locs Coal Drexler and Matt Brindisi, and filmers Chunk and myself.
Always twatting about stuff
Our crew for the trip
As with most trips we ran into some challenges. The snow was impossible to pack down and even with jugs of water and bags of salt we still had to carry hockey arena snow around to build. Over half the features we built were shut down by angry landlords, security guards and police.
See the car? We picked it up and moved it out of the landing.
We we’re informed by Officer Winston that a “Pedestrian stunting ticket in Canada is up $500″. Apparently its distracting to the public and can cause motor vehicle accidents. Despite a couple set backs we made it work and banged off some really solid innercity snow stunts.
Rail - Gap - Rail. It took 2 days but we nailed this feature.
Scott Sych 5050 FS 360 out
Shortly thereafter, myself and snowboarders Barry Hartman and Braden Dean flew over the rockies to Denver, CO for a few days of trade show biz. Last night we made our way to Aspen for X-Games 14 just in time to hear all the rumours of TJ Schiller stomping the crap out of a double cork 1620, taking silver at Big Air. Our token female skier, Roz Groenewoud had a strong bronze medal finish at Superpipe last night with an impressive 14 feet first hit and adding a 900 into her run. (Read more here…)
Last night the sport of freeskiing took a big lunge forward and today we’ll be cheering on the competitors for Mens Slopestyle Finals.
Perfect day to fly over the Rockies.
Big thanks to Schneider, Dad2.0, Keon and Michelle for the help and hospitality over the last week.
Viva La Pedestrian Stunter!
