Great Day Gone Bad
Well today was pretty much a perfect day. We totally beat the queues and ended up being the first riders through the park. Clear blue sky and blazing sunshine. Not only that, but the thunder storm from last night that brought torrential rain in the town – brought fresh snow up on the glacier! So [...]
Bonjour!
Hey, I’m about half way through the Deux Alpes holiday and it is excellent. The park on the glacier is really good – much bigger than any other European parks that I’ve been to. Lots of different hits, rails and boxes, suitable for a range of abilities. The weather has been a little varied, but [...]
Afterbang DVD: Soundtrack
I don’t know about you, but once I start to like a snowboarding film, I also start to like the music. Half the time I’m sure the connection works both ways – if you’re liking the music you get into the film more easily. Once you’ve watched the DVD a handful of times the association [...]
My Halfpipe Progression: A Snowy Pipe
This is the second installment of My Halfpipe Progression: a snowy pipe in Tignes, 2006. Back in Zermatt there was no real consistency to anything I did in the half pipe. Don’t get me wrong, I was making progress; I was taking my first steps. But this snowy pipe in Tignes was when I started [...]
Cracked An Edge
So I got the board out at the weekend. Thinking about waxing it up and sharpening those edges ready for the summer snow. But wait, what’s that? I’ve cracked one of my edges. Crap. Bad timing. It didn’t look horrendous – but it was a definite break, with one side protruding ever so slightly. Anyway, [...]
My Halfpipe Progression: Introduction
I’m probably gonna spend a fair amount of time trying to improve my halfpipe riding while in Deux Alpes. In the meantime I’ve been using some of my video to review my progress to date: Tignes earlier this year and Zermatt last summer. Although I did my first few halfpipe runs in Diablerets, the summer [...]
Coming Soon – Deux Alpes Podcast Series
I’ve been thinking it might be interesting if I share my experience of the coming trip to Deux Alpes. The thought came to me when I stumbled across a couple of sheets of paper mixed in with my ‘snowboarding stuff’ – a log/diary type thing that I made when I went solo visiting the park [...]
Learning To Manual A Box
One night last week I had the 5 Bridges skatepark to myself – so I decided to document my first attempts at manual’ing one of the boxes. To me the manual is such a cool trick – it lets people who know what they’re doing combine different stuff. Some of the results are super technical, [...]
