Having "The Fear"
So have any of you ever had “the fear”? You know, when you want to try something but the fear of failure sets in and you bottle it? I’m assuming some of you have, so maybe you can relate to this… I should also mention that I’ve been meaning to post this since last January, [...]
Indy Nose Bone
An indy nose poke. I’d like to work on adding a little more style to my riding. So I decided to start here, using a small kicker on the indoor slope at Castleford to try these out. Just a straight air – grabbing indy and boning the nose out a little. I think it just [...]
Backside Tailslide Joy
I was at Xscape Castleford last night for 2 hours of freestyle fun. I got talking to a guy and ended up sessioning the box and rail with him, which was really good because he helped me to learn a new trick. Well, actually we started off talking about me wanting to do some sort [...]
My Halfpipe Progression: A Sunny Pipe
This is the third installment of My Halfpipe Progression: a sunny pipe in Tignes, 2006. See also part 1 and part 2. As I mentioned in part 2, I couldn’t wait for the weather to clear up. I’d been riding the halfpipe for a few afternoons in snowy conditions, and wanted to find out what [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
You'll Find Me Riding The Halfpipe…
…on bad weather days. Towards the start of the second week we had a few bad weather days. It was a big change after the first week was filled with perfect sunshine (sweet) – we couldn’t really see much up on the mountain. I’ve done a little halfpipe riding in the past so decided that [...]
