Being that I’m obviously not in New Zealand attending the Burton Open, I AM however fortunate enough to have a grip shit offriends who are. One friend Chris who among my group of friends, is our photo shooter – friend photo shoots, catching that one SICK shot to send home to mom and dad or [...]

August 10th, 2010

COME FIND US…in Montana…

Far away in a land call Montana, 1 |mänˈtanə|a state in the western U.S., on the Canadian border, east of the Rocky Mountains; pop. 902,195; capital, Helena; statehood, Nov. 8, 1889 (41). Acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, it was explored by Lewis and Clark in 1805–06, there lies a snow crew called TSP or Toy Soldier Productions. This snow crew [...]

Being that the snowboard community is a pretty small one compared to others, word of whats good, not cool, and just balls out LAME travels pretty fast. With the help of Twitter and Facebook – this news travels even faster. I’m sure if you read my blog you read other, better, blogs as well – [...]

Snowdog’s Chicken Wing, Watermelone and Grape Kool-Aid Jam from Video Gypsy on Vimeo.
This is the first contribution from the newly acquired Canadian correspondent  - Nick Khattar.
He’s on a boat at the moment in San Fran just cruisin like a boss gettin the write up for the video from last weekend at “The Patch”
that will be [...]

May 18th, 2010

Setup got brought down…

If you ride  Mammoth you know the Main Park jump line.
middle jump
step up
setup
showtime
going big, bigger, smaller, bigger. With setup averaging 30 ft right now, probably the smallest it’s been all season.
After watching multiple people hit this what seemed to be massive jump – I decided I have to hit it. It’s spring, the snow is [...]

San Clemente, CA (April 28, 2010) – SNOWBOARDER Magazine’s Superpark is always one of the largest and most anticipated snowboarding events of the year, however, going back to Mammoth after hosting in 2009 what some were calling the “best Superpark ever,” has elevated expectations to an all time high. SNOWBOARDER Magazine’s Superpark 14 presented by [...]

April 24th, 2010

Lagging like a RE-RE…

So I’m sure all of you people who I’d somehow captivated into reading my blog, on what seemed to be a normal basis, have noticed that I pretty much just stopped posting.
My sincerest apologies.
Not going to make excuses but just let me say this:
Teaching retards all day for streaks of 20-22 days in a row [...]

February 21st, 2010

Kevin Pearce Update #8

Kevin Update #8
Posted on 02.12.10
DENVER, CO (February 12, 2010)
Snowboarder Kevin Pearce is adjusting nicely to Craig Hospital (Englewood, CO) where he is undergoing rehabilitation for injuries sustained on December 31, 2009. Kevin continues to show his determination and positive attitude as he makes progress and defies the odds every day.
This has been a tough but [...]

February 15th, 2010

Olympic Story on Kevin Pearce

The Olympics did a small story on KP toda talking about a his upbringing, snowboarding in his life, and how he’s recovering with his family never leaving his side.
glad they did a little classier coverage on KP than what they did for the Georgian luger. (showing the death footage over and over again? really?)
here’s a [...]

January 18th, 2010

MAMMOTH DUMPAGE

Mammoth is at the beginning of a week long snow storm. It’s supposed to hold strong throughout Friday with the strongest portion on Wednesday.

THANK GOD visitors freak out and leave town when the word of ” ten feet of snow” gets ’round – That way there’s NO snowboard lessons and I get to go ride [...]