Grouse Park Trick Tip with Rob Morrison
Here is a quick Grouse Park Trick Tip with Rob Morrison. It was filmed a couple weeks ago in the original Cut park. If you haven’t been up since then the Quiksilver park is top notch. Be sure to check it out this 24hrs of Winter kicking off today Saturday, February 11.
-J
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Grouse Park Playlist 4 – Paparazzi
A playlist is like a recipe. You need to put in the right ingredients and the right amount of each ingredient or else whatever you are cooking is going to come out tasting like crap. I listen to music every time I ride. The tracks a play depend on what I’m riding. When I am riding rails in the park I am more likely to listen to Hip Hop and Remixes. If it is a powder day I will probably put on some Indie or Classic Rock. I put this playlist together for riding Grouse Park to keep you moving. I worked on the recipe simmering a bunch of Electro Pop and Indie sounds, adding some new and old tracks for flavour and a dash of Remixes to give it the right texture.
- Heartbeats (Extended Mix) – Grum
- Devil’s Work – Miike Snow
- Strictly Game (Kid’s at the Bar Remix) – Harlem Shakes
- I Want You – Summer Camp
- Oh Yeah (Nighty Max Remix) - Housse Da Racket
- Shuffle on a Dream – Little Dragon
- Fail Forever – When Saints Go Marching
- Not In Love (ft. Robert Plant) – Crystal Castles
- Staring At The Sun (TV On The Radio – Diplo
- The Drummer – Niki and the Dove
- NY Is Killing Me – Gil Scot-Heron ft. Jamie xx
- Embrace – Pnau ft. Ladyhawke
- Heartbeat (Chase and Status Remix) – Nneka
- Household Goods – Totally Enormous Dinosaur
- Little Girl (MSTRKRFT Remix) – Death from Above 1979
- Gothstar – Pictureplane
Listen, stream and share the Grouse Park playlist #4 – Paparazzi here.
Our next playlist will be songs that we play in the park. You asked for it on Facebook and we will bring it to you here on grousepark.com. Have fun at 24 Hours this weekend!
-Myrosha
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Roxy Ride Days: Coming to Grouse Mountain!
ROXY RIDE DAYS COMING TO GROUSE MOUNTAIN!
Saturday, February 4th. 2012
Come on out and have some fun with Roxy Ride Days Canadian Tour at Grouse Mountain! Learn new tricks, meet new friends and have a blast spending the day snowboarding with the WSF Roxy coaching team. Join in on a fun progressive day on the hill filled with park coaching sessions, mini jam comps and prize giveaways!
Open to all ages & abilities!
- Learn new tricks
- Receive a gifts from Roxy
- Tons of prizes
- Demo the latest snowboards from Roxy
- Ride with friends
- Lunch included
EVENT TIMELINE
Saturday, February 4th. 2012
9:00 – 10:o0 am: Registration & Warm Up
10:00 – 10:30 am: Group Coaching Session: Intro to Freestyle Riding
10:30 – 12:30 pm: Coaching Sessions: Jumps, Rails, Boxes
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 pm: Mini Jams: Game of R.O.X.Y. – JIB JAM
4:00 – 4:30 pm: Prizes & Wrap up
REGISTRATION
$50.00+ Lift Ticket.
Includes Lunch & Roxy Gift Bag!
REGISTRATION LINK: http://shredsisters.com/blog/roxy-ride-days-events/roxy-ride-days-british-columbia/register
For Roxy Snow info, visit:
www.roxy.com
Twitter: @roxy #RoxyCanada
See you out there!
- CV
Ski Tracks App Review
“Dood I swear I was going 100kph on that last run.” “No you weren’t dood.” Now, thanks to the Ski Tracks app for iPhone, this dispute can be settled easily. The Ski Tracks app for iPhone is an advanced GPS app that tracks and records many different stats while you are riding. Including; top speed, avg speed, total vertical feet, vertical feet per run, # of runs, where you ride and more.
Ski Tracks & the Tracks Screen
Ski Tracks app
- Cost: $1.99 or FREE for the Lite version
- Cool Factor: Pretty Cool
- Functional Factor: Very Good – you can track where you go so you can keep from getting lost
- Freestyle Factor: Pretty Low – it doesn’t track air time or rotations
- Website: www.corecoders.com
If my freind Joe had this app a few years ago, he wouldn't have gotten lost, spent two nights off the back Cypress, and he would still have all his toes.
The interface is easy to use and the many functions are fun to play with. You can save different tracks from different mountains and view these tracks in either satellite, standard or track mode(which looks like sonar). The app can also be used to track how many park runs you get in a session and with the Altitude & Speed screen you can see when you picked up speed and when you slowed down graphed over the whole session(see image above). In ‘Settings’ you can toggle back and forth between metric and imperial so that you can review your elevation and vertical skied in feet and speed in kilometers. This is actually the one drawback to the app because Canadians tend to refer to height in feet and speed in kilometers and you cannot set each of these independently. The other drawback, mentioned earlier, is not tracking airtime, rotations or amount of time spend on rails. 
One of my favourite things to do with the app is Freeracing. Which is kinda like Freeskiing or Freestyling except its racing. Here is how you play:
- Get a group of friends together and download the Ski Tracks app
- Turn the app on
- Pick a run
- Race it*
- Pull out you iPhones at the bottom of the chairlift and see who clocked the top speed
Winner winner chicken dinner. Brad hit 98kph.
*Grouse Mountain is making a concerted effort to promote safe skiing and boarding. So make sure you pick an appropriate run to race on.
Overall I give the Ski Tracks app 4 out 5 Highfives.
-Myrosha
Quicksilver Park
Here are a few shots from a mellow afternoon in the Quicksilver park! The snow that day was less than prime, but the set ups were proper and had flow – really fun. Everything is looking great up there, lots of options!
-Matthew
January – Wanted List
- Cheap Monday: jacket + shirt
- Electric: EG2.5s
- Comme des Garcon: Macbook case
- Nike: Zoom Force 1 – Dark Obsidian
- Capita: Space Metal Fantasy FK
Above is the first of a monthly Wanted List I plan to post here on the Grouse Park blog. This month I am feeling a real-life-boarding vibe. Starting with an oversize starter jacket paired with a mellow plaid shirt for the mild park days we were having up until recently. With that, the Electric EG 2.5’s – a smaller version of the original EG 2’s, great for anyone with a smaller face. After that is a Japanese leather Macbook case – for travelers, students and employed; replacing the need for a backpack. Finally a pair of amazingly supportive Nike boots and a Capita FK, a 2012 Transworld good wood winner and one of my favourites for park and powder days.
Urban
Here are 2 clips from Saturdays urban session. First is an accidental firecracker to some serious heavy head. Second is a land. I didn’t get any tricks besides the skislide, city rails aren’t as easy as they look!
-Jason
Snow in the City!
North Vancouver is a gold mine for handrails, but since we rarely get snow these rails don’t often see any action. Well we finally had some snow fall last night so Trint Thomas (newest Endeavor Am), Jeremy Cox and myself got down to work right away before the snow melted. We set up a 14-flat-11 stair down-flat-down. It’s a rail in my neighborhood that I’ve been looking to ski for the last couple of years.
Video clips to come, but for now here’s some behind the scenes shots from the session.
Jeremy getting the shot.
Trint about to drop in.
-Jason
Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012!
Just wanted to wish everybody a Happy New Years! Threw some of my favourite shots together from 2011 for all you park rats. Check it out!
See ya in 2012!
Andrew Santos