Near the beginning of the season, Joe Mickelson and I got some filming done in the Quiksilver park. Despite the cloudy day, we got a lot of filming done with both Ben and Shayan. However, due to “technical” troubles, the edit has just been re – uploaded. Excuse the permanent smudge on the wide angle lense. Editing by Joe Mickelson.
Posts Tagged ‘Ben Neil’
Feb
07
2010
Oakley Night Jams 3: Cut Edition
Last night was the Oakley Night Jam. Chuck was on the mic, keeping everyone entertained, Tamo was judging snowboarders, Peter helped out with the ski side of things and everyone was throwing down. The prizes weren’t being thrown out for nothing, the kids had to work for ‘em, so the result was a sick little competition. If you haven’t already heard, the park has been moved over to the left side of Cut and it is actually really fun. The park crew had to get creative but they’ve put a pretty rad setup together so check it out this week.
The comp started off with tricks being called out and prizes were given for whoever could do them first. Then, the format was changed up and there were qualifiers, where the first 3 people to do the designated trick would get into finals. Next, finals were moved to the elbow kink where the finalist who did the right trick first won.
In the end, the winners were Mr. Ben Neil on the ski side of things, walking away with a new pair of Oakley Ambush goggles and Oakley sunglasses, and an underdog on the snowboard side of things, whose name I still don’t know, but he fought hard for the win after turfin’ it pretty hard a few times, snaking a pair of Oakley Crowbars for his efforts. All in all, it was an awesome night, one of the best night jams yet! Don’t miss the next one, who knows it could be even better! Here are some shots:
Well there ya have it! Some kid even went as far as saying that Chuck was the funniest guy around. So, Chuck is officially the funniest guy out there and the park is still kickin’ and better than ever, so get up the mountain as soon as you can and have a good old time!
Feb
05
2010
Flash Photography V2.0
After a few weeks of mixed up orders and payment problems, I am finally in possession of my Alienbees Cybersync trigger/receiver remote setup for my flash. I took it out to Seymour to shoot the Red Ledge on the weekend but as I said in that post, I had some troubles with misfiring. I think I finally had things figured out tonight and I am quite happy with how the shots turned out. Here’s the final product.
Shayan with a nosepress on top of the wall
Ben spinning a blind 270 out
Michael Hoy with a tail back 1 out
That’s all for now,
Frodo.
Jan
24
2010
Second Oakley Night Jam
Hey everyone,
So if you didn’t know, this past Friday was the second Oakley Night Jam of the year. Hosted in the Quiksilver Park, there were plenty of features to hit. The jam took place on the Flat Down and the Up Box, providing great fun for all. Congrats to everyone who killed it, I hope you got your prize. The prizes included the Oakley wallets, backpacks, laynards, toques as well as POW spring gloves. The final prize included 10 Boardroom gift cards which were given out to just about anything ‘unique’. The Jam was wrapped up with a raffle for a pair of Oakley Sunglasses and the new Shaun White A-frames. Be sure to come out to the next jam February 5th, 2010.
Jeremy
Jan
16
2010
JIB Edit
As Friday afternoon was one of the first sunny days in a very long time, I decided to make a quick edit. I spent an hour filming with Jason, Shayan, Simon and Ben in the jib park. Hope you enjoy
Jan
12
2010
The Mug Shot Blog
It’s time for you Grousepark viewers to get to know the faces that frequent Grouse Mountain. Here are some mug shots from this season.
First up we have Corey Mcintosh. This kid is killing it on the hill, keep your eyes on him as he is definitely going somewhere in snowboarding.
A frequent in my blogs and another kid blowing up this year, Shayan the brown man.
You might recognize this guy from a personal blog I did on him, but he’s worth mentioning more than once. Here is the mean mug of Ben Neil.
Next we have our friend from Eastern Europe, Eduard Mikulcik. He also answers to Halldor Hellgason and might really be from Iceland.
Up next is Bryce Mclean, the one other tight pant skier who frequents Grouse.
Geoff Shaw from the East Coast, so he has had no problems dealing with the less than stellar conditions this season has presented us with.
And lastly, your man behind the lens and the blogs, myself, with this lovely self portrait.
So if you see any of these guys on the mountain, don’t be shy. Say hello, as they are usually pretty friendly people…usually.
Frodo.
Dec
24
2009
Park Skiing and Ben Neil
Throughout my 2.5 seasons of skiing park, I have noticed quite a few things that I think separate park skiers from the rest of the ski industry. Aside from the obvious one of skiing in terrain parks and making use of having tips on both ends of our skis, we also have a very unique dress code that makes most of us easy to pick out of a crowd. The ‘gangster’ trend has completely taken over park skiing. Having a jacket that reaches your knees is no longer looked at as stupid and un-functional, but rather stylish and cool. With a jacket that big, baggy pants are a necessity to keep things looking proportional. As always though, there are some people who go against the trend and wear tight pants, which are slowly making their rise to popularity.
Along with the fashion side of things, we park riders also seem to have more of a ‘connection’ on the hill. Whenever I’m skiing the park alone, I can almost always find someone to do laps with. Whether I know the person well, or even know them at all, we share the common interest of park skiing. This was one of the things that probably kept me interested in the park scene back when I first started out. If my memory serves me well, this is how I started skiing with Ben Neil about 2-3 seasons ago. Ben got into the park skiing scene a season before me, and I remember in my early days before I got to know Ben, thinking to myself, ‘I wish I could ski that well.’ Well it’s 3 years later and Ben is still way ahead of me in the park, but that never stops us from having fun skiing together.
With that being said, Ben and I (along with a few others) spent Saturday doing photo-laps in the park and managed to come out with quite a few shots that I personally am very happy with. Here are the final results.
The man himself
Grabbed 3 over the jump
Corked 7 over the jump
Mid S rail
Small tail press on the down rail
That’s all for now,
Frodo.
