Alterna Shoot – Through the lense of Graham Dalik
Sunday March 29th was a beautiful day. Blue skies, warm temperatures, and a 70 foot stepdown manicured to perfection. The Showdown Over the City was a thing of the past but that beast of a jump used for the competition still remained, begging to be hit. Jeff Silcock, the Grouse Mountain Events Manager, invited the Alterna Films crew to come up and do a shoot on the monstrous jump. Mr Silcock also invited a small group of skiers: pro team rider Spencer Watson, local shredder and all around good guy Liam Casey, and yours truly. The jump was meticulously perfected by the park staff (and a few of the riders), and by noon, the session was on.
Unfortunately Spencer Watson was injured early on after overshooting the jump and landing nose heavy, on his left side, near the flat bottom. He went absolutely, unfathomably, HUGE. Spencer decided to call off the rest of the session. But don’t worry, he’s fine now.
I invited my good friend Graham Dalik to come up and shoot some photos. As promised, here are a few of his shots:
Waiting for the session to start.
Beau Bishop rocking the Westbeach tall jacket.
Huge.
Spotting some transition.
In living colour.
Backflip or BASE jump? CJ loves hangtime.
Liam Casey and CJ. Front flip and back flip.
Dan Jonas. Grousepark.com. Legit.
Gettin tail.
CJ corkin a 540.
Goin huge. Gettin corked. Grabbin tail.
Liam showing Grouse Mountain why he is the man. - Flat Spin 540.
You can check more shots from the session and some of Graham’s other work on his flickr page.
Grouse locals Jason Macfarlane and Brian Choi were also in attendance snapping shots. As this post is already getting a little photo heavy, I will save their shots for another time.
Hope you enjoyed. I sure did.
-cj
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Private Showdown Sunday March 29th
So last Sunday there were a select few skiers and snowboarders invited to hit the showdown jump. From noon to sunset the invites didnt waste a single minute. Sadly I was scheduled to work back in Coquitlam on that date, but still managed to get a few shots in after selling tools and welders for 9 hours.
Here is CJ!
Here is Liam and CJ!
Showdown from a different point of view!
Hello everyone!
Here is a quick update from Showdown Over The City, but in a different way. All the dudes in this video are from a group called Family Tree and they were all there for the contest, however they found the rookie and quik parks pretty fun… check it!
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Y2Play Passes are selling out, go grab one!
We had an awesome shoot yesterday on the showdown course as well, Mr. Liam Casey himself was putting double flips to his feet but they just managed to get away from him, we may be allowed to have another crack later in the week, keep it locked and loaded to grousepark.com and www.YOUTHofTODAY.ca because I know he will stick a few if he gets the chance. Also big props to pro team rider Spencer Watson, he overshot the jump, landing at about 15 feet from the flat bottom, that’s a huge fall! And he got up and walked away, so props!
PYP and Grousepark.com, the perfect combination!
Chuckles
Photographs eh?
So since youve heard the road trip story multiple times, theres no point telling it again. Heres some pics of what went down…
Thursday Night:
Friday:
Friday Night:
Saturday:
Saturday Night:
3rd PYP TEASE!
Hello PYPeoples!
Here is the 3rd of the 3 teasers, hope you like it!
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Be sure to come to the Oakley Night Jam on FRIDAY NIGHT! I AM MCING!
PYpeas,
Chuckles
PYP Teaser 1 of 3!!
Hello!
Ok so very exciting stuff today, the first of 3 PYP teasers is here for your viewing pleasure. I made this one, Mr. Graeme Meiklejohn and Mr. Patrick King will be making their own as well so everyone can see lots of footy, so enjoy!
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Check grousepark.com and www.YOUTHofTODAY.ca for more photos and vids!
PYPeaches n’ Cream!
Chuck
The shoot up north…
Well more north than North Vancouver lets say…
So to start off here was the crew: Charlie Grinnel Grinnell, Pat King, Graeme Meiklejohn, Spencer Watson, Dan Jonas, Liam Casey, and me Scott Titterington.
So around 3pm Thursday, I jump in my car, and go pick up Liam and Dan from their places in my little GTI. We managed to pack 3 pairs of skis and a snowboard, filled with cam gear, clothes, and just enough food to survive. Dan was in the back seat with gear crammed all the way around him, and well suprisingly enough we got a few odd looks on the way up to our first stop Westbank Kelowna. As we arrived from a 5 hour car ride we met up with the rest of the crew and got straight to work. The first night was sort of rough due to not skiing or riding for a couple days and starting off with such a gnarly rail. We still ended up with a couple wicked shots though, and quite a few crashes.
The second day we got out around 11ish and headed out to a handrail which was shot in one of the sandbox movies. As said by Spence the cops came and luckily enough they didn’t have any problem with what we were doing. I gotta say, I sure wasnt expecting the constables response to sliding a handrail in a residential alley… Later on that day we basically went to scope out what else was around town, and call it a day. Getting back to Pat’s place around12:30am, we uploaded our footage and went straight to bed.
So Saturday we went full out and headed out by 10 o’clock. We headed out to a steep handrail by a highschool. Shortly into the sesh we had a delay due to Dan catching a back edge and concussing himself. Charlie and Graeme went with him to the hospital as Spencer, Liam and Pat and I finished off this railing, and headed to the next spot. As Dan and the hospital gang were doing their thing, Liam went to scope out this pretty crazy line a few steps away. We had some time so we set up the line and shortly later Liam ended up stomping it like nothing.
After we got back from picking the rest up at the hospital we headed back to Pats place to upload footage once again. Once it got dark we headed up to Apex Mountain and shot a wallride for the most part. Liam and Spencer were celebraties. Liam gave some kids a couple Choice Apparel stickers, and Spencer gave away a Napking bandana. The kids gathered around and cheered them both on while they lit up the wallride. On the way back we started the generator up and hit some pow laps in the dark 15 feet from the highway which turned into a couple cool pictures. As which ended we headed back to Pat’s and slept the night away.
9 30am arrives Sunday and we pack up to go back home to either the Mainland or Whistler since most of us have school or work to get back to Monday.
ps. ill be posting some actual riding pictures in some future posts so keep an eye open!
See Ya for now!
Scott Titterington
New Fourtyfour Edit
Heyo!
Coming atcha today with a new edit from Fourtyfour Media, which formally was BOSS Media (changed the name). Check it out!
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Also I head to the Okanagan on Wednesday til the end of the week and there will probably be a couple of sick edit coming from there so watch for that! Be sure to check out youthoftoday.ca and grousepark.com for more info and updates throughout the trip.
Peace!
Chuck
What a weekend!
Ahoy mateys,
From the looks of it, this past weekend was definitely a busy one! I can’t say I did everything out there, but mad props for those of you that did! I had very keen ambitions of doing it all, and by all I mean everything, however an ever-lasting cold and no energy left me in no mood to partake in the festivities. Props to CJ for checking out the pipe events on Cypress, and the Railjam at Park Royal!
For the 48 Hours of Winter weekend up on Grouse Mountain, I think many of us had the intention of staying all night. I was very much in similar spirits, planning on taking the Saturday off to recover, however my body just hated me at the time, and as a result refused to function, despite the endless supply of Rockstar and Redbull. Gahhh. To be brief, the Friday night was great! Lots of people were out and about, stoked to be riding past their curfews and bedtimes.
Stoked!
I ran into local hooligans the J-Crew, who were out in full force. These kids, like many others, were found lapping the park, which I’d have to say, was in rather decent condition.
The Coolpix was running out of energy too
I’d like to give a huge, huge thanks to all the lifties who worked that night, many of whom worked a freezing cold 12 hour shift!
Thumbs up for no sleep!
On Sunday, I made my way up to Mount Seymour for the Menace Slopestyle, put on by Snowcovers. This was an event sponsored by Orage, and was one of the many stops of their coveted Anti-Tour. The focus of the comp was rather less of a competition and more of a fun, jam style session. For this stop, there were roughly 20 competitors in total, ranging from age 13-25.
Talking business with my fellow competitor, Graeme Meiklejohn
The course was nestled beautifully beneath the sun, prompting for soft and smooth conditions. The run started off with a nice down rail, stuck between a down box and flat down box.
270 on
After the rail was a choice of either large jump or smaller booter. Despite the size of the take offs, these jumps were much much smaller than anticipated, causing many competitors to go waayy deep.
The soft snow was extremely forgiving
Following the jump was a second booter, this one slightly bigger. A combo pad followed, which had an up pipe rail to down rail on the left, or up butter pad to flat down box on the right. These were really annoying to hit due to speed and space issues, not to mention the lack of attention the judges paid to the end of the course.
Maxwell Pierce Buchanan gets rodeo-tastic
After lapping for a couple of hours, the results were in. Todd Loukras took the top spot for the 14-19 category, and Jared Alexanderelphee for the 20+. Overall, an epic day was had by all.
So after much exersice and goggle-tanning, I am home to nurse some shinbang and sore thumb, but I am stoked to get back up the hill asap. As for this, I’ll let Liam Casey close it off.
Bye Liam!
au revoir
-Cam
Photos: Jason Macfarlane