Quiksilver Park Now Open
It’s been just over 24 hours that the Quik park has been open and the usual gang already has an edit out. Here are Shayan, Trint and Spencer once again. For those that don’t know Shayan, that kid is 14. He’s gonna blow up, you mark my words.
Snow’s on its way. I would know, I’m kind of a big deal.
Sam
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New PYP Edit and other goodies!
What you sayin’!
Chuck here, just letting you know about the new PYP edit, check it out and show all of your friends, we have some big plans in the works so hold tight and prepare to be stoked!! Make sure you get up Grouse Mountain very soon, Shaw Butterworth has been making magic from the snowcat and you will see a five table L-XL line in the park, that is unheard of on the North Shore… so thanks Shaw for all your hard work!
Also check out where the 40 box has been moved to, as well has the down rail from Showdown over the City is up and running now. One last thing, the new up-flat-down or battleship rail has also been installed where the 40 box used to be… I am not posting any photos so you guys get up there and see it yourself!
Bright sun, great friends and a sick park, what more do you need?
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Keep it real,
Chuckles
Going green and a few words
After the introduction of this years Flat Kick Technology in the limited release of the Horrorscope, FK tech will be introduced in a few more models in Capita’s line next year. 2 of these new boards include the new Directional Pow board, the Charlie Slasher FK which also has an intriguing shape, and the Green Machine, Capita’s take on the Green Movement in the industry, the Green Machine is a centered park influenced board that is available in both camber and reverse camber FK.
Charlie Slasher FK
Green Machine FK
My schedule has been quite hectic, going to school full time and riding 6 days a week takes a major toll on your body and mind. I guess this is just a reminder from personal experience, if you are feeling tired at the end of the day, please don’t go huck yourselves off rails or jumps. Trying to impress someone won’t make you cool. Take it easy and enjoy the last runs of the day, its much better to enjoy snowboarding than to suffer from a stupid fall. Getting hurt is the last thing you want to do after a long and progressive day of riding. Take a breather, fresh legs means stomped landings.
And…
Get yourselves up to Grouse Mountain! The parks are going off right now! After the sick boardercross event that took place in the Rookie Terrain Park last week, Grouse Mountain Park Staff have updated the Rookie Park while including some features and concepts from the boardercross course. There are features for every skill level and I’ve never seen the Rookie Park this fun.
Meanwhile, the Quiksilver Park is going through another park build! Both of Grouse’s famed down flat down rails; the Tram Rail (note the same dimensions as the staircase at the bottom of the tram) and the mellow down flat down are both in and provide much entertainment for everyone. (PS. They are easier than they look.) The 4 jump line is in the process of being completed and should be done by Monday or Tuesday, so if you ever see any Park Staff (Look for their black jackets, blue pants and white helmets), don’t be afraid to go say hi, or ask them to rake a takeoff, and definately say thanks for the wonderful park. A thank you can go a long way in today’s society. Thanks guys!
Here is a free video from Action Horse Films. Some of you may have seen it and for those that haven’t, you shall now be entertained for 28 minutes and 13 seconds. This free film is funner to watch than more than half of the movies that have a 30 dollar price tag, plus who doesn’t love a movie that contains the vibe of the old Robot Food Movies like Afterbang or Lame. Enjoy!!
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Here is the new Teaser for Think Thank’s new movie Cool Story! I’m digging their new approach.
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See you on the hill! I love my friends!
-Dan
Introducing Boss Media
Gung Hay Fat Choy,
Coming at you today with a profile on a media group that is just starting out, but based on their first edit great things will follow. BOSS Media is ran by Joe Mickelson and Jeremy Cox and do not let their age fool you, these guys will pump out the sick edits. On the second day of “The Introduction” being online it has 330 plays! They will have a website (www.bossmedia.ca) up at the end of the week with lots of cool stuff on it. Every edit they post, I will be posting on here to keep it poppin’. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did…
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Peace and Love,
Chuckles
Surprise Spencer Watson Visit!
The other day, Grouse Mountain Pro Team Member Spencer Watson came to Vancouver from Whistler for a surprise visit. Spence did a couple of laps of the Quiksilver Park with none other then Mr. Dan Jonas and Mr. Rod Caula owner of Choice Apparel and said he was impressed with the setup. Hopefully when the jump line is up in the park he will grace us with his presence and we can make a sick edit with some good jump footage. For now though just a couple of photos from the NIKON COOLPIX!
Smile Spence!
270 out of the up-rail.
Pre-450 out of the up-rail with some snow.
Having some fun on the 40 foot box.
Ta ta for now,
Chuck
Did that just happen?
Did that really just happen? January is just about wrapped and I’m in a daze. The past 2 months have felt more like an entire season crammed into the span of 60 days. December started with absurdly cold temperatures which rolled into some epic dumps of snow in early January. But almost as soon as it started, the snow stopped and the sun came out blasting with some unusually high temperatures in mid January.
Now that January is almost wrapped and the snow is back, it seems like the season is just getting going again…
Good day?
Here is a little video of a couple of laps through the Quiksilver park with the usual crowd on Juneuary 22.
Grouse Laps from cj on Vimeo.
Above the fog
Now I know it’s been said way too many times already, but if you get the chance, head up the mountain!!! I completely took for granted how good it was until I was above the clouds.
I had a few hours to kill before work on Monday, so I thought I’d push a couple laps through the Quiksilver Park. And what a treat it was! BIG up to the park crew; these guys have done a sick job at putting together what seems to be one of the best parks I’ve hit in a while on Grouse Mountain, and I’m sure many of you will agree. Anyways I met up with a friend and his buddy and managed to muck around, remembering that I still had my camera in my pocket. As you’ve probably seen in Scott’s photo (which by the way blew me away), this weather provides some epic light, be it day or night.
Anyways do yourself a favour and get up the hill! This weather is only going to last a few more days, so beat the clouds, the fog and the weird temps in the city, and head up for some mid-Jan spring skiing.
PEACE
Cam
Magnificent
Alright, dudes and duddettes. Heres a bit of an update from myself.
From Wednesday until now, the weather has been unbelievable. With Cashens and cjs description i dont think I need to describe much else, other then the sunsets!!!! Now how can you forget about that. Well here is a photo I shot of Liam Casey on January 14th, somewhere between 5 and 5 30 pm.
Liam Casey - Quiksilver Park Sunset
Shooting sunsets has to be the most difficult time to shoot. Running back and forth every 30 seconds to adjust settings, and yell at your rider to hurry the ____ up. With about 30 minutes of useable time. Getting the correct shot with only a few laps can get pretty stressful. On top of that, I found out earlier that day my camera is half broken, and now I can’t adjust ANYTHING! So on to warranty it goes.
Liam managed to pull in probally around 8 tries or so during this time, so I give him big props on that. Running up the hill half the time got him pretty beat tired. With that shoot behind us, I managed to go lock up my camera gear, and hit up some laps. A couple runs in we met up with James Anderson, Maxwell Buchanan, Peter Hunter, and Joe Mickelson. Joe took out le video, and we had a pretty successful night with that. Over the past month, ive seen alot of talent start coming out of Grouse Mountain. Skiers, and Snowboarders are really stepping up their game lately, and its getting harder and harder to keep up with it.
The day after, I got to meet cj, hes a pretty nice, chill guy, whos really got some moves behind himself. Shot a couple photos with him, and Dan Jonas, during another sunset, exactly the same as the night before. While packing up from that night, I realized the pastel like drawing over the Vancouver fog. Its a pretty neat effect if you havent seen it before. With the lights from the city coming through the clouds in different colors, it really is quite the scene.
One more thing, before I get back to studying.. I am giving a big shout out to EVERYONE on the crew of Grouse Mountain Park. They have put every effort into this park over the past few weeks, and it has really paid off. Do me a favour, and go tell them how awesome things are right now. They will really appreciate it, and they will return with more fun times to come.
Scott Titterington
Sunny Shred…JUMPS!
Ok so here’s the deal…Cashen already let the cat out of the bag on this one so I don’t feel bad about letting yall in…Grouse Mountain is SICK right now. As the city lays blanketed in fog, those of us who are fortunate (and smart) enough to make it up the hill in the past few days have been treated to some wicked spring like conditions. The fog has kept many of the weekend warriors bunkered down in the city while the rest of us shred lap after lap under sunny skies with no lineups.
The park crew has been hard at work, and it shows, the Quiksilver park is in PRIME condition right now. The soft, slushy landings make for some very huckable conditions. Here’s a little clip of yours truly having fun on the first jump on the left side:
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The Quicksilver park is divided into two sections, a large, three jump line of the left, and rails on the right.
One, two, three on the left or rails on the right...
Coolpix gettin the job done.
On Thursday I took a few laps with some local kids. They were throwin’ down in the slush, getting some corks, and rodeos down. Let me know if its you, or you know who these guys are, I missed their names.
Spraffy?!
Workin the cork 7 mute.
Backside 3.
Practice makes perfect.
Rodeo 5 japan.
So all in all everyone is super pumped on the conditions right now. Who would have thought after the crazy cold temperatures and the epic amounts of pow, we would be shredding in +10 degrees and slush…in January…only in Vancouver.
-cj
DEW it up! Freeski Slopestyle
With all this pow we’ve had recently up Grouse Mountain, its easy to forget about shredding park. For those of you in need of a little “reminder” of whats going down these days, look no further than the antics that took place this weekend at the second stop of the Winter Dew Tour at Mount Snow, Vermont.
With a slopestyle course manicured to near perfection, the level of riding on Saturday was absolutely absurd. For a little run down of course check this POV cam by the one and only Tom Wallisch provided by the good people over at freeskier.com.
As you can see, the course provided riders with everything needed to make for a contest full of flippy-spinny tomfoolery. Alexis Godbout held down third place with some bangers like a 630 off, right side 900, left 900, and switch left 900.
Making it all look easy was PK Hunder in second place. PK has been slaying the competition scene so far this season. Its tough to imagine that a run with a 360 switch up, switch on to rodeo 450 off, right side 720, switch left 900, and left 1080 could only conjure up a second place. PK appeared to have a little difficulty dropping into the second axis on his patented double cork 1080 which may have hurt his score slightly.
The double cork aside, PK’s run was still no match for first place winner, JF Houle. JF threw down some of the most technical rail tricks ever seen in competition (450 on switch up 450 out, huge 630 out, nose butter 270 on pretzel out) combined with a right side 720, left 900 and switch left 1080, JF and undoubtedly deserved the win…just watch the video.
So kids, let this be an inspiration to you! Get out there and practice up! The Quiksilver park is coming together nicely with three decent sized jumps on the left side. The rails, when not buried in pow, are perfect for getting those 270s, pretzels and k-feds down. Get practicing because the second Oakley Night Jam is coming up on January 23!
See ya up there,
-cj