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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
TRIP PICS!
Hey Everyone,
WOW! what a fun filled and busy trip! K so I started off by picking up Spencer Watson from his place at about 12, then him and I drove up to Whistler to pickup my fellow PYP members Mr. Pat King and Mr. Graeme “I’m only gonna shower once on this trip!” Meiklejohn.
All of our gear for the trip
From here we drove back down to Vancouver, my truck was a little tight…
Graeme getting the shot!
While leaving Squamish business called and Spence and I were busy hammering out deals!
PYBizness
When we got back down to Vancouver, we had to stop and gas up, as well as get some gas for the generator.
Drink up!
In the meantime, Pat was taking pictures of Spence in the back of the truck.
Tisk ahhhhhhhh
From West Van, we then stopped in Chilliwack to get some eats at Tim Hortons!
Spence loves doughnuts!
The server loved Spencer's eyes....
From here business called again and I was on the phone making blockbuster deals!
Graeme likes cameras and doughnuts
Next stop was in Princeton, to gas up again and the camera was obviously out, we got some good ones.
Me doing some work
www.YOUTHofTODAY.ca, how we do
Spence being Spence
Graeme Meiklejohn living that G2 lifestyle
So we eventually get to Pat’s house, sleep for a bit, then 6:39AM rolls around and Chuck is not a happy camper… considering we got to Pat’s at 1AM…
Get that shot!
We hit this rail, got some amazing shots, you will see them soon if you keep cheacking www.YOUTHofTODAY.ca and here!
Doing work and GTS'n
The trip was awesome, be sure to check back here and check out www.YOUTHofTODAY.ca for more updates.
PYPeace!
Chuckles
Progressive Youth Productions
Alright so this update has some very exciting news. I am greatly excited to announce that I have decided to fold up Blue Magic Media and I have joined forces with my 2 good friends Pat King and Graeme Meiklejohn and we will go by the name Progressive Youth Productions or PYP.
Pat King is the Owner of napKING (www.mynapking.com) a very successful apparel company that sells bandanas and stuff like that for now. Graeme Meiklejohn is a Grouse Mountain local who has moved to Whistler for this season and he operates Yay!uer Media.
PYP has a new website up and running at youthoftoday.ca, there will be edits, blogs, photos and all of that exciting stuff. Also, please join the PYP Facebook Group.
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Grouse Mountain Pro Team rider Spencer Watson is in a couple of these edits so watch for that. Another great part of this merger is that you guys will get to see some more coverage of Spencer while he is living in Whistler, which is lucky because you guys wouldn’t usually get to see this with Blue Magic Media.
This is a very exciting merger and look for great things to come from PYP as we have gathered a great group and we are very excited to entertain everyone, so remember to keep it locked to grousepark.com, mynapking.com, youthoftoday.ca, and the Facebook group.
PYP!
Chuckles
The edit I forgot about
Yellow Everyone!
Here is a video that I thought I already posted but I’m silly and I didn’t actually post it, so now I am going to post it, enjoy! Mwahahahahaha! It’s just some shots of Spencer Watson that I used for the SuperU contest, but without my talking and documentary feel.
[Vimeo http://vimeo.com/2876048]
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Stay fresh,
Chuck
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
A day with Grouse Mountain Pro Team Rider Spencer Watson
Coming at you today with my first video!!!! YAY!!!!!! It is super short because I cannot upgrade to Vimeo Plus as they do not have international billing available yet. I am in the process of working something out with them (so i can post vids longer then 2 mins), as I do have like 3 videos ready to go to post but no where to post them. SO! Fingers crossed.
Back to the good stuff… Grouse Pro Team Member Spencer Watson made the trek down from his humble abode in Whistler to come hang with me down here in the city. Instead of going up to the mountain to film we realized that we never have this much snow in the city so we should make use of it and hit some handrails.
Since I was up late the night before editing my heart out, I didn’t wake up and get out of the house until 2-ish. I grabbed Spencer and he knew of this really sick 5-kink rail on Lonsdale, so we headed there first. We got there and set it all up and then we realized that the speed factor was a huge issue. Since there was only Spencer and I we decided to move on and come back to it later once there isn’t knee deep powder coming up to a rail. Stay tuned to my updates in the coming week or so, because he is really excited to hit this rail.
All that work for nothing
Getting ready to set up the 5-kink… for nothing!
We were both super choked we couldn’t make something happen with that rail so to make us feel better we decided to hit the McDonald’s Drive Thru. We loaded up on cheap, good (depending on your opinion) food and Spencer proceeded to give away a pair of his sick sunglasses (from BANG ON!) to an employee that he thought was cute, hoping he could score a phone number (note: this did not work).
Next we were off to a famous rail that we knew would already be set up and we knew we could get some shots from it… Delbrook Park was our destination. This long down rail has been featured in many ski and snowboard movies and was the main attraction of our day.
Delbrook Park Down Rail
We ended up getting a couple of good shots and I think Spence had a fun time, so I would call that rail a success. After we were done filming I whipped out my Nikon Coolpix and just started ambushing him with flashes and the Coolpix.
Spencer Watson reppin’ Grouse Mountain
Showin’ off the sticker
From Delbrook we began to head back to my place and on the way we hit a down flat down at West Vancouver Secondary School. It was a big waste of time as there was no light and we were too tired and lazy to set it up.
We got to my place and decided to sesh my rail that I had made the day before from a PVC pipe I bought from Rona for $25 and it would have worked really well if we picked a better spot to set it up. Once again speed was a major issue, but we still managed to get one sick shot from it.
Spencer has now gone back up to Whistler and won’t be back until after Christmas. Since there will probably still be snow in the city, once he is back we have already decided we are going to do another one of these with bigger and better features.
Here is the video, enjoy!
Keep it real,
Chuck
Yoooo Everyone!
Yoooo Everyone!!!
Welcome to the Grouse Mountain Terrain Park Blog, my name is Charlie Grinnell and I am one of your park bloggers for this season. Feel free to add me on Facebook or go to blue magic media on Vimeo to view some quick edits of mine. Also if you see me on the hill truckin’ along with my cane, don’t be shy to come say hey and chat.
I’m super stoked to be one of the chosen bloggers, I have a great feeling about this season and I am excited to keep you guys entertained. I know all the other bloggers and they are super sick dudes as well so everyone should be excited cause this is gonna be fun.
I know whenever I go to a site and I see a lot of writing, I am not too stoked to have to read it all to understand and get the good stuff (ironic how I have a huge write-up)… SO!!!! I will be doing only a little bit of writing in my blogs (with the exception of this one), and they will be largely photo and video based. I think that will give everyone a better idea of what’s going on and videos are fun.
I plan to cover all sorts of topics, we will have interviews, new videos that I think are sick, music stuff, coverage of Grouse Mountain contests and events and everything in between.
New Grouse Mountain Pro Team rider Spencer Watson ladies and gentlemen
First of all I would like to throw a shout-out to a good friend of mine named Spencer Watson. He is the newest member of the Grouse Mountain Pro Team. Congrats boyyyyy!!!!!! You have probably seen him on at one point or another on the mountain, the dude always has a smile on his face and although he lives in Whistler now, he will be around as much as he can.
There won’t be a video in this update as I just made 4 edits in the last 2 days and posted them on vimeo.com or in the Grouse Mountain Terrain Parks Facebook Page…. In my next update there will be an edit from the first Oakley Night Jam of the season, so look for that.
Stay golden ponyboy, stay golden
Chuck