50-50 Downrail – Photo by Jorg Jansen
Hiking up and down the hill to get some awesome photographs done, is totally worth the time. By noon the need for food was making my body shake, but even though it is grueling the effort Jorg Jansen and I put in to get some good shots – when the sun was shining – paid off.
I incorpora [...]
Video: 2013 Trip to Kaprun, Kitzstein...
50-50 Downrail – Photo by Jorg Jansen
Hiking up and down the hill to get some awesome photographs done, is totally worth the time. By noon the need for food was making my body shake, but even though it is grueling the effort Jorg Jansen and I put in to get some good shots – when the sun was shining – paid off.
I incorpora [...]
Preparing for snow…
The incredible need to check up on the weather conditions, the snow heights, looking at the webcams in the Mountains and checking out videos posted from people from the mountain is taking over my mind. With only a few weeks until I have another snowboard trip planned, it is beginning to become unbearable.
This year we’re heading out [...]
Gear: Signal Rocker Light
I have been riding my NITRO MISFIT 155,6 for quite some time now. But I still feel like there is something missing. The introduction of “Rocker” boards was just happening when I was first in the market for a snowboard. After letting innovation and development take its course; better and more diverse types of “rocker” [...]
Skateboarding: It’s all in the ...
Example: Backfoot placement“Pay attention to how you place your backfoot,…” – Is what Nick Bax had to note about the way I executed a regular Ollie, he continued: “…by placing the backfoot with the inner edge just over the transition from the board into the backtail, you have better control and the board [...]
Training: Backside 50-50s & more
2010 – Indy over a small kickerA lot has changed since we started riding the park back in January 2010. Back then a warmup used to exist of a few runs down the slope to get the legs used to standing sideways. Yesterday the warmup existed of hitting some Frontside 50-50′s on the tube and down-rail features. Slowly but gradually [...]
Week-trip: Silvretta-Montafon –...
It took me a while to write up the story from our Snowboarding trip for this year, but here you have it. Our stay for 2012 was at Gaschurn, Austria (Silvretta Montafon) at a short distance from the elevator onto the mountain, like we always do.
We traveled with more people than just the usual riders Marieke, Jorg and I, this year some of o [...]
Skateboarding: Ollies & Blunt No...
Even though the lessons have been at a halt for a period, since the start of 2012 I had quite a few skateboard sessions where I got to learn new stuff. The skate lessons are still part of the snowboardtraining for better board handling and body movement, which I could clearly notice during our snowboard trip in January.
During the skate le [...]
Training: Easing back into snowboardi...
The screwdriver is rotating and in turn the screws for mounting my Flow bindings are tightening, adjusting the angles to 17° outwards both front and back binding. My board has been without my bindnigs for about 2 months now, ever since I got back from the week-trip to Silvretta-Montafon – Gashurn, AT. I could not resist the urge to g [...]
Skateboarding: Ollie-ing to new heigh...
This weekend I had a short skateboard session with Jorg at the Shark Safe house. After all the building from the past few weeks it was time to hit the quarters ourselves. I’m stoked about the results on the quarters, the transition is perfect and the speed you can generate is good. Although in our skate lessons we did not really yet [...]
Skateboarding: Building a DIY Quarter...
In the past few weeks I have been busy designing and building a Do It Yourself Skateboarding Quarter Pipe. There are a lot of tutorials on how to build such a thing, but most of them are written en design for Imperial units instead of the Metric system used here in the Netherlands.
Design for the Quarter PipeThis is where I found my challe [...]
Training: Backside 50-50′s
The Montana snow-center slope was filled with freestyle skiers on Wednesday 21st of December. During their training they were even taking over the obstacles, normally only used by the boarders. As a result the setup jumps were kind of ruined and the chances of training the backside 50-50 were slim. As a result Jorg and I had to re-shape t [...]
Training: Aerial awareness put to the...
Last Thursday Marieke and I went to Snowworld in Landgraaf. They had placed the Nike 6.0 Jumping Airbag after a medium kicker. It was ideal to test some of the aerial awareness I’d been training throughout the summer. I only wanted to focus on my 180′s, to be sure I’d be able to land them. The 180′s posed no real pr [...]
