Last week we had seen the preparations for the way Montana was re-organizing the slope with the features. They were still moving around with the big kicker and all the setup jumps hadn’t been properly groomed, but today we heard that all would be properly groomed and had enough freezing time to harden. Unfortunately the [...]
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Day-trip: Park Opening, Snow Valley
Summer is the time to reshape indoor slopes and redesign the way the park is setup, today it was time to check out the new park at Snow Valley in Peer, Belgium. They had been very busy getting it done in time, but the result was just awesome. The small hall was transformed into a [...]
READ MORE »Training: Rail, Box & Kicker
Photography The progress we’re making in snowboarding not only focuses on the boarding itself, but advancing to adjacent areas like video and photo is a very important aspect of bringing the total experience across. A good example of that is the fact that my fellow boarder Jorg Jansen bought an digital camera of the DSLR [...]
READ MORE »Training: Flatbox & Crashing
What a good thing it is to own and wear good protective gear whilst snowboarding. I have proven this to myself yet again last night during the training session at Montana Snowcenter. The thing with falling is that the impact of the crash will mostly be absorbed by your body. The addition of protective gear [...]
READ MORE »Week-trip to: Mayrhofen, Austria
After a somewhat exhausting drive we finally arrived back home on the 27th of march 2010. Although we didn’t have much traffic on the way to Mayrhofen, our return journey seemed to feature nothin but traffic jams in the first 300 km. It’s about a 900km drive from Eindhoven to Mayrhofen and we split up [...]
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