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As I write this, my muscles are constantly reminding me why I had such an awesome weekend-trip. Jorg and I planned a weekend of extreme sports at Center Parcs at Kempervennen. This particular Center Parcs features both an indoor snowboarding center and an outdoor wakeboarding center. A perfect setting to expand our abilities in snowboarding, […]
Eyes focused on the green-ribbed-tube, placed down-hill in the same incline as the hill. Gauging for a speed that I’m still comfortable with doing a new trick. Dropping in switch doing a half-cab into a backside 50-50 felt actually really comfortable. This was a first I had done that trick and got it down first […]
A 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 the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Last week I used an old skate board strapped to my feet on a balance bar to improve my jibbing-balance. I had seen this in one of the videos that Nev Lapwood over at SnowboardAddiction.com » SA – Jibbing Vol. 1. It’s one of the bonus features of this edition. Basically a balance bar is […]
It’s that time of the season again when the winter is tucked some where far away and the snowcenter is transformed into the perfect training grounds. No busy crowds and obstacles for all levels, meaning I can practice some new tricks and polish some of the tricks learned last year. The one I already knew […]
Although it might seem boring to most, I think my current strategy of getting those 50-50’s dialed in over all obstacles is really working out for me. I share my findings, perceptions & progress on this blog, so maybe others can have that ‘gotcha’-moment as well as I did. But most of all my blog […]
Oh how I like to prove myself wrong!! I can still remember myself saying: “That trick, well… I will not be stompin’ that anytime soon! The day I do? Man that would be soooo sick.” In this case I proved myself wrong about snowboarding a downrail 50-50 by jumping on frontside and the other trick […]
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