will dance for cash

And the job search starts again…. Every year since I’ve started snowboarding I find myself looking for another job right around this time. I work myself into so much debt from buying new gear season passes and plane tickets that the only way for me to get out of it is to work 2 jobs for a month or two but it’s the price u got to pay when u love this sport. This year already I bought my season pass ($300) new gloves pants and hats ($200) two trips to Vermont ($700) and the season hasn’t even started. Once the fun finally starts so will the good blogs loaded with pics and good stories kind of like a reality TV show. Let’s pray for snow people not only will I get two rides but hopefully a class or two will get cancelled…..

no trip for me

Usually every year I take one big trip to the west coast or about 7 to 10 days but this year is different I really got screwed. My sister is getting married in June and the wedding is in Mexico so obviously it’s a little hard to plan two trips so close together. I can’t really say I’m that mad cause it is after all my sister’s wedding and I’m happy for her but this means I lose out on the trip to aspen me and my brother were planning. Instead of looking at the cup half empty ill take a look half full, there is gonna be a lot of girls there since its in Mexico and hoping that the conditions are right maybe I’ll get a couple days of wakeboarding in ;) and maybe a nice tan, but we can only hope for the best.

mammoth mountain

In the skiing and snowboarding world there are a few big mountains that everyone knows about and everyone hopes to ride at least once in their career and one of them is Mammoth Mountain. Until now it was one of the worst mountains to travel to because it was a four hour drive from the airport in LA but now for the first time in 13 years they will be flying flights from LAX to Mammoth lake which would take only an hour and much more comfortable than sitting squeezed in a taxi with a bunch of strangers breathing down your neck. This is huge to anyone who was thinking about making the trip to Cali to ride Mammoth like me. Thanks for thinking about us and adding the airport.

its tough out there

This is officially the worst time off the year for any snowboarder. The spring is good because I can finally heal all the bruises and cuts from the season and get some sleep. The summer is good cause I get to wakeboard and practice my tricks for the next season but the fall o man does the fall really suck the jitters set in for the upcoming season and there isn’t a thing you can do especially since I don’t skateboard. It’s too cold to wakeboard and not cold enough for the snow. Thankfully for me the season is starting early this year and I’m taking full advantage. As of now I’m headed to Vermont November 1st to ride mount snow. Let’s just pray to Mother Nature and hope she brings some powderrrrrrrrrr.

POP

http://blog.zionsnowboards.com/?p=117 so the program is called POP .. probally the most honorable thing ever done by a snowboarder in history. This program is run by a company called zion a rather small snowboarding company but none the less a profitabloe company. What they are doing is donating 10% of every sale to a picked foundation of their choice. The foundation they picked this time is a group against child sex trafficking in cambodia. Thats right young children in cambodia are forced to work in brothels in this country. This company zion is a huge supporter of the new song project (the people against child sex slavery) and is a huge funder of them. I think the POP program in general is great these huge corporations never give back and zion is setting an example. More then the program itself i think the selection of the foundation is even better, these kids shouldnt have to be put through this they deserve a choice and the new song project is giving them one. Thanks Zion and POP

11 year old prodigy

Arite so most pro snowboarders get signed when they are about 19 20 years old so you have to ask yourself how did this little 11 year old kid get signed with one of the biggest snowboarding companies in the world??? its mind boggling... this kid isnt even out of 6th grade yet he has a career and make more money then our proffesor probally (no offense but he did just sign a huge contract) so how does he do it 11 and already on the pro circuit well first he started pulling tricks so advanced for his age he made it on the cover of snowboarder magazine twice ... just so you know how hard that is some of the worlds best snowboarders who age from 22- 26 havent even made it on a full page shoot their whole careers. If you ask me thats something pretty crazy to think about this 11 year old has a career what were you doing in 6th grade if your a normal kid you probally werent traveling around the world getting paid to do what you love .... even when your 25 you probally wont be traveling around the world getting paid to do what you love but this kid finishs his multiplication tables and then goes and competes in competitions with 22 yr olds and keeps up. Talk about a prodigy ... this kid is a prime example

peak to peak

Whistler Blackcomb Building Record-Breaking New Ski Lift Whistler and Blackcomb are two of the biggest skie resorts in the world and now they are one. The record breaking mountains are being connected by a record breaking gondola for the first time in history. For anyone who has ever been there or plans to go there this is huge before this gondola was made it would take you just a week to ski one mountain trying to navigate it but now that they are connected you can do all your runs on both mountains in a week. This is the biggest thing since the chair lift was invented, if i had to compare this to say baseball its like the metal bat of baseball u can hit farther and harder and its the same thing in the snowboard and skiing world. Cant wait till 2010 to go ride it...