I had the chance of swinging by NYC to catch up with TroubleGang and if you haven’t heard the most recent Mixtape you need to follow the link that’s right in your face upon entering the YES site and download.
Good talks and there’s so much more to come from this end, wait and see!
After spending a solid week in the jungles of Itacarre I was looking forward to a nice flight back home without hassle but who am I kidding.
American Airlines can definitely suck it after a really poor execution of my itinerary missing my flight down and also the return.
Anyway wanna give a big shoutout to the BREATH FOUNDATION for putting it down making sure people in need are heard and for bringing awareness around the devastation of our rain forests.
Check it out!
Where to start …….. After having a amazing winter we disidead to got check our yes shop down under…. We wanted to go hang out with all our supporter and believer of the yes mouvement. So we all jump in a 15 hours flight that seamed more like a 8 hours for me at lease , Jp was on buissness class ( bastard) and meet up in Sydney with our Yes sales man Amine from australia.
DCp was joining us couple day later because of some other comitment he had to do.
Jp and I got picked up at the airport and 30 minute later we where surfing a nice little beach brake…….. Jp and I look at each other and knew we did the right thing to come down under , this trip is going to be a good one !!!!!! After our surf session we when and go some beer to celebrate our first couple hours in australia but what we didn t relized is that we just traveled for 15 hours on a plane and haven t really slept and getting couple beer made u fucking wasted so we cut the night short or the night cut us shot and feel a sleep in a cab ride back to the hotel at 9 pm !!!!!
Next day we flue down to Melbourne to go straight to Torkay beach for some more surf since the tour will start only in a day or 2 . We scored some good ass swell down there the first day . Dcp came the second day and he was fired up to go for some big surf ! I never see him so motivated and that pumped all us up ! we end up having a surf until dark that day…. it was little spooky because of the shark urban ledgend that they like to heet at night !!!!!
After those couple of days of surf it was time to get the show on the road so we head back in Melbourne to do a shop signing session at Ballistyx shop where we had a really good time . It was amazing to see those kids so hemp on what we are trying to bring into snowboarding and supporting our mouvement ! Thank to Tash and Steve to put such a amazing event !
Ok One down couple more to go . Next day we where heading to the Rush distribution office for some dinner and party with the shops and staff at rush….. The night was one of the funyess ever every body was such in good happy mood and we send it all night ! Thank u ED to believe in us u are the man !
Waking up with a massif hang over or no haven t sleep at all can remeber wich one it was but for sure we did it right ! we head back to sydney to meet up with the boy Chris from Australia & NZ Snowboarding magazine for some fun time . Some surf and some quest edit !!!!!! We had blast editing with Chris , thank u so much for the good time !
Now we have 2 more stop too do and we are pump because we gonna meet some more cool shop that support us . The first one is Ess at Parramatta where we meet some cool kids that will start snowboarding this winter on a Yes. board for the first time !!!!!!check out the picture snowboardermag ! Thank to Jason to put a sweet event like that .
All right we are heading to our last stop of the tour a little north of Sydney in the central cost to Ess Erina . We manage to squeeze a little surf session befor the event at Avoca beach where we go fucking worked , the beach brake was massif but good fun and lot of laughts. The venue was fun lot s of young kids where there and made us realyse that Yes. is on in autralia and we definitly gonna make this trip a annual one . here some picture u can check : Essboardstore We would like thank Marc for the amazing venue and can t wait to come back next year…….
Now we are beat up surfing traveling every days for week our body is telling to chill for a minute so we manage to chill 2 more days by the beach and recovering our good memory from this trip. There so many god one that just one blog segment would feet in there so here are couple picture of the funnyess moment .
THANK U AGAIN TO EVERY ONE DOWN UNDER TO BELIEVE IN YES. IT MEAN A LOT TO US AND GIVE US STRINGHT AND ENERY TO GIVE MORE BACK TO THE SNOWBOARD COMMUNITY.
Special thank to Amine and Ed to put such a good tour for us
Vince Pages‘ film crew Ero One is proud to present its new film teaser! VOILA!
Coming in September with Onboard Magazine…
go down load this movie on internet ……. it will change u !
Here is the teaser.
Checkout what the Volcano in Iceland looks like from above, all planes are grounded in Europe here as long as this guy keeps huffin and puffin’!
Looks like my old team manager when I said I didn’t like what he was thinking haha!
Just went on the wildest trip ever to Russia with Terje, Freddi K, Brusti for Absinthe Films and some good old 13 fam. Not just anywhere in Russia either, we are talking Kamchatka baby! In case you didn’t pay attention in history class it would have been one of the most famous places in the world if the cold war ever were to escalate into something more serious then it did. But that’s beside the point.
Kamchatka is one of the most beautiful, wildest, remote and most humbling places I have ever visited, and I see myself going back again again again and again for more, the possibilities are endless .
From riding down into active Volcanoes and surfing black ice cold freezing water in -13 Celsius words can’t describe the adventure!
It will be hard keeping this well kept secret under lid for very much longer…..
We were put up by SNOW VALLEY MOUNTAIN OPERATIONS and lead by local legends Alexander Morosh and Maxim Balakhovskiy to where what dreams are made of and you’ll see the result of that soon enough. BIG UP!!
MORE TO COME!
Here’s a little taster though, all I gotta say is DUDE!!!
This painting represent the german invasion during the 2 world war………….
we had such a good past week .
Here is a little on board camera action
ShareMe and my friends were able to get some laps inn, in between coaching at a Glacier in Norway this summer.. Good times – Stian
ShareYES. family members Romain De Marchi, Mikey Pederson, and the newly added Helen Schettini do some laps at the Camp of Champions up on Blackcomb, and discuss life and love on the lifts
ShareThe conclusion to the YES El Salvador team meetings.
