Season Opener

The weekend started with a mission to heathrow airport very early on friday morning, and i couldnt have picked a better morning to get up early. Not a cloud in the sky, and even at 5am the temperature was around 17 degrees ro so. On the way back from the airport i picked up Sam Nicholas, one of my fellow trampa team riders.

We were headed for Hales SuperBole, a mountainboarding park up near Chester. Superbole were hosting the 'season opener' A competition to mark the start of the mountainboarding season over this side of the world. On the cards for the weekend was a slopestyle comp, Saturday night Jib session under floodlights, and the big air on the Sunday.

Unfortunately i managed to sprain my wrist on my 10th run of the day so decided to pull out of competition, Just to be on the safe side. However Sam managed to go on and represent by winning the big air with some hugh Tweaked out FS rodeo's.

Heres some pics:

Yours truely with a backflip on the slopestyle:


Me with the Van:

How to waste 2 days of your life.

Yesterday, it was back over to the UK for another summer of mountainboarding goodness. I set off from Ballarat at around 9:30am and arrived at Melbourne international airport at 11, ready for my 1:55 flight.
After some fairwells i was off on my 5 month journey.
The flight was a 24hr total flight, with a 3 hour stopover in bangkok. Finally, on arrival to london, i was kept in london passport Control, and threatened to be sent back home for 8 hours! The theory behind this was that if i was comming over, with the purpose of mountainboarding, i should have acquired a sports visa.
In the end i was finally given the all clear to proceed through to the UK where ted from Trampa was waiting for me to take me up to Nottinghsam, where i will be staying.