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.

Roof Drop

A short video of a roof drop i noticed beside the Monash freeway in Melbourne. The Roof belongs to the clubhouse of a baseball team around the Kooyong area. Not a huge drop, but the roofs surface was difficult to ride because there were deep grooves cut in that weren't quite wide enough for my wheels, these grooves were constantly moving my board a few inches left to right all the way down the roof. Once on the run-in to the drop i had already committed so i aimed straight and hoped for the best.... turned out well.

Outer Edge Magazine Article

This article was published in the March edition of Outer Edge Magazine.

The article, written by Melissa Reynolds, Discusses the worldwide mountain-boarding scene. Later in the article melissa talks about what is required to ride and where to ride. One of the best articles i have scene about mountain boarding.

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NEW VIDEO

Andy was kind enough to invite us all round to his backyard jumps for a riding/filming session. The jumps were rock solid, and the weather was about 35.
As you will see in the footage everyone was throwing down!

Enjoy and feel free to leave a comment.

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Some new pictures

Melbourne Bicycle Centre jersey

A jeresey and nix combo i designed for our team riders at Melbourne Bicycle Centre. 

A few of the guys are in the national BMX championships in a few months time and will be racing wearing this.

Hopefully the final product will turn out sweet.

Carvin by the beach

A cool photo taken by steve cownie on our road trip along the Great ocean road.

Como Park gap

Its been many years in progress, but the beast has finally been conquered.

Myself, Dylan Warren, a support team and camera crew headed down to the como park gap in south yarra. The gap is around 12 meters long with a 2.5 meter step down. Even worse, nobody else had ever tried it, so getting the speed right, creating the right kind of take off ramp, and loads of other variables would mean the difference between landing clean and claiming, or blowing out both of your knees.

Heres a few sneak preview pictures:

MORE PICTURES COMMING AND ALSO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THE VIDEO!!

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Eyeplay Helmet cams

Caught up with the fellas from Eyeplay, a company which Import helmet cams. we did a bit of video shoot at Mt. Macedon.


Check out their website www.eyeplay.net.au

Also look forward to a few films of me and the munroboards.com crew riding. they should be up in a few weeks

Angelsea

Went on down to Angelsea dirtpark with a few dudes. The park is amazing for a public facility, and has toilets a sheltered area and the track is very well looked after. i was impressed.

Jimmy reynolds took this photo with his new fish eye lens. 

I would recommend this place to ride for anyone of any Mountainboarding ability. Eventually I will organise a competition here I think.