A cool photo taken by steve cownie on our road trip along the Great ocean road.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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!!
maybe you could bookmark this page, subscribe to the RSS feed(if you use a feedreader) or became a blog fan.
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!!
maybe you could bookmark this page, subscribe to the RSS feed(if you use a feedreader) or became a blog fan.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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
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
Sunday, January 11, 2009
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.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Slater + Dylan Hit Melbourne City - The Sequel
I recently edited up a little video of myself and fellow team mate, Dylan Warren shredding it downtown Melbourne city.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Portugal Vid
Now i have returned home in Australia, i have had some free time to work on editing some video i shot while on tour.
Here is some stuff i shot with the sintra crew in portugal. Very scenic locations!
Sorry for the loss of quality on youtube.
Here is some stuff i shot with the sintra crew in portugal. Very scenic locations!
Sorry for the loss of quality on youtube.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
World Freestyle Championships
Today was the day of the world freestyle championships. Riders had travelled from around Angland, Japan, USA, Ireland, Czech republic, Syberia, France, Belgium, Switzerland and myself from Australia.
It wasnt just the rider which made this a true world class event, but the Track features were like no other i had ridden before. The main riding line consisted of a 25ft long snowboard style stepdown, after landing this travelling at mach 10, a quick speed check was required and it was on to the 30ft tabletop with a very steep lip. After riding out of this it was required to get down low and hold as much speed as possible before the next jump, a 40ft long step up jump where the landing was around 8ft higher then the 6ft high take off. Aswell as these features, there were rails, hips and a beasty 12ft drop off.
This set the platform to be the best competition of all time. Many of the expected 1500 spectators began to arrive at 1:00 in the afternoon ready to watch qualifications at 4pm followed by finals under lights at 9pm
By the time of the first qualification run, riders were all at the top and amped to ride. Many riders chose to try and throw down straight away, while others like myself were more conservative to make sure to get clean runs early on in the comp.
Unfortunately after the first 2 qual. runs the rain had arrived, so out came the covers for the jumps(just like in the cricket or tennis).
After and hour under covor, the rain had stopped and it was time for the 3rd and final qualification run. Towards the end of the 60 competitors the rain had joined us again. This time the rain was heavier, and didnt end for several hours forcing the organisers to take results from the qualification jumps.
In the end it was Renny Miles who places first, Pavel Pasha from syberia in 2nd and ben tweedie in 3rd. I ended up placing 11th which i was stoaked on. Riders were then able to relax and enjoy the free jagermeister(one of the event sponsors)
It wasnt just the rider which made this a true world class event, but the Track features were like no other i had ridden before. The main riding line consisted of a 25ft long snowboard style stepdown, after landing this travelling at mach 10, a quick speed check was required and it was on to the 30ft tabletop with a very steep lip. After riding out of this it was required to get down low and hold as much speed as possible before the next jump, a 40ft long step up jump where the landing was around 8ft higher then the 6ft high take off. Aswell as these features, there were rails, hips and a beasty 12ft drop off.
This set the platform to be the best competition of all time. Many of the expected 1500 spectators began to arrive at 1:00 in the afternoon ready to watch qualifications at 4pm followed by finals under lights at 9pm
By the time of the first qualification run, riders were all at the top and amped to ride. Many riders chose to try and throw down straight away, while others like myself were more conservative to make sure to get clean runs early on in the comp.
Unfortunately after the first 2 qual. runs the rain had arrived, so out came the covers for the jumps(just like in the cricket or tennis).
After and hour under covor, the rain had stopped and it was time for the 3rd and final qualification run. Towards the end of the 60 competitors the rain had joined us again. This time the rain was heavier, and didnt end for several hours forcing the organisers to take results from the qualification jumps.
In the end it was Renny Miles who places first, Pavel Pasha from syberia in 2nd and ben tweedie in 3rd. I ended up placing 11th which i was stoaked on. Riders were then able to relax and enjoy the free jagermeister(one of the event sponsors)
Thursday, August 7, 2008
24hrs in Antworp, Belgium
Today i got invited to go with team Trampa to go and Visit Antworp, Home of World freestyle Champion Arno VDV. I was unsure weather to stay at Wanyi or travel for 3hrs to see another part of Belgium. I flipped a coin and was soon in the back of the pimpin black Mercedes vito van headed for Antworp.
We arrived in antworp and spent and hour chillin at arno's place in town. We then met up with his girlfriend and a few of her friends for lunch at a sweet cafe'/ The food was quality and very cheap aswell. We then headed in to On Love Boardshop(one of arno's sponsors) to collect some prizes for the comp on the weekend, as well as to check out all the sweet gear they sold. I'm sure i could of spent 1000euro in here but settled to spend 30 on a t-shirt.
Arno and friends were then kind enough to show us around Antworp, where myself and the english riders sore some amazing cathedrals, the river running through the city and some really unique street art.
After experiencng the cool vibe of the city we had changed our plans and decided to hit the town at night. By this time it was 5 in the afternoon so we headed to our first of many bars for the night. All the places we visted played some cool downtempo lounge or hip hop music and the atmosphere was great. At about 4 in the morning we went back to arno's, grabbed his spray cans and headed out to the streets to do some graffiti on some legal graffiti walls near by. As we were finishing our art pieces the sun was comming up and it was time for us to say goodbye to antworp and drive back to wanyi park.
It was definately a good thing the coin flip sent me to antworp.
We arrived in antworp and spent and hour chillin at arno's place in town. We then met up with his girlfriend and a few of her friends for lunch at a sweet cafe'/ The food was quality and very cheap aswell. We then headed in to On Love Boardshop(one of arno's sponsors) to collect some prizes for the comp on the weekend, as well as to check out all the sweet gear they sold. I'm sure i could of spent 1000euro in here but settled to spend 30 on a t-shirt.
Arno and friends were then kind enough to show us around Antworp, where myself and the english riders sore some amazing cathedrals, the river running through the city and some really unique street art.
After experiencng the cool vibe of the city we had changed our plans and decided to hit the town at night. By this time it was 5 in the afternoon so we headed to our first of many bars for the night. All the places we visted played some cool downtempo lounge or hip hop music and the atmosphere was great. At about 4 in the morning we went back to arno's, grabbed his spray cans and headed out to the streets to do some graffiti on some legal graffiti walls near by. As we were finishing our art pieces the sun was comming up and it was time for us to say goodbye to antworp and drive back to wanyi park.
It was definately a good thing the coin flip sent me to antworp.
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