Season Kick Off - Ante Up!

Starting my season off BIG

Greetings!

On Canada Day I kicked off my summer season on snow with the 5 Star TTR Billabong Ante Up Big Air Contest. I was lucky to even have a chance to compete in such a high calibre event where they only took 30 of the top riders in the world. I snuck in as an alternate with my results from last season. The competition was an 80 foot gap Big Air jump, one of the biggest jumps I've ever done. Despite having a bad fall in training I was able to have a solid performance in the competition. I landed a frontside 1080 but wasn't able to stop my rotation so I lost some points for that. I was leading the competition for a few riders and ended up 16th out of 30 riders, a solid result for such a stacked field! The contest was an amazing experience to see the best riders in the world perform, and to see what I need to do in order to get to that elite level.

Here's the video from the event. Guess who is the second snowboarder in the video?!




Thanks for stopping by,

Andy

Summer is here!

Hey everyone,

I've been really busy lately setting up MBM Camp and enjoying all the awesome activities Whistler has to offer in the summer like mountain biking, hiking, climbing and skateboarding to name a few. This is the first year I've stayed in Whistler for some of the summer and I must say this place is awesome in the summer too! We filmed a day where we went to Squamish for some skateboarding, climbing and hiking. Edit dropping.... soon?

I only have a few days left before the glacier opens for the summer! I've decided to stay here to train at Camp Of Champions for the entire time its open. This has been a dream of mine since I attended the camp for the first time when I was 13 years old. I can remember thinking 'Imagine how good you would get if you could snowboard everyday  for a month here!' Well now that dream has become a reality and I'm stoked!!

With all the outdoor fun lately, I haven't had a chance to go through my footage from the year yet but here's a teaser, well its actually a couple years old but I stumbled upon it on my friend Chase's vimeo so boom! Here it is:

I also found Chase's new teaser, it looks pretty sweet!

Sequence Shots from 2K

Hello,

As the season comes to an end here in Whistler I figure I better get these awesome photos that Kevin Klingbeil took of me in the Whistler Black Park. This was back at the end of March just before the Showdown Over the City so I was really pushing to learn some new tricks. Kevin was there to capture my first ever landed frontside 10. Definitely one of the best days of my season! Thanks for the photos Kevin! Check out his photography here: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinklingbeil/5752291849/in/photostream/lightbox/

First front 10 stomp!

Switch back 5

Another frontside 10

Here's some shots I just had to post... Here's my cousin's son (second cousin?) Trevor grabbing tail on my board and looking like a rock star! He'll be snowboarding soon!

He's a natural!

He almost didn't give those back

- A

Best of the WSSFest 2011

Bonjourno,
This year the World Ski and Snowboard Festival was unreal! There was amazing snowboarding, skiing, films, art and music. The village was packed with tourist and companies promoting their products. Here are some of my favourite films from the various film competitions held during the festival:

 These guys had 1 week (in April) to shoot and edit their videos for Intersection. I was blown away at how sick the videos turned out!

This video took the 3PO film contest. I love the idea of shredding the city.

Pro Photographer Showdown Finalist Russel Dalby

Funny because its true. We love poaching hot tubs!

Zoolander + Snowboarding = Awesome