Open the Door to the US and European Opens - Campaign Launched!

Hey everyone!

I just launched a new fundraiser campaign on the webpage: www.makeachamp.com/andrew. This year I made the campaign more specific and directed to achievable goals: qualifying for the US and European Open events. These are some of the biggest competitions in the world (read: just below X-Games and Olympics) so doing well at them would be huge for me. These are ambitious but attainable goals with a lot of hard work. With the support of this campaign I'm excited to give it my best shot!


The guys at MakeAChamp contacted directly to ask if I would like to run a campaign on their site. They're been amazing, providing feedback and information to help make the campaign a success. I really enjoy their website's ease of use.

I like to make my videos as entertaining as they are informative. The idea for the creative was inspired from an idea that my girlfriend Frida has. I was already heading out to Tofino for a surfing trip with my best pal Kyle so it worked out perfect. Skateboarding is definitely not my forte but I would like to think I'm a little better than the video implies. Coincidentally, my surfing skills improved a lot on the five days we were out in Tofino... I'm now only half rubbish!

Another point of interest this year was that I really wanted to increase the value of the Givebacks. I want to give back as much as I can to all the amazing people who help me out! I have a cool AM logo now so I've decided to make toques and sweaters in addition to the amazing products my sponsors (Westbeach, Spy, Travel Roller, MyPakage, Mio Global, Muscle MLK, Pacific Coach, RFLF Co) are providing.

For more information and to get involved please visit www.makeachamp.com/andrew. 

Season Re-Edit

Guten tag!

I'm in Europe now to start off my season. As I
mentioned below I've had a bit of down time to work on some edits.
However what I didn't mention is the challenge it's been trying to get
them online with limited access to internet, especially when I keep changing the edits! I'm a bit of a perfectionist...

So here's what when I think my edit is the way I
want it I put in online. Then I show some friends and realize that I
want to change something or I miss spell my girlfriend's name (sorry
babe!). A 2 minute edit takes over an hour with high speed internet to
upload in 1080p. When I was visiting Frida at her photo school in Sweden
she didn't have internet in her dorm room so I would have to wait until
she was done school and convince her to stay there for an extra hour or
two so that I could upload my video, again.

After re-uploading about 5 times with small changes I got a bit sick of my
edit so I decided to try it with a different song altogether. Here's
what I came up with. I think it fits the part a bit better. What do you
think??

2014 Full Online Part: #BoardTheWorld

Y'hello!

Today I'm releasing my online video part from 2014! It's been a fun but very busy summer. In the past week I've finally got a little down time to do some editing. This year I had more footage than ever thanks to my coach Joe McAdoo getting seriously stoked on filming and the fact that we got in so much great riding this year. Its one of my favourite videos so far but there's always the feeling of "ah, if only I had that trick on film!" I guess that's why there's always next year... until then, let me know what you think!

Dew Tour Am Series wraps up competitive season

Hey everyone!

My competitive season wrapped up last week with a great event and a strong performance! I finished off my fourth competition in sixteen days with a the Dew Tour Am Series - a new event on the TTR World Snowboard Tour. The course, which was at Sun Peaks, was challenging with three jumps and three rail features. Consistency is key with a long course like this. Thankful that's one of my strong suits.

I qualified for the finals in 2nd place by doing sticking with the same strategy as Nationals - landing a less difficult run very well. In the finals I was up against 10 invited riders as well as 9 others who made it through the qualifiers. Despite the devil on my shoulder telling me "try your hardest tricks in finals! Go for the win!" I was fortunate to have my coach Joe reassuring me again that doing easier tricks is perfectly fine when you do them really well. When I landed my second run really clean I knew we made the right decision. My run scored me ahead of some really talented riders including a couple guys on the National Development Team! Good enough for 5th place.

Congratulations to (current and former members of my snowboard club respectively) Molly Milligan as well as Darcy Sharpe for placing first! Another club member Anthony Stefanizzi place just ahead of me in 4th place. I have to give credit to my coach Joe helping us do so well this year. The results speak to Joe's ability as a coach as well as his longterm strategy paying off.

Next up for me is to take advantage of the great spring snowboarding conditions and refocus on my progression. Ah, the never ending quest of pursuing excellence... you've got to love it!

Now if only I could get my bib on properly!

- A M