bHappy shredfest edit

I made it into a bHappy film! I feel like a celebrity. My glorious backside can be seen at 1:04. check it. ahah. These guys are obviously a lot rawer than me and my excuses for my pathetic jumping abilities on this day seem to be invalid now.
If you don't know about bHappy, you should. They've got a bunch of pretty sick edits out there floating around the interweb, aka vimeo, and a blogger that they post stuff on. Go shreducate yourself.

Canadian friends!

So, I mentioned my friend Jodie in an entry once before (here) and now I'm gonna do it again. She's living up there in America's baseball cap with my other bud Deja and they've put a number of pretty sick videos together of their numerous adventures. Think of them as Canadians on Shred. Jodie and Deja are both ultra raw and I hope I can film with them at some point... and not have the back of my head humped by a redhead. Go search for them on youtube by typing in "Jodiesg".  If you like snowboarding and people with funny accents that say "American" like "UhMURicun" check their videos out.

College is coming!

I'm getting so stoked to go to Sierra Nevada. It's definitely the coolest school and this year is going to be awesome. So here's everything happening up until I move in.

Tonight: Skate in a competition at Skatechurch. It will either be raw or a disaster. My skating is hot and cold these days. I figure I'll collect some free stuff though. Which will help because all my clothes are already packed away. haha

Tomorrow: Fly to Massachusetts. I'll be there for an ice skating competition which I won't be skating in. I kind of wish I signed up for an event or two. It probably would have been my last competition with that for a while. I guess I'll hang around Boston and Salem causing trouble. Oh, I need to write about my fight with this mall cop at some point. Anyways, I'll bring my board and try to find some places to skate. My BFFL Alanna lives in New York so I'm going to try to meet up with her one day and destroy some shit. The only problem is that she lives in UPstate NY (basically Canada) so we'll still be four hours apart. But I'm four hours away from Tahoe and I still made it happen all winter. I think it'll work out. I haven't seen her since Windells last August and I LOVE her. She's going to Windells again for sesh 7 and I was supposed to go too but it's just way too much money. I have a tenative plan to drive up to Oregon during the sesh and chill at camp and tear up Tline. But IDK if it's happening because it'll be like a week before I leave for college and I'll probably have a lot to do still. 

Oh and sometime while I'm in Boston I need to finish all my work for Tahoe Community College. I'm taking two classes to get some credits out of the way. Digital Imaging is cool and isn't too much work because I know how to use photoshop already. Abnormal Psychology is killing me though. We have to write soooo much and my book never came so I have no idea of what I'm talking about. :X I'm going to try to finish the majority of my class stuff today because it'll suck to have to be on my lap top the whole time I'm in MA.

August 1: Fly home from MA. Pack my stuff for the move. I have soooo much stuff. I don't know how I'm going to get rid off it all. I've been accumulating items for 17 years and now I have to part with them all. And I have to make sure I dispose of anything I don't want my parents to find. That's the main part.

August 6: MAYBE drive to Oregon with my old girl scout troop. I really hope this happens but it's not looking too good.

August 13: Driving up to Tahoe and starting my Wilderness Orientation. I'm excited but they still haven't told me who my roomate is and I'm really curious. We need to plan out who's bringing what and it's getting close...

So thats it. Oh and if you're not a member of stillnotsponsored.com sign up and vote for my video so I can win a hoodie and stuff. It was just supposed to be 30 seconds so I used a few shots from Shredfest at Boreal. They said they don't want to see crazy tricks but just want to see kids having fun. That's pretty much what my video is. Drunken drug fueled fun. But I never said that.

July Snow

Wow. What a weekend. The one run was tiny but it was still fun to be boarding. It got majorly slushy out there in the afternoon but the first few hours of each morning were pretty good.

Summary of happenings:

• Met boy who became boyfriend. (How did that happen??)

• Got too drunk. (Look up Pass Out. It's the greatest game ever)

• Got totally stoked on moving up to Tahoe. (Kid won't be stuck in the city for much longer)
• Destroyed a 7-11 slushie.

• Pulled some bs180s out of nowhere. (I had never tried but guess I can do them.)
• Attempted bs360s. (Ended up as 320s because the jumps were so small/sticky)
• Slashed up my shin on a rail. (both are now fairly bruised and swollen)
• Went back to that rail and did a clean 50-50 shifty.
• Got nasty boot bruises

So yeah. That was it. I'm so in love with snowboarding AHHHH I want to snowboard again now. Those two days were such a tease. Oregon in August? Hopefully...

SO STOKED

OMG I'M GONNA BE SNOWBOARDING IN LESS THAN 12 HOURS! I'M SO PSYCHED! 

This is what I love about snowboarding. I get so stoked on it. I'm going to do a 360 tomorrow. I just know it. Backside 3. I can feel it. Yeah the only 180s I've done have been half cabs. So what? I can pop a 3 flatland in my living room. Without a board I can do a 7 on the floor. A 360 should be nothing. I'm bringing my camera and Valarie is going to film a bit for me. This is going to be sick. I'm stoked. I feel it. 20nofear10. I've got this. Shredfest here I come.

:D

Teaser time!

We've got a new preview from the ladies at Peepshow. I watched it. I liked it. It got me stoked on snowboarding. You should watch it too. I love watching other girls rip it up because it makes me think that I can be like that one day. One day it'll be me in those videos. But for now, I'm at home just lurking the peepshow website and watching their videos.

And now I present,
Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow

Featuring Terra Michilot, Laura Hadar, Marie Hucal, Robin Van Gyn, Desiree Melancon, Esthera Preda, Colleen Quigley, Jess Kimura, June Bhongjan, Nicki Slechta, Laurie Gauvin and friends. Filmed by Pat Barraza, Colin D. Watt, June Bhongjan, and Matt Charland. Edited by Esthera Preda

MPORA Action Sports >>

Shred Fest

So, Boreal is opening back up for two days. July 10-11 from 10-2. Tickets are $20. I am most definitely going. I'll take any summer boarding opportunity that comes my way.

Yeah. That's it. I really don't have much to say. It's summer.

I think the main reason I'm not going totally crazy is skateboarding. I've got my buddies that I travel around a bit with and they're all super sick skaters. It takes my mind off the snow. I was actually starting to think I loved skating more, but I sat down with an old issue of transworld snowboarding and was reminded of how crazy I am for the snow. As soon as I started flipping through the pages I was reminded that while I love skateboarding, it doesn't even come close to snowboarding. Some of the guys I skate with hate on snowboarding hard and I don't get that. I thought we were cousins. I don't know any snowboarders that hate on skateboarding... Why is that?