An edit from about 4 runs at Breck on a suuper busy day...

Tourists are annoying.

A Veerryyy Busy Day At Breck... from Jack Carlin on Vimeo.

Harry Potter

We had a day off today and decided to go and see the new Harry Potter... The Deathly Hallows... It's still absolutely dumping snow and I can't waiittt to go shred Breckenridge tomorrow.

Also found this siiick rail with a pre built run-in so hopefully I can hit it soonish... ;)

Dropped GoPro!

While I was snowboarding through the trees at Copper trying to find some powder, my hand accidentally hit a tree and the GoPro went flying out of my hand into the waist deep powder somewhere.... Scared the bajeebees out of me

Dropped GoPro from Jack Carlin on Vimeo.

Pow at Copper

It snowed alll night last night and Lauren and I woke up to have a sick day of freeriding pow at Copper Mountain. SUCH a fun day!

Copper Mtn Pow from Jack Carlin on Vimeo.

Copper mtn 2nd run-rawww

this is a raw clip from my second run through the pipe at copper... such a nice day!

Copper mtn pipe second run from Jack Carlin on Vimeo.

Sessions

So it has been a siick day... Find out I am accepted into Rev Tour and then going to pick up some outerwear from Sessions! I'm lucky enough to be a one time athlete with them (for now): this means I receive one set of outerwear for this northern season, and then I get re-assessed at the end of it.

So good!

Rev Tour!

Just found out I am accepted into the Copper Mountain Rev Tour for slope! So stoked!

Edit

Australia/New Zealand 2010 from Jack Carlin on Vimeo.

A little edit I made from this last southern season. Enjoy!

Oakley

Massive thanks to Oakley for giving me some sick new goggles and some sunnies for the upcoming northern winter... So good!! Have always absolutely loved everything Oakley - comfiest goggles there are. Thanks!

Double

Some of the fun I had in NZ

Stylewars

The slope got cancelled :( but the rail jam was fun :). Check it

Dew Hut Jam

http://dothedewblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/battle-for-supremacy-dew-hut-jam/

I was fortunate enough to compete in the Dew Hut Jam this year at buller... Heres some highlights

Burton Cattleman's Rail Jam 2010

One of the first days of the season proved to be one of the most influential of my snowboarding life... Picking up sponsorship with the lovely NitroSnowboard Company, and then later on that night getting to compete in Cattlemans Rail Jam

New Zealand

Sooo I got to train in New Zealand with Ben Boyd and the ISTC crew. Was heeeaaps of fun and really learnt a lot over there. It was my first time over the ditch and I have never ever EVERbeen to a more beautiful place.

Nitro Snowboards

After a maasive week at buller, the last two days turned out to be the biggest of my snowboarding life, and some of the biggest of my life in general as well. long story short, i somehow managed to qualify for the reserve wildcard spot for cattlemans, (footage coming soon) and even more amazingly, Mark from nitro and i had a chat and a couple of handshakes, and in the end he decided to sponsor me!! Soooooooooooooooooo sick!! photos and videos on their way.
sooo stoked on the new gear.
seeya soonnn

Falls Vs Buller

The view from the chair at falls (above), and the view at 9 oclock on standard buller weather on burke street (above right).

The views from where i am staying at buller (below) and where i was staying at falls (left). Just another sunny day at buller.

Falls Creek Fun

So i am at Falls staying with my mate george for a couple of days, until saturday which is when we head over to buller.. finally get to experience some fresh pow big jumps.......

Anyway here is an in depth run through the current falls creek park, and to show you how much variety there is i hit every single feature for you.. enjoy

For everyone that reads: thankyou, and dont stress. peace.

Last Day!

So on my last day riding at breck i was going to compete in the spring massive big air, but i decided at the last minute to just chill and have fun. The sun was turned on, the wind off and it was a bloody good way to finish a season.
Stay posted for more posts from the airport..
For everyone that reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace

one day i will learn the dance of love

MC Hammer is the king

Number 15 - Spring Sucks

The morning
End of the day

It was a nice start to the day with the sun at full strength, however this privilege was short lived, and a couple of hours later the weather was back in. But luckily i was able to get a shot with photographer Tim Lloyd when the sun was out. Thanks Tim!
Praying to the weather gods for a few days of sun and NO WIND!!
Also shout out to Chriso Mcalpine of Aus/NZ mag for looking out for me. Thanks bro!

To everyone that reads; Thankyou, and dont stress. peace

Number 14

So Tim Lloyd, Courtney, Dane Tiene and Lance and I all went to hit up an old mine out near keystone. The spot was so sick with a different feature for everyone.. My feature of choice was an old yellow engine ( we weren't sure what it was for, i thought it might be an old chairlift motor). After Dane and Lance both got sick shots/tricks on thier respective features, it was my turn to use the Banshee Bunjy and get creative with my engine. After a couple of speed checks i knew i was easily going to make it.. However when the time to actually hit the jump, something had changed the speed (i blame it on the cloud coming in.... ) and i decided to pull out. The only problem with this was that i had about 1cm of jump left to stop. I ended up landing on some nice screws on the engine and bruised my hip/bum/hand/ego.
Its OK though... everyone else rode well enough to make me look even worse , so yeh good times all round. :). Heres some pics

For everyone that reads; thankyou, and dont stress. Peace

Number 13

NEW TRICK
had a super fun day at breck today, and finished it off with a super scary new trick.. the dub backflip.. maybe look for it as an ender in my next comp.... haha stay tuned sorry there hasnt been a post for a while i promise that is going to change
For everyone who reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace

Number 12

Ive been in breck for aboutt 2 weeks now and so far i have got 3 new tricks: switch back 5, switch back rodeo and switch wildcat. I am also on the verge of getting switch back 7's, im just landing a tad tail heavy.
We have only had one sunny day so far, and here is a picture of ony of my new tricks - the switch back fiver.

For everyone that reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace

An edit from the flights over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNl2umACvgE

Number 11

So... where to begin. after a short stay back home to meet my teachers etc, i am back in colorado. however things werent as simple as that..

our departure time from LA to denver was dangerously close to the arrival time from sydney to LA, and this ended in disaster. we got straight off our plane and went as quickly as we could to the gate but still managed to miss the flight... just. so we tried to get on the next flight... and failed. this happened another 4 times. we finally managed to lock in a flight at 8 30... after about 7 hours of nothingness at LAX. but we are here now, just in time for the copper series at Winter Park. i had slopestyle, but as the day progessed the conditions went the same way as my riding.. straight down. i unfortunately didnt land a run, but im not too pissed.

although its been pretty stressful and the comp was a bit disappointing, it definitely feels good to be back. i cant wait to start regular training at breck.

an edit from the flight over.

for everyone that reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace

Here are some photos from an early keystone photoshoot. There should be more photos/vidoes coming soon. Sorry about the boringness

Number 10

Today was the same as the last 3: starting off sunny and warm, but quickly turning into overcast, snowy and bleak. However the most was made from this morning, and i almost got front 9's.

We are riding at keystone again tomorrow, and i am extremely relieved as i though tomororow was going to be my last day. However i checked my itinerary and turns out i am able to ride some of friday morning. Soooo stoked.

For everyone who reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace

Number 9

We rode at key again today for further preperation for the saturday comp, and whilst the day was scheduled for overcast and snow, the morning was surprisingly pleasant with splashes of sun. However this weather was shortlived and as soon as it had started the sun dissapeared behind a cloud, the clouds got bigger and more frequent, and the snow started coming down.

I hit the big line for the first time in the nicer weather and i cant wait to start spinning off them. Bigger jumps=more air=more time to do perfect the trick in the air.

I have 2 days left starting tomorrow and i really dont want to leave here. It feels like a day ago when i still had a week left and i didnt need to think about packing. However i still have aaages of time to learn new stuff with the Halfpipe crew so i shouldnt be worried to much.

To everyone that reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace

Number 8

We rode at keystone today, just a short drive from breck, as everyone needs to practice on the jumps at keystone for the upcoming comp on saturday. As the jumps at breck are near perfect practice is needed on not-so-perfect jumps so that the crew is ready to train on all kinds of courses, perfect or not so.

Today was my first full day on the new snowboard and I am soo happy with my decision on the board. Ive got quite a few tricks to pull together in my last 5 days but I'm confident i should be able to get most of then before i leave. Tomorrow, its game on. ;)

To everyone that reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace

I only had a half day today as my boot is causing excrutiating pain to my foot, however this turned out to be a blessing in disguise as on the way home i walked past a snowboard shop and decided to have a quick look.. The shop assistant pointed me in the right direction and i found the perfect snowboard for me. Sooo stoked.

Number 7

The house is very empty at the moment as half the crew has left for Vermont so there are only 6 kids in the house with 3 coaches.

We had a super fun night after i had a not so super fun morning (landing seems to be a skill that has well and truly deserted me and has left me with sketchy/scary spinds in the air) and after building a 4th jump in the line out the front of the house we set up some lights and started sessioning. Even on these tine 4 foot jumps landing didnt seem to want to be my friend and i had a few very scary moments: on the 3rd jump i got bucked and spat out to narrowly miss landing on my back... on a wooden seat... :S. However i wasnt too injured so i got back up and did some more filmiing, the climax being a backflip on the last. Heres the footage.

For everyone that reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace

NUmber 6

Today was a sick day for everyone landing new tricks, however "everyone" was slightly smaller than normal as there were about 3 that started the day off injured, and then another 2 that got injured and had to go home after about 3 runs.

It was a great day for everyone to progress however: the sun was out and strong, the jumps were sculpted to prefection and the snow was nice and fast. After a strong starting morning everyones day pretty much deteriorated. I did however manage to finally learn a new trick: switch back 5. I was also trying front and cab 9's all morning, and landed a cab 7 (another new trick) but reverted so I will only count it as learning half a new trick until I can land it clean everytime. I am soooo close to landing cab 9 and while front 9 might be a little far away, front 10 seems do-able (the axis i spin my front 9 on is the right axis for a 10.) Ive completed one of my 5 goals this morning, and i reckon i will be able to get the other 4 before i leave.

For everyone that reads; thankou, and dont stress. peace.

Number 5

We had a day off today which was good to rest our fatigued bodies, however the keener/uninjured of us still went out to do some filming. It was another sunny day, however it was extremely warm today: average of about 0 celcius. A couple of the boys and i went down to town and pretty much wasted 3 quarters of the day and complained there was nothing to buy. However when we came home i bought a new snowboard on the internet which is sick.

Ive got some footage together so there should be an edit on here soon enough, along with some pictures.

We managed to channel our boredom into something constructive and built the 3rd jump in our backyard which was very hard but definitely worth it in the end.

For everyone that reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace

Number 4 - Comp.

We had the Gatorade Free Flow Tour comp today. After a nice early rise at 6 this morning everyone wasnt quite pumped to go compete but by the time the half hour trip to Vail was over everyone was a but more awake and a bit more ready to shred.

We had had a training day at Vail a couple of days ago and the course and while the jumps arent up to the perfect Breck standard, we were able to make do today and everyone got atleast one run down, with 4 of us going through to finals. My finals run didnt go very well, but i was happy to just make it into finals in a group of 16-20 year olds, with a relatively high score. I decided to stick with the run that got me into the finals, a cab 5, back 7 to a front 7. However i wasnt able to land my back 7's and didnt manage to complete my run. I had a fun day though, and it was good to compete against a high foreign standard. There will be footage from the comp on here soon.

For everyone that reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace

Number 3

We only had a half day today so that we could get some last minute practice on our competition runs for tomorrow, and then rest our bodies in the afternoon.

Today was yet another sunny, beautiful day, and yet again it started in the temperature range of about -3... Fahrenheit. This is equivalent to about minus 20 celsius. These days are extremely hard to dress for as either way you end up being cold/hot at one point.

I had a lot of problems getting back 5 back today, a trick that I normally can get first time every time, but today, it was just not happening. And i needed to get this trick back as it is my first trick in the comp tomorrow. There was one time in particular when I did my trick on the first jump, and didnt land cleanly, but decided to pump the second jump and go for the 3rd. However, half way through my trick i realised that speed was indeed and issue, and ended up knuckling, almost hitting my head and consequently front flipping off the knuckle. I was fine though, bar a broken ego, and kept trying until i had this trick back on lock.

For everyone that reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace.

Number 2

I've been in Breck for exactly a week and a day today, and everyday has been better than the last. Being over-seas is something easily taken for granted, and I am determined not to let my past, and future travels be this.

Today was yet another sunny day. However despite the sun the day started off extremely cold. The type of cold that eats at your toes and makes your whole face feel like it has been permanently frozen into a constant shape. However after a quick break at the Vista Haus hut we were able to feel our toes and get working on our comp run for Saturday. The pressure is on for everyone to get there runs first time every time in anticipation for the competition.

After a super fun afternoon (the sun finally did its job and warmed everything up) we came home and made some fun features to do just outside our house. The session should have been fun, however my head just couldnt wait to be introduced to some snow and soon enough my head was hurting and my lungs were struggling to do their job: breathe.

For everyone that reads; thankyou and dont stress. peace.

Number 1

I've been in Breck for exactly a week today, and everyday has been better than the last. Being over-seas is something easily taken for granted, and I am determined not to let my past, and future travels be this.

On my night of arrival here at the TSC house I saw the footage filmed from that day, and instantly realised the standard that everyone was at, the rate at which everyone was progressing, and the rate at which i needed to progress to be competetive with my housemates: and the outlook for me looked bleak. Everyone is at such a high level, and I was still stuck on my Mt Buller standard of sketchy 5's and even sketchier 7's. However I am thankful for this drastic improvement from everyone, as it has pushed me to strive to improve to the level everyone is now at. Thanks to this chasm of skill difference, I have managed to learn 3 new tricks and got 2 more tricks on lock in the last week.

Since I leave on the 22nd, the pressure is on for me to perform, and get my stuff first time everytime.

To everyone that reads; thankyou, and dont stress. peace