Why do People Have to be Mean?

Yet another question to start off my blogging. Okay, I admit, I can be mean sometimes, with all my practical joking and exploding whoopie-cushions and whatnot. But I'm not an asscannon who fires assiles at unsuspecting citizens. I'm... not quite sure what that means either.

I am fed up with this pre-conception that all snowboarders and skateboarders are bad. I am fed up with cops, fed up with laws agaisnt skateboarding and snowboarding when there are people being KILLED by mass serial murderers, and fed up with angry asscannon poopoo.

You know, skateboarding was never meant to cause any harm. So why is it that skateboarders and snowboarders alike are being pushed out of the streets. I've been kicked onto the street for skateboarding at PUBLIC parks, and I've been kicked out of the streets that I try to skateboard on. What's left? Crowded skateparks where pads are "required?" Private property? It's like cops are asking for a riot. Well I'm going to speak my mind.

Obviously some spots are private property, such as the staircase leading to a home, or a ledge clearly part of a home's landscaping. Other spots, not so much. A secluded rail in the back of an alley. A tree bonk at a local park. Sewage banks, that's right, even sewage banks are under fire from asscannons and cops. It's perfectly acceptable to walk on these places. Why not skate or snowboard them? Are they really that much of a use to society, or are these people just being arrogant?

Who knew that riding a plank of wood (and fiberglass, urethane, whatever they put into it) could cause so much trouble? Whether on snow or cement, it spells disaster, right? Think about it for a minute. Riding a plank of wood, on snow or cement = harm to society? I don't think not, I know not. Stop with the bullshit, skaters and snowboarders are people too.

Transworld Snowboarding - Get Real

Dropping in the fall of 2009, a.k.a. this fall. Transworld, hrmmm, seems good, I don't know what to expect though. I really haven't seen much of their films, except Eero Ettala's part from White Balance.
This vid came from fluofun so thanks to them because I couldn't find another trailer anywhere else...

Enjoy.

Get real by Transworld Snow

Morgan Hill Snowflex gets sponsored???

By a watch company??? Well, this increases the chance of the morgan hill (please don't say mo'hill, mohill, mohilla, mohumpalot or whatever the hell people from out of town use to abbreviate the name) snowflex center becoming a reality instead of a dream machine.

The more sponsors, the more people involved, the more the costs is divided up, the cheaper it'll be for the construction company (I think it's called Leading Edge Slope Developement) and the faster and more efficently the place will be built. I'm really looking forward to this and super excited that something like this is coming to my hometown.

I Heart Music

I love music. It's otherworldly. It's not physical or adrenaline appeal. It's not something you see or feel. It's the part of our senses we take the most for granted.

Music is amazing. I don't have to look at it to see it's beauty. I don't have to touch it to be entertained. It surrounds me, captivates me, enthralls and motivates my mind and my soul. It pumps me up to go boarding or skating and everything else I like to do. It's the crashing ocean, it's the crickets under the stars.

Maybe I'll end up posting my favorite songs to share with the world. Hey, I might just put up my own songs if I feel like it.

Morgan Hill Snowflex Center

Oh my jumpin' jolly god I can't believe it. A snowflex center, the first of it's kind in California, in my own hometown! On top of that, it's like... 5 miles from my house, maybe even less. Boy, sometimes life is great.

Basically, it's an artificial ski-slope stretching around 600-700 feet in length make of the stuff of wonder: Snowflex. This is great stuff (not revolutionary, like real snow is) that will enable us to snowboard or ski all year round. It's an artificial turf like substance that rolls out like carpet and rides like groomers. Never melting, never freezing, but.. never interesting.

Don't get me wrong, I am stoked TO THE MAX (lolface) about this center. I'll get to ride every day after school and weekends for sure. But it makes me ponder if we're becoming too artificial here. The best part of this center is knowing that there's real snow waiting for you somewhere in the mountains. Remember folks, no helping the environment = no more snow.

While it'll never beat powder, it might just beat shredding paper - as in, global warming and what-not. So recycle a little, play a little, and enjoy mother nature the very chance you get to, or you'll never get that time back.

Check em out here: http://www.morganhillsnowflex.com/
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Time to Talk About Nothing

It's that time of the day again, when the sun wakes up and puts on his shoes and coat and goes out to illuminate the world without anything in return. Now the shredding season's over, and I can't get the steeeeez that I so desperately neeeeed. I mean, really, I love snowboarding, but I only get to go around 15 days a year, maybe 20, if I'm lucky. But I'm here, and I'm talking, for the curious internet adventurer and myself.

So lets talk. I like junk food. Love it, everything about it. I'll have junk food any day compared to a mediocre trip out to a restaurant. But I love great food as well. Not necessarily fancy, but food where people take the time to grow it and prepare it; food where people put their soul into it. And somewhere in between is the generic, the mediocre, the food made because it brings home the dough. There's too much of the average, too little of the good stuff.

I guess I'm at opposite ends of the spectrum: the live fast, and the live well. And I will never want to be conglomerated with the average and the ordinary. But I see how many people live on this Earth every flight I take into the sky. It motivates me more to be different: to be myself. That's what snowboarding accomplishes for me.

Never waste time.

How would we live without snowboarding?

I spend so much time simply browsing snowboards that it makes me wonder what my life would be like without snowboarding?


Here's a clue:



Snowboarding really is a lifestyle, and I'm glad we don't take it seriously.

Isenseven - Let's Go Get Lost

Why... we've got nothing else better to do. Let's Go Get Lost!
Indeed, Isenseven has done it again with yet another brain blasting rolicking good time movie. Prepare yourself for a visual explosion. I would have to say Isenseven is my favorite snowboarding films crew and all of their works are masterpieces. This will probably be the only film I will buy this season due to the tough economy.

In other words, getting lost ain't so bad after all.

song - "Salt, Peppa, & Spinderella" - Johnny Foreigner
copyright Isenseven 2009

This Blog Is Open For Busy-ness

I doubt anyone's going to even read this blog. It's just my little playground for fun stuff.

Welcome to my little hole in the ground for mainly snowboarding, a little bit of skateboarding, some rhythm gaming (because I'm into that so poo off), blabbering, and every once in a while, constructive stuff.

I just hope I can get around to posting often.

p.s. enjoy
p.s.s. first post