Snowboarding Movie Review 1

Apples & Oranges

I recently picked up this film called apples and oranges. It is a very inspiring movie that makes you want to get off the couch and go ride... yes even if the grass is still green you might have the urge to get up put your boots on and strap into your board right there on your carpet. There are known riders as well as some new faces in this film as in all snowboarding movies. Some of the featured riders are: Matt Belzile, Jaakko Seppala, Stefan Karlsson and JF Fortin etc... This video is in high definition and produced by alterna action films. This is one of my favorite films out right now. Check it out!

Apples and Oranges - Alterna Films via Skipass.com

My friends new board and bindings

Last week my friend purchased a new snowboard as well as bindings at one of the local shops that give us great deals. He picked up the new Step Child board called Powder Sucks! It's a great board and one of the best around right now for all sorts of jibbing (flat ground tricks, rails, boxes) and a pair of the APO Expresso bindings which have a dual entry system unique to APO. The trick to these bindings is you can do them up normally or unhinge the high back and use them like Flow bindings (new generation Flows not the old ones that were useless). Overall his new setup is amazing; with a new pair of boots in the near future it should be a great season for him.

Toronto Ski and Snowboard show REVISITED

Going to the Snowboard show was amazing I got to meet Simon Chamberlain who is awesome rider, and got myself a nice Nomis sweater. I went with 3 friends and 2 of them got new goggles and I helped another get a new board as well as bindings. She got the Burton GTWIN which is in my opinion one of the top 5 woman boards I know of. You should have been there to see the selection! I'll be dropping by again next year no doubt about it.

The Training

Health and Safety training coming up this weekend for the Ski Resort, this will be my third year doing it here because I have done it twice before as a cook. The WHIMIS training is always the same and it's really just a chance to hang out with all the people that I know who worked there and meet a few new faces as well. Looking forward to it this year!

The JOB

My friend Sam as well as my friend Michelle and I have all gotten in as snowboarding instructors at our local hill, well... The one we prefer to ride at actually ha! We start as soon as the snow falls and I could not be happier working with those people and at that hill! This just means I'll be on the hill 5-6 days a week! I couldn't ask for a better way to keep improving my riding.

Jibbing in Octobre

That's right, right here in Ontario Snowboarding in October before the first frost. A week and a half ago my friend Sam and I went to the local hockey arena "borrowed" some of their unwanted snow (we figured we're doing them a favor) and set up a flat down flat rail in his backyard to jib. We ended up hitting it all night and for an hour the next day before the snow melted. Now as soon as the weather drops we're going to get more snow! (Okay so the picture isn't the rail we have but you get the idea)

Some funny math

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS

Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy

OFFICE ARITHMETIC

Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime

SHOPPING MATH

A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.
A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need.

Now I'm sure you realized I did not come up with those but I had taken quite a bit of time to remember them and coming up with this snowboarding one will not be very easy either.

SNOWBOARDING MATH

Good Instructor + Good Student = Accomplishment
Good Instructor + Bad Student = Progress
Bad Instructor + Good Student = SWITCH
Bad Instructor + Bad Student = Holding up the chairlifts

Falling behind :O

I recently found out that I had fallen way behind in my blogs. I have been so excited about the frost we've been getting that I forgot to post about the amazing things that have happened in the past week or so! Expect to see some updates now and a couple funny posts!