Trick tip and a COD

frontboards and a whirlybird

Merry Christmas

to everyone out there reading this blog. Merry Christmas. Hope it's everything you hope for. my Christmas present to myself was getting this hmc40 and so therefor i have made a tiny timelapse video. someday i will have a full montage of timelapses for you.

grouse park

hmc40 test

brand spankin new. hmc40 with a 43mm babydeath. super hyped on this set-up. hard to get used to tho. a lot smaller and lighter than the old fx1 mk1 intermediate set-up

simon chaimbs day in the life

got a feature in it.

New Fisheye

got a new fisheye for the t2i for Christmas. a Peleng 8mm. love this thing, both the fish and the t2i. lowlight is amazing. here is some test footy from Julian. Such a fun sesh. drag and drop editing is amazing. no more capturing tapes.

how to: fix a board

Well it's about that time of year again. Street rail sessions. undoubtedly our boards are gonna get trashed. without a doubt. but to help slow the process and keep your board riding nice and smooth throughout this season i'm going to provide you with a nice how to guide to patch those nasty cuts and scrapes in the base of your board.

ok well first step is to evaluate the situation, see what you're dealing with. if you can see wood core... well you may have a bigger situation than this little technique can fix and you will have to go to a shop. or patch it yourself. which is something i may show you later on if i manage to eff my board up to that extent. but anyways. here is what i was presented with. 3 dents in my base like this. pretty mellow. easy fix no doubt.

then next step. locate your tools and p-tex candle. these babies can be bought and most snowboard stores for a couple of bucks. i recommend buying like 5 or 6 of them tho. they go pretty quick. one thing i forgot in this image was a razor blade, which you will see later on.

 then you'll want to take the lighter and light that little stick of plastic on fire. be careful. it gets really hot and if that drips on your skin it will cause an instant blister. it really really sucks. trust me.

get it burning nice and evenly

then begin dripping it into the scratch. don't fill it up entirely right away tho. just do one base layer. keep it nice and low so it doesn't blow around everywhere.

scrape that first layer clean down with either your razor blade or scraper. you will need the razor blade to trim down the bubbling that occurs when you scratch your base tho. that is also something you will need to do to flatten it right out again. also another warning. razor blades are very sharp. be careful with them. go away from your body and other body part. i have thankfully not injured myself with one of these and i hope you can also stay safe.

throw down subsequent layers of p-tex into the scratch and slowly build it up. if it starts to bubble you're putting too much in at once. so it's really just repeating the process of these above mentioned steps until you fill it completely and get it nice and clean again.

throw a nice waxjob on there and it's looking and riding mint again. stay safe out there guys.

peace

Grouse 2010/2011 Program Guide

I got the centerfold in it this year. pretty stoked on it. check it

snow in the city

citylife. woke up this morning to a few inches outside on my balcony. so stoked. need to go hit some urban. here's also a photo of the grouse paradise park from last night.

Grouse and Whistler

Opening day sonnnnnnnn. that's all.

sorry guys

for the complete lack of updates. been raining a lot lately and I've been shredding a bunch and in winter i alternate positions and stand in front of the lens. Nomis should be putting up an internet commercial we filmed at camp of champions this summer sometime soon here. I'll make sure to throw that up when it goes up. but for now i'm gonna throw up a video from last year. As you may know i broke my collar bone and had surgery on it. 6 inch plate and 6 screws. took 5 weeks off to recover, still have to go back in for surgery again this summer and get the plate out as it's causing me some problems still. Long story short. avoid breaking yourself.

On my first day back i filmed about 95% of this montage nomis made. the other 5% was filmed the day after which was my first day on the new joe sexton board as i broke my other board in the process of breaking my collar bone. here's the xrays. pretty ganrly. i won't show the picture of all the staples as some of you may never return to this blog haha

but here's the video you were all waiting for. Trint's back.

Nomis edit #1

not much else to say. ghetto shred sesh. no snow. fun times.

uh oh hotdog!

well those wonderful rolls of meat (i think it's meat atleast) are very useful for cooking. not just for the classical hotdog in bun.

there is many uses for them. in chicken noodle soup. replace chicken with chopped up bits of hotdog. in your mr noodles to add a bit of protein (again i think?) you can throw em on pizza aswell. so next time you're at the grocery store grab yourself a pack of em. super cheap and taste amazing. combine with your everyday cooking and see what you can whip up wit em.

here's a good old bobby lee skit of improper eating technique of a hotdog

go pro son!

well i don't have any new content to post up here but i'm gonna throw up probably my favorite edit of the season that i filmed with nomis.

seeing double

well as some of you may know simon has a twin brother named andre. I went up seymour today with the boys and had a little preseason jib sesh with em. Filmed a montage for the nomis site and whatnot. but here is andre gettin rad with a frontboard and simon filming. switching it up! and a few other photos aswell for your viewing pleasure.

 edit: i have noooo idea why when i uploaded the photo their hoodies turned bright bright green... oh well.

gilbert goes flying again

the 12 stair he kickfliped in his video part now is under threat of being treflipped.

HBD Gib

well it's that guys birthday. i honestly don't know how old he's turning but i don't think he'd want me postin that up anyways. so for the sake of putting a number he's turning 20 guys haha but anyways here's a lil throwaway line from him at the quay.

New Lons Montage

Well here is a new montage me and gil made yesterday. But in other news. My mom is in Paris right now and she visited one of the most famous galleries and most famous skate spots, the gallery of modern art. Some locals apparently have fitting the stairs with a hubba and stuck a flat rail down in the ground. So if you're ever in the area you should defs hit that spot up. Looks pretty sick right about now. Thanks for the update mom!

night footy

gets dark here early lately. so as does the footage unfortunately. maybe someday I'll get a camera light. but probably not. check Justin toughing it out in the pitch black.

Burger Stackin

Well my dad is in town to visit for the weekend and i took him out to mcdonalds last night to show him the wonders of stacking burgers. then i thought i would make you guys a quick recipe book for excellent meals at such a fine establishment. now a few of you are probably gonna say well psh i have been doing that for a while. and well that may be true this is still news to some people that you can stack those chincy little value pics burgers and create burgers a king would eat. so here's a few combos that i have found to be quite delicious.

The mcgangbang, the most classic of them all. composed of a junior chicken in between a mcdouble or double cheese. add extra mcchicken sauce.

The mcgangbang deluxe. same as previously stated but substitute fries in place of the pieces of bread.

The triplecheese deluxe. Which has since been modified as the bacon cheeseburger deluxe no longer exists. so substitute a bacon cheeseburger. which you then put between a mcdouble or double cheese.

The doubledouble. Two mcdoubles or double cheeses. one inside the other. pretty straight forward.

The junior chicken deluxe. Get yourself a junior chicken and a small fries. Cram as many of those golden little pieces of potato in there. add extra mcchicken sauce.

Finally the behemoth of the heartattack. Get yourself a Bigmac and a Mcchicken. place the mcchicken inside of bigmac. enjoy your heart attack.

with all of these don't forget the beverage and the free refills. they will come in handy.

here's a photo of my dad going all in on a triple cheese.

andre chaimberlain cameo

rode with andre yesterday. such a good sesh

Benson footy

not much else to say haha

burg uniting

well yesterday was an adventure. met up with benson, first time meeting the dude. scary consistent with his tech tricks. I'll throw up that footy tomorrow. got a new spacer for my mk1 so i can film in standard def again thankfully. lost mine previously is why the switch. he also managed to knock my fisheye lens off my camera hahaha no scratches or anything. just kinda hilarious. but yah. here's a sick lil cod from lonsdale. they are re-doing the fence so this gap opened up for about an hour. roller bladders made good use. nobody manned up to skate it tho.

Street Life

Well yesterdays shooting was more than exciting. Filled with all sorts of exciting events and scenarios. we were shooting in a sketchy backalley with thousands of dollars of expensive camera gear. that in itself made this whole day sketch. let alone crack heads, deals, dumpster diving hobos and getting kicked out by "building owners". such a day. and then the attire we had our female cast dressed in also made things interesting. the one girl looked like a hooker and the other just a sketchy street kid. we always had to be on guard to make sure someone didn't try and pick the girl up! had to shoo a few men away... rough day on the job.

Behind the scenes: Tomorrow

Well i have recently started filming a behind the scenes section for a movie called Tomorrow. Quite the experience to say the least. Two red cameras and steadicams, field monitors, more lights that the superdome and a crew that resembles a small army. here are some photos from last nights shooting. can't leak the footage. obviously haha

peace

Two reds and a steadicam

night shooting

set vibe

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the georgia 8 set battle

here is the footage i promised. julian going at it for over an hour. this is just the really close ones he got. such a beast.

What a night...

Well last night we went on an epic adventure to say the least. skated at park with gil. got today's cod, which is a kickflip over the ledge the wrong way. almost died when he clipped the one time haha but came back home, edited that, thought the day was over. wrong. about 9 got a call from Julian saying they're going to leeside to film and wanted me to join. so i said sure. on their trip over to pick me up plans had changed and we ended up going downtown to shred the georgia 8 set. Jules is going for a banger. (COD with footy from that night tomorrow). we show up. get a couple warm up ollies. Mat Heff breaks his tail off ollieing the set and he wasn't even gonna try any tricks. bummer. Jules starts to get into it. Gives it about 10 tries then boom. broken board. So now were down two dilweeds. but the session didn't end there. they hopped back in the whip. cruised home. snatched two new decks and rolled back. jules gripped us his new Dilweed in the most awful grip i had ever seen. you can see scraps of it in the one photo. worst texture and worst stick. it was peeling up after one session. just awful, but anyways back at it julian went. for over an hour. landed on so many as you will see. but no clean roll aways. don't you worry boys and girls. It shall be done. here's some photos from that night and a clip of the day. enjoy

peace!

Pile of broken Dilweeds

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There's gold in them there hills!

uhhh I mean snow. but same difference I guess right? the clouds pulled back today so I snapped a shot of the snowline to show you all. Also i have included in this post Gilbert Turennes extra footy, the high definition stuff. so. many. ramps. hahaha hope you enjoy!

peace

Found this last night...

when i was talking to joey and showed him this old footage of me from before i moved to vancouver. just a quick lil edit of my skating.

Skate footy from 7rint on Vimeo.

and today was a big day. hit 2000 overall views and 100 unique views just today. thanks for reading guys. hope to keep you coming back.

Weather changes aswell as the blog layout

Well since today was the first snow on Grouse, Seymour, Cypress, Whistler and wouldn't you know my hometown Saskatoon, I am just gonna go ahead and switch this blog over into winter mode. Start getting you guys hyped for the winter months. They really aren't that bad. are they? none the less. hope you like the layout. Still gotta figure out how to get full page background images... with such a chincy file size limit i need to figure out some crazy technique to get a large but very small file size on here. Eventually. but for now. we got some fresh pow. but since i still have years of skate footy sitting around waiting to be seen by you guys here's another COD from gil. nosemanny for days. take care guys.

peace

TT

Gilbert Turenne Extra footy vol. 1

Well this is all of Gilbert's extra footy. All the standard definition stuff at least before i got the mk1 intermediate. Eventually I'll drop the HD stuff.

lost footage

well. with over 3 hours of raw footage shot this summer there is a lot of clips to go through and footage does get lost. here is two bangers from joey that i missplaced and forgot to add into his year end footage dump. sorry bro. but without further a due.



*note the hand guard in the footage. guy champed it out this year.

Chillin

but not really. ollies over hubba ledges are anything but. Yet gil makes them look all too easy.

The Summer homie-tage

well here it is folks. Sorry for posting stuff so late in the days lately. working early mornings so can't get stuff up any early than this really.



and in other news. helped simon out with his 'day in the life' so when that footy comes out i'll be sure to post that up here aswell.

peace

As promised

Some park footage from Justin. Dude is killing it these days. No fear.

Sleep Pattern Change

Well due to my work hours changing my sleep pattern has changed. Gone from working until 12 at night to now waking up at 5am. sit tight til i get myself re-aligned here and I'll have some Park footage for you from Justin!

peace

Gilbert's got pop!

Here's a quick line we filmed at lonsdale not too long ago. gil just showing off his jumping abilities. enjoy

Justin and Joey Footage

Well I hurt my ears at work a few days ago so editing all this with the sound at bare minimum was one of the hardest things i have ever done, in relation to editing and filming. Joey sent me a bunch of clips from his camera but could never get the sound to work. then later found out the format doesn't work with macs. damn. none the less here is their footage from the year. Hope you guys and they're stoked.

Peace



edit: and youtube took like 8 hours to upload this file since it kept having "unknown errors" ugh

And we're back

here's come double set tricks from gil. tre. obviously. switch ollie and a switch back one.

Hey guys

sorry I've been slacking lately. Just woke up and i'm off to work in a hour and a half or so. Not enough time to edit and upload a COD for you today but i'll come at you with one tomorrow. sorry for the tardyness! keep checking back.

Peace

TT

Filmer Footy

Well here is some of the footage of me i was stoked on this year. Threw it all together into one COD. Hope you guys are stoked on it.

More Left Overs

just a lil tranny trick. Meant to upload a clip from lanny but clicked the wrong file. oh well. tomorrow you'll see it.

Left Over footy

Still lots more to come. Gonna be another full length montage to come out in the near future here. If i can get a few hours to edit through all the footage and get it all ramped and color corrected. but for now here's a lil teaser clip.

Gilbert Turenne Streety footy

nothing really needed to say on this one. pretty straight forward. He's killing it lately. peep it

Georgia Line

Well here is a clip that didn't make the cut for gilberts year end part. Which i will be posting up here very soon. maybe tomorrow if i get around to the final tweaks after work tonight.

Lens Hits

Well here is a short clip of a few of the many hits i have had. i rarely capture them as they are a grim reminder of the abuse my camera has taken, i can think of two off the top of my head i didn't capture. Oh well. so here's what can happen skate filming unfortunately. watch those lenses boys. they don't come cheap.

warning: explicit language in this video.

Work Time

Well i start working full time today so from now on updates are gonna be even harder to get but i'll do my best to keep em comin daily for you guys. if nothing i'll just post some photos. I'm working on a citylife year end monatge right now. compiling all the throwaway and homie footage and gonna make an edit. not too sure when i'll drop that tho. but here's another COD for ya.

Another Muggy Day

Not much to post as i haven't been out filming in a few days but here is a throwaway line from a lil spot me and gil hit and a photo of Lanny Getting rad on a cemetery fence.

One Last Try

All you need is a good distraction. Here is a perfect example of such.

Metal Rope

aka cable. Went out filming yesterday with some of the mosaic team. Gilbert and Lanny. Both killed it yesterday. Got a lot of clips and hit a ton of cool spots. Here's a clip of the day lanny doing a back 50 to tre at Joyce Park and a photo of gil doing a rock to fakie at this crazy lookin tranny spot. Best wishes go out to our homie Joey Moore who broke his ankle yesterday. Get well soon man.

Hard Day At The Office Today

Well decided to try and shoot some video with the t2i today for the first time. came out prety decent i think for first time with it. so awkward to film with tho i must say and you look kinda stupid but i dig the footy. this is also the first installment of the clip of the day series with music in it.

edit: just hit a 1000 views. thanks for following the blog guys.

4 in a row

fairly straight forward. all 4 tres. in a row.

Underground Minitage

Well since the IGA underground is a bust now we have since found a new underground to skate. not quite as nice but overall still a very nice parkade to skate. We just filmed some hilarious fun flat ground tricks and one tony hawk pro skater trick.

Just because

Well it's been raining a lot lately and sunny days to skate and film are few and far between and it's gotten me thinking about winter a lot. As most of you probably know i ride for Nomis and Stepchild and just film skating all summer, with that said here is my footage from last year. Just a lot of fun park stuff. nothing overly serious. enjoy

3 for 1 sundays

Made a quick stop at the skate plaza yesterday on the way to the streets to huck some stairs. Here's Gil with a few tricks on the hubba.

First try... Saturday?

Well this was supposed to go up yesterday but i kinda forgot to put it up. Filmed it last friday and by time this friday came around it slipped my mind. oh well. JJ back feeble 6 rail first try.

When life gives you lemons. Lay a sign down.

here is a clip from the barrier sesh the other day.

Don't Swear Kids!

Well yesterday we hit two spots. All in the northvan region. one was a sick little barrier spot. well. what would have been sick if not for someone running into it and messing up the concrete job. good old street signs came through tho. here's gilly with a backside wallie to donut chomp. For the COD if you can believe it that guy chased gil down and shouted at him for cussing and there was no kick out as the result. Go figure hey.

Film Sideways

Tried out a new fading technique haha don't really like it too much but it was worth a try. I also went downtown to take some photos of sorts. nothing too serious just some fun stuff. here's one of the photos to check

Justins COD

This line took quite some time to get but in the end turned out quite well. Logged about 7 COD's yesterday so if it rains for a while we still got some content. Most of the clips are bro cammed and here is a photo to prove thus. Joey gettin rad with a front smith and Justin following close behind.

Mack Dog

The lonsdale local rail killer. comes at you with a smith to frontboard.

Pole Dance

After months of convincing Gil has started to get on his ledge and rail combo game. Pretty nuts to watch. here's a front smith to front feeble only a day after he learned it on the gold rail going negative two. stepping it up hardcore with this one. Now all we gotta do is find a suitable street rail.

Big Ten

Yesterday at lonsdale the locals decided to huck themselves down the big ten stair. Which is by no means a small ten. it's probably atl east a 12 of a normal street set. JJ threw down a back feeble on the handrail and I convinced Justin to re-do his backside crooks on the hubba ledge for me, and also for a ride to Gilberts house, which he never got since he just decided to show up haha but good work on his part none the less. here is a photo shot of the back feeble and a stick but no land on the back crooks.

River Dance

Well since I didn't get out filming and skating yesterday this is what i got for a clip of the day.

Beauty and the Beast

Well by now a few of you are probably wondering what I'm filming these videos with. So here are my babies. The FX1 unfortunately isn't as babied as it should be. Lens hits are o plenty. I guess that's the price for getting up close. If I ever can find the clips I'll throw a lens hit montage up here. But for now here's the FX1 MK1 Intermediate and the Canon t2i

and here is one summers worth of tapes. still lots more to come guys so keep checking back!

 












and i still have more today! One more clip of the day and a photo from the lonsdale park.

Hot Spot Redemption

We went back to hotspot yesterday to get a couple tricks. To my surprise everyone ended up getting their tricks and I even ended up getting one as well (which is today's COD) Joey took a tumble a and a half near the end of the session tho which kinda sucks. Overall such a fun sesh. Can't wait to skate there again. Check back demain to see what we got up to today. I've also included some photos in this post. First skate photos with my new camera. I'll show you some light into that tomorrow aswell.

Gilbert Shreds Bowl

As few of you may know gilbert is actually good at skating tranny. he is not just a huck. here is a cod to prove thus.

Just another COD

well here is one of the throwaway lines from the Georgia banks. just something fun nothing serious. and also thanks to my man pj ladd for taking corey kennedy down.

Rained Out

As summer is coming to a close clips are harder and harder to get but Gil still manages to throw down the best lines at Lonsdale. Check it.

Gambling with other peoples money

Well yesterday me and Gilbert once again headed downtown to try and get some clips. The plan was to sesh the Georgia 8 set and get a trick down it. Before Gil was ready to send his life down the 8 set he wanted to warm up on the banks so I said sure and chilled out by the fountain. To my surprise I found a pair of 8.5 vans submerged in the fountain. 

Quickly fished em out and bingo gils got new shoes. We never even ended up shooting the 8 stair haha ended up just having a fun lil skate sesh on the banks instead. Got the boot from there and on the way from there to our next spot we found a lottery ticket on the sidewalk! How lucky can a guy get in one day. view todays COD for the result. When we finally got to the spot warmed up and were getting down to business a wedding showed up and parked it’s fancy limo right in the way.

So that killed it right there. Ah well. We’ll head on back tomorrow and finish business.

COD3

well it's not quite midnight yet so i guess you guys get two posts in one day. Gilbert knocks out a line at lonsdale. i think we have pretty much tapped this park dry for tricks to be done. we really need to go somewhere else. but that's all for today, and tomorrow. I'm beat so it's off to bed.

COD2

Two days in a row I'm coming at you with a clip of the day. Made some titles last night in AE right quick. Could use a little work but that's what I got for now. enjoy

clip of the day (COD)

These clip of the day videos will be posted up at random. These are unusable clips, warmups, park clips or just overall fun clips. They are unedited and uncut. They will be short, but sweet. So sit back and enjoy todays COD. Julian comes at you with a sick line at lonsdale.

flood season

Well it's about that time of year again. Fall in Vancouver well i guess also winter, brings a lot of rain to this city. Impeding the skateboarding and the filming of such. so until mother nature decides to back off for a minute new content will be a little more scarce but we'll do our best over here to get some new footy and interesting stories going for you guys. since there wont be any new fun and exciting content today i'll just leave with you one of my favorite montages from the summer. Day trip out to twassen. got there and it started raining. ducked out for 15 mins and got perfert bluebird filming weather. gotta love the Vancity weather.

not so hot spot

downtown sesh yesterday. started out at newspot. set-up a bench on some steps handrail style with a stair set right after. pretty sick lil line spot. after gettin a few lines the boys had to get burgin so hit up the mcdonalds. onward to hotspot where gil was battling the 5-0 flip again. landed on a few but none he was stoked on. ah well we'll get er next time!

Downtown van

went downtown today skating and shooting. nothing much doing but hit up the candy store on the way back. best shop on robson despite what most girls will have you believe. here's some photos from it.

candy isle

material bliss bar: 50% his 50% hers

and now for some eye candy. Gilbert teaches you how to treshuv


treshuvs from 7rint on Vimeo.

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lets see where this gets us