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.