Oct 29 2009

Lochtober 09 aka (the wizards of oz)

O.G, John Morton puts on a comp each year at his block at Loch. Every October we make the hike out from Melbz to hit up his lovely Mountainboard Park. I organised sat morning for everyone to meet up at mine and like always Andy Milenkovic was at least 5 hours late (slight exaggeration) but apparently he was trying to burn more Base hunter and Michael Jackson CD’s for the road trip. Anyway after a few games of pool he rocks up with my ramp already packed in the car. We finally head off with the cars packed, Jack Massuger, Jimmy Reynolds, G-money, Eddy and Cal followed us down. One stop for Andy to buy pink Zink cream for his face (we all doubt his sexuality) we finally arrived at Loch. We pulled up and were greeted by John, Mosses and Tom who had beaten us there.

We finally throw some pads on and hit up the boarder X. John had kept the track looking rad since we’ve last been there.  We did some practise runs on the track, just tricking the jumps and shit. 1      o ‘clock came and the boarder X started. We did time trials first Jimmy Reynolds holding the fastest time the majority of the day, I got in front  a few times but he had his eyes on da prize. Out of nowhere Callan Harris throws down an impressive 17.86 seconds to be leading the under 18’s and having the fastest time of the day.  The results went like this;

Under 18’s
1st Callan Harris  17.86 secs
2nd Eddy Kusdiana 18.26 secs
3rd Moses Lasorella 19.75 secs

Open (over 18’s)
1st Jimmy Reynolds 18.1 secs
2nd Dylan Warren 18.34 secs
3rd Tom Sullivan 18.66 secs

After lunch we headed back over to the track for the 2 up boarder X event. John matched up the slowest with the fastest to start off with, and then somehow he matched up the others?  Everyone was riding hard as which was good to see. I popped my tire in the first race but was good to see everyone else having fun take on the death burn at the bottom of the hill. Anyway so everyone raced against each other and the last two riders standing where Cal and Jimmy. Jimmy had a rad start and kept it all the way to win the race, repping FTH with mad steeze. Results are;

1st Jimmy Reynolds

2nd Callan Harris

 We chilled a bit after that, talked some shit then had a nice rail jam. Loch has 3 dope rails and a few nice little jumps you can muck around on. Andy owned the flat bar getting tech with just about every trick; front boards, switch fs boards, half cab back to boards you name it he was doing it. I was loving the flat down rail; I got gap over the flat to 5050 on the down, 5050 on the flat to Boardslide on the down and FS Lip slide on the down. Jimmy was hitting up my kicker busting out some nice laid out flips and stomped a dope BS cork 5.


 When we should of been setting up our tents we headed down to Loch Skate Park. It’s a cool little skate park with a mini ramp and a few banks and a flat bar. We seshed it for an hour or so, threw down some hammers and went back to camp to find Ryan Slater.  Few new things about Slater I noticed is his horrible new English accent and his nice new shiny Trampa board. After catching up after a few drinks we started to play some drinking games. I won’t go in to much detail but people were shot with fireworks and shit got rowdy, haha.

After a good sleep I woke up to find Andy running around the campsite full of energy. He had already set my ramp up and was ready to ride. After breakfast, Joel Lee rocked up and we were ready to hit the ramp.  After warming up Jimmy started throwing down some backflips and it was on. Slater did just about every grab possible, with some rad ghetto shake downs and a switch frontflip attempt! Cal and eddy where throwing down some nice 3s and 5 attempts for the under 18’s. Jimmy got some real nice BS cork 5s down and Joel took a massive stack on the flat down rail breaking his arm. I did a few tricks and then snapped my truck in half on a 5.

After the session everyone voted on their favourite trick and Ryan Slater took first with his switch frontflip attempt. We had a serious product toss from Joel @ MBS and Slater and I obviously being the manliest pushed our way through the crowd to get the prize which was an MBS t-shirt. After that everyone packed up and headed home. Me and Andy decided to hit up the flat bar a few more times and made this video:

Everyone had a great time and I bet everyone was stoked to get home and sleep haha. Thanks again to John Morton, Dirt Theorey, Frameworkx and MBS for a great weekend!

 Peace

Dylan Warren $

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Oct 27 2009

up north aka (sour vaj)

We arrived in rainy Newcastle after some sort of drive, this was the first demo we’d ever done without good old Aj and it showed, it took us twice as long to set up the ramp, half because everyone thought they were the boss and half because of the area we’d been given, it was like setting up on a boarderX track. Next to us was a circus tent filled with skate ramps and a stage, as soon as the security and organisers had left for the evening it was all ours so we spent a while playing on the vert much to the delight of Mr Tom Read.

 

I woke up the next morning to Ollie trying to lick my toes in his sleep, that lads got problems I tell you. It had stopped raining for long enough for the ramp to dry so we did our first demo to a pretty small crowd of northerners, Read was still asleep at this point, Joe wasn’t up for it and Jamie was so young he couldn’t make it to the kicker, that left me Ollie and Tuai to fill 20 minutes with far out antics and that we did. It started raining soon after the first show but we kept on with the hire and ride until it was too wet, then we went to the pub, had a lovely meal and got smashed. Our attention soon turned to the pool table lurking in the corner, and the games begun, my money was on Tuai, but no, me and Jonnie b won every game, Tuai, Cownie and Joe would probably disagree but they lie all the time anyway. By the time we left the salutation inn for our long walk back I had been called gorgeous, Joe had got a motor boat and Pume lost the ability to walk.

We decided to take the beach back which turned out to be less of a beach that expected and more of a rock climb, good fun though, when we finally made it to the sand we went for a spot of skinny dipping, great fun, but it meant the rest of the walk involved some sandy leg chafing and a severe case of small pecker syndrome. All the while Shizz and Read had been back at the ramp honing there vert skills and by the time we got back they were on fire, read was 50-50ing across the ramp and Shizz was bustin some epic airs, still they didn’t know what they had missed. We all rode on Sunday and it went down a treat, it seemed as though they had never seen Mountainboarding in those parts, the pack down was silky smooth and we had left before dark.
Good fun had by all; ah yeah, if you get a chance to check out one of the MBS demos, come along and give us some abuse.

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Oct 20 2009

Arithmetic, grammar, meditation 09

Id been waiting months for this event, not, well I was looking forward to the film festival put on by atb junkies (I hope I got that right), and the first public showing of the chronicles of Indy along with an array of other wheelie delights, especially the ones with the super Mario soundtracks.

the real reason we were all there was to see Renny in one way or another burn himself in the fire, this week it was by balancing on a log over a bin of fire until either you set on fire or the log snapped and you fell into the fire. (you probably shouldn’t try this at home)
So yeah the films were cool and it was nice to have everyone in one place for the evening rather than all in their own little groups about the camp, it made for a cool atmosphere.
The riding that day was sweet to, the jumps where running to perfection and Renny was absolutely ripping them to pieces, the bigger you go the easier it is.
wrapped in my parker in the back of the space ship, I slept like a baby that night and didn’t move till the morning or maybe the afternoon I’m not really sure I was well up for a ride on the jumps, but seemed to be the only one so I did a bit of filming for AJ then gave up, it aint the same when your riding on your own. I went to piss about with Tuai an Jj on the rails but they wouldn’t let me join their gang so I spent the afternoon sulking in the corner.
The agm was riveting as you might expect, so we left and went to Paul’s to spend the evening drinking wine, reminiscing over some classic photos and abusing pume over the internet, wicked night. the next day we went back to an old spot from the days of atb-mag and shot some picks, check them out on pt’s facebook (woodbury)

The video of the weekend is well boring, sorry about that.

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Oct 12 2009

euro tipin out 2 part 1

The fit one was going to do this write up but I’ve given up waiting for him to stop eating hummous long enough to do anything, so here it is, Europe 09 take 2 by Tom

The Mbs berlingo was completely out of fuel so Ian brought out a can of diesel which I made sure was diesel as you can never be too sure, I can remember my dad filling up with petrol in a diesel van what an idiot. We headed down to Aj’s for a cup of cocoa before setting off on our mammoth drive to Belgium.
10 minutes down the road having filled up to the brim with fuel the van started making some weird noises and then it hit me, the pump was green not black, who’s the idiot now, I had filled up with petrol, An from there on out everything just went tits up. We were next to the motor way in the pouring rain with a ferry to catch no credit on Tuai’s phone and a thoroughly depressed tom. Then by some sort of miracle an AA van pulled up, took us to a petrol station, let us use his phone to call the RAC and reassured me that everyone does it at least once.
Neway I could carry on about this for the whole story but I wont waste your time, all I will say Is some how we had left my bank card by the side of the road about 20 miles away and had to pay a big fat bloke and his two mates a considerable amount of money for sorting out the van.

We got on the ferry with ten minutes to go, vowing to not speak about what had happened for the next few days. The drive to Wanyi was pretty easy except for anywhere that two roads crossed, because that was far to much for Tuai’s map reading abilities, and if we got to a city, shit, we were lucky to make it out in even remotely the right sort of direction, But finally we made it to Wanyi and after saying hi to all the familiar faces we set up the tent and slept for about 20 hours.

 

I woke to the sound of Joesepe Dickinson and a bunch of other English riders mingling about, this has got to be one of the best things about the Belgium open it always attracts loads of riders from all over the shop, there were a bunch of Spanish riders that I’ve got to say were way sick, they went for it harder than anyone else all weekend, there were the usual Belgian suspects Arno Styne an so on some Dutch an I think even some polish.

We spent the day lounging, skating, swimming, riding and then drinking cold cold jupiler, in the evening Me Ig an Arno sessioned the boarderX together for an hour or so which was sick, I’ve never ridden that track before but it flows pretty good and gets the blood pumping, if you are lucky enough to get out to Wanyi don’t be put off by the looks of the boarderX, give it a go, you’ll love it.

This was the fifth Belgium open id been to but it was still as fun as ever, the under 18’s freestyle didn’t start till 1 o’clock and was a sweet show to watch, all the kids were ripping it Mick and Jamie stood out by a long way spinning of everything with there trademark styles and both landing 5’s Jamie took the win with Mick close on his heels.
The open started at 4 when the weather had started to cool down, yet again I can say I had as much fun in a comp as if I was just riding with my mates (no pressure), this is why I love Belgium, you start when you want, have as many jumps as you want, do what you want and everyone loves it. Garry the wild layed down some mad stuff landing a switch musty flip on his first jump and the saying im gona hit the big one spin as much as I can and see what happens, it was so good to ride with Ig again, one because he was wearing nothing but a but pad, kneepads wrist guards and a helmet, but more because of his attitude, everything he does is for fun and that’s how it should be.
I won’t go through and list all the tricks that went down because im sure you’ll be able to find a video of it somewhere on the internet, but the riding was top class and everyone had a well good time.

After a pretty shoddy viewing of the new BFC video due to a scratched DVD, (maybe the master copy), we all headed into the local village where there was some sort of fate going on, me and Tuai had a couple t-shirts to give out so we all gathered in a circle and the dancing begun, Ig won of course, busting his usual array of epic pops and breaks.
The night ended pretty fast, I wont go into all the details but in the morning there was some split lips and a few Belgians walking about with saw fists, and I felt especially bad, don’t steal a pissed up crazed Belgians ribena or bad thing happen is the motto of the story.

part 2 comin soon

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Oct 6 2009

how i got so cool with mathew brind

one of the sickes riders in the world at the moment, and probally the first person to lad a grabed switch seven ahhh yeah matt brind

 

Nicknames?

Matt, Brind, Brindy, Brim, Brimstone, Brimstone remover, ask joe Dickson or the atc boys, they make up new ones every day!

Age?

18

Where are you from?

Rayleigh, Essex    UK’s Driest Town 2007 or 2008, maybe both?

How come your soo cool?

I’m cool? Must be the hair!

Favourite mountainboarder?

Project Doc crew, best times riding had with those boys!

Favourite Skater

I don’t know, maybe bob burniquist? I saw some video of some crazy ninja skater the other day, he’s pretty cool.

Best thing about Mountainboarding?

Everything, mainly the wind rushing through my hair……nah gotta be the people and the atmosphere or something cheesy like that!

Worst thing about Mountainboarding?

Falling off, probably everyones answer but hey, it hurts!

If you were a sweet, what and why?

Yorkie, cause i’m all man, yea!! Get ‘Er Done Son!

Have you ever run over a kid?

When i was a kid yes, at my friend ‘s house in one of those plastic cars which were red with yellow roof? Move it with your feet? Anyway yea, ran my friend over….and by when i was a kid i mean last week, that or when i was 12 or so i did it back then too

How do you stop a baby from drowning?

Dive in and save it? Keeps its head above the water? I’m not gonna be mean and say ‘why would you wanna save it?!’

What’s Your Best trick?

You tell me? I can’t see em! My fs cork 5 cannonballs are pretty cool, and i’m waiting to bring my fs corked 7 cannonballs and maybe some cork 9s from resi to dirt too pretty soon, either that or a selection from my switch tricks

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Funnest trick?

Switch fs 3 stalefish nose boners

Gayest grab?

Model Airs

Do you like JJ’s hair?

It’s alright, i guess

Do you like the atba?

Hell’s yea!

Beer of cider?

Cider, but really it’s about the orange squash and blackcurrant+apple squash mix up!

What makes Mountainboarding special?

Not much really, except the versatility, what other sports apart from mountain biking can you ride as much as you can on a mountain board?

I heard you landed a grabbed switch 720 how was that for you?

Pretty sweet if i’m honest, quite the buzz!

Big jumps or jibing?

Biggun’s! A bit of jibbing here and there is definitely necessary though!

Future of Mountainboarding?

Bigger, better, faster, stronger. Olympics maybe? Definitely x games, dunno how long it will take but it should get there! It better do or someone will pay….

Whose better you or Joe D?

Pfft i dunno, probably dicko, he’s a pro you know! Haha, i’ll let you know after the haredown comp ;]

Tell us about that time with the dog and the screwdriver?

Wow, you do know how to make a boy feel uncomfortable don’t you…well, here goes, it started off with …..<insert mildly witty, humerous and slightly sickening story here>…..and there you have it, the time with the dog and the screwdriver

Do you know what housive bojagelies are?

Yea, bojagelies is the mixture of bogies, jelly fins, gelys, lilies and gnats cocks. Housive is superman’s mega toe but it’s also the super cool rad slang term for mahousive, or massive, so that bit i’m unsure of

Favourite song?

Changes all the time, at the mo its probably S.W.A.G. by Qemists or Chaka Demus by Jamie T, something rubbish like that, oh or Don’t Stop by InnerPartySystem

Favourite Film?

All the Harry Potter’s, I’m not even joking

Have you ever punched anyone in the face?

No but I have been punched in the face

Last words?

Hope it’s not been too boring, or looking back too long! Woo first interview! Haha, erm, keep shredding the GuhNar!

Sponsors?

MBS Europe, EAT Dirt, Project Doc – Pd, think thats it

Have you got a gun?

Used to, simpler times….

Are you the prettiest mountainboarder?

No that’s obviously the international mountain boarder heart-throb Tuai Lovejoy!

When are you gonna beat me then

Haha nah maybe in a million years? You need to compete again first! I’m gonna read all the ATC trick tips so I get super good, get lessons from young silver then take down Kody Stewart and Tom Read and absorb their powers like Ditto from Pokemon, then go for the win!

shot rim

 

 

 

 cheers mate big respect from all of us you sick head

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