'ATCproductions'

we went to a kiteboarding comp to do a demo last year (yeah i know), i dont think i saw any kite boarding but we had a pretty fun hopa bopa race and the bays had a good session, anway here are some of the kind highlights i think, well,  renny’s stack is atleast.

This last week me (tom), the midget (mick), the fit one (tuai) and the wise old one (bazzer) drove out to austria to get wild in the fresh pow.  The drive there sucked, 27 hours of sore ass horn beeping heaven. We were gona be staying with mountainboard legend and king of portugal Alex Broumbass, but i had forgot to get his number or  find out were he lived, we knew it was somewere in a village called Ellmau, so thats were we headed. We found the king later that evening looking kinda like a bear crossed with a snowboarding tramp, got setteled down in his pad, had a few schnapps then hit the sack.  Got up well early to get our boards sorted (big up “Freaks on Snow” for that!) bought a few lift passes then hit the slopes, this was the second time the fit one had ever stood on one of them slippery boards, the first time being in england a few weeks before but he picked it up pretty fast an we ended up at the park by the end of the day. That evening we dined like kings courtesy of Simone the queen of Portugal, and after tea we set up some lights out the back an sessioned the worlds smallest snowpark, well fun.

we spent the next few days getting up early and spending the whole day out in the mountains, we hit some amazing pow through the trees and found a windlip which got had, frontflips (the midget landed everything first try), backflips, rodeos, corked 5’s and some sick stacks. By the end of the week we were ready to throttel the next skier that tried to snake us in the lift queue, Mick had got stuck upsidedown in  tree, and we had found a dead mouse. One night Alex and the freaks had to do a demo in the village so we went to watch, it was one of the weirdest things id ever seen, there was formation skiing, an ald old man drinkin schnapps an riding wooden skies then alex and his crew shreading the hill in some well weird clothes, anyway, i cooked that night an we had a few drinks then hit the houses little park again.

Our lift pases ran out with one day to spare so we set about re-shaping the park outside an had a sweet day of jibbing about. We left the next day after saying our good byes after swaping a snowboard for the promise of a crate of vegemite. The drive home was as bad as the one there, I dont think ive ever been in as many trafic jams in my life we ended up avreging 40mph over a 2100 mile drive that was mostly motoway, but it was well worth it i tell ya!

big thanks to Alex and the freaks for making our stay so delightfull.

o yeah, last chance to get your mits on one of these spankin limited edition hoodies before they get sent out on the 1st of march, dont miss the bargain, go to the t-shirt page if you an buy one if you can be assed, cheers.

heres a few bits an peices from the last few weeks , pretty Boring really.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

day 16

feling good, weather aint great though, spent the mornin doing crap on this excuse for a website, boring!  listening to metal right now, how about that ey Pume! About to have some lunch then were going to do some filming, didnt do any filming but me an Kodey had a sick ride then Paul an Ak went into town an me an Kodey stayed back an had a few beverages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

day17

off to the beach today, had to wait aroung for a few things so we didnt get there till dark, spent another nice afternoon chilling out in crystal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ate some sweet food on the way that goes by the name of picachineo or something like that, basically shit loads of little chunks of ham and cheese, ummmmmmmmmmmmm. The house we were staying in turned out to be a 300 year old beauty owned by Toniees family.

At about midnight we all busted a grove down to the local skatepark which turned out to be the sketchiest thing ever, on the way me an chunk found a class little street jib an spent a while pissing about there, bugs and heat make it hard to sleep!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

day18

went to the beach this morning an had a little surf on a board with no nose then caught a load of sand crabs which was pretty cool, then we went for a buffet lunch were you paid for your food by its weight, damn mine was heavy, chunks taking a nap now, lightweight! Just been snorkeling, well not really, i thought i was going to drown so i got out pretty sharpish, we had a  dead fish fight which was pretty cool then spent a while trying to body surf, no joy though. Ak’s feeding a gang of rouge turtles chocolate biscuits an they’re eating out of his hand like dogs, now were driving back an Fernando Gonzalo is snapin shots of every woman we drive past, dirty perv!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

day19

lastnight was amazing! after probably, na, definatly the best barbeque ever and some of the most intence laughing ever done we walked about three miles with a stray dog to a nightclub were we nearly got in a fight because i moved my hand when kodey went to give me a hi five an taped some guy on the back of the head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other than that it was well sweet, we all got down to some epic robot dancing, don’t wana bost but mine was by far the best. I think there was a mega tall girl and a girl with braces in there someware, on the way home i persuaded some of the others to go for a sunrise swim in memory of Tuai an Ollie, it was one of the highlights of my whole trip, pissed up basking about in the warm ocen in the south of brazil with a bunch of mates at sunrise. damn im a jammy bastard! now were driving to the airport an im feeling like shit, hung over. Its sad to be leaving this amazing place and all the amzing freinds ive made, but at least the weather will be good back in england!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

massive thanks to Lucas and the rest of his family for making this trip possible and showing me the best time!