Another New Video

Here is a video from a very slushy day last weekend. A couple weeks ago, I decided to try Front 3's on a jump on upper chisolm, then when I had a hard time landing on my toes, I decided to go Front 5's instead. So that I could land on my heels. It is about the same difficulty. For me. Plus it looks cooler. My but never touched the ground on the last clip, so I think I landed it. I will stomp one this weekend, hopefully. And my awesome dad, has been the best, and taken me to Mountain High pretty much every weekend. I love him! My mom too! So anyways, this is an edit I made the same day I filmed it. i hope you enjoy. :)

New Video

Here's a video that my friend edited. He's an awesome editor. We all filmed eachother over this weekend. Enjoy. I'm Danny.

Post Comp

Hello people. Last saturday I did a USASA Slopestyle #2 at Mt. High. It was so fun. We got there early to register. We got our bibs and free breakfast. Then we started doing practice runs. The jumps were perfect. Not too big, even maybe a little small. We took a run on the course and then hit the powder on the way down. It was great. Then came time to drop. My friend Brandon dropped 1st. From the top you couldn't really see the whole course, but later he told me that his first run was his best. Then I dropped. I did Frontside 50-50 to Frontside Lipslide on a down box. Then the 1st jump, Method. The second jump, Roast Beef. The 3rd Jump, Frontside 360 Indy. I kind of sketched out on the 360 but just kept going. Then we had time for 1 more run for fun before we had to drop for the contest again. We just kind of kept practicing and made it back to the top in time. He dropped first again. He said that his 2nd run wasn't as clean but still good. He did straight airs with grabs and then a shifty on the last jump. Then I dropped for my 3rd and final run. This one was so much better. On the first run, I came off a little early on the down box, but this run I stayed on the whole time. Then I went Method to Roast Beef to Frontside 360 Indy Clean. I was pretty happy with my run but I didn't know what the other guys did. I ended up in 5th Place. That just shows how good these guys were. My friend Brandon is 1 year younger than me, so he was in 1 division below and his run took 1st. Stoked for him. I was kind of wishing I was in his division, but now I just have to push myself more. Overall it was a fun day. Then this weekend, we went up just to ride. He was practicing for filming in Mammoth. I was practicing for a USASA Rail jam next weekend. Depending on the setup I might do it and I might not. Either way, today we each filmed 1 run and I edited it together really quick. Here it is. Not our best riding or filming. Next vid will be better.

New Video and Awesome Day

      I was at the High the last couple of saturdays, practicing for the USASA Slopestyle competition on Jan. 28th. The park setup has been awesome lately. On Borderline, they had some 2 feature pads and then on pipeline they still have 3 awesome jumps. The days were bluebird and warm, yet the snow was awesome. I will be going back up this weekend and will have the comp next weekend. This weekend, they will have the Gatorade Free Flow Tour and the Snowboarder Magazine Superpass competition both this weekend, so I'm not sure how much practice I will get on those jumps seeing as the comps are on those same runs. I will post after the comp and enjoy the video. It was filmed in 3 runs each over MLK weekend. Props to my friend Brandon for editing this. It's pretty sick!! I'm Danny by the way!!

Soaring High Over Mt. High

     After 2 weeks of waiting, I got to go to Mountain High yesterday, the day after Christmas. It was soooo much fun. They have the new airbag up now and that is where I spent a lot of the day. Since the liftlines were really long, and the Airbag line was just me. The only problem with the airbag is getting back up to the top of the run in to drop again. They don't have a tow rope or snowmobile or anything to take you back up, so you have to hike everytime. Which is still better than waiting 15 minutes to get 1 run. The lip to the airbag was really poppy and got super steep. I saw a couple people hit there heads on it. I thought it was awesome though. The rest of the park was awesome but the airbag was the highlight. escpecially the people working there. They were super nice and gave me tips on how to flip tricks easier and cleaner. My airbag season pass has literally already paid for itself already and I will be hitting this bag everyday!!! For the video I posted. It would be a lot of work to edit it down so just pay attention to the first part. Pretty much after I land in the bag, the rest is me getting off the bag and trying to get the GoPro off of my helmet.

Probably The Most Progressive Day Yet

        I was back up at Mt. High this weekend. They have finally made a decision and gotten rid of the halfpipe. Now it is a really fun jump line. 2 medium small table tops. The park is exploding and I didn't necessarilly learn new tricks today, but I did some stuff I haven't done in a while. First of all, I finally landed some 50-50s on some banked boxes. For some reason, I never hit banked boxes because I always end up falling off. I figured out the problem... Speed. If I don't have enough time to fall off, then you won't. Also, those table tops on "pipeline" were way bigger than I normally go, but this guy asked if I could hit them and I instinctively said yes. So I had to hit them. I had forgotten how much fun it was to hit big jumps and I ended up hitting those for the majority of the rest of the day. I just had really good flow today and seemed like I couldn't fall until my second run on the 2 table tops. I took WAY too much speed into the 2nd one and landed at the bottom of the landing on my butt. Other than that it was a great day. My dad was sick today and had to work so he wasn't there to film, but I will definitely have a video next time I promise. By the way, thank you SOO much mom for taking me and sitting in the lodge while I rode. You are truly the best.

Hey there!

     What up!!! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been really busy. So a couple of tricks I've learned since my last post... Backside Flip and Kickflip Rock 'n' Roll. Since this is the time of year when the sun goes down earlier, I haven't had much time to skate. But Snowboarding is always fun. Mt. High has some new jumps up that are really fun. Plus I learned a backside noseslide last time. Mt. High just got like 36 hours of snowmaking, so I'm excited to go up tomorrow. I will probably post a video or something next time. Peace out!