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!

I'm Back!!

           I Finally got the doctor to sign off that I can skate and snowboard again!!!! I'm so excited!! I went to Mt high yesterday and had a blast! It was really foggy but it was still fun. It was my first day of the season, so I spent the first half of the day, getting my mojo back. or "snowjo". hehe. But after the first half of the day, I had it back and started to learn new tricks. 1 trick that I accidentally landed was a blunt to fakie on a roller box. This came about because I was headed to the box and caught my toeside edge but tried to save my self and ended up completely on my tail with my back binding on the edge of the box, I was like "whoa!" so I turned my head and came out switch. So that was pretty cool. Another accidental trick that was pretty cool was a 360 on a wallride. I stink at staying flat based on boxes so this was pretty cool, to stay flat based on the wallride. The day was great, but it didn't start out great. It started out by me overshooting a jump on upper chisolm and landing in the flat, on my butt. So you can see that the day turned out way better than I expected. Overall, It was an amazing day and I can't wait to get back up there soon. It was about 4 or 5 months of waiting paid off!

My Injury

           Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. I just didn't go to that many skateparks lately. And as much as I know you want to hear about me skating on the street in front of my house, I think writing about skateparks is more fun. Now back in the day, Rodney Mullen and the others did some pretty cool flatground stuff, so I wanted to replicate something like that. I'm always trying to learn a new fliptrick, or mini-ramp trick or rails or whatever. So to be different, I decided I would try to handstand while riding. I landed several times without falling and thought I had it down. Then my neighbor walked by and I thought I would show off. So I hopped up and stalled out the handstand but pushed too hard to get upside down and ended up falling over, doing a full frontflip. Then my hand started hurting. I was like Oww. So I was done for the day. I went in iced my hand and slept it off. But it still hurt the next day so I went in to the doctor and..........Buckle Fracture. So I'm not allowed to skate for 3 weeks. Doctors/Parents orders. It stinks. I can't find any way to occupy my time. I don't get what people do all the time. I have a whole bunch of energy and can't do anything with it. However, I am thankful that I didn't have to get a full cast, instead I just have a splint that I can take on and off. And I'm glad that I didn't hurt myself more. That being said, I hope I never hurt myself like this again, because this is the worst.

Back to Clairemont

    I went to Clairemont yesterday, and skated my 2 favorite parts of the park, The Vert Ramp (Now that I can drop in on the loveseat) and the miniramp (just cause it's fun.) I went with my dad and my friend Nathan. My dad didn't skate but he filmed and we had fun. When we were on the mini ramp, Nathan aired over the deck of the miniramp on the the bank next to it. It was pretty crazy. As for me, I'm just happy that I can finally put a run together on a mini ramp, like, a BS 5-0 to transfer over the spine, Rock to Fakie, Fakie to Fakie Transfer over the spine, fakie to BS Smith stall and so on. Now I really like mini ramps. Then we headed over to the Vert Ramp and I got some runs going on that too. I dropped in and then kick turn to Melon pre-grab backside air, rock to fakie, gay twist, rock to fakie, fakie backside shuv-it. It was awesome. Then Nathan learned how to Melon pre-grab backside air which he couldn't do before. Since he learned something new, I had to learn something new so I learned and Indy pre-grab frontside air. I still don't have them down but I can atleast do them now. It was a very productive session. next time I will drop in on the normal sized vert ramp.