So I bet some of you are wondering what’s going on – here’s a tip, check out my twitter as that’s where most of the action is happening nowadays. I will keep blogging but with less dedication as I have realized I work harder when I blog less, since I don’t bring a camera to the hill and spend too much time focusing on other things than skiing.
So what’s new: Well, I finally worked out a plan with Matchstick Productions and I will be shooting with them the rest of the season with the goal of producing a banger segment this year. As this plan finalized over the last few days I decided to fly home from breckenridge for a week to get some time in with Sofia and to start preparing for some serious powder missions. In a week from now I am flying back over the pond to spend about a month in Whistler with the MSP crew and a heli on hold. Pretty sick opportunity and I’m about to make the best of it for sure.
Since Stockholm has gotten a bunch of fresh snow over the last weeks I wouldnt completely rule out the chance of some urban rails being hit, either…
view from my breakfast table
Well, so now you know my plans kinda, we’ll see how much I feel like updating from home, right now I’m mostly excited to see Sofia and to enjoy “normal” life for a few days, before I disappear to Canada…
Check back soon!
Jacob
So sunday we went out to snowmass and got to session this beauty for a couple hours before we were done and I headed back to Breckenridge, which is my current location. Pretty sweet setup…:
before sessioning for 3 hours with Torin and Gus. and a heli…
So now I’m back in breck, it’s 8.19am and it’s sunny out so I think it’s time to go ski freeway and get some more shots with Pat, looks like a fun day in the making!
Jake
Back in Aspen! Basically as soon as I got back to Breck this week, Armada called me up and asked me if I could make it to Aspen for a park shoot with Gus and Torin. A bit short notice, I thought, but soon came to my senses and rented a car. Now I’m here, and it’s been an awesome first day of shooting the 3-pack in the X-Games slopestyle course. Tomorrow we are moving on to Snowmass for another meticulously shaped jump. Landed really bad on a switch dub 12 today and decided to call it early, still got a couple bangers though, so I’m stoked. Here’s a couple shots from the 7D:
mr. Torin Yater-Wallace where he feels right at home. 6.30am in the Buttermilk halfpipe.
first light.
Gus on one of his warm-up 900s
Torin mutegrabbin’
After the pipe session we got to lay our hands on this…the middle of three perfect jumps.
The cineflex camera mounted on our heli. Cant wait for the footage…
Stay tuned for more updates, now I’m about to ice the shit out of a sore, sore body…
btw, I learned a new trick today, sw double wobble 1080s! hows that for a trick name…
Jacob
Been skiing breckenridge these last few days, still sore from X-Games so I followed my friend and roommate Pat Goodnough around the other day with my new contour HD. Might throw a little edit online soon. Couple stills:
The park in Breckenridge is better than ever right now and I strongly suggest you check it out if youre in the area.
So I’ve been trying to piece together some plans for these next few months but not quite there yet. Right now it looks like I’m heading back out to Aspen tomorrow for 2 days of park shooting for Armada, with a cineflex and a phantom helicopter set up. For those of you dont know, that’s two insanely expensive super cameras, check out Art of Flight with Travis Rice to get a picture of what we’re dealing with. Should be a good session, check back soon!
Jacob
Made it back to Breckenridge today after a last few days in Aspen for X Games. Pretty happy with my skiing this year even though I didnt make finals. Found the live stream and managed (sorta) to rip a video from it, nothing too exciting but it’s a run I’m happy with, enjoy:
Click here to view the embedded video.
I dont know if it was only worth 81 points but since the cut-off was at 87 I guess I wouldnt have made finals anyways. Crazy level in slopestyle!
Now the plan is to organize my life for the season. I’ll get back to you soon about how that’s all going.
Jake
wearing the new Oakley Canopy, super sick goggle!
getting ready to head back to the venue for the Big Air competition! did a practice session yesterday and got used to the jump, it’s not as big as I had been hoping, yet the snowboarders somehow managed to get triples around on it…holy shit is all I have to say. I doubt it will happen on skis as we don’t flip as fast but you never know what happens in the heat of the moment. I just know I’m going to treat this contest like a big show and throw some style tricks as well as tech, but we’ll just have to wait and see what happens I guess.
in other news, big props to David Wise for killing pipe finals today, and Noah Bowman and Torin Yater-Wallace for taking 2nd and 3rd. pipe skiing is crazy!!
Stay tuned
Jacob
it’s 00.14 in the morning and I just got to bed after a long hectic day. figured I’d drop a line about the slopestyle contest, probably the most impressive display of slopestyle skiing ever presented. big ups to Tom for winning his third slopestyle comp of the season! I skied better and more consistently than ever before but it was not enough to get into that top 8 bracket that made it to finals. ended up in 11th with a highscore of 81.00 points, for a run with 3 different doubles and a left 9. the progression is pretty insane right now…
looking forward to big air on saturday!
tomorrow I have a day off and I’m going shredding Aspen Mountain with friends and family. its going to be really nice to have a completely relaxed day after 4 days of non-stop double corks 
stay tuned
Jacob
Tomorrow it’s on! Just got home from the 2nd training session on the slopestyle course here in Aspen, Colorado. Pretty much just having the best time right now trying to piece together a sick run for the comp, it’s hard but it’s coming together I think. I did my run once except for the last trick, still havent quite figured it out but we have another session under the lights tonight. I know there’s already some course previews out on the internet, but here’s my version of it:
first option: wallride/close-out or flat rail. I have been hitting the wallride, fun little feature.
second feature: choice of single barrel flat rails to down rail/box, or a polejam in the middle. havent quite figured this one out yet but I think I’ll be hitting one of the flat rails and throw a spin off the end, maybe I’ll end up landing on the down rail if I’m lucky.
1st jump, a fun little 45 footer that’s slightly slanted to the right.
2nd jump, a perfect 60 footer with a ton of pop. my favorite jump in the course. this photo really shows how close together the jumps are, you have to really be on point to get through this part.
3rd jump, the biggest one on the course. I’d say it’s about 60 feet but super poppy, it throws you really high. this is probaby where we’ll see the biggest tricks.
the final jump, not my favorite but it’s growing on me for sure. it has a really flat take-off so you don’t go very high. doubles will be challenging on this one, but hopefully I’ll get a few down tonight. if not I’m going to do some switch 10 blunts, most fun trick ever.
Check back soon, probably won’t be able to post anything tonight since I’m going to the Powder Awards here in Aspen, where I am nominated for Best Natural Air. Really excited, hopefully it’ll go my way!
Jacob
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