Jacob Wester » travel

game plan

jacobwester — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:17:19 +0000

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

snowmass

jacobwester — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:18:03 +0000

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 Breck – again

jacobwester — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:35 +0000

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

Aspen

jacobwester — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:53:10 +0000

7:40 am outside my window at the Armada condo, was hoping for sun but I’ll take some fresh snow too

And it’s on again! Back in Aspen and X-Games for my 7th time in my career, starting to get old for real! Had an insanely fun day in Breckenridge yesterday, skiing freeway (big park) in the sun and temperatures around -5°C with Banks and his filmer Jake Strassman. Didnt really spend any time trying to get footage though, as I was on a mission to land some new tricks. Eventually, I got two new ones, which feels amazingly good, the more advanced you become as a skier the fewer are the times you actually try and land something new, so that made my day and boosted my confidence level for this week.

The slopestyle course looks amazing, it’s 2 rail features and 4 jumps this time, so that’s definitely in my favor…going to give you a course preview today after practice.

Time to go ski!

Jacob

SLC-DEN

jacobwester — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:40:29 +0000

So here I am, back at another airport. Sorry for poor blogging these last few days, but I have actually left my camera at home and skied all day instead of shooting any video or photos. Feels good sometimes to just go ski and try to have some fun in these dark days. Sometimes you are reminded of how wrong things can go, and how fragile we really are, something that is very easily forgot.

This is where I have been spending most of my days:

pretty fun place

However I have been collecting some footage of fun rail and jump runs together with Alex Schlopy and his awesome filmer Josh Finbow that you will all see in the near future. Stay tuned!

Jacob

NYC photo post #2

jacobwester — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:02:57 +0000

A couple more, enjoy!

looks thin enough.

central park

lightpost art

another lightpost

just one more

sofia on a shopping mission

sofia on a hip hop mission

lightposts just make your photos better. this time in brooklyn.

inside brooklyn flea, a huge flea market inside an old bank.

lots of fun stuff to find in here

thats a bummer.

brooklyn lager, best beer evverrr.

seeing Allison Weiss at Glasslands gallery. super intimate show with only about a hundred people watching. if youre in williamsburg this is where you should go for live music.

Off to the hill right now for some more fun in PC’s park. no big jumps but perfect rails. Stay tuned

Jacob

NYC photo post #1

jacobwester — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:27:07 +0000

hard to pick out the good ones but here’s a few for starters:

sheraton tribeca window view

street art of various quality is everywhere in new york

sofia on the hunt for colorful shoes

blingz

i love you, brick wall

the ebony hillbillies at the times square sub station

brand names battling for attention at times square

sofia pigeon chasing

did you know that Bob Dylan’s It ain’t me, babe was written about the statue of liberty? read the lyrics.

sofia at the battery park beachwalk

seagull

you can almost here the money printers running warm

ground zero memorial towers in process

getting lunch at whole foods

So that, photo post took me about an hour, there will be more when I find some better wifi. At the moment we are all waiting for news updates on Sarah Burke, who took a nasty fall in the PC halfpipe today. Send out your love and vibes (and prayers if you’re so inclined).

Jacob

Thanks NYC

jacobwester — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:11:03 +0000

view from rockefeller center. uptown might be a tourist trap, but its pretty rad by night

5 days, 5 nights, tourist traps, 10 mile walks, 1876 photos, endless alleys of record shops, thrift stores, designer boutiques, flea markets, cafés and restaurants later, I’m leaving New York. I can see why people get stuck here, it’s something about big cities like these, where one can become completely anonymous, that just sucks you in. Im writing this from the air, just got on my JFK-SLC flight after leaving Sofia for her journey back home. It’s weird snapping out of big city life, straight into skiing mode, but tomorrow I will be on the hill up at Park City for some pre X Games training with the Monster team. Thought I’d post this quick blog and give you a huge photo post on everything that went down the past week a bit later, so stay tuned, and I’ll be back soon

Jacob

Xmas + Åre photo post

jacobwester — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:55:13 +0000

Welcome back to the blog, after a well deserved rest for a few days. After christmas I decided to chill out for a week and followed my father and brother up to Åre in the north of Sweden, to hang out in general, and to do a Swedish freestyle team gathering. The team isn’t fully formed yet so it’s still just a bunch of people getting together for some skiing and chilling. Good vibes for sure, and we have one more day up here before heading back down to Stockholm tomorrow night. Here’s an avalanche of photos from the last 5 days, enjoy!

Xmas in Sweden is much like Xmas anywhere else. Get together with the fam, dress a pinetree, and eat a ton of tasty food.

Xmas eve self portraits

after Xmas we got in the car and drove the 8 hours north up to Åre, where we:

…went skiing every day

…ate delicious breakfasts at Åre bakery

…bowled

…played dart

…and had a great time in general! Soon there will be edits online from the camp since we’ve had filmers here to document what’s been going on. Unfortunately Åre doesnt have much snow so the parks are not finished yet except for a rail line, not my strongest side Just having a good time skiing though, although playing S.K.A.T.E with e’dollo and simon ericson isnt the easiest task

check back soon!

Jacob

almost home

jacobwester — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:42:05 +0000

no sleep for 24 hours is the secret to a healthy moustache

Just landed in Amsterdam after a 1-stop flight from Denver through Houston. Never got tired so spent the long flight watching 4 movies, Contagion, District 9, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Sophie Scholl: the Final Days. I can recommend them all, it’s been a while since I saw some decent movies.

Just one more flight then some holiday time with the family and Sofia, can’t wait. Hopefully Stockholm gets some more snow so I can go play on some handrails…

Stay tuned

Jacob