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Aspen 2.0

jacobwester — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:23:46 +0000

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

Rest in Peace Sarah Burke

jacobwester — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:01:24 +0000

I don’t really know what to think or write right now, but as you may have heard female pro skier Sarah Burke passed away today, following her tragic accident in Park City last week. I’ve known Sarah since when I first got onto the scene, and she was always smiling, every time I saw her. She lived life to the fullest and was the major driving force in women’s freeskiing since as long as I can remember. May you ski in peace, Sarah. This global family of skiers will never be the same without you, and we will miss you always.

Jacob

floating through space

jacobwester — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:13:33 +0000

Thats basically what I feel like right now. Slept a total of 2 hours last night and did the drive down to Portland with my dad and Oscar at about 3am. Boarded flight to Chicago. Sitting at my gate drinking coffee and listening to loud music, people watching. Sometimes I feel like Edward Norton’s nameless narrator in the movie Fight Club;

You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?

This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.

And then I snap back out of it and realize I am on my way to bottomless powder skiing, all day, with my friends. Not such a shitty deal after all, I think as I take another sip of my orange mocha frappucino, or other liquid attempt to imitate coffee.

Another flight and I will be in Calgary, Alberta. Beautiful Canada. Going to be good to be back, Haven’t been in two years. Then another 4 hour bus ride awaits. Then a hotel night in Golden, then a shuttle up to the lodge in Chatter Creek, BC, where Richard Permin and Sean Pettit are waiting with the rest of the MSP crew.

It’s going to be a good two weeks…

Jacob

Back home

jacobwester — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:31:02 +0000

just landed in stockholm after another shitty France experience without internet. Will give you all a big picture update in a little bit.

Jake

exhausted!

jacobwester — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:57:50 +0000

who knew landing on a big soft bag full of air could be so tiring? sessioned the halfpipe wall to air bag pretty much all day today, and progressed a ton. these things are like cheating, seriously. we haven’t been hitting the jump yet since it’s a little too sketchy with a big stepdown into the bag, but tomorrow they are changing it up, making it into more of a step up jump so hopefully we’ll get another shot at it. the pipewall is awesome though, makes me wanna start riding pipe again!

here’s a couple shots that I got from mr Shay Williams, thank you Shay!

first ever double flair attempt

another double flair

double cork 1260. this is one of the funnest tricks on jumps, but off a pipewall it’s even better. I can’t wait to do this in an actual pipe.

shenanigans with Colby.

see you tomorrow!

Jacob

it’s on!

jacobwester — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:37:48 +0000

Jacob

gainers

jacobwester — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:39:30 +0000

being home is as good as ever. not much to write about but just wanted to post something.

combining my two favorite hobbies

Click here to view the embedded video.

Jacob

20kg + 20kgs

jacobwester — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:12:42 +0000

Flying KLM tomorrow because of a lack of reasonably priced star alliance tickets means we had to do some seriously light packing.

Mine and Sofia’s skis, boots, ski clothes, normal clothes and camera equipment can’t weigh over 40 kgs, or we will get charged overweight and ski baggage fees, so it was pretty hard to pack, especially since I’m bringing a girl here! I think we will make it though, as long as they let us bring two carry-ons each.

Getting on the 6.20 am flight out of Stockholm Arlanda airport tomorrow morning so I better get some sleep now, long travel day awaits.

Oh, and it would be great if anyone of you out there could give me a breakdown on how to get to Tignes from Geneva airport. Trains, buses, whats the easiest route?

Jacob

CR Johnson

jacobwester — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:59:37 +0000

I first met CR Johnson at Freestyle.ch in Zürich, Switzerland, the year 2004. I remember being star struck immidiately, CR was one of the skiers that had inspired me to do what I was doing, since the super early days. I remember watching his ski movie segments in the early MSP films, blown away by how far ahead of everyone else he was, doing his trademark bio spins, all the way up to 1260s. One of the first shots I ever saw of him was of a 1440, an amount of rotations I never thought was possible up until then. One of the best ski movie segments ever made is still CR’s part in Poor Boyz Production’s Happy Dayz, even today, 7 years later, it would be a legit movie segment a skier only could dream of putting together.

Yesterday, CR was skiing his home mountain, Squaw Valley, California, when he caught some rocks on an exposed cliff take-off, causing him to tumble off the cliff.

He passed away.

I really don’t have words for my feelings right now, this is the second big icon of our sport passing away in one year, due to tragic accidents. I guess it leaves you with the feeling that life is indeed fragile and you have to live in and appreciate every moment of your life, because you can be pulled away from it any second. Thank you CR, for being one of my biggest inspirations, and a great friend.

CR in Snoqualmie, Washington, may 2008.

last day on the hill!

jacobwester — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:19:03 +0000

Today was the last day on the hill for me up in Hintertux, Austria. Had another perfect day (so lucky with the weather, haha), and skied all morning with Tobi Reindl and Beni Mayr.

I got a last chance to work on my competition tricks for London and my skiing felt really good. Some days you go out and feel like shit, nothing works, and tricks you have been doing for 5 years feel uncomfortable and you’re scared of even trying them. It feels like everyone is lightyears ahead of you. This week started out just like that, I was struggling with doing decent switch 540s, and I just feeling very unstable in general. Over the week that slowly went away and I was feeling like I actually deserved to be a professional skier again, and today ended with 5 perfect runs and after that I felt like it was time to call it a day and leave Hintertux. Taking two days off now, then it’s game time in London!

Before I left Armada had an autograph session set up in Insider, the best shop in Hintertux. Shared a table with Ted Ligety, GS silver medalist in the WC opening in Sölden last week, so that was pretty cool. Not every day I sign racing jackets!

self portrait in the hotel, after skiing.

signing.

too bad I’m missing these guys:

HAHA

Peaceinthemiddleeast

Jacob