Boarding School

Burton "Boarding School" event back in Vermont.   Burton Flew in 70 Shop Staff from around North America for a couple days at the Headquarters,  and also to experience Jake's Fall Bash.   It was amazing to see people who have never been to Burton completely trip out on what was going on in Burlington Vermont,   From Talking to product people ,  getting a Tour of "Craigs" with Todd K and seeing boards get made, to bumping into Terje or Jake in the Hallway,  Its just all started to make sense to these Shop Staff that Burton is the Real Deal.   Kudos to all the Employees at Burton who made it an incredible experience to all who attended.

Billy Anderson is in the House

Todd K about to start the tour into Craigs 

Todd K talking about History

Boarding School 

Thunder laying up a Board

Bag Packing Games 

Gotta Challenge the Shop Staff with what they can eat 

More Games with Bags 

Alex Andrews in 5th Gear always 

Benny From Milo with a solo session in the Burton Bowl 

Doyles Man Cave

Doyle the Mad Scientist 

Hot Dogs and Handrails

I Had the pleasure of Judging the Hot Dogs and Handrails event at Bear Mountain.   JP walker, Scott Stevens, Joe Sexton, Chris Bradshaw and myself got to watch some amazing young shredders destroy the 10th annual course that Bear Mt setup.  I was expecting to see a bunch of flips onto rails and stuff like that, but what I saw was some serious tech snowboarding on rails.  Tommy Gesme won with some really solid rail riding.  There was a huge crowd that turned out to get the Season started.

Snowing in Big Bear Ca, Sept 21

Tech jibbers, JP and Bradshaw

People 

winners

Denver

My trip to "the Block" event in Denver.  Its a big Kickoff of the snowboarding season in Colorado,  Lots of shredders get together for Music and all the snowboard movies.  I was lucky enough to roll around with Jeremy Jones, Jussi, and Mikey Rencz for a couple days.   We also sat in on the Satellite Clinic and got to talk snowboarding with the crew.

rolling with the homies 

stoked 

Jussi and Rencz like the name of this shop a lot :-) 

Satellite Clinic 

Satellite New and improved 

old binding stuff at Satellite 

the boys in Satellite 

Satellite Posse 

Chad O is a legend 

bros with George Carpenter 

getting their sign on 

packed house 

Alberta, kicking off the season

I went up to Alberta , Canada for some Snowboard clinics with the Crew up there.  Such a Beautiful area un near Banff, we did a clinic outside for Unlimited that was amazing.  I love talking about snowboards and the Sport, but it makes me so amped to ride.   Winter is coming quick.

Roadside Tussle

Corrigan mixing up some Pancakes

Mellow spot for Unlimited Clinic 

outdoor clinics rule 

Unlimited crew 

Easy Rider warehouse Clinic 

Garage Project

Rob Machado is shaping surfboards.  He has always been really good with art and doing things with his hands.  Al Merrick has also been a huge influence on Rob and how he looks at Surfboards.  Now Rob is doing a project with Channel Islands Called the Garage Project.  Its basically a place where Rob can shape surfboards that come out of his Brain.   He can take a older Model that he used to ride and tweak it and make things new again.  Also He can put Art and Photos on the boards and make them Unique.   These are photos from his Launch party in Santa Barbara CI Store.

Roots 

some of Robs Creations 

Crowd on hand 

Stoked Grom 

Al and Rob 

Al and Rob making people happy 

Todd Glaser photos of Rob 

Photos of Rob 

Style Master 

Oceanside North Jetty demo

Oceanside North jetty Demo for Channel Islands surfboards went off.  Packed Beach and overhead waves on a Saturday Morning in June.   A lot of people drooling over the boards and stoked to ride some of the new Models.

Kids lined up at 9 am sharp 

Ronnie passing out a freshie 

Wax 

Frothing 

Amped Kids 

Amped Adults