Snowstorms, keep em coming

We have been have snowstorm after snowstorm in Western Newfoundland and it's making for some pretty sick creations. I've already raiding a local building in progress and got a deece pallet out of it. I really need to get around to skate some street stuff cause there is a ton of rails where I'm living at.

I also have an Icon TrueConcave kit, Xtreme Grip and the rub on wax that Icon sells in their online store waiting for me at the post office that I have to pick up on monday. I'm gonna do a post just kinda reviewing them and comparing what it like skating these new toys. Stay tuned

David Engerer -Super Slow Stair Sesh

Pretty sick when you can analyze body movement and board physics in a video.

Optimist Snowskate Demo Today!

Seriously, if you are lucky enough to be able to get to this, you owe it to these guys to drop out and show support! I just wish it didn't take a 6 hour ferry ride and 20 hours driving after that for me to hit that snowskate park.

Ambition's Turn: GSSD 2011

What did I just witness? Hot damn

GSSD in Lysva

These guys look like they had a lot of fun making this video, had to post it.

Icon "Go Snowskating Day" Edit

The Icon guys really are getting technical. The "helpin' out" trick was worth pointing out!

Ambition up north!

Ambition just dropped this new edit and I gotta say it looks so awesome. Snowskating has great filmers gracing the sport.

Icon's Midwestern Loggin' Extravaganza

If you didn't know already Icon has been on their creatively named Midwest tour and giving updates on their site. From what I can see the guys are really pushing it this season and I'm so stoked to see what the outcome is.

Ambition Detroit Roadtrip

Detroit Team Trip 2010 from Ambition Snowskates on Vimeo.

The clips from skate park are nutty as hell and that last handrail looks like a death wish. Ambition guys never disappoint.

Working with what I got

I should really give a rundown of my situation so you can follow this post easily, so here I go!

First of all, I am from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada but I am currently living on the other side of the Province in a small town called Stephenville for college (Film and VIdeo Production). Now, I only really got my own first real snowskate this Christmas while I was home in St. Johns but it only took a few box sessions with a few other skaters to get me finally coming outside at winter.

All goods things end and Christmas came and went, along with some great set ups we built back home and I realized a few days before I started the journey back to Stephenville that I don't really own anything to make any boxes or obstacles to snowskate on. I figured I have to drive around this little town and see what wood is laying around that I could load in my trunk quickly and drive off. After twenty minutes or so of driving I found a few pieces of plywood and some 2/4's, enough to prop it up enough to call it a grindbox.

I set it up right after this little hill in my backyard and started progressing really fast, skating it as often as I can, chasing the short daylight or getting too tired to move. I live in an area with a large younger population, I would say 90% of them are under 13. I thought they would be annoying or they might destroy what you have built like city kids do but it turns out they're on my side! They were festinated with my "snowboard without the straps" and vowed to watch over the box and make sure nobody trashes it.

I would be skating it right now if it wasn't for this damn neck brace. You will always get hurt on the small, dumb things rather then the things you could brag about. I didn't even hurt my neck snowskating, I tried to jump onto a pic-nic table and slide across it with my skate shoes, something I have done a million times. There was a fair bit of frozen snow on the top of it and when I went for the slide, I just stopped and my neck whipped forward so here I am looking at my awesome ghetto, homemade setup that I won't be able to touch all weekend.

Ambition Snowskates DVD "Full Color"

True Color from Ambition Snowskates on Vimeo.

It's been online for a while now, but I had to peep it. These guys are still among the best snowskating has to offer right now! Creative street spots, rails that shouldn't be done and the great filming and editing is such a treat.