Slingblog Update: Fall Season in Hatteras

Just posted an update on the Slingshot team blog with a few pics from this fall's sessions in Hatteras.

Slingblog: Fall Season in Hatteras

LTR Ontario Part 1

New video from Chuck at LTR just dropped. Footage from the Sauble Kite Jam with me, Medysky, and BCS. Look for part two to drop next week.

Lance Koudele: Behind the Shot

Getting good shots is harder than you think. Read what Lance Koudele had to say about the shooting of our recent Dakine ad in his blog on lancekoudele.com.

Lake Huron

Canada is one of my favorite countries in the World. I hoped on a plane to Buffalo, Ny where I met up with fellow Dakine Team rider Sam Medysky. After boarder patrol stripped our car clean we where off to Sam's summer cottage near Sauble Beach on Lake Huron. Sam's place is sick, right on the beach, waist high kickers, and a trampoline in the back yard.
After a few good days of riding we hit up Sauble Beach for the 1st annual Sauble Kite Jam, put on by Sam's school Kiterider. The first day of competition kicked off with a slider jam behind a jet ski. We were split into 3 heats with the top 2 advancing to the 6 man final. We each got one warm up lap and three that counted per heat. In the end it came down to me and fellow Real Team Rider Brandon Scheid in a tie breaker heat where he was able to edge me out, leaving me with 2nd place. BCS cleaned up in 3rd completing the Real Team's sweep of the event.



After the event Sam and I took the up box to Oliphant and set it up in ankle deep water with a barrel bonk on a ladder. Definitely one of the most fun features I have ever hit.

Hurricane Sessions

Hurricane Earl rolled through the Outer Banks and set up a perfect little Urban Wake Park.

Swamp Shreddin

After the Hood Jam I headed back to Hatteras Island to continue coaching at Real Watersports. Turns out while I was away the wind was cranking so as soon as I arrived it was straight to the water. It's a weird feeling riding on the west coast one day and the east coast the next. My hommie Chuck from LifEthereal came out for a couple sessions and shot some pics and video.







Once the wind died out it really died, haven't kited in a few weeks now. Good thing we have jet skis and sliders. I've been getting a little bored with the features we have so I decided to spice things up a bit. So I threw a barrel into the mix and used the kicker to make better use of the wall ride.

Back in the Hood

Once everyone cleared out after SSS I was able to get back to focusing on this years video projects. This year some hommies and I decided to come together and form a North American, mixed brand, filming crew called the NA Blend. Malsen and Medysky mobbed out to throw down with Scheid and me in Hatteras, while Ben Paillard came out from France to shoot for the next issue of Stance DVD Magazine. My boy Jamy D also swung through to catch a few more shots for a segment we've been shooting for a while now.

After a week in Hatteras we flew out to Hood River for the Ro-Sham-Throwdown Slider Jam and to do some shooting. Parker rolled into town from Florida with a fat slider on the roof and a winch on the tow hitch. Mad sessions went down and the event was sick.


Check out some teasers we have so far: