Long time

First off, the lap top was down and not working so that is why I haven't updated with anything lately. I will be posting photos and stuff on here from the NZ season and will be regularly doing it this Northern Hemisphere season. The season was fun but had some rough moments. I chipped a bone in my left ankle and took a bit of time to recover from. We had some good road trips and good slushy spring days. Check bag soon and regularly from now on.

Much love, Jordan

Winter Games and what not

Here are a few photos from some photo shoots and some comps. The first few photos was a rail comp early July up at Coronet Peak. We are having the 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games here. It's the biggest winter sporting event outside the Olympics. So I through a few photos in from the Slopestyle at The Remarkables. I ended up taking 4th place. The Big Air is coming up at Coronet Peak on Sunday. The last few days the weather hasn't been the greatest so I have had a few days off. Last week was really good though and hopefully starting Sunday it's supposed to get good. Check out Australia New Zealand Snowboarding for some photos of mine in the July Issue. I did compete in the New Zealand Open and was in the Semi-Finals but didn't get through to the finals. It was a very good comp and some video games stuff went down in the Finals. It was pretty cool to be involved in the heaviest Slopestyle comp anywhere ever. I'm looking forward to the rest of the season and hopefully we will get tons of photos and footage done. Continue to check out Diaries Down Under the webisode series on multiply sites; twsnow.com and nzsnowboard.com are the best ones. Here's the latest one http://snowboarding.transworld.net/2009/08/14/diaries-down-under-coronet-peak/

I hope all is well and good. Enjoy the photos!!!


Switch back 1 over the wall ride

Method off the wall ride

Front 270 switch front board

I got first place

I was trying a switch 5-0 but didn't really happen. But I do like the colors in this photo.

This was on the front page of the section of the Newspaper for the Winter Festival down here in Queenstown. It's 50-50 back 1

Winter Games First Jump - Cab 9 Indy

Winter Games Front 7 Indy over the barrels

Winter Games Back 7 stale over the last/3rd jump

What a POST!

The captions are all are all switched up but I got to let one of our flatmates use the Internet with the cable. We only have one cable right now and our wireless is not working. Much much love.

It's been a super busy and fun season so far and August is just around the corner. Which means comps and lots of good stuff going on. The parks are good and it's even snowing at the moment. So at least to say it's ON! Here's a bunch of photos that have been taken throughout the year.



Some of the crew setting up for a photo shoot at night at Remarks. Check out the footage on episode 1 of Diaries Down Under at vimeo.com or twsnow.com

An epic view of Remarks from right in the center of town.

Tail Manual at the skate park

Rock n Roll backside 1 out for Hyne (that is not me)

Everyone keeps saying Hyne and I look like brothers and some people are shocked when they find out one of my best men was not my brother.

We had a preseason session up at Coronet Peak and it was super fun day. Jeremy Thorns took some photos that were used in Australia and New Zealand Snowboarding. Jimmy Edward took these photos.

Front 3 Indy nose tap

Hyne with a Stalefish with a mean tweak

Hyne with a tweak and me with a frontside handplant

A sick view coming down the mountain from Remarks looking over to Coronet Peak


the Remarkables from the edge of town heading out of town from where I lived last year.

The Remarkables from Coronet Peak

Fun fun times down here. Keep checking out the action with Diaries Down Under on twsnow and back year. Thanks for your love and support.

First Day of NZ season May 14th!!!

So one hemisphere to the other. We have been getting rain here in Queenstown and mostly snow in the mountains. One of the sister resorts Mt. Hutt is opening on May 28th. We went and had a play up at the Remarkables which was heaps of fun. Hopefully we will be going back up these next upcoming days. Hopefully build a jump if there is enough snow. I'm so excited for this upcoming season. New Zealand is supposed to have one of the best years for snow. So all we can do is hope and pray.

The view from where we were hiking

Frontside handplant

Switch Nose slide

Switch Frontboard

Nosepress

Me in the parking lot at the Remarks

Nick and Me




I love it here in New Zealand so much. It is so beautiful and peaceful here. I'm just been hanging out with my new bride and be waiting for the season to start. I'm trying to stay busy playing tennis and working out. We have a lot of big things planned for the year so hopefully everything works out.

End of Season

So lately I have been staying home and riding Park City mostly. I have got a few days in at The Canyons and Snowbird. It's been way fun everywhere with all the snow and fun parks to ride. I have been taking photos and getting a few things done. I can't use some of them but they are on my profile on facebook. Go check them out because some of them are the best ones I got of the year. These photos were taken by Tannar Mills or Marcus Patterson. I have been filming with Parker Cross for Wasatch the Official Production Podcast and it's been way fun. Go peep it out on itunes, vimeo, youtube, snowboardmill, or http://crossroadstudios.com So you can for sure check out all the footage.
Tannar, Me, and Jade

Me filming Parker - Double Duty

Switch Wildcat

Back 7 Indy

Front 5 truckdriver - I wonder what board I ride.

Cab 5 nose

Back tail blunt

Back 1 Indy

Back 1 Indy later

More Photos and Videos to check out

We went and rode Sierra and Tahoe area in January. The first three photos are by Jorik Blom. We went to this burnt forest and played around.
Switch Gorilla

Another Switch Gorilla

This is a lift shack that we used for a wall ride. Thanks JP and all the people from First Tracks and Sierra grooming and Park Crew.
Back 1 in - half cab out

We went on a big ol road trip back to Sierra, then Mt. Bachelor, and to finish things off Grand Targee. It was lots of driving but loads of fun. Parker Cross took these photos.
Indy

Mt. Bachelor in the background

Lake Tahoe in the background


You can check out some footage at the following links.
http://vimeo.com/3486415
http://vimeo.com/3770045

Hope you all enjoy. Thanks for stopping by.

Pow

Here are some photos from riding some deep snow here in Utah. It was a super good day. The photos are from Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Such a deep snow day. They just opened a new area outside the gates at Snowbird.

A little air in between some tress.

Half cab stalefish (switch melon) on a Flagstaff cliff

Front 5 Indy

Some more pow to slash through

Front 3 Indy. As you can see I don't have my goggles over my eyes. It was so hot and sweaty. My goggles kept fogging up. I couldn't really spot my landing it was all by feel. Worse than a flat light day.

Here is a link to the footage of the photos. http://www.vimeo.com/3249407
I did hurt my knee while I was in Colorado but now it feels way better. It was a good thing that we had so much snow to ride to take it easy on my knee. We are going on a few trips and should be getting a lot of stuff; if everything works out all right. This is the best part of this coming up. We are in the flow of everything and there is tons of season left with great conditions.

Sorry about the post below. The captions are on the wrong photos.

Finally some new Photos

I have doing tons of traveling this year and it's been crazy. Here are some photos when I went to Aspen for the Aspen Open. We only took a few photos which bums me out because it was way fun except that me and Browner both got hurt. It was fun seeing our friend Karl and going to Colorado.
Nick and Me

Switch back board on the kink

Nosepress with Browner doing a tail block

Frontside 5 Truckdriver

Backside 1 Melon

We should be going back to Aspen sometime in March. There is a super good scene there and they have 4 mountains to ride. The Aspen Open was on the X-Games course and it was Stunt man's course. So the people that threw down in both comps, mad respect and props.
This past week of snowboarding was the best of the season and there should be some really good footage and photos coming in the mean time you can check out these links;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAU-lhxa7hY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40MeidSQ7hQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItCO9DvlAjM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpAaET3A2B8&feature=related
Thanks for stopping by. Let me know what you think.