JAPAN GRABS - Hakuba Blog 2013 / 2014
i know but if i dont have the lens for the right weather then you are screwed..
i dont f$cken know i just want to waist some money.. fuck dyldo why do yo have to be like that for.
Didn’t Marc discuss lenses earlier int his thread?
Didn’t Marc discuss lenses earlier int his thread?
I dont know Kim did he ?
please tell me did he ?
He did 100% positive, but i don’t need the info! Go look yourself.
Pretty sure it was in this thread.
You are going to need a yellow lens mot likely. DO IT
what make are your goggles?
You know though, there isn’t that much difference between pink and yellow.
I have pink ionized in my dragons, a gold mirror baker lens in my airblasters and a gold mirror in my anons. They all work.
oh and last weekend Nozawa got between 60 and 70cm of new snow in one storm. “It was pretty epic” was what a friend said.
what make are your goggles?
You know though, there isn’t that much difference between pink and yellow.
I have pink ionized in my dragons, a gold mirror baker lens in my airblasters and a gold mirror in my anons. They all work.oh and last weekend Nozawa got between 60 and 70cm of new snow in one storm. “It was pretty epic” was what a friend said.
i got anon m2 goggles, ?
yeah deano i was thinking of getting yellow just wanted to get ppls feedback what they though would be the best.
just had a look at the available anon m2 lenses, and yeah, yellow looks good for storm days. But the rose you have would be fine too. You could take that money and spend it on something else? Are you sorted for socks, for example? The BW socks will keep your feet happy all day (got a review coming up)
The Boardworld Socks are the best!!!!!
Thanks Marc yeah I hot about 4 or 5 pairs
ok, someone embed this. This is Almo Film’s new project called No One Knows. First episode is from Austria and has Bode Merrill in it.
For anyone who’s in Hakuba on January 28th, this would be a good event to attend. Only 1000yen and you get a curry dinner, while listening to an avalanche rescue presentation. Sounds like a good way to get educated and meet like-minded people in the process. Tickets are limited so buy them quickly.
Starts at 7pm.
1000, with a free curry?????
Only in Japan!!!!!
At Happo, in the Sakka area (looker’s rightside of the ski resort)
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ALMO Film
https://www.facebook.com/AlmoFilm
At the end of my last day at Norikura, I got a call from Nick, the owner of the Hakuba Powder Lodge, asking me if I was interested in showing around some French pro snowboarders, who were “pretty good”. After coaxing a somewhat intelligible pronunciation of their names out of him, I was impressed.
The three riders were:
Mathieu Crepel (Quiksilver, Gnu, Sosh, Blue Tomato, Moskova)
Morgan Le Faucheur (Salomon, Bonfire, Nixon, Smith, DVS)
Sylvain Bourbousson (Billabong, Salomon, Nixon, Da Kine)
You might recognize Bourbousson from being an Absinthe Films regular for many years and Crepel from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, when he sported this awesome, ‘faux ‘stache”
The first thing I asked Mathieu was if he really rode an actual park pickle in the Olympic halfpipe, or if it was a cambered board with alternate graphics. He was surprised by the question, but yes, he said, it was a regular park pickle.
Anyways, with my random irrelevant board tech questions out of the way, over the course of 4 days, I had a chance to hang out with the crew, and help them get their jobs done.
That first night I met them, they were a little stressed. Their plan to get a rental car had hit a snafu and since it was the New Year’s holiday, they couldn’t get it straightened out until the 6th of January. They were here in Japan to film for their production company called ALMO Film and couldn’t afford to be wasting days. Riding resorts is all good and fun, but for them to get some stoke-inducing footage, they really needed to be mobile to go find spots with serious gnar.
This is where I came in. I had hurt my knee a couple days before, and it had been getting worse so I figured I wasn’t going to be missing anything if I took them around. It was fun using my rusty French, and their banter was friggin’ hilarious. You can tell they’ve been together a long time and just really gel.
So, the first day, we got up early and headed to a well-known area famous for roadside hits. It was interesting to see the level these guys are at. At first I would point out drops that were bigger than what I could do, but they would just shake their heads and say, “too small”. Then, I started pointing out video game-sized drops and they would get excited and we’d stop the car and go check it out.
After checking out a number of spots, they settled on a big gap to wallride off a covered road.
if you look closely, you can see Morgan in the air, and Jerome on the right, at the base of the wall, getting the shot.
We started preparing the in run and kicker, but after 10 minutes we noticed a Japanese guy who had stopped his car and was watching us. I went up to talk to him, expecting to have a ‘situation’, but he just wanted to know when they’d be doing the jumps. We told him to come back in an hour and a half, and he went off happily to tell his friends.
So, after shaping for two hours, the boys played rock-paper-scissors to see who would drop in first. Crepel lost and so, won the honours.
The filmer, the photographer and I all got ready, and after the “trois, deux, un!” countdown, Mathieu flew through the air and hit the wall with a huge scraping noise, like a crane knocking down a wall. That’s when I looked closely at the wall and saw that it wasn’t smooth at all - it was made of roughly cut rocks! After each jump, they would take out a pen knife and dig out bits of stone from their bases, and smoothen out the gouges.
Sylvain landed his first jump but nearly went off the other side of the road!
I really want to show you guys the better shots I got, but unfortunately I can’t. It wouldn’t be fair to their photographer but I’ll show you what I can without giving much away. Speaking of which, the photographer was Jerome Tanon. Check out all of his covers!:
http://www.jerometanon.com/covers.html
and a short interview here:
http://fstopgear.com/staffpro/jerome-tanon
and some more shots from the day:
Morgan, on the right, stomps it and surveys the scene
After the wall ride, Bourbousson jumped off the top of that tunnel and ..... splash!
Crepel stomps the drop and rides it out on next year’s Rider’s Choice
Round 2 for Bourbousson off the top of the tunnel
Looking down at the crew from the top of the tunnel.
It was funny to see Ralph Backstrom putting this pic up a week later
http://instagram.com/p/jB7j4nuOrc/