Judging at the Junior Nationals

The Freeski and Snowboard Junior Nationals are on right now at Cardrona and I was lucky enough to be involved as one of the judges for the older age groups in the snowboard slopestyle. We had three age groups to judge: 12-14, 14-16 and 16-18, both male and female. The...

Powder Detours at Asahidake

Here’s a fun stop-motion edit from one of the trips I was guiding in January this year with Powder Detours to Asahidake – one of my favourite spots in the whole of Japan. Stop-motion edits are super-easy to put together. All you need is a decent DSLR...

Back Guiding in Japan

Every year I make the winter migration back north for a period of time, for some guiding in Japan. Unlike most winter migrations this one follows the snow. Based in Niseko for a few months of guiding and coaching, my short powder-filled winter here is a hard thing not...

SBINZ Instructors Manual goes online

Last year I worked on a collaborative project re-writing and expanding the SBINZ Instructors Manual for Snowboard Instruction New Zealand (the snowboard division of the NZSIA). My role here involved writing numerous sections, photography, image editing and diagram...

Making the most of things

Rough start to the season this year in NZ! Driving up to Snowpark for my first riding day of the season was surreal. It felt like I was actually heading up to shuttle the Snowpark road on mountain bikes. But we had boards not bikes. Here’s a quick post on...

Article from the Toyota Big Air

Last Saturday was the 15th annual Toyota Big Air in Sapporo, Japan. Myself and videographer Sam Lynch scored a few press passes for the event, and managed to squeeze it in on the last night of our Hokkaido road trip. Here’s the article I wrote about the event on...