7 Skateparks, 4 Skateboarders, One Day

4 skateboarders skated 7 skateparks in one long push. The day started by a drive from Santa Cruz to Sunnyvale skatepark where we met an old friend "Nate Linford". After one hour or so, the crew moved to Lake Cunningham in San Jose. That place is big for sure.
Next was Ben Lomond (Felton), Scotts Valley, Derby park (Santa Cruz), Live Oaks (Santa Cruz) and Mike Fox (Santa Cruz).
We met a few strong skateboards during the trip, Nate and Ford at Sunnyvale, Bill at San Jose, Blake at Ben Lomond and Alex at Sunnyvale.

We initially planned to skate 3 more skateparks but instead we choose to drive less and skate more :)

The video was shot with the Sony FX7, edited with FCP.

Music from Klaxons, song "The two receivers".

Nate Skateboarding Sunnyvale

Nate Linford is showing some of his tricks at Sunnyvale skatepark.

The video was shot and edited with iMovie on an iPhone 4.

Nate Skateboarding Sunnyvale

Nate Linford is showing some of his tricks at Sunnyvale skatepark.

The video was shot and edited with iMovie on an iPhone 4.

Santa Cruz Mike Fox Skatepark

Moke, Isaiah and Benoit all share the same hobby, snowboarding. So it was natural that they met together during the summer at Santa Cruz for some skateboarding.

Mike Fox skatepark has a 2 very large pools and a street section.

Since they had so much fun, they decided that they all will get back together during the summer and skate 10 skateparks around Santa Cruz. The video is coming soon.

The movie was shot with an iPhone 4 and edited with FCP and Color.

Music from Hotel Costes 5, song "Doo Uap, Doo Uap, Doo Uap".

Bear Valley Back Country Ski/Snowboard Trip

The 2009/2010 ski season came finally to an end late May with the last trip to Bear Valley. We started the weekend by getting the equipments (snow shoes, beacons...) to MAS at Bear Valley Village.
On Sunday not so early morning, we hiked up Super Cub, Spring Gap to the top of Porridge bowl, where the kids warmed up on the cornice.

We then, dropped Cliff Run to reach Mickey's meadow.

Since the snow was getting too wet on that side of the mountain, we made some fun runs from the top of Snoopy Dog hill.

The video was shot with an iPod nano and edited with Final Cup Pro. Enjoy.

Music from The National, Song England.

Santa Cruz Breakers U9 Soccer Tryout

Santa Cruz Soccer Tryout were held some time in January.

Lucas has been playing soccer for a few years in the recreational level and was ready to step up his game.

The coaches started the tryout with a series of stretching moves, continued with 1v1 games and finished with 5v5.

Coaches:
Mike Arzabal
Raul Olvera
Paolo Carbone

Music:
Song Panier Su La Tête, Ni Chanté, Artist Alain Péters

Bear Valley Rail Jam 2010 - The Video

Bear Valley hold their third rail jam contest April 10. The park was setup just in front of the Sun room. It was composed of one hand rail, one canon box, one C box and one tap tank.

Benoit Rouchy won the snowboard under 15 category. He was the defending champion. He was challenged by Moke Taylor who won the best trick of the day with a 360 nose tap.

James Young won the ski under 15 category. Sean Finnegan won the ski 16 and above.

Thomas Costa won the snowboard 16 and above. Kevin Warren the defending champion decided to judge the contest this year.

Jessica Lawrence won the women snowboard category.

Music by the Sonic Youth, song "Ca plane pour moi", a remix of the original song by Plastic Bertrand released in 1977.

Bear Valley Rail Jam 2010

Bear Valley hold their third rail jam contest April 10. The park was setup just in front of the Sun room. It was composed of one hand rail, one canon box, one C box and one tap tank.

Benoit Rouchy won the snowboard under 15 category. He was the defending champion. He was challenged by Moke Taylor who won the best trick of the day with a 360 nose tap.

James Young won the ski under 15 category. Sean Finnegan won the ski 16 and above.

Thomas Costa won the snowboard 16 and above. Kevin Warren the defending champion decided to judge the contest this year.

Jessica Lawrence won the women snowboard category.

Travis Jeitz

Jackson Heath

Lucas Rouchy

Tyler Doyle

Mathieu Lavoie

Chris Johnson

Sean Finnegan

Benoit Rouchy

Chris Johnson

Ziggy Sonner Dower

Katie Cushman

Jackson Head

James Young

Katie Cushman

Kirkwood Spring Session

Kirkwood was your destination today. Benoit and Lucas checked out the parks. Overall, we had a great day but the half pipe looked quite small and weak.

Benoit FS board slide

Lucas 50-50 the dinosaur

Benoit FS air

Lucas plain air

Benoit tapping the huge tire