Yeah yeah, i know the name makes no sense, i thought it sounded catchy! Well people its officially come to an end. the 2006-2007 season has come to an end. This has probably been the most eventful season of my life. Ive now finished my 9th season of snowboarding, and I hate to say it, but for a kid who has been riding as long as me, I suck! I just now got 540s. At the beginning of the season I couldnt even 360. That may have been due to bad gear but who knows. I think a small recap is in need. Half way through the season on a beutiful day at Cypress Mountain, my Rossignol Sly gets destroyed by a screw sticking out of a box. I get that board replaced by a brand spanking new 2007 Forum Youngblood! My season, and my freestyle ability, was finally able to truly begin. Never before had I been able to have a park experience quite like it! By the time I had gotten used to the new board, I was pulling 3s like a new born craps itself. I also received a new set of boots this season, Thirtytwo Lashed, which at first caused some issues but have now become a dream! And just recently, last weekend, I finally received my new bindings. After much debate I decided on Rome 390s! I spent all sunday rippin on em and they feel great! But what this post was really about was to sum up my last two weekends of the season, so here goes
About a month ago now I guess my friend from Buffalo, New York, was here for a week. I was able to meet up with him for two days on Whistler and that was the day I pulled my first 720, landed it too, though Im not going to lie, the whole thing was a total mistake, I only wanted to do a 540, but overrotated and decided to pull it around for a 7, sloppy landing too.
Last weekend may have been one of the best all season! Spending Saturday with Ryan, MLJ, and Midge we decided to build a kicker in 7th Heaven which sadly didnt go over as well as we had hoped. We spent that afternoon sessioning park and it was ok. Sunday was really where it was at. I basically had a personal photo shoot to myself all day. I had a friend of mine follow me around with my SLR cam. We shot over 500+ picture on the weekend, I put a few of them up her on sb.com. I also used the Sunday to break in my new 390s. Highlights of the day were definately pulling some slow spun 3s on the tables and a 3 on the small step up, which is my current display pic here on sb.com. Also deciding that going for a 720 on the step up was a good idea. I
had three attempts and didnt land one. Spun the 720 2 out of 3 times
but never landed one. The first time lead to a huge humiliation in
front of Robjn Taylor the crapneto rider.
Im glad to have finished this season with only minor bruises and one recuring rugby injury. Anyway, that sums up my season. i will hopefully be doing a 3 day camp with Whistler Valley Snowboard Club in June or July at one of the camps at the Blackcomb Glacier. have a good summer and hope you all had a great season
Peace!
Jared Braverman
