impressions from the Slovenia premiere

it was quite the party ....

see for yourself how Tadej, Domen and myself celebrated ELEKTRO - style in Tadej's hometown Maribor (Slovenia) on Oct 24th, 09...

my favorite shot of the night !!!

Booty Call's Johnny Flash spinning record with the "help" of the Tadej

"Did I push any buttons last night??"

Booty Call Soundsystem's DerYon and JohnnyFlash with Tadej and Vera

Tadej V and Vera J

Domen Bizjak and Tadej feeling ELEKTRO

Vera and Domen - party !!!
huge screen, massive crowd

Behind the scenes of our second private shoot at Grouse Mountain

Here is a video link to our behind the scenes footage of our second private shoot at Grouse Mountain

Riders in attendance were Chris Rasman, Matt Belzile, JF Fortin, Craig Beaulieu, Tadej Valentan, Chris Dufficy, Johnny Lyall, Wiley Tesso, Barry Hartman, Beau Bishop, Eero Niemla and Mikey Rencz.

Go see the video here...

A young Slovenian's dream...

Tadej like Benji is now heading back to his motherland of Slovenia so we took him out for one last chance at fulfilling his longtime dream of catching, killing and devouring B.C.'s finest.

tadej's qoute of the day 

"in your face Benji":)

Studio time

We will be shooting our rider intros and a few other elements of our upcoming film ELEKTRO in this studio over the next few days.

Another behind the scenes web video plus behind the scenes photos will be released shortly .

Spring Grouse Shoot Day 2...

Day two of our Grouse Session started a bit slow with everyone pretty beat up from yesterdays jump session.  After numerous coffees and a few Bob Marley tracks we got down to business once again.

Tadej Valentan landed a pretty amazing trick off this rail, what was even more amazing was how flat he landed.

Next blog coming to you from Europe...

Spring Grouse Shoot Day 1...

Day one of our Spring Session at Grouse Mountain turned out to be another amazing experience.  We almost had our entire crew out for this session plus a ton of friends that we invited to join this stress free super fun session.  Some of the other invitees were Mikey Rencz, Eero Niemela, Wiley T, Beau Bishop, Barry Hartman even currently injured Chris Dufficy joined us for some good times.

Thanks again to Jeff Silcock, Chuck @ PYP and the entire Grouse Staff  in helping make this years session another great success.

Big shout out to Phil Tifo for providing us with some behind the scenes photos.

Powder in April !?

Look at all this snow we've been getting in the Whistler backcountry, and it's almost the FIRST of April!!! NO - this is NOT an april fools joke. So here's some pics to prove it!

Rob

A night on the town (Ljubljana)

Tadej's friends host a party.
Several drinks.
Gaetan kisses hands.
Police and bikes.
Dirty Euro Elektro techno.
Underground.

First day on the hill in Vogel, Slovenia

We had our first day on the hill in Slovenia at the Voegel Resort, it was a bluebyrd day and the the conditions were pretty sketchy. Greener got into a pretty scary situation when he tried a fs 360 off a jump that had the adriatic sea as the backdrop. He triggered a 2 foot deep slab and a 150 foot wide slide that took him 200 meters down the slope and almost covered him. Rasman and Gaetan were on the scene immediately but luckily Greener got out just fine. The film shot will definetely be worth waiting for.

With the avalanche danger lowering a bit we can now ride the resort at Kanin that has a meter and a half of fresh pow.

Three countries in one day...

After driving through Austria and Italy we have finally arrived at our first stop Kanin, Slovenia. We had to stay at a Bed and Breakfast last night at the Slovenian border because there was a snowstorm. Locals were claiming 6 to 10 meters of snow in the passes.

It has been dumping here and the mountains have been closed for a few days. Tomorrow will be the first time they open after a meter and a half of fresh Pow.

Our crew consisting of Tadej Valentan, Gaetan Chanut, Chris Rasman, Eric Greene and Phil Tifo are super jet lagged but ready for our first day on the mountain tomorrow.

This trip will be a feature story in an upcoming issue of Snowboard Canada so stayed tune for more Slovenian updates