Impossible Rail Jam - Shanty Creek

Spencer competed in the first official USASA Huck Finn competition of the season this past weekend.  He took home 3 gold medals in Slopestyle, Halfpipe, and Boardercross.  It was a great time.

Spencer also competed in the Impossible Rail Jam.  One of the features was a picnic table on top of a tool shed.  There was some snow built up on each side of the shed.  Spencer wanted to hit it, and he did.  Below is a video of him hitting it.

Also, here is another video with some more clips from the rail jam.  Spencer also was able to ride in the snow cat while they built the course.

USASA Coach Certification

Well this weekend I am going for my USASA Coaching 100 Certification. This will allow me to be an officially registered coach within the USASA organization so I can continue coaching my son and any other kids that compete. I am looking forward to this.

Cool Dad

Good Start to Winter Season

Hi all. I hope everyone has had a great New Year. It has been a great fall and winter. I was sick for a while in Sept and Oct, but am finally over that now. Now I just want to start snowboarding as much as possible. Halloween was fun. My daughter was Bat Girl and my son was an Ugly Doll :-) My wife and I made the costume for him. LOL.

Over the last couple months I have had to travel to Korea (week before Thanksgiving) and U.K. (London and Edinburgh, first 2 weeks of Dec) for business, but still managed to fit in some snowboard between trips. The trip to London was great. Saw the changing of the guard and did some shopping. You can see some pictures I took: Album 1 and Album 2

It has been a good start to the snowboard season. My son is practicing for the big competitions that will be starting in a week. And my daughter and wife have decided to join us in this great sport. My daughter is 3 and is already starting to snowboard. She is doing awesome and is moving to the chairlift now. Below is some video of her. She is now able to do turns so I will have to take some more video to show off that.

My wife is also coming along great. After a couple times she is able to make it down the hill on her own. This is so cool.

Happy New Year to all and I hope 2009 is full of fun. See you all on the slopes.

Cool Dad