Hey nar shredders. Michael here.
First order of biz is to give a hearty congrats to the bear cub for his doings in Russia. Nice work AJ, makin all us proud! Same goes out to all the other competitors, cant wait to see some photos and vids from that event.
So, as the mountainboard season comes to an end, so does the work of the onefive camera department. All that crunk footie we shot this year will now be sent into the editing room to grow and mature into a proper motion picture. This task of course rests largely on the broad shoulders of the esteemed Justin Dersham. You’ll have to ask him how that’s going because, frankly, I don’t really know, I’m in Africa.
That’s right, I’ve been kickin it oldie in Kenya for the last couple months, exploring the terrain, peepin some animals and chillin with the locals. When not climbing Mount Kenya or chasing lions across the Serengeti, I spend most of my days here in a leisurely way; browsing the markets, enjoying frequent tea breaks or conversing with new friends long into the night. The convo’s had here are slightly different as, sadly, few Africans have ever heard of mountainboarding.
Mb’in may not have much of a presence in Africa today (North of JoBurg that is, I know there’s rippers in South Africa) it certainly could in the future. Last week I traveled to a little country called Uganda. If there is anywhere that’s ready for this sport, its here, particularly a small town called Jinja on the shores of Lake Victoria. Jinja has long been known as the adventure capital of Africa offering world class white water rafting (BAUDASS!) bungee jumping and mountain biking.
One day, while taking a mountain ride through the rainforest with my new friend and local Ugandan, Nash, I made the comment, “This is an awesome ride Nash, but sometimes I feel like I should just be shralpin this niz on four wheels, you know?” He had no idea what I was talking about, BUT he was interested. I explained to him that with the short work of some dedicated diggers he could have some fine jumps in the rainforest, and that it might be fun to strap some boards to our feet and go sideways these beautiful hills. I spent the rest of the day in wonder of both the scenery and the endless dirt riding possibilities it held. Apparently there are some dirt jumps set up a ways outside of town, but I never made it out there to check them out. Next time..
Also, I mentioned rafting earlier. If you ever find yourself in Uganda, raft the Nile! Its insane!
Anyway, Africa is awesome, alliteration is awesome, and traveling here is one of the best things I’ve ever done. Mountainboarding, snowboarding, skating, its all about exploration, trying new things. Just like livin’. Keep it fun out there, keep it fresh. Travel to Africa if you ever get the chance.
Until next time onefiver’s
kwa heri
peace peace peace
Michael
PS. pictures are just too much for Africa's internet.. maybe in the next blog..
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Bear cub rubs a dub while sippin on bub
Hello fearless comrade! Aight so Russia ain’t really like that anymore, I mean some of it is, but for the most part it is a thriving place with lots of good old fashioned American capitalism. And hey guess what? Yes, you got it I got a chance to go there to mountainboard up a storm.
I arrived with a million sketchy dudes asking me if I needed a taxi and I was like, ”naw mang I gotz me a whip to scrape up wif dem whips near by.” I’m sure they had no idea what I was saying. My boi 2netz, the main mang in Russia for mountainboarding, picked me up on a beautiful day in Moscow. I had the feeling this was gonna be a good trip.
We scoped out the venue and I must say I was impressed. The contest was called the Adrenalin Games, which featured skateboarding, bmx, rollerblading, wakeboarding, and mountainboarding along with bands and other fun stuff for the kids. It took place in an ice speed skating rink where the Olympic team trains. Pretty legit and so was the ramp set up. It was what has become standard big air set up in mountainboarding in an urban or flat setting. We are talking about a wooden 20 ft.ish roll-in with 20-24 ft. jump and roll-in esque quarterpipe just for good measure. We gave our input to what we wanted to see how and big we wanted to go then we bounced from that Igloo.
The contest was two days with prelims the first day and the finals the next. The prelims consisted of 3 jumps with the two best runs getting peeps through to the next round. I qualified second after the Siberian Cowboy. Most of the time I got use to the set up which was actually pretty amazing. I was stoked to be in an indoor stadium along with the other sports and young, hip crowd chillin out. I felt like a rockstar getting backstage to all kinda places and hanging with big name skateboarders. All the sports killed it on the street course and the flatland bmxers showed what was up with balance. I neva got to see the wakeboarders but I must say they must have been gnarly for the cold conditions during that time of year. Just a bunch of baaaaaad men.
The finals were a heated affair with the 8 best riders doing their best stuff. The Siberian Cowboy was a beast throwing his stuff down with solid style on every run. Local heroes Oleg Melnikov, Alexander Pavlov and Pasha Peshin defiantly showed the progression that was happening in Russia with switch backflips, frontside inverted 5s, cab 3s, frontflip backside 180s and tons of styles to keep the crowd cheering. I had two tricks landed and two tricks I fell on and it came down to the last run. I was the last rider to go and simply said to myself,” I’m landing this niz straight bolts.” I rode away from a frontside 7 and then slipped out on a backflip on the quarterpipe. It’s whatev cuz I was stoked to land the 7 with clean steeze.
The results were Pasha Peshin third, Siberian Cowboy second, and me in first. After all that turmoil in Europe this summer it was great to go back to Russia for this awesome event and even better to take home the W. I gotta send love to all my friends that be livin in Russia, 2netz for driving me around all of the place and most of all the 1-5 click for givin me the passion again for mountainboarding. We gonna be shralppin your hood so ya’ll be good and u will be understood.
Bear cub
I arrived with a million sketchy dudes asking me if I needed a taxi and I was like, ”naw mang I gotz me a whip to scrape up wif dem whips near by.” I’m sure they had no idea what I was saying. My boi 2netz, the main mang in Russia for mountainboarding, picked me up on a beautiful day in Moscow. I had the feeling this was gonna be a good trip.
We scoped out the venue and I must say I was impressed. The contest was called the Adrenalin Games, which featured skateboarding, bmx, rollerblading, wakeboarding, and mountainboarding along with bands and other fun stuff for the kids. It took place in an ice speed skating rink where the Olympic team trains. Pretty legit and so was the ramp set up. It was what has become standard big air set up in mountainboarding in an urban or flat setting. We are talking about a wooden 20 ft.ish roll-in with 20-24 ft. jump and roll-in esque quarterpipe just for good measure. We gave our input to what we wanted to see how and big we wanted to go then we bounced from that Igloo.
The contest was two days with prelims the first day and the finals the next. The prelims consisted of 3 jumps with the two best runs getting peeps through to the next round. I qualified second after the Siberian Cowboy. Most of the time I got use to the set up which was actually pretty amazing. I was stoked to be in an indoor stadium along with the other sports and young, hip crowd chillin out. I felt like a rockstar getting backstage to all kinda places and hanging with big name skateboarders. All the sports killed it on the street course and the flatland bmxers showed what was up with balance. I neva got to see the wakeboarders but I must say they must have been gnarly for the cold conditions during that time of year. Just a bunch of baaaaaad men.
The finals were a heated affair with the 8 best riders doing their best stuff. The Siberian Cowboy was a beast throwing his stuff down with solid style on every run. Local heroes Oleg Melnikov, Alexander Pavlov and Pasha Peshin defiantly showed the progression that was happening in Russia with switch backflips, frontside inverted 5s, cab 3s, frontflip backside 180s and tons of styles to keep the crowd cheering. I had two tricks landed and two tricks I fell on and it came down to the last run. I was the last rider to go and simply said to myself,” I’m landing this niz straight bolts.” I rode away from a frontside 7 and then slipped out on a backflip on the quarterpipe. It’s whatev cuz I was stoked to land the 7 with clean steeze.
The results were Pasha Peshin third, Siberian Cowboy second, and me in first. After all that turmoil in Europe this summer it was great to go back to Russia for this awesome event and even better to take home the W. I gotta send love to all my friends that be livin in Russia, 2netz for driving me around all of the place and most of all the 1-5 click for givin me the passion again for mountainboarding. We gonna be shralppin your hood so ya’ll be good and u will be understood.
Bear cub
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Up and running, watch out for us
This is the first of many updates to come from Onefive Media... so stay tuned. This first post goes out to Onefive Media Director of Photography Michael Herbener. He is studying abroad in Kenya this semester so mad love goes out to him for taming that Lion. Now on to the info...
Onefive is currently in production of our first mountainboarding opus which includes the riding styles of A.J Lawson, Baron Frierson, Jason Lee, Akoni Kama, Kody Stewart, Evan Carlson, Jon Diurba, Tru Grizz, Brandon Johanns, Dav Starfighter, Benton "For Prez" Jackson, Devin Fritz, Devin Garland, Nick "Thrill" Hill, Tyler Mork, Juice Dutcham, and many many more. These guys have been ripping holes through Colorado and the mid-west of the United States.
This season the focus is getting our project out to the masses so this DVD will be free to anyone who wants it. We will also have a digital version available for download on our website. As a growing company we feel it is important to show you what we got so you can get stoked on future projects.
As you may know, the OnefiveCrew slayed it at numerous competitions around the world, some of the highlights...
Baron Frierson - 1st Place US Slopestyle Nationals 2007
AJ Lawson - 1st Place French Open 2007, 2nd Place World Freestyle Championships 2007, 2nd Place US Slopestyle Nationals 2007, 2nd Place ATBA UK Edge Event 2007, MTV Poland Appearance - booyah
Nick "Thrill" Hill - 2nd Place Elite Boardercross ATBA UK 2007
Tyler Mork - 2nd Place Pro Boardercross US Open 2007
There were plenty others by some of the riders riding in the Am divisions as well.
Expect to see some clips posted in the near future, we are super busy but getting around to it. In the meantime, check out a great music group that is a great friend of Onefive Media, Centercourse.
Take care and as always ONEFIVEIT!
Onefive is currently in production of our first mountainboarding opus which includes the riding styles of A.J Lawson, Baron Frierson, Jason Lee, Akoni Kama, Kody Stewart, Evan Carlson, Jon Diurba, Tru Grizz, Brandon Johanns, Dav Starfighter, Benton "For Prez" Jackson, Devin Fritz, Devin Garland, Nick "Thrill" Hill, Tyler Mork, Juice Dutcham, and many many more. These guys have been ripping holes through Colorado and the mid-west of the United States.
This season the focus is getting our project out to the masses so this DVD will be free to anyone who wants it. We will also have a digital version available for download on our website. As a growing company we feel it is important to show you what we got so you can get stoked on future projects.
As you may know, the OnefiveCrew slayed it at numerous competitions around the world, some of the highlights...
Baron Frierson - 1st Place US Slopestyle Nationals 2007
AJ Lawson - 1st Place French Open 2007, 2nd Place World Freestyle Championships 2007, 2nd Place US Slopestyle Nationals 2007, 2nd Place ATBA UK Edge Event 2007, MTV Poland Appearance - booyah
Nick "Thrill" Hill - 2nd Place Elite Boardercross ATBA UK 2007
Tyler Mork - 2nd Place Pro Boardercross US Open 2007
There were plenty others by some of the riders riding in the Am divisions as well.
Expect to see some clips posted in the near future, we are super busy but getting around to it. In the meantime, check out a great music group that is a great friend of Onefive Media, Centercourse.
Take care and as always ONEFIVEIT!
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