This edit makes me wanna visit Minnesota to ride and take pics.
Monday Minute #22 from riley erickson on Vimeo.
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February15th
No CommentsMinnesnowta
Posted in: Snowboarding, Video
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January19th
No CommentsFor The Hell Of It (review)
Posted in: Snowboarding
So I downloaded this movie from their site (www.forthehellofitmovie.com) for just $2.99 and it was well worth it. I kind of suck at writing in depth reviews on things so I’ll break it down real simple. The riding was good, the soundtrack was good, it was very entertaining, the only bummer was it felt a little short. At the end though it made me wanna get out in the snow, lace some tricks on my snowboard and shoot photos.
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January18th
No CommentsFor The Hell Of It
Posted in: Snowboarding
In my current search for all things snowboarding while bored at work and trying to scheme ways to make a ton of money and move somewhere with elevation and large quantities of snow, I keep coming across different trailers for this movie called For The Hell Of It. It’s apparently made by a bunch of dudes from the east coast (where I grew up snowboarding), so I went to forthehellofitmovie.com and coughed up the $2.99 or whatever it was for the digital download. Now I’m sitting here at work, patiently waiting for it to download as I leach wifi from the restaurant next door. I’ll post a review in a day or so with another trailer (I think I’ve seen like 3 or 4 different teaser/trailers for it now).
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January17th
No CommentsSeeing the light…
Posted in: Snowboarding
So for anyone not in the know, I grew up snowboarding. Since the age of 10 I used to spend 4-7 days a week on my snowboard as a kid when there was snow on the ground. Weekends spent at Loon or Waterville, and weekdays spent building jumps, rails, and fun boxes in friends yards until we were old enough to drive and we started assaulting urban terrain around the southern NH/Boston metro area… I had been on a hiatus from my snowboard for almost 4 years till about 2 weeks ago when I got my first taste of snowboarding outside of the north east. Dear God, I am hooked again. Every night I fall asleep dreaming of snow, mountains, carving that perfect line, hitting that perfect jump, jibbing that perfect rail, and every morning I wake up in mid-Missouri, depressed because I am hundreds of miles away from decent shredding. Slowly I am working out plans in my head to make it back to the mountains, but for now local shredding (when there’s snow), videos, and magazines are going to have to tide me over. All the nostalgia of riding in my childhood got me searching on the net for the videos that inspired me to push myself further and further as a kid. I idolized riders like Terje Haakonsen, Jim Rippey, Mikey Leblanc, Kevin Jones, and others. Hell, Mikey Leblanc’s part in Technical Difficulties can be directly related as one of the main sources that got me into hardcore music (the song to his part was Blood for Blood – Livin’ in Exile). My friends and I would rewatch the same snowboard videos over and over until they were wore out. Anyway, I ramble too much, below are the intros to two of the earlier snowboard videos I was really into as a kid. TB6 Carpe Diem and MD Production’s Technical Difficulties. They weren’t the first videos I saw, but they are two of the earliest I can find any footage from on youtube. Snowboarding is leaps and bounds beyond what’s displayed in these movies, but at the time, these guys were pushing the envelope and inspiring me to do more than most the kids in my grade who were too obsessed with Playstation or N64…