Sun run in Rusutsu

Blog update from the chairlift at Rusutsu.

xmas!

Couldnt be bothered typing an update, so i filmed one.

This is awesome!

I made a video of me shredding powder

Check the video i made on my new GoPro camera.

Radventures!

My buddy Jez who started Radical Gloves is over here in japan doing some shredding with me, and he decided to start an online video blog of all the 'Rad-ventures' (geddit?) that we get up to on our snowboards. So here is the little clip he made as the intro to each video segment......i think its super sick

We have no snow.

we have no snow, no lifts open........it sucks

Sluggers

Me and a few friends went down to Sapporo on our day off the other day as there is still no snow. We went to a place called Sluggers which is a big indoor baseball facility in the middle of the city.

Crazy carparks

Check out this crazy carpark we used in Sapporo the other day. I added a video of the same type of carpark to fully explain how it works

Crazy toothbrush

So i got this weird new toothbrush. Its on this crazy angle so it cleans the sides of your teeth. It feels weird but it actually works really well

how sick is Danny davis...

Cultural work excursion to Otaru.

Today me and the Skijpan team went to Otaru with the newbies for a cultural/training excursion. It was pretty rad as we got to do sushi making, visit the sake brewery, visit a famous old house, and explore the town and stuff. I probably would have had a more enjoyable time if i wasnt so hungover from last night, and making and eating sushi with raw fish at 10am in the morning is not the best hangover cure!!

 This house belonged to a very successful and wealthy herring fisherman in otaru about 100 years ago. The windows at the front are an obvious modern update to the museum. We were not aloud to take photos inside the house so these are all i have. And as you can see the weather was pretty epic...

Then we went sushi making in this rad old restaurant

 The 'round eye' guide to sushi haha

 My first piece turned out pretty well i reckon! Thats a raw tuna piece

 Loving it

 The master showing us his skills

 My final product!

 Hells yeh sushi!!

 Look how good this piece is!!

Thanking the chef for showing us how to make rad sushi - Arigato!

 This is the sushi restaurant - note the weather, in 2 hours it went from sunshine to dumping snow

 This guy looked how i felt

 Wide-body V8 Landcruiser with quad 3" pipes ? Hells yeh!

 Sake brewery

 Distillery

 Time for tasting...

 Kampai!! (kampai means 'cheers')

Longboard video from falls

For those of you that know and love 'the creek' as much as i do, check this sweet vid of some dudes longboarding the road..

This video BLEW my mind. Amazing

For all you skaters....

iv been checking out and finding hell skating spots while iv been here.....check these photos

How rad are these roads for longboarding!!!

And i threw this photo in for Ralphy and Carter. A mini ramp in the middle of hokkaido on a farm, yeh skating!!