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Remi. Childish

This is it. My friend Remi's first ever release. Childish.



There are 4 tracks. All available from either Bandcamp or Soundcloud

Get amongst it. Spread the Love.

Excited.

Lake Wanaka

Wanaka is really one of the coolest places in the world.
Nate and I put together this little video to show how awesome it really is.

Remi's Childish Coming Soon!

So that post I did about this time last year about my friend Remi was super popular. It just so happens Remi has been working super hard making music over the last year and has put together an EP called Childish which will also be chased up with a full length mixtape in the not to distant future.

Childish will be a free online download. so check back here for details about how to get your hands on it,

LAZY!

Oh my I have been lazy in regards to my Blog.
I recently got a Twitter account so have been spending my time posting nonsense on there. You can check it out by clicking here or following me @jarryd_williams.

In other news Nate and I had heaps of fun at the Dew Hut Jam at Buller the other week and I did the NZ Open yesterday but did not go so well.

Not much else is going on, just been hanging out in beautiful Wanaka, NZ. I will post some photos soon. I absolutely love it here!

Check back soon for a new post with a bit more content.
JW

Winter Time!

What's Up!
My internet access has been limited for a little while, but now I am back! So check back really soon for regular updates.

I am currently in Jindabyne, I am heading to Buller soon for the Mountain Dew Hut Jam and early in August I am heading to NZ for some training and comps. So there will be plenty to read about right here.


As for now I have a huge favour to ask relating to the Dew Hut Jam...
Gatorade is putting up the Rookie Award for this event for the second year running now and a percentage of this is decided by online voting. So if you could please take a minute of your time and click here to vote for me! That would be incredible!

If your at Buller on the weekend of the 30th of this month swing by Bourke Street and check out the Hut Jam.

Thanks!!!
JW

isft. 2011

The new i ski for tommy. website was just launched! So head to iskifortommy.com or isft.com.au to check it out! There's a pretty bad photo of me on the homepage so it's good for a laugh. You can also 'like' isft. on good old trusty Facebook which will be updated frequently with all the good stuff re: isft. and its ambassadors.


Peace!

The Trade Off

I have been home about a week now and have just started my second week back at work. I'm now a second year plumbing apprentice [working for my dad]. The life of a tradie is a bit different to snowboarding every day, but it's nice to have a change after four months living in the mountains. Anyways, here are some juxtaposing photos I took over last week.




Thats it,

JW

Home... For now.

Yes, I just arrived home to Aus after 32 hours of travel door to door. I arrvied to my Mum, Dad and Sister at the airport and have already indulged in good coffee and BBQ Shapes, but what I was most excited about was seeing my dog Ziggy, who has just about tripled in size since I left to the states [I've been playign with him all afternoon]. All in all I had a pretty productive and fun trip, but boy am I glad to be home.

Heres a quick clip I caught on the plane about an hour out of Sydney as the sun was rising this morning.



Check back soon, I'm sure I will fins something to blog about.
Peace, JW

Milano

This is a little belated, but I thought I would post it anyway.

On my last day in Italy I caught the train from Bardonecchia to Torino and then on to Milano. It was a lot nicer than catching the Franston line as the train went through some beautiful classic Italian towns. Once in Milan I caught yet another train to check out Duomo di Milano [The Cathedral Church] and also the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. Both are incredible buildings. [Side note: I got a a latte in the Galleria which was served by this guy in a suit, right next to the Louis Vuitton store, and set me back 6 Euros... thats a 12 dollar coffee!] Anyways I put together this little touristy video, its a bit shakey because I was tired and it was cold... but you get the idea. Enjoy.



JW

Bardonecchia

So I just got done with my World Cup debut in Bardonecchia, Italy. I wish I had incredible news to report but unfortunately I did not qualify for finals. I was bumped by .2 of a point I think [seems reminiscent of Junior Worlds actually] and eneded up placing 13th. I could blame a myriad of things: new boots; soft board etc. however the pipe and the weather were perfect, I trained well the 2 days before and it just boiled down to my being nervous and not performing on the day.

I am glad to have my first World Cup out of the way and pumped to blow 'em out of the water at the next one I get the opportunity compete at. I guess now there is nothing to do but accept the silver lining that I am in this beautiful country, with great coffe and awesome weather and enjoy it while watching my compatriots Nate and Holly [Who both qualified first] smash it in the finals.

[Side note: it has taken me 3 days to work out how to order a double shot latte, the first day I got given a short black, the second day I ordered with the help of a multilingual bi-stander and today I got it right! or perhaps the barrista just remembered what I had yesterday.]

I have another 2 nights here in Bardonecchia and then I am catching a train into Milan to fly back to the States. So it will be nice to relax and check out the town a bit more, although I would much rather competing in finals tommorow.

Anyhow, until next time,
JKW

Beached Whale for Christchurch

Sean Roley

Hello everyone! Just a little filler post.

This is my friend / pseudo American little brother Sean Roley.
He is 12 and absolutely killing it and I am super proud of him! So I thought I would share some photos' with you.




JW

Revolution Tour - Boreal

Hello strangers, sorry it's been a little bit of time between post's but I have not been up to much of interest the last few weeks. Anyways this is what I have been up to this week.

On Tuesday I flew across to Reno, Nevada via. Pheonix [where I had a 3 hour lay over because I missed my connection. I did meet a cool POM called Baz in the bar who kept me company though, which made the time fly]. My friend Ally picked me up from the airport and we headed down to Truckee, which is where I have been for the past few days. On the way down from the airport when Ally was filling up her car I managed to lose 10 dollars in the pokies in a matter of seconds. When in Rome...
[How ridiculous is it that the have slot machines in service stations and the airport - Nevada is crazy!]

Anyways the purpose of my excursion to California was to compete in the Revolution Tour. On Wednesday we had training and I had a pretty average time trying to adjust to the pipe [It is a pretty small 18 footer in comparison to Brecks 22], and was struggling to put together my run.

Comp day was Thursday, I had'nt put together my run yet but hoped that in the pinch I would lay it down. I was in the second heat and dropped second to last, so I got to watch all the other competitors. I landed my run first try [thank god] and posted the highest score of the day thus far, Qualifying me first for finals.

My run was Cab 720, Frontside 900, Backside 900, Stalefish, and I stupidly through in little back 5 which was unnecessary. This video is of my qulaifying run - courtesy of Hannah Trigger.



I did the same run in finals hoping to stomp it first run so I could mix it up and put a Cab 1080 instead of the 720 but I over rotated my back 9 so had to put down the same run for my second finals run. I was nervous as all hell being the last rider to drop of the day, and not yet having landed a run in finals but some how I managed to hold it together and posted the highest score of the day. This earned me first place. I would have to say this is my best result ever, so I am pretty happy about that.


As for the other boys, Jason unfortunately fell on both runs, and Samboss, despite landing a big and styley run, didn't qualify for finals. I guess the judges just didn't think it was good enough [It definately was, but hey thats competitive sport for you].

This has been a marathon blog post, so I'll wrap it up now.

JW

Comrades

Hey everyone, just friendly reminder to check out the Comrades blog @ comradesaus.blogspot.com. Right now just about all of us, besides Charlie [who will be here soon] are in Colorado. So check for some updates!


Peace, Love and Happy Australia Day!

Airbag.

This is a photo of the Airbag at Vail from last week. It's ridiculously fun!

KaPOW!

As promised, a post about snowboarding.

This Morning Jack, Triggs and I had plans to go to A-Basin, which is usually pretty amazing [or so I've heard] on a powder day. However the early morning snow report check showed that Breck recieved twice as much snow as A-Basin - a ridiculous 26 inches [Thats 66 centre metres!!!]. So needless to say we hit up Breck.

After a few of the most amazing runs of my trip [so far] we met this dude called Mike on the chairlift. Mike told us he would show us where all the good spots were as none of us had really ridden Breck on a powder day. We followed Mike for a few runs, but we were'nt really all that impressed, but then he redeemed himself by showing us a spot called The Windows. It was about a 20 minute hike up a boot pack, which lead to this flat plain which dropped into a bowl followed by a tree run. There were a few more people than we were banking on, but it was well worth it! After that we were all pretty spent so we called it a day... and here we are.



>The song is 'I Can't Wait' by Little Red<

I kind of just threw this edit together quickly before dinner. So don't judge me too harshly. Check out more from today on Hannah's blog @ hannahtrigger.blogspot.com

JKW

The Weather Outside is... Weathery.

After a weekend off I awoke to my alarm this morning and looked out the window to see... nothing. It's windy, it's cold and it's snowy - which kind of sucks as I really wanted to ride today. I guess it's not such a bad thing as this is one of the busiest weekends on the slopes of the year - The Martin Luther King Jr. long weekend [You will know Dr. King as the equal rights activist famous for the 'I Have a Dream' speech]. Anyways, considering I have been inside for a couple of days already, today the internet has been my best freind. So I thought I might share with you what I have been browsing.

I stumbled upon this artwork at LifeLounge. It's done by an artist called Kelsey Brookes who happens to be a Colorado Native. Check out more @ kelseybrookes.com


Keeping on the whole 'easy on the eyes' theme, my mate Thommo [Nicholas Thompson] from The Drop design studio finally finished his new website which displays some of his best works. Kids got Talent! Check out more @ nicholasthompson.com.au


Just one more, I Promise. I have been listening to Kid Cudi's new album alot over the last few months so I started doing some YouTubing and found some cool live videos and what not, but I just thought I would post the film clip for Erase Me - there is lots of hair, lot's of glitter and bright lights.



Ok, thats it for now, thanks for helping me alleviate some boredom! My next post will definately invole Snowboarding!

Peace.

Happenings.

Quick run down of what I have been up to.

I Celebrated my 21st birthday, extensively, over a number of days with the help of some awesome friends. Now that I have taken full advantage of being 21 in USA I have started training at Breckenridge again. They have a 22 foot halfpipe this year which is cut to perfection every single day!



A few days ago I also had the privilege of training on the airbag at Vail alongside some talented riders from ISTC [International Snowboard Training Centre]. The set up was some what of a spine with a frontside and backside halfpipe hit aswell as a jump through the middle. The bag was a little intimidating to hit at first but once I got
comfortable it was amazing - I will post some video and photos next time.



Other than that I have relocted from Vail to Frisco [closer to Breckenridge] to make life a little easier. Also today I judged the Vail Cup, a competition for little kids - I very well could have been watching future world champs.

Thats about it for now - I intend to give my GoPro a workout in the near future so keep an eye out for some videos.

JW

It Begins...

I would like to start out by wishing you all a very happy New Year. I hope you each have an amazing Two Thousand and Eleven!

Now that's out of the way, time to get down to business. I am currently living in Vail, Colorado, where I plan to spend the next three months snowboarding. However whilst en route to Colorado I made a pit stop to Bakersfield, California, to spend christmas with my Aunty, Uncle and two cousins [Lindy, Trevor, Mason and Hayley].


It was nice to spend Christms with family for once. With the exception of 2010 I have been away from home for Christmas since I was 15. On Boxing day we went snowboarding at a little hill called Alta Sierra. It is about an hour and a half from Bakersfield and only had two chairlifts, but it was lots of fun to snowboard with my cousins for the first time ever.

Another first for me was going Disney Land, where we visited the day before I flew out to Colorado. My aunty took me and my cousins as an early 21st gift for me [My actual 21st happens to be today]. I absolutely loved Disney land, that place is absolutely amazing. We went on as many rides as we could, but it was one of the busiest days of the year there [They stopped admitting people at 10 A.M. because they had reached capacity.] so the queues were horrendous. I definately want to go back one day, hopefully when it's quieter.


Thats about it for now, I am about to start training and riding a whole bunch so I will keep you posted.

Peace.