SPRING SHRED

Yes, it's spring. Warm, sunny and not snowing. Well, this doesn't really concern you if you're into snowboarding - a lot. And even more so if into a subculture that is happening rather in urban areas than on mountains. Apparently these guys have no clue anyways how a mountain looks like in winter. At least no one was complaining at the HEAD Jib Factory 2011 presented by Alex Tank. No complains, good vibes, fine people and great snowboarding.

Alex Tank himself

this guy filmed this in this sneakers: http://vimeo.com/22950430

More shots over at Head's Facebook site, become friends!

WORD

pt. 2

SUMMER IS EARLY

It's been a nice couple of days with great weather in Munich. I hope you enjoy the early summer days as much as I do.

RECENT WORK

WHITEOUT GOLFING, Issue 1, Cover

Blumentopf for Planet Sports & Adidas

FUNSPORT Magazine, IT

Nike 6.0 Lifestyle Image

HEAD Sportswear

here's some recent work, find more at my work blog

FRANCE DEUX

After a complete downday we had some catching up to do and got up the mountain early the next morning and ended up staying late. We still had some fine-tuning to do, salt the take-off, wait for the sun to soften the icy landing, etc. Enough time for the riders to have a little photo challenge.

The sun-set shoot was tricky due to quickly changing snow-conditions but a success after all. I can't post any of the action images at this time, I hope you'll find some in your favorite snowboard mag next season.

rider's photo challenge pt. 1 - checking angles

rider's photo challenge pt. 2 - getting the most out of each angle

little fine-tuning in between...

FRANCE

My bags and gear were sent to my designated destination some days ago, which left me traveling lightweight and for a nice change not schlepping heavy bags to the airport. It's mid april and the poor winter in europe didn't leave much snow for spring shoots. I hope we'll manage the snow conditions, because we decided to build a pretty big jump here. Let's see how this week will look like...

window seat. this is not new zealand.

we decided to buid a jump, big and steep take off

DAILY BUSINESS

The news from Japan are unbelievable. My thoughts are with the Japanse.

Japan is a great country with great people. We had a really good time on every single trip there. This year we had amazing snowconditions, a lot of bad weather days though and a one of a kind bluebird day. We went snowboarding on every day since our arrival and don't get me wrong, it's not boring at all, but you'll develop some routines being on the same schedule each day. And this is how our days mostly looked like.

hiking, hiking, hiking. Lot of work goes into making it look effortless

a little backside air in the morning to get in the right mood for the day

deep snow, sprayed faces

back at the hotel, drying clothes and camera gear, doing some reading

get into the supplied socks, slippers and ninja suit and hit the spa

Asahidake bluebird. White smoke is in full effekt. Ready for some action on the Vulcano.

Stop. Turn.

Fresh snow, sun is shining, dropping cliffs.

JAPAN EARLY BIRD

The view at 5am from my hotel room. Ready to go to the spa and for a day of hiking through waist to chest deep snow. Not the worst thing in the world, but it will burn calories faster than a European stomach can digest traditional salmonella hot pot made in Japan.

OUT-TAKES DAY 1

I fell behind with updates from our trip to Japan, I'll be catching up with some posts during the next weeks. To start things off, here's a out-take from day 1.