Not much, apart from the very average weather!

Well…today I went down to the local park and was hoping to film a little but seeing that a Mexican Taxi driver STOLE my camera in Mexico…I was not able to do so! …soon I will obtain some MD and kids will be devouring haha.

…I guess I should update my life a bit? Currently working at a Kayak factory with 3 days off a week, so life is pretttttty chilled out and here’s a few more photos from my travels!

It’s always a happy Christmas when you are on an Island and can buy coconut rum – a real one, from a drunk dude with dreads that speaks like a Jamaican.

Xochimilco – amazing river ways built by man hundreds – or is it thousands of years ago…I should know. Here you see these cool little customized boats floating about.

Mountain Dew throw back! Awwww Yeh! Quote, “with real sugar” …..

It pretty much hasn’t stopped snowing for the last few weeks and last Tuesday we had 26 “inches” of fresh! -Can you believe that?… Well it happened and it was all it was cracked out to be and more…

So with all this snow EVERYWHERE it leaves us no choice but to hit EVERYTHING we see… starting mellow with this little down rail…

Getting some warm up hits in before we dug the stairs out…… Man it was cold! By the time we finally moved 2 feet of snow off the stairs I think we could even feel out fingers again, well… nearly.

Just when we were nearly ready to get back to it, the cops pulled up… and the camera froze (literally).  But all was not lost and we came back the following night to session it! Followed of course by a beer and free popcorn at the pub on the way home, -fun times! =)

Hey all you wake friends!

Make sure you get down to Mangakino next weekend (5th & 6th of Feb) for the on water action of the North Island Wakeboard Championships!!

The same Saturday is also my birthday so there is sure to be a big party that night.

If you want to ride in the event drop me an email brad@bradsmeele.com and I will let you know entry details.

I won’t be riding because of my shoulder but I will be on the mic… So come up and see me for some ice cold Dew!

Photo thanks to Josiah Murray and  NZwakeboard.com

Ok,  so we bailed on Barcelona.. packed up the wagon with boards on the roof and away we went to the mountain of no snow…

yup....there was the one little thing missing for a comp.......the white stuff

They managed to snow make these wee strips down the mountain for runs. This looked funny from afar, dirt and brown hills with these random white strips going down.

FIS comps are what I like to call VERY DIFFERENT, these are run by a company that is not the same as the other comps that I usually do. There was a large majority of Euro racers waltzing around like they owned the place….I fitted right in with them for sure.

So somehow they made a slope course with this lack of snow, don’t know how they did it but they did. We had a monster of a run, 5 rails at the top and 3 large jumps finishing with another rail. We had 2 days of practice to get used to them, one day was called off due to wind but then competition day for us was actually sunny and no wind. Made for a better day that’s for sure.

Ok results from the comp in my next post….

Howdy world!

Ok, sorry I have been in places with the worst internet ever, kinda a good thing as a break from the techno world is good, no phone, no net, but it does leave you with a lot of things to catch up on when you get back into civilization…. hence the catch up blogs…..

So where did we leave off …. oh that’s right Barcelona…

The crew did the streets’ sights and sounds for a few more days before we left for the mountains. Hyne went for a skate in a rad skate spot.

Hyner

I found a lady trying to kill her dog……

Rolled up on this colour explosion, the sickest food market I have seen!

Stefi and I walked the back streets at night, went to the Picasso museum and had lovely tapas dinner deluxe!

Then sladly we had to leave our exciting city of Spain and go to the Mountain of no snow …. to be continued.

Well what can I say really?

outa this world

they tell you - "trust no one"

I am not only lucky enough to pass my days away sliding around on frozen water for fun but I get to travel to amazing new places and see amazing things on the way … Barcelona has been nothing but a overload of new, interesting and exciting, sights, smells and experiences.

We had an awesome crew to cruise the streets on Spain. Enjoy some pics, much more on the way.

true tourists

"hey, where did you head go?

cheesy touristy photo just for luck

I need to catch you up on things, as I haven’t had good internet to upload pics for so long … so much has happened in so little time!!!!

Mmmm so Laax Euro Open, before semis was where we left off…

gondola visuals in the morning

looking down at our hotel

The weather wasn’t so grand for my day of competing and they didn’t even live stream it on go211.com due to visuals or lack of. Therefore you can tell it was not good competing weather but oh well no excuses,  I didn’t put down a run and did not make it through to finals.

Next time I say, well at least I had time to see the sights and sounds of Laax and go explore the Mt with the Kiwi crew that was there, Roly, Stef and a few Ozzie’s in the mix for fun. Was epic!!

fun crew shred

Also could watch the boys finals of slope, shit was crazy, doubles left right and center, make sure you watch the replay’s for the runs if you didn’t watch, shit was crazy! The boys killed it.

Had to finish the trip with a stop at the local snow shop that sells Mons Royale. Found Stefi pashing the girls in the ad and there was a random pink mons ninja. Check it….

wow! its a mons ninja!

Might of had a bottle of cheap Euro wine before this pic was taken? Ok, got to go….. need to catch my flight to Spain!