MDTV Episode 3.

Last Friday after bro'ing down with Aunty Helen, we hit up Snow Park for the first ever night riding. It was an industry night, so I went along and filmed it for MDTV episode 3. Riding under the lights up there is amazing, brings a whole new vibe to Snow Park, there will be a whole lotta fresh night shots coming outa there no doubt!

So go check MDTV Episode 3 at NZsnowboard.com

Lismore Park Portrait Shoot.

I dusted off the still camera for a change today, and shot some portraits for Spoke Magazine. An article is being written on the new Lismore Mountainbike Park in Wanaka, for the next issue. This should be fully cranking by summer, and is definitely one of the best parks in New Zealand, more on this as it develops.

Behind the Scenes of the shoot. Jules Thompson, on form!

The Prime Minister

On Friday last week, we managed to have the pleasure of meeting Helen Clark, and interviewing her, whilst she was up Cardrona.

Interviewer Bevan Hall managed to charm the leader of our country, and we got quite a few good voice grabs. Her speech was captivating, and its rad that she supports Snow Sports in New Zealand.

So we sipped on bubbles, ate funny little nibble things, and lived the dream for another day. Robett & I got a photo bro'ing down with Aunty Helen, hopefully it will hit the news stand soon. Helen will make an appearance in Newsweek Episode 6.

Helen Clark.

Big Rig, Robett Hollis.

Crazy Colt Remix.

Just Watch it.


Crazy Colt Remix from Banned Vids on Vimeo.

Newsweek Episode 5

Had a bit of a crazy day today.. Mass confusion amongst other things, but ended up filming Newsweek Episode 5 at a variety of locations. Nick Hyne & Heath Patterson had been filming for a Korean ski advertisement, but I managed to swing them out of there hectic schedule. Huge thanks to Joes Garage for providing us with tasty treats and shaking hands, episode 5 drops live on Friday as usual....

Nick Hynes Crib yeah. Mad storage.

Roomies Nick Brown, and Karl Dunham. Straight Chilling.

Permanent Stair Feature at SnowPark.

You've all heard about the new Permanent stair feature at snow park, well heres a picture of this thing.. Its legit! And those are apparently cheese grater stairs. Raddddddddddd. Hopefully we'll get to shoot this puppy shortly.

It even matches the Wool shed.

Pow PHO-TOG Gloves.

Jason at Freeride Distribution just hooked me up some of the new Pow PHO-TOG gloves. I've just unwrapped them, and let them grasp my palms.

Putting up with cold conditions is one of the hardest things of being a snow photo/filmer. When your hands are cold, they shut down, which makes operating a camera extremely hard. These gloves here have removeable thumb, index and middle finger tips which look pretty snaz, along with being nice and grippy for handling cameras. They fold back and buckle down, so you can still keep the rest of your hand warm, and then slip back into the glove.. They look pretty thin, but there pretty tight and warm. I'll see how they go in the field and post up a little review...

Freeride Distribution also handles alot of other rad brands, so get over to there website and have a look - www.freeridedistribution.com

They even have little photos of cameras on the palms...

How they fold back.. shralping the key board.

Southern Freeriders Farm Jam 07 Pics...

This is probably the biggest post in this blogs history, almost 40 images all up. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but my workloads been pretty rediculous. Bring on a Sunday Morning, cup of coffee, and no hang over for some serious photo editing.

All of these images are 'left overs' from the Southern Freeriders Frew Farm Jam 07. I'd forgotten how ridiculous this competition was. I was running around like crazy trying to shoot all this as it went down, the level of riding was un heard of in NZ. Huge props to everyone who was throwing down.

Brett & Dan are working on the Farm Jam 08, its gonna be HUGE! More on this as it unravels.

The top MTB Line.. Southland at its finest.

Briefing for what was a really smooth event.

Dan Frew Preps the Grounds.

The lips in the small MTB line

Ben Finney and the Camping Espresso.. This failed miserably

Brad Greenslade. Well. Yes.

Lining up.

Paul Needham was there.

Matt Scoles fighting off the groupie txts between runs.

Matt Scoles From Above.

Seb Kemp. Steeze.

Brett Frew. Loop.

Seb Kemp. Tuckno.

Kelly Mcgarry. Bazza Roll.

Eddie Parker and the Immaculate Quarter.

Fish off the deck.. Straight Air Steeze.

Kelly Mcgarry, No Foot Can.

Robbie Holding down the 20's. Super Whip.

Eddie Parker. Ruling. Sideways.

Paul Needham is Super.

Mcgazza Bazza.

Robbie Wip.

Eddie Parker Steezed 3.

The flip that started all the madness on the big set. Chris Beverland.

Foster. Xup Big set.

Eddie Parker, Crazy wip type thing.

Chris Beverland Wip.

Kelly Mcgarry. Big 3 Mid set.

Kelly Mcgarry Flip Big Set

Kelly McGarry Barrel Roll Big Set.

Paul Needham gets tech. Nose Pick on the Quarter.

Kelly Rails...

Seb Skids.

Paul Needham and his Bmx. One of the most insane Transfers ever. That roof is LOW.

Finney is Super.

Dan Frew. Indian. Wool Shed.

Tim Watson.

Tim Watson

Dan Frew.. and Im spent

Southern Freeriders Blog/Website

One of the biggest driving forces in 2 Wheeled New Zealand Freeriding, The Southern Freeriders, have started up a blog & soon to be website. Southern Freeriders were formed by Brett Frew & Dan Frew, two of the most motivated people I know.

Brett is currently in Whistler lapping up some bike hours with Kelly Mcgarry and the likes. Word is Kelly is ripping and taking it to the young punks. Bretts got a busy couple of months ahead, with plans to film for an Atomlab video and so on. Dans leaving for whistler shortly to do a bunch of amazing events, word is hes gonna be on the pushy aswell! So make sure you keep checking into their sites, they're doing bloody good things!

Blog - http://southernfreeriders.blogspot.com/
Website - http://www.southernfreeriders.co.nz/

Cardrona Hip October 2007

Last year we shot one of the biggest hips/tables built in New Zealand History, at Cardrona during the epic October that unfolded. This was all thanks to John Melville, it was one of the sickest things ever seen in NZ.

I was shooting stills which popped up in a few places, & Jase Hancox was shooting video. He has put together a video of Jossi and a couple of shots of Will/Abby hitting the mammoth beast over at NZskier.com - Go check it out!

http://nzskier.com/tv/cardrona-kicker-with-jossi-wells-pages-2-3-from-the-mag