If you’re in the Vancouver/BC area and looking for something rad to do Friday night… I recommend checking out this double header of local snowboard events. I’m super excited!

I’m heading to the Westbeach store grand opening on this Friday, November 6th. Setting up on Vancouver’s “snowboard row” on West 4th, doors will be opening at noon on Friday and you can shop till 8 pm. The address there is 1758 West 4th Ave. At 8:30 pm, they will also be hosting a party celebrating the grand opening as well as the veryREALLY movie premiere pre-party… party will go until about 10 or 10:30.

And then…

veryREALLY is a local snowboard movie featuring local Canadian riders and brands. From the production company Random Large Text, the film features riders from all over Canada, including: Nate Butcher, Jeff Thorne, Cam Rodenm, Bradley Hesson, John Graff, Scott Sych and many others. The movie will be shown at Tunnel Lounge (622 West Pender). There is a $10 cover but $5 will be donated to the Snowrider Foundation, and there will also be tons of giveaways from Pacific Boarder and Westbeach. Doors open at 10 pm and the movie will be on at 11 pm.

I hope to see you guys there! This is a great time to get out and support local mountains, riders, shops, and brands. Quite a few people are going, you can check out the Facebook event here.

Anyone thinking of heading out for this? In other news, have any of you picked up your snowboard gear (outwear, boards etc) for this year yet?

Yes, I FINALLY had a chance last night to edit together the ridiculous amount of footage we had from multiple surf trips to Tofino this summer. Sadly, I didn’t have much footage from the spring and we haven’t started our fall and winter surf trips yet, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to combine all the summer footage into one nice tiny package with a bow on top.

So here we go, HD video footage featuring…

• Several surf trips to Tofino this summer with friends, and by ourselves
• Underwater housing footage (in-ocean shots)
• Long lens surf shots
• GoPro camera footage (camera attached to the board)
• Us reeling in crabs off the dock and cooking them
• A few different timelapses
• Us doing stupid stuff
• Allan, J, Venus, Trev, and myself
• Fantastic music from the Planet Smashers (thanks guys, how could I NOT use your song) …

Click the video above to view. Short vid, about 3 minutes. Safe for work.

It’s about 30 hours of footage rolled into one tiny video. You’ll also notice the underwater housing fogs up… yeah, we accidentally tore the new housing and tried to patch it up with tent glue. Then we used it in the ocean anyway. Well, it leaked. Haha. And uh, I kind of broke my Nikon. Soooooo, now I have to get it fixed.

So stupidity aside, let me know what you think!

Thanks for watching!