Board Matters

I seem to have run my Forum JP Walker into the ground. Its still holding in there just. Though I noticed a large delam on the tail the other day. The topsheet is screwed and the base is heavily shot. I do love it so purchased some araldite and a clamp and promptly glued my hand to my board. Hopefully it will hold. Or at least give it another few months life.



On the positive I have fixed and setup the beast that is my new Zep. I may start calling it my Led Zeppelin due to the weight added by my not so light Burton P1 Carbons.

Croissant Fight

For some drunken reason we had a croissant fight the other night in our room. The croissants had been around a while and had hardened up quite a bit. In hindsight I should have guessed the effects of throwing one into somebodies head. It was more impressive that I imagined. We showered the entire room in buttery pastry goodness. So much so that we are still finding flakes in shoes, clothes, drawers, ears etc.

Below is a shot of the dustbin that is our room pre croissant stupidity. As you can see I am living in Byzantine luxury. Even our bin is sponsored by Nitro.



This was the scene in the morning when I woke up. I had actually forgotten what had happened.

New stuff

We all trekked down to Anne Masse the other day as a shop down there was having a liquidation sale.... I got a little carried away...

1. K2 Zeppelin 161


2. Ride Beta Movement bindings for freestyle setup on my Forum JP Walker (My setup is well hectic)

3. Analog jacket (well cheap)

4. Another hat :)

5. A basketball jersey to increase the G look

February My Arse

Well its was like a summer day on weds. So much so that my chalet brought the sofa oustide and spent the entire day drinking and getting high. A very nice time was had by all. Including the brilliant new Kinda Suprise challenge which involves eating said "suprise" in one, opening the yellow thing with your mouth and trying to build the toy.

Nico the perv

Nico being as subtle as ever walking behind some girl all the way back from boarding.

Valley de la Manche

Me and Archy went up to the valley de la Manche the other day (the other day seems to mean any day in the last year at the moment). It was a lovely day though the conditions weren't really good enough to board the valley.




As we came down we dropped of a small cornice, Archies foot came out of his binding to much suprise. Turned out he had snaped the bugger at one of the highest points in Avoriaz. Thanks to a kind pisty we pinched a bit of rope and I granny knotted him to his board and got down the mountain in one piece.

Umm yeah

Well as you can see in the photo Pete has rather large pupils. Its like a whole universe in there. Pretty cool and not induced by anything honest :)

I managed to take this shot last nigt which kindof sums up our race against time back to the chalet from the mountain... Highly amusing if not slightly risky. Anyway since it was thursday there was night boarding on on the Plenney Stadt run. Its floodlight and last night the stars were out in force. Sitting on the balcony of a friends chalet the whole scene was magical.

Valentines Day

Didn't suck so hard this year. A handful of us cooked up a big pasta dish. We managed to get a starter, main and booze for 5 Euros a head. So a pleasent night was spend getting drunk. Also had a nice time going out with Tori, Robin and their friend Matt who is a Kiwi pilot who is staying. A interesting discussion took place regarding airplane urban myths and how to deal with terrorist attacks.

Ring of fire

Drinking games where the order of the day the other night. We had a metric ass load of beer, a few bottles of wine, a bottle of absinthe and a bottle of whisky. We started off with arrogance. Though this finished early due to everybody getting carried away. A mug of wine, absinthe and beer doesn't go down so well. We then moved onto ring of fire and somehow set fire to the table.... All good

Totally Random

Since I have been unable to keep working out what I did on a day to day basis due to Mutzig abuse and other things I'll post random snippets of info however random.

This sums up the kitchen ethos quite well.



Spent two bloody brilliant days on the mountain depsite hurting my knee again. There is quite deep powder in places now and aa handful of us hit some nice powder fields. The highlight being Nico and I bombing down the Snowcross (Avalanche controlled off-piste) It was deep and steep. The area was under Brocheux lift (if thats how you spell it) and was amazing. It would be roughly a double black if pisted. Makes Face look like a green run. All good and Nico nearly pulled a backflip albeit by accident.


Back at the Super Morzine Pete and Matt decided to have a full on wrestling match.... V amusing.



This was me after a day on the slopes..... why did I forget my hat.... The entire of my head froze. Was quite insulating actually


Saw this chalet the other day.... I want... When i'm older I want to build a place like this... I love the overhang on the roof.


This is Lukes new board. Untouched by the snow yet sullied by Robin.

Fabric

How good does this look!!!!!


Sat 31st Mar 07
10:00pm - 7:00am

Room One:
Carl Craig
Craig Richards
Rob Mello

Room Two:
Marco Carola
Jennifer Cardini
Shonky

Room Three:
artist tbc...

Kelseys Birthday

Should only be a few more days of rest now. Bloody hope so as I am getting a little bored. Its kelseys birthday today so everybody plans to go out fairly large. Though Paradis is on the cards and i'm not the greatest fan of cheesy nightclubs. Should be fun though. Was going to go to the drum & bass night but was well to knackered. Just spent a few hours in Rhodos like usual trying to download Heroes and Lost. I am getting so into Heroes. Its bloody awesome.

About to go and find Nico and sample Carson's new burgers up at the Sherpa. They should be well nice. Plan to go for a long walk up to Avoriaz tomorrow and stretch the legs. Check out the board park and generally chill.

Just found out that Trentemoller is playing in london again in April. I am well up for it and hopefully will be able to cope a little better than last time......

Park Pre Knee Fuck Up

Here is a shot of my landing a frontside boardslide in the Avoriaz park the other day. May try some backside ones or maybe lipslides next. Knee is getting better though have torn the ligament. Spend 3 hours in the doctors this morning...... It was painful since I was on certain substances which I seem to always have when queing. What really made it worse is that some bloody kids came in to the already packed waiting room and started to smash toys into the floor. I wanted to shot myself. Its drum & Bass night tonight though i am a little fucked after last nights debauchery. I will let the photos explain the situation.... Put it this way, the strobe light was awesome again and fire juggling proved easier than I thought regardless of the fact that I forgot I was fire juggling about 4 times and nearly burnt myself.





To sum up some of the stupidity.

1. Came home from drinking shed loads up at the garage and at a free dinner to find that Pete and Matt had smoked all the week and branded themselves with hot knives. Petes looks pretty cool.....



2. Kelseys sister turned up yesterday. She seems really nice but made a grand entrance. Having to be freed from the Cavern toilets where she passed out naked. All rather amusing and a sterling way to get introduced.

3. Finding 3 sets of horrific bollocks on my camera from Pete, Matt and Luke. Good work boys..... I hope you don't like your eyebrows.

4. Having a lovely 3 course meal cooked for us with free wine and champagne up at the Alpine Elements chalet to repay the favour by stealing as many things as feasible. (The fagin in people came out.... I did not for the record). The line was drawn at a sofa and a huge Yoke that was hanging from the ceiling.

Snow where to go

Well its just started snowing again and I am a cripple. I have been lovingly called Sir Limpsalot. It is getting better though so thats a good thing. Just need rest.... Last night was quite large. We all got invited around to a Alpine Elements chalet for dinner since they had no guests and lots of food. 8 of us ate for 18. Lots was drunk and topic of conversation even more depraved than a night down the pub with Brammers. Staggering home we decided to head up to the garage for some Mutzigs. I can't remember getting home.

Papy Party

It was agreed that a party was in order. Our chalet was rearranged and lots of beer purchased. There are lots of similar chalets around morzine and everybody knows everybody else university style. Ala The Warriors we had the Highlife crew, the Pascal posse, The Chalet Le Dent Blanc bunch, the Nantugaux massive, the SkiTed contingent and obviously the Papy reprobates. All in all it was a bloody good party with around 50-60 people the place was nicely packed. With a snowboarding DVD on the 70 inch rear projection and Drum & Bass on the hifi all was good. Not exactly following doctors orders to rest, ice and elevate my leg I partied till about 2 or so and got nicely hammered. Leg actually feels a lot better today. I still have moments when I think i'm going to fall over but generally its improving. I'll have to play it by ear I think. It means that where as before I was boarding and drinking I am now just drinking. I am managing to be less productive by the day. Rhodos internet cafe was the only destination today. I failed, spend most of the day catching the sun sitting outside the chalet. Ah the life of a bum......

Sweepstake winner

Whoever had the sweepstake on Lateral Knee Ligament.... You are the winner. Much has happened in the last few day. On thursday I went to the launch party for Cams new company Boardride. It was big, Tyler Chorton (pro rider famed for nolie frontflips) and Dom Harrington were there. Cafe Chaud is a small place so it was rammed to the rafters. Free toffee vodka flowed and general stupidy commenced. I got in the good books with Victoria and Bee by acting as wingman and distracting a girl who was trying to pull the bloke Victoria was after. I chatted to her long enough for Victoria to pull him.... Result.

Friday was a lazy day. Luke and I planned to head up to watch the O'neil quarter pipe final in Avoriaz. We couldn't... sorry I couldn't have fucked it up more. I got all the way to the prodain lift which takes 30 min and realised that I didn't have my lift pass. An hour later and we got back to the Prodain sans camera and phone. We caught the comp which was interesting but not amazing. Got bloody freezing then headed down to an empty carpark. No buses to be seen we managed to hitch hike back to Morzine with a wannabe rallycross french driver.


I broke my boots the other week and couldn't get them tight enough so I went out yesterday and bought some new flashy green Celcius boots. They are the shit... Shame I won't be able to wear them for a while... but i'll get on to that



I met up with the pascal boys as I went down to the bus and spent the morning bombing about on one of the only descent runs around. Pulled some fairly large straight airs and a couple of little backside 180's. After fighting through the crowds on the slopes I headed to the park... Bad idea. I tried the box to start off with. Stuck and faceplanted, no biggy. I have descent arse pads on now, though typically when you protect one area you then fuck another.

Feeling the need for a bit of air I dropped in to hit the smaller kickers. The first one you can't get enough speed so I limply jumped over it. I straight lined it towards the third, all good. I pulled a nice indy and soared. All was good until I realised that I had missed the landing by about 15 feet. I dropped from about 6-8 foot onto the flat on my front foot. I landed it, but then collapsed. Joy. I walked all the way back to the prodain and did nothing for the rest of the day.

Well, just been to the hospital, 3 x-rays later and a wallet 200 Euro's lighter I have damaged my Lateral Collateral Ligament. I am now not sure what the hell to do. I have to see the doctor on thursday then go for physio.

Oddly I have just spoken to my brother who has exactly the same issue (footballer hacked him). We are a joke. I feel i am a parody of myself sometimes. I blame it on the snow. If we actually had some I would have been up the mountain not dicking around in the icy park. C'est la vie

Contact

Just a quickie. I have joined Facebook now www.facebook.com I have also setup Skype. My username is jamesdmorgan. If anybody has a skype account can you let me know.

Also I am trying to not use my phone to much since I had 140 texts in 2 weeks and I worry that I am personally funding the carphone warehouse. Not that I don't like receiving texts mind.