Illini Wakeboard Club

Standing Sideways Trailer 2

2011-03-14T07:57:00.000-07:00

Chad put this trailer/edit together for the Alliance Wake video contest.
When it's on alliance, I'll post the link so everyone knows to vote for our video

Standing Sideways Theatrical Trailer 2 from chad karecki on Vimeo.

Lack of updates! Sorry!

2011-03-05T12:52:00.000-08:00

Last year, I used my camera a whole lot more, so I was able to make more video updates for this blog.
Well, this year we've been using other people's HD cameras a lot more. So, we have less updates on our blog, but it will be better overall for the video!!
I promise!

Shredding tomorrow. Hopefully I grow a pair and do something that I've wanted to do for a like 4 years!!

SBI minishred

2011-02-14T10:40:00.000-08:00

We had a ton of snow so Chad took the bobcat for a spin and we made this little tow-in table. It was fun for messing around. These are just a few shots from my crappy camera. We have some better ones in HD.
We went to Chestnut the next day and got a shot or two each before the park got taken over by little kids.
More to come!

Feb 12 SBI Minishred from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

1/8 Chestnut

2011-01-14T11:56:00.000-08:00

Dan got a gopro too so we were double filming.
Here are just a few tricks and a fall that gave me a nice bruise on my ass!

Messin around with the GoPro from Dan Rust on Vimeo.

crappy urban clips

2011-01-11T07:04:00.000-08:00

Here are a few clips from some Champaign rail missions.
Nothing good, I just needed to update this blog with a new video!

crappy urban clips from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

yo yo yo

2011-01-11T00:05:00.000-08:00

Chad and I (along with our lady friends) had a great trip to Maine where we did a ton of shredding and hopefully got a few shots. We also set up a sketchy up-box thing in my front yard and had fun on that too.

We've also been going to the nut as much as possible too. A few new tricks, and a few really good bails!!

It's snowing here right now. Maybe I'll try to have some fun tomorrow.

snow!

2010-12-20T20:28:00.000-08:00

We have had a few great trips to the "mountain" so far. Mostly warming up and getting our tricks back.

I've had some fun with the Banshee Bungee the last few days. Each of the last 2 nights, I've been able to hit rails that I never thought I could hit.

I got a few tricks on the downrail by ARC (parking lot-ish) tonight, but it was raining a little bit and water was on the camera lens and RUINED THE SHOTS!! BUMMERRR!!
So I'll have to try again assuming that this rain doesn't melt the snow.

I'm headed to Chestnut a few more times this week! Gonna be FUNN.

Snow Season Starts Soon!

2010-12-02T17:55:00.001-08:00

Yay alliteration!

Anyway, my snowboard is freshly waxed and ready to go for my 16th season snowboarding this Saturday!
Damn that's a long time to still suck!!
Here is some of my gear pretty much ready to go!

Also, my (our) Banshee Bungee is in the mail!!
It should be here soon! So, no more 'not enough speed' excuses this winter!!
Thanks to Banshee Bungee for hooking it up!!
Check out their website and preview what we're getting here:
http://bansheebungee.com/

Get stoked for winter and snowboarding!!

Standing Sideways Trailer!!

2010-11-07T15:36:00.001-08:00

IT'S HERE!!!
THE OFFICIAL STANDING SIDEWAYS TRAILER!!
Get Stoked for the FULL VIDEO coming THIS FALL!!!

Standing Sideways official trailer from chad karecki on Vimeo.

"The offical trailer for Eng Popo Productions newest release, Standing Sideways. A video about how the world looks a little different when you spend your time standing sideways. Full video dropping soon."

new binders

2010-10-11T07:22:00.001-07:00

I'm ready for winter!
I got my new bindings! 2010/2011 Union Force
Hooray!!
Snow please!!!!!!!!

Hopefully Chad's working on the trailer too!

weekend shredding

2010-09-27T15:07:00.000-07:00

We spent this last weekend on Clinton Lake filming. On Saturday, we had some bad weather, but we we able to film a few passes with a chase boat! Good for new angles and what not. We had a big crew too!

Sunday was a solid day on Clinton also. We finally found the smooth water and filmed some cool stuff from shore.

Hopefully we have a trailer coming in the next few weeks!

wake nation this weekend

2010-09-08T13:01:00.001-07:00

We're getting a crew together for one last Wake Nation filming trip for the season.
It should be pretty awesome!

More updates coming soon!

more down time

2010-08-23T22:02:00.000-07:00

so for right now, we're all just doin our own thing.
dudes are riding up in chicago a lot,
other students are back at school in champaign
and im another hour south starting grad school.
busy busy busy busy

hopefully well all get to ride soon and get some more footy!!!

I now have fuel tv and its probably the best thing ever.

some new pics from kelly:

Wake Nation Edit!!

2010-07-28T19:22:00.000-07:00

Heres a little edit from our trip down to wakenation. We shredded pvc and our hands and this is some of what came out of it.

IWC Wakenation 6.19-6.20 from chad karecki on ref="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo.

Thanks to chad for editing!!

Great Weekend!

2010-07-19T14:03:00.000-07:00

We all had a great weekend at Chads and just about everyone was there!
We worked really hard to get some cool shots with the tube and the polecam.
Thanks for a great weekend everyone!
Also, Chad has been working hard on the Cincinnati Wake Nation edit from a few weeks ago, so hopefully that'll be done soon!!!

few skate clips

2010-07-14T22:25:00.000-07:00

This is Damian's friend Pete. They stopped by Champaign for a bit. We got Silver Mine then tried to skate a little. Pete was the only one who could land anything haha.

quick skate edit from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

Tom Snug Harbor 7.6.2010

2010-07-08T08:15:00.000-07:00

On July 6th Tom worked 8 hours running experiments. Then he went out for a ride on Chicago Mastercraft's Monster wrapped X45. He landed these 3 tricks in a row without falling. Thanks to Snug harbor, Chicago Mastercraft, and Munson Marine for having us out.

Tom Snug Harbor 7.6.2010 from chad karecki on Vimeo.

some weekend pics

2010-06-23T10:03:00.001-07:00

Here are some of the better pics from this weekend at Wake Nation:

Tom:

John:

Awesome Weekend!

2010-06-22T07:39:00.000-07:00

We had an awesome weekend at the Wake Nation cable park in Cincinnati!
We shot a TON of footage and everyone got some banger tricks!!
Maybe a preview soon!

wakesurfin

2010-06-07T14:18:00.000-07:00

My first time wake surfing in probably 3 years. It was really fun! Thanks a lot to Megho and her family for inviting me and m'lady for good times on the boat!

ew.. i have no idea why the quality is so bad. it looks good on my computer. o well!

wakesurfing from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

got to ride today!

2010-06-04T21:48:00.000-07:00

Went out this afternoon on meghos x2. good times on Clinton Lake. Beautiful weather and the water temp was perfect.
Wakesurfing and boarding were really fun. I haven't wakesurfed in forever but it feels awesome to be able to catch and ride a wave.
I forgot all of my documentation devices on the table so i dont have much to show for today. meghos mom took some pictures and a few videos. ill try to get one of those up here soon.

Throwback Thursday

2010-06-03T10:02:00.000-07:00

Here are some old clips from campus from a few years go.
The quality wasn't good so they didn't make the Meat 'n' Cheese cut.
And an Ali G clip because I was bored.

Throwback Thursday from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

were all busy

2010-06-01T20:53:00.001-07:00

were all busy with other stuff.
i wish we could all wakeboard and skate everyday..
booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

down time

2010-05-20T10:11:00.000-07:00

im not doin much these days. just workin and organizing my apartment.
other people are up to no good though, so hopefully we can get some of their footy on here soon.

Chad just got a new HD camera, so wake footy this summer will be awesome....... in HD.

I've been skating a lot and getting better, but still nothing work filming. I also have no one to skate with down here... Sadness.

More updates later!

Nick Teaser - May 10, 2010

2010-05-11T20:12:00.001-07:00

"Nick Northfell is currently living the dream working at M2 Sports a chapel for all desiples of the shred. Nick came back to Illinois to spend time with his family on mother's day. He also made a stop out to shred with his IWC brrethren. We got some sick shots with the pole cam I made. This is only a taste of what we got that day, and only a drop of whats to come. "

Nick teaser 5.10.2010 from chad karecki on Vimeo.

saturday skating

2010-05-08T21:50:00.001-07:00

spenny and i skated a little bit today.
it was fun.
here are some clips:

May 8, 2010 - skating from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

May 6, 2010 - Campus Spring Snowboarding

2010-05-06T21:08:00.000-07:00

They took the ice out of the ice arena so there was one pile of snow. I HAD to ride it. Even though it's May and it was 80 today. Spenny wasn't answering his phone and I wasn't going to do this alone. Finally he woke up from a nap and we had a sesh. I don't think I have ever got my stuff together so quickly. I was shaking I was so excited.
It was awesome. SOO fun to get one last sesh in.

videooo:!!

May 6, 2010 - Campus Spring Snowboarding from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

it was higher quality, but vimeo made it look all funny.. so low quality it is!

new DC edit

2010-05-05T07:44:00.001-07:00

this is a new edit from the dc team that i think is cool.
cool shots of all of my favorite sports. and i think the editing is really cool too.

cool pic from the other day

2010-04-29T07:49:00.000-07:00

heres a cool pic chad took the other day

foggy and cold.... and bbutttterrr!

First day of the season

2010-04-26T11:11:00.000-07:00

First day of the season on Chad's boat on Lake Zurich.
We had a decent crew and all rode pretty well... and we only managed to piss off one kayaker!

in attendance:
chad, evan, spenny, t-paz, dan

First day of the season on Chad's boat from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

sorry about the down time

2010-04-21T21:35:00.001-07:00

Sorry about the down time...
We've all been busy...

but!!! we will actually be wakeboarding this weekend!
stay tuned for videos/pictures

some old fun clips

2010-04-12T10:37:00.000-07:00

Here are some clips I threw together to update the site.
I'll get some fresh stuff soon.

Post flooding wakeboarding on the Illinois river - Fall 08
Copper, Colorado snowboarding - January 09

We suck, but we're always havin fun. Sorry we party.

(there were better shots from these days, but were savin em for the movie!)

fall08/copper09 havin fun from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

Pics from skating

2010-04-07T21:31:00.001-07:00

Had the time to look over some skating pics from the other day.
If the weather stays good, we're going again tomorrow.

(click for full view)

Lets get stoked for summer!

2010-04-05T20:33:00.000-07:00

Here's the opener from the IWC's 2008 release, Meat 'n' Cheese.
Lets watch Nick shred to get stoked for wakeboarding:

Meat 'n' Cheese part 2 Nick Northfell from chad karecki on Vimeo.

first skate park trip of the year

2010-04-02T07:37:00.000-07:00

damian and i went to the skate park for a little bit yesterday.
he got a couple tricks and some other dudes there were killing it.
check it out:

April 1, 2010 - skate edit from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

some spring break clips

2010-03-31T08:06:00.000-07:00

here are a few clips from my spring break trip out east.
just some b reel footy. nothin special. maybe got a shot or two that ill save for the movie..
its gettin warmer. i hope to get some skate footy this weekend with the son of lucifer

check it:

some spring break clips from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

last few snow days of the year

2010-03-24T18:18:00.000-07:00

yo
m'lady and i are in maine hangin out with my parents for the week.
been snowboardin a few times this week, and the last day on snow for the year is friday :(

didnt bring the thing to hook up my camera to the computer, so no b reel footy teasers for now,
but nothings been that good anyway. still fun to make turns tho.

wake soon

Spring Break '91

2010-03-16T16:41:00.000-07:00

Well Sunday was the last day at Chestnut for the season. They kicked us out and closed to mountain for the season at 4pm.

Chad and I had a good retro day. People were diggin our outfits for sure.

I have one more week of snowboard season when I go home next week. but after that.. its all wake and skate. Which makes me sad and happy at the same time.

Cant wait to shred the cable!

E-14 Parking Lot Sesh #2

2010-03-11T17:41:00.000-08:00

Spenny and Evan found the last patch of snow after a day with temps in the 70s. Good times. And good slams!

March 10, 2010 E-14 sesh #2 from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

to quote the cop that stopped by "well thats gotta be some of the coolest shit i've seen this year"

hahha hell yea gettin the po-lice stoked on our riding

construction mini-shred

2010-03-10T12:42:00.000-08:00

Chad and I were messin around behind his construction company's office. We found some skid steer tires and a snow bank. Good times messin around :)

Seasons almost over, but were definitely not done getting shots :)

another e-14 session to be had tonight... prepare yourselves

March 6, 2010 - Construction Mini-Shred from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

E-14 parking lot sesh

2010-03-04T12:29:00.001-08:00

Spenny and I went out last night and found a snowbank big enough for a drop-in in the E-14 parking lot. We did some shoveling and had a sketchy but fun set up.
A cop stopped by and said "Well.... I guess there's really no rule against this..... you guys ok? any smoking or drinking" "no sir" "alright. well don't get hurt". and that was it haha,

heres some clips:

March 3, 2010 E-14 sesh from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

this past weekend

2010-02-21T22:05:00.001-08:00

heres a little edit with a few clips from this weekend:

Feb 20, 2010 edit from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

thanks to red bull for hosting the buttercup. good times all around!

Meat 'n' Cheese Fall Section

2010-02-19T07:12:00.000-08:00

Thought I would entertain website followers with a nice throwback video section.
The Fall Section from our 2008 release Meat 'n' Cheese:

Meat 'n' Cheese part 6 Fall Section from chad karecki on Vimeo.

the rail that wont work

2010-02-17T08:08:00.001-08:00

rail that wont work... from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

the rail that wont work

2010-02-16T08:20:00.001-08:00

Spenny and I have spent about 6 hours over the last week trying to get this one handrail on campus to work.
We cant get enough speed no matter how high we build the drop-in and how hard we pull on a rope.
So far, we have like 2 fall shots and a bunch of crappy filler.
We will keep trying... Just want one shot... It's a lot of work!

pics and fail videos later!

last weekend

2010-02-15T12:12:00.000-08:00

Cp3 and I went to chestnut on Friday night and had a great time and rode until we were so exhausted we couldn't ride any more.
Chip and I each landed new jib tricks and rode well.
Chad arrived late Friday night and we stayed at a house nearby that his uncle was renting.
Saturday we pretty much tried to get shots all day.
Got a few good shots on the gopro cam that died pretty fast. Then we filmed the rest of the day until we went home.
Unfortunately, Chip and I probably rode better Friday night, (when the cameras weren't running) but we still had a good time.
We'll pretty much just concentrate on gettin better park shots for the rest of the season.
We tried a lot of new angles and shots and just messed around the whole time.

Here are a few shots... we'll just call this the B reel:

Feb 13, 2010 B reel from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

"Chip, Chad and Me messin around at the nut.
This is just the footy from my camera. There are some better shots on Chad's camera (in HD) but we'll just have to wait for the movie to come out to see those!"

late night campus shredding edit

2010-02-11T10:22:00.000-08:00

heres a little video from a few nights ago.
im havin fun messin around with editing and stuff

Feb 10, 2010 campus edit from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

spenny and i went out last night again and tried to make this handrail work but we couldn't get enough speed. well have more salt and water tonight and try to make it work.
later

late night campus shredding

2010-02-10T11:27:00.000-08:00

well spenny, chip, myself and new iwc associate nick had some fun in the cold and snow last night.
we did some riding at the igb building and then moved on to a ledge in front of the law building.
i will try to post a few shots later, but dont wanna give all the good stuff away :).

my boards busted, may be beyond the point of repair but hopefully i can fix it.
dont know which time it happened but i either went to short or too long on a big bomb drop.
totally flattened my edge and it busted through the base. yuck

ill throw together a little edit later.

snow!

2010-02-08T20:27:00.000-08:00

finally gettin some more snow outside!
hopefully set the rail up tomorrow night and have a little sesh somewhere.
behind my apartment is a possibility, however it might be hard to get enough speed.
looks like car-tows or slingshots.

snow outside my balcony and on the rail:

wow crappy picture haha.
more tomorrow!

from this weekend

2010-02-08T11:53:00.000-08:00

well its official. we have another broken wrist 2 weeks in a row.

heres a little thing i put together. just messin around. nothing special.
more riding this week/weekend!

Feb 5, little edit from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

fun night

2010-02-06T03:44:00.001-08:00

went to the nut with a decent group: cp3, marky-mark, myself and my ladyfriend and chad met us there.
i rode pretty crappy but ended up getting a shot or two. chip was trying new stuff on skis and skiing well, chads the man with the vision and the camera, and marky-mark is the second week in a row with a wrist injury.

It took us 5.5 hours to get home. Sporty driving to say the least. Everything was fine until the last 30 miles or so. It had been snowing/raining/slushing in champaign all day and we knew it would be bad. But this was probably the worst weather I have ever driven in. The worst part was the wind! We dont get wind like that in Maine. It was gusting sideways (probably 40mph or faster) and blowing all the cars around on the icy/snowy road. Not good. My car with the box is pretty much a big sail haha. We saw a total of 3 semi's and probably a dozen other cars off the road. We actually ended up spinning a 360 on the highway and spun into the breakdown lane by the median, but I was able to just keep going. Might have needed to change my diaper after that one. We had a big caravan of semi's trucks and suv's all going 15-20mph with hazards on. Finally made it home. Slow and steady won the race tonight. I LOVE MY CAR.

maybe a clip later in the week.
maybe seshing our rail tomorrow on campus with the new snow/slush.
night

midweek updates

2010-02-03T20:48:00.000-08:00

well we got some updates on dans injury:
he is now a cyborg and has metal in his arm... yep, he needed surgery.
but hopefully this means faster recovery and a stronger arm!

i also started a vimeo account. this way its easier for me to post videos on here and they wont be 'unavailable'.

snowboardin on friday. hopefully film some more shots. gonna have to start doin newer and bigger stuff.

that is all for now. there is an extreme lack of snow on the ground here and its depressing...

little edit from this weekend

2010-02-01T11:03:00.000-08:00

this kinda sucks but its what i could throw together. didnt have much good stuff.
we suck so dont hate too bad haha

Jan 29, 2010 edit from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

maybe find a little pile this week to set up the rail... who knows

weekend shredfest.... not as we planned

2010-01-30T22:55:00.000-08:00

Welllll.........
Friday night was pretty cold... Chad, Spenny and I did a little filming just to check some shots for the next day. Fell pretty good on this cannon rail thing. Went to the hotel, had some lunchables, some beers, and some hot tub.
Saturday started off strong. Got to the hill a little later than expected but it was all good. Dan showed up a little later. We did a few runs then decided we wanted to race through the little boarder-cross course. Well, Dan and Chad had a little collision... resulting in Dan breaking his wrist:

Chad and Dan spent the rest of the day at the (new and improved) hospital getting x-rays while Spenny and I filmed some little stuff around the park....
It's really hard to ride knowing one of you buddies is out though. Tough to get motivated.
But anyway, we hope for a quick recovery for Dan.
Maybe some video clips soon.
Found one little clip:

Jan 29, Little Clip from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

I'll put some more together tomorrow.

X-Games slopestyle final tomorrow. Go Eero!! (But I'd still be stoked if Torstein, Halldor, Mikkel or Chas won (or pretty much anyone haha))

ready for the weekend already

2010-01-26T20:30:00.001-08:00

This weekend should be pretty awesome.
We're plannin out a 2 day trip to the nut.
Hopefully we all get some good shots.

Also, X-Games are this weekend. Hell yes
Lets go Eero, Halldor, Jussi, Andreas, Chuck G, Mikkel and Scotty in slopestyle
(pretty much anyone but Shaun White)
And lets go everyone but Shaun White in the pipe. Louie, Peetu, Mitranis, Scotty, Danny kass, etc.

Bummer about KP and Danny Davis. Get well soon fellas.

Rain Sucks, Jibbing is Fun

2010-01-24T11:01:00.001-08:00

With all this rain we've had, we've lost a lot of snow,
but spenny and I did what we could.
We found the only patch of snow on the only hill in town and set up the jib.

Jan 23, 2010 jibbing with spenny from Evan Glynn on Vimeo.

It wasn't really worth filming anything, but we filmed one trick each just to make something for the blog... for anyone who actually reads it... so pretty much just for dan haha

finally have our own rail

2010-01-13T13:40:00.000-08:00

chip and i built this rail the other day and i set it up in my girlfriends backyard.
ill move it down to champaign and have it set up behind my apartment soon!

Heres a little preview of the building process and the first few hits.
Its little, but good for practice!

shredding

2010-01-13T13:12:00.000-08:00

I just got back from germany where we had a few good days of shredding. Got a shot or two as well. Great food great beer and great times!

some pictures:

Been taking a lot of trips to chestnut too. Chad got a new camera that shoots in HD and we've been stackin footy there.

ridin today

2009-12-12T03:48:00.000-08:00

off to chestnut for a day of shredding.
my first time at chestnut this year.. time to pick up my season pass!
park opens today too.

snow

2009-12-09T15:03:00.001-08:00

finally some snow!
i was checkin some spots earlier today... we need more snow!
and i gotta build a drop-in ramp. maybe this weekend!

Early Season Fun

2009-11-25T10:21:00.000-08:00

Bretton Woods. November 23-24.
Only trail open in NH.

sooooo close to snow

2009-11-20T13:32:00.000-08:00

<2 days to snowboarding... get stoked

hopefully shoot some video next week and i can put together a little edit.

snow please

2009-10-14T13:34:00.000-07:00

with chads boat out of the water... im ready for winter.
all i can do for the next month is skate, but i have no one here to skate with.
o well.

SNOW PLEASE!!!!!!!

fall shredding

2009-10-06T18:51:00.000-07:00

We went out to Clinton on Sunday on Brandon's Moomba.
It was pretty cold... when we woke up and checked the weather in the morning, it was 40, feels like 37 degrees.
Needless to say, a lot of people thought we were "number 1". From filming from a bridge to filming on the shore and dealing with old grumpy fisherman, we had a solid day and probably got some good shots too!
Stay tuned for more riding and hopefully some pics.

Cable Park Trip #2

2009-09-28T07:48:00.000-07:00

This Saturday, John, Spencer and I traveled to Wake Nation for our second trip.
We rode all day and had a ton of fun. We all rode pretty well too.
We shot a little video and we all got a couple good shots. But as usual, the best tricks came when the cameras werent running.

Some clips from wake nation

2009-09-21T20:37:00.000-07:00

This is me eating shit on the transfer. I was the first one to try it, but never actually landed it. But I did give it my all haha. And my back hurt for 2 and a half weeks haha

some ridin this weekend

2009-09-21T08:20:00.001-07:00

I left champaign at 6am to get to chads at 9 to ride for a few hours on saturday.
Chad stomped a big backroll and a heel 3!
I rode like shit wahoo!

Just ordered my new outerwear for this year. 500$ outerwear for 320. I love the brocode haha.
thats it for now..

some more updates

2009-09-03T20:09:00.001-07:00

here are some more sequences i put together from this weekend.
im workin on some video stuff right now too.
more updates as i do more stuff.

Johns Roll-to-revert off the cable:

I was trying some switch stuff on the little box:

Dan gettin backside on the box:

Chad gettin backside:

Wake Nation Trip

2009-09-01T07:57:00.000-07:00

This past weekend, IWC traveled to Cincinnati to the newest wakeboard cable park on American soil. Wake Nation opened earlier this year, and it's so close that we knew we had to make a trip there sometime soon.
With a fun cable set up (and long lines) we had a ton of fun, shot a lot of video, got sunburns, and I'm still so sore I'm hobbling around like a 100 year old man.

Chip on the box:

Me on the small box:

John learned how to load the line and do roll to reverts on the cable:

Hangin out in the line:

More pictures later as I find time to make some more sequences. Lots of the turned out badly though as it was really cloudy. Ill upload some video today too.
Thats it for now.
later

Sweet times on the boat.

2009-08-25T19:56:00.001-07:00

Clinton Lake - 92 degrees. Outside - 78 degrees.
Made it feel good to fall, but then kinda felt like wakeboarding in a bathtub

I have some pics, but my lens was dirty and it was pretty cloudy... so theyre kinda crappy...
Hopefully I'll get some good ones from a trip thats in the works for this weekend!.

311-Uplifter

2009-08-21T21:09:00.000-07:00

311's new album uplifter came out in early June.
At first I didnt really like it, but it hasnt been out of the cd player in my car since the day I bought it.

Newest Digital Art Mini-Piece

wow, havent updated in a long time

2009-08-20T15:19:00.003-07:00

ok.
wakeboarding this weekend.
i will update then!!

moved into my new apartment and im still gettin stuff set up.
its weird being a college graduate in a college town, but my job with the university is gonna have to do for now haha.

word.
updates with pics soon!

Wake season has started

2009-05-12T15:23:00.001-07:00

We all went out on the Supra a couple weekends ago and all got in our first hits of the season
Jeff rode like he never had a winter.

Gonna be a great season!

School yea is almost over.. i have my last final in an hour and half... my last final of undergrad... thats crazy

been super busy and forgot about this thing...

no pics for now, but wait for the season to REALLY start!
later

Updates 2

2009-04-08T23:58:00.000-07:00

more stuff

Me 5050 on a handrail

actually learned a new rail trick:
fs 180 on, sw 5050, sw bs 180 out. fun

and a stale 3 into the sunset to end the year

thats it for snowboard highlights
were starting our 3rd film, Standing Sideways.
so were gonna start getting wakeboarding shots soon!
stay tuned

peace

Updates

2009-04-08T23:48:00.000-07:00

unfortunately.. snowboarding is over... tear
its been hard for me accepting this fact.
but here are some highlights from the season

chad dropping into the minibowl: hahahaha

Chip dropping into the minibowl: this is why skateboarders dont wear boots

bs 180 melon on chestnut (looks way better on film)

Paint the Nation tour came to town

2008-10-30T22:57:00.003-07:00

Abstract Rude, Blueprint and Atmosphere.

sick show.. got to meet everyone after and got some stuff signed.
another great show at canopy!!

Blueprint - Check out "1988" sick album and song
I got his album on vinyl and cd.

Atmosphere was sick. They played lots of new stuff, but also lots of old stuff too. Slug is also the man and had lots of good shit to say on stage.
Check out "My Songs" from the album "sean likes ugly girls 5"

I should probably update this

2008-10-22T11:38:00.000-07:00

what up. i kinda forgot about this and updating it..
anyway:
summer was sweet. livin the dream. thats all you need to know
wakeboard season is over... for now
we got 2nd at regionals and qualified for nationals
sweet life
Us and our 2nd place trophy:

Me:

Also, IWC got to hang out with Aaron Biittner, Iika Backstrom, Lauri Heiskari, and Devun Walsh at a DC promo event where the showed double decade in chicago a week ago.
This is us with Devun and Iika:

Im ready for snowboard season to start. Got about a month left before I can hit the snow. The countdown has begun.

Video Premier is TOMORROW NIGHT!!!

2008-04-18T18:08:00.000-07:00

The premier of the second video from the ILLINI WAKEBOARD CLUB will be held in the back room of Joe's. For only $5 you get to witness the first public showing of "Meat 'N Cheese" and access to 2 kegs. Iif you come before 9 pm there is NO COVER. After 9 you will have to pay the standard $5 cover. The video will premier around 9:30-9:45, and we'll probably air it twice. So come out and have your mind blown by the spectacular gnar shredding of the IWC.

pics + merch

TSHIRTS!!!!
there are extras if u want one lemme know

DVDs - U can get Meat 'n' Cheese in a clear dvd case (looks badass) with just the dvd for a few bucks
or
you can get Meat 'n' Cheese PLUS Thesis Statement (our first video) in a black double case for a few extra bucks!

WORD

GO TO THE PREMIER!

Meat n Cheese

2008-04-08T14:18:00.001-07:00

Chad is hard at work editing our second video.
it looks SICK so far
awesome riding and awesome editing.
So far the intro, nicks part and more than half of my part are done and its looking AMAZING.

logo:

Premier isnt set in stone yet, but were looking into Saturday the 19th at Joes.
Not like anyone reads this, but ill keep you updated on a final date, wristband info and times!
get pumped!

Wakeboard Season Has Started

2008-04-06T12:17:00.001-07:00

IWC went as a whole crew to lake springfield this weekend to start our season as a whole.
Good times had by all, except K-Wats who broke his leg on his first hit! Gnarly
It was pretty cold and the DrySuit was excellent

Nick goin large off of the double up

Broken fin when nick hit his tail ollieing the no wake bouy

Korys GNARLY broken leg.... vicodin WOOO!

2008-03-31T21:16:00.001-07:00

some highlights from this year

2008-03-10T22:43:00.000-07:00

As of this past saturday, my season of midwest snowboarding is over. Now i must wait till i go home on spring break friday to get my last week in. So here are some stills from video shots that we got this year and will be putting into the next IWC movie 'Meat n Cheese' which is comming out at some point this spring!! - sorry for the bad quality. cap'd from chads camera

-This was at a ledge on the NE corner of ISR

-1 foot at the jump we built at my house in maine

- big drop by the stadium. not much speed. It was about 9 feet or so.

-Nighttime jump sesh. Having a generator and lights is AWESOME!

-walkin back up to the jump. aparently it was warm

thats it for now
more updates (and better quality photos later)

Fantastic Fridays

2008-02-19T11:12:00.000-08:00

Spenny got this on film with his awesome camera and fisheye technology, so this photo is a little low quality. Now that im finally hitting the big jump, ive been tryin new kinds of grabs. I guess this is like a mute stiffy. Its just fun to grab, poke, THEN straighten legs. A cool feeling.

Hopefully ill grow some balls and spin this jump this friday night.

FANTASTIC

The Girls

2008-02-12T12:52:00.000-08:00

aight these are the 3 set up that i have.

04 GNU Danny Kass - is now in retirement, but i love it and may use it on the occasional street feature from time to time. With crappy Burton Cartels that i STRONGLY dislike.

07 Nitro Misfit Eero Ettala 158.6 - my main stick. Use this all the time. Backcounty, park, trails, europe, america etc. etc. I love this board. Great pop and Love the feel.

08 Nitro Raiden Phantom Eero bindings. LOVE 'em

newest board -

08 Nitro Eero 155 tails down. Just picked this board up for park purposes. Its a little smaller. I havent even ridden it yet. And the bindings are 05 Technine MFMs. Theyre my roomates which i plan on buying from him even though I havent ridden this board yet haha.

So for all you ladies out there, thats what you have to compete with ;)

have a nice day.

PRAY FOR SNOW!!

-e

rain :(

2008-02-05T15:29:00.000-08:00

Yes this is the crappy forecast.

All of the snow we got the other night is almost all gone because its been 40's and RAINING ALL DAY

and will continue to rain through the night.

Rain stinks..... O well

PRAY FOR SNOW WITH ME :) :)

-e

Winter is awesome

2008-02-02T19:13:00.000-08:00

Gettin towed around the parkin lot pressin tail (photo: K. Schmidt)

About to hit the ledge (photo: K. Schmidt)

My girlfriend

Ok, so i wanted to make one of these blogs to like post a few pics and update whoever cares (mostly myself) with whats goin on with me and the rest of the IWC.

Well its winter now so im friggin super happy. Except all I do is sleep, eat, dream, drink and live snowboarding, except im stuck in the fucking FLAT midwest.

It snowed a decent amount on thursday night, so we went out an checked out the urban possibilities. I had seen this ledge (above) at first a few weeks ago and knew it was possible to hit. So I was just waiting for snow. FINALLY SNOW. we get out there at like 1130 at night and we tried pushing and pulling each other into it (central illinois isnt exactly hilly). That didnt work, so we had to get my wakeboard rope, tied it to the back of the truck and were towing into this hit. We would tow all around the unplowed parking lot and hit this ledge. It is right outside a dorm hall so we actually had a decent audience. A few hecklers, a few people taking pics and giving props, a few ass-hats etc.

So we hit this jib a few times, i got some good shots on camera for our upcoming video. Then we got kicked out so moved onto the next location. A place really south campus that I had seen a few weeks ago. I originally wanted to wallride it, but we couldnt get the speed. So instead, I did this pretty gnarly drop to flat, about 9 feet or so i guess. One of my buddies piled snow on the landing so i saved my knees, and i got speed by pulling on a shovel my roomate was holding. Again, we got a few good shots off this drop. The most I could do was fs 180 it, but i wanted to bs 1 SOO bad, but I didnt get to hit it again (maybe tomorrow). So that was thursday night.

Friday we left for our weekly friday night trek to the closest "mountain" (4 hours away), to get some decent, cheap, park riding in. Waxed my sexy ass board (as you can see in the pic above) and we headed off. It was crowded (o well) but still managed to get a few hits in. I wasnt riding too great, but managed to get a few decent tricks, none on camera tho, o well.

Tonight its off to party probably, then probably some urban riding tomorrow morning, then the superbowl!! (go pats!! mike vrabel is my homeboy!)

thats it for now,

enjoy your saturday evening.. i will too!!!

-e