the secret’s almost out …

MAHFIA.COM Teaser 1 from MAHFIA.COM on Vimeo.

Been out in the Whistler backcountry shredding with Dave Short and Hockenstein. We’ve been on a superfun program - just drawing our lines on to the white untouched mountains and exploring new valleys and bowls.
Here is a little video Brian made on one of those days last week…

A Day Out in the Whistler Backcountry from brian hockenstein on Vimeo.

With the olympics going on right outside my whistler house, many of my deep emotions from the past have been brought up lately.

please let me share with you the wikipedia article on the ISF - International Snowboard Federation R.I.P.

“The International Snowboarding Federation was a body organised to run snowboarding competition.

Following the collapse of the National Association of Professional Snowboarders in 1990, five nations and 120 racers established the International Snowboarding Federation (ISF) with the goal of keeping the officiating by riders and for riders. It sought to bring the world’s best competitors together to test their skills in an environment which embraced competitiveness, but stressed the idea of having fun. The ISF eventually attracted riders of varying ages and abilities, which allowed one-time rising stars such as Terje Haakonsen, Daniel Franck and Danny Kass to sharpen their skills at an early age on their way to joining the professional ranks. The ISF set the standard for snowboarding competition, which contributed to the development of it as an Olympic sport in the 1998 Winter Olympics.

In a controversial move, the International Olympic Committee recognized the Federation International Ski (FIS) as the sport’s official governing body. Three-time world champion Terje Haakonsen boycotted the Olympics as a result of the FIS being appointed to oversee the officiating. Other riders followed in Haakonsen’s footsteps and concluded FIS rules to be inappropriate for snowboarding. The FIS has maintained its control over the Olympics, giving credence to the position that snowboarding is a discipline of skiing and not its own, individual sport.

Although the ISF continued to represent snowboarding on an international level, it began to lose power, sponsors and finances to the FIS, and ceased operations on June 22 2002.”

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Snowboard_Federation

MBM’s vote for European Rider/Videopart of the Year is online !

Go vote for your favorite shred

http://www.snowboardermbm.de/cgi-bin/adframe/article.html?ARTICLE=/sonderaktionen/rider_of_the_year_2009/Content.snp&id=126294380714525397741818

Honey I’m Home

SOUL boarding again….. finally - feels so good -

i’m home again …

been having some unreal snowboard and sled days..

untouched white as far as the eyes can see..

breaking trail in the most epic powder on the most beautiful of days..

ALL THIS CRAP SEEMS SO SMALL FROM UP THERE !!!!

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and dont come looking for me -

i’ll be OUT until at least April !!

For Dutch Folk and Hip Hop lovers:

www.serriobaaz.nl

FREE DOWNLOAD !!!

my friend Serrio just released his debut- EP and it’s FREE !

HIP HOP straight from Amsterdam Centrum !!

get that shit !!!

Transworld Snowboarding’s annual Reader’s Poll Awards are underway !!!

visit http://snowboarding.transworld.net

to vote for your favorite snowboarder of 2009 !!!

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During the time of the Cannabis Cup, an exhibition hall outside of Amsterdam becomes the Powerzone - Headquarters, Sampling, and Voting Area. From Amsterdam Centraal Station we  take a 10 minute train there and walk to the low-profile hall that smells like sweet sensi…
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The owner of Mountain High Cones, Europe’s monopolist on pre-rolled papers, welcomes us with a beer and we check out his wide variety of different sized cones.

At the Greenhouse booth next to us, a cute girl in a skirt fills up a gigantic bag with vaporized fumes. When the bag is inflated you can read “Silver Lemon Haze”. We get in line for a sample and when it’s my turn the cute girl says “Let me roll it up, I’m gonna give you a big one”. Nice.

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The contestant of Barney’s coffeeshop, a vanilla haze, smells amazing. Much like their coffeeshop, their booth is very high quality with huge pictures of the most beautiful buds. I’m getting used to the vaporizer samples and take a deep whiff of the vanilla. Yummy.

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A dank smell pulls me towards a smoky booth, where I find the boys from BC Bud Depot. They immediately hook me up with a bong hit of their excellent Blue Buddha. I cant say what got me high because I did a vaporizer hit of their other contestant, The Purps, right afterwards, but I felt so light and high and happy that I must declare this combo as personal, unofficial Winner of the Day.

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oh, and I was gonna say - I slept very well last night…

Welcome to the 22nd High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, Netherlands !!

I will be here all week, reporting to you live on whats new in the THC-heavy field of strains that make you smile !

Founded by a High Times Magazine editor in 1987, The Cannabis Cup has grown to be the One-And-Only  Marijuana Festival globally. A number of VIP judges and public judges smoke the strains entered into the competition by different coffeeshops and grow houses.

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Here in the Netherlands Marijuana is decriminalized, so the judges spend all week visiting coffeeshops and testing their way through large menu selection of the finest buds. Most judges go by a “whatever I end up smoking the most” - policy when they submit their favorite strains.
In 2008, the Cannabis Cup had a record of 2,300 judges - can’t wait to see how many made it this year !

The VIP - judges have just release the Pre-Test Results…the name in parentheses is the name of the Shop who entered the bud…
good to hear those guys are working hard !!!

White Dolphins (The Dolphins)
S5 Haze (Mellow Yellow)
420 Kush (420 Cafe)
O.G. Kush (De Kroon)
Silver Haze (The Ocean)
G-13 Amnesia (Tweede Kamer)
S5 Juice (Boerenjongens)

I’m going to test a couple of these strains, probably sitting in the Bulldog Coffeeshop, my favorite…

SMOKE UP !!!

impressions from last weekend’s ELEKTRO premiere in Maribor, Slovenija !!!!

BOOTY CALL SOUNDSYSTEM and NIKITA CLOTHING throwing a fat party !!!

thanks Horsefeathers, Nitro, and Playboard Magazine for the support !

the crowd watching the movie - more people behind us we’re in the front !!

der Yon, Johnny Flash, tadej Valentan, and myself

drinking LASKO - good slovenian beer !

“did i push any buttons last night??” tadejV helping JohnnyFlash rock the house !!

vera and tadej

vera and Domen Bizjak