Ross 4 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 More rusutsu whiteroom goodness Hells yeah! Go pro pic of the season! The snow boarding Yeti great shot My feet arent that big LOL Well you said there was some swelling.I must say your pics and vids are great Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Whao! Why am I only just seeing this thread now?! Guess work has been doing my head in a little cause I haven't had the time to keep up with things here. Gozaimaas, good stuff man. Glad to see that you are enjoying your boards and the car danchi (in other circles we call it p-camping). You are living in a palace compared to the station wagon I spent two months in... but it was during the summer and in Shikoku, not Hokkaido. Good on you for sticking to it! Also, loving the videos... after watching them I feel like I'm not getting out enough, and certainly not getting the video camera out as much as I've done in previous years. Also, I'm loving the NS meltdown. I'm a pretty casual user of that site but can't believe what is going on there now. Those dudes have lost the plot a little. Cheers dude! B Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted February 1, 2013 Author Share Posted February 1, 2013 Haha this will make for some interesting reading for others trying to work out WTF is going on though!. FWIW he is actually a cool guy but this abortion of an idea has gotten out of hand and it cant be reeled in, he needs a ****ing holiday somewhere that snowboards have never been seen. ANYWAY look at this feckin snow front that is coming tonight! YAAAAAAAY A small spec of that blue hovering around has been resulting in 20cm dumps, this is 50 times bigger than anything ive seen since Ive been in Hokkaido. More fool me for not looking at freezing levels, turns out this was all rain. Boooo Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post gozaimaas 61 Posted February 1, 2013 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 1, 2013 Whao! Why am I only just seeing this thread now?! Guess work has been doing my head in a little cause I haven't had the time to keep up with things here. Gozaimaas, good stuff man. Glad to see that you are enjoying your boards and the car danchi (in other circles we call it p-camping). You are living in a palace compared to the station wagon I spent two months in... but it was during the summer and in Shikoku, not Hokkaido. Good on you for sticking to it! Also, loving the videos... after watching them I feel like I'm not getting out enough, and certainly not getting the video camera out as much as I've done in previous years. Also, I'm loving the NS meltdown. I'm a pretty casual user of that site but can't believe what is going on there now. Those dudes have lost the plot a little. Cheers dude! B Cheers mate! Make sure you get that cam out on the deep days, your vids keep me going through the long aussie summer months as I count down my days till I leave for japan. I subscribe to your youtube channel lol. I have had some cool experiences with the car danchi one of them being a game of night soccer with locals in the rusutsu car park and also hooking up with another danchi group at sapporo teine and then having a squad of local drifters (about 8 cars) do some sick drifting in the car park. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
pjstyles 0 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Hey man Been away from posting on forums for about a year but have been lurking every once and a while. I think I mentioned a while back that I was gonna head up to Hokkaido this February but turns out that I won't be able to due to money. Really wanted to try out one of your DIY boards. They look totally rad! Fantastic job with that. Powder looking top notch as well. More vids please!!! Any plans to head up to Asahidake? Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted February 2, 2013 Author Share Posted February 2, 2013 Yo PJ bummer you wont be coming up. Im always up for riding partners. Definately heading up north to hit a whole range of places including the fabled asahidake ropeway. Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted February 2, 2013 Author Share Posted February 2, 2013 Today was a shocker pretty much all over japan looking at the weather reports. Here in rusutsu It was +3 and raining when I woke up, probably went up to +5 or so by lunch time, everything melted and was then snap frozen this afternoon when it got really cold really fast. So there is a very slick melt crust out there now and the new snow is so light and dry that it isnt sticking at all. Tomorrow is going to be dust on crust bigtime and I would say there will be a lot of soft slab activity over the next few snow falls and maybe even for the rest of the season on todays nasty layer so everyone should keep this in mind even on sidecountry jaunts. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Today was one of those days when I'm really happy that I can change my snowboard for a surfboard. It was +20C at the beach today. Decent swell and great weather. Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 It snowed all night but unfortunately the snow was accompanied by a strong wind which churned up the snow into tiny particles and desposit them in big drifts on the lee side of anything. Fortunately the snow was still fun to ride but you were either on pure ice or 40 odd cm of powder, lifes a bitch lol. This is the danchi when I got up and a faceshot sequence for something different! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
surfarthur 22 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Nice sequence Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 Cheers bro. Check out the piece of snow plastered to the goggles in the last one! Link to post Share on other sites
seemore 66 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Looks great mate keep it up and get some in for me I rode the Heavenly Spirit on the last day after the windblown 5+ still had a good time Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Rich 78 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Great pics!!! Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 thats HILARIOUS!!! I actually lol'd. Not just internet lold, but actually full on granny cackled. Great pics. Link to post Share on other sites
panhead_pete 27 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 That sequence rocks! Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 All tracks have been covered in again today and its currently snowing pure baby duck down powder with no wind. woo. Hopefully all the ice has been covered over. Link to post Share on other sites
Ross 4 Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Sleeping in the van has not slowed you down.Great pic's.Funny thing showed your photos to my sister in law who said you where cheating as you are being towed along.I didnt slap her just shook my head. Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted February 4, 2013 Author Share Posted February 4, 2013 it keeps me on my toes brother! I filmed a heap of nice lines today with no data card in the gopro! DOH Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 A few vids from today. I was the first one to make a run down the mountain and it looked like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCGzivR1C2Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJzdX8o3Lec Livin on the edge at 0.20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgqe8EhQZN0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7u08LDT-pw Link to post Share on other sites
surfarthur 22 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 You weren't kidding about living on the edge! Awesome videos, very very jealous right now. Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 You weren't kidding about living on the edge! Awesome videos, very very jealous right now. Cheers mate. My old mistress rusutsu really turned it on today. Link to post Share on other sites
agillgren 13 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 NIce vids. The gopro did it justice. Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 NIce vids. The gopro did it justice. For once! Link to post Share on other sites
surfarthur 22 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 I am still blown away by your boards, looks like it rides like a dream. Link to post Share on other sites
gozaimaas 61 Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Cheers mate. It does ride really nice. The board copped a bit of flack for being chattery when I first posted a vid of it ,today I seen gentems and moss snow sticks all chattering like crazy so I cant be too far off the mark with mine. Link to post Share on other sites
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