Snow in May????

First G-Team rail jam! Yep...70 degrees and sunny and snow!

Little patch of snow about 100 feet long with some rails to grind!

Skateboard training...

Skateboard training has also started and thankfully we had nice weather after two days of rain and a chance of snow even! The first morning the clouds parted and the sun came out. It was a cool 45 degrees though with strong winds.

Tristin hadn't been to a skate park before and enjoyed all the different features of the park. He picked it up pretty quickly and learned how to drop in too.

Trampoline Training...

Trampoline Training has started and Tristin is enjoying it very much.

He says that it goes too fast. He is landing his 540 spin, doing arials and

front flips. Plus, he loves hanging out with such a cool guy like Guff.

Sk8boarding...

We are on to skateboarding and trampoline for the summer!

We built a halfpipe in the garage for Tristin to practice on.

The halfpipe is 4 ft tall on each side and has a tabletop on one side.

Front page...

Tristin made the front page of the local newspaper for his snowboarding! Pretty excited!

Click here to read the article

Tristin and Tyler's last day at Spirit Mt, Duluth

Rider of the Year!!!!

Tristin was announced "Rider of the Year" for the G-Team Elm Creek!
He was so excited he said his heart was beating so fast when they announced his name!

He got a cool belt buckle with "Rider of the Year" and his name engraved on it!

Tristin and his belt buckle

Tristin and Coach Nick

Closing Time...

The last Picture of the season!

Tristin and his friends at 9pm on the last day of the season!

Rail Jam...

The Rail Jam at Elm Creek was a great day to see all the kids show off their talents! It was quite breezy standing out there but well worth it!

Tristin took 3rd place out of 7 in the 12 and under group in the rail jam at Elm Creek. He was the youngest by 2 years and he did a great job!

Congrats Tristins!

Tristin and Coach Guf planning a run

Rockin' the rails

He's Sick...

Tristin's Dad was out watching and was approached by an older kid, 17, who said "Your son is SICK!" he looked at him with confusion. The kid explained how amazing Tristin was out on the hill. Now, Tristin is getting the attention of the older kids and they are starting to "coach" him if you like. They play follow the leader, the older kid showing Tristin how to do something and Tristin following. They are all pretty impressed with his natural ability! So here are some new pictures!

Snowboarding in Feb...

New Board

Tristin got a new board!

Hyland SlopeStyle Competition

No pictures from this competition, since I was video taping instead. Tristin rocked at Hyland!

He competed in one of the SlopeStyle's and took 5th place out of 9 in his group.
Way to go Tristin!

Giants Ridge Competition, January 2008

Tristin competed at Giants Ridge in Bordercross, Slolom and Giant Slolom. For his first competiton he did great and was able to keep his times close to kids that have been snowboarding for much longer than he has been.

He took a trip to Ski Patrol for Bordercross and didn't get to finish after he was forced off the course as all the riders came around the corner. He bruised his ankle but was fine and took the rest of the day off.

The second day, he competed in Slolom and Giant Slolom which he only tried a couple days before for the first time. He took 5th and 6th in Slolom and 6th in Giant Slolom.

Here are pictures from the competition.

Some of the latest...