RYAN SLATERS JOURNAL

TRAMPA BOARDS NOW IN AUSTRALIA

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:02:00 +0000

Trampa Mountainboards and Landboards are one of the worlds best Mountain board manufacturers, And there is some great news for all the Lads in Australia. The all new Trampa Products are now being imported and are available for sale. This includes their Infamous unbreakable deck, Lightweight trucks and hubs and super solid bindings.

For all info info jump over to www.trampaboards.com.au

TRAMPA EURO TOUR VIDEOS

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:07:00 +0000

PART 1: BARDONECCHIA,ITALY & LES SAISES, FRANCE

VIEW HERE

PART 2: VAL D'SIRE, FRANCE

VIEW HERE

PART 3: WANYI PARK, BELGIUM

VIEW HERE

PART 4: WINTERBERG, GERMANY

VIEW HERE

Wakeboarding in Brunei

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:43:00 +0000

Recently I had the opportunity to visit the small but rich country of Brunei. Located in south east Asia on the north coast of the island of Borneo. I was able to organise a bit of a wakeboard session in the ocean near the hotel i was staying in. The water was a bit rough and filled with rubbish and debris, however the water house village nearby povided for an excellent backdrop.

Hop 180 over a bottle

Into a Powerslide

Check the backdrop.... Awesome!

And a beer To finish

Big Gap Jump

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:43:00 +0000

A few Weeks ago, whilst on the Trampa Euro Tour, we visited Winterberg Mountainboard Park for a competition. We discovered that they had built a new massive jump, a 9ft high take off, 15ft high landing, and a 45ft gap from the takeoff to landing.
When we visited last time the weather was not up to scratch adn we were unable to get the speed to do the jump, so no attempts were made.
However myself and Fellow team mate, James sleigh were determined to Return to conquor the beast.

When we arrived we noticed that the landing and run in and suffered quite a lot of Rain damage, so after several hours raking, and shoveling the jump was preped and ready to go. The conditions at this point of time were absolutely perfect... no wind.. no clouds, and perfectly dry ground

It was time to hit the beast.

Cyprus Airways Inflight Magazine

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:45:00 +0000

If you happen to be travelling with Cyprus Airways, be sure to check out the SunJet InFlight Magazine.
Featured on the cover of the magazine is one of my Mountainboarding buddys Dylan Warren. Deeper inside the magazine you will find an articel about mountainboarding in Australia largely featuring a Road gap, myself and Dylan rode a few months ago.

Val D'Sir - France

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:59:00 +0000

The Team Trampa Tour continues deep into the French Alps.

We have been on the road for a little over a week, and have now reached Val D'sir in France. The drive into Val D'sir was probably the most scenic drive of my life. The very windey mountain pass roads, beautiful Mountains, patches of snow beside the road (depsite the fact that it is summer and around 25 degrees).

The team was lucky enough to stay in an appartment right in the center of the town centre offering us a great base to go out and explore what was rideable within this area. Immediately we explored the streets, and found some great roads to bomb.

During our stay we also explored a BMX/Skatepark facility which was loads of fun, and with the scenic background provided us the perfect canvas for some spectacular pictures and footage.

On our last day we spent 6 euro on a one way lift pass to the top of one of the piests, to tackle on a roughly planned out blue grade ski run. The run took us around 2 hours to complete with an awesome final section of mountainbike trails and mowed grass in amongst bull paddocks.

TRAMPA EURO TOUR 2009

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:28:00 +0000

2,500 miles, 7 Countries, 2 pimpin vans, 2 dirtbikes, 10 rowdy mountainboarders, and the TRAMPA BOARDS euro tour was away, very early on a Wednesday Morning.

Our First Desitination was Bardonecchia in Italy. This town was the host country for the 2006 Winter Olympics, however this year it was the "Hitext European Downhill Mountainboarding Championships"

The whole team was staying in some pretty flash accomadation which was previously the Olympic village in 2006, which was a great to rest our brusied bodies from the burley track almost 3km's long.

The track was also very fast and technical with huge rocks, off camber corners and a huge gravel road straight down to the finish line.

The weekend provided us with plenty of thrills, spills and mad partys. Thanks to all the Italians for looking after us so well!

New videos

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:38:00 +0000

Have been working hard on a few new videos.
hear is one of my Trampa team mate, Arno VDV from belgium.

Season Opener

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:41:00 +0000

The weekend started with a mission to heathrow airport very early on friday morning, and i couldnt have picked a better morning to get up early. Not a cloud in the sky, and even at 5am the temperature was around 17 degrees ro so. On the way back from the airport i picked up Sam Nicholas, one of my fellow trampa team riders.

We were headed for Hales SuperBole, a mountainboarding park up near Chester. Superbole were hosting the 'season opener' A competition to mark the start of the mountainboarding season over this side of the world. On the cards for the weekend was a slopestyle comp, Saturday night Jib session under floodlights, and the big air on the Sunday.

Unfortunately i managed to sprain my wrist on my 10th run of the day so decided to pull out of competition, Just to be on the safe side. However Sam managed to go on and represent by winning the big air with some hugh Tweaked out FS rodeo's.

Heres some pics:

Yours truely with a backflip on the slopestyle:

Me with the Van:

How to waste 2 days of your life.

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:52:00 +0000

Yesterday, it was back over to the UK for another summer of mountainboarding goodness. I set off from Ballarat at around 9:30am and arrived at Melbourne international airport at 11, ready for my 1:55 flight.
After some fairwells i was off on my 5 month journey.
The flight was a 24hr total flight, with a 3 hour stopover in bangkok. Finally, on arrival to london, i was kept in london passport Control, and threatened to be sent back home for 8 hours! The theory behind this was that if i was comming over, with the purpose of mountainboarding, i should have acquired a sports visa.
In the end i was finally given the all clear to proceed through to the UK where ted from Trampa was waiting for me to take me up to Nottinghsam, where i will be staying.

Roof Drop

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:07:00 +0000

A short video of a roof drop i noticed beside the Monash freeway in Melbourne. The Roof belongs to the clubhouse of a baseball team around the Kooyong area. Not a huge drop, but the roofs surface was difficult to ride because there were deep grooves cut in that weren't quite wide enough for my wheels, these grooves were constantly moving my board a few inches left to right all the way down the roof. Once on the run-in to the drop i had already committed so i aimed straight and hoped for the best.... turned out well.

Outer Edge Magazine Article

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:20:00 +0000

This article was published in the March edition of Outer Edge Magazine.

The article, written by Melissa Reynolds, Discusses the worldwide mountain-boarding scene. Later in the article melissa talks about what is required to ride and where to ride. One of the best articles i have scene about mountain boarding.

DOWNLOAD .PDF ARTICLE

NEW VIDEO

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:11:00 +0000

Andy was kind enough to invite us all round to his backyard jumps for a riding/filming session. The jumps were rock solid, and the weather was about 35.
As you will see in the footage everyone was throwing down!

Enjoy and feel free to leave a comment.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD .MOV

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Some new pictures

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:31:00 +0000

Melbourne Bicycle Centre jersey

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:51:00 +0000

A jeresey and nix combo i designed for our team riders at Melbourne Bicycle Centre.

A few of the guys are in the national BMX championships in a few months time and will be racing wearing this.

Hopefully the final product will turn out sweet.

Carvin by the beach

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:04:00 +0000

A cool photo taken by steve cownie on our road trip along the Great ocean road.

Como Park gap

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:26:00 +0000

Its been many years in progress, but the beast has finally been conquered.

Myself, Dylan Warren, a support team and camera crew headed down to the como park gap in south yarra. The gap is around 12 meters long with a 2.5 meter step down. Even worse, nobody else had ever tried it, so getting the speed right, creating the right kind of take off ramp, and loads of other variables would mean the difference between landing clean and claiming, or blowing out both of your knees.

Heres a few sneak preview pictures:

MORE PICTURES COMMING AND ALSO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THE VIDEO!!

maybe you could bookmark this page, subscribe to the RSS feed(if you use a feedreader) or became a blog fan.

Eyeplay Helmet cams

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:37:00 +0000

Caught up with the fellas from Eyeplay, a company which Import helmet cams. we did a bit of video shoot at Mt. Macedon.

Check out their website www.eyeplay.net.au

Also look forward to a few films of me and the munroboards.com crew riding. they should be up in a few weeks

Angelsea

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:17:00 +0000

Went on down to Angelsea dirtpark with a few dudes. The park is amazing for a public facility, and has toilets a sheltered area and the track is very well looked after. i was impressed.

Jimmy reynolds took this photo with his new fish eye lens.

I would recommend this place to ride for anyone of any Mountainboarding ability. Eventually I will organise a competition here I think.

Deck Chair

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:38:00 +0000

Today i decided to do somthing useful with a few old decks i had layin around.

New Sponsors

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:10:00 +0000

Check em out!!!!

BERN Protective gear

POW Gloves

Slater + Dylan Hit Melbourne City - The Sequel

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:49:00 +0000

I recently edited up a little video of myself and fellow team mate, Dylan Warren shredding it downtown Melbourne city.

Enjoy!

Portugal Vid

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:35:00 +0000

Now i have returned home in Australia, i have had some free time to work on editing some video i shot while on tour.
Here is some stuff i shot with the sintra crew in portugal. Very scenic locations!

Sorry for the loss of quality on youtube.

World Freestyle Championships

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:10:00 +0000

Today was the day of the world freestyle championships. Riders had travelled from around Angland, Japan, USA, Ireland, Czech republic, Syberia, France, Belgium, Switzerland and myself from Australia.

It wasnt just the rider which made this a true world class event, but the Track features were like no other i had ridden before. The main riding line consisted of a 25ft long snowboard style stepdown, after landing this travelling at mach 10, a quick speed check was required and it was on to the 30ft tabletop with a very steep lip. After riding out of this it was required to get down low and hold as much speed as possible before the next jump, a 40ft long step up jump where the landing was around 8ft higher then the 6ft high take off. Aswell as these features, there were rails, hips and a beasty 12ft drop off.

This set the platform to be the best competition of all time. Many of the expected 1500 spectators began to arrive at 1:00 in the afternoon ready to watch qualifications at 4pm followed by finals under lights at 9pm

By the time of the first qualification run, riders were all at the top and amped to ride. Many riders chose to try and throw down straight away, while others like myself were more conservative to make sure to get clean runs early on in the comp.

Unfortunately after the first 2 qual. runs the rain had arrived, so out came the covers for the jumps(just like in the cricket or tennis).

After and hour under covor, the rain had stopped and it was time for the 3rd and final qualification run. Towards the end of the 60 competitors the rain had joined us again. This time the rain was heavier, and didnt end for several hours forcing the organisers to take results from the qualification jumps.

In the end it was Renny Miles who places first, Pavel Pasha from syberia in 2nd and ben tweedie in 3rd. I ended up placing 11th which i was stoaked on. Riders were then able to relax and enjoy the free jagermeister(one of the event sponsors)

24hrs in Antworp, Belgium

noreply@blogger.com (RYAN SLATER) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:57:00 +0000

Today i got invited to go with team Trampa to go and Visit Antworp, Home of World freestyle Champion Arno VDV. I was unsure weather to stay at Wanyi or travel for 3hrs to see another part of Belgium. I flipped a coin and was soon in the back of the pimpin black Mercedes vito van headed for Antworp.

We arrived in antworp and spent and hour chillin at arno's place in town. We then met up with his girlfriend and a few of her friends for lunch at a sweet cafe'/ The food was quality and very cheap aswell. We then headed in to On Love Boardshop(one of arno's sponsors) to collect some prizes for the comp on the weekend, as well as to check out all the sweet gear they sold. I'm sure i could of spent 1000euro in here but settled to spend 30 on a t-shirt.

Arno and friends were then kind enough to show us around Antworp, where myself and the english riders sore some amazing cathedrals, the river running through the city and some really unique street art.

After experiencng the cool vibe of the city we had changed our plans and decided to hit the town at night. By this time it was 5 in the afternoon so we headed to our first of many bars for the night. All the places we visted played some cool downtempo lounge or hip hop music and the atmosphere was great. At about 4 in the morning we went back to arno's, grabbed his spray cans and headed out to the streets to do some graffiti on some legal graffiti walls near by. As we were finishing our art pieces the sun was comming up and it was time for us to say goodbye to antworp and drive back to wanyi park.

It was definately a good thing the coin flip sent me to antworp.