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The roxy chicken jam is the final event of the season! It is always a fun event with all the girls riding together and having a great time!

This year it was all that again, but we ran into a few bumps this year. The weather was not co-operating, and because of the weather our practise time was an hour before the event. The Half pipe was too over vert and was painful to ride because of all the flat landings. But the contest was held and then we prayed for good weather for the slopestyle.

The good weather never came, so it was decided to take the chance and have the slopestyle on the Monday, wich was the departure day for the event and the day womens super park started. So unfortunately alot of the qualifier girls could not stay for that extra day.

The event was held and it was sunny! We had alot of fun riding the slopestyle, they were fun jumps! I was expecially happy because i learnt a new think on the jumps... switch back 540.

Although the event was not perfect, we all had a great time. And Roxy really looked after the ridders with a catered breakfast and lunch everyday! Coming out of the chicken jam, i finished the season as Vice TTR world champion to Jamie anderson who took out the title! Well done Jamie!!!


2008 Vice TTR World Champion & the TTR World Champion Jamie Anderson


On the way to mammoth we to a site seeing detour to Lunar Creator!

The US Open is the second last event of the season and the TTR tour, but the final event for the global open series. When thinking about the Open I usually conja up in my mind a vision of snow storms, ice storms, wind and just freezing weather, and that is exactly what we got! I think the US Open and all the opens for that matter are cursed with bad weather. Saying that we actually had blue bird for the pipe finals and for the junior jam.

Coming in to the Open i was ready to ride but was not thinking about the Whole Global open champion that would be crowned with a $100,000 cheque. I figured that because i had messed up in Japan with my slopestyle result i was out of the running for it. Little did i know that it was neck and neck coming into the Pipe with Jenny Jones and myself. I Had to win the half pipe to win the global open. If not Jenny would win. Jenny was riding really well all year long, and came into the open back from her friends wedding in England straight to compete in the Open, and on top of that... injured. Don't know how she did it!

I won the pipe and took out the Global Open series for the second time in a row. When i saw Jenny down the bottom at the presentation, we were both appreciative of the tough competition that had alot of people on edge!

Scott James is a 13 year old boy from Melbourne, Australia who has been traveling with Ben and i for the last winter. It has been so fun riding and seeing new places with him, love that boy! Usually we would have been on our way back to SLC after the open but Scotty was competing in the junior jam. I came up and cheered him and everyone else on. There were soo many good little ridders. But because of pure skill and determination Scott James won! We were all so proud of him! Not just because he won, but because of the amazing snowboarder he is, and still becoming. To win the junior jam at the open is not a small feat. Scotty is in great company with previous winner of the junior jam.
The female winner of the junior jam, Madeline Schaffrick is just 13 years old too. i give it a few years and she might be winning the US Open womens!!! Its crazy to think of where snowboarding will be with the young incredible ridders coming up!


2008 BGOS CHAMPIONS Torah Bright & Peetu Piiroinen

The Park City World Super Pipe Championships is a event that i love to be at.

Park City is 30 minutes away from my home in Salt Lake city, so i get to sleep in my own bed. What made it really special this year was that my sister, her husband and their new baby boy were in town.
Rowena's husband went with his family south for a marathon race. So i got to have rowena and Sid stay with me, and cheer me on.

The Practice days were beautiful and sunny, then the contest day was a little bad, but not bad enough not to run it.
The girls were first and the contest went supper fast. We had a 3 run final.

I ended up having a victory lap... i love it when that happens.
Kelly Clarke came in second and Soko Yamaoko in third.
I was so happy to have Rowena and Sid there. I was so happy playing with them that i actually missed the prize giving... woops!

Luckily they staged it again for me.

All in all it was a great contest, there were a lot of friends that i have not seen for such a long time at this event, so it was great to catch up and ride with them!


A Melon to Fakie


My big sister


Sid after his big win.

As always check out all the latest photos from the World Superpipe event and all my friends in the gallery

The last day of the Nippon Open was today, The half pipe finals could not have fallen on a better day. It was sunny for the most part and little wind, it was our best weather day yet.

After falling both runs in the park style and just making it in to the finals in 7th place for halfpipe, i had serious thoughts that maybe this event was just going to be one of those events that you wished you never put the energy into coming to if you were going to be off the whole time, but finally the weather cleared and we were all able to give a good show.

I was very happy to come back to japan for the Nippon Open and win it for the 3rd time.

I am now leading the TTR tour and sitting in 2nd for the global open, its anyones to take though, because jenny jones, jamie anderson, Kelly clark and myself are all very close!

I will just have fun and try to ride my best and see what happens!
Straight after the awards we gathered our bags loaded them on the bus which was taking our bags to the hotel and then hoped in the car with koski from burton and headed to the train station.
Now we are sitting on the train to Tokyo to spend the night before we fly back to Salt Lake where the park city super pipe world championships are being held.

I am expecialy excited to get back because my sister Rowena is in town visiting her husbands family. Rowena and Rob just had a baby boy, back in November, and i can not wait to see them all!
Tonight we plan to go out and sing karaoke and then make it to the fish markets in the morning at 4 am, where the days catchment's come in and are sold... we will see if i can stay out that late though. I hope i have plenty of pictures to put up for you all the see the fun times!

The highlight of the trip has defiantly been the few karaoke nights we have had, i will have to show some pictures of everyone rocking out.... oh and i can't forget how the japanese pronounce some names, they seem to put and 'o' on the end over some names. They say Bright, Brighto. We all have fun calling each others names like that!

I hope you have enjoyed the few updates we have put up and i hope to get better at it.

I will next blog at the World super pipe champs, but if anything exciting happens in the mean time i will be sure to blog it!
Till next time...

ox T.







Check out the rest of my pictures of the Nippon Open, in my gallery under Nippon Open Part 2

Ok so my brother and i spent the day being Tourists in Tokyo, and this is a little of what we saw.


Soccer anyone????


Very famous snowboarder from japan, Mr Abominable Snow Man.


Top of the pipe with J-money


I was only meant to spend a night in tokyo, catch a train early to fukashima the next day but due heavy winds the regional
express was staying stationary. So we got the chance to cruise around tokyo for another day and night.
Tokyo was super fun, and interesting. We spent most of the day in the district of shibuya. Walking in and out stores,
taking snaps, and checking out a city japanese style. A long the way we kept bumping into other
people who are in some way apart of the snowboard scene from event organizes, to athletes, to media. Its amazing who you see
a draft in Tokyo.

We arrived at the Nippon open a day late but so did most ever body else. I have had one training day in the pipe,
it could have gone a little better. Today we were scheduled to have Slope-style practice, but due to the weather it was cancelled.
So i am Typing this blog. Gretchen Bieler, Ellery Wollingsworth, Jamie Anderson, Kelly Clarke, Jenny Jones, and host of other
internationals are here, plus japans finest, so it's set to be a fun week. So stay tuned for more news, snowboarding,
snowboarding life Japan style, and Karaoke............oh yeah!!!!


Benny's new Humaniod remote control robot. '' the I-SOBOT''



Make sure you check out the rest of my photos of Japan in the Gallery!