Back to Van!

Well just about to jump on the plane to Vancouver to MC the Turkey sale and DJ at some clubs!

Happy Gobble Gobble!!!!

Denver

Just down in Denver waiting for Pat to pick me up! I've had a great trip down here and I'll I've uploaded a bunch of pictures from the trip on Facebook. You can find me under:
ryan r. rausch!
Have a great day!

This is the best thing I've seen in a Colorado minute.

Hey there,
So i ran into this BBC special when I was just checking an amazing blog for 80's music of all varieties but all super rare and usually ripped from records! (http://www.hashmoder.com/)

and here is the link for the Synth Britannia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVRYPjcVXg

ENJOY

Triple cork????? Stop the insanity!

Well Everyone R3 here to give you the up and ups in the Snowboarding world as it stands today! The biggest thing I've seen in the last couple of months has been the landing of the (for lack of a easier way of describing it) Triple Cork by Torstein Horgmo. It has been called a "Tornado" flip in this video, and well with the way that Torstein does it he looks so calm; almost as if he were actually in the eye of a Tornado.

Torstein is no stranger to Whistler you usually see him hitting the biggest set of Jumps all day long, and all summer long at Camp of Champions. I really hope he is going to come back again this summer!

Only another couple of weeks and we'll be back on snow.

I can't Wait!!!!!!!!!

http://vimeo.com/12366289

Tom Scrumb

Hey! how are you all doing today?! I just got a link for my buddies new EP and it is awesome Breakstep! here is the link check it out

http://tomscrumb.bandcamp.com/track/beds-are-burning-bassfest-remix

The rain here in whistler these days is a little hard to handle but it's going to get sunny again I'm sure of it! I've got 3 different mixes i'm working on right now and I'll be dropping 1 of them this weekend for sure and then 1 a week after that so stay tuned!

Enjoy Tom Scrumb

Spring snowboarding is done!

Well another spring has finished and this season's spring was very cold! we ended up getting more snow in the spring than I can remember and I've spent 9 springs here in Whistler! I love how much fun we had this spring and the amount of riding I got to do with so many of my Japanese friends! I love you all!

http://www.dmksnowboard.com/club/3888

So i played a full moon party the other night and it was so much fun!!!! and here is a mix I did with that inspiration!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/758092719cabd5a7/

I'm Coming Home!

I'm on My way back to Canada tomorrow! I look forward to riding with everyone when I get back and the Grenade games start in Just about 1 week!

see you soon.

R3

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21nv6_vapors-turning-japanese_music

Haro Whistler!

Morning! How do you start your day? Do you have a system? Any superstitions? Do you eat a big breakfast? Do you need a coffee before you face your day? For some reason I get headaches from coffee, not always but often enough that it impedes my drinking of this liquid pick me up. I do however wish this morning tea gave me the same boost, none the less the day will continue of that I'm sure of. I'm also sure that once I get strapped into my snowboard, plug in my headphones, press play, and start my downhill assault all this will be forgotten. I've been in this relationship for the closer side of 2 decades and I still crave that bluebird powder day, and I'm still in lust with the feeling that you get when you land a new trick or perfect 1 that has been eluding you for what can sometimes be years!

I have just recently returned back to Whistler from what has felt like a long absence even though it has only been a couple of months since the best opening week I've ever had the privilege of experiencing! This morning it is raining not all the way to the top so that is good but a lot of people never realize this fact. So many tourists and Whistler rookies never find this fact out; granted very rarely is it bluebird up top on a day such as this but snow and or fog plus small line ups are always better than rain up to the top of the mountain.

I came to a decision last night while I lay in my car waiting to fall asleep to stay here in BC for most of the month of March until I head to Quebec to attend the Canadian nationals halfpipe contest and then off to Japan for the Advanced cup! I didn't get a chance to head to Japan last year, for the first year in almost 7 tears, and I cannot wait to get back there. I think that has been making it hard for me to decide where I wanted to be until I head out there, that and the fact that my role in the 2010 Olympics as an athlete has come to an end (early post Olympic depression). So many plans, goals, aspirations, expectations, heartbreaks, amazing memories , and also tears! I'm very happy that even though I didn't make the Olympic team I was able to participate in the Olympics by forerunning. I've gotten numerous people asking me what a forerunner does it is defined as: a person who goes before or announces the coming of another. In the case of the Olympics the group of the 4 athletes that just missed being able to ride in the Olympics as a competitor were the forerunners, a bittersweet honour. I was really scared for the halfpipe event (read earlier olympic post to know the whole story) until the 3rd day of practice at which time miraculously the halfpipe was almost perfect, and for contest day it was immaculate. Those 2 days of riding were so phenomenal. I rode with such a freedom and calm surrounding me it was, something that I had not felt in a really long time, that being said now that it is all done the light at the end of the tunnel being reached a new chapter has begun and in a really quite a unique way. Only a short couple of days after that awe inspiring halfpipe session I turned 31. Thats right 31 WOW. I'm not 1 to put an emphasis on age but around me there are a lot of people that do. This is unfortunate but I'm very lucky that I'm very good at adapting, and I now have a plan that takes me all the way until the end of this summer and allows me to continue all the things that I love in an environment that has it all in my backyard!

I may be getting older but my love for all that I do is only getting stronger.

The future is now embrace it.

R3

Olympic Halfpipe training.

Good Morning everyone. The first time I saw the 2010 Olympic pipe in person I was amazed! It was as white as Will Smith's teeth and the shape and transition was as tight as Eva Mendez, but unfortunately as soon as we got in there I found out that it was just a crust of perfection running less than an inch thick. Practice was only a half hour in and the walls had numerous ruts in them that made it very hard to navigate and a flat bottom as messy as a drunk uncle at a family reunion.

Today is the last day of practice for the Olympic halfpipe! Needless to say when I woke up this I was a little tired because the pipe was so much more fun last night, 1 reason was that the walls were a perfect firmness and shape so you were at least able to trust them, unlike the flat bottom. Unlike the night before where it was messy last night it was like Quicksand. I have never seen so many amazing riders get eaten alive in a flat bottom in my life! 1 run I was hiking up the pipe and I watched Scotty Lago do a "whoah" inspiring backside air then it was like the flat bottom just grabbed his board and spit him at the next wall so hard I felt it shake under my feet! I saw everyone fighting with the flat bottom so I just went with and had a great time. At the end of practice I was watching everyone sideslip and it looked like they were riding a bull in the rodeo the flat bottom was that bumpy and super soft!

The end of the practice came and you could hear so many people talking about the pipe and out of the side of my ear a heard a great quote.

"What did you think of the pipe?"

"I just can't decide which mogul was my favourite!"

I'm super glad I'm a glass is half full kinda guy.

Right now I'm just looking out the window looking at fog and rain. I can only wonder "what will this do to the pipe?"

Only tonight will tell.

Have a great day everyone.

Ryan R. Rausch

here is a run I did in training in Quebec last week!

enjoy.

http://vimeo.com/9036077

Rockin' it in Mammoth.

Hello everyone! I'm reporting to you from Mammoth Mountain here in the sunny state of California for the Chevy Grand Pris. This is my first trip down here and man it is just like I've seen in all the videos. Yesterday i hit my 1st 70 foot jump in a couple of years and my first time I hit it I took it about 85 feet so that was so much fun, and I finally started spinning off it after my 3rd run and watching numerous people getting hauled down the mountain in the red meat sled by patrol. It wasn't as scary as I thought. The crazy thing about that jump is and was that it was the 1st jump on the slopestyle course, so there was still 3 more jumps and 2 sets of rails to go after that but nothing as big as the 1st jump. The whole reason I came down here was not for jumps or rail even though they are super fun! I came down for the halfpipe contest.

The 1st day of practice was very scary because it was the first day of practice was also the 1st day anyone had ridden it. With halfpipe much like anything it usually works better with a little bit of breaking in, need less to say that the left wall of the halfpipe did no goto 90 degrees so it made it very hard to land back on the top of the wall, which is very dangerous when you are going 10 feet high only to find out that you are landing on the the wall which is just like jumping from the roof of your 10 foot garage to the ground but adding backflip to it! You can do it but you can also drive a car with your feet but it doesn't make it a good idea. So for practice there were a lot of close calls but no one really got hurt which is always a good thing!

Pipe practice was 2 days ago. Yesterday was the contest and the pipe was totally different. Like alway Louie Vito dropped first and he went into the danger wall 1st and well he jumped really hard because he thought it was still the same but it actually went to 90 degrees so fully vertical at the top of the 22 foot wall. I was scared for Louie cause instead of landing on the wall he flew to the middle of the pipe so you have a 22 foot wall + a 6 foot air to almost flat. No mater how you do the math your knees come out the loser but because his time on dancing with the stars he must have learned how to just suck it up and he was right back to his feet and finished hi 1st practice run! I was happy he was ok and also that the wall looked like it was like it should be, but that being said it was a totally different pipe then from practice and we only had 30 minutes before we could do our contest runs.

Like I said before California the sunny state; I love how warm it is here in January! there isn't a lot of snow but being able to eat lunch on the deck with just a t-shirt and your sunglasses at this time of year is AWESOME! Our 1st day on snow 3 days ago we all thought we could train in the contest pipe but as I mentioned before it wasn't ready they were still building it. We made the best of it by riding the small pipe which is funny cause the small pipe was still around 18 feet but it felt so small, it felt like trying to put on a pair of 5 size smaller pair of jeans it was TIGHT. With the sun shinning we weren't going to let it faze us and by noon it was already 5 degrees above zero.

Back to the contest, The pipe was so amazing it felt like putting on those favorite pair of pants it really fit my style of riding! the 30 minutes of practice just flew by but thats because I was loving it! The feeling of waiting for your run is always kinda different.

Check in Tomorrow to read how it all went!

Peace

R3