2006 Snowboard heaven in Niseko

I just came back from Niseko where the mecca of snowboarding!
If u dont knw about Niseko, you are not snowboarder here!
telling u the truth, i had a blast snowboarding i ever had!
Niseko is the best mountain i rode in my life.

are u asking me what is good about there?
Oh--man, there are great backcountries and super wide slopes.
luckily there were not many ppl.
but heaps of aussies! which is really confortable for me though.
i felt like i was back in OZ.

back to the story now.
this time, i went there with jeff. we stayed at the backpakker where my good mate Dawn is working.
Dawn lives and works in hokkaido for now 2 seasons!
she is a good rider and also really kind and nice girl!

her friend cheech, max and kana( sorry i forgot her name maybe she was kana) were awesome guys too!
these guys are niseko backcountry master and super friendly guys!
i had a really good time with them.

2 seasons ago i was kinda little bit sick of snowboarding,,,
i dont know why but i feel it wasnt much fun at the time.
i think because of my skill, i didnt get improved much back then.
but last year, daigo where is the closest indoor snowdome was unfortunately closed and there is nothing to do in summer for me. but i sometimes went to kobe`s indoor which is hour and half drives.
then somehow i realized i do lile snowboarding! everytime i went to kobe indoor. i had a good fun!
i was back in a hardcore snowboarder!

when i was riding, im concentrate to get back my skills.
because im really sick of saying, i used to do backflips and 540 bothside and
switch f540....man, its really true but i cant do it now.
i actually didnt even try them. im a bit scared to miss landing...
BUT this time i wento to hokkaido and i felt I AM a snowboarder.
chatting about snowboarding was fun and riding with mates was fun!
so nothing better than that!

This weekend one of my Daigo mate is working as a digger in gifu.
he invited me to come up in the terrain parks.
now i called up all my good boarder from daigo and we gonna do kick ass
snowboarding sessions!!!!
yeh i cant wait to see them and really looking forward to hit some massive kickers! ( bt i hope its not too huge thou)

back to the hokkaido story,
the last day on monday, the day before it was little fresh snowing but not a super light powpow.
my legs were tired but we went for the backcounty slope.
there was pretty about 30cm fresh snow!
and cheech and dawn gave me a first track there!
it was aweeeeesome for march!! its like a high season snow in gifu!!!!
i had a graet run, curving a fresh non track run!!!!

I really didnt wanna go back,really didnt!!
but times up...
back in my real life today, workin with my desk i was thinking all the time about
niseko!

All i wanna say is THANK SO MUCH DAWN,CHEECH and MAX!
you guys roccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccck!!!!

hope to see you next season!
I will be back there for sure!!!