2009 TRIP

Just been sorting out my trip around the world paddling this winter, looks like im gona leave nz on the 22nd may head to colorado for sum boating then head to the teva mountain games in vail from the 4th to 7th june.

 after leaving there do a crazy 2 day mission traviling to val sesia italy for the teva extreme games starting the 10th june. catch up with mr mike dawson where we will dominate the world before heading to voss noway,   for some extreme partying and a little bit of racing from the 21st til 28th june paddle in norway for a week then back to frankfurt fly back to the states to race the gorge games 17th to 20th july, before returning home for my 24th birthday on the 29th july, now thats shit is PH phat. i cant wait

4 AND ROTARY NATS MANFEILD

Went to the 4 and rota nats at manfeild on the weekend had a gud day but found out what to much traction in the rear is like to drift with no hp, u dont drift just drive around. any way heres a vid from a battle with steve sole. and u beta check this out >watch

heres a few photos from the day

matt carlos and my car looking pimp before a day thrashing

on the gas round the s's

car pics

hey just been working on my car a bit sorting a few things out an making it look mean for the 4 and rotary nats this weekend, and kenny came down and took sum pics for me.  

bullerfest 09

After a long drive down from vegas and a good night's sleep, it was boater cross time with a huge field of over 100 paddlers. It was looking to be a long day, after some amazing racing and good fun had by all, the final for the mens was set to begin with Tyler Fox, Sam Sutton, Johann Roozenburg, and myself. I had a sick race and came out the winner for the second year running. Stoked!!! All thanks to paddling a sick Mac 1.

After the weekend of partying we headed to the coast for 4 days of sick heli kayaking thanks to bruce dandos an his mean 300c choper. the 1st day we split into two groups the hard cores and the pussys, us hard outs (me sam mike and johann) went up the kokatai which was f#$kn high and mean pushy, since it was johanns 1st trip to the coast he was peaking out at times but we had a sick day!!! 

Then to the citron race on the kawerau river where the big pushy water was going to be a little harder to get sweet lines on and the killer hangover setting in we got under way.

With some early upsets of sam sutton and dylan getting knocked out i was upagainst mike dawson in the semi, it was time for my A game which was a bit of a mission seeing as id been out partying untill 4 that morning, and i won stoked again but didnt know who was going to be in the final untill jamie sutton and johann had raced, jamie had a sick run beating johann and making it to the final with me, and due to some very average paddling by me jamie took the win and all the glory an girls!!! so thanks alot guys for the awsome boats dominating the racing world at the moment

a few weeks ago dan and nath came up from otaki to stay, heading for the 2009 4 and rotary nats in auckland,

after a crazy night on the beers at lava bar in rotorua and a late start due to not much sleep we got the cars on the trailer and headed for Meremere.

arriving around 7 with securaty searching all through the van an the car for beers which were hiden well away so the couldnt find them we got in and set up camp. I was a little worryed about scrutinaring as i didnt have a warrent or rego but the organiser had said it would be fine, but as normal the drag racing homos were out saying i couldnt race as its a dangeres track dispite the car having a manz spec rollcage and log book which allows me to drift around coners at over 170kph. with alot of waiting for some one to say i could race i got the ok and its time for skids

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stil vokda nz drift grand final

well what a weekend it was, with barely any practice due to huge disorganisation from the organisers and trying to push it to hard to qualify ending with a spin in every run ment time to pack it up watch sum carnage and go home,

heres a few photos




hamish marsdons very damaged car after hitting the wall,









this i what every 1 cums to the drifting to watch!!!!! girls!!!!!!

random 2008 photos

after an amazing trip to norway we headed to the good old U S of A to find sum hot weather cheap beer and sick rivers, after a week of hanging out in Coloma working on the tan an picking honza up from the airport we did the all night driving mission to Hood River Oregon for the gorge games. Waking early in the morning after a bad sleep on the side of the road we headed into town but sam didnt fill up with gas an we ran out, so with help from the freindly locals to the gas station we got into town. Later that day we hit up the Little White Salmon which is 1 of the sweetest runs ever, but i came off second best on Spirit Falls with one huge black eye the day before the race. Raceing in the head to head was a little hard only being able to see out of 1 eye but i cant complain with 3rd
Tao Berman 2nd, Sam Sutton 1st, Bradley Lauder 3rd



sum sick photos from this yearspirit fallsteams race mike dawson, sam sutton, bradley lauder and 2nd place yea boy!!