Nidecker Score snowboard, first impressions

so last week I got to use my new snowboard for the first time. I started out snowboarding at Snozone on their hire boards and now I have one of my own there is a stark contrast, the Nidecker Score is a solid beginners board and very snappy in turns, for some this may be a problem but for me I find this perfect! I'll be heading to Glencoe in the next couple of weeks so I'll follow up this quick post once I have some actual mountain boarding under my belt.

image Credit to Wilf Turnbull

Kickstarter: Call of the mountain film

So me and 2 friends decided to finally make a film so here is a preview of the kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1274115438/596453400?token=5b7089b1

DJI Mavic, My thoughts

in the last month DJI released their new drone platform called Mavic, now for me this is a very exciting release as the Mavic is the perfect drone for extreme sports, let me explain. So why is the mavic so good? Well it folds down into a package only 8 inches in length and 4 inches across, this means that it will easily live in the bottom of your bag or even sit comfortably in the pocket of a large hoodie. This makes it not only great to capture everyday videos but can also accompany you skiing or skating as you won't need a huge dedicated case/ backpack. What about video? The DJI mavic uses the exact same camera as DJI's other flagship consumer drone the Phantom 4, this means you'll get 4k 30fps video, although through different lenses to make the camera smaller. The gimble is very smooth and will easily create cinematic shots in a few seconds.

Post lesson excitement

It's been a long time since I've been this excited, to think I'll be trying something new and dangerous, last time I did that I was still a teenager. So I've decided to prepare and what better way to do so than exercise.

Having fun trying to do #snowboarding exercises inspired by @gkapri

A video posted by Adam Bussey (@dragonknightadam) on Aug 20, 2016 at 9:36am PDT

Snozone part 1

Hey guys, girls and everyone inbetween
So over the weekend I visited the snozone in Milton Keynes, didn't get to do anything there apart from walk around and visit the shops. That means this will be more my thoughts of the location, not of the slope.
Inside the Exscape building there is a small shopping centre, a cinema, the indoor ski slope and and indoor skydiving wind tunnel. At the bottom of the slope there is a nice big open restaurant with windows looking out into the slope, so I bought a muffin and a coke and just sat there watching people having fun.
Shops wise they're mostly sports orientated, you have the Snowboard Asylum and then a couple of small snow shops, running shops and the usual couple of restaurants. Snowboard Asylum has a HUGE range and it's staff members are friendly and very knowledgeable.

Went to Milton Keynes today on my way home from my other half's place and wow is the #snozone impressive #snowboarding #billabong #snow #mountains #calloftheslopes

A photo posted by Adam Bussey (@dragonknightadam) on Aug 7, 2016 at 10:31am PDT

Snowboarding lessons

Hi guys and girls, I thought I'd update you a bit on my journey, so today I've finally booked my snowboarding lessons at Milton Keynes Xscape which is rather exciting. It'll be on the 22nd of October so got a bit of a wait.

I booked a full day of lessons for myself and my girlfriend, that's 8 hours of boarding for the both of us. It's the first time I'll be doing anything like this but my girlfriend has been boarding before so we'll be fine..... I hope.

Sadly I can't take pictures there so I'll just have to write about it, wish me luck.

Adam

drone research and development

so yesterday I was at multirotorcraft helping build drones and I came across a small DJI f450, this drone is about the perfect size and weight to fit in a rucksack and is very modular. So this is why it's in the journal, this small drone can be fitted with a flight controller that tracks the users phone and so would be able to follow the user say down a mountain, so me and the guys at multirotor are going to be working on this and keep all you guys posted

And I present to you the prototype of the #snowboarding #drone for under £500 #mountains #sport #ski #dji #diy #budget

A photo posted by Adam Bussey (@dragonknightadam) on Jul 30, 2016 at 8:50am PDT