Here are some more pics from the Japan trip we are presently on. We have gotten some really good days filming and now we are in Tokyo… meaning things should get insane so stay tuned.

Japanese products have some crazy names… sometimes the english names end up meaning things they don’t intend them too… like Life Partner vitamin water.

Pocari Sweat… sounds tasty

I dont really know what these are called and they don’t even taste that good but Im sold on the logo and I call them Business Man Sausage.

I bought this rain gear… I don’t know why

Andrew and Rusty try out their purchases

If this guy can’t get you to gamble, no one can.

Ice Festival

Brendan checking out the ice caves at the Ice Festival

Mikey Pederson has recently joined the world of blogging. Check out his blog, Kitchensmear, for a behind the scenes look at his days filming for ‘Now You Know’ and his life in general.

This year we decided to do another trip to Japan, this time with Brendan Keenan, Rusty Ockenden, Andrew Hardingham and Snowboard Canada photographer Jeff Paterson. Its been a wild ride so far and Clayton from Black Diamond Lodge has been helping us out big time… Yes having someone else named Clayton makes things really confusing. Here are some pics of the trip so far, stay tuned for more updates.

airports… line ups… waiting…

I made another tribe and Rusty still didn’t want to join… I’m starting to wonder about this guy

fish at Sapporo Airport… Brendan dreaming of reeling this bastard in

Downtown Sapporo

you get PJs at the hotel… and chop sicks

packed into the van

Japan has bad ass tunnels

Rusty scoping roadside lines from the van roof

Brendan and Hardingham about to drop in

huge snow banks here

Rusty looking hagard

a rare break from eating at 711

the warning at the Onsen (nude hot springs)

Bikkle… the best drink in the world. Japanese vending machines in general are amazing.

Rusty living his dream

Sean Pettit is staying at the same lodge… the guy kills it with the ladies

Sean and Hardingham burning holes in the dance floor

yoyo’s in the bar

So far we have had some weird weather here this month… forecast calling for sun but it never comes. Here are some pics of us slowly losing our minds after 4 days of this.

Rusty showing one of his balaclavas from his new company, Kram… website and team announcement coming soon.

we were gonna try tap this tree but we felt burning it was a better idea

pour some gas on…

and light it up… badass

me and Pederson started a tribe…

Rusty and Brendan where too cool for the tribe…

I tried to force Rusty in the tribe…

he didn’t even want the smoke blessing…

so I tried to kill him…

in the end Rusty got the saw from me… and Brendan’s pants where kinda high…

Here is little video I threw together of a lap up Whistler from a couple weeks back with Pederson, Tiene and the two Logans. Below we have some news from Kev involving Pamela Anderson.

to see the video as a bigger  Quicktime click here

We just got back from the SIA trade show in Denver. It was no Las Vegas that’s for sure but Sandbox definitely had a good showing with some good hype. We partnered with Push.ca and put the new teaser DVD on the front cover of King Snow Magazine. Try to get your hands on one of these babies and check out the new King Snow mag with the limited edition teaser DVD.

At this time every year SBC puts out there annual issue of SBC Business for the SIA trade show. In this issue there are all kinds of product reviews and awards. This year Sandbox Brain Bucket Helmets were rated the #3 helmet in Canada and Shine On won Best Canadian Video of the Year!

Pamela Anderson was hanging around the Sandbox booth all weekend so we gave her a free helmet and had a little photo shoot. (i’m trying to get a better pamela picture from my buddy sean tedor, keep you posted on that one.)

We have just finished the first teaser for our new film, Now You Know. This is just the first teaser with some footage from December, look out for the full teaser coming in a couple months. Thanks to all the riders for going for it and making it possible to put out a teaser this early. The teaser is posted at the top of the website above the blog… just click the image.

Spread the word and if you would like to embed the teaser in a blog here is a vimeo link

www.vimeo.com/8700474

I have always wanted to film the famous Hurley Gap in Pemberton. Last year we set out to hit it twice but we were beaten by the Stepchild crew twice in a row. On the second time (which happened to be at 5:30 in the morning) when I asked the rhetorical question, “when are we gonna get to hit this thing”. I was answered by JP Walker, “2010 son… uhhhh”. Yesterday on December 23rd… 2009, with the help of Rusty Ockenden, we proved JP wrong! No, I don’t think JP actually cares and yes, it was really early for Rusty to be hitting such a big jump.

 

here are some screen grabs

Check out some photos and read about the Whistler premiere on Push.ca

 

Yesterday was our first day sledding this season. The snow was pretty wind blown but it was still fun times. Pretty crazy coverage for this time of year. Here are some pics form the day

 

Rusty unloading his sled

 

Brendan & Leyland

 

Brendan slash to method

 

Rusty… Kram

 

Rusty slash

 

Rusty twangin

 

Koia sending his life…

 

… and Hockenstein

This is our grande finale for 2009. Our last Shine On premiere will be Saturday, December 5th on top of Mount Seymour. We are going to have a huge outdoor screen for your viewing pleasure. Come out to shred the hill and check out the Rome Pre Jib Contest. The premiere will go down right after the contest awards at around 4pm. We are going to be soaking the DC team riders in a dunk tank for charity. This is going to be a one of a kind show and a ton of fun. 

The Whistler premiere has been announced, Friday, November 27th at Millennium Place. There is gonna be two show times, 7:30pm and 9:30pm. Tickets are $10 and on sale now at Ticketmaster and Millennium Place. The after party is at Garfinkels and you get free entrance with your show ticket. Tickets are gonna sell out fast so get them now while you can!

 

The Montreal premiere will be on Wednesday, November 4th at 9:30pm, at  351 Roy est coin Drolet.

 

Sandbox is venturing deep into surf territory with out next Shine On film premiere in Tofino, BC. The premiere will be going down during the O’Neill Cold Water Classic pro surf contest. This is a huge pro surf event, the biggest ever in Canada. We are showing our film at the Shelter Restaurant on Wednesday, October 28th at 9pm. We will have cheap beer and a ton of free prizes from our event sponsors, DC, Nomis, Oakley, Surgenor Brewing and Nike 6.0

 

The Toronto premiere is this Saturday 16th of October at The Great Hall, 1087 Queen St W Toronto.

We have just released a brand new FREE app for the iPhone.

All of the videos on our new site play perfectly on the iPhone, but now you can take them with you and watch them without a wireless connection. We will be dropping more videos and news into the app all season long so stay tuned for updates.

We have been working closely with Podpro (www.podpro.ca) to create this iPhone app.

Go to the App Store on your phone and search Sandbox

(it appears as just the word sandbox), or use the link

below to download the App to your computer.

www.itunes.com/apps/sandbox

The Portland premiere will be tomorrow, Oct 2nd, at Epic Snowboards at their indoor skate park. 

Last night it snowed up Whistler and Blackcomb. I doubt it will stick around but it’s real nice to see.

The dates for the Banff premiere have been confirmed for Friday, November 6th at Aurora nightclub. The Banff premier always ends up being the craziest one. You are guarantied to either end up in jail, the hospital or if you’re lucky just a vicious moral hang over. Hardingham told me that this years theme will be “show your boobs and get my respect”… do you really wanna miss out on this?

Jake, Etienne, Max, Burns and Rube’s part from last year’s movie, All Day Everyday.

The helmets have arrived! So get your orders in at the new store. We went down to Vancouver today to deliver them to Wick Winder Distribution and bring the rest up to the Whistler shops. I’m pretty sure you need a special license to drive the truck we rented… neither of us have that license but oh well. I’ll be driving back to Vancouver tomorrow so you may want to stay off the Sea To Sky Highway. Hope you guys like the new site, its really compatible with the iPhone, all the videos play perfectly on the phone so go check it out. We will be updating the site frequently with videos, news and premiere dates so stay tuned. Our next premieres are; Truckee, California at the Fifty-Fifty Brewery on Oct 1st and Portland, Oregon at Epic Snowboards at their indoor skate park and shop on Oct 2nd.

 

Here are some photos from today;

we're gonna need a bigger boat

 

Loaded up and ready to go...

 

Steve from Wick Winder... loaded up and ready to go

The Sandbox Store is now open.  Check out the new gallery.

Check back, we will be posting premier dates, new trailers, and updates frequently.

Day 2 of our spring heli shoot went a lot better than our first attempt. A much better jump, perfect weather and an amazing helicopter pilot made for some great shots on our final day of shooting. We had the doors off the heli with Clayton hanging out filming once again. We also got to use the infamous Cineflex camera mounted on the bottom of the heli with the same camera operator they used in That’s It That’s All. Mixing helicopters and cool cameras with snowboard filming is pretty damn fun.

Special thanks to everyone who helped make this day such a huge success.

Check out the 30 second heli teaser video and enjoy these photos from John Scarth and Brian Hockenstein.

John Scarth Photo

Brian Hockenstein photo

John Scarth Photo

John Scarth Photo

John Scarth and Brian Hockenstein photo