Today I’m finally done with my season edit, it has taken a while but I’m happy with the final result.
Here are some screen schots before it drops on the Roxy Refreshments in a couple of weeks. Special thanks to Roxy and One Life on this one!
Peace!
KJ
My Roxy signature snow jacket, pants and goggles are to be found in stores this season! Get ready for the cold winter in this warm parkas, with fur trim on hood for coziness, long fit for comfort and big kangaroo pocket for your personals. And the best of it all: it’s made out of all recycled fabric!
Conscious shopping 🙂
KJ
My Roxy signature Snow Jacket!
So, I’m back in America and California after being home in Trondheim, Norway for almost a month. When I was home I got to met up with friends and family, catch up with school and go on a lot of hikes (Norwegians love the outdoors). Yesterday I went back to California for some more summer time, before winter kicks in for real in Breckenridge, Colorado in a couple of weeks. While I’m here I will train at the B-Project (one of the best trainers in the world), meet my sponsors and try to finish writing my bachelor assignment 🙂
Happy wednesday from sunny California!
KJ
Me outside the "b-project" with my reusable Alex bottle!
Follow your heart and support a good cause. Today the Norwegian organization “Norsk folkehjelp” collected more than 200 million kroners from compassionate Norwegians. The money goes towards helping to clean up remaining parts of mines & bombs after war. Who do you support?
Follow your heart...
Roxy has a variety of clothes and accessories for different occasions, and in this photo series I want to show you how I like to style my Roxy gear, on and off the snow. More photos coming…
Photo credit: Otto Aas & Chanelle Sladics
Roxy hoodie with Indian print, short sleeves
Roxy down jacket, Roxy striped scarf
Roxy bracelet "Multi Meditation Tri textile print" Zakee Shariff for Roxy Heart, 2009
Roxy "trench coat"- Black, Roxy "Chain Reaction" t-shirt- True Black
Here is a little photo update from my TV interview on NRK Sport (biggest TV channel in Norway) about FIS taking over the snowboarding slopestyle qualifiers for the Olympics… Scroll down the site to “We are Snowboarding- Signed and Sent”, to read some my perspectives on this “battle” between the legitimate snowboard culture and FIS’s ski culture.
Here are some links to websites that covered the story (it’s in norwegian, sorry for no english version):
http://www.nrk.no/sport/snobrett/1.7830425
http://friflyt.no/Snowboard/Det-finnes-alltid-alternativer
Roxy have started a new system for the riders so we can go to any Quiksilver/ Roxy Boardriders club and use our personal Roxy credit card, to shop what we want. Thank you Roxy! After my weekend in Prague with the One Life girls, I went to Munich to check out the Roxy store at the brand new shopping mall “Arcaden”. The girls at the store was amazing and helped my find the things I wanted, so I also wanted to send a big thanks to them!
I will post photos to show you how I like to wear my new Roxy gear 🙂
Here is a poster shot of me from one of the many awesome Roxy stores!
Photographer Matt Georges snapped this photo when he went shopping in a Roxy store in France!
It’s time for the annual snowboard awards in Norway and I have been nominated in the category “rider of the year”. You can vote here; http://www.tacky.no/skateboard/article/?id=114057Â Â and participate in honoring the Norwegian snowboarders. Congrats to my fellow nominees, Silje, Dina and Hilde Katrine and to the boys, Tore, Ulrik, Torstein and Staale! You are all an inspiration to me.
Thank your for supporting us and our Norwegian snowboard federation NSBF. Check out their page here;Â http://www.snowboardforbundet.no/ for news about the national team, info regarding Norwegian snowboard clubs and updates on girl specific snowboard events etc..
I appreciate your votes, as I respect your opinions…:)Â Happy voting everybody!
KJ 🙂
The last days there has been a major push and support behind what is known as the snowboard riders union, We Are Snowboarding, also known as WAS. Hundreds of professional athletes and industry people have shown that they will stand up for their sport with a unified voice! Each and own have signed a letter asking the IOC to listen and let the riders be a part of deciding the future of competitive snowboarding. I am proud and honored to be a part of and to support a movement that works towards making a positive change and to protect the future of snowboarding!
In the spirit of this movement, I want to share some of my perspectives and concerns regarding FIS taking over the Olympic qualifiers for 2014 for snowboarding:
The letter addressed to IOC!
“I think it’s discouraging to have FIS become a bigger part of snowboarding, because I think this will decrease the progression of our sport. The problem is that FIS (who are experts on organizing ski events) have little experience with organization and hosting/ making snowboarding (especially slopestyle) events.  The people behind our major events know snowboarding, and are experts at building slopestyle courses. A FIS Olympic qualifiers means that the riders have to compete in conditions that neither supporting the progression or considering our safety. With this the chances of injuries also increases. Another point of view on why the progression will be affected, is the courses will be more standardised with FIS as a organizer. This will make our events really similar and predictable. Some examples on this are set frames for size of jumps, placement of rails and length of the courses. I think this can hurt the progression and culture of snowboarding because the creativity, freedom, playfulness and variation is taken away from us. My worry is that we are moving in a direction that could result in suppressing the legitimate culture we have built in snowboarding. (This has allready happend after halfpipe became Olympic disipline and the riders where “forced” to compete under FIS systems). My point here is the culture, supported and recognized by the riders, sponsors, industry and media, are worlds apart form the culture FIS is practicing. FIS qualifiers can mean up to twice as many competitions on the schedule, as of today! This will force the riders to choose between our culture and the culture FIS is idetified with. This is too many contests on the schedule and because the system requires this if you want to go to the Olympics. This is provacative because the snowboard industry already supports and has a sustainable cooperation with the organizers as of today. It’s in this environment the snowboard culture is blossoming and it’s in this type of environment that the riders (young ones especially) have the possability to get a social and financial capital, which again makes it possible to live and reach the top level of snowboarding. Something that makes the snowboard environment so special and motivating for me, is the room for creativity, individuality and playing. The organizers of our competitions today are working together with the riders to make sure they provide this kind of environment for us (ex. creative use of space award on the TTR Tour). Another example on this is that the riders can give feedback on how they experienced the event, the course and the organization of the event. I care to protect the riders interests and needs because I think this is a culture that deserves to be preserved, not discriminated!”
Sincerely yours passionate
Kjersti
Here is another of my videos from Maine Media Workshops this year. This was called the “One Light Project” and the rules were simple:
1) Only use one light source
2) Mold it into whatever shape you want
A fun and creative way to use the “learning by doing” method. As I was focusing on imagery on this project the audio is not in sync (It was recorded in Jim’s car afterwards). Check out Jim performing “The Blues” shot on three different cameras (Sony F3 and F100 & the Canon 7D). To me it sounds more like “The Happy Blues”…
KJ “Bluaas”
Kjersti Buaas 