a defective little premeire

Defective Editor ILari -killing it

I woke up hung over and found some weed to help the afternoon along. Gerhard got off work at 6 and we met at my house to get ready to go see the new defective project CHILD SUPPORT at Sean Johnson’s house in Sqaumish B.C. Gerhard, who was also feeling the effects of the nightbefore, posted up in front of my DVD player as I ran around the house getting ready and trying to avoid this video on you tube...
...man that shit is tooo funny. I gave the dirty kitchen the old “see ya tomorrow” treatment for the forth time this week and spent my last $1.50 on a coffee at the husky to battle the burnout before we blurred our way south towards a vanilla sky.
I got vague instructions from Eman Anderson earlier that night but I still wasn’t quite sure where the house was. Once we pulled up I knew we are at the right place from the barrage of jacked up trucks, shred dude sticker jobs and extreme looking adventure vehicles parked out front.We found Johnson right away, shook hands, nodded heads, and began, very badly I might add, working the crowd. Anthony Vitale was already there, smoking and joking with boozy the clown himself, Jeff Bazowy. I looked around and saw long time whistler loc Allen Aube and a bunch of heads that I didn’t recognize. In an unfamiliar social situation it’s natural for one to gravitate towards people or things that one’s more…well, familiar with. I found Chris Wimbles and Phil Thomas who kept me occupied for a second,...but like a small child with A.D.D my eyes started to wonder and I just starting poking my head around the place checking things out.

Sean Johnson ! he's just like you, he reads OK weekly...ur..that might be his girlfriends


Just as I thought I had arrived too early and I was out of things to do I turned around and found my favorite dude in the whole world…......Mike Klinkhammer.Mike showed me Johnson’s mini ramp, then showed me how to use it. kinda

squint its dark

After I could look at klinks sweaty face no more I turned around to find Simon and a tray of snacks,things were looking up and I made my way to the backyard where a projector and screen had been put up to watch the movie.... i looked around some more...Rich Odam had turned up, so had the Keenan brothers, Shin Campos, Matt Belize, Oli Gagnon, Geatan Chanut. Gerhard found Ben couves, and I found a piece of grass up front so I could take it all in.

L to R- Sollers, Odem and his girl, McClatchy and Belzile, G with DWDs Jeff Keenan

OB 1 enterprises head Ben Couves, with his sporting beer


Sean and Gary were trying to take this sweet vacation photo when some douche snuck in the back and ruined the shot. what and asshole


the god father of the french canadian snowboarder, Martin Gallant. Martin cam prepared with three take out conatiners of poutine
what shred house isn't complete with the trampodeck, and i don't know why i have this picture of mark solers with his canadian passport but i zoomed in on it in photoshop and it said that his full name is Mark Alexander Moffat.... you add the Sollers and that makes his initials M.A.M.S... ha! hey whats up mams !....hey mam do you think its ok if me an kenny go out and play tonight, m'k mams?, mams? MAaaaghMS !...ok i'll stop.To say the movie was off the hook would be an understatement. CHILD SUPPORT was just the kind of snowboard video I’ve been wanting to see-high quality well filmed 16mm backcountry shots somehow mixed beautifully with gritty, raw digi street rail shots and real deal lifestyles. There was throwback footage form Tom Burt and Terry kidwell, which was totally vintage and some how surprisingly relevant and on point, Joe sexton had bangers and you’ll fall in love with this kid in a second, (dare I say biggest double kinker ever front sided?) a ridiculous amount of backwards sliding through gnarly, cold euro kinks. Simon has a huge presence (as expected) showing up in almost everyone’s part with style for miles and then back again. There was a shit load of non-team riders reping stepchild, which was nice to see. Is stepchild the home for the homeless in the board department? I don’t know but these guys have a huge extended family and a lot of foster children in every discipline of snowboarding. Marku Koski had a picture perfect double cat, it was nice to see Shin Campos in there doing his thing, although he later shrugged off my compliments. Oh modesty, will you ever stop? We got a nice little tease of what Eman Anderson is capable of on a snowboard, damn! Look out. Chris Wimbles came out of fucking nowhere with a couple notable bangers and a ridiculously notable double cork attempt. And Mark Sollers…Mark-freakin-Sollers. I’m going to go out on a limb here and saying that this guy is thee next “it kid” to blow up out of whistler. Not a huge part but more then memorable hammers off a couple of famous whistler landmarks that you gotta see to belive.

Sollors, the mandinga of the neighbourhood

One last thing…who the hell is Scotty Vine? My god, that guy has the best intro ever...and his part aint half bad either… if you don’t know…YOU WILL, this kid, like most of the stepchildren is not going to be easy to forget. Damn, damn, damn, damn DAMN ! No bullshit, this vids going to be hard to beat. I would advise buying an actually copy as aposed to waiting for the inevitable youtube rip. Your eyes will thank you after you watch it every-single-freakin-day before you go ridding.

PEACE (loud and deep)