Your-Oh-Sails-Meat-Ting

Get ready for a selfie/boozie photo blast here. This is a photo montage of our annual winter sales meeting that we held the week before Thanksgiving over in Innsbruck Austria.  Almost every shot has booze in it, and to tell you the truth, there was only one night that I felt like I poured booze down my throat.  Anyway...enjoy, lots of me and booze, in Europe, with a bunch of dudes, food and mountains.

Flight out of Seattle at 4PM.

The sun rise over Scotland was insane.

The warm tub, not hot tub was on the roof with this backdrop.

Italian food, in Austria pre meeting inner company style.

Then the Americans arrived and this ensued. A toast to #piatekpays

Chris Wilmot

This is some sort of spiced cider with booze called Gluvine or nasty in english.

We're making watches now?  Apparently so.

Blue Tomato is the Zumiez of Euro. Store was insane.

I ate this ah lot.  Schnitzel.

A "very famous" after lunch schnapps.  That was nasty.

"Hey you wanna try some booze from China?"  Uh sure.

Nasty

Party Toshi and Party Marty make up the Party Dream Team. 

Presentation day lunch.  Yep, 120 heads here.

Pretty cool to see your little guys on the big screen.  Mac was the co-host of Gumby's opener, and Milo held it down for the kids binding section with Union.  "Talent obviously skips a generation."  Was the quote.

Giggles showed up.

How I communicate with the homeland. 

"Johan, you only drink vodka with friends.  Because when you drink vodka, you tell secrets and you only want your friends to know."  As told to me by our Russian Distributor Maxx.

About to go to bed, and there he is in all his glory.  Party Marty.  This is the night I had a couple of schnapps.  Because he said so.  Of course it was nasty.

USA won the 10 year distributor of the year award for Union, so we celebrated during out meeting time.  Booze and meetings?  Hand in hand.

Cheers bitches.

Broadwell couldn't get enough of the wieners over there.  Right after this, he went on InstaDildo and #unfollowtedore

Snowboarding on the Stubai glacier was pretty fun.  Deck whited out for security reasons.

We rode that!  And it was blower waist deep pow. 

Our tracks.

A French couple was seen on the slopes.

Apres team building is better done at the hill vs. the bar.  Practice what you preach. 

No idea why I took this picture.

I opened a store over there.

Second day on the hill, we ran into Billy Anderson from Burton, Gigi and Sebi Meuller.  Good times.

Uh, more team building.

Then we got fucked by the airline on the way home.   Sweaty and I, pre 23.5 hour travel time home.  Not stoked.  Great meeting, great shredding, great people and a great location.   Fuck you Delta.  You can suck a fat dick.  $400 a piece right there on our faces it cost us to catch a flight you made us miss.

I'm no physics major, but it doesn't look like he's got this.

This is STILL getting play.  Apparently it was the top Reddit subject of the day, 3 days ago.  This is one of my favorite comments:  "A rider can jump while simply riding along a flat surface, and that jump depends greatly on the skill of the rider (and weight/strength of rider and weight of bike etc...). Therefore the launch cannot be modeled as a simple point mass rolling off a ramp. With the additional vertical momentum added by a rider the real launch angle could be more like 30 to 40 degrees.
You can see his wheels are still on and above the 25deg line drawn from the end of the ramp (especially his rear wheel) and this is after he has traveled some distance. His actual launch angle seems to be more like 35 degrees (25 deg ramp angle + rider induced loft).
Add in the slight height difference between the ramp and the toes and he can probably make this jump at about 14.4 feet/s which is under 10mph.
Its doable but on that little bike he would need a significant run up to hit 10mph.
If the rider doesnt loft the jump very well with his own weight transfer then launches at less than 35 degrees (say 30) hes going to land right around the area of the kids feet.
Either way from the photo you can see he either lofted the jump well at 10mph or he hasnt added much launch angle but is going fast enough to still be on the 25 degree angle line after 1/3 of the distance has been covered.
For reference folks can punch in their own numbers into this website: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/traj.html#tra10
http://www.onlineconversion.com/speed_common.htm
Use that calculator for conversion between ft/s and mile per hour.
Conclusion: There is a reasonable chance this kid makes the jump and the Kid in the background can finish his popsicle without PTSD. Worst case is he needs to use the popsicle to ice the other kids ankle when it gets hit by the bike."

Bike Car

Funny that we need to put our bikes in the car, in order to do this. 

Friday, Friday, Friday

Season opens at Stevens on Friday.  We were there on Saturday, and it was awesome.  

Fuck Yea Bro

I love the internet, because you make connections that build you shit like THIS!  Holy crap these are going to look good on the whips.  Thanks Bill!