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dasha

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About Me

Danger Bay 666! My bail in my qualifying heat against Steve Lang, Nick Dunmall and Eric Ware.Filmed on Apr. 14 at the "Poop Shoot" in Toronto. I'm 3rd to come down.Filmed on Sept. 30 at Valley Road in Burlington. At 65km/h, i hit a puddle and go FLYING!!! Thank goodness for leathers and full face helmets! ;)
"Better to die voluntarily crashing than to have the enemy send you down in flames."
-Billy Bishop
"It's difficult to pinpoint exactly what will keep us riding until we can no longer walk up hills. Perhaps it's the absence of rules, coaches, half times, winners/losers that keeps everyone stoked to ride on and push the sport to new levels, I don't know? I do know, however, that longboarding would have never come this far unless there was that one thing that captured the soul, imagination and excitement of being a kid again. Every new hill, new slide, and new member that joins the Crew adds fuel to the fire and pushes 'the stoke' to new heights. That's what it's all about; being so excited that when you get to the bottom of your favorite hill all you can do is laugh, howl, hi-five and race back to the top to do it all over again." -Craig Jackson ( www.hookedskateboarding.com )
"...for me there's skiing, nothing more, nothing less and it emcompasses everything every day I'm out there." -Pep Fujas

My Interests

skiing, longboarding, rugby, piano, yoga, camping, bouldering, photography, crafting, wrestling, crosswords, stencils, chocolate.

I'd like to meet:

the 60% of Icelanders who believe in the existence of fairies

Music:

ratatat, sigur rós, against me!, the cat empire, blonde redhead, muse, tom waits, the slackers, xavier rudd, rjd2, social distortion, dj shadow, the aggrolites, the sounds, dilated peoples, bouncing souls, múm, sia furler, elysian fields, silversun pickups, broken social scene, modest mouse, rage against the machine, pepper, nine inch nails, sublime, toots & the maytals, new york ska-jazz ensemble, the specials, pressure cooker, hepcat, cat empire, general rudie, primus, radiohead, the postal service, sparta, at the drive-in, do make say think, bjrk, classified, atmosphere, sweatshop union, lexicon, felt, lyrics born, elliott smith, the constantines, the weakerthans, the most serene republic, the scientists, the doves, athlete, razorlight, johnny cash, bob dylan, the arcade fire, red hot chili peppers, ben harper, ben folds, jack johnson, dave matthews, a tribe called quest, j5, hieroglyphics, blackalicious, deltron 3030, common, fatlip, our lady peace, metric, boards of canada, mum, death cab for cutie, bright eyes, the toasters, leonard cohen, rufus wainwright, yeah yeah yeahs, dropkick murphys, ween, le tigre, frank sinatra, billie holiday, nina simone, etta james, ray charles, fiona apple, tricky, esthero, lovage, handsome boy modeling school, cat power, lemon jelly, sade, talib kweli, mogwai, tori amos, royal city, ultan conlon, jeff buckley, dredg, danko jones, the mark inside, weezer, the white stripes, hawksley workman, hot hot heat, the midway state, pink floyd, led zeppelin, the velvet underground, king crimson, nirvana, air, godspeed you! black emperor, royksopp, aqualung, zero 7, j.s. bach, chopin, tchaikovsky, funk, folk, jazz and blues...

Movies:

ski bums, run lola run, amelie, russian ark, a clockwork orange, the princess and the warrior, ghost world, das experiment, empire records, ferris bueller's day off, heaven, fight club, i heart huckabees, decalogue, movern callar, hable con ella, the three colours trilogy, 28 days later, au revoir les enfants, bowling for columbine, memento, le dinner du con, donnie darko, being john malkovich, the rules of attraction, dancer in the dark, the neverending story, trainspotting, requiem for a dream, 8 femmes, henry & june, lolita, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, ran, the life aquatic, the man who cried (and anything else with johnny depp and/or christina ricci), clerks (and anything else by kevin smith), the work of krzysztof kieslowski and tom tykwer...

Television:

six feet under, arrested development, curb your enthusiasm, changing rooms

My Blog

video from DH session in burlington/grimsby

here is a short clip of Snake Road from our session on Sunday. i'm glad i stayed at the back cause that car comes dangerously close to the pack... click here for more GNAR footage from this shred!...
Posted by dasha on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:38:00 PST

longboarding is...

Longboarding is not about ollies and kickflips; the only real trick involved in longboarding is being able to enjoy riding no matter what your ability is or what the conditions are like. Longboarding ...
Posted by dasha on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:43:00 PST

video of me dh boarding at snake road!

my first time down this run i top out at about 55kmph. thanks for posting this Bren!...
Posted by dasha on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:54:00 PST