Wow it's been a while since I posted anything...

So I was just up at NORTHSTAR for a camp and shot some stuff in the park and at a little rail jam they had put on by SFC Japan. It was so fun to ride again and the weather was awesome. My wife I will be moving up to Norikura in about 3 weeks to start working at NORTHSTAR so you will prob see a lot more Snowboard and Mt. Bike photos pretty soon.

I thought the top photo was kinda funky with the out of focus and the punch green. I will post some more later.  



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日本の体育祭 "Japanese Sports Festival"

I just finished shooting a Sports Festival for the junior high school that I work for. Sports Festivals are pretty amazing in Japan. The kids trained for 3 weeks for the event and they ran their hearts out. I have never seen anything like this in the US, if you ever have chance to check out a Sports Day I highly recommend it.


A Japanese Taiko Drum


Over 700 Students


The students all chear and sing for their team. The team colors are Red, White, Blue, and Yellow.




The teachers also compete with the students and they get pretty into it.




They do this event that is like a chicken fight and try to get the hats off the other teams heads while fighting to keep your own.




Group jump rope anyone? They jump rope as classes with about 40 students together and see who can get jump the most. The max this day was 130 in 5 min.










And the last event of the day is a group cheer. All the students of each team do a 5 min cheer and to see who will take the glory.

Hashima Student Parade

Today was the first day back at school for me and first thing this morning the vise principal asked me to shoot the student parade and the 2nd term opening ceremony. And of cores I am always happy to shoot so I said not problem. The parade is to show off the trophies that the kids won during summer break at the local competitions. The girl riding in the front of the convertible is the number one rhythmic gymnast in Japan. So that gives you an idea how serious they are about sports at this school. Anyway here are some shots.