Hey Everyone,

Ocho checking in from Breckenridge, CO. I recently got home from my summer up in Mt. Hood Oregon coaching at Windells. It was a great summer I learned a lot and met a bunch of new people. The last couple weeks up in hood were very productive from learning new tricks, gaining new accounts for my ski company RMU, and a photoshoot with SHRED up on the glacier.

I also just finished a new edit combining some of my winter footage and some of my footage from Windells this summer. Check it out below!

The winter is just around the corner A-basin and Loveland already have their snow guns in place to start blowing snow as soon as the weather cooperates. Thanks to Shred Optics, Slytech Protection, RMU, Mtn Ranks Clothing, Full Tilt Boots, Derek @ Orage, and Windells for a great winter and summer!! See you on the hill!

OCHO

Matt George Self-Portrait

For years now, we at Shred have had the pleasure of using and working with stunning photos of our athletes, both in full Shred action, as well as glimpses of their quieter lifestyle moments.

One of the main players responsible for these photographs is our go-to guy from St Hilaire-Du-Touvet, France: Matt Georges.

While he’s been shooting as a pro for relatively short time (since 2004), he’s already held some jobs with serious cache: Senior Photographer for Onboard Europe and Whitelines, various 40 or so magazines around the world; he also shoots for Rossignol, Rip Curl, Roxy, Shred Optics and Slytech.

Now a lover of his medium format cameras — a Hasselblad and Mamya — for the tactile sensation of handling the negatives and the solitude of darkroom work, Matt has come back home in a way, back to how he got hooked on photography in the first place. He would spend a lot of time just shooting with a Nikon FE and then taking those films to a darkroom where ultimately he found immense pleasure processing and honing his black and white skills.

He then combined his new photography passion with shooting skate action, a sport he grew up with. His shots got noticed and some even published in the mags of the day. His final transformation to the pro-photo world was when he landed a photo editor job at Method and the contacts and jobs from the snowboard world rolled in.

We’re super stoked to have someone like Matt take on our projects and run with them to great creative lengths. Thank you Matt for your commitment to your craft and to the sports you love.

See you out on the mountain sometime and let’s make it a sesh where you don’t have to lug your gear!

Peace… and check out Matt’s work at >> http://www.mattgeorges.com

At a buck 80, Ted is one of the smaller skiers on the men’s World Cup Circuit, especially when you compare him to the big boys at 220 lbs. You set Ted next to an Aksel Lund Svindal or a Bode Miller and you get the point that when it comes to Newton’s law of gravity, he’s at a disadvantage.

When you look at him in the gym though, you can’t help but notice that this pint-sized shredder has a ton of talent and strength. My eyes nearly popped outa my sockets when I saw him do those back extensions with a 45 lb bar and what looks like 2 x 25 lb plates. Just insane.

Here’s a Park City TV video of Ted working it in the off-season. Definitely an intriguing expose on a racer with mission… enjoy: