relentless core

For all of you keen to know how Jon's been since his nasty accident earlier this year ... our boy's been busy!

" Well what a strange couple of months... Following the launch of Hungerpain last year I was all stoked and set up for an an amazing winter. Unfortunately on Valentines Day (I know, I should have been home reading all my cards) I was out riding the park when, well, I managed to break my neck. That left me with this rather dashing scar..

The doc opened me up by the windpipe (then moved it ... kinda painful) and took out the joint between c5 and c6. My amazing doc went on to replace this little joint with bone from my hip, then covered c5 and c6 with titanium. I am now officially bionic! So, what of the rest of the winter? In short I spent most of it filming the Forum and Hungerpain crew, getting fit and strong again in the gym (saying hello to my little friends...) and at the end of it all I managed to squeeze in a bit of travel heading to Lake Tahoe for some more filming....

Gotta say while out there a couple of american chicks liked me and one of my riders and they left us these rather groovy love letters.....

... funny times....

Oh yeah, lest I forget, this winter I also got round to organising a team week for Forum in Austria when all the Forum riders from around the world came and shredded.....

We had all kinda of games after riding including this war game....

... might be one those 'you had to be there moments' but what the hell!

So what of life this summer. Well, been chilling, been running and been spending hour after hour in the gym trying to get strong again (say hello to my bigger friends!). In between time I also went to see Deep Purple for some serious rock....

I also went off on holiday to get some sun and prepare for the coming winter with my girlfriend (who will now soon find out about the love letters .... doh!... I didn't do anything Baby!... can I help it if I'm a little bit irristible?)


I have also been working on my house "The Hungerpain Hotel" a snowboarders best friend in Austria.


But the bulk of my time has been taken up working on the launch of our new film "The Playground" by Hungerpain and our new clothing line called "noise". The "Playground" is coming your way soon ... see you in Milton Keynes 26th October for the premier!

Well that's about it from me for now. See you on the slopes, knee deep in the good stuff! Take it easy."

Jon (looking forward to winter)