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A Taste of Canada in NZ

matt — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:56:31 +0000

We've had to deal with a lot of shitty weather this year in NZ. Here is a little edit of Team Canada making the most of the tough weather conditions. This footage is from SnowPark and Cardrona. Check it out

The Damage

matt — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:45:16 +0000

Here are some photos of the damage caused by the earth quake in Christchurch.

SUCCESS

matt — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:06:32 +0000

After we towed Robbie around the parking for a couple laps, we popped the hood, pulled the battery, and put it on the charger in the maintenance shop. Today Rob was able to get his car started. Wahoo

my girlfriend used this one on me earlier today

7.4 on the Ricter

matt — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:24:08 +0000

There was a 7.4 sized earth quake this morning at 4:35am. I felt like I was on a water bed and the clothing hangers were dancing. I hope everyone all good

Rubys Car

matt — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:24:01 +0000

A couple of days ago Rob left the lights on in his car and drained the battery in SnowPark parking lot. We went into the lodge, asked for jumper cables, charged it for a little bit but couldn't get her started. After a few days of bad weather and no skiing we thought we'd give her another try. Heres our valiant effort of getting Robbie's car started.

Rubys Car from Matt Margetts on Vimeo.

High Fives all around for Josh Dueck

matt — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:26:25 +0000

Good friend, first coach, and Paralympic Silver Medalist Josh Dueck has gotten himself into the Guinness Book of World Records. Dueck partnered up with Worksafe BC to achieve the most high fives in a 24 hour period. The previous record was 3,130 high fives in a day. Dueck blew that record out of the water, tallying at least 9,230 high fives. I want everyone to give Duey props for raising awareness about workplace safety in BC, for 350,000 young workers and if you haven't already for getting an Olympic Silver Medal for Canada. Hopefully everyone can do that on his facebook.

Josh Duecks Facebook

Heres a video of his 24 hour high five achievement

Real Music “SonReal”

matt — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:55:22 +0000

Listen to these lyrics. Nothing but the truth.

Who Am I - SonReal

Boss of all Boss’s “Rob Heule”

matt — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:25:44 +0000

Rob Heule from Rob Heule on Vimeo.

Team Canada’s Winning JOSS Video

matt — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:20:09 +0000

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com

3rd Annual Winter Volympics

matt — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:53:36 +0000

Yesterday was the 3rd annual winter volympics and was it ever awesome. We showed up to Kadenwood in Whistler around 3:00pm to people building amazing features. I built a nice fire without any paper, then put it in a wheel barrow, so we had a portable fire. As more people flooded in, Team Captains Darren Rayner (blue) and Mason Mahone (red) made their picks. I was picked to the blue team. Each team was given a permanent marker (red and blue) to distinguish which team they were on, by drawing on each others faces. Sean Pettit and Reno Speedman the biggest risk- were the official score keepers. Reed was also the announcer where he bashed people and handed out mandatory shotguns, which was extremely entertaining. The torch was lit and the games began. The games consisted of a beer shot gun relay, with 1 woman and 3 men. One person started with an unopened beer and a key. They had to insert the key, shotgun the beer, and run 30 meters to the the next team member, where they handed off the key. Red team won that race by a long shot. Next was the dual GT race where each team had to piggyback another teammate on a GT snow racer down a run, and across the finish line. Blue won that round, but a dispute led to a re-race and red ended up winning that round. Throughout the whole Volympics party points could be awarded to each team for doing something outrageous. Party points that counted were from Bibby and Luke setting a tree on fire then cutting it down, Josh Stack coming out of nowhere on a dirtbike and high marking a trail, boardin from Leo, Braden Dean, and VDP, skiing from Turpin and Stan, Ian Cosco (blue) took a nature poop, Barefoot hittin the river gap on a GT, and many other party points were counted from other crazy acts. Then there was the make out contest which Sasha (blue) and I dominated in against Mase and Diane (red) for some solid points. Bibby and Luke (red) went head to head against stack and barefoot (blue) in a hatchet throwing contest. They had three attempts to stick a hatchet into a tree, Red team took that round. Things started to turn around for blue team when Stack (blue) acquired ten party points for back flipping the 20 ft river gap on a GT. Then Stan (red) stepped it up and double back flipped it on his skis. Next was the one legged cross country down hill ski race where Stan (red) murdered Peter Olenick (blue). Next was the big air contest, where Luke, Stan, Barefoot, and Josh competed. Barefoot went to the next level trying to hit the river gap on a snowskate, which put Volympics to a terrifying hault. Barefoot hit the jump airing left and short, landing head first on a rock knocking him unconscious . Luke immediately called 911 ordering an ambulance, but during the call Barefoot came to and realized there was no bleeding, nothing was broken, or head injury. He rolled out of there with just a goose egg on his noggin. Thank God he was ok. He gave everyone a big scare. Next was horse shoes where Peter and I (blue) were competing against Bibby and Luke (red). Peter and I were crushing them until Mason interrupted the game by belligerently hitting the horseshoes out of the air with a cross country pole. The games ended with an announcement from each Team Capatin that Red Team had won and how thankful we are that Barefoot didn't get seriously hurt. The 3rd Annual Winter Volympics ended with Warren Williams shooting Peter Olenick with a eight shot roman candle, real mature idiots.

Marg