I have decided to compile my recent articles in this blog; they are accessible under the "articles" category. The majority are published works featured either in newspapers or magazines. I have included in each entry the publication outlet and date of publication, with tearsheets and links to the publishers wherever possible.
It was at a freestyle clinic at Killington Resort in Vermont, after clinician Bill Spaulding had elicited teaching tips to be used for the whole range of learning preferences (thinkers, watchers, feelers, and doers), that Janisse jumped on the box and pulled off a frontside boardslide (body facing up the hill and board perpendicular to the feature) before stomping the landing like it was nothing.
A motley crew of instructors, we ranged from ages 18 to 64, 2-year to 25-year veterans of the sport, "sick" park riders to timid newbies--and Chuck had just upped the ante for us all.
"For some reason I have this facility with rails," says the sexagenarian. After re-embracing an old passion and becoming a snowboard instructor two years ago, he signed up for AASI-E's "Old Farts" Park and Pipe Clinic, which has since been renamed to the more politically correct "Low Key It." In the capable hands of AASI clinicians, he was surprised at how easily park skills came to him.
