August 18
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There’s something to be said about a guy who films an entire part switch. Born and raised in Mormon country, J.P is one of the most influential riders regardless of what generation you come from. Killing it on screen for over a decade, J.P has accomplished more while strapped in than most people will ever dream of. Simply put, if you don’t know already, you better ask somebody.
Stance: Regular
Home Mountain: Bear
Board: Stepchild
Binding: A mix of things..
Boot: 32 Prospect
Outerwear: 32
Goggle: Oakley
May 13, 2013
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In the final episode of the 2012/13 "Grilosodes", Marko Grilc ends his season at JP Walker's Handplant Holiday and reflects on the past season. It's been a year filled with travel, good snow, competitions, and a lot of unique endeavors, including slow motion filming with the Phantom camera, coaching young kids at a snowboard camp, projecting images of snowboarding on city buildings, and more. Enjoy.
May 4, 2013
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JP Walker brought together a group of snowboarding’s most talented riders for the day-long Handplant Holiday at Bear Mountain. World class planters were treated to a set up unlike anything seen before, created by the innovative park crew at Bear. The exclusive set up, unique team aspect, and jam format, combined with the relaxed and friendly vibe, gave the riders the opportunity to concentrate on their handplant progression as they went for tricks from the hard to undoable lists. Featuring JP Walker, Jeremy Jones, Simon Chamberlain, Scott Stevens, Marko Grilic, Chris Grenier, Cody Rosenthal, Tim Eddy, Ben Bilocq and special guests Dave Downing and Dale Rehberg.
May 3, 2013
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Want to win the same gift pack as the Handplant Holiday invitees? Post a photo to Twitter or Instagram of your best handplant and tag #HandplantHolidayGiftPack to be entered in a drawing to win one of TWO packs. Competitor pack includes the following prizes from Nixon: Small Shadow Backpack TPS Speaker Unit Watch Stylus Headphones [...]
April 29, 2013
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words and photos: JP Walker I started work on this event back in October from the comfort of my couch, thinking that this type of thing wouldn’t be that hard to put together–just get a few guys up there for some handplants for a day. No big deal. Turns out, it was quite the process. [...]
April 23, 2013
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words: T. Bird There is much debate regarding the invention of the handplant, as there most always is when trying to credit one individual with the discovery of anything. However, when a young skateboarder named Bobby Valdez rode up the wall of a vert ramp, put his hand on the coping, extended his legs over [...]
April 19, 2013
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words and photos: JP Walker I have been going to Japan for nearly fifteen years for snowboard related reasons. Even with over ten visits, it’s always one of the most fun and most unique experiences I’ve had in all my travels. Most people think of deep pow runs in the trees when it comes to [...]
April 17, 2013
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A diverse group of riders will compete for the ultimate bragging rights, as well as cash and prizes provided by Sony® and Nixon Encinitas, CA (April 17, 2013): A dozen riders representing the contest arena, backcountry and the streets have been confirmed to compete in JP Walker’s inaugural handplant-only event at Bear Mountain on [...]
April 15, 2013
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Here's a blast from the past from Mikey Leblanc filming for the classic film "Shakedown" in Evanston, Wyoming shot by JP Walker.
April 10, 2013
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A handplant-only team contest featuring snowboarding’s top professional planters Encinitas, CA (April 4, 2013): Inspired by the highly successful Nixon JibFest, iconic snowboarder JP Walker will host the inaugural Handplant Holiday event at Bear Mountain on Saturday April 20th. A diverse group of riders representing the contest arena, the backcountry and the streets have been [...]
April 1, 2013
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Do you remember Rev......... Director Whitey Mcconnaughy transformed the Rev team into the Dukes Of Hazard during his classic "The Warriors" here's the classic ad featuring JP Walker, Mitch Nelson, Roberta Rodger, Jeremy Jones, Tim Ostler, and of course JF Pelchat.
March 25, 2013
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The new episode of Jibberish is here. This time JP, Simon, and Blair find themselves on the cold streets of Finland. The crew grinds it out on some famous spots, some new spots, and some new twists on familiar spots. They link up with some friends and film a rap video and you even get to hear JP kick some rail related rhymes.
March 21, 2013
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words and photos: JP Walker Finland has been a go-to spot for handrails for us close to ten years now. It’s a cold, dark beast, but if you can get a handle on it, you can come up on some good footy of unique-looking spots. It’s starting to get a little tapped now, but we [...]
March 18, 2013
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The Don comes through today with his infamous fs board slide through an Albany kink that started his part in Mack Dawg's classic "Shakedown". JP has always been on some next level shit, He's got a really cool thing going on his blog called "Reel Raw" where he shares the raw footy from the movies he's appeared in, check it out at therealjp.com
February 27, 2013
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words and photos: JP Walker ThirtyTwo just wrapped up a two week tour across Europe. We started in Spain, followed by Germany, and finished in Austria. While in Spain, we drove up north to the Pyrenees range a stayed in an old village from the twelfth century, called Cerler. The locals were super cool and [...]
February 20, 2013
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The latest from ThirtyTwo takes the team to Flachauwinkl Resort in Austria. Kas Lemmins, Danny Larsen, Dominik Wagner, Benny Urban, Chris Grenier, JP Walker and Joe Sexton take park laps and get some powder runs in, too.
February 18, 2013
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The second webisode in the JIBBERISH VOLUME 2 series takes the crew to Ontario, Canada. The crew creeps through the outskirts of Peterborough to surprise 7-year-old Cameron Spalding, a regular at Send it with Stepchild week at Camp of Champions, at his home. JP, Simon, and Blair spend the day shredding with Cameron in his backyard jib park and warming up for the streets of Ontario.
February 15, 2013
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words and photos: JP Walker We have been talking about doing an edit for “Jibberish” on someone’s backyard shred set up for awhile. It’s hard to plan something like this, because we need to base it around filming for our full video parts, so we would need to fit it into a rail film trip [...]
February 5, 2013
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Thirty Two is at it again with this sick edit from Spain. JP Walker, Scott Stevens, Joe Sexton, Chris Grenier, and Toni Kerkela slay the shit out of the park in Cerler Resort.
February 5, 2013
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The next episode of Jibberish Volume 2, featuring JP Walker and Simon Chamberlain, drops soon, and there's lots of questions to be answered. Is this yet another exclusive jib park? Where is it and who’s the new rider on the crew? Check out the teaser of Jibberish Volume 2 Pine Valley Projects and see if you can figure it out before the full webisode comes out.
February 1, 2013
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The annual Snowsports tradeshow, SIA, began yesterday in Denver, Colorado. Each winter, SIA is the place to check out the coming year’s snowboard gear and get in as many high fives as possible in a four day period. As the snowboard industry displays their latest innovations, technology and designs for 2014, we’ll be giving you [...]
January 18, 2013
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Send in your best photo of your version of “The Spot” for your chance to win free gear. You don’t need to know how to weld, wield a chainsaw, or have a large space to set up some fun jibs to shred with your homies, a bench, picnic table, some logs, a garbage can, anything [...]
January 10, 2013
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In this installment of "Jibberish Volume 2" JP Walker, otherwise known as "The Don" pens another chapter in the book of jibbing that he helped to re-write at The Spot. The Spot is a famed yet secret location where arborism and oppo 270s go hand in hand. Together with fellow legends Jeremy Jones, Simon Chamberlain, Seth Huot, and newcomer Blair McKinney, the crew cleans up their tricks for a season of filming in the streets. As The Spot has progressed over the years, so has the evolution of D.I.Y. Spots in the woods, but as always, JP and crew have helped pave the way in yet another aspect of street snowboarding. So, sit back and get a firsthand look at what you'll be seeing in streets across the world this winter, in the second year of "Jibberish."
January 6, 2013
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Words & Captions: JP Walker
We have been going into the mountains of Utah for snowboarding at the first drop of snow for nearly twenty years. For the last ten years, we have had a place that we cultivated and modified up big cottonwood canyon for early season snowboarding before the resorts are open called, The Spot. This season, we found out that our spot had been vandalized and decimated just before winter started. We tried to fix things up, but it happened again and we still don't know who or why. We never put anything out photo or video-wise of The Spot until last year and this seems to be the result of that. It's like 2Pac said, "jealousy and envy coming for my enemies." Problem is, we don't have any intention of stopping what we do because of something like this. We decided to go legit. This is how it went down.
December 24, 2012
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What do chainsaws, axes, fire, and pop latch have to do with snowboarding? Check out the crew getting to work in this teaser for the first Jibberish Volume 2 video dropping soon! Featuring JP Walker, Seth Huot, Jeremy Jones, Simon Chamberlain and Blair McKinney at The Spot.
November 20, 2012
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Snowboarder's Editor Pat Bridges finds out just which of today's top pros have and agent and which ones don't.
