Airblaster riders Nick Dirks, Brandon Cocard, AB co-founder Jesse Grandkoski, filmer Austin Will and photographer Kipp Hinkley set off Russia to visit our Russian distributors and have the adventure of a lifetime. Day one snowboarding in Russia, a new land. After a 40 hour travel day followed by a 10 hour vodka-bath party, we woke up to try to get everyones mind wrapped around some urban shredding. We went to scope a bunch of spots that were really sketchy, but which our newly appointed Russian guide/photog/expert assured us were really great. One spot in particular was a steep down bar with a 5-foot long landing, into a dirty duck poop pond. Clearly, hitting the rail would land you land you in duck shit. The conversation went like this: Nick Dirks: "That rail lands right in the water." Guide / TDB: "No it doesn't." Nick: "No, it DOES." TDB: "No, it doesn't, and besides the water is shallow." We moved on quickly, to scope out some other sketchy spots before deciding on this down-flat ledge that Nick decided to set up as a wall-jam to down-flat. We ended up having a pretty good day for waking up really really "jet lagged" and then being pressured to launch into duck poo. Then we went to McDonalds of Moscow which is similar to the US-version, except that instead of special sauce, they have 'cheese sauce' to dip your fries in. Pretty cool. Then we had free time. Stay tuned for this fall's release of the new AB movie about Russian Adventures. Its called Spicy Balls, Kroska! so you know it has to be good.

Nick and Jesse setting up the ledge they found.

Brandon rubbing the ledge the right way.

Brandon with the boardslide.

Austin and Nick in "action."

Kipp, Austin, Brandon and Nick all huddled around the camera.