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Spot on! Good observation, it’s a Nitro Pow from the quiver line up. Super sick board for Japan conditions. Great shape and stiffness with such a nice side cut. Can use it all season in powder, ice, groomers and spring slush 🤙

Love the Insta 360 angles for just watching RAW. Would love to do a full top to bottom next season. There is a couple resorts that can hike up further in the back country and then drop down and get all the way to bottom of the resort for like a 10km run 🤩 so pure powder paradise at the top to beautful frozen birch trees then hitting side hots all the way down and finishing with powder in the pine trees

@@JapanSnowPhotographer 10km backcountry run raw file? im gonna jizze in my pants💥💥💥💥

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Yeh actually all this video is inbound 😮 that’s the beauty of Lotte Arai. Although it’s not an area you want to go out of bounds as some absolute death traps. Cheers for the comment, yeh absolutely stoked with the purple kit and it pops for photos

😆 yeh I try and make Japanese subtitles becuase I think 40% of my subscribers are Japanese 😮 they are not perfect subtitles but I hope they help 🤙

@@JapanSnowPhotographer all goods all goods

Ah yeh true. Could totally do that. Because these fans just flip around. So really could have one facing the opposite direction. For airflow inside my van I have a usb fan that can run for 8 hours on 1 charge and that is a lifesaver sleeping in the heat here. Japan is record breaking high temps just now but fortunately in the summers I’m at the beach so leave my widows open and have a nice breeze in the evenings

Yeh true. Well I been looking at buying a little villa close to the lake there. Dreaming of having a a little ski cabin surrounded by nature and I love the lake area as can cold plunge in the winter. Beautiful area with amazing views and the best thing it’s so central to so many ski resorts. Yeh Hakuba has great mountains but I don’t go there much because of the crowds.. Zao onsen is epic when you get the good snow. Especially up top doing the powder in the frozen trees. Lotte Arai is epic on a good day but it can get crazy busy. I tried to go there 3 times before and each time I turned around due to the gondola lines.

Yeh and can you believe this was a terrible day by Japan standards. Thats why you dont really see anyone else up there. This is all inbound too 🤩

😆 yeh got to climb back up the algorithm before winter kicks in.. Surf and Summer videos will be on their way 🤙 weekly uploads to give me a kick up the butt

@@JapanSnowPhotographer we love to see it!🎉

Yeh not bad but after seeing your vids im craving some south east Asia 🤙

@@JapanSnowPhotographer Mate it's sooo good, I highly recommend it!! Hope you make it here someday man 🙏

@@trippinwitgeorge yeh I use to live in Malaysia for a few years back in my backpacking days. And living in Japan I’m pretty close for a quick hop over to south east Asia. I’ll be in Thailand this November 🤙

yeh in Japan there are so many awesome different waxes to use due to the snow temp constantly changing here. This one in specific is great as i can layer on a then use a cork stone to polish (cork creates the friction to heat up and let the board absorb wax more) But there is also spray wax here, rub on wax, and liquid wax.... A sponsor sent me a big kit at the end of the season which i will make a video in my workshop this autumn with snowboard prep

@@JapanSnowPhotographer wow that's so cool.

​​⁠yeh Japan gets a crazy amount of snow but because it’s an island surrounded by ocean and the mountains are not very high there becomes humidity in the air which can create the snow temperature to change throughout the day. This is very specific to Honshu. Hokkaido is way colder and different snow too

@@JapanSnowPhotographer Japan's amazing. I'm from India, very few people board or ski here so it's hard to get any good gear and very few places with snow too (they are really fun). Your videos are so good and they make me wanna move to Japan.

Ah India 😮 have you ever been to Gulmarg? I would love to go there. Also Indian is my favorite food and we have some many good Indian restaurants in Japan. Thanks for liking my videos and if you ever make it over here to ski hit me up 🤙

Cheers man 🤙 we will be filming again this winter so will see if we bump into you…

Great question and a great idea for a video upload to answer some of these questions 🤔 Well Japan is surrounded by onsens (hot baths) and can find them nearly everywhere especially close to ski resorts. As for laundry this is also very simple as they have many coin laundries in Japan and some of them are so good I often hang out there to use wifi and catch up on customer photo edits

@@JapanSnowPhotographer I figured it'd be the onsens but just wasn't sure. But def a good video idea or even a quick timelapse of laundry/rest day :)

​​⁠yeh unfortunately onsen is actually another challenge for me due to tattoos so I created a custom map of where can go. Yeh I have one video where I went to the laundry and done some talking. One of the Niseko episodes in the series. But yeh definitely good to get some more videos uploaded sharing information as haven’t upsides anything for ages. Not being active is pretty bad for the algorithm unfortunately

Yeh cheers man 🤙 the only thing with this model hiace is having to do the shaken every year rather than 2 years but there is a way around it

Yeh it’s super nice! I can fit both my 7,7 and 6,6 together in the new rack i built. But I want to buy a bigger board with more volume for the smaller waves. Get jelous of all the long boarders getting nice long rides whilst I’m paddling. But yeh my van has changed a lot since this video so any questions you may have fire away 🤙

Yep 100% that’s what I do! Although out of all places Hokkaido for me was the worst in terms of getting in onsens with tattoos

I believe we are towards the bottim of direct course

@@JapanSnowPhotographer Thank you. Next winter!

I’m not sure if it helps humidity? That would be better to use an AC unit. I seen EcoFlow actually make a portable AC unit which looks awesome! As far as humidity yeh it’s a tough one. Where I live in Southern Japan it gets very hot and humid in the summers and I know many people have that EcoFlow AC which definitely helps deal with the heat and humidity but for me I just sleep with my doors open and have a wee usb fan blowing all night. During the winter this ventilation fan definitely helps with condensation and airflow though 🤙

@@JapanSnowPhotographer Ah, sorry, I used the wrong term, yes, I meant condensation, I suppose I was meaning moisture in the air generally and reducing that! Thank you for your response. Glad to hear it helps condensation which is what I want! In my initial message swap all the words 'humidity' for condensation and then it'll make sense!

@@pinkbsl7972 ah yeh should def help with condensation especially during the colders month actually

actually what its really good for is on cold or rainy days and need to cook inside the van it can takae the steam out

@@JapanSnowPhotographer Wonderful, I'll build one!

No worries 🤙 glad to be of help 😊

yeh its so good im already planning on going back 😆didn't realise how easy it is to get there from Japan.

Yeh was really impressed. We stayed here a few nights then moved to el nido and immediately missed this place. Waking up and going for a stroll on the beach every morning was just amazing 🤩

To be honest I had no phone signal at all the whole time I was there 🧐 I bought a phillipines eSIM but can’t remember the network. But the glamping site I was staying at had wifi and connection seemed pretty good but would drop off a lot so maybe not too good for live streaming?

@@JapanSnowPhotographer Thanks for this info, im trying to map out where i can livestream in palawan and this was on my list, glad i stumbled upon your vlog, il subscribe

@@SlyKane ah cheers man 🤙 i guess El nido would be the place for sure as way more stable connection. Just seen your CZcams now, awesoem tracks! Not sure of you like reggae or not but there was an awesoem bar in El Nido with a Filipino reggae band, blew my mind!!!! One of the best live reggae music i have seen, they were so good

Hey Angela, there are 4 different models and in this video I tried 2 models. The black set up is the warmest but I find to warm for me. I really like shells so the purple suit which is called dancer is my favorite. I prefer to layer rather than have thickets ski jackets. If you get cold then the blue suit in this video would be perfect. Where about you normally ski?

Yeh and can use my van for setting up TX point 🤙

Well actually I just drove down south in the snowiest week this winter 😂 timing aye. Yeh El Niño isn’t so good for snow over here but actually we still get a tonne of powder when it does snow but what ruins it this winter is when the south winds come up and melt all the snow but this is actually good for the surf down where I live in the south. The Japanese ski resorts aren’t so high and are so close to the ocean so the snow condition changes so fast for sure. 2019 was similar to this season but I think next season La Niña is in the forecast 🤩

Ah cheers man 🤙 yeh I was there last year too and it was -18, was getting frozen fingers trying to shoot. This year has been crazy all around Japan. Even in December I was surfing in Miyazaki and it was 25 degrees 😆 Snowboarding is always fun but raining on the mountain is the worst 😂

Yeh the aim of this episode was just to have fun and not be too serious about the snow conditions in Japan. Many people were complaining this season but I was just thinking, damn! The snow here is still awesome even if it just in the groomed runs. Japan is always fun powder or not. The problem is people come here thinking they have pre paid for the ultimate powder experience 😂 it’s an island surrounded by ocean that any slight wind change brings a while different weather forecast. The powder that we did get in this video was pretty nice, wasn’t deep but I was living the icy layer underneath for ease of gliding and exploration capabilities without getting stuck. Bring on next season aye 🤙

Yeh was crazy aye. I was in Madarao then chilling with tshirt on drinking coffee in the carpark. Crazy winter aye but I also like the spring style days 🤙

You have to watch from the beginning for your session as it’s a pretty random funny episode

Have spent the last week around morioka and the landscape looks very different now thankfully! Hope you guys got some more freshies!

Yeh had a nice cold spell just come in the last few days which has topped everything up. Nice to have some freshies but snowboarding is always fun 🤙

😆 I don’t even know what you talking about?

@@JapanSnowPhotographer The photo is so cool that it could be used as a Capita ads😄

@@dawisdead ah I see. Cheers 🤙

Ah cheers 😃

Oh nice! How long will you stay?

Cheers 😊

So far they have been pretty awesome. Very unique profiles but for my style of riding there are perfect. I really like the asymmetrical profile. Field Earth have so many different shapes of boards and skis and each one for a specific purpose. I chose mine to be my do it everything ski

All in a days work 🤙

Yeh bit of a different episode aye but this is our evolution 😂

Your right! Thought I was doing a good thing stocking up for winter to keep me warm

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Cheers 😊

Cheers man, appreciate it. We trying to be a bit more creative this season

Damn!! Alaska must be pretty epic too

Ah nice!! Your going to have an awesome time for sure

Hey trying get a bit more creative as it’s more fun to film

Yeh a slow start this season

haha thanks Gran、my biggest fan 😊

身長は186cmです🤙

Cheers 🤙 Was a bit of a different session