After years of thinking, trying out different ideas, and figuring out who I am, I finally found a business that fits the bill. It’s called PARX. I started PARX in early July and am now working on this business full time. So pumped!
My New Website
Click on the logo and check out PARX. PARX officially brings the means to Board the Midwest All Day, Everyday. Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall, we can board through it all.
All the videos and blogs I do from this point on will be done through my new business. Please check us out and follow us for updates. We are going to be doing a lot of boarding, and you don’t want to miss out.
Summer is here the snow is gone, so what are you going to do to snowboard? Midwesterners have the tendency to hang up the board and forget about it until winter. I say forget that.
Build Backyard PARX
Check out this little set up I brought over to a friends house to test out. He had a drop in already built for riding in the winter, so we threw up some powderpak, dragged out a 12′ piece of PVC and got after it.
If you think it looks a little sketchy, that is fine because it was. This was only a test. I would suggest a wider run in and more of a landing. I would also suggest using a rail that will not move.
Other than that…, I love how simple it can be. You can put it up and take it down in minutes, and it allows you to Board the Midwest All Day, Everyday.
I know some of you out there board the summer too. Post up some pics of your set up and maybe we can encourage more to build year round parks. Check out my Facebook Page if you like to board.
For a first attempt, I’m Excited. With more photoshop work and some time, look for different designs and angles. Heck I might even have to come out with a T-shirt Thursday Blog. Switch it up a little bit JonT style.
Do you have ideas for shirts? If you want to get creative, what do you do?
I relate this to boarding because it is like attempting a trick you have never done before. I have never sold shirts, just like I have never landed a 720. Will both happen this year? I don’t know.
All I know is that there is only one way to find out. You have to give it a try. Whatever “it” is,,, Go out and do it.
Here we are…. The Midwest Slump. Winter is over, the snow is gone, and summer is not yet here. We are in it. What are we who love to snowboard, wakeboard, and wakesurf to do? Do you feel stuck? Do you really want spend outrageous prices on gas to travel 4-5 hours up north to snowboard? The water is still frozen, how can you even think of being on it?
Midwest Board Slump
What do we do?? Skateparks, hiking, canooeing, mountian biking, long boarding, training, traveling out west, and moving, are all options. During the spring and fall we can do any of these, but who really wants to ride this way?
I want to snowboard, I want to wakeboard, I want to wakesurf, and I can’t.
Yeah there are many other ways to solve this issue, but I really don’t like any of them. To me the Midwest slump is one of the biggest issues people in the Midwest have to deal with. The slump is an issue I am passionate about solving and one I have been trying to solve for a couple of years now.
This is where I am at in solving this issue.
The picture above shows day three of testing a way to beat the slump. As testing continues, a new company is also under development. I’m super pumped and super excited to bring you a way to connect the summer to winter, winter to summer, and to help you beat the slump.
As I move forward with this idea, I will keep you posted on my latest findings and I would love to hear what you think of Boarding the Midwest All Day, Everyday because I am going to make it happen! Actually it is happening, so let me know what you want to see, and I will try to make that happen for you!!
Click on the logo and check out PARX. PARX officially brings the means to Board the Midwest All Day, Everyday. Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall, we can board through it all.
