POV: First Time Snowboarding in JAPAN! (only got 3 laps...)

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Howdy guys. We are in Otaru, Japan in Hokkaido on the North Island.
They got a bunch of snow overnight. It's snowing right now.
I'm here with Chris and it's gonna be my first day on the Spurton Smooth Operator.
This beautiful piece of art.
We drove here from Sapporo this morning and we're planning on getting here at open
but we got stuck in some traffic.
Yeah, that's the ropeway, but we're gonna take the main chair.
Yeah.
Wow, man.
Wow. Wow.
Dude, look at that guy up there. Watch this guy.
Oh, yeah.
Holy do...
I mean, I...
Oh, this dude's going for it. Lookit, lookit, lookit.
Oh, what?
Oh, man.
Look at these...
I love how bright your board is.
She's pretty. I got some nice little flowers.
Some flowers.
Man, this is beautiful. Look at all the trees over here, too.
Alright, my dude.
Oh, the snow feels so nice.
Holy crap, dude.
Yo, it's so light.
Oh.
My.
Let's get it.
No way.
I can't see.
Holy ----.
Oh my god.
Wow.
Lost for words.
This is...
You are joking, bro.
Man, I wish we could've got here earlier.
Holy crap.
I think I gotta move my stance forward a little bit.
Yeah.
Let's go.
This is crazy.
Wow, bro.
Yeah, we are.
Imagine this morning, though, bro.
I think I...
Holy crap, it's dumping now.
Yeah.
Say rip to the mics, bro.
There's no way they're making it through this.
Oh, because of the cold, you think?
No, because of the wetness.
I've never been in snow like that.
Like, at the very, very...
At the top, dude, I was in clouds of snow for so long,
I would come out of the cloud, and I'd be like,
holy ----, we just traveled so far,
and I was completely blind.
Look at this.
Yeah.
We were on the chair for, like, 30 seconds.
It's, like, stacked a half inch.
Yeah, bro.
Yeah, I wanna, like, pin it,
find, like, a pillow off in the distance,
and just get, like, one of those, like, jump...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then ride through, you know?
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
In your jacket, like, on top of the mic.
See what I mean?
Whoa, dude, I love that.
Oh, my God.
Oh, dude.
Bro!
Are you kidding me?
Hit him right in the chest.
Hit him in the neck.
What?
All right.
Oh, God, oh, God.
Oh, God.
Oh.
Oh, my God.
Dude, that was nuts.
Oh, my God.
Dude, I can't see.
Oh, my God.
Oh.
It's a little firmer.
It doesn't matter.
Oh, man, we are swimming.
This is unbelievable.
My board's underneath there.
Can you see?
That was awesome.
That was pretty insane.
Hell yeah, bro.
Worth it.
That was so fun.
Dude, I had, like, I was underneath the snow.
Yeah.
I was underneath.
That was a couple of primo turns.
The amount of times I've coughed on just the snow fall, too.
Oh, man, it's so deep.
And it's obviously tracked out.
But it's still, even if it's tracked out, like, it's so easy to ride through.
Unlike where normally if something's tracked, dude, it's not enjoyable.
Yeah, yeah.
Man, I'm so hyped.
I guess I was, like, aiming for the bumps.
I was like, ooh, big bumps.
Same.
Plow.
Dude, dude, the exact same, yeah.
This is what happens when you lock in and you plan your trip around chasing snow.
Yes.
This place is getting the most snow out of anywhere.
Yeah.
And we came straight here and we are, dude, it is deep.
Yeah, like, imagine if we, like, really set to, like, oh, we already got our hotel at Asahikawa.
Let's go there.
There's no snow.
Yeah.
See, aren't you glad?
Aren't you glad?
I was like, no, we probably shouldn't do that.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, man.
Karoro is going to be so fun tomorrow, dude.
Let's get it.
Dude, I can't see.
Whoa.
Oh, this is groovy.
Holy.
Oh, my God.
You just sink.
Yeah.
Is this the main chair?
Yeah.
Oh, sick.
It's closed.
Yeah, let's go get some lunch.
Dang.
Is this it?
It's suspended due to strong winds.
Maybe later.
It just says suspended.
That's all right.
I'm happy for a little break, too.
Yeah, I'm a little hungry.
My face is cold, too.
You can't see nothing, dude.
Over there is the ocean that we were able to see earlier this morning.
But the storm came in, you know.
One foot, pal.
So deep.
Let's go.
Let's go see what they got for food.
The sidewalk is heated.
It's snowing tonight.
