Browsing all posts from October, 2008.

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The Economy and your local snowboard shop part 2

So after getting a bunch of awesome responses on the first article about the economy and your local snowboard shop I decided to follow it up. I appreciate all the feedback from everyone and hopefully this will address your questions and concerns further.

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Arcus Clothings website launches

So the man himself Nico Mueller has launched the new website for his company Arcus. Teaming up with Freddie Kalbermatten they’ve launched this new clothing line.

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Protestors, Stupidity, and Cluelessness

Anyone following the snowboard news these days knows all about how a group of outraged citizens are protesting the Burton Love and Primo graphics. Its gotten world wide attention with being on CNN, gotten a bunch of press on various news publications both snowboarding and non snowboarding related, and of course its popped up on [...]

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Rome Snowboards Outerwear has landed in shops

Looks like the newest edition to Romes line has landed in stores. Now all cool “core” kids can be 10 times more core.

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The Economy and your local snowboard shop

Today was an interesting day for me with realizing a few things with our economy and the snowboard industry. I’ve decided that I’m going to write a multiple article cataloging my thoughts on the snowboard world and this current economy.

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Burton Restricted

I still have yet to figure out what the hell is going on over at Burton. I’ve seen so many line changes in people working there I’m not sure whats going on anymore. After killing off Un Inc, dropping and losing some of their best riders, and now Burton Restricted.

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Over Steez Disease

There is a affliction many young snowboarders face in this day and age. They have not built an immunity to it like those of us that were raised on Whiskey and the Forum 8. Some how those of us that lived through that time period have faired far more well than the youth of today.

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You Tested Positive …. For Shradicalness

The girls over at Shred Betties finished tallying up the votes for their second board test. I had the pleasure of turning screws for the ladies on one fine day at A basin. While not so huge on the grand scale of things like the Transworld Good Wood test they do make it enjoyable to [...]

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Bad Ideas review

Without a doubt this is a total Colorado movie. So many highlights of terrain parks in Summit County. I will say that the intro to this movie grabs attention from the first clip where it uses the start to the cartoon Good Idea/Bad Idea. The metal music also had my attention.

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Resort Jobs

I love this time of the year its when people either realize that where they live sucks and want to work in a resort or college kids have that mental break down and want to spend a season chasing the white fun stuff. This year is just another day following that dream of being a [...]