Browsing all posts from January, 2009.

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TJ Schneider makes his Bond

Looks like TJ picked up a new outerwear sponsor. But really who is Bond Outerwear? Other than making some hype about being organic and eco friendly I haven’t heard of anyone actually seeing the stuff. Here’s the press release from them and a bit more on my take. Bond Outerwear is proud to announce the [...]

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Burton JJ and Uninc Bindings my take

The Burton Super Demo was in town all weekend up at Keystone. So having the chance to ride more stuff and see what’s out there I hopped on it.

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SIA 2010

It’s time for that annual pilgrimage to Sin City. With this being the last year for the show in Vegas I may have to get just a little wild. What are you going to be doing while I’m there?

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The over abundance of snowboarding collaborations

Have you noticed recently that collaborations are the new black? There was a point in time when crossing genres and brands was edgy and unique, but now its become so common place it seems to have lost all distinctive characteristics.

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Round 2 of the 2010 preview

With more stuff popping up every day and the fact I’ve been overly lazy on updating my first post. I’ve decided to just put a bunch of the new stuff up here instead.

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The death of customer service

I’ve worked in a shop for 11 years starting at the very bottom doing resort rental and repair then going on to having many different titles in just retail. One thing that has never eluded me is customer service. I’ve dealt with people from all walks of life from rich multimillionaires to poor snow bums. [...]

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Bonfire Boots why?

Sure its cool that your company has survived the double decade mark in the snowboard world. That is a huge feat upon itself like no other, but why would you do a limited release of boots?

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Betties and Bitchiness

Anyone thats read my blog regularly might remember when I dissected a little company called Bitch Boards, if you haven’t I recommend checking this out then as its a good read. Well today while taking the bus back from Keystone I was checking out my fellow women of shreds site and came across yet another [...]

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Omatic 2010 Preview

The Omatic catalog landed in my lap the other day and I’m finally getting around to putting up a sneak peek of what they have to offer. They do have a unique rocker design that is a combination of 3 stage and triple base technology. The pics are a bit off as I took them [...]

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The Heir of Entitlement

This statement seems to describe a lot of people that live up here. I have yet to figure out why everyone feels they are owed something. Does where you work, how much you spend, how much you make, etc. etc. mean anything to me? Is their an over abundance of the me generation here?