You just can’t take snowboarding seriously. Too many people take it seriously and over analyze it and what not. Sometimes you just have to sit back and have some fun with it. So relax shut your brain off for 2 minutes and watch this fun little film parody.
Growing up in Western New York I read snowboarding magazines religiously to escape from the mundane world I was surrounded in. While my teachers would preach to me the benefits of becoming a dairy farmer, diesel mechanic, or working at Wal Mart, I would slip away into the world the magazines created. For about fourteen [...]
For some reason every year someone is being touted as “The Next (insert pro name here)”. It seems to be a ever present part of snowboarding culture. For some reason people want someone to slide in and replace an existing top rider. It’s almost as if someones achievements are never great enough, or perhaps it [...]
Playboard Magazine, a Norwegian skate/snowboard magazine of high quality, published an exclusive interview with JP Solberg a while back. Sorry about the delay, but I hope it was worth the wait. I know Avran has had a hard-on about reading this for a while. I´ll translate as best I can JP´s thoughts on being part [...]
Growing up skating I remember the phrase “seek and destroy” was fairly common amonst us. I’ve used it many times to describe what a day of snowboarding will entail. I should have been saying “Send and Destroy” seeing as I’m always screaming “Send it!” Check out this teaser from Friends of the Environment Productions.
Now that we’ve gotten the film department up and running we’re also taking a submissions from others that want to show what they’re doing in their area. Andrew sent me this video of the kids in Rhode Island throwing it down hard on a corrugated pipe. I have to give them props for some of [...]
Here’s Texas’s first edit of the spring season. Just a bunch of us having fun and holding it down at A basin. Expect more to come. If you’re going to be up riding let us know.
You have to give Technine credit for always sticking with their image. With MFM riding their decks now they have even more street cred. Once you get past their image you have a company that’s been around the block in the snowboard world and not hesitant to poke fun at their image or the past. [...]
Every once in a while great ideas grace my presence, like the Whip, then we have Ed Hardy, or that snowboard thing with the brake on it. Needless to say there’s more engineers out there making stupid ass products that should never see the light of day. Well here’s another one to add to the [...]
If you’re on the East and still feeling the urge to get your snow sliding on then you might want to head up to Big Boulder for May Day on 5/2/09. BBQ and Jibbing what more could you ask for? Check out the vid from last year.
