When Danny Kass announced he was retaking control of his brand most everyone believed this might be what would right the sinking ship that is Grenade Gloves. We on the other hand had some concerns as there were vague references to various action sports communities. Well it seems in the latest round of press releases […]
Over four decades and 28 years have gone by for this bad idea to come to fruition, but finally it has arrived and the world now has to deal with the proverbial reinvention of the wheel. This reinvention comes in the form of someone believing they have the next genesis of the snowboard that will […]
It hasn’t even been six months since the Olympics has ended and already the USSA (United States Ski and Snowboard Association) and FIS (International Ski Federation) are trying to propose a new event to the International Olympic Committee for inclusion in the 2018 Winter Olympics. While the concept of new events might intrigue some, we’re […]
In January you like much of the world, bore witness to the Olympic Games in Sochi Russia. A 51 billion dollar spectacle meant to showcase the talents of the worlds best athletes, but more so to let everyone know that Russia wasn’t a bankrupt communist failure. As greed and nationalistic bravado have become the main […]
The season might be over for most, except for those few select holdouts that have somehow found themselves in a vortex of winter wonderland. All this means is that everyone that isn’t getting after it while they still can has probably moved on to other endeavors or started the seasonal bitching of how are they […]
ESPN the world wide leader in sports and owners of the X Games have decided that to reach an untapped market share in the U.S. outside the youth action sports market, they will be bringing video games to X Games this summer in Austin Texas. As obesity and childhood diabetes have become the hot new […]
The X-Games happened again this weekend in Aspen Colorado and of course those that actually care about snowboarding got to watch a spin to win triple chuck yourself contest go down in various events. The only high points were that Danny Davis won halfpipe with a run that included a switch method and Chloe Kim […]
Originality is completely dead! It has all been done, too death! There is nothing new coming out, instead we opt to regurgitate old ideas over and over to sell to the masses as something new. Truthfully this is the zombie apocalypse that everyone these day seems to prep for. It isn’t in the sense of […]
We live in a time where present technology seems to borrow from the past to help advance the future. Looking through the annals of snowboarding you can see the influences of yesteryear today. Things like reverse camber, asymetrical sidecuts, blunted shapes, baseless bindings, 3-D bases, and the like seem to have come full circle. What […]
As morbid obesity becomes the latest trends for Americans to get on, the snow sports industry has to keep up with the demands of its participants otherwise couch crunching and channel surfing will become the more prevalent action sports. With the largest complaint of the over weight being that their bodies can’t properly support their […]
