Ross Rebagliati Embracing The Past

For those who frequent Whistler in the Northern Winter, this may not be news to you. But I read it yesterday and was blown away… Ross Rebagliati, the 1998 Winter Olympic gold medalist, who subsequently lost and then regained the medal due to THC being found in his system, indicating …

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Billabong Sold Nixon And Told No One

This image has no relevance to the article but it’s McCrank’s profile image in Nixon’s team section and is awesome. Billabong had offloaded half of its share in Nixon a while back to hold back the banks for a little while. About a month ago, they got rid of the …

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Sugar Loaf Resort Purchased By Eneliko Smith

Eneliko Smith, the former owner of The Block hotel and reality TV show has finalised plans to purchase the abandoned Michigan resort, Sugar Loaf. He first announced his intentions back in 2010 but was still searching for the right partner, with resort management experience, to complete the venture. The price …

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Jake Koia’s ‘Cold And Soba’ Queenstown Premiere

Jake Koia hld a premiere for his new film, Cold And Soba at Find Bar in Queenstown last Friday night. The event was supported by Red Bull, LibTech and Oakley. The film was created by Mates Media and is due for release online this week. Check some shots from the …

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Episode 4 Of Diaries Downunder For 2013

In the latest episode of Diaries Downunder for 2013, skier Jossi Wells gets on a snowboard, hits the skate park and then the park and the big jump at Cardrona. It is pretty epic to see. He is joined by Nick Hyne, Stef Zeestraten and more. Check it out above.

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Brian Singer And Doug Warbrick Step Down From Rip Curl

Rip Curl’s founders Brian Singer and Doug Warbrick are stepping down from the company after 44 years. The guys started the iconic label in 1969 shaping boards, and made a decision a year later to start creating wetsuits. From there it boomed. In 1981 they started selling their tech under …

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Burton’s [SNOWBOARDING] Street Teaser

Here’s a rad way to start the day – Burton have released the teaser for the street episode of their [SNOWBOARDING] project. The full film is being released this Friday (September 27th, 2013) and if what we’re seeing here is anything to go by, it’s going to be insane. Enjoy!

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Nate Greenwood Joins Ashbury

Stereo Am Nate Greenwood has joined the Ashbury team and the guys have released this rad welcome clip as part of it. Check it out above.

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Trahan and Eduardo’s 5BORO Commercial

This is just a rad little commercial for 5BORO featuring Jordan Trahan and Silvester Eduardo skating in Flushing Meadows Corona Park – an awesome way to spend 30 seconds. Via Skatedaily.

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Trailer #1 For Markus Keller’s CHAMäLEON

Here’s the first trailer for the Red Bull, Volcom and Nitro backed film featuring Markus Keller. Called CHAMäLEON it also stars Arthur Longo, Eero Ettala, Bryan Iguchi and more. There’s another trailer dropping in 10 days and then the full film will be out on October 18th with an online …

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Get Outta Town With Devun and Iikka

Here’s the second episode of Get Outta Town from Snowboarder Magazine and featuring Devun Walsh, Iikka Backstrom and a tonne of friends. The guys hit the Air and Style in Austria before heading up to Arlberg for some powder. It’s split with some action in Whistler including a lot of …

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Signal’s ETT Hits NZ

Signal’s latest Every Third Thursday sees the guys in NZ. The objective is to see if a board can be pressed underwater… Just in case any one every needs a really inefficient way to press a board. Ignoring the premise, the actual episode has some epic shots from around the …

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Chris Grenier | Full Part

Here is Chris Grenier’s Full Part from Videograss. Shot over the 2012/13 season while traveling with friends including Timmy Ronan, Frank April and Chris Carr the guy covered street and backcountry. It’s well worth a watch. Check it out!

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Ollipop Shoots 13 Year Old Josh Vagne

Ollipop have put together this rad little clip of 13 year old DC rider, Josh Vagne. The clip was shot and edited by Jeremy Richardson – check it out below.

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Wetsocks Unpredictable Clip

Shaun Belmore sent through this little edit called Unpredictable. Shot at Falls and featuring Belmore, Luke Sinclair, Rainer Occhilupo, Owen Newman, Andrew Roth and Jeremy Burns with a soundtrack by Second Chance, it’s worth a look!

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Burton 2013 High Fives Slopestyle Results

Cardrona has seen the finals of the High Fives slopestyle go down and Stale Sandbech and Jamie Anderson take the wins. Sandbech’s run included a halfcab 50-50 180 out, hardway 270 on boardslide, boardslide 270 out, frontside 900 double cork indy, Cab 1260 stale, and backside 1080 double cork stale. …

by Dave

How The Hell Did I Miss This?

I am a month late to this party but if you’re someone who also missed it, I am about to make your Friday. New Balance Numeric released this clip four weeks ago called A Place In The Sun. Aside from rad filming and editing, epic locations around LA and all …

by Dave

Oi Mate Season 2 Episode 3

Here’s the latest episode of the Oi Mate series which features the very impressive run across the Rocky Valley Lake by Mat Galina, which I happened to catch featured on Sunrise?!? In addition there is the likes of Alex ‘Oz Man’ Scott, Greg Murray, Ryan Manning, Colin Clarke, Ryan Linnert, Scotty …

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Complex’s List Of Most Innovative Skateparks

Complex’s has compiled a list of the 31 most innovative skateparks from around the world. There’s some amazing ones in here – definitely more than a few that I’d love to visit. But I think there’s some missing too – like Port Augusta in SA. Anyway, the list is well …

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O’Neill And Naude To Create New Brand

Former Billabong CEO Derek O’Neill is teaming up with Paul Naude to create a new, rival brand to Billabong. O’Neill was a long, long time employee for Billabong establishing the brand in Europe amongst other duties, and Naude was president for the Americas and led a rival bid to takeover …

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The Norweigians Shred Perisher

Some of Norway’s best riders have hit Perisher and come out with some epic footage. Torstein Horgmo, Per Iver Grimsrud, Torgeir Bergrem, Emil André Ulsletten, Gjermund Bråten, Ulrik Badertscher, Sondre Hylland, Silje Norendal, Helene Olafsen and Ståle Sandbechare all in here. There’s even a sketch comedy intro. This is a …

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Burton [SNOWBOARDING] Backcountry Teaser

Burton is releasing the first part of their [SNOWBOARDING] web series this Friday (September 13th). The first one is set in the backcountry and they have a bit of a teaser out for it. Looks like it is going to be pretty damn epic – check it out below and …

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Episode 3 Of Diaries Downunder For 2013

Diaries Downunder have released their third episode for the 2013 season. This one all goes down during the August competitions when the international riders come to town. Unfortunately this year saw some pretty bad weather close in during the winter games but there was still plenty of fun to be …

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Billabong Womens Team Hits Whistler

It’s not all bad news from Billabong. They sent their womens team up to Whistler for a ride in some epic conditions. The clip features Jamie Anderson, Helen Schettini, Rebecca Torr, Alex Duckworth, Taylor Godber, and Jenna Blasman riding the park, swimming, bungee jumping and riding bikes. Looks like it …

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Burton Riglet Event At Falls

This Saturday, September 14th, Falls Creek and Burton have got an event setup specifically for three to six year olds called Riglet. It’s going to run from 10am till 3pm at the bottom of the Express Chair and is designed to give the younger crew a taste of snowboarding. You …

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2013 Burton High Fives Rider List

Burton have confirmed the rider list for the 2013 High Fives comp at Cardrona in N.Z. The list includes Kelly Clark, Danny Davis, Scotty Lago, Elena Hight, Ellery Hollingsworth, Gretchen Bleiler, Mikkel Bang, Peetu Piiroinen, Charles Reid and Australian Cameron Stavely plus a load more talent. The comp kicks off …

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Ty Evans Brain Farm Project Shooting On The Phantom Flex4K

Brain Farm have put up a bit of a post on their blog about shooting recently in LA with Ty Evans for their skate project. The guys were testing out the Phantom Flex4K, which can film up to 1000fps and up to 2000 fps in 2K (for this they were …

by Dave

Travis Rice And Pat Moore Having Fun

This is a couple of months old but it’s still worth a watch. ESPN have this rad clip, created by the guys at Brain Farm, which sees Travis Rice taking Pat Moore out for some of his first spine runs in Alaska. Rice seems like he would make the experience …

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Coastal Capital Wants A Piece Of That Billabong Action

Because things weren’t quite screwed up enough, a new player has emerged in the battle for Billabong. Coastal Capital which hold a 5% stake purchased about a month ago has requested an Extraordinary General Meeting to discuss throwing out most of the board and replacing them with their own people. …

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Fyve Team At Perisher

Fyve team riders Ryan Manning, Ryan Linnert and Harley Trivic were up at Perisher just post the Mile High comp. Jason Manning got his camera out and captured a few shots as the guys hit the park. Check it out above.

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Adidas Snow Team Clips – Jake Blauvelt

Adidas are releasing a series of clips from their snow team with the first one featuring Jake Blauvelt. It will be followed by clips from Keegan Valeika, Eric Jackson, Forrest Bailey, Turbo and Helen Schettini. You can see all the release dates over here and check out Jake’s clip below.

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Jeff Grosso On The Crail Couch

Jeff Grosso has taken a seat on the Crail Couch and provided one of the most entertaining installments. Talking about growing up, trying to take down Girl Skateboards and the best drugs to take before contests, it is well worth your six minutes. Enjoy!

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Is Billabong’s Brand Value Really Zero?

You might have caught the news recently that after some pretty significant write downs, Billabong and it’s brands are being valued at effectively zero. In other words, they have worked 40 years for something of no value… In money terms anyway. But is it actually true? After reading this BRW …

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2013 Stash Gathering At Remarkables

In a couple of weeks time we have the 2013 Stash Gathering At The Remarkables in New Zealand. There will be a few unique features, some prizes and an after party where the first part of the new Burton film project [SNOWBOARDING] will be screened. Check the details in the …

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Justin Bennee Teaser Clip For Nike’s Never Not

Nike and Nitro’s Justin Bennee features in the rad little teaser clip for the upcoming Never Not film. It’s just a day hitting one feature but it’s pretty cool to watch. Check it out below.

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