Photo: MAX MASON-HUBERS A bunch of skaters intervened in a situation where two Muslim women were being attacked by some bogan racist – presumably a guy who lacks the ability to perform basic menial tasks without lengthy detailed instructions and struggles with words longer than four letters (I bet he rides a …
Burton ‘Presents’ Mark McMorris Teaser
Here’s the teaser for the next Burton Presents episode, this time featuring Mark McMorris. Seems like this episode will cover the ups and downs of his most recent competitive season. As with the other episodes, it’s looking like it’s going to be epic – well shot and edited. Check it out.
The Anatomy Of An Ollie
Wired has run a rad little piece explaining the physics behind an ollie… Wait, don’t go. I swear it is interesting. They took an ollie from the video above, shot at 1,000 frames per-second (side note – while this may have been shot at 1,000 fps, I don’t believe it’s …
Rip Curl IPO Back On The Cards
Rip Curl, a powerhouse in its own right but always looked on as ‘the little brand that could’ next to much larger stablemates, Quiksilver and Billabong, has lifted profits 60% after 24 months of restructuring. And despite the interesting experience of the bigger listed brands over the last few years with …
Is This A Car Commercial? Or For Energy Drink?
Here’s a clip of Ken Block, Zak Hale and Ethan Deiss snowboarding and driving around Baldface. There’s a lot of energy drink logos and Block is in his kitted out Ford F-150 RaptorTRAX… After those facts, I’m actually a little lost on what to tell you about this. It’s not …
Stefan Janoski On Desillusion Mag
Desillusion Mag has done a bit of a long form video piece on Stefan Janoski. The clip is a little rambling and doesn’t really get to anything super interesting but Janoski talks about how he feels about his career and his art projects. There’s a few skate shots dropped in here and …
Adidas Nomad Part 2
Here’s the latest part in Adidas’ Nomad series featuring Kazu Kokubo, Louif Paradis and Eric Jackson. The guys talk about the constant travel and the friends they’ve made living that spontaneous lifestyle. In this clip, they hit Oregon, Whistler and Mammoth.
Herald Sun Talks All Things Torah
Photo: No idea – can’t find the source but kudos to whoever took it. It’s a nice one. Torah Bright has given an interview to the Herald Sun to talk about the last year and a bit, life and what she’s up to. It’s clearly an ad for Dancing With The …
Snow Craft Generations Episode 3
Here’s the latest episode of Snow Craft Generations, an epic series supported by Transworld Snow and created by Lukas and Jesse Huffman. This focusses on the creation of Winterstick by Dimitrije Milovitch and Don Moss. The guys struggle to gain traction with their idea of snowboarding focussed on more of …
Get Outta Town – Project 2, Episode 3
Get Outta Town is back with a new episode and it’s as epic as the others. Iikka Backstrom, Benji Ritchie, Eero Niemela, Ryan Tiene and Devun Walsh hit the back country in a big way. Some good watching.
Anyone Want The 2022 Winter Olympics?
Photos via macos.livejournal.com Oslo has pulled out of the bidding process for the 2022 Winter Olympics – this follows an exit from the Ukraine (for obvious reasons), Stockholm in Sweden, Krakow in Poland, Switzerland’s St Moritz and Germany’s Munich from the process as well. And the main reason is the financial …
Chocolate Celebrates 20 Years
Chocolate is celebrating 20 years going strong and they’re touring an art show for the occasion. The show is displaying some of the best and worst board art over the last two decades as well as the initial work that fed those designs. It actually looks incredible and would be …
Burton Presents Jeremy Jones and Mikkel Bang
This clip will bring you next level happiness – the latest in the Burton Presents series of clips features Mikkel Bang and Jeremy Jones. Both parts are filmed and edited insanely well with Bang getting way out in the back country and Jones hitting the streets. The guys filmed through British …
Aaron Bittner Has Nothing To Prove
With more than enough footage gathered over the season, Celtek have cut together a full part for Aaron Bittner from the Nothing To Prove film. Shot in the hills of Utah and the streets of the Midwest, the guy makes it look damn easy… And stylish.
Shred Bots Hit Perisher
Perisher hosted the Shred Bots recently with Torstein Horgmo, Alek Ostreng, Brage Richenberg, Markus Kleveland, Jye Kearney and Mons Røisland tearing up the park.
Rome’s FIND In The Aleutians
Rome’s second part to their (so far) epic set of FIND films is out and this time features Cody Booth, Aspen Rain Weaver, and Thomas Delfino adventuring out to south west Alaska. This is actually an amazing watch – the Rome guys are killing it with this series. Make your …
Snow Craft Generations – Winterstick and Mervin
Here’s the second episode of Lukas and Jesse Huffman’s Snow Craft Generations for Transworld Snowboarding. This one looks at the second part of progression for LibTech and Gnu with the development of their Banana boards, as well as the genesis of Winterstick. A really great watch. See the first episode here.
Dragon’s ‘We Are Frameless’ Part 2
Here’s the second instalment of Dragon’s We Are Frameless series – you can view the first back here. The clip features Nic Harvey, Brage Richenberg, Cohen Davies, Nick Brown and Niklas Mattsson riding the park at Perisher. There’s a few good shots in here – worth a watch.
Episode 4 Of Diaries Downunder 2014
Here’s the latest episode of Diaries Downunder with Nick Hyne and the crew hitting Mount Hutt, Ohau and The Remarks. They’re joined by Mack James, Benny Comber, Stefi Luxton, Tim Herbert and Nick Brown. No helicopters or anything super exciting in this one – but a little look at some places you …
Adidas Nomad Part 1
Here’s part 1 of the Adidas web series we mentioned back here (don’t bother going back for the teaser – for some reason they deleted it). The series features Jake Blauvelt, Eric Jackson, Kazu Kokubo, Helen Schettini, Keegan Valaika, Forest Bailey, and Louif Paradis. The first part takes them to Japan …
Celtek’s Nothing To Prove Part 2
Celtek have dropped part two of their current Nothing to Prove series. This one sees a massive posse of riders hitting the resorts of Utah, some epic backcountry, and a bit of fun at Holy Bowly. There’s a lot of back slapping in the commentary here, (“he was awesome” and”they were the best”) but …
Boardworld’s 2014 Slopestyle Comp Wrap
Here’s Boardworld’s end-of season wrap from a couple of Australia’s biggest slopestyle competitions for 2014. Featuring shots from both the Mile High comp and Stylewars captured by Mitch Ayers, it’s a neat little watch.
Nomad 1 of 3 Teaser by Adidas
UPDATE: For reasons known only to themselves, it appears Adidas decided to remove the teaser when they posted the full film… So, you get an image. Deal with it and hit the full clip here. This year is all about the web series and Adidas has one too. They’ve just released …
Burton Presents: Jussi Oksanen And Mikey Rencz
Burton have released the first in their 2014 web series, Burton Presents. Jussi Oksanen and Mikey Rencz are the feature of this one and it’s a tonne of backcountry goodness through Northern BC, the Whistler Backcountry, and St. Moritz, Switzerland. Check it out!
Sage Kotsenburg’s Emergence For Nike
Here’s the first from Nike’s Emergence web series. This one features Olympic gold medalist Sage Kotsenburg who talks about getting into snowboarding and why he’s still a part of it. Nicely put together.
Snow Craft Generations – Lib and Gnu
We posted the trailer for this series last week, here’s the first episode. Snow Craft Generations is created by Lukas and Jesse Huffman for Transworld Snowboarding and it takes you through some of the history of snowboarding. In this clip, Mike Olson and Pete Saari from Mervin Manufacturing, which created the …
Tas Pappas On Making The Trick
There’s some making of clips around from the Tas and Ben Pappas film, All This Mayhem. I came across this one yesterday, where Tas talks through landing his first 540 at the Prahran ramp. Then about landing his first 900 after a lot of ups and downs in his life. It’s …
Modest Minute Part 2 At Perisher
We posted session 1 back here – now you can watch Jordan Crockford, Luke Harvey, Rainer Occhilupo and Tenzin Butt in session two. As before this was filmed and edited by Marcus Skin, and is supported by Modest.
Celtek Releases Part One Of ‘Nothing To Prove’
Celtek have release the first part of their Nothing to Prove series and at 17 minutes, it’s a long watch but it is really worth it. The rider list is extensive (I’m not sure there’s a pro rider not included in this vid) and you will see Bjorn Leines, Aaron Biittner, Chris Grenier, …
Emergence Teaser From Nike Snowboarding
Nike Snowboarding is releasing a seven part web series called Emergence. It features Nicolas Muller, Halldor Helgason, Austin Smith, Ayumu Hirano, Sage Kotsenburg, Danny Kass, and Gigi Ruf. The teaser looks pretty damn epic – each episode is being released every second Monday… I’m assuming from next week but there …
Sven Thorgren Cuts A Few Laps At Perisher
I got the heads up on this one from Transworld, Sven Thorgren posted this clip from a few round in the Perisher park. Nicely filmed with some great style in there. Worth a check out for sure.
Arto Saari’s Match Made in HEL
Drop whatever you’re doing and check this out… It’s hard for me not to oversell this but Arto Saari has a competition running with Finair to go and skate Helsinki airport. You’ll be rolling around with Saari, Curren Caples, Louie Lopez and Alec Majerus. You can enter the comp over …
Snow Craft Generation Teaser
This is awesome and a huge congrats needs to go to Lukas and Jesse Huffman as well as Transworld for making this series. Snow Craft Generation is a series on the pioneers of snowboarding – the initial episodes look Winterstick, Mervin and a few others who were paving the way. The teaser …
Red Bull’s Deep Water Breath Holding Camp
Ages and ages ago, we posted about Guillaume Nery, a constant weight free dive world champ. People were pretty stoked on it and here we have Red Bull training some pretty big names in similar skills. The crew, including Travis Pastrana, Ben Ferguson a few skiiers and a video gamer (?), get …