Mt. Hood saw Technine join the Windells campers this week for a bit of a shred, a donut eating challenge and a skate. There was the obligatory free product given away between the likes of Lucas Magoon, Tim Humphreys, Andrew Brewer and more doing there thing. Check the clip above!
Shred Bots The Movie Teaser
Here’s a teaser for Shredbots The Movie – the least serious teaser I’ve seen since ManBoys dropped theirs earlier this year. The film features some heavy hitters including Torstein Horgmo, Andreas Wiig, Craig McMorris, Anto Chamberland, Stale Sandbech and more. It was filmed and edited by Leo Cittadella. Check it out above.
Air Time With John Jackson Episode 2
Here’s the second episode of John Jackson’s new series, Air Time. This episode follows Jackson and his buddy Noobs on a 20 mile hike to get some summer snow on Mt. Ritter. The guys ascend 4,500 feet in the pursuit and only give themselves a day to do it – …
Nothing To Prove Teaser From Celtek
Here’s the tease for the new Celtek film, Nothing to Prove. This one was shot through Minnesota and Utah with Bjorn Leines, Aaron Biittner, Chris Grenier, Lucas Magoon, Bode Merrill, Kazu Kokobu, Cale Zima, Deadlung, Dan Brisse and more featuring. The DoP is Leland MacNamara with editing by STS Studios. Should be a …
Heavy Mental Teaser From Absinthe
This is pretty epic – the teaser for the new film from Absinthe called, Heavy Mental. It features a few big names that we haven’t seen in a while including Romain De Marchi, Austin Sweetin, Mathieu Crepel, Nils Arvidsson and more. This looks insanely good – check it out above.
Street League Stop 2 – Chicago
Main Image From: Transworld Skate Gallery From: Street League Street League stop two went down over the weekend. Chicago saw Nyjah Huston take a pretty heavy slam during the quals and be in doubt for the remainder of the comp. But never fear, he reappeared with a bandaged right wrist and a …
Some New Tricks From Rodney Mullen
Gracias LA have put out this clip featuring Rodney Mullen doing a few tricks indoors. Filmed by Ben Fordham it’s only just over a minute of new hottness – something to make your Monday morning.
Night Fury Behind the Scenes Ep 3.
Here’s the third look behind the scenes of creating the Night Fury film. It’s another look at just how hard these guys had to work to create the film – hiking for hours at night, building jump and some painful looking injuries. Check out what it took to make this …
Windells Session 5 With Neff
Windells hosted Neff and Lobster Snowboards for session 5. Tim Humphreys, Nic Sauve, Eiki Helgason and a tonne more came along for a bit of fun. Check a clip from the session above.
Air Time With John Jackson
John Jackson has put out the first episode in a series that seems to be about what he gets up to out of season and when he’s not traveling. There’s a bit of ditch surfing, some rallying of a buggy and a lot of talking about what good times are …
Diaries Downunder 2014 Episode 2
Nick Hyne, Nick Brown, Jake Koia, Christy Prior and Sean Thompson get after it in New Zealand for the latest episode of Diaries Downunder. This one covers the season open along with the opening of a brand new chair at the Remarkables opening up a whole lot of new terrain. Then the guys get …
Snowboard Injuries On The Rise
The Sydney Morning Herald has an exclusive on a study about a rise in snowboarding injuries at Victorian resorts. The majority are accounted for by males, aged 15 – 24 years… Anyone remotely surprised as yet? 86% of injuries are down to fractures, dislocations and soft tissue damage. Only 7% …
Fanning FTW At J-Bay
Photo: ASP / Kirstin Scholtz Mick Fanning has defeated Joel Parkinson 17.00 points to 13.60 points on the sixth tour stop. Parko took the first wave but couldn’t get out of the barrel, Fanning grabbed the next and scored a 9.0 and from that point, he held the lead till the end. In the …
Burton Australian Junior Series for 2014
Burton is bringing back the Australian Junior Series for 2014 on August 8th, 9th and 10th at Perisher. There’s $20,000 in cash and prizes to win across three disciplines; Boarder X, Slopestyle and Halfpipe. Age groups are Mini Groms (Born 2003-2008), Groms (1999-2002) and Rookie (1995-1998)… Meaning I’m only a full 14 years …
Australian Invented Cross Board Released
At the risk of sounding like someone against any sort of innovation, I’m starting this by mentioning just how skeptical I am… Looking at pictures of this thing, I can feel my left eyebrow racing up my forehead and merging into my hair. However, a couple of Adelaide residents (skepticism rising further) …
Windells Session 4 With Nike
Nike Snowboarding were the guests at Windells camp for session four. The campers got to hang with Halldor Helgason, Louie Vito, Reid Smith, Nick Visconti and heaps more. The day looked amazing – game of SNOW, bit of a skate and a tonne of fun in the park. Check the …
Plan B’s True Trailer
Plan B have released the trailer for their new film, True. The film features Felipe Gustavo, Torey Pudwill, Colin McKay, Danny Way, PJ Ladd and more. This video has been long promised but it looks like it’s finally getting closer – I’m not sure who’s doing the edit but I seriously hope …
Burton Cattlemans Rail Jam 2014 Results
Burton held their annual, awesome, Cattlemans Rail Jam on Saturday night. What looks like a huge crowd packed around the bottom of the rail to see some of Australia’s best, and one or two foreigners, have at it. Jye Kearney did his thing and walked to the Kooroora afterparty $4,000 richer and …
Danny Kass Takes The Reigns At Grenade
Danny Kass has written an open letter to let us all know that they have fired Grenade’s somewhat controversial CEO, Joseph Condorelli, as of June 17th and Kass will be stepping back into the leadership role. Kass started the label in 2001 which had some pretty incredible growth for a while. In 2010, …
Quiksilver Announces New Licensing Agreements
Although this might look like it’s going to be the worlds most boring article (and it might still get there) I’m thinking that this is actually pretty interesting. Tucked away in the generic release announcing half a dozen new licensing partnerships, was the announcement that Quiksilver had signed “SARL Euroglass and …
Octovo x Tilley Surfboards
This came to me through FastCo Design – a rad collaboration between the guys at Ammunition, who are behind some of the iconic product design for Beats and payment company Square, and shaper Jason Tilley. Ammunition are starting a travel goods label called Octovo and as part of the launch they …
Jamie Anderson On ESPN Body Issue
Jamie Anderson scored the cover of ESPNs annual celebration of peak athletes physical condition. The 2014 Body issue also features surfer Coco Ho and snowboarder Amy Purdy, and (more loosely associated) a pretty funny shot of Travis Pastrana and his wife. Anderson did have a great quote on her approach to her …
Windells Snowboarding Session 3
Photos: Erik Hoffman Windells is back for another year and it’s looking as good as ever. Below is the session three recap video and there’s a few photos from the session above. LibTech were there with a tonne of free product and put on a pretty epic rail jam.
Desillusion Looks At Dane Reynolds
Desillusion editor Sebastien Zanella followed Dane Reynolds for a film in a way that only this French magazine can. The movie takes a look at Dane out of the spotlight, just hanging out and chatting about his place in the surf world – not quite the tour jock and not quite the …
Burton Board Sells For $31K
Hat tip to Transworld on this one… A rare vintage 1977 Burton Experimental Prototype sold on Ebay for US$31,313.13 last week. The board was one of less than 100 made and this was gifted to its owner in payment for the guys using his hotel to make the early boards. …
Behind The Scenes Ep 2 For Night Fury
The guys behind the Night Fury film have released a second look behind the scenes of making the flick. Having to shoot at night in the back country increases the workload a lot – in this test shoot they’re dealing with ten lights running from a generator. With stands, cables, tarps …
Feel Good Friday: Keep On Pushin’
Californian videographer Ricki Bedenbaugh‘s “REDirect” submission, Keep On Pushin’, sums up Friday’s better than I ever could. You just gotta’ keep on pushin!
Manboys – Fish Tacos
I was pretty excited about this web series… It clearly had the best teaser I’ve seen in ages. The first episode of the Manboys series is out now and is called Fish Tacos. It features Mark Sollors, Rusty Ockenden, Jody Wachniak, Robjn Taylor, Matt Belzile, and Chris Rasman. The blurb …
9th Annual Burton Cattleman’s Rail Jam
Photo: Cam Staveley via Burton Aus Facebook The annual Burton Cattleman’s Rail Jam is set to go down again on July 12th. This is always one of the best events of the season – no longer invite only, for the last few years the format lets riders compete for a …
Street League 2014 – Chicago Stop Results
The first full tour stop for the 2014 Street League season happened in Chicago over the weekend. Matt Berger, who came through from the Pro Open stop in L.A. the other week, again made it through to the finals and is definitely a bright future prospect – maybe not for …
Brad Pitt Is A Pretty Epic Dad
In some random news but still something I thought worth posting… Brad Pitt has constructed (probably not personally, but he got it done) an epic looking skatepark out the back of the Pitt-Jolie residence for the tribe of kids (using it in its colloquial sense, not being racist). The thing is …
‘The Bad Seeds’ Teaser From Nitro
Nitro’s crew have been getting together footage for their latest vid, The Bad Seeds. Filmed across Salt Lake City, Montreal, Sweden, Russia and the Himalayas it features Austin Smith, Benny Urban, Bryan Fox, Eero Ettala and a heap more. The blurb with it says “The Bad Seeds stands for a …
Night Fury Film
We posted the ‘making of‘ and teaser to this over the last few weeks and here the full clip. Shot entirely in the backcountry at night in Japan, Night Fury features Nick Brown, Connor Harding and Jacob Koia getting some amazing shots. There’s a story line to this but it’s not …
Mates In Alaska Photos
Vaughan Brookfield has some sick photos up on TWSnow from last years Redbull produced series ‘Mates In Alaska’. Check ’em all out here. Jake Koia and Roland Morley-Brown charging as usual. If you haven’t seen the show, get busy watchin’! Winter is here! More photos here, watch the series here …
Freestyle skateboarding? In 2014?!
Ever wondered what a winning freestyle skateboarding run looks like these days?