Have you had that feeling recently that snowboarding may be stalling a little? That the hype has died down a touch? Well, the New York Times has an article up today saying exactly that, snowboarding is in decline.
3CS Welcomes Heikki Sorsa To The Team
Finland’s Heikki Sorsa has joined the 3CS team. The guys put together this rad welcome to the team clip with a few shots from last season. Heikki said of the signing, “I’m stoked to get busy with …
Shaun White’s Not A Real Snowboarder – Scott Sullivan
Here’s a neat clip from the Absinthe crew basically talking about how good Travis Rice is. There’s a lot of flattery going on in here mixed with a tonne of rad old footage. However the interesting moment comes …
Declan Vogel-Paul’s Month In Breckenridge and Keystone
Oakley, Bataleon and Bonfire rider, Declan Vogel-Paul shot me through this quick edit of his last four weeks over in Breckenridge and Keystone. Looks like a …
Danny Davis’ Pipe Dream Is Awesome
Danny Davis has created a unique pipe incorporating rails, gaps, wall rides and more. They filmed the below rad clip which has Davis and Terje Haakonsen, Jack Mitrani, Kevin Pearce. Mikkel Bang, Pat …
Simon Beck’s Geometric Snow Art
Every season since 2004 artist Simon Beck has been walking around Les Arcs ski resort in France creating geometric patterns step by step. The patterns can take anything from 6 hours to a couple of days of work to finish …
Cable Cams At Dew Tour
I found this neat article in Wired about how the Dew Tour has introduced cable cams into the pipe at its comps. As you can see from the video below, the cam is run down the centre of the pipe and can sometimes clearly capture …
The Haptic Snowboarding System
I found this one on tech site, Ars Technica. Daniel Spelmezan of the Université Paris-Sud is developing a suit and board to help teach people to snowboard. Because an instructor is generally separated from a student, sensors on …
More Slams From Absinthe’s 2012
Absinthe have released a second set of slams from their filming trips for the 2012 flick, Resonance. As I mentioned for the first clip (over here) this is car crash viewing… lotta pain in this two …
Chapter 3 Of The Nike Snowboarding Project By Justin Hostynek
Here it is, chapter three of the Nike Snowboarding Project. This one was created by Justin Hostynek and joins the short films by Brad Kremer and Joe Carlino which have been released already. It features …
Absinthe Films 2012 Hits And Misses
It’s Absinthe’s car-crash video section – something you don’t want to look at, but you know you will. Here’s all the best slams, bails and near misses from their filming trips over the last season. Ouch.
Episode 2 Of Diary Days With Euan Taylor
The guys from Diaries Downunder have released the second episode of Diary Days, this time featuring Euan Taylor. Although this has only a tenuous link to skateboarding with a …
Best Tricks From Absinthe’s 2012
Absinthe has released a rad clip of the best tricks from their 2012 featuring Nicolas Muller, Travis Rice, Gig Ruf and more. Awesome way to start your Friday – enjoy!
Oi Mate’s Best Of The 2012 Australian Season Clip
Jeremy Sheridan has sent in the best of Oi Mate’s 2012 Australian season. The clip features Jye Kearney, Billy Hayman, Matt Sedunary, Mitch Williams, Ben Currie, Dan Currie, Mathew Galina, Charles …
Gigi Ruf, Luke Mitrani And Wolle Nyvelt’s Frame Of Mind
This is the latest in Dragon’s webisode series, Frame of Mind. It is shot at Dragon’s R and D cabin outside of Silverton, Colorado where Gigi Ruf, Luke Mitrani and Wolle Nyvelt were having …
Preview Of Justin Hostynek’s Clip For Nike Snowboarding Project
Justin Hostynek has created the third installment of the Nike Snowboarding Project which is due for release on December 11th. They have released a little teaser clip in which Gigi Ruf, Nicolas …
Nike Snowpark Montafon
Nike has sponsored a terrain park in Montafon. The park will feature around 40 obstacles for all levels of rider. According to the release, it will include “a variety of boxes and rollers are available for kids and novice …
Backflips With Danny Kass And Nicolas Muller
Here’s the latest episode of Flipside, the series from behind the scenes of Absinthe’s new film, Resonance. This time, Danny Kass and Nicolas Muller are riding in epic conditions in Switzerland. Lots of deep powder and discussion …
People’s Pretty Wise Melbourne Premiere
Last Friday night, Melbourne got to peep the new work from People featuring Robbie Walker and Jake Koia. The film, called Pretty Wise, was shown to a Corona fueled audience at the Cherry …
Black Ops 2 Bulletproof Snowboard From Signal
In this new episode of Every Third Thursday from Signal Snowboards, the guys get an early demo of Call Of Duty and are inspired to create a bulletproof snowboard. The episode has some awesome moments and I’m sure Seth …
Joe Carlino’s Short Film For Nike
I mentioned it yesterday buy here’s Joe Carlino’s film for Nike. Carlino’s was the first to be released and features Johnnie Paxson, Jess Kimura, Halldor Helgasson, Justin Bennee and Jed Anderson doing some …
Brad Kremer And Nike. This Is Good.
Nike are releasing a set of snow clips created by some of the best in the industry. Part one was created by Joe Carlino, part two by Mack Dawg’s Brad Kremer. It features a very entertaining Danny Kass with Sage Kotsenburg, Louie …
Dan Brisse And Zac Marben Talk IP2
Dose have stopped by for a chat with Dan Brisse and Zac Marben about their parts in Volcom’s new film, IP2. The guys talk about planning for tricks, Real Snow and the tough season last …
Nitro’s Hyped Available For Free Online
Nitro have released their new film, Hyped for free online. It’s 32 minutes of raddness featuring Bryan Fox, Austin Smith, Markus Keller, Eero Ettala, Marc Swoboda, Benny Urban, Dominik Wagner, Knut …
Danny Kass In New Episode Of Flipside
Danny Kass features with Gigi Ruf and Wolle Nyvelt hanging out in Arlberg in the new episode of Flipside, the series that takes you behind the making of the latest Absinthe film. There’s dramas with tricks being stolen and locals taking …
Inside Videograss with Darrell Mathes
Here’s a neat little video of Darrell Mathes being interviewed for Dose about the Videograss films, The Dark Side and Enlighten. It was shot when the films were being premiered in New York (the only place in the news right now) and …
Episode 5 Of Diaries Downunder 2012
Episode 5 of Diaries Downunder for 2012 is all about spring surprises. Longer days let the guys squeeze in some more riding after closing at The Remarkables and a bit of trekking gets some fun …
Burton Shuts Down The Program
Yesterday, Burton announced a huge number of changes to the company and the brands they hold. The Program, which houses Forum, Special Blend and FourSquare, is to be shut down, Gravis will be relocated to Tokyo and only be sold in Asia, Anon will move …
Robbie Walker’s Full Part From The 11/12 K2 Team Vid
K2 Snowboards have posted Robbie Walker’s full part from their 11/12 Team Video. This is a re-edit from the rad part for Givin and is …
Every Third Thursday Loves Boobies
This episode of Every Third Thursday from Signal is all about breast cancer awareness. They create a pretty awesome looking board and it’s given a test run by Melissa Riitano, Katie Williams, and Jamie Madrid on …
Seb Toots Releases 2012 Video Part
Seb Toots has released an awesome video part he put down in only six days. Filmed in Montreal, Switzerland, New Zealand and the US by Sunset films it has some great park and backcountry footage. There’s maybe a little too much use of the slow-mo …
Diaries Downunder’s ‘Diary Days’ Episode 1
The crew behind Diaries Downunder have released episode one of their new series, Diary Days. This features personalities from New Zealand and the clip is all about Kenji Fukushima who has lived in …
DC Snowboarding’s ‘Must Be Nice’ Premiere
DC are having an online premiere for their new snowboard film, Must Be Nice. The premiere is happening on Facebook tomorrow (Wednesday October 10th) between 5am and 5pm over here. After that the film will …
A Final Spring Fling With Oi Mate!
The last clip from the Oi Mate guys this year has the guys shredding the backcountry-side of Thredbo, some early morning halfpipe with Nate Johnstone, a couple of days with Matt Sedunary and a bit …
Nitro’s Hyped Teaser
And here’s a second rad teaser for the day… Nitro have released the short for their 2012 film, Hyped. The film features Austin Smith, Eero Ettala, Jon Kooley, Justin Bennee, Bryan Fox, Mark …