Yes, I know this happened days ago and it’s taken me way to long to get up but here’s wrap from the Burton N.Z. Open halfpipe comp at the weekend. Ipod (Iouri Podladtchikov) took out the mens with a run including a crippler, double McTwist 1260, frontside 1080 tailgrab, and …
Grenade’s European Vacation
Grenade has got a crew together on tour in Europe at the moment. Eero Niemela, The Dingo, Dustin Craven, Tom Ryen, Louie Vito, Rip Zinger and others are all trekking around having fun. The whole thing is being documented over on the Grenade site with some pretty funny posts written …
Thredbo Terrain Park Report Mid August 2010
It’s been a busy couple of weeks with World Rookie Fest, copious amounts of new snow and a few rebuilds of the park. This episode we’ve got some snowdancing from Ryan Tiene and Jai as well as the usual suspects riding the parks …
Vote For Videograss
Our old friend Jan Snarski needs our help. Jan is a lovable dude that is filming for our good friends at Videograss and their new film Bon Voyage. Snowboarder Magazine have a Superpark Showdown video edit contest running and we all need to vote for Videograss. Here’s the downlow for …
The Rob Blog: N.Z. Open
Just a quick update from the Burton Open finals last weekend… The weather sucked, it was a complete white out and raining, but the event went on. Ended up struggling to just land my safety run because you could not see a thing then tried to step it up on …
Nate Johnstone Blog: Burton NZ Open
I Have been over in NZ now for about 2 weeks and have had some really fun sunny days shredding with the NSWIS boys. We have been playing around with my Go Pro over the past week and got a little bit of footage together so Charlie Steinbacher put together …
Burton NZ Open Slopestyle Finals
The finals for the Burton NZ Open just ended. I got this from Burton Marketing Manager Chris Boadle “the soupy conditions didn’t deter riders and I can safely say that this was the first time I have ever seen a double front flip into a double back flip. Ridiculous.” So …
Shaun White Skateboarding Preview
Issue 15 cover story Shaun White has already released a relatively successful snowboarding video game but that doesn’t mean he can sit around and play it. Not when Shaun kills it like he does on a skateboard and there’s cash-money to be made. We’ve talked about it before, but Shaun …
Baw Baw Park Page Update – August 13th
Tim at Baw Baw shot me through an update on the features they have setup there at the moment… And there’s quite a setup working. Currently, they have the following…
TTR’s New Live Scoring System Explained
Chris Boadle at Burton shot me through this vid explaining the new Snowboarding Live Scoring (SLS) System this morning. It’s great to see the comps working with the riders to improve both the competitors experience and the spectators …
Nitro Team At Mt. Hood And HCSC
Nitro hit me with a tonne of rad photos and a story from the team trip to Mt Hood and their visit to High Cascade. Tobi Strauss from the Nitro Europe team has the run down on the trip below! Check it out!
Burton NZ Open Update
I just got my first official update from the Burton NZ Open. Burton’s Marketing Manager, Chris Boadle, tells me, “The Slopestyle qualifications kicked off the 2010 NZ Open in fine style yesterday. Halfpipe Qualifications are on today under great conditions … Robbie Walker was the only qualifying Australian rider however …
Thredbo Rebuilt
Hey guys. Here are a few pics from the last week here at Thredbo. We rebuilt the cruiser beginner park with the new snow we got it now consists of two 5ft jumps, two 10ft jumps a 15ft jump, a 20ft jump and a 15ft step up. as for jibs …
Surf Dive ‘n’ Ski And Billabong Sydney Big Air Bag Party
Surf Dive ‘n’ Ski and Billabong held a party in Sydney last week for a big air demo on the monster air bag. Robbie Walker and Clint Alllan were all set to go, trouble is the tow rope they planned to use broke and it never happened. By the looks …
The Rob Blog: Burton Open Day 1
Hey Guys! I just got in from Day 1 of the Burton Open. It was an early start, the course opened at 8am for practise. The plan was to have pre qualifiers starting at 9.40am where they would take top 25, and qualifiers following right after at 12.30pm where top …
More Think Thank Teasers…
Okay, there’s no doubt these teasers for Right Brain, Left Brain are good but as we’re almost into double digits now I kinda just want to see the film. The one above features Gus Engle and Sam Hulbert, while the one below is Scott Stevens and Jason Robinson. There is also a …
Buller Rebuilt
Hey guys, an update from Mt Buller for you. Skyline Rebuild Date: 7th August Koflers Rebuild Date: 10th August Summit Park Rebuild Date: 6th August Skyline Features – Picnic Table – Down Box – Flat Rail – Down Bar – Big Down Bar – Flat Down Box – Frank the …
Hotham And Capita Banked Slalom This Saturday!
Capita and Hotham’s Banked Slalom is on this Saturday! It costs $40 to enter and every competitor gets a really good looking Banked slalom T shirt and block of One Ball Jay wax with entry. If you haven’t been to the event before, the best thing about it is that …
The Rob Blog: N.Z. Trip for the Burton Open
We made it to Wanaka late last night after a successful day of traveling with the little man. We flew in to Christchurch where we picked up our steezy hire car and made the 5 hour drive to Wanaka. We got in pretty late but were stoked to see we had …
Burton NZ Open Webcast Details
Just got sent the the webcast details for the Burton NZ Open happening this week! Both the slopestyle and halfpipe finals are going to be live. You can see the slopestyle finals on Friday August 13 from 7:00 a.m, while the halfpipe finals will run from 7:00 a.m on Saturday August …
Baw Baw’din Episode 4
Episode 4 of the epic Baw Baw’din webisode series is out. Here’s the better than I could ever write official press release: “Whoa double rainbow!! All the way across! Gorillas in the mist, pole jammin, shaving the mossy rock monsters and waking up the new log ride for the season. …
Windells Session 6 Video
Tyler at Windells just shot me through the latest session video and, as usual, it is full of pretty much every rad thing I’d like to be doing right now. Check it out!
The Rob Blog: Sydney Trip!
Hey Guys! So I flew up to Sydney for the night last week to do a big air comp that Surf Dive and Ski were putting on. I was stoked to go up and hang out with my Billabong TM Woody, legend of a bloke and my team mate and …
2011 Burton Vapor With Paul Smith
The 2011 Burton Vapor has been created with the help of mens shirt brand, Paul Smith. Burton originally worked with the English fashion label to create some unique outerwear last season. Smith says of the collaboration, “Burton Snowboards is a company I admire very much and I have enjoyed working …
The Rob Blog: 2010 Equipment Check
I got asked up at Buller at the Hut Jam what setup Robbie was riding at the moment, so I thought I would get in touch with his K2 Australian team manager, Linc Jago, to find out. Linc tells me Robbie has got three boards this year. He is on the WWW …
TTR ‘Live Scoring’ Coming To Burton NZ Open
There’s been a lot said about Rob Dyrdek’s Street League live scoring system (known as ISX) but similar systems have also been appearing in snowboarding. The ‘Snowboarding Live Scoring System’ was introduced at The Oakley Arctic Challenge Slopestyle last …
Park Page Update: Mountains Making The Most Of The Snow!
Last week’s snowfall has allowed the resorts to really work on their parks and judging by the number of updates on the Park Page over the weekend, they have been hard at it. I’ve listed a few below but you should know that local crew at Falls are calling their …
Falls Creek Park Update – August 8th
Hi guys, Reuben Cameron from Falls parks here. After that sweet three day rain storm that we all suffered at the end of July, we got some 45 or so cm’s of snow. so this past week Matto Smith and I have been hard at it putting the pieces back …
Piper And Leichardt Parks Now Open
Here’s a few photos and an updated park report for Perisher. Check the shot of the 40 foot Cliff Drop Jump in Slopestyle and the three photos of the Leichardt park plus one of the Piper park dance floor box. I saw that someone had asked for some Leichardt photos …
Basin Park Expanded
I’ve been up at Hotham since Thursday. They got a heap of snow this week, so I was hoping they’d have some features in. However it took until Saturday for the crew to get the kink, flat box and c-box in at the Basin Park, adding to the exsisting down …
Burton N.Z. Open Details
Sorry for the delay in this… I got sent the Burton N.Z. Open details yesterday. It kicks off next week in Cardrona where the likes of Mikkel Bang, Mark Sollors, Chas Guldemond, Louie Vito,Charles Reid, Kazuhiro ‘Turbo’ Kokubo, Marco Grilc and others will be competing. According to the email, the whole …
MTV Snow Jam
The MTV Snowjam is happening on August 26th and registration is now open for the qualifiers. There is five qualifier places available in the comp which will compete alongside 20 invited riders. This years Snow Jam is expanded to include a Big Air section as well which is happening during …
Nate Johnstone Blog: NZ Trip
So I just flew into Wanaka today and I must say it’s nice to be back. I had a really nice flight into Queenstown I was lucky enough to get upgraded to business because the plane was full which I was stoked on and then I also scored some pretty …
Trouble Get’s Faded
In what is sure to be a crowd pleasing song, Trouble Andrew has got his new clip out for the tune, I’m Wasted. The song has got Spankrock, The Mr. Move and Lil Jon featured in it. Check it out! (Via Boardistan)
Nate Johstone Blog: First Day Snowboarding
Hey guys. Just a quick update. I’m back in Australia and had my first day snowboarding after I broke my ankle prior to the Olympics back in January. I had a really fun day on Tuesday riding Perisher front valley park with Charlie and Jason. We also went up and …