The Burton US Open is going down in perfect conditions at Vail, Colorado. Yesterday was the slopestyle semi finals and Ståle Sandbech took top spot with Brandon Davis and Roope Tonteri in third. In the womens it was Jamie Anderson, Isabel Derungs and Spencer O’Brien. Full results are below. The finals go …
Travis Rice Is Making A New Snowboard Film
Ok, here’s what we know from Red Bull’s article on the film. Travis says “After pushing the limits in ‘The Art of FLIGHT’ we knew that it would be tough to take it to the next level without seriously getting out there. I can’t reveal where we’re going yet, but …
Burton US Open This Week
The Burton US Open goes down in Vail, Colorado this week with riders competing for a share of US$343,000. Practice is on yesterday and today with the Slope semis starting Wednesday and the rest of the event rolling out from there. There’s quite a few names missing from the riders …
Ipod Talks Gold Medals And YOLO Flips
Dose have done a great interview with Iouri Podladtchikov while he was in New York. The interview covers Ipods feeling in the lead up to his win in the pipe and how he looks at competition in snowboarding. He makes a really interesting point when talking about Shaun White’s performance at …
2014 When In Whistler – Episode 2
Here’s the second episode of When In Whistler for 2014. This one features Geoff Brown, Charles Reid, Marc-Andre Tremblay, Ryan Manning, Trevor Karle, Joel Loverin, Jeremy Melanson, Bruce Johnston, Charles Beckinsale, Shaun Belmore and Nic Harvey. It was shot during February – the guys scored a cold spell, some sunshine and …
Station to Station With Ståle Sandbech
Olympic slope silver medalist, Ståle Sandbech, has done a neat little clip giving a bit of a look at his hometown Rykkinn then hitting Stubai in Austria. The clip was created by Line9 which is apparently doing a series of these with different crew from surf, skate and snow. I’m not …
McCarthy, Kearney And Crean In Alaska
Jake McCarthy, Jye Kearney and Daniel Crean along with photographer Jussi Grznar and filmer John Waddell took a trip over to Alaska to film some rails. The guys spent 10 days driving around in a mini van – the above episode is from their time in Anchorage. This is part …
ETT Creates A Paper Snowboard
The Signal guys have released the latest episode of Every Third Thursday, this time working with a paper and packaging company to create paper snowboards. By paper, we mean cardboard… But it’s still impressive. They layer up the cardboard and try out a few techniques to strengthen the board, also …
Episode 20 From Fyve At Mammoth Mountain
Jason Manning from 2two7productions has created the latest episode from the Fyve crew. This one was all shot at Mammoth mountain and features Nick Geisen, Armeen Pirooz, Charles Morris, Chris Geisen, Jeremy Page and Ryan Linnert. Check it out above.
Pierre Vaultier Takes Gold In Mens SBX At Sochi
The mens boardercross went down yesterday evening after being delayed a day by the weather. The event was actually great watching – especially with three Australians in the mix – Chumpy Pullin, Cam Bolton and Jarryd Hughes. Chumpy was the favourite going in but suffered a rough start to his …
Brockhoff And Bright Miss Out On SBX Medals
Belle Brockhoff and Torah Bright have crashed out of the SBX comp in Sochi. The two were in the same quarterfinal together when Torah crashed out, leaving her in 18th overall. Brockhoff made it to the finals only to have her board knocked by Canadian Dominique Maltais causing her to crash …
Sage Kotsenburg Talks His Win With Dose
Dose has talked with Sage Kotsenburg about his gold medal win in slope at Sochi. In it, he dismisses a lot of the hype around the conditions on the course saying that it was totally fine and that it was really a media beat up… Didn’t look that way on TV …
Farrington Takes Torah By 0.25 Points In Pipe
Kaitlyn Farrington has taken gold in the Sochi halfpipe beating Australian Torah Bright by only 0.25 points. Kelly Clark rounded out the podium with bronze. All three finalists had rough first runs, with Bright and Clark crashing out in what looked like very trying conditions – the smallest error was washing …
i-Pod Defeats White In Terrible Conditions At Sochi
Shaun White has been defeated in his quest for a third Olympic gold in the pipe by Russian born Swiss competitor, Iouri Podladtchikov. He wasn’t even able to manage a podium with Japanese riders Ayumu Hirano and Taku Hiraoka rounding out the top three. White crashed out on his first run on both a …
Videograss’ Mayday Teaser
VIDEOGRASS have released the teaser for their new film, Mayday. It features Chris Grenier, Darrell Mathes, Gus Engle, Jake Olson-Elm, Joe Sexton, Justin Bennee, Nick Dirks, Zac Marben and a whole lot more. It looks pretty damn epic too – check it out above.
Slopestyle Results From Sochi
The first Olympic Slopestyle event seems to have been a massive hit with audiences. In the lead up there was not a lot good to be said about the course and it will be interesting to hear from a few of the riders when they return as to what they …
Shaun White Pulls Out Of Slope
I know this is old news but as there was some rider reaction, then some deletion of rider reaction, I thought it was still worth posting. Shaun White decided to pull out of the slope comp yesterday citing the course conditions and the potential for injury ahead of the halfpipe …
Chumpy Pullin Named Flag Bearer For Australia
Rad to see that Chumpy Pullin has been named the flag bearer for the Australian team at the opening ceremony as well. I’ve included the ceremony speech below so you can check out the announcement. He handled it really well, great for Australian snowboarding.
Sochi Slopestyle Qualification Results
Photo: Stale Sandbech by Chris Wellhausen via TRANSWORLD The Sochi Slopestyle qualifications went down last night in what looked like some pretty great conditions. Staale Sandbech came out on top with a 94.5 run which included cab hardway 270, switch board 270, front board 540, cab 12, front 10, back 14. Peetu came in close behind …
Here’s A POV Run Down The Sochi Slope Course
This is a head cam video of the run through the slope course at the Sochi Games. The build has come under fire for being sub-par, if not outright dangerous, by a number of riders including Torah Bright and Charles Guildemond. In the last few days it also ended Torstein …
Belle Brockhoff In Sochi And Speaking Out
Photo: Reuters/David Gray Belle Brockhoff is getting a bit of press this morning for all the right reasons. She is in Sochi and focussed on bringing back some gold for more than the normal reasons. The openly gay 21 year old has said, pretty rightly, that the gold gives her a …
Torstein Out Of Sochi
Image: Reuters/Dylan Martinez Torstein Horgmo slammed during slope practice in Rosa Khutor breaking his collar bone and putting him out of the games. The Norwegian apologised for the injury afterwards – which he really didn’t have to. I can’t find any word of what he was attempting when it happened but from …
Pow Gloves Buys Holden Outerwear
The parent company of POW GLOVES and Spacecraft has purchased HOLDEN OUTERWEAR. The brand was founded by Mikey LeBlanc and Scott Zergebel in 2002 where they focussed on creating classic, slim cuts and premium eco materials for outerwear – something very unique at the time which led the charge for all other brands …
Teaser For Pat Moore’s Blueprint
Pat Moore is one of the hardest working snowboarders… Wait. Let’s go with one of the nicest guys in snowboarding. He has a project coming out with Red Bull at the moment which looks really interesting. Called Blueprint, the teaser below looks beautifully shot and edited, I hope the rest of …
Danny Davis Takes Gold At Aspen
The X Games Aspen finals happened over the weekend and in the super pipe, Danny Davis took out the win. His run was definitely not all about getting the most spins he could into it but rather adding a bucket load of style in and getting rewarded for it. His run included a switch …
Bittner And Arnold Play SNOW
Aaron Bittner and Scotty Arnold play a game of SNOW in the latest episode from Dose. The guys go trick for trick on a few park laps in Park City, Utah but in the end, one guy dominates… Albeit with a funky trick or two thrown in. Check it out …
Hotham Sells Day Tickets For $3
The HOTHAM WEBSITE was selling day tickets for this season at AU$3 over the weekend! There’s no word on why the sale was on, or if it was just an error, but I got in there and purchased a ticket. The whole process went through as you’d expect and I’m waiting for …
Shaun White Breaks Out The Yolo Flip
Image via TRANSWORLD. Shaun White has unveiled his latest trick – the Yolo flip – at the Grand Prix Halfpipe final in Mammoth. Check it out in the video below. This trick, which is a Cab double 1440, was originally got by I-Pod at X-Games Tignes back in March. Check it out in …
Shaun White Buys Austrian Air & Style Company
Shaun White has taken his new all-business haircut out for a spin purchasing the majority holding in the Austrian AIR & STYLECompany. The event has a North American expansion planned and White hopes to add some of his musical flavor to the happenings. Company founder Andrew Hourmont will remain involved and bring …
A Year With Bjorn Leines
Rome has put out a rad five minute clip of Bjorn Leines from the last year. Filmed across Canada, U.S. and Austria, it is pretty killer – although I wish they’d stop with the film grain effect, I just want to see the snowboarding! Check it out below.
Olympics Host Bob Costas Doesn’t Get Slope
Prime-time Olympics host for NBC, Bob Costas, gave an interview to the Today Show’s Matt Lauer the other day. During a discussion on new events in the upcoming games, Costas made a quip about slopestyle being ‘jackass’ stuff and that the president of the IOC should be Johnny Knoxville. This …
Signal’s Modular Snowboard Experiment
Signal have released the latest episode of ETT, this time experimenting with a modular design that can interchange parts. The base, core, and topsheet are changeable giving either a different feel to the board or the ability to replace a single part, rather than requiring a new board, if damage …
Sami Luhtanen Spot Light With Pirate
Finnish rider Sami Luhtanen has done a spot light for Pirate TV which is pretty damn cool – there’s some banging tricks in here and he looks absolutely fearless. Enjoy!
Gigi And Danny Have Double The Fun
Pirate Movie Productions have dropped a rad little clip featuring Gigi Rüf and Danny Kass. The guys get some good times in Retallack, Canada and then a few more in a place they call ‘home’. It’s not clear if that’s Danny, Gigi or PMP’s home. A couple of minutes long …
Shaun White’s Double 1440 Just In Time For Sochi
It’s four weeks and three days till the Sochi Olympics kicks off and Shaun White is starting to prep the judges for the pipe with the release of a few clips. The latest is a double 1440 completed while training at Perisher. It was captured by GoPros and it looks …