I was starting to worry that the line of riduculouly expensive snowboards was coming to an end, fortunately Nidecker have some Swarovski crystal studded boards. I’m not sure that these are for sale – In fact I’m pretty sure that they’re some kind of art thingy but still, art can …
Atmosphere Zorro Fitted Hat
Chris Prosser’s Portland based Atmosphere Clothing have released a super limited fitted hat called the Zorro. The hat looks amazing and there’s only 24 of them available from today through the Atmosphere store (I’m not sure if they mean the online store here, or just the physical store in Portland). …
Fice Craig Wetherby Party
Desiree Melancon. Yep, that jumpers from the new Ashbury apparel range. Back in January I was in Salt Lake City, Utah. I got to have an awesome night out thanks in part to Laura Hader and her awesome gallery/boutique store called Fice. The party was for a Craig Wetherby show …
Analog on Shop-Eat-Surf
Shop-Eat-Surf have got a great article on Analog. The article talks to Kevin Meehan, general manager of Analog, about the current retail environment for Analog, their future and a other points of interest about the brand. Click here to check it out.
School Of Shred Pt. 1
Our buddy Jake McCarthy has sent us through this clip of the Gnar crew killing it in Colorado. Ben Randall, Jesse Collings, Luka Sidey, Billy Hayman, Jessy Kenedy, Stefi Luxton, and Jakob Kenedy. Unfortunately there is no sound, so if you have a favorite song right now, play over the …
Bozwreck 3000, Working Hard Or Hardly Working
Here is a little clip lifted from the Bozwreck blog showing Mikey Williams and Chris Eacott doing their best to keep up U.S/Australian relations. Mikey and Chris are living with Nate Bozung and filming for the upcoming Bozwreck 3000. Hopefully none of these guys are shooting for a spot in …
Ashbury Australia Site Goes Live
It’s been a rediculously big couple of weeks for James of Ashbury Australia. In addition to the announcement of the Ashbury Australian skate team and the new range coming in, the Ashbury Aus website is going live today! Anyone who follows Lance and the guys via their US site know …
Baw Baw Bag Jump
God knows all! Confirming the best news I’ve heard all week via Cactus Black, Mt Baw Baw have on order the first Bag Jump in the land. To coincide with cheaper lift tickets and an even further improved park, the Bag Jump is going to make Baw Baw a pretty …
Caught White Handed
Back in 2007, Shaun White was charged and fined with criminal tampering for setting off a fire extiguisher at a resort in Colorado. The Smoking Gun, experts in the world of celebrity criminality, ran a contest over the weekend where you had to guess the evidence and match it to …
Grenade Games 5
The Grenade Games are happening for the fifth time in April. They will be happening in Whistler from April 20th to 26th. I should have registration details and a confirmed rider list soon. Click here to view the full flyer.
New Nitro Road Warrior Clips!
I posted the Nitro clip of the modified BMW Bike yesterday and here’s another two Nitro Road Warrior clips. These ones were filmed in China and Sweden. The one above is from China and is incredible! The editing is awesome and it’s well worth a watch. The second one (below …
Sell Your Helicopter
When you think of Jeremy Jones (big mountain guy, not the jibber) chances are you instantly think of helicopters. Hopefully after reading this article you think of split boards and good dude-ism. Not that he regrets his time and money spent using the gas guzzlers, he just want people to …
AndreasWiig.com
Joining other supershreds, Shaun White and Jeremy Jones, Adreas Wiig has just launched his personal website. It has a link to his blog, but other than that it kind of reads just like a digital resume, perhaps he is prepping himself incase the Vans rumor is true. That said, the …
New Nitro Road Warriors Clip!
Nitro have released a new Road Warriors clip with the guys hooking up a tow to a BMW bike and jumping a creek! It’s an awesome little clip – check below the cut to see it!
Burton Asian Open Live Webcast
The Burton Asian Open starts this Friday February 27th in ALTS Bandai resort in Fukushima. It is being webcast live via go211.com – you can click here to see the countdown or here where the action will be being broadcast.
Shaun White Wins Winter Dew Tour
Shaun White has taken out the Winter Dew Tour finishing on 280 points. The Toyota Championship Slopestyle title decided the tour finish with Torstein Horgmo winning the slopestyle off his first-run score of 93.50. However it was White’s 89.67 points for his first run that handed him the tour title. …
SNOWBOARDER Preview Workbook for 2009
Eesa Socks given the ‘No Brainer’ award in SNOWBOARDER Preview Workbook for 2009. SNOWBOARDER have released their Preview Workbook for 2009. Basically they do a “whats hot” type survey of brands and products. The press release describes it like so… “In the first week of November 2008, SNOWBOARDER sent a …
Who’s Caking?
Forbes has an online article about the highest paid stars in ‘Action Sports‘, and I’m guessing you could have a pretty good guess at the list. The confusing part of list is their classification of ‘action sports’, for some reason a motocross rider like Chad Reed doesn’t meet the criteria, …
Jye Kearney, Method.TV Fresh Meat
Stolen from the Burton team blog, Jye Kearney has recieved a ‘fresh meat’ check out clip. I have been in a car with Jye before and he is far from fresh, but it’s all good because he can snowboard your face off. The ender came out of the blue and …
Dates Announced for the 2009 Rip Curl FreeRide Pro
Rip Curl have announced dates for the 2009 Rip Curl FreeRide Pro. The release says “The Rip Curl Australian FreeRide Pro is a unique event that takes advantage of Australia’s best freeride terrain – Thredbo’s famous Bluff run.” Nate Johnstone took out the Open Men’s Snowboarding division last year and …
Eero Ettala wins Toyota Big Air!
Eero Ettala has won the Toyota Big Air contest in Japan. The official release from Nitro says “did Ettala bring his “A” game or what, throwing a switch double backflip and backside 1080 grabbing stale for 900 of the spin – Eero crushed the competition. The win earned Ettala 2.5 …
Deuce Snowboards
I was so proud when I titled my video ‘…part Deuce’, but now i just feel ashamed. Deuce “Snowboards” are skis with suspension and sideways bindings. How they manage to turn everyday into a powder day I don’t know, because last time I checked, powder skis are like giant snowboards …
Sorry It Took So Long, Utah Part Deuce
Sorry it took so long to make part two, I blame it on youtube and its inability to give me the music that this video was born to have, screw em, VIMEO ftw. Anyway, here it is. This part has some footage from the best weekend ever(so good the camera …
Forum Viral Videos
Yesterday I went for a skate at a secret warehouse location where I was reminded of a few viral videos I had recently seen to do with Forum Bindings. To go with the highback graphics on one of said new bindings, one of them featured Bob Ross and it was …
Ashbury Rep’s Positions Available!
Want to work with the likes of Nima Jalali, Darrel Mathes, Jordan Mendenhall, Jon Kooley, Justin Hebbel, Nick Dirks, Lizzard King, Billy Marks, Richie Jackson and a tonne more of your favourite pros? Ashbury Eyewear is looking for peeps to represent the brand in South Australia, Western Australia, New South …
US Snowbroke Team
Following what is being considered a total shambles of an Olympic halfpipe practice run, there is more bad news for the North American snowboard community. Reuters is reporting the US Snowboard Team has run pretty short of money as a result of the global economic crisis. Sponsors are not fronting …
Liam & Tom, Finally Updated
I was pretty excited when Liam Kaska and Tom Pelley told me about their travel blog, but like so many on the internet, it seemed to fall by the wayside. Well, as it turns out, it was because they have been travelling and shooting like crazy and now they are …
Damon Hayler Hurt in Cypress Mountain World Cup Event
Australia’s Damon Hayler (R) reacts after winning the men’s Snowboard-Cross FIS World Cup in Bad Gastein January 11, 2009. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler (AUSTRIA) The Sydney Morning Herald has an article saying that Damon Hayler was hurt on Friday while competing in the Cypress Mountain World Cup Event. The article says he …
TransWorld Announces TWSNOWGIRLS.COM
In what is sure to reignite the arguements about the judging, comparrisons and prize money in girls snowboarding, TransWorld has announced TWSnowGirls.com – a website dedicated to girls snowboarding. The design and layout is the same as the other Transworld sites and the site is being edited by Annie Fastest …
Trend Setters?
Not being the kind of guys to gloat or say we are leading the way, but has anyone checked out the Rip Curl or Quiksilver site lately? They have both recently released online turnable magazines with Quiksilvers’ Roam and Rip Curls’ Rip Current(which has a mysterious dark line through the …
Hack Your Shackles
Hack Your Shackles is a neat promo video for Burton’s No Boards. The hacking of the shackles is obviously in reference to the removal or total lack of bindings from the set-up. From what I can see, the absolute best part of no boarding is that is only seems to …
UHH SON!
How long can you milk a catchphrase? According to 32, Stepchild, and JP Walker, at least a few seasons. UHH SON! is the new combined team film from 32/Stepchild and the teaser looks pretty good. It’s at this time of year that we usually get innundated with teasers from the …
iJoy
If your action sports performance is lacking, vitalityweb.com has the answer. The iJoy is basically is neat version on the wacky mechanical surfboards they had at bars and carnivals in the nineties. The iJoy is fully capable of pitching, rolling, and even yawing. So it trains your body by jiggling …
Shaun White Features in Fast Company
Photograph by Martin Schoeller The current issue of Fast Company magazine has a huge feature on Shaun White. The article is an amazing read and covers the business side of White. It looks at how he deals with different sponsorship arrangements, proposals for both good and ridiculous naming opportunities, designing …
Nate Johnstone Takes 2nd Place In World Cup Halfpipe
As reported in the shoutbox, Rip Curl rider and Two Weeks In star, Nate Johnstone, has taken 2nd place in the FIS World Cup Mens Halfpipe in Bardonecchia. You can check out a video of the run by clicking here (it’s the 4th video down in the play list). Mathieu …