I am way late on this one but it is well worth checking out. This is episode one of Japan Journals for 2013 featuring Nick Hyne, Nick Brown, Roland Morley-Brown and Dane Tiene. The guys hit Minakami …

Here’s the trailer for Swiss rider Markus Keller’s film, Chamäleon. I believe this is a Red Bull creation and there’s some impressive moments in the teaser. The full length film is due to drop in the next …

Australia Day is tomorrow and what better way to celebrate it than news on two new lifts at the place most ruined by our fellow countrymen every northern winter, Whistler Blackcomb.

Andrew Mazzocato sent me through this awesome edit he put together from the Trigger Bros end of season BBQ held at Mt Buller late last year. It’s an annual thing the Triggers guys have been organizing for a long …

The guys at Signal have released their new Every Third Thursday, this time creating the Penny Board. While the concept has promise the execution and reality make this one of the worst boards they have created. Jake Olson-Elm does a …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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!