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| Filed Under: | Winter Sports / Snowboarding | |
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| Archived Since: | August 27, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
Signal Races The Pinewood Derby
Is it possible to ride a hand hewn slab of pine wood in a derby? Signal Snowboard’s Dave Lee make the impossible possible in this season’s final episode of Every Third Thursday. [Pinewood side note: if you're into real pinewood derby racing and happen to be in Portland, Oregon Friday, June 7, 2013 sign up [...]
NZ Snowboarder Sentenced For Offensive Act
New Zealand snowboarder Jaden Beange, 18, has received a ‘deterrent sentence for a “cowardly and offensive” act’ after stealing a camera phone and posting topless photos he found on the phone on facebook, referring to the victim of the theft as “The Slut,” according to a story in The New Zealand Herald. The teenager appeared in [...]
Ayumu Hirano & Kazu Join IMG
In the big snowboard agent world, this is likely news. Carl Harris, the former President of Ookii Co Athlete Management & Marketing has joined the action sports division of IMG and has brought Ayumu Hirano and Kazu Kokubo with him. Harris joins IMG from Ookii Co Athlete Management and Marketing where he served as President [...]
Superpark 17 Live Online May 7, 2013
Snowboarder Magazine has invaded Bend, Oregon of the 2013 Superpark 17 at Mt. Bachelor. Rather than making the trek to central Oregon and having no one return out texts, we’re simply going to turn in tomorrow and watch the whole thing live and online. If that’s sounds like a good idea to you, then you [...]
SIA’s Snowboard Problem Solving In Palm Springs
It’s good to know that the snowboard industry isn’t going to take all the economic gloom and doom laying down... in the sun... with a drink their tanned, relaxed hands. No, with the help of the Snow Industries of America they took action and jetted off to Palm Springs this week [...]
REI’s No Questions Asked Return Policy Tested
Someone wanted to check out REI’s no questions asked return policy, and fancy that, it appears to work quite well. Why pay for a snowboard when you can simply buy, use, and return with no explanation at all. Retail is still hell and appears to be getting worse by the day. Follow the jump for [...]
Burton Updates Product & Sales Leadership
Today (May 3, 2013), Burton Snowboards named longtime employee John Lacy (left) as Chief Product Officer and promoted Sasha Dietschi-Cooper (right) to the position of SVP of North American Sales at Burton. Lacy will report directly to CEO Jake Burton while Dietschi-Cooper will report to Burton COO Mike Rees. “We’re more focused than ever on [...]
Tom Sims Remembered By Legends Of Tahoe
Last month, the annual Legends of Tahoe Snowboarding gathering was dedicated to celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the first World Snowboarding Championships and the life of snowboarding pioneer Tom Sims. In memory of the man and the event OG snowboard legends Mike Chantry and Bob Klein put together this memorial edit. Watch it to the [...]
Signal 6 Hooks Snowboarders Up
For those hoping for a new snowboard next season, saving the money can be one of the hardest parts of the planning. Now, Signal Snowboards is helping to share the pain by letting snowboarders make six easy payments of $74 a month. Each month the buyer gets cool free stuff from the Signal 6 program. [...]
The Realities Of Snow Park Technologies TV
That new snowboarding reality TV show staring Chris “Gunny” Gunnarson, Frank Wells, Josh Chauvet and the rest of the Snow Park Technologies team hits the National Geographic Channel on Thursday May 9, 2013 at 8 PM EST. Mountain Movers, National Geographic Channel’s new adrenaline-packed series presented by Chevrolet, goes behind the scenes to show viewers [...]
Tim Humphrey’s Northstar Selfies
Not sure what it is, but Tim Humphrey has created some of the most insane selfie edits of anyone on a snowboard. Here’s one from Northstar-At-Tahoe. How’s that monster back lip? Yeah, we watched it again and again and again. Damn.
Snow Industry Mourns Avalanche Deaths
We all hold our breaths each time an avalanche story reaches the mainstream news. First, hoping no one was hurt while at the same time recalling their own interactions with slides, and then selfishly hoping it was no one we knew. Unfortunately, on Saturday April 20, 2013, the action sports industry was faced with the [...]
5 Snowboarders Die In Loveland Avalanche
Five snowboarders died on Colorado’s Loveland Pass Saturday afternoon, April 20, 2013, in an massive slide officials believe they likely triggered themselves, according to a story on NBC News. Search and rescue crews recovered the bodies several hours after the slide, which was about 600 feet wide and eight feet deep, said Clear Creek County [...]
Whistler Blackcomb Is Shutting Down The Pipe
Due to the high cost of half pipe upkeep Whistler Blackcomb decided to close their halfpipe on Sunday, April 21, 2013. But that hasn’t gone over well with the shred crowd. Canadian national snowboard team member Katie Tsuyki even started a petition, according to a post on Pique News. For Tsuyuki, now is the worst [...]
Snowboarder Dies In Colorado Avalanche
An avalanche near Vail, Colorado claimed the life of one snowboarder on Thursday, April 18, 2013, according to a story on The Denver Channel. The slide happened after the friends had been “taking turns” riding Avalanche Bowl all day on Thursday. Deputies say it appears the avalanche was triggered by two snowboarders who were dropped [...]
Danny Sends The Dingo To Space
Classic madness from The Grenade Games. No one has clowned the Colored Cow harder. Check it!
Looking Sideways Does London
The latest work of shred artists Ben Allen, Will Barras, Pete Fowler, French, Michael C. Hsiung, Tim Karpinski, Phil Morgan, Schoph, Corey Smith and Owen Tozer will be featured at the 71a Gallery in London’s Shoreditch in a show titled, Looking Sideways London April 26-28, 2013. “I wasn’t gonna show in the UK for a [...]
Signal’s Little Turn On The Catwalk
For April 2013?s Every Third Thursday, Signal Snowboards enlisted some help from the students at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. Watch as time runs out and we decide to stitch together a new idea for top honors designer Kelly Knaggs for her runway debut, then give it to Manu Dominguez and Pat Garvin [...]
Stöeckli’s Sense of Snow
Reto Kestenholz, 2006, Austria Former shred photographer Thomas Stöeckli a.k.a. “Creager” talks photography, snowboarding photography, and where his photography is going now that he’s not shooting the shred any longer with The Morning News co-founder Roscrans Baldwin. I had a very good decade of capturing some of the world’s best riders and chasing the snow [...]
Brolin Mawejje: Uganda To Snowboarding
Far From Home is the story of Brolin Mawejje. Born in Uganda, Mawejje moved to America in 2004. Now, “nearly a decade later, he finds himself in Salt Lake City, Utah; studying towards a doctorate in Neuro-Oncology at Westminster College and training to represent Uganda in the 2018 Winter Olympics as a snowboarder.” For the [...]