Archive for October, 2008

Anne-Flore Marxer signs with Billabong

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Anne-Flore Marxer signs with Billabong. Marxer was one of many top riders who either decided to part with or got dropped by Burton. French super snowboarder Ann-Flore Marxer is one of the best and most profilic snowboarders today. She is also on of the biggest names on Oakleys womens team. More about Ann-Flore Marxer

Sigtunascenen: swedish punk, skate and snow

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Sigtunascenen (eng the Sigtuna scene) is the name of a new book. The book describes how the small swedish town of Sigtuna (outside of Stockholm) had a small community of dedicated and hard working skateboarders, snowboarders and punk rockers. During this time – early 90ies – the swedish punk-hardcore-music scene was really big with bands […]

Internet rumours: Lib tech does outerwear

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

The saying on the world wide web is that Lib Tech will do outerwear next season. Apparently they are designing some stuff with Quiksilver. Thirtytwo Boots are also going into the outerwear business.

Pre season shredding: Stuntwood jibs out

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Stuntwood (Swedish distributor of Airblaster, Signal Snowboards, Zion Snowboards) gathered the team and went out for a day of shredding. No snow yet? No problems. Just drop by your local hockey rink and get the snow/slush you need. Go Stuntwood! More pics from the sessions over at Stuntwood.

Words of wisdom: Shayboarder on rockers

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Skate Banana VS Turbo dream. And the winner is… I´ve gotten some comments on my last post about which rocker snowboard to buy. After all excellent advices and comments I was still a bit confused. So I was really happy when Shay of Shayboarder.com – probably the best snowboarding blog on the Internet – came […]

Looking for a new board: K2, Lib or Signal?

Monday, October 20th, 2008

So I´m looking for a new board. After reading reviews, previews and all other sort of random notes I´ve sort of decided to go for a rocker. Today I ride a Gnu Riders Choice. And I´m soo happy with it. But now I´m looking for something that is a bit more on the playful side. […]

Whatever happened to Mambo?

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Maybe some of you older ones remember once proud Australian surf brand Mambo? Apparently they are giving it another shot. We must say that it´s brave of them. And yes, it would be nice if they would make it. But today streetwear crazed The Hundreds are doing the same graphics that Mambo did some twenty […]