One of our all time favourite snowboarders Jeremy Jones (the big mountain snowboarder) won this years edition of Swatch O´Neill Big Mountain Pro. Last years winner, the strong Xavier de le Rue, came in second. The competition takes place in French freerider paradise La Grave. Since it is the riders themselves who chooses the winner […]
In Sweden we have something called sportlov. All the schools closes and everyone – more or less – drives up to the swedish “fjällen” (similiar to the alps… almost…). Sälen is the biggest area with 5 separated mountains and 3 different resorts. This might seem as a bad time for going snowboarding (unless you actually […]
Big news – big picture! There´s been some rumours about Nike doing snowboard boots for some time. And when Danny Kass left Vans and signed for the just named Nike all hell broke lose. The french site Fluofun has some good pictures on the coming snowboard boots The pics are from ISPO, of course. Personally […]
Transworld has some pictures of the DC team and more important – of the up coming DC snowboards. It looks really good. And with a team with riders such as Devun Walsh, Ikka Bäckström and Aaron Biitner you can´t really go wrong. Speaking of new products, while waiting for ISPO swedish magazine transition has some […]
There are some pictures of the Burton gear for 08/09 on the web. But this is the best so far. Someone in Japan has scanned some pages from the 08/09 catalogue. The pictures shows that EST as well as neo/bright colours are the next big thing. But on the other hand – wasn´t that the […]
Actionhorse Films – the company co-run by swedish snowboarders Jakob Wilhelmsson and Hampus Mosesson with filmer Per-Hampus Stålhandske launches web site. Here you can follow the work with the yet untitled film. You´ll also find some good introductions to the riders that will appear in the coming film. Actionhorse Films
Priscilla Levas has her own range of first layers: Cilla. Or thermals. Anyway it´s only for girls and it looks really good. Cilla also has a really cool team of good riders. Too bad it´s quite hard to find good looking yet still technical layering. Helly Hansen is really good – but maybe not so […]