Hitting Kickers

Snowboarding round-up

Thursday, 11. 6. 2008  –  Category: Snowboarding

A few things to catch up on here, so here goes:

Snowboarding trips booked
Had a good week last week - I booked my first two trips of the season. Firstly the annual early season pilgrimage to Cervinia for 4 days in early December. Secondly a 9 day stay in Montgenevre over New Year. Going to be a big group of us which should be fun. Also a few of us are planning on taking in a day at nearby off-piste Mecca, La Grave.

London Freeze

Image gallery at Telegraph.co.uk
The London Freeze - the UK’s first snowboarding world cup event or something like that - rolled into town a couple of weeks ago. A huge real snow ramp and kicker was errected outside Battersea Power Station, and some of the world’s top riders competed for some points and prizes no doubt! I didn’t make it, my bro tells me it was a good event. You can catch some footage on Freesports on 4 Freeze - Channel 4 - Friday Nov 7th @ 01.50am. I guess that is tonight / tomorrow morning! If you’re not staying up late for this then there will be repeats over the Xmas period. Possibly also footage online.

Metro Ski Show
I popped along to the Metro Ski & Snowboard Show a couple of weeks ago. Checked out a load of this seasons new boards on the Snow & Rock stand. Credit to the guy that was working on the stand - was pretty clear I wasn’t going to buy anything but he was more than happy talking me through the snowboards and offering up suggestions. He also tried talking me into going for a smaller board for my next one, whilst I’d been thinking about going bigger than the 161 I currently ride. Got to say, I’m loving the sound of the Lib Tech Skate Banana, which brings me neatly onto…

Snowboarding gear section
With a passing interest in (read: am trying to talk myself into) getting a new snowboard, I though I’d add a section to compile profiles of some of this seasons new snowboarding gear. I’ve included spec, some reviews including video reviews collated from YouTube from the likes of skis.com and sierrasnowboards. There are also affiliate links out to places where you can buy the gear online.

There’s about 8 or so snowboards profiled so far, with more to come. Watch this space.

Tags: Cervinia, London, Montgenevre, UK