http://www.hittingkickers.com Snowboarding, MTB, Extreme Sports & The Great Outdoors Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:03:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was the happy recipient of a Globe Bantam Cruiser for Christmas a couple of months ago. I don't think I've owned or even ridden any kind of skateboard since I sold my Santa Cruse Jesse James deck to fund a bass guitar purchase almost 20 years ago! ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/globe-bantam-cruiser-skateboard/ Just watched the trailer for forthcoming "The Art of Flight" movie. Looks like the bar set by "That's it, That's All" and "Deeper" is going to be raised again. Travis Rice, Jeremy Jones and several others take on Alaska, Romania and Austria. You know what to expect. Here's ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/art-of-flight/ As if you need a more blatant sign than the knee-high snow outside your doorstep, you know it's time to wax up your snowboard when you get an email like this from your local wakeboarding club... Cable Wakeboarders Both Cable One and Cable Two are frozen over - as such we will ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/wakeboarding-frozen-lake/ Update: Just watched this again and thought I'd re-post as a reminder at the start of the season that it can be dangerous out there... Check out this dramatic footage of Johno Verity and Eric Themel, who got caught in an avalanche whilst filming in Mount Cook, New Zealand. Dramatic stuff, ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/mount-cook-avalanche/ Whilst I'm not an iphone, ipod or any kind of Mac gadget user, I could see the sense in the Speedaura app for snowboarders who listen to tunes whilst out on the hill. Steve offer to write us a guest post, so here it is. Over to Steve... "When ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/speedaura-app/ New season around the corner and it's time to rattle out a rare post with a quick update on my snowboard plans. First up I won a week's holiday in St Anton. In less than 4 weeks time I'll be enjoying my first turns in one of the greatest resorts ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/2010-2011-snowboard-season/ Updating this old post with a little more info. Getting enough snowboarding in in a season is down to a few factors: Getting your mates up for it. Having the necessary funds. Getting time off work. If 1 is a problem, you can always get some new friends or go on your own. I'm ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/finding-cheap-flights-to-ski-resorts/ It's finally Winter Olympics time, so I thought I'd post this picture in honour of the half-pipe kicking off today, courtesy of Constantin at the HighBallBlog. I've had a few random snowboard trips to report on this season. Firstly, 4 days in Cervinia back in December. A fun trip with 6 ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/a-few-snowboarding-trips/ I missed all the half-pipe snowboarding at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics last week, including Shaun White's winning run. If you've checked YouTube you'll struggle to find it anywhere. However mpora came up with the goods. Albeit a camcorder pointed at a tv screen. Still, you ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/shaun-whites-gold-medal-run-vancouver-olympics-2010/ I just watched the trailer for the forthcoming Jeremy Jones movie Deeper. This film is going to raise the bar for snowboarding movies once again. In fact, this looks like no ordinary snowboard movie and I can't see how anyone is going to match this. You can read more ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/jeremy-jones-deeper-movie-from-teton-gravity-research/ Republishing this post as it's been attracting comments ever since we originally posted in November 2006 Nothing seems to cause more dispute amongst snowboarders than the dispute over Flow bindings. Added comfort vs. lack of control No strap pain vs. extra weight Cool as you like vs. WTF is that? Buy Flow bindings online Choose from ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/setting-up-flow-bindings/ Skiing or snowboarding off a cliff. The idea sounds frankly nuts in itself. Watching a good skier or snowboarder flying off a cliff-drop is spectacular and awe inspiring, but given the right conditions (powder) and landing (steep enough incline) isn't as hard as it looks. You can't ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/snowboard-cliff-drop-video/ Last season I picked up a new snowboard - the K2 Believer. I've just added to the new set-up with new boots and bindings - Salomon F22 boots and Salomon Relay Thruster bindings. I realised last season that both boots and bindings were feeling quite soft and not giving me ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/new-season-new-salomon-boots-and-bindings/ I've been flicking through this seasons gear in the latest Snowandrock catalogue and one snowboard that's caught my eye is the K2 Slayblade. Only in researching this post did I realise this board has been brought in to replace the K2 Zeppelin - a board with a 13 year ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/k2-slayblade-review/ I stumbled upon a presentation by Crystal Ski, the largest ski holiday operator here in the UK, which gives some interesting stats on the 2008/09 ski season from a business perspective. The report itself is well worth a peruse if you're interested in the UK ski travel industry (i.e. UK skiers/snowboarders ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/package-ski-holidays-vs-independent-wheres-the-value/ I'm currently planning what will be my first snowboarding trip of the season - Cervinia for the 8th time I think in December. The Indian Park blog jogged my memory that the latest offering from the Absinthe boys was filled in none other than Breuil-Cervinia, amongst other spots. The trailer looks pretty ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/absinthe-neverland/ It's that time of year again. The Metro Ski and Snowboard Show is back at London Olympia between 21st and 25th October. We've been promised a few sets of tickets to give away so keep your eyes peeled here for details of how you can win tickets to the ski ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/metro-ski-snowboard-show-tickets/ I'm planning on competing in a few duathlons this autumn, starting in just over 3 months time at the Xtreme Terrain Festival where I ran my first duathlon last year. Following that I have my eye on an adventure race in October (10k, 25k MTB, 1.5 kayak), and hoping to do ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/duathlon-training-stepping-up/ Heard this today and thought it was worth a post. Iron Maiden classic "Remember Tomorrow" covered by Metallica in 2008 I think. A cracking cover, slightly reworked from the original. Early days Maiden signer Paul Dianno wrote the lyrics about "a friend" who loved a bit of LSD. Unchain the ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/metallica-iron-maidens-remember-tomorrow/ It's been all over the news today that actress Natasha Richardson has passed away a few days after hitting her head in a skiing accident. I'm not familiar with her work - as to be honest, I know very little about the acting world and don't watch many movies - but ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/natasha-richardson/