http://www.hittingkickers.com Snowboarding, MTB, Extreme Sports & The Great Outdoors Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:30:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Don't usually cover pro snowboarders here, but thought this Jeremy Jones video was pretty cool. Jeremy is a big advocate of watching your carbon footprint, and is founder/CEO of POW: Protect Our Winters, a "non-profit organization dedicated to reversing the global warming crisis by uniting the winter sports community". Over ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/jeremy-jones/ A couple of weeks ago I had 2 days snowboarding in the Monterosa ski area, based in the central of the 3 valleys - Gressoney, with neighbouring Champuloc and Alagne either side. Monterosa has a reputation as a "freeride heaven" attracting a serious croud of dedicated powder hounds. At the ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/gressoney-monterosa-snowboarding-off-piste/ I'm planning on moving house in the summer and have been lining up a few new pictures to hang on the walls. Firstly, I've had a photo blown up that I took a couple of years ago whilst hiking the south coast walk between Falmouth and Looe (Cornwall, UK). I've ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/snowboarding-memorabilia/ I was pinged with a link to this video widget from Nike ACG. To be honest, I had a 2 second look and binned it as it looked too big brand, slick & salesy. I only took a second look when I saw it posted on pistehors.com and ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/nike-sweetspots/ What a start to the 2008-2009 snowboarding season! I had the pleasure of 4 days riding deep powder in Cervinia at the start of December. For the last 4 years, I've always started the season in Cervinia, either late November or early December, 2 months before most people (in the ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/cervinia-powder-weekend/ I'm heading out to Cervinia this afternoon. The conditions are looking awesome. It's been dumping on and off there since late October, the base is solid down to resort and keeps getting a nice powdery top-up. Looks like first snowboarding turns of the season should be good. Snowjet ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/off-to-cervinia/ Just spotted via Twitter (follow me here), ski.co.uk and snowboard.co.uk have just sold at auction for quite hefty sums. snowboard.co.uk fetched £20,000 and ski.co.uk reached a mighty £80,000. Compared with some other major .co.uk domain purchases in the last 18 months these might be a couple of bargains. cruises.co.uk sold for £560k ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/ski-co-uk-and-snowboard-co-uk/