http://www.hittingkickers.com Snowboarding blog, resort guides & snowboard equipment reviews Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:03:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just rocked back here to post a quick message. I'm off for one last snowboarding trip this season, heading back to trusty Cervinia. Should be a good trip. The snow is looking awesome for this late in the season. Trying to load up this site, I was greeted ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/one-last-trip-and-hacked/ An awesome week snowboarding in Serre Chevalier last week. Finally getting round to post about it. Here’s goes. After a few large group trips, this was going to a small, hardcore, flat out snowboarding trip with just 3 of us in total. Day one started at 3am in South London ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/serre-chevalier-snowboarding-holiday/ At the Metro Ski & Snowboard show last year I walked past several stands with novelty exercise equipment, tagged up for hundreds of pounds with some new spin on getting you ready for your ski or snowboard season without having to bust a gut. Seriously, just get yourself down ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/ijoy-board/ Just saw this post up on Chamonix.eu.com listing - ahem - "10 great reasons not to become a snowboarder". Seeing as that site is run by an old mate of mine I thought I'd entertain a little post in response. Seems all good to me. 1. You will probably die. Get busy ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/10-great-reasons-to-be-a-snowboarder/ I'm going to Serre Chevalier for a week in early February, having booked up this week. I'm going with two friends who started snowboarding at the same time as me more or less, and who I've snowboarded more with than anyone else. This time we're leaving our girlfriends ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/serre-chevalier-holiday-next-month/ Snowboarding in England only happens on dry slopes and giant indoor fridges these days, right? Err, no aparently. On one of the Flow bindings posts here, Bazx6r left the following comment: Dude, we went up to Yad Moss on saturday, 2 hour drive to get there but it was worth ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/yad-moss-snowboarding-in-england/ Burton and HP have partnered up to produce some marketing videos with some insight into Burton as a company, how they've grown, the design and marketing processes. Check out the microsite here. Working in online marketing, I found this really interesting on a few levels. Firstly, interesting to see ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/burton-and-hp/ Now Christmas is done and New Year is on its way, time for some resolutions: 1. Get fit for snowboarding I really need get down the gym more. Last 2 trips I was hanging by the third day. I know I'll get more out of my time on the ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/new-year-resolutions-for-snowboarding/ Quick post to plug a new website covering the best of Europe's snow parks, Snow Park Guide.com Carina from SPG... We have recently launched our new Snowparkguide.com Web site with tons of interesting stuff about European’s most important and renowned terrain parks. Besides there are many new features like the user profile function and ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/snow-park-guide/ I’ve just had the pleasure of back-to-back weekend trips snowboarding in Cervinia. Cervinia shares a ski area with Zermatt, which has a glacier that’s open for skiing all year round, so you’re guaranteed some snow even early season. Fortunately early season this year is of epic proportions in terms of ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/cervinia-weekends-first-turns-of-the-season/ Just got back from a couple of consecutive weekend trips to Cervinia, flying Ryanair. The flights were dirt cheap at about £20 return from Stansted to Turin give or take, but to take my snowboard added £31, more than doubling the price, though still reasonable value I suppose. It would ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/cheap-airlines-expensive-snowboard-baggage/ Put your hand up if you like a little drink on the hill every now and then? Its been known amongst my usual snowboarding group to bring out a hip flask full of Laphroaig, and dish out hits everytime someone stacks it hard or anytime someone stomped a run ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/hip-flask-snowboard-bindings/ ...well not me exactly, I kind of neutral on Flow's and the eternal debate if that's possible. I've been looking through some of the keywords people are using in search engines to find this site, and found a few comical ones: "I hate Flow bindings" - what about those that love ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/i-hate-flow-bindings/ Living in London, you always look to mainland Europe when thinking about your next snowboarding trip. I'd been meaning to post this photo taken at Glencoe in Scotland earlier this year by the guys at Highland Instinct. What a cracking sight. Added: just watched this cracking video ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/snowboarding-in-scotland/ I was pinged today with this video filmed at Pembrey Dry Slope. Good to see UK snowboarders going to the effort. You can find this slope here: Pembrey Country Park, Nr Llanelli, Dyfed, SA16 0EJ Thanks Jimi! He's also got the word out to Gavin at Afterbang. More on Pembrey and Jimi's page ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/pembrey-dry-slope-snowboarding-video/ A new, organic freestyle / freeride run is being installed at Avoriaz for the new season, scheduled for Jan 08. The Stash at Avoriaz will feature a shedload of natural hits, rails and gaps and can be reached via the Prolays 6-pack chairlift. There's a pdf map of the course ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/the-stash-avoriaz/ The Friday Fix is back, which can mean only one thing... the snowboarding season is just around the corner. Bring it on. http://www.hittingkickers.com/friday-fix-is-back/ This is a guest post from Paul at Alltracks Academy, who provide Ski & Snowboard Instructor Courses in Whistler. Like many snowboarders & skiers, I began touring for one simple reason – to hunt powder. Quite frankly, the thought of walking up steep mountains just didn’t seem that sensible when you ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/whistler-backcountry-tour/ One of my trips in the coming season might be to Whistler. I’ve heard some awesome things about the conditions they had there last season, and everyone I know that’s been there has nothing but great things to say about the place other than the lift queues can be ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/whistler-snowboard-instructor-course/ Well, its been a long time since posting was a regular occurrence round here, and hopefully that’s all about to change. So what’s to come over the coming weeks and months? I have been thinking more and more about the coming season and future posts. I still haven’t written up my ... http://www.hittingkickers.com/plans-for-winter-season-0708/