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Globe Bantam Cruiser skateboard

Saturday, 02. 4. 2012  –  Category: Video

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! (Wow, time flies, and yes [...]

The Art of Flight movie

Saturday, 02. 19. 2011  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

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 the Art of Flight trailer. [...]

Jeremy Jones’ DEEPER movie from Teton Gravity Research

Saturday, 12. 12. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding

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 about the film over at [...]

Snowboarding off cliffs

Saturday, 11. 28. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

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 hurt yourself in the air [...]

Absinthe’s Neverland movie filmed in Cervinia

Thursday, 10. 1. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

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 sweet.

I’ve not watched a new [...]

Jeremy Jones Profile: Boots are Made for Walking

Sunday, 02. 22. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding, Video

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 the years, the name “Jeremy [...]

Gressoney, Monterosa snowboarding off-piste

Sunday, 02. 15. 2009  –  Category: Snowboarding

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 time we went, despite there [...]

Nike Sweetspots video

Wednesday, 01. 14. 2009  –  Category: Video

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 realised - if you dig [...]