Looking for perfect gift for someone you love during this 2011 Holiday Season? We have gathered hundreds products that would make perfect gifts. All you need to do is take another lap through our 2011-12 Product Photos from the SIA Show. Yep, all new stuff, in a whole new light. Click to check it.
[Link: 2011-12 Product Gallery]
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For all his snowboarding feats of daring, we’ll always remember Jim Rippey for being the first guy to do a flip on a snowmobile and then immediately credit the Lord Jesus Christ. But that was then, now Rippey is an associate pastor at Grace Church in Reno, Nevada and, according to a story in the Sierra Sun, he doesn’t miss the pro shred life at all.
“I felt like the Lord spoke to my heart,” said Rippey, a Truckee resident who was working in the Tahoe backcountry with Standard Films at the time of his decision. . . “There were these younger kids who were trying to film some lines, and I was sitting there watching them and I remember the Lord spoke to my heart and said, ‘Jim, you’ve been there, you’ve done that and you’ve done it at the highest level, and now it’s time to let go of it. I’ve got something else for you to do.’ . . . “And I was just like, ‘Wow, OK.’”
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Rippey has gone in on his new life just has hard as he did his old. All we can say is, amen, bro.
[Link: Sierra Sun]
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Never Summer Snowboards have always been outliers in the snowboard industry. And they’ve always seemed to like that. But in this profile in Entrepreneur Magazine we get the back story how they became one of snowboarding’s biggest little brands and how they reportedly “Shredded The Snowboard Industry With Innovation” while building boards in the USA.
It all started, appropriately enough, in a garage. The brothers, who lived in Fort Collins, launched Swift Snowboards with their friend Scott Rolfs out of their home in 1983, a year after they were introduced to the sport. Tim Canaday, just 14 at the time, and four years Tracey’s junior, built the first snowboard in his wood shop class. “Tracey and Scott were figuring out the business, and I was good at building things, so I gave them advice on how to build a mold that I just learned from my shop teacher,” he says.
Click the link to read the rest.
[Link: Entrepreneur Magazine]
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This collection of videos from Ambition Snowskates kind of puts all those binding sporting urban snowboard heads to shame. We’ve rarely been stoked on Snowskating, but Jam Pack makes living in Quebec seem almost possible.
[Link: Ambition Snowskates via Onboard]
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Southern California snowboarding is now in full effect as Bear Mountain proves with this video from the 2011-12 season’s week one. It may not be four feet of fresh powder, but it’s white and it slides.
[Link: Bear Mountain via TWSnow]
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Wondering what it looked like on November 18, 2011 at Mt. Baker for opening day? TJ Schneider shows it all in The Snowboard Realms. Let’s just call it deep. . . and furry.
[Link: The Snowboard Realms]
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University of Colorado Boulder junior Evan Massini, 20, died after hitting a tree while snowboarding on the Northstar run at Breckenridge Friday, November 18, 2011, according to a story on the Denver Channel and The Daily Camera.
[Summit County Coroner Joanne] Richardson said Massini was riding with friends when he collided with a tree and suffered massive internal injuries. He was wearing a helmet at the time. . . “He was doing what he loved to do,” said his father, Edward Massini. “He had just called us and said he got the bindings on his new snowboard fixed, so he could get back on the mountain.”
Massini, originally from Westbrook, Connecticut, has become the second snowboarder to die in the first month of the season. Our thoughts are with Massini’s family and friends.
[Link: The Denver Channel and The Daily Camera]
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Andrew W.K.’s newest hit party anthem (and event promo) “Go Go Go Go” is a song written specifically for snowboarders riding in the World Snowboarding Championships in Oslo, Norway February 10-19, 2012, according to a story on Under The Gun Review.
“We filmed most of this music video at my nightclub, Santos Party House,” W.K. tells Spinner. “At first, I was wondering if these snowboarders would party hard. And they did! Everyone was so nice, and super awesome to work with. It meant a lot to me that so many talented athletes from around the world would come together to be part of this song — and part of this party!”
The video features Kazu, Terje, and a many, many more. To catch them all click the link and watch the video.
[Link: Under The Gun Reivew]
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National Geographic (the magazine) has nominated 10 people for it’s Adventurer of the Year People’s Choice award. Nestled in there with climbers, adventurers, and other (energy drink sponsored athletes including surfer Carissa Moore) is Travis Rice.
Filming for the highly anticipated film The Art of Flight, which he co-produced with Brain Farm Digital Cinema’s Curt Morgan and Chad Jackson, Rice took the staggering aerial tricks usually reserved for the relative safety of the manicured, avalanche-controlled terrain parks made popular by the X Games and the Olympics, and applied them to the big mountains.
Click here to vote for Travis. You have until January 18, 2012.
[Link: National Geographic]
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On her appearance on one of the last episodes of Fuel TV’s now cancelled show The Daily Habit, Tara Dakides was wearing a shirt that said, “Omatic Not 4 Riders.”
Apparently, she’s not to happy with the way things went down at the snowboard company that she was at one time involved with. Here’s what Dakides said on her Facebook page:
Omatic used to be something I was proud to stand behind because for me it meant Pure Snowboard Love, Fun, Creativity and Rider Owned. We were little but strong until greed walked in the door. I walked away a few years ago with a fight, but that fight has come to an end. I am no longer owner of what Omatic used to be. After a year of Lawyers trying to settle, the fight is over. Good did not win and now Omatic is for Sale. Omatic is owned by an attorney who knows nothing about what true snowboarding is and a lot of good people who believed in Omatic where taken advantage of. . .
Strangely, Tara didn’t mention Todd Richards or Jason Kanes. Or course, it didn’t take long for Richards to add a comment on her post:
hey tara…did you pay hampus tara louie and chenille out of your own pocket ? i did you. . . remember there are two sides to every story and i lost a shitload of cash on omatic. i don’t really remember you putting any hard cash into the company…have a nice day.
It’s rough when a dream dies. But sometimes, “that’s just business.” For the rest, click the link.
[Link: Tara Dakides’ Facebook]
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