Halldor Helgason isn’t letting a “4 meter’ fall get in the way of his promotional work. In fact, he’s doing everything he can to promote Fast & Dangerous Wax from his hospital bed, according to post on Snowbroader. Wax on, wax off.
[Link: Snowbroader]
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Nitro Snowboards new full-length advertising promotion film What Goes Up Must Come Down will premiere live online December 5, 2011 on Nitrousa.com. WGUMCD features the riding talents of Markus Keller, Eero Ettala, Marc Swoboda, Marco Smolla Knut Eliassen, Bryan Fox, Austin Smith, Anton Gunnarsson, Ben Bilocq, and the rest of the team.
And despite what the blog Board As Fuck says, we didn’t see any boobies in this teaser. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
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According to a story in the Daily Mail, a British company has developed a new urinal gaming system that allows micturaters to control a snowboarder on a video screen all with their blasting, splashing stream of urine.
The system works by a clip-on LED screen at the top of the urinal, and a motion sensor aimed down into the ‘business’ area of the urinal. . . Because it doesn’t use liquid sensors or cameras, the makers hope that disagreeable cleaning tasks will be kept to a minimum.
Apparently, when men are given something to aim at there is less clean up. And a hulking porcelain urinal obviously isn’t enough of a target so drink up and bring on the piss shredders.
[Link: Daily Mail]
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Angelique De Leon, 23, of Riverside, California died Sunday, November 27, 2011 from injuries she sustained while snowboarding at Southern California’s Mountain High resort, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.
[The] Riverside resident was wearing a helmet when she fell forward at about 4 p.m. on a run she had already descended successfully several times during the day, authorities said. . . “It was a head-over-heels fall, and she sustained internal injuries,” said Deputy Jeff Lewison of the San Bernardino county coroner’s office. “It just somehow hit wrong.”
Sadly, De Leon is the third snowboarder in North America to die in the first month of the new snowboarding season. Our thoughts are with De Leon’s family and friends.
[Link: Los Angeles Times]
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After what is described as a “2kg explosive” fired from a helicopter, this 3.5 avalanche stormed down Whistler backcoutry’s Corona Bowl at noon today (November 28, 2011).
As Adam Levitt said on Twitter: “Thinking about going for a hike on Whistler or Blackcomb? Watch this then think again.” Word.
[Link: @adamlevitt]
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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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