Uhh Son, the video coming up from thirtytwo and Step Child looks good already and we still have to wait 210 days for it to drop. . . bummer.
[Link: Uhhson.com via Etnies]
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Snowboarding
A 14-year-old boy died February 9, 2009 while snowboarding near the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, according to a story on Rian.ru.
Rescuers said a group of four teenagers ventured off piste on Mount Sopka Mishennaya when they were caught in the avalanche. . . The body of the victim, who was trapped under the snow, was found early on Monday. The teenager is believed to have died of various fractures and suffocation. Three other teenagers were unhurt in the accident.
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It was the battle of the boardercrossers as Nate Holland and Maelle Ricker won the Pro divisions of the 24th Annual Mt. Baker Legendary Banked Slalom event. Here’s more coverage (Jake Blauvelt Photo: Brooke Geery/Yobeat):
- The Bellingham Herald: Legendary Banked Slalom all about culture, friends and fun
- The Bellingham Herald: Nate Holland is pro men’s Banked Slalom champ
- Yobeat: Good Eatin’ at the 24th Banked Slalom
- Bored Yak: Baker Banked Slalom: Holland, Ricker and Strohl Take Pro Divisions
- 2009 Mt. Baker Banked Slalom Full Results
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Sean Newsom (pictured right) is the ski editor for The Sunday Times of London. He’s apparently taking one for the team to illustrate a story on a new snowboard training device called the Human Touch Board.
When you turn it on, the board wiggles. Technically speaking, it’s “pitching, rolling and yawing”, but wiggling covers it — and what’s more, it wiggles at three speeds, controlled by a remote you hang around your neck.
It’s hard to believe he would pose like that in his own newspaper. Then again, he is a skier. Yee haw!
[Link: Times Online]
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Rather than travel to Mt. Baker for The Legendary Banked Slalom we’re depending on one of our new favorite blogs, Bored Yak to keep us posted.
The course was quick, if a bit icy. The riders who could stay on course put up some fast times, but more than a couple cartwheeled past gates. One victim was Blair Habenicht, who fell twice and missed a gate on Friday. He made the most of his Saturday run, qualifying 8th in Pro Men.
For the full qualifying results so far, click here. The finals are going on right now.
Click here for video or go to Transworld Snowboarding’s huge photo gallery.
[Link: Bored Yak]
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A snowboarder named Wetzler discovers an entirely new board sport while on vacation in Hawaii, in this post on A Good Read.
The people (I call them “waterboarders”) paddle their boards out to the surf lying on top them (the good ones duck under the waves) where they wait for a wave to come. When a wave does come they paddle like crazy to get in just the right spot and when the wave breaks it forms a slope steep enough to propel them along and allow them to stand up on the board. Voila! It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen. Snowboarding on the ocean. Except better!
Yep, snowboarding on the ocean. . .and he’s even got four reasons why he thinks this new sport will catch on.
[Link: A Good Read]
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Today on Fuel.TV beginning at 3 PM PST. Catch the madness of Redbull Snowscrapers live and in HD. We’ll see if we can bring those servers down.
And as a reminder: Snowscrapers is a snowboarding big air to hip contest, and not a competition based around trying to get snow off your windshield with a plastic scraper.
[Link: Fuel.TV]
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Forever the Olympic Weedhead: Ross Rebagliati, the first snowboarder to ever win Olympic Gold, is apparently the goto man for any Olympic weed smoking story. And when swimmer Michael Phelps was photographed blowing the glass trumpet Reuters’ Allan Dowd picked up the phone and called Ross.
Ross Rebagliati said on Wednesday he is not surprised by the controversy that erupted after a photograph was published that purports to show Phelps smoking marijuana, but said the public and media need to put the incident in context. . . . “I think Michael Phelps is an incredibly talented athlete and it’s a shame the media is choosing to focus and scrutinize one photo taken months ago at a private college party. The guy has 14 Olympic medals,” Rebagliati said.
Then again, Ross has one gold medal and that hasn’t stopped him from participating with the media in this story, now has it?
[Link: Canada.com via Celebstoner]
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We’ve been fans of Rome Snowboards‘ co-founder and snowboard engineering wizard Paul Maravetz for years, but when we saw the camber menu on the side of the Rome booth it was a little hard to process. Then Paul walked us through “hybrid camber” and discussed how it works on the Rome Anthem SS. Here’s what he said:
“As you know as someone who turns a snowboard. The camber gives you a nice crisp initiation it helps initiate the board and guide the board into where you want it to go. It also helps you exit with a really crisp, poppy, snappy feeling.
“Reverse camber has its benefits. You loose a little of that crisp initiation; you lose a little bit of that exit where you’re snapping out of your turns. What we do with our reverse camber is we’re adding stringer technology to help increase the pop and stiffness torsionally in very targeted regions in the board so you get some of that crispness and back.
Follow the jump for the rest of the story. . .
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