How is Gretchen Bleiler getting ready for her big return to competitive snowboarding? According to Shape.com she’s been training with Go Pro Workouts. For edits of three of her workout moves (porno music included), follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Media coverage for the 31st Burton US Open of Snowboarding is going to be all over the place this year. Beginning today (Wednesday, February 27, 2013) at 7:45 AM PST the event kicks off from Vail, Colorado with the Men’s and Women’s Slopestyle Semi Finals viewable on the Burton.com/USO. But that’s not all it keeps going:
Burton is rolling out five hours of live programming on Universal Sports and NBC Sports Network, plus an additional 22 hours of original live coverage on Burton.com/USO so viewers around the world can watch the most anticipated snowboarding event of the season. Burton.com programming includes “The Board Room,” a new online talk show about snowboarding. If you can’t make it to Vail, below is a complete broadcast schedule by date, time and network. Times and events listed are Mountain Time (MT) and are subject to change, so please consult your local listings.
Click here to watch it live or follow the jump for all the details including times, networks, and events. [click to continue…]
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It is good to see great snowboarders like Jeremy Jones getting proper respect in mainstream media outlets like the New York Times.
At a local restaurant here in his hometown, Jones does not look like one of the world’s most radical snowboarders. A 38-year-old father of two, he is soft-spoken and friendly, an outlier in a sport known more for brazenness than modesty. But for more than two decades, as snowboarders have started trends and realized Olympic ambitions, Jones has pursued a singular dream: riding some of the biggest, significant mountains in the world.
Jones has always been an genuine, authentic, unassuming giant in snowboarding, and we’re stoked people outside snowboarding are getting to know him better. Click the link for the rest of the story.
[Link: New York Times]
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Salomon Bonfire would like you to better appreciate the snowboarding skills of their standout rider Louif Paradis. What better way to do that than with a promotional video edit all his own. This one, designed to give us all in intimate, up-close view of the snowboarding superstar is appropriately titled At Home With Louif. Enjoy.
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An Albuquerque teen who was reportedly trying to throw a snowball while riding a chairlift at Ski Santa Fe found out the hard way that messing around on chairlifts is a bad idea, according to a story in the Santa Fe New Mexican.
“Basically, the kid is home and he is fine,” said Cody Sheppard, the ski patrol director at Ski Santa Fe. “It was kind of a dramatic deal. I guess he was attempting to throw a snowball to the chair in front of him, where some friends were, and when he threw the snowball, the momentum just carried him out of the chair. He did hang on for awhile, but then he had to drop.”
The kid was reportedly helicoptered off the mountain, and suffered a “concussion, skull fracture, collapsed lung and a lacerated liver,” but none of it required surgery. Unbelievable. We’re still kind of wondering what happened to his snowboard.
[Link: Santa Fe New Mexican via Boing Boing]
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All divisions of the Volcom JLA Banked Slalom at California’s Mammoth Mountain tomorrow, February 23, 2013, is completely full, so all there’s left to do now (if you didn’t pre register) is to head to Mammoth and watch the amazing event celebrating the too-short life of Mammoth local Jeff Anderson in person. Then again, maybe thee is a wait list for people who don’t show up. If there is, get on it!
[Link: Volcom]
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Thanks to former pro snowboarder Russell Winfield and Byrdseye Productions we now know what it looks like to ride the Mt. Baker Legendary Banked Slalom in Terje Haakonsen’s body. See how smooth that is? Easy, right? Nope. Trust us.
[Link via @Powder&Rails]
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Signal Snowboards founder Dave Lee travels to Italy to make the “world’s first” glass snowboard.
[Link: Signal Snowboards]
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Hey, everybody have you seen Jeremy Jones‘ nuts they’re round and salty and green. They’re green because they’re pistachios, duh! Apparently, Jones has joined the American Pistachio Growers athlete ambassador team. And Jones is just nutty over pistachios.
“Without proper nutrition, I would not be able to continue to push the limits of what’s possible,” says Jeremy. “Pistachios are an important part of my diet that allow me to stay fueled and recover quickly after intense physical exertion. I’m really pleased to support the growers of a food I love so much.”
We wish more athletes would lend their names to healthy sponsors like this, rather than helping corporations poison the youth of the world. Seriously. For the official nut word from the health nuts, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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