For a limited time, when you subscribe to Frequency: The Snowboarder’s Journal you’ll get not only a full year of snowboarding’s most beautiful, thoughtful, and deep print media, you’ll also get an 8″ x 10″ signed Mike Parillo print.
For $69.99 receive a limited-edition, 8” x 10″ signed Mike Parillo print from Asymbol Gallery—the same “Tetons in Blue” image featured on the cover of our December release, Issue #10.3—and a year’s subscription to the timeless coffee table content of frequency TSJ. Or, get two years and a print for $99.99. With only 150 hand numbered and signed prints available, this offer will surely sell out—and maintain its appeal long after that matching slipper-and-bathrobe set has gone the way of baseless bindings.
Not only that, it something you can order and deliver online. And we all know those are the best presents ever.
On Saturday, December 8, 2012 the kids went off at Killington, Vermont for a little early season rail jamming with Rails 2 Riches. Looks like the East Coast kids are all right back on their shred games.
Our Apple TV seemed lost without the weekly Shralp! snowboarding edits and just when we were beginning to think it was over for good we got his message from Shralp! founder Mee-Z letting us know the edits are back on and kicking off with this exclusive edit from the Oakley Shaun White Air & Style.
“When I started shralp! the Video iPod was the latest shit. Downloadable video podcast were basically the only way to distribute a video magazine online.” explains Christan ‘mee-z’ Miessner, founder and maker of shralp! “Now YouTube is the largest distribution platform for video content and shralp! is still on, adapting to the new situation with even more programs.” . . . shralp! is the longest running snowboarding video podcast and now in it’s 8th year. Since October 2005 shralp! covers people, WST/TTR contests, competitions, powder, big mountain riding, tricks, products, events, video previews and everything else that matters in the snowboarding scene.
Someone’s got to wear the uniforms until Mr. White climbs back in, right? And a few of these snowboarders might actually go to Russia for the Olympics. So here are the 2013 US Snowboard Team Members.
2013 U.S. Snowboarding Halfpipe Pro Team
Men Greg Bretz (Mammoth Lakes, CA, Mammoth Charter School) 12/19/90 * Matt Ladley (Chicago, IL, Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club) 5/17/91 Scotty Lago (Seabrook, NH) 11/12/87 * Benji Farrow (Ludlow, VT; Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club) 3/8/92 Louie Vito (Sandy, UT) 3/20/88 * Luke Mitrani (Bondville, VT) 7/20/90
Women Gretchen Bleiler (Aspen, CO; Aspen Valley Ski & Snowboard Club) 4/10/81 * Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT; Mount Snow Academy) 7/26/83 * Elena Hight (South Lake Tahoe, CA; American School) 8/17/89 * Ellery Hollingsworth (Darien, CT; Stratton Mountain School) 9/2/91** Hannah Teter (Belmont, VT; Okemo Mountain School) 1/27/87 * Maddy Schaffrick (Steamboat Springs, CO; Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club) 4/24/94 **
2013 U.S. Snowboarding Slopestyle Pro Team
Men Chas Guldemond (Reno, NV) 4/22/87 Sage Kotsenburg (Park City, UT) 7/27/93 Eric Willett (Breckenridge, CO) 1/2/88 Women Jessika Jenson (Rigby, ID) 8/7/91 Jordie Karlinski (Snowmass Village, CO; Aspen Valley Ski & Snowboard Club) 8/24/89 Ty Walker (Stowe, VT) 3/3/97
So what about the Alpine racers? Or Boardercross racers? Who? Exactly. Everyone knows, they don’t count. For the rest of the official word, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
The Sprint US Grand Prix Snowboarding event scheduled for December 21-22, 2012 at Park City Mountain Resort has been rescheduled for February 1-2, 2013 thanks to some trouble getting a quality superpipe completed in time (see photo at right).
“Park City Mountain Resort is known for having the best half pipe in the world,” said Krista Parry, Marketing Director, Park City Mountain Resort. “We are more confident we will provide the athletes the type of half pipe they’ve come to expect from us by moving the event to a later date.
Better to wait for snow, right? Follow the jump for the official word. [click to continue…]
The SnowSports Industry of America released their fall SIA RetailTRAK numbers today (December 6, 2012) for the period August through October 2012 and it wasn’t good news.
The snow sports market declined 2%, but reached $616M in sales so far this season (August through October) despite significant disruptions in retail sales in the South and Northeast regions due to Hurricane Sandy, uncertainty in the face of the “fiscal cliff,” and lack of momentum from the snow-challenged 2011/2012 season.
And you thought last fall was bad for sales? We’ll just pray for a good Christmas. For the official word from SIA, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
Today marks the start of 686’s fashion design contest Reclaim Design Project. Here’s what the project is all about:
The world famous RECLAIM Design Project gives three talented designers the opportunity to create an original outerwear garment utilizing reclaimed materials, fabrics trims and supplies from the 686® production facility. Two winning designers will be awarded the grand prize of a coveted internship at 686® – helping design innovative, fashionable outerwear and technical apparel, as well as a collection of other great prizes. Is this you, do you have what it takes?
Think you have skills to make it on trade show tour with 686? Then submit your jacket design and a quick bio introducing yourself to reclaimproject@686.com. Follow the jump for all the official rules. [click to continue…]
Each articulated 3.75″ snowboarder comes with an ID card detailing his home mountain and personality, a detachable helmet, and a customized snowboard. The helmets and snowboards are interchangeable between the Shredz action figures, promoting collectability. The Shredz Track Building Tool, Jump and Trick Set allow kids to design and build their own challenging snowboarding trails and terrain parks carved out of snow.
It’s always good to see how snowboarding looks to civilians. Like this, apparently. Get them while you can a Amazon for only $11.99 (only three left).
Lucy Walker’s documentary film The Crash Reel, which tells the story of Kevin Pearce’s massive head injury and his road back to recovery, is set to debut January 18, 2013 at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, according to a story in the Salt Lake City Tribune.
Choosing “The Crash Reel” for the Salt Lake City opening was easy, said festival director John Cooper. “These are people that the locals know quite well,” Cooper said of Pearce, the snowboarding community, and the University of Utah doctors who treated Pearce after his Dec. 31, 1999, crash [SIC: crash was actually December 31, 2009]. . . Walker’s film “does celebrate [Pearce] as an incredible athlete. And it looks at the issues of safety in an important way, but it’s not preachy at all,” said Trevor Groth, the festival’s programming director.
We’re looking forward to seeing this one, later. You know, when it comes out on iTunes.
We’ve all heard the stories about how Jake Carpenter met his wife Donna, but now, thanks to the New York Times we get the whole story directly from Donna herself (including all the other things she’s done in the meantime).
I GREW up in Greenwich, Conn., and was lucky enough to travel when I was young. My family traveled to Europe many summers, and we skied different mountains in the United States in the winters. I was 18 when I met Jake Carpenter during a New Year’s Eve party at a tavern in Vermont. He was just starting what would become Burton Snowboards, and I was studying political science at Columbia University.
The rest is Burton Snowboards history. Click the link for the rest of another American marriage success story.
