Arbor Snowboards‘ Robert Toste, Jake Schaible, Yosuke Hayashi, Yuma Abe and Ian Sams hit of Southern California’s finest parks at Bear Mountain and Mountain High. As a reminder to the rest of the world, yes, LA has surf, beaches, skateparks, starlets, palm trees, and good snow less than an hour away.
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Jeremy Jones, Jones Snowboards, and Alaska’s Ultima Thule Lodge and helping to raise funds for Protect Our Winters with a raffle for three days of riding with Mr. Jones. Each time you donate $5 you are entered. The more you donate, the higher your chances of winning are. Help out POW and get a chance at riding some untracked by making a donation now.
[Link: Protect Our Winters]
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For the second year in a row 686 hosted the Lights Out Boxing at the Denver SIA Show. A rowdy bunch of blood-thirsty snow industry fight fans crowded ringside at Casselman’s for five bouts of amateur (and we mean, really, really amateur) boxing matches. The bloodiest fight of the night was between Ion Camera’s Braly Joy and Wave Rave’s Steve Klassen. For the official results from all the fights (and some photos), follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Watch all the action live from Pipeline as the Volcom Pipeline Pro names a champion. Don’t worry, jocks. It will finish today.
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While we didn’t see any rotary bindings during our cruise of the 2013 SIA Snow Show in Denver (we’re sure they were there, they always are) we are glad to see that the ubiquitously useless innovation is not yet dead. A post on Shreddit alerted us to the Rotary Binding which is currently attempting to raise funds on Kickstarter. And there’s nothing new here:
Anyone who has ever gotten on or off a chairlift with a snowboard knows how uncomfortable it can be. Simply getting on and off requires painful bending of the knees and ankles in directions they were never meant to bend! . . Our state of the art bindings allow the board to rotate around the front foot by the simple tug of a cord. The Rotary Snowboard Bindings are extremely simple and safe to use while making your way to the next ski lift.
Michael Fultz, of San Diego, California, hopes to raise $100,000 for the project. With 28 days to go he’s got close to $3,000. We’re guessing he won’t reach his goal, but that’s probably best for everyone involved. Because seriously, we’ll say this again, “No one who snowboards wants a rotating binding.”
[Link: Kickstarter]
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Gary Rogers watches some girls skate. Then he talks about booty jiggle and gets to the rest of the news which includes at least one mention of Shane O’Neill, Vincent Alvarez, and Jake Donnelly.
[Link: Ride Channel]
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Look at all the fresh gear Nixon has coming for Spring 2013. . . oh, and Lisa Anderson and a bunch of dudes are in this edit as well. Our favorite? The Black & Lum Collection, of course.
[Link: Nixon]
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Japan Journals is a bit of snowboard travelogue promoting the benefits of snowboarding in Japan.
In this episode the crew is reminded just how deep the snow gets in Japan.. . . We go to Minakami and Nozawa Onsen, two well renowned regions close to Tokyo. Both areas dish up a decent amount of snow and have interesting terrain to back it up.
As this video points out rather clearly. Snowboarding in Japan is fun.
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Shaun White won the X Games halfpipe again (his 6th gold medal) on Sunday night, January 27, 2013 with last year’s run. This year he only got a 98 with it, however. Mark McMorris won slope style as did Jamie Anderson (again). Kelly Clark won the women’s pipe and Louif Paradis took Snow Street. Ta duh. We didn’t watch much of the X Games, nor did we travel to Aspen to party on the energy drink dime, but we did collect all the results (and most videos) for you in one place. Peruse them at will after the jump. [click to continue…]
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We’re not getting into Rally. Promise. However, this edit of Ken Block & Alex Gelsomino test driving their Hoonigan Racing Division Ford Fiesta in Michgan’s UP was just too good to pass up.
[Link: Torque News]
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