October’s traditionally the month that, if you were in a novelty folk duo, you’d be singing “It’s business, it’s business tiiime. You know when I’m down to my socks it’s time for business, that’s why they’re called business socks, ooh!” Glaciers are opening. Premieres are on. Conditions are perfect…

OCTOBER

The month begins with a bang as we not only bring you the most excellent HaraKiri teaser (including a skier getting his head blown off) but the lowdown on the film with director Manu Vivion too in one swollen package. The Slim Ripper, aka L’Arrogs, drops us the Bataleon Superpark edit which is none too shabby either, Hintertux opens its doors for another autumn of pre-season fun festing, the Ästhetiker embark on another season of webisodes, and young Norwegian buck Ståle Sandbech is not content with scoring a cover and an interview in our print mag, oh no, so he pulls Factor Films’ Petter Foshaug out of snow porn retirement to chop together a heavy online part. Watch it…

Well that was alright, wasn’t it? Also rather alright is the sneak peek of 9191 that sees Gigi and Jake Blauvelt give a natural terrain masterclass; an all-new special cut of the F’ It teaser; Jon Weaver‘s musings on the opportunities the internet offers riders and the consequences for traditional forms of media; and the fact that finally, after years of badgering, our geek unit finally bows to our demands for being able to offer you free downloadable desktop wallpapers, and Cole Barash’s shot of JP Solberg has the honour of being our first. We’re also so stoked on the edit of Rome boy Johnnie Paxon‘s time at the Team Challenge that… oh what’s that?… yep, it’s the Fist of Nuff Embed touching his knuckles…

We’ve got nothing but love for Seppi Scholler and his loved up Lovelution teaser, while your calendar gets wet at the prospect of the Air&Style dates AND the World Rookie Tour dates being inserted in its moist pages. Ståle Sandbech continues in his efforts to own snowboarding on the internet as another online clip surfaces, this time it’s a Day in the Life and it reminds us that he’s still only 16. What the hell?! Other news includes Tyler Chorlton bouncing from Bataleon to APO, footage surfacing of a monster booter in Sölden at the end of last season, updates on the injury to Torgeir Berre, and how Kevin Pearce is getting on with his rehab. And, oh what’s that? It’s only a fine edit of the Buffalo Session on the biggest kicker the Pyrenees has ever seen… Stick that in your face marbles.

Continuing their rich vein of occasional webisode form, Isenseven unleash the edit of their trip to suckle on Mother Russia’s teat; there’s more behind-the-sceneing from the Flow crew; Ethan Morgan hops on the bandwagon with ‘Full Online Part’ daubed on its side, as does Kevin Backstrom; Analog kick off their awesome Design Unlikely Features contest that should have the creatives amongst you salivating; and as this paragraph comes to its maximum allotted length, we hit up Hintertux with some of snowboarding’s finest to see how they prep themselves for winter in our first Access All Areas. Check that bad mother…

Wow, October was a busy one… Moving on, the Frontline Rail Jam goes off again in Stockholm and we have highlights of all the hammers while in our spanking new office with central heating and everything we hit up Halldor Helgason for a chinwag. Finding a couple of shillings behind the sofa and with nothing better to spend it on, Nike 6.0 dragged their team to Folgefonna in early summer and now release the cut of the D-Pad Session. It’s pretty sick. Also sick is the news that Travis Parker is back, and back on K2, the dropping of the first of the Pirates’ behind-the-scenes Pirates Logs, and the beginning of our Artec/Onboard Snowboard Design Contest. Sadly our tank of inspiration ran dry when it came to naming it. And to put the final nail in October’s coffin, we’ll leave you with the Day in the Life we did with our favourite deadpan Slovenian, Marko Grilc, as he put himself about at September’s Freestyle.CH.

As you can see should you have made it this far, October most certainly was business time on the merry-go-round of snowboarding. And because we appreciate you sticking with us, here’s a special secret bonus treat of comedy gold that maybe helps clarify the randomness of this post’s intro and outro. Up next, November…