Last Word

  • Last Word 99

    • Last Word 99

    • 27 November 2008 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • What happens when there are two on a board?

  • Last word

    • Last word

    • 10 July 2008 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • The warmest winter I ever spent was a summer on a glacier

  • A Winter House Story

    • A Winter House Story

    • 27 March 2008 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • Anders Hagman got a house in the mountains – read about his winter house story.

  • HIT THE EUROPEAN ROADS, JACK!

    • HIT THE EUROPEAN ROADS, JACK!

    • 25 January 2008 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • Even if you lived in the perfect resort – and most of us don’t – you need a classic road trip once in a while.

  • To miss a file

    • To miss a file

    • 10 September 2007 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • Buckled way too hard into my bindings, I was looking out over a sizeable part of Switzerland often referred to as Rheintal. But a whole different aspect of my snowboarding life was on my mind. What I was thinking about was how much I missed a tool to sharpen my edges with: a file.

  • Ski Dad vs Skateboard Dad

    • Ski Dad vs Skateboard Dad

    • 20 February 2007 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • Anders Hagman reveals a few secrets that the pros used to get where they are and how they stayed there – secrets that the poor, average snowboarders have only vague knowledge of.

  • Any Last Words?

    • Any Last Words?

    • 3 January 2007 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • I went off the edge of the cliff in a small but unexpected slide of powdery snowy. There was only a minor degree of control involved from my side in what happened. Grasping for a deep breath of crisp, cold Italian mountain air, I could spot where I was going to land as soon as the cloud of snow around me cleared. It was some fifteen to twenty metres below – in a huge solid-rock surface…

  • A Slightly Improved Rational World List

    • A Slightly Improved Rational World List

    • 21 December 2006 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • We do our best to live up to our journalistic obligations at Onboard. One of them is that we on a regular basis write up lists of ‘stuff’. ‘Stuff’ in this case can be anything we think is of great interest to you. Any serious publication does this. For example: Time Magazine compiles an annual list of 100 People Who Shape Our World. National Geographic does a pretentious list of The World’s 50 Most Beautiful Islands, and Sports Illustrated will eventually do a 25 Most Stunning G-string Buns in Britain.
      Well it’s about time we update Onboard’s tri-annual list of ‘Things we’d see in snowboarding if the world had only been rational’!

  • Go fly a kite

    • Go fly a kite

    • 30 August 2006 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • They are heckled by some. They are banned at many places. They have equipment that breaks down often and they always have to carry a Swiss Army Knife at all times to MacGyver-it together on regular basis. Reminds us of snowboarders in the early days, doesn’t it? But even if you are among the hecklers, feel free to read this short brief on snowboarding’s latest sibling and possibly closest relative: kiteboarding on snow, aka snowkiting. You’ll want to do this because they are already blasting airs bigger than us – 5 seconds of hang time is stock – and tracking freshies in places we can’t go, such as a field or a lake nearby your house.

  • How to get by through a season

    • How to get by through a season

    • 30 August 2006 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • Are you thinking of spending the winter in a resort? Free from responsibilities and able to ride each and every day if the conditions are right? Unless you’ve already scraped together all the dough you need to eat, sleep, party and ride for 5 months straight, you’ll need this job-picking guide to be able pick a trade that’s right for you.

  • Wisdom of the Ages Applied to Snowboarding

    • Wisdom of the Ages Applied to Snowboarding

    • 29 August 2006 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • There’s heaps of stuff which has been learned in other areas of life that can – and should – be applied to snowboarding. Let’s have a look at how common wisdom and some old fart snippets may help your snowboarding life.

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