23 February 2012 | Featured Content, Featured Video, Features, Interviews, Interviews, Snowboard Pros, Videos, | Comment
We brought you the teaser to Cooking With Gas – Eero Ettala and Heikki Sorsa’s upcoming series of webisodes – the other day, but we wanted more so sat down with them in Japan to get the skinny. Check the exclusive chat with a couple bangers thrown in for good measure…
In early November, we accompanied the Nike 6.0 team on a short trip from Manchester to Halifax. We shared the car with Kevin Backström, Jamie
Nicholls and Gjermund Braaten and having spaced out the Travel Scrabble set we decided it was time we played a little game of Knowledge.
VICTOR DE LE RUE IS ONE OF THOSE RIDERS WHO DOESN’T CONSIDER FREESTYLE WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT THE PROGRESSION THAT GOES NATURALLY WITH IT. WE SAT ON THE LIFT WITH HIM TO TALK ABOUT DREAMING UP NEW TRICKS… AND THEN TRANSFERRING THESE WEIRD VISIONS ONTO THE BOARD.
3 February 2011 | Gear Reviews, Interviews, | Comment
NIKI POPPED ONTO OUR RADAR AS A 15-YEAR-OLD GROMMET HANGING OUT AT THE WÄNGL TÄNGL AND PULLING FRONT 5S THAT INGEMAR WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD OF BEFORE MAKING BACK 9S LOOK THE EASIEST TRICK IN THE WORLD.
4 January 2011 | Gear Reviews, Interviews, | Comment
MFR’S skilla are intense. As one ofe the girls who truly pushes the limits whenever she straps in, she’s part of the pack making women’s riding legit. A couple of short but heavy parts in recent absinthe flicks, a TWS Rider of the Year award and bouncing back from a nasty back injury…
For a while we have been setting up riders against each other in a little web game of shred trivia called “the Knowledge”. On our website you can check these out on onboardsnowboarding.com/tag/the-knowledge.
JP Solberg has been a household name in snowboarding ever since he won the Transworld Rookie of the Year award in 2002. Over most of the decade he impressed us with his backcountry prowess and style. However, with his untimely exit from the Burton global team, his era seemed to have ended. But fortune favours the brave and he landed on his feet with his own board company YES.
For this month’s 13 for luck we tracked down young german ripper Marco Smolla in his beloved hometown of Munich. For the first time in three years the bavarian steered clear of severe injuries and locked down a solid video part in Isenseven’s latest banger Don’t Panic.
5 November 2010 | Gear Reviews, Interviews, | Comment
What can you say about Markku Koski? He’s a rider that’s difficult pidgeonhole as hits hard wherever he rides. See his Samurai Pipe skills and you’d think he’s a U-Jump rock, but then he’ll throw a cab 9 pow stomper or hold it down on the streets and have you scratching your head trying to decide what he rides best. The answer? All of it. Here’s his rig…
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