Hands down, Louif Paradis is one of the best urban snowboarders on this planet. Luckily for all of us, whenever he goes snowboarding, a few camera guys tag along. Even better, his sponsors Salomon and Bonfire compiled this season recap video for us to enjoy.

Bonfire and Salomon Snowboards present Louis-Felix Paradis. This video features footage that earned him the 2012 X Games Real Snow gold medal, some of his time spent on Team Vacation, and some footage that until now, no one has seen. Louif is not a loud, in-your-face type of guy; he takes technical riding to the streets with modesty, unparalleled grace, and deafening style. Thousands have emulated him, but there can be only one. This is Louif. Guest riders: Chris Carr, Taka Nakai, and Frank April Filmed by: Hayden Rensch, Tanner Pendleton, Matt Roberge Edit: Tanner Pendleton Additional clips filmed by: Java Fernandez & Chris Carr

In times of summer not many interesting snowboard clips get washed ashore. This behind the scenes edit of Bode Merrill hitting a rail/redirect feature has been posted by every website and their uncle, but it does have a nice vibe to it. Here you go then.

I flew out to Denver, Colorado the day after Christmas to meet up with Bode Merrill, Chris Grenier, Andy Wright, and Gary Milton. Considering how dry this season was, I was happy just to see snow on the ground. A lot of crazy stuff went down this trip—this isn’t one of those crazy things, it’s just a warm up. 
But for me, this is always the best part of the session. 
It’s the moment when you know it’s going to work. 
It’s really exciting. 
For anyone that’s ever built a ramp, rail, or jump—you know the feeling. As soon as you know it’s going to work, your brain goes crazy. You’re thinking of what you know you can do, what you might be able to do, what you want to do—and what you don’t want to do. It’s really fun to watch someone as talented as Bode go through this process. He makes it look really easy and always ends up doing something insane. 
- Tanner Pendleton, Bonfire & Salomon Filmer

Here’s a short clip of what the Salomon/Bonfire team has been up to in Germany, France, and Switzerland.

Danimals, Chris Grenier, Justin Fronius, Chris Carr, Joe Sexton, and Louif Paradis spend a day snowboarding at Hyland Hills. Fun stuff for a fun Thursday.

Well we’re calling it episode 1 as we’re certain there’s gonna be more edits to drop from the Salomon and Bonfire teams’ globe spanning Team Vacation. Here’s a recap of the past month. Morrisey, bitch!

In the past month we’ve been through the Northwest, Tahoe, Stevens Pass, Socal, and Utah (with a pitstop in Las Vegas). Here’s a quick recap of a few of the stops. Stay tuned – we’ve got more edits on the way.

We’re currently headed up the east coast with Jed, Carr, CSM, Louif, Grenier, Scotty, and Harrison.

Riders in this edit: Chris Carr, Chris Grenier, Scotty Arnold, Harrison Gordon, Jonah Owen, Sawyer Dean, Keaton, and more.

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The Salomon and Bonfire teams bezzed over to Saas Fee a few weeks back to shoot for their new catalog. Check the ripping that went down from Jed Anderson, Bode Merrill, Jamie Nicholls, Louif Paradis and co. Funtimes.

Holy crap. Over 4 minutes of good shredding and not a single double cork. Jed Anderson can sure pull some neat rail stunts.