Make sure you tune in from 18.00 CET to see snowboarding legends like Terje Haakonsen, Gigi Rüf, David Benedek, Jamie Lynn, Stefan Gimpl and more throw down in the burn Style Session alongside pretty much all of today’s kicker bosses. Gonna be BANGING.

Watch it live HERE.

More than 50 international riders have travelled to Innsbruck and the city will be once again the snowboarding hotspot of the season. A total of 11 X-Games winners are on their way to this year’s Billabong Air & Style in Innsbruck. Next to the Style king and the winner of the Billabong Air & Style this year’s World Snowboard Tour Big Air champion will also be crowned in Innsbruck. It’s the last 6star Big Air event of the ongoing season and a total of 12 riders could take home the Big Air crown.

The event will kick off on Friday, February 1st 2013, with a magnificent show and meet-up of four generations of snowboarders. The current top-ranking riders, among them Piiroinen, Smits, Toutant, Kadono, McMorris and Weißenbacher, will need to pull out all the stops in the jam session to have any chance of stealing the show from the sports legends, participating in the burn Style Session. All-time heroes like Haakonsen, Lynn, Iguchi, Benedek, Basich, Gimpl and Rüf, throwing down for the cream of the snowboarding public. The live stage, meanwhile, will feature rapper Left Boy and, for the second time since 2004, Die Fantastischen Vier.

On Saturday, February 2nd 2013, all eyes will be on the riders in the 6Star World Snowboard Tour Contest when the world elite battle it out for the title, the Ring of Glory, 1,000 World Snowboard Tour points and a total of 75,000 euros in prize money. The field has been bumped up from 16 to 24 riders to do justice to the larger numbers at the pinnacle of the sport. Last year’s winner Peetu Piroiinen, Air & Style Beijing winner Yuki Kadono, third-placed in Beijing Ståle Sandbech and co- favorites Sebastien Toutant and Mark McMorris will attempt to pull off the first Triple Corks on the demanding megakicker setup in Bergisel Stadium. Ethan Morgan will be flying the German flag, while Matthias Weißenbacher and Clemens Schattschneider will stand tall on their native snow for Austria. German Indie rappers Kraftklub and the current best American white rapper Mac Miller will provide the musical backing to match.

Weather forecast promises way warmer temperatures than last year to guarantee best riding conditions with a soft landing and perfect surroundings for all our fans. We are looking forward to celebrate this once in a lifetime episode of the Billabong Air & Style with 2 days, 4 Bands and more then 50 riders with you!

Make sure you watch it and get all the details and info to either enjoy it live on the webor on TV in your country: http://www.air-style.com/en/id-2013-air-style-innsbruck/live.html

Legends, the pair of them. And they’ve still got the skills to pay the bills. Check Iguchi and Lynn’s Individually Produced Part from Volcom. This is AWESOME.

With storms dropping heaps of white love across Europe, we thought it was a good time to revisit this episode of Powder & Rails where the legend that is Bryan Iguchi gives a brief intro to the deep subject of snow science. Essential viewing.

For the remaining Iguchi episodes, make the jump and check them out on the Powder & Rails site.

Re-live the times when snowboarding was actually cool by watching this gem from 1993. The rider list is like a who’s who of shred legends, with Terje, Mike Ranquet, Jamie Lynn, Bryan Iguch, John Cardiel and more tearing shit up. Hell of a find, Powder & Rails dudes.

Here’s the spiel from Vice’s Powder and Rails guys, who you should definitely bookmark if you like a bit of vintage legendary shred.

In 1993 Dave Seoane followed a group of snowboarders up and down the West Coast and the Mid West as they leave their limousines only to shred the mountains along the way.

Roadkill was the first video Dave Seoane directed way back in 1993. It was a huge departure from the previous FLF videos: there was no narration and no filler; it was all riding and lifestyle. It was also back when everyone listened to Epitaph Records bands, so there’s a lot of those on soundtrack. The crew all ride around in a limousine, between breakdowns, up and down the West Coast and Mid West, shredding at different mountains along the way.

There are a billion highlights: Jamie Lynn traveling with Circe Wallace from Washington to Tahoe to shoot what would become his signature frontside 3′s, Steve Graham going bigger than everyone, Shaun Palmer sporting a clown hair-do doing an enormous backside 3 off of the Donner cliffs, John Cardiel wildly ripping both snowboard and skateboard, just to name a few. Actually, Cards does some of the best looking air to fakie’s of all time in this thing, all on a mini ramp surrounded by snow in the woods. Future legends of style Jeff Brushie, Brian Thien, and Bryan Iguchi also show up, ripping everything Big Bear had to offer—from rails to jumps to pipe. If you love the early 90′s skate style vibe of big Blind jeans and fast music you’ll love Roadkill.

If we understand correctly Volcom gave ten of their riders some budget to film their own video part, and now they are going to put them out one by one, starting with Daniel Brown on September, 3rd. Don’t worry, we’ll keep you posted!

IP2 is just about ready for your consumption. But first, here’s a little info…

IP2 stands for “Individually Produced Parts” . Whereas, each rider has 100% control of the direction, action and content collected to produce their own part for Volcom’s 2012 Snow project. We identified the riding characteristics of our team, matched them up with a videographer and gave them the green light. We are excited to share their personalities, travel experiences and shit they pulled off this past season.

Riders:
Curtis Ciszek
Jamie Lynn
Dan Brisse
Dylan Alito
Bjorn Leines
Scott Blum
Zac Marben
Bryan Iguchi
Seth Huot
Daniel Brown
Cody Beiersdorf
Arthur Longo

A Movie by Bluebird starring some “Good Dudes” like Bryan Iguchi, Kevin Jones, Mark Carter, Adam Dowell….
Shot in Jackson Hole, Alaska.

Drop whatever you’ve been doing and watch this all-free full-length snowboard movie called Alpenhoff by Bluebird Wax featuring Kurt Wastell, Chad Otterstrom, Bryan Iguchi, Kevin Jones, Mark Carter, Kyle Clancy, Nicolas Müller, Freddy Kalbermatten and David Fucking Hasselhoff!!!

More bangtastically progressive backcountry shreddery from Cheryl in this episode, the cherry on top being her Cab double underflip which, according to her chat, is as easy as hiking up the in-run one more metre and just sending it. Yeah, right. Cheryl is BOSS.

Of all movies of the upcoming season, the 9191 film project might be the most anticipated one: It might make more sense to you if we called it by its vernacular name, “The Gigi Movie”. And since it is a Volcom movie, just like the classics ”Subjekt Haakonsen” and “The Garden”, you know you’re in for something epic.

Apart from Gigi Rüf the featured riders include Bryan Iguchi, Terje Haakonsen, Mark Landvik, Curtis Ciszek, Blair Habenicht, Wille Yli Luoma, Luke Mitrani, Wolle Nyvelt, Jake Blauvelt, and Nicolas Müller. This one will be special, I tell you!

More information on the film’s website.