Deja Vu promises to be one of the heaviest movies of next season, but shooting such a flick ain’t all rainbows and unicorns. Don’t believe us? Check out their slam edit, amusingly titled ‘Whoops!’, for a festival of beatdowns that the crew endured through the winter…

You can’t win them all as evidence from Deja Vu Movie’s Frank April, LNP, Louif Paradis and Alex Cantin! Putting together a solid part for any snowboard movie requires throwing yourself off ledges, down rails and into uncertain success. These guys are true professionals and take the good with the bad continually getting back up and giving it another shot. If these slams are any indication of how hard the guys were pushing it out there we can’t wait to see the tricks they land! Bangers!

Check out more with the Deja Vu crew: dejavumovie.com

If a picture is worth a thousand words, surely a washed out digital polaroid of a rider’s eye view of the rockstar life you wish you were living has got to be worth a quick butchers. If you fancy stalking some famous dudes, you could do worse than to download yourself  the instagram and see them the way their iPhone sees them (other handsets are available). You could even stalk us @onboardmag while you’re at it.

Everybody imagines that their heroes live in a rose tinted world of free flowing beers and bottomless pillows, which is fortunate since nobody can resist the temptation to insta-age their life with filters, blurs and borders until it looks like you’re back in the 60s, and snowboarders are no different. What’s that you say? It’s waist deep in junk out there on the internets, possibly more than you can manage to wade through whilst waiting for a gondola, however nifty you are with the Google. Well have no fear, we’re here to help lighten the load. We’ve compiled a who’s who of snowboarders stroking their egos with the knowledge we’d rather procrastinate in their virtual company than with the real people sat around us, so you don’t have to do the legwork yourselves. Phew.

10. Kicking things off is Jamie Anderson at number ten, setting the standard pretty high for vast snowscapes and fluffy pillows we all want to get stuck into. But frankly we don’t need to know what beetroot dinner you’re eating or what colour tea you’re drinking. In fact if it weren’t for the  delicious selfies and lady-yoga shots peppered between the all the self help slogans and your dietary requirements, you wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near this list. And we know you live by Lake Tahoe, we don’t need to see the view again. I’m wondering now if this should have been a ‘top 9′ instead…

@JME_ANDERSON

9. In at 9 is the affable Gigi Rüf, an Austrian unfamiliar with this end of any competition. ‘Shred Dad’ is still keeping it real in between his trophy collecting trips in far off fluffy places as well as producing his own planks to do it on. This guy knows his way around an instafeed, mixing life on the hill with artwork, landmarks, and his mates standing by adverts of themselves on busses. What Gigi lacks in rock and roll he makes up for in stoke, which it’s immediately clear his kiddies have inherited.

@GIGIRUEF

8. Next at 8 is Kevin Pearce, the second coolest Kevin of the week. That dude’s grin must have a lot to do with why he has 9931 followers lapping up his every instamove. As our man on the ground in the FRENDS house, he’s pretty handy with the camera. After hard months of rehab pics it’s great to see some riding creeping back into this guy’s feed.

@KEVINPEARCE

7. Number 7 is Frank April, whose online persona is just what you’d expect from someone who in real life spends his days gliding down handrails like a boss and his nights necking Grand Marnier. His feed is a one stop shop for gnarly places to sleep, beer bongs on wakeboards and empty booze collections. The man’s got plenty of rockstar in him and mayhem around him – get your glimpse here.

@FRANKAPRIL

6. The top Kevin of the internet is Kevin Bäckström, our 6th Favourite instasnapper. A healthy portion of his 15,000 followers are swedish girls who seem to like nothing better than to scrawl his initials on their perfectly hemispherical buttocks in order to qualify his status as Scandinavia’s favourite rebel son to hate. In between tattoos, parties, and moody portraits, there’s snaps of lines and from events as well as plenty of reminders of his initials.

@KEVINBACKSTROM

5. Shaun White is like Marmite in whatever he does, and it’s no different here at number 5 in our oh so crucial list. No doubt he’ll be devastated with most likely his worst result of the new WST year. Those of you outraged by what he choses to dress himself in each day will get no end of amusement here, where bare chests, hawaiian shirts and cravats are just the start of it. If dog beauty pageants are more your thing or you want to know what he’ll look like in 25 years time before your man crush goes head over heels for him, you’ll be well catered for. And If you can’t remember what Lake Tahoe looks like since Jamie last reminded us, he’s got that covered too. 

@SHAUNWHITE

4. Mark Landvik is actually quite good at taking pictures which, combined with being privvy to some banger action most every time he goes riding bags him spot number 4. Silhouettes, tilt shift, double frames, you name the settings and Landvik’s all over them. If it’s too long since you were last out there getting after it, let Landvik lend you a glimpse from his drop in for you to dream a line down. Cats have been winning the internet since before it was dial-up, and mark’s is one ridiculously hairy feline. Shaun’s bulldog’s never had a chance.

@MARKLANDVIK

3. Eric Jackson takes home the bronze medal today, albeit with a little help from his friends. It’ll not surprise anyone that the man who apparently never stays still has done a few things recently that might blow your mind. Luckily for us, he had the good grace to share the stoke from along the way. He’s got fish on hooks, ridiculous lines and heaving barrels up in his page there, and a beard to be proud of too.

@EJACKSHREDS

2. Second place goes to the man with the most pets and guns in the industry, Scotty Lago. Man’s got style for days in the pipe, and he’s none too shabby behind the camera either. Also, his was the only page with a horse’s head mask, always a winner. What more could you want?

@SCOTTYLAGO

1. The biggest of the instadogs of snowboarding right now is Xavier De Le Rue. It was always going to be tough for anyone to compete considering what the Frenchman’s been up to. Then he went and dropped the ‘waterslide with a penguin’. There was no looking back from that really, was there? Big lines, big hair, and big animals are a winning combination even in real life, and right here they’re all that mattered. Hats off to you Xavier, we wish we could’ve been there.

@XAVIERDELERUE

Oh, and by the way, have you seen the first teaser for VG’s new movie?

These guys are all fucking nuts.

Round 1 of the eagerly anticipated X Games Real Snow has opened for public voting and, honestly, there’s some of the most insane urban riding you’ll ever see. Mindblowing pretty much covers it. Check out our thoughts on who should win should win Round 1 of Real Snow 2013 here.

We’ll cut to the chase and show you the videos. Riders are paired off in a head to head format and it’s up to you who goes through to the next round. Watch your jaws don’t drop too hard… And when you’re done make sure you vote for the lunatic you’d whose edit hyped you most.

EERO ETTALA vs ETHAN DEISS

JEREMY JONES vs FRANK APRIL

DAN BRISSE vs BODE MERRILL

LOUIS-FELIX PARADIS vs PAT MOORE

Now, if you’re not a gibbering wreck after watching all that, make sure you go vote for the ones that stoked you most.

Louif Paradis, Will Lavigne, LNP, Nic Sauve, Ben Bilocq… these dudes and the rest of their Quebec crew blew the doors off when they came on the scene, and now they’re back under one movie banner and it’s looking AWESOME.

There’s little doubt that this crew of riders from Quebec had a massive impact on the evolution of urban shredding when they started getting attention in the mid-2000s. Now, after their career paths have taken them on many roads they’re back together shooting for a movie they call Deja Vu, and this third ‘prologue’ is part history of the riders, part documentary of their first few reunion sessions filming for the movie that’ll drop fall 2013 – and will make you shake.

Riders: Will Lavigne, Laurent-Nicolas Paquin, Alex Cantin, Ben Bilocq, Nic Sauve, Louif Paradis, Frank April

Unleash The Lens is back for 2012 so we’ll be loading up the van and blasting around the
UK during November and December to bring you two sweet snowboard movies on a double
screening bill. This year we have teamed up with YES. It’s A Movie Too and Team Vacation
from Salomon Snowboards and Bonfire.

In Team Vacation the Salomon and Bonfire crew load up a camper van and tour the US,
Europe and Japan. Jed Anderson, Chris Grenier, Bode Merrill, Scotty Arnold, Louif Paradis
plus a whole host of the Salomon Snowboard and Bonfire team hit up a tonne of resorts and
street spots including some of our very own UK domes and dryslopes. Released as a series
of web videos last season this is the complete Vacation Tour with added extras and bonus
footage.

YES. It’s A Movie Too is the second team movie from YES. Head honchos Romain De
Marchi, DCP, JP Solberg and Tadashi Fuse are joined on screen by an ever growing YES.
family including Frank April and Helen Schettini. If you like out and out killer backcountry
freestyle and insane power riding (and even a few awesome jibs) then this is definitely the film
for you.

The tour kicks off in November and runs through December. All dates are FREE to attend, we
have give-aways galore plus the now legendary Salomon Snowboards and Bonfire pick n mix.
All screenings start at 8pm, no tickets required but get there on time to avoid disappointment.
Here are the all important tour November dates. December tour dates coming real soon.

21st November – Fleet – Propaganda Music Canteen with The Snowboard Shop.
23rd November – Bristol – The Kings Arms with TSA.
27th November – Marlow – The Ship with Sputnik.

Unleash The Lens is brought to you by The Snowboard Asylum, Salomon Snowboards,
Bonfire, Skullcandy, Dragon and Whitelines.

Louif is one of the end level bosses of urban snowboarding, so there’s never a bad time to revisit one of his past video parts. Peep this banger from Videograss’s Shoot the Moon. Hammertime!

He’s burly and hella smooth to boot, plus you get a Frank April cameo too. A part for the ages…

Stay tuned for more web updates and the full movie!

“DejaVu is a snowboard movie project reuniting 8 friends who grew up riding together. Produced in 2006, Bandwagon has been the only movie featuring the 8 riders in a single project. Since then each and everyone of them took their own path into the snowboard industry, working and filming for various movies such as Videograss, Rome, Forum, Standard, etc… Six years later, the time has come to bring the crew back together and produce a full release that will leave a long lasting footprint. This is a collective project in which all the riders are deeply involved into the creative process, bringing to life their own vision of snowboarding.Everyone is driven more than ever to commit and bring their best performance yet.The goal isn’t just to bring snowboarding one step ahead, but doing it in a way that transpires the crew’s authenticity and dynamism.”

There’s a new project in the works from a notoriously hardgrafting, street slaying French Canadian crew made up of, amongst others, LNP, Louif Paradis, Will Lavigne and Nic Sauve. This is the teaser for Deja Vu, and it is awesome.

To give it its proper name, we should have titled this post Deja Vu – Prologue Part One – Precognition but then you probably would have no idea what this was and overlooked it to watch more cat porn. But toss in the names of some of the bad boys behind this project and all of a sudden we’ve got your attention – these French Canadians have been at the forefront of shaking up urban riding in recent times, and they’re now mid-way through the production schedule of a two-year project that’s gonna light the lights.

Throughout their second season of shooting they’ll be dropping regular hammer-filled webisodes before the release of the full movie in roughly a year’s time from now. We’re partners with the crew, so you can be sure we’ll feed you exclusive hammers direct to your eyeholes of this crew of heavy hitters.

Here’s how Will Lavigne explained the premise: “DejaVu is a snowboard movie project reuniting 8 friends who grew up riding together. Produced in 2006, Bandwagon has been the only movie featuring the 8 riders in a single project. Since then each and everyone of them took their own path into the snowboard industry, working and filming for various movies such as Videograss, Rome, Forum, Standard, etc… Six years later, the time has come to bring the crew back together and produce a full release that will leave a long lasting footprint. This is a collective project in which all the riders are deeply involved into the creative process, bringing to life their own vision of snowboarding.Everyone is driven more than ever to commit and bring their best performance yet.The goal isn’t just to bring snowboarding one step ahead, but doing it in a way that transpires the crew’s authenticity and dynamism.”

This is going to be le sickness.

Riders: LNP, Nic Sauve, Will Lavigne, Frank April, Phil Jacques, Alex Cantin, Ben Bilocq, Louif Paradis

The search for pow continues. DCP, Romain De Marchi, JP Solberg and Tadashi Fuse are joined by the rest of the YES. Family for high powered shred action and fun.

From Japan to Alaska, from BC to Chile the crew explores, adventures and parties their way around our snowy planet.

Featuring: DCP, Romain De Marchi, JP Solberg, Tadashi Fuse, Frank April, Clint Allan, Benji Ritchie, Mikey Pederson, Helen Schettini, Colin Spencer, Madison Ellesworth, Mads Jonsson, Stian Solberg, and others.