JP Walker and a bunch of dudes like Scott Stevens, Marko Grilc and Chris Grenier throw handplants for days in this edit. Pure radness.

JP Walker brought together a group of snowboarding’s most talented riders for the day-long Handplant Holiday at Bear Mountain. World class planters were treated to a set up unlike anything seen before, created by the innovative park crew at Bear. The exclusive set up, unique team aspect, and jam format, combined with the relaxed and friendly vibe, gave the riders the opportunity to concentrate on their handplant progression as they went for tricks from the hard to undoable lists. Featuring: JP Walker, Jeremy Jones, Simon Chamberlain, Scott Stevens, Marko Grilc, Chris Grenier, Pat Bridges, Cody Rosenthal, Tim Eddy, Ben Bilocq and special guests Dave Downing and Dale Rehberg.

Unique Scoring Format Makes JP Walker’s inaugural Handplant Holiday at Bear Mountain a Total Success.

It was an idea that JP Walker conceived on the comfort of his couch: bring a group of snowboarding’s most talented riders together for a day-long handplant contest. But what was supposed to be “no big deal” to pull together took seven months of intense planning that culminated on April 20, 2013 in the highly successful first annual Handplant Holiday at Bear Mountain.

At Bear Mountain, world-class planters were treated to a set–up created by the innovative park crew unlike anything seen before, which included several transiton based variations ranging from a wall ride, channel, spine, hip and extension.

The riders not only got creative on the feature, they got creative with Sony Action Cams, adapting the mounts to get rare POV video and capture unique angles and technical tricks. In the end, it was JP Walker who took home $1000 of high end Sony electronics gear for Sony’s Best Shot of the Day contest by capturing his perspective of stomping an Eggflip.

What nailed the event home was a unique team aspect and jam format—which Walker came up with specifically for the event—that gave the riders a chance to ride when and where they wanted throughout the day, to session individual sections or lap several features in a row accumulating points for their team. Because of this scoring format, the vibe during the contest was relaxed and friendly—though there was never any doubt that both teams wanted the win.

Both teams benefited from the expertise of their captains, legendary snowboarders Dave Downing and Dale Rehberg. Downing and Rehberg kept track of the riders points, coached, motivated, strategized and even got in the mix throwing down some plants of their own.

Under the guidance of Dave Downing, Marko Grilc, Chris Grenier, Jeremy Jones, Cody Rosenthal and Scott Stevens got down to business early in the day to secure valuable points. Dave’s experience in transitions and coaching came into play helping his team lock in their tricks.

But it was Dale Rehberg’s Team One, which included event mastermind JP Walker, Ben Bilocq, MVP Simon Chamberlain, Tim Eddy and Snowboarder magazine Editor Pat Bridges, who threw down variations of handplants throughout the different features with a combination of talent, teamwork, creativity and experience to earn the win. Team One split the $6000 prize purse and each member received a Sony Camcorder Cradle with LCD to use with the Action Cams they used for the contest.

“Being the Captain of Team One was not only an honor, but also a damn good time. Watching these guys go through the trick list as if it was no big deal pretty much blew me away, especially since the trick list was incredibly difficult. What an insane group of talented riders, who got it done,” said Rehberg.

It was a tight race between Marko Grilc and Simon Chamberlain for the honour of Plant of Day, but Chamberlain took the win with a Switch Andrecht on the Bear Mountain wallride, which also earned him an additional 150 points and a Nixon Player XL Black SR valued at $1200.

Chamberlain also landed several handplant variations including tricks from the undoable category such as a Switch Eggplant Tailgrab and a Phillips 66 over the channel to gain a total individual score of 1270 points. With a final tally more than 400 points above the next highest score, which secured him the Most Valuable Planter award, he ultimately took home the MVP trophy. For this, he scored a Nixon Player XL Gunmetal watch that he graciously gave to Marko Grilc, who Chamberlain felt was “deserving of a win for slaying the features from morning to night.”

“Handplant Holiday was the most fun I have had all season. Team One killed it on every challenge. It’s just that much better sharing the win with your homies. Winning the MVP and best trick was such a surreal feeling. To get those awards riding with all these amazing snowboarders was for sure humbling,” Chamberlain said.

We bumped into a bunch of pre shredders cruising the halls of ISPO this year, so we whacked a camera in their faces and asked them to give us the lowdown on their favourite board. Check out what 2014 decks have Gigi Rüf, Jeremy Jones, JP Solberg, Eero Ettala and DCP hyped…

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.

You all probably saw the first, rapid fire edit of the highlights from Burton’s Tokyo jib contest earlier this week, but did it have fancy skateboarding tricks from Forest Bailey, Mark Sollors, Niels Shack and co.? Or hyperiffic megamo of the action in the contest? Didn’t think so. Watch this..

Burton’s Tokyo Rail Days wrapped up on Saturday with Forest Bailey taking home first place, followed closely by a pack of shredders hot on his heels. Here is a good look at some additional action and skating from Wojtek Pawlusiak, Ludwig Lejkner, Neils Schack, Jeremy Jones, Mark Sollors, Ethan Deiss and Zak Hale.

Filmed by:
Andro Kajzer
Hot Wing

Edited by:
Andro Kajzer

Check out this rad short following young bucks Alex Andrews, Ethan Deiss and Zak Hale’s street-heavy trip to Alaska with Jeremy Jones in deep midwinter.

Three of Burton’s up-and-coming jibbers struck out north in December last year accompanied by jib master general Jeremy Jones. Though daylight was limited, their arsenal of tricks wasn’t – nor the abundance of creative street spots they found to throw down on. This, plus the mellow vibe of the edit, means The Shortest Days of the Year stoked us the hell out and we think it’ll have the same effect on you…

Filmed by:
Justin Eeles
Corey Koniniec

Edited by:
Gabe L’Heureux

Dat guy!

Most people probably wouldn’t start their season off with a banger like this, but Jeremy Jones is not most people. Jeremy talks about what it’s like to kick off the filming season and the anxiety of pulling back the winch on the first day. Known for always getting shots, it was only a matter of time before Jeremy nailed down this inaugural shot. Check out more from Jeremy in the latest Snow Porn, launching on Nov 15.

If you believe our photo editor, snowboard photographers are the hardest-working people in the world. Ukrainian coal miners come in a close second. This episode of Jeremy Jones’ Further Umplugged reveals what photogs and cameramen do to get that perfect shot.

In episode 13 of Jeremy Jones’ Further Unplugged, the Teton Gravity Research camera crew reveals how far they go beyond their comfort zones to film TGR movies. Different challenges emerge every day that force them to truly push their limits. Watch as these guys take you behind the scenes and show you the extreme risks they take in order to capture the perfect shot.

Further Unplugged takes you behind the scenes of Jeremy Jones’ two-year snowboarding film, Further. Get an inside glimpse of what goes on between the lines as Jones and other top riders including Terje Haakonsen, Xavier De Le Rue and Josh Dirksen travel to exotic locations such as Japan, the Arctic Circle and the Wrangell-St. Elias Wilderness. Challenges arise around every corner as this crew attempts to push their minds and bodies further.

Here it is, one of the greatest snowboard movies of all time featuring one of the greatest teams ever assembled: MDP’s The Resistance with the Forum team in their pomp. This legendary slice of shred cinema dropped in 2000 and showacased the Forum team when they were arguably in their prime. Line, Walker, Jones, Malmi, Walsh… it doesn’t get much better than this.

Whatever your opinion is on the brand and it’s recent demise, one thing’s certain: they certainly made some legendary movies in their time. RIP, Forum.