‘WAS HERE’ follows the Flow Snowboarding Team on a worldwide seek-and-destroy mission. While no stranger to the global contest podium, the Flow team now taps into their alter ego to bring you some of the year’s heaviest riding, throwing down in the streets and leaving lines in the backcountry.

Starring: Scotty Lago, Tim Humphreys, Scot Brown, Mike Basich, Sarka Pancochova, Jeremy Thompson, Brandon Reis, Nial Romanek, Ian Thorley, Andre Kuhlmann and Shane Fortier.

Filmed on location in Alaska, Austria, California, Canada, Colorado, Germany, Idaho, Japan, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, and Oregon.

However, their team is finger-licking good: Bode Merrill, Chris Coulter, Jeremy Thompson, Lonnie Kauk, Wyatt Caldwell, Austen Granger, Matty Mo, Jules Reymond, Romain DeMarchi, JP Solberg, Deadlung, and Neil Provo. And they’re all featured in this banging edit. Have fun!

Riders: Atushi Ishikawa, Jeremy Thompson, Nial Romanek, Scotty Lago, Shane Fortier, Tim Humphreys, Grahm Hoffman, Scot Brown and many others.

Jeremy Thompson and Tim Humphreys. East Coast represent. Photo: Sami Tuoriniemi.

An East Coast installment of our snowboard trivia nerd off.

As snowboard geeks, we like to think ourselves well-versed in the deep memory banks of snowboarding’s trivia. But how much of it do the riders know? That’s what we set out to find with The Knowledge, where we’ll put two shreds face-to-face and get ‘em to flex their mind muscles.

Squaring up to each other this time round are two East Coast Flow team duders – Tim Humphreys and Jeremy Thompson. Seeing as they were en route to Hintertux for some pre-season leg warming, we dragged ‘em from Munich airport to our office under the pretense that we wanted to give Jeremy a copy of Onboard 117 with him getting wicked on the cover. No sooner was the mag in his hands than we took ‘em aside and gave ‘em a grilling…

1. What was Joni Mäkinen’s signature symbol that he had on all his pro model boards?

Jeremy Thompson: Who? I’ve never even heard of him [belly laugh]. His signature symbol? Oh man, I don’t know. Maybe a Finnish flag?

Tim Humphreys: Fuck I don’t know. [Ed in Chief pipes in trying to give a hint to the derision of his colleagues] Cellphones? I don’t know what the best export from Finland is! Black liquorice? That’s what all the Finnish kids eat. That shit’s disgusting.

Answer: Scandalous as it is that Jeremy didn’t know one of Europe’s legendary riders, and that despite the Ed in Chief’s meddling Tim didn’t know what Finland’s number one export is, the correct answer is, of course, THREE PINE TREES. He had them on his boards back in the days on Joyride to when he finished his career a few years back on Option.
[Jeremy: 0 – Tim: 0]

2. Which of these countries does NOT have a glacier resort? Germany? Italy? Spain? Or France?

JT: I’m gonna say Spain.

TH: Which one of them? It’s definitely not France, I don’t know. It’s probably like Spain or something.

Answer: Italy and France have a bunch, Germany has one thanks to some generous Austrian king giving them the Zugspitze back in the day, so the correct answer is SPAIN that despite having no glacier resort, does have sun, sand and sangria. Party on, Wayne!
[Jeremy: 1 – Tim: 1]

3. How many X-Games Slopestyle gold medals does Janna Meyen currently hold?

JT: Zero? Hehehe, I’ve never even heard of that guy either. [Though in Jezza’s defence we think he may have been having trouble understanding our German ed’s accent…]

TH: A lot. [Jeremy pipes in with “I just realised whose name you were saying!”] I’m not counting, but 5 or 6? I know it’s a bunch, way more than I have ‘cause I have zero [laughs].

Answer: Janna Meyen, who is most definitely a woman by the way, Jeremy, holds a whopping FOUR X-Games Slopestyle golds.
[Jeremy: 1 – Tim: 1]

4. Who landed the first double flip in the pipe?

JT: Aw c’mon. There’s so many people that’s not even… I know it goes back quite a while. [Ed in Chief gives an all-too obvious hint about chucking] Michaelchuck!

TH: Fuckin’ Mike Michaelchuck.

Answer: It was indeed the visionary, though stylistically impared, Canadian MIKE MICHAELCHUCK who first hucked a double back in the pipe in 1998 or so, and he even scabbed a double back rodeo similar to what Luke Mitrani has perfected today.
[Jeremy: 2 – Tim: 2]

5. Name the reigning female TTR World Tour champion.

JT: Right now, who’s the champion? I honestly don’t know.

TH: Female TTR champion? Aww man. I should know this, what the hell. Jeremy probably got it right too. [“You hooked up with her,” jokes Jeremy.] Did I? Torah Bright, really? [laughs] I’m gonna figure this shit out… was it Ellery? I have no idea.

Answer: Last season’s women’s TTR World Champion was Finnish rookie ENNI RUKAJÄRVI, who came out of nowhere to blitz all the established competition and take the title in her first season on the tour.
[Jeremy: 2 – Tim: 2]

6. Terje broke the world record for a quartepipe air in 2007. Who held it before?

JT: Jamie Lynn maybe?

TH: Heikki Sorsa.

Answer: It was HEIKKI SORSA who, at the Arctic Challenge in 2001, fired himself higher than any man had been before and taking down Ingemar Backman’s unofficial Riksgränsen monster from 96.
[Jeremy: 2 – Tim: 3]

7. Which one of these films is not a Mack Dawg production: Jumping with Jussi? Shakedown? Pulse? Or Lost in Transition?

JT: [without skipping a beat] Lost in Transition.

TH: Lost in Transition. What was that, a Standard movie?

Answer: Indeed, it is Standard Films’ LOST IN TRANSITION that’s the odd film out.
[Jeremy: 3 – Tim: 4]

8. What is this year’s Pirates movie called?

JT: Umm, Pirate movie? Man, you guys are really killing me. I watched it the other day but I don’t know the name of it.

TH: Oh I know this. Apparently I don’t know it ‘cause I can’t think of it… Umm, I don’t know.

Answer: HOOKED is the name of Europe’s biggest movie production company’s latest release.
[Jeremy: 3 – Tim: 4]

9. Who won last year’s US Open men’s slopestyle and the BGOS title?

JT: Oh that was Peetu. [Massive debate ensues about whether or not it was Chas Guldemond or not, and it’s agreed upon that ‘last year’s’ is a bit too confusing for us snowboarders who count in seasons.]

TH: Was it Peetu? [“2009! Fail!” buzzes Jeremy]

Answer: Last year, being 2009, CHAS GULDEMOND won both the slopestyle title and the overall BGOS series at the US Open. Last season, Peetu Piiroinen won the BGOS, but Mikkel Bang took the slopestyle.
[Jeremy: 3 – Tim: 4]

10. What nationality is Romain de Marchi?

JT: I’ll go German. No. Yeah? I don’t know. Somewhere in Europe? He’s like Louri I-Pod or whatever he claims to be.

TH: Is he French? No, no, no he’s not French. He’ll probably hate me for saying that. Um, where the hell is Romain from? I don’t know.

Answer: Romain de Marchi is SWISS. As is Iouri Podlatchikov, when he’s not Russian.
[Jeremy: 3 – Tim: 4]

Despite our general confusion with question 9 and Jeremy’s difficulty understanding the peculiar lilt of our German ed, we have a winner! Tim Humphreys, who Jeremy had already said would win as “he’s such a nerd”, takes the tie with a not-particularly impressive score of 4 out of 10. And if you also don’t know who Joni Mäkinen is, shame on you…

November’s mag has hit the shelves. Check out a sneak peek of what we’ve got in store for y’all.

Our latest voyage into old school media has been delivered by our flying fleet of rainbow-flecked winged unicorns to shred stores and newsagents throughout Europa. Why should you buy a copy? ‘Cause it’s been delivered by frickin’ gay horses! Plus it comes with Jeremy Jones‘s epic 2-year backcountry epic, Deeper, 100% free. And as if that’s not enough to have you camping out for your 172 pages of the finest pulped trees five bob can buy, here’s some other stuff you can find within that will have you humping till you next hit snow…

THE HEIRS OF STYLE

When it comes to combining freestyle trickery with natural terrain, there’s few riders who do it better than Nicolas Müller and Jake Blauvelt. In fact, the first time we saw one of Blauvelt’s movie parts we were all like, “This kid’s like a Yank Nico,” so when we had the chance to do a combined interview with these two cats the decision was probably the easiest we’ve ever made. There’s not a single built kicker in the whole 17 pages, just 100% natural freestyle gnarl.

KAMCHATKA

Sometimes lastminute.com trips are the best kind. This is what our photo ed discovered when he received a call from Absinthe’s Brusti and three days later found himself on a sketchy Aeroflot bound for the Kamchatkan peninsula to meet up with Terje, Fredi Kalbermatten, Stephan Maurer, Peetu Piiroinen, Sani Alibabic, JP Solberg and co. for an epic 14 days of heli-drops, sledding and goodtimes.

GREASING THE WHEELS

Last April, a crew of rippers munched their way through a ton of deep-fried food to power an eco snowboard trip from Tahoe to Portland on a bus that ran solely on vegetable oil. In so doing they solved the riddle of how to go shredding without polluting the mountains. Sound cool? Gigi Rüf, Johnny Paxon, Annie Boulanger, Danny Kass, Eric Jackson and co. would say “yes!”

PLUS

No, that’s not all by a long shot. There’s also a Freshman focussed on Austrian up-and-comer Tom Klocker; we chat with Danny Larsen about his long relationship with the Pirates and what his experience of Hooked was; there’s a mini-feature on the pro-active bunch at True Color Films; a Big Picture welcoming the return of the sequence; plus all the irregulars, waffle, chat and nonsense you’d expect from Europe’s finest shred porno.

Pick up your copy today, or better still SUBSCRIBE TO ONBOARD and never miss an issue.

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Flow’s Witness the Sickness movie just dropped. Get ready for 30 minutes of the finest shredding from Scotty Lago, Tim Humphreys, Brandon Reis, Jeremy Thompson, Scot Brown, Ian Thorley, Austin Young, Mike Basich, Mario Wagner, Morgan Le Faucheur, Petja Piiroinen, Nial Romanek, Jack Herald, Shane Fortier, Atsushi Isikawa, Sarka Pancochova, and Kade Madsen! Here’s what Flow says themselves:

When you see a video that is really good, you may say, ‘that video was SICK’, and we know everyone loves a good snowboard film. So that’s exactly what Flow wanted to do this year when we labeled the video, Witness the Sickness. This video is built from a year of snowboarding that was truly SICK. The team hit snow just right in Japan for waist deep conditions, witnessed Scotty Lago’s Olympic adventures, found some of the best rail spots throughout Minnesota, while hitting up parks across the country, making this years video a truly well rounded and complete snowboard experience. Riders featured include, Tim Humphreys, Jeremy Thompson, Scot Brown, Sarka Pancochova, Brandon Reis, and the rest of the Flow team. Flow Snowboarding partnered with Rubbish this year to bring you another epic flick with the best quality edit, sound and filming around the industry today. Also brought to you by these supporting brands; Matador, and NXTZ. Enjoy, and most importantly get out and Snowboard!