From 5th to 7th of April K2 Snowboarding hosted their inaugural Kranked Slalom in Kleinwalsertal/Austria. Friends, riders, families, and select media all showed up to celebrate K2′s 25th anniversary of their foray into snowboarding. The weather conditions couldn’t have been much worse (fog, icy course, rain on Sunday). However, 38 teams (of three riders each) showed up to battle it out on a course full of banks, bonks, jibs and jumps. And while banked slaloms seem to be all the rage these days, this one had its very own twist on fun and creativity. The teams of three had to ride it at the same time, making it a good mix of slopestyle, slalom, and boardercross madness. Rumor has it that some teams even used their creativity to find some shortcuts in the opaque fog…

Team “Original Zillertal”, consisting of Alex Walch, Georg Huber and Tom Trammitz, could cope best with these conditions, scored first place and are now happy winners of a Japan Powder Adventure with elooa Camps. Second became the local team “Handsome” with Clemens Paul, Florian Geiger and Roland Matt, followed by the “Gnarlberg Steinbocks” around Chris Schnabel, Simon Holzknecht and Irian van Helfteren.

Yeah, apropos of nothing K2 Snowboarding released this clip of their team rider and badass Norwegian Danny Larsen.

We hit up a bunch of brands at ISPO to find out what one bit of product they were most hyped on of their 2014 line and filmed them telling us why. Here’s the first installment of the snowboards from Salomon, Burton, K2 and Ride…

More to drop soon. Till then make sure you immerse yourself in our huge gallery of some of the hottest 2014 snowboard products.

Have yourselves a sneak peek at all the brand new 2014 snowboards, boots, bindings, outerwear and accessories on show last week at ISPO that will be tempting you to splash the cash come autumn. 

The annual snowboard industry trade show, ISPO, went down in Munich last week with all the brands showcasing their finest new products for the 2013 to 2014 winter season. We trawled the halls to give you a sneak peek at what you can expect in terms of snowboards, boots, bindings, outerwear and accessories come autumn when the gear hits stores. If you like product porno, click full screen and dive in to our monster gallery above, or click the brand links below for a sniff of what they had to offer.

What’s floating your boat of all that shred gear? And is there anything that you’re feeling the hate for? Let us know beneath the line…

686 outerwear, Adidas outerwear, boots & goggles, Airblaster, Airhole facemasks, Amplifi, Ashbury eyewear, Anon goggles & helmets, Arbor Snowboards, Bataleon Snowboards & outerwear, Bern helmets, Billabong outerwear, Body Glove protection, Bonfire outerwear, Burton Snowboards, boots, bindings & outerwear, Capita Snowboards, Colour Wear, Dakine backpacks, gloves & outerwear, DC Snowboards, boots & outerwear, Deeluxe boots, Dragon goggles, Dye goggles, Electric eyewear, Endeavor Snowboards, Flow Snowboards & bindings, Flux bindings, Giro helmets & goggles, Gnu Snowboards, Head Snowboards & boots, Holden outerwear, Home watches, Jones Snowboards, K2 Snowboards & bindings, L1 Outerwear, Level Gloves, Lib Tech Snowboards Lobster Snowboards, Neff hats, gloves & outerwear, Nike Snowboarding boots & outerwear, Nikita outerwear, snowboards & bindings, Nidecker Snowboards, Nitro Snowboards, boots, bindings & outerwear, Nixon watches, Oakley goggles & outerwear, O’Neill outerwear, Patagonia outerwear, Picture Organic Clothing, Pro-Tec helmets, Quiksilver outerwear & goggles, Ride Snowboards, boots & bindings, Rip Curl outerwear, Rhythm outerwear & snowboards, Rome Snowboards, boots & bindings, Roxy snowboards & outerwear, Salomon snowboards, boots & bindings, Slash Snowboards, Smith goggles & helmets, Slytech protection, Spy goggles, Switchback bindings, Technine boards & bindings, ThirtyTwo boots & outerwear, Union bindings, Vans boots & outerwear, Volcom outerwear, Völkl Snowboards & bindings, Von Zipper goggles, Westbeach outerwear, Whitegold Snowboards, YES Snowboards, Zeal goggles

Jake’s been killing it on K2′s International Am roster for the last 5 years or so, snagging some heavy movie parts, web edits and mag coverage along the way. Now K2 have rewarded his hard work with a spot on the Pro team and this is his welcome edit. Check it.

The K2 crew give you a tour of their Baker house before heading off splitboarding, pow lapping, park riding and wet boarding. 

Judging by this, K2′s backyard is a bottomless powder nirvana. We’re hoping they  need a roomie. Check out most of their team proper send it into deep, deep snow. This is pretty rad.

Riders: Danny Larsen, Matt Belzile, Robbie Walker, Shaun McKay, Jake Kuzyk.

Episode 4 drops new year’s. Keep an eye out.

The area around K2′s homebase in Washington gets heaps of snow and boasts some epic terrain. For this web series, they decided to document their team ripping up their backyard throughout the tit-deep days of last winter.

And in case you missed it, here’s an equally pow-laden first episode…

Think Thank’s Primary Parts is a three part web series featuring footage and outtakes from “Mind The Video Man“. The “Primary Parts” title is a reference to the main ingredients used to make a Think Thank video what it is; brain, heart and soul. Or known by their other names; science, art and culture.

Part one is the science of “Mind The Video Man”, the science of getting sick! Enjoy two minutes of some the best shots of the season by the biggest mad scientists’ in snowboarding all stacked together and hosted by the video man himself.
Think Thank’s ninth video “Mind The Video Man” is out now at local shops and on iTunes itunes.apple.com/us/movie/mind-video-man-think-thank/id562087677