Hands down, Tim Humphreys is a true GoPro wizard. Here’s his latest collage of strange yet beautiful snowboard (and wildlife) footage. Also, there’s a little editing comp going on, so read on for more details!

Shot 100% on my GoPro Hero2. Yeah, Scotty Lago really wrestles a wild animal while snowboarding. Ian Thorley Helps a shiny Subaru STI get sideways and throw up some dirt. I’m just cruising around GoPro in hand at Mt Hood, Hakuba, Superpark Mt. Bachelor, and Alpine Meadows.

This is my tribute to Forest Bailey’s Spaciest Edit contest on Strap’d Up.

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I have my own contest on Strap’d Up during June, 2013! I’m giving away $250 + a GoPro to the best individual edit posted to my contest!!! 2nd and 3rd will also receive some gear from my sponsors!!!

Get editing and Holla at Strap’d Up to post your edits and win some stuff!

Check the women’s superpipe final podium runs from last night in Tignes, plus the top three men’s qualification runs.

WOMEN’S FINALS

1- KELLY CLARK

2 – ELENA HIGHT

3 – ARIELLE GOLD

MEN’S ELIMINATIONS

1 – Louie Vito

2 – Scotty Lago

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

The king cobra of snowboard disciplines, halfpipe riding, didn’t open its box of mental trickery at last night’s X Games in Aspen. Swiss rider Iouri ‘I-Pod’ Podladtchikov came in first while Shaun White effortless cruised to a second spot in qualifications.

Still, this is an unfamiliar position for Shaun White, who is used to winning his X Games Superpipe gold (five so far) from the top position in qualifications. It was Iouri Podladtchikov who claimed the latter with a one-third of a point lead.

And here’s some extra weirdness thrown in from the Don’t-call-me-Flying-Tomato. We quote straight from the ESPN website:

“White had a chance to reclaim the lead Thursday night but instead coasted down the pipe without hitting a jump, his fist raised high in the air. He left the venue before anyone had a chance to interview him.”

And for the record, neither of the first two showed their full potential, something the antsy American public are eager to sea on Sunday night. White’s run consisted of a 19-foot, 2-inch backside air and a frontside as well as cab double cork 1080s. Podladtchikov, too, said he was saving “a mystery trick” for Sunday. We. Can’t. Wait.

Scotty Lago qualified third, and interestingly, 14-year-old Japanese phenom Ayumu Hirano also made the final in sixth.

Shaun White: Weird guy

X Games Men’s Halfpipe Qualification Results

1 Iouri Podladtchikov 87.33 R
2 Shaun White 87.00 R
3 Scotty Lago 82.66 R
4 Markus Malin 81.00 R
5 Matt Ladley 80.00 R
6 Ayumu Hirano 78.66 R
7 Christian Haller 76.00 R
8 Louie Vito 74.66 R

Watch highlights of Scotty Lago, Shaun White, Louie Vito and more getting it done in the men’s superpipe semis at the Dew Tour’s iON Mountain Championships in Breckenridge.

As promised, here’s highlights of yesterday’s action in the Breck stunt ditch. Scotty Lago qualified in the top spot, ahead of Shaun White, Greg Bretz and Louie Vito. We must say, though we understand they only wanted to show the top qualifiers’ runs, it’s criminal that Kazuhiro Kokubo‘s Cab-ins and slash reverts didn’t make the cut.

Here’s the full list of dudes qualified for the finals… and if you haven’t checked it yet make sure you peep the highlights of the hypertech that was the Dew Tour men’s slopestyle semis.

1 – Scotty Lago
2 – Shaun White
3 – Greg Bretz
4 – Louie Vito
5 – Brett Esser
6 – Christian Haller
7 – Nathan Johnstone
8 – Taku Hiraoka
9 – Ayumi Hirano
10 – Markus Malin

Flow’s team scored a bunch of banging parts this season, so they took the liberty of knocking them together to produce this all-encompassing mega-edit. Behold!

Flow Team Assassins Scotty Lago, Tim Humphreys, Scot Brown, Brandon Reis & Nial Romanek each had respectable parts in a few different videos for the 2012-2013 season. In this edit we took all four of their parts and rolled them up into one joint. So sit back and take in all the smoke, HA!

The latest webisode from Smith Eyewear’s secret Idaho R&D facility is freaking HEAVY. Watch Scotty Lago, Shayne Pospisil and Austin Smith spin, slash and stomp some hammers into lots of pow…

Smith have been pumping out their Prospecting Idaho web series for a couple of seasons now, but in case you’re out the loop the skinny is thus: they’ve got a secret R&D powder paradise nestled somewhere in Idaho where, throughout the winter, their team of pros visit and ‘assist with product development’. That R&D looks a hell of a lot like stomping the shit out of pow to us.

The first episode of the season starts things off with a fast paced, teaserish edit featuring Smith homies Scotty Lago, Austin Smith, Shayne Pospisil, Scotty Pike, Desiree Meloncon, Kyle Clancy, Wyatt Caldwell, Taylor Carlton and more getting some…

Have yourselves a first look at footage for the Swoosh’s three-part team video project, cunningly titled The Nike Snowboarding Project. Wallop!

Before we start waxing lyrical about Nike’s video project, look out for Peetu’s backside air towards the end of this. DOUBLE WALLOP!

Nike, it’s fair to say, are not short of a bob or two and have assembled one of the finer, all-round-ripping-from-street-to-backcountry-to-contests-to-pipe kinda teams on the planet. Look at the names, just LOOK at them. They’ve also enlisted the help of three of snowboarding’s finest filmmaking lensemen to produce three short films – Joe Carlino, Brad Kremer and Justin Hostynek – and this here is the teaser for them. A mish mash of heavy riding and dicking around that, like the team, looks like it’ll have all aspects of the shred covered.

Each filmer hooked up with a particular crew of riders and the results will be released over the coming weeks. Here’s the deets and dropping dates:

16.10.2012 – A short film by Joe Carlino. Featuring the riding of Johnnie Paxson, Jess Kimura, Halldor Helgason, Justin Bennee and Jed Anderson.

13.11.2012 – A short film by Brad Kremer. Featuring the riding of Sage Kotsenburg, Louie Vito, Gjermund Braaten, Jamie Nicholls, Danny Kass, Ethan Morgan, Jan Scherrer, Peetu Piiroinen and Austin Smith.

11.12.2012 – A short film by Justin Hostynek. Featuring the riding of Gigi Ruf, Nicolas Muller, Danny Kass and Eric Jackson.

Check out the latest at NikeSnowboarding.com/getlacedup

With the Southern Hemi season starting to wind down, take a look at this interesting short documentary on the competition circuit down under. Contains solid riding from all the major events, plus chat from the likes of Gjermund Bråten, Roope Tonteri, Tor Lundström and more…

Vacation? is a full short documentary about competitive snowboarding in the Southern hemisphere featuring Scotty Lago, Gjermund Bratten, Seamus O’Connor, Alex Beer, Orla Doolin, Stale Sandbech, Cheryl Maas, Mark McMorris, Seb Toots…