"This Week in Snowboarding? Not AGAIN!"

A week is a long time in snowboarding. That’s why we made it shorter: Due to the absence of our entire web crew on Friday this This Week in Snowboarding only has six days. (if you are wondering where we are going: the Nike Snowboarding football tourny) However, it is once again full of awesome videos, interviews, and absurdities, too. Check. It. Out.

SATURDAY

The Euro Rome team shreds the Stubai Glacier. The Pirates crew shreds Sweden. Chris Bradshaw has good days in his life, and John Jackson can’t remember last night.

SUNDAY

Burton remixes Keegan Valaika. Pro Bono is a solid free movie. When you have enough snow Hamburg is a great rail spot, and Zharevo is an Eastern European shred flick.

MONDAY

We exclusively release the modern classic Euro Gap 1. Some more riding from the Stubai park opening can be located here, the TTR talks about Method airs here, the Terje-and-the-IOC-story can be followed here, the Random Bastards release their full movie, Chas Guldemond drops into his first webisode, the Angry Snowboarder has the second Outlaw Outruns teaser, Utah has more jib setups than Mormons, the Ride team has some pre-season fun, Kazu and Mikey continue riding for Burton, Desiree Melancon now smells as good as she looks, Jed Anderson talks about swivelling on rails, and the House of 1817 presents their full movie (banger!)

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Ever heard of rule 34?

TUESDAY

We have Marc Swoboda’s full part from the Nitro movie and the first part of Ero One’s Voila, we continue our Euro Gap week with a Niki Korpela interview, Marko Grilc wins the London Big Air and Gerome Mathieu wins the Stomp-e It-e in Modena, Boreal opened and the bHappy crew was there, Artec wants you to design a board, the Videograss is growing, Wojtek Pawlusiak is legend, the Party Snake… parties, Camber is dead, Travis Parker is alive, and Airblaster will soon release their ‘Family Portrait‘.

WEDNESDAY

Joni Malmi talks about Euro Gap, Jamie Nicholls edits his own online video part, Kalle Ohlson has a bad day on a sled, The Cheers crew travels to Tahoe, the Finnish Homework B-footage looks good, Front Board Catches suck, Nike Snowboarding goes football and Nike 6.0 goes rails, Romain de Marchi is still a burly rider (and so are Jeremy Jones and Seth Huot) Don’t Mess with the Box is an average full movie from Switzerland, this is the only edit we found from the Gothenburg Rail Battle, Wille Yli-Luoma talks about being dropped from a team (and coffee, of course), in female halfpipe riding the Chinese domination begins, even though Woodward-at-Copper tries to counter this with their exquisit summer camp.

Hitchhikers have to get ever more creative in order to get picked up.

THURSDAY

We post the legendary Euro Gap 2, Maria Thomsen’s rail riding is pretty, pretty good, The Ästhetiker hit pow kickers at the Arlberg, BHP’s Spend It All has some good sponsors, the Stubai Premiere highlight vid looks alright, Ted Borland’s movie part is sick, Yobeat follows the L1 team, the Angry Snowboarder posts the It’s on Tape flick, and Flow has a nice edit of Scotty Lago’s shenanigans at the Olympics.

NO FRIDAY (told ya)

See you next week, when it’s all about “This Week and last Friday in Snowboarding”. Have a good one!

As you’ll have seen on Monday the Euro Gap 1 was nothing short of epic, so is this like their Empire Strikes Back? Kinda double awesome? Set aside 30 minutes, click Play and find out for yourselves.

Here’s the blurb from the back of the box, which we lost, so you’ll have to make do with this awesome screengrab of Paavo. Pretty much sums up the vibe perfectly…

A movie about snowboarding, skateboarding and the crusades of Joni and Paavo.

Featuring: Nate Bozung, Ingemar Backman, JP Walker, Jonas Emery, Wille Yli-Luoma, Devun Walsh, Tero Ainonen, BJ Leines, Steve Ruff, Jeremy Jones, Sebu Kuhlberg and many more…

Filmed on locations at Finland, Brazil, Norway, Japan, USA, Europe…

The smell magnet proved stronger than she had imagined.

Alright, let’s get this going. Another week, another TWIS. Winter is upon us, shit’s getting sicker by the minute. Here we go!

SATURDAY

Nike 6.0 publishes a short edit on their freestyle.ch activities. The Forum team hits New Hampshire. Forest Bailey talks the internet through his shred gear. King Snow Mag interviews Sean Genovese and Jeff Keenan. Jake OE and Joe Sexton go… fishing! Whitelines has some crazy indoor shredding from Japan, and the Angry Snowboarder the Bulgarian “It’s All Good” free movie.

SUNDAY

Corey Smith talks about the new Comune movie(s). An angry Aussie meets the Angry Snowboarder. Twoleftfeet.ch runs you through the Absinthe NowHere soundtrack. Variety Pack releases an all plugged up/The Leak teaser. Yobeat gets hacked. And the Helgasons show another kind of Euro gap.

Would you have hugged another man, too?

MONDAY

We post an exclusive interview with Halldor Helgason (who also shreds Hintertux with Kareem El Rafie), the Marko Grilc Day in the Life clip, DCP’s epic Absinthe footage, the Swiss Snowboarding Championships wrapup video, and the excellent Best of the Canyons clip. Tahoe Dangerzone posts the Get in the Van 2 teaser and Luke Mitrani and Nick Visconti skating a bowl. Dylan Thompson’s part from The Arena is quite good. The Nuulife teaser for No Joke is cool, too. Yobeat debates the difference between skiing and snowboarding. Is Luke Lightwood a real name? His is a good edit anyhow. The TTR debates style in snowboarding. Our senior photog Matt Georges gets involved in some products. Do you have a cookie sponsor? No? Time to get one! (really, people, why don’t you spread out your content more evenly over the other days of the week?)

TUESDAY

Nike 6.0 release their astonishing D-Pad session video. The Ästhetiker hit backcountry kickers in Zauchensee. Wille Yli-Luoma makes good coffee and talks about his riding. The Angry Snowboarder posts the Rock the Journey full movie. Seb Toots is one of the best riders around (winter video recap). Someone creates the Eastern Snowboard League. And the Rumorator explains what’s snowboarding and what isn’t.

WEDNESDAY

Travis Parker re-joins K2, and the latter posts the intro of their team vid. Elias Elhardt and friends shred the Stubai Glacier. Isenseven-Felix films a ski clip… and then we started moving offices.

Shameless attempt at selling our print mag

THURSDAY

The Cheers crew rips Helsinki. The Helgasons score some heavy pow in Hintertux. Terje invites Jacques Rogge to the Arctic Challenge. Chas Guldemond launches his own web tv show. Tom Klocker digs his “Freshman” in our new mag. And the Gothenburg Rail Battle is getting on its way.

FRIDAY

Our new print mag hits the shelves of Europe. We post the Nike Greasebus tour vid. Signal builds a rad dartboard. Flow takes us behind the scenes at the Olympics. Jeremy Jones goes Korea.

And don’t forget to tune into tomorrow’s Gothenburg Rail Battle live webcast! Other than that: Bon weekend everyone!

Of all movies of the upcoming season, the 9191 film project might be the most anticipated one: It might make more sense to you if we called it by its vernacular name, “The Gigi Movie”. And since it is a Volcom movie, just like the classics ”Subjekt Haakonsen” and “The Garden”, you know you’re in for something epic.

Apart from Gigi Rüf the featured riders include Bryan Iguchi, Terje Haakonsen, Mark Landvik, Curtis Ciszek, Blair Habenicht, Wille Yli Luoma, Luke Mitrani, Wolle Nyvelt, Jake Blauvelt, and Nicolas Müller. This one will be special, I tell you!

More information on the film’s website.