Features

  • The Top Three France Parks

    • The Top Three France Parks

    • 29 August 2006 | Features, Spot Check, | Comment

    • For this month’s spot check, we set our Spanish editor the difficult task of visiting all the snowparks in France and Spain so that he could get of out the house and reveal some of these countries’ best playgrounds. Along his way, he uncovered some true masterpieces, one or two disasters, and even a few imaginary parks that only existed in the minds of the resorts that advertised them. In fact, if there’s one word that describes snowparks in Europe compared to the rest of the world, it’s ‘inconsistency’. The quality of snowboard parks varies hugely depending on where you go and, subsequently, the journey turned into something like the quest for the Holy Grail of freestyle snowboarding.

  • Matti Rautanen

    • Matti Rautanen

    • 29 August 2006 | Features, Talent, | Comment

    • Matti… what can I say about this kid? I first met him on the Elan Team shoot last spring, and at first glance he looked like the typical Finn to me: shy, barely talking and friendly. On the 9-hour bus ride from Munich airport to Les Crosets, Matti was mostly hiding under his big, blue and yellow beanie, snoozing in the back of the van.

  • Cheryl Maas

    • Cheryl Maas

    • 29 August 2006 | Features, Set Up, | Comment

    • Cheryl Maas had a pretty successful season. She competed at the Olympics, which took her loads of time for preparation, and she won the TTR women’s series with her great performance at the Roxy Chicken Jam in St Moritz. Otherwise, she has been filming for Volcom and Forum all over the place.

  • Ronnie Andersson

    • Ronnie Andersson

    • 25 August 2006 | Features, Set Up, | Comment

    • Ronnie kicked off last winter riding a bunch around his hometown of Skellefteå with Peter Lundström before heading to the snusless wastes of the European Alps. Filming with the MMP crew, shredding rails on the Red Bull Driveby tour and a bunch of traveling and shooting occupied most of his time until he got injured. Blowing your knee is never a good thing, but Ronnie remains upbeat: “I have to do ten months of rehab, but I’ll be back this winter… …Super fun season, thanks everyone.” Onboard wishes you the speediest of recoveries, dude.

  • Regression or Progression: The Nuclear Option

    • Regression or Progression: The Nuclear Option

    • 23 August 2006 | Features, One Word, | Comment

    • Human-induced climate change is widely acknowledged (unless you work in the oil industry or the Bush administration) as being one of the most pressing issues for the global community today. It affects every aspect of the living world, including planetary ecology, plant, animal, and human welfare, agriculture, water supplies, local and global economies, sea levels and extreme weather events. All of this is fed by an ever-increasing demand for energy, which for the most part is derived by the burning of fossil fuels.

  • The Ideal Snowboarder

    • The Ideal Snowboarder

    • 23 August 2006 | Features, Last Word, | Comment

    • The ideal snowboarder rises early, effortlessly opening up a pair of perfectly white and deep-blue eyes. Not a trace of red-eye needs to be removed, nor any stains of nicotine or wine from any of the 32 dentist-sculpted teeth. His skin is what the beauty advertising industry would describe as firm and well toned. He is The Man.

  • Scott Sports Range

    • Scott Sports Range

    • 18 August 2006 | Features, On-Mountain, Product, Season 06/07, | Comment

    • Scott Sports are launching a new range of boards and goggles for next season. The colourful mix of styles is sure to get you noticed on the slopes.

  • Nixon Delta Watches

    • Nixon Delta Watches

    • 18 August 2006 | Features, On-Mountain, Product, Season 06/07, | Comment

    • The new Nixon Delta watches are the first snowboard specific triple sensor watches with custom digital movement, compass and altimeter functions. The clever time-piece also has runs and elevation tracking thanks to a swiss barometric pressure sensor, slope sensor and speed sensor. With the turn of a dial you can easily access all the different functions.

  • El Grande – The Widest Board in the World?

    • El Grande – The Widest Board in the World?

    • 18 August 2006 | Features, On-Mountain, Product, Season 06/07, | Comment

    • Being the creator of the widest board on the market wasn’t quite good enough for Elan, who have now surpassed themselves with their new super wide shape. For the big-footed gent, the new super-wide fit easily accomodates bigger boot sizes, featuring a significantly reduced width across the nose and tail of the board thanks to patented Omega Sidecut technology.

  • Head PX5 Binding

    • Head PX5 Binding

    • 18 August 2006 | Features, On-Mountain, Product, Season 06/07, | Comment

    • After two years of talks with riders, Head have launched their brand new PX5 binding. Blending comfort and performance, the binding easily adapts to all styles of snowboarding and moulds to your boot for a smooth, non-clunky ride.

  • O’Neill H3 Series

    • O’Neill H3 Series

    • 18 August 2006 | Features, On-Mountain, Product, Season 06/07, | Comment

    • The O’Neill H3 Series is a range of wearable electronics, designed specifically for boardsports fans. The range of technologically advanced apparel constitues six items to save up for, including…

  • APO Snowboards Binding

    • APO Snowboards Binding

    • 18 August 2006 | Features, On-Mountain, Product, Season 06/07, | Comment

    • APO snowboards have just released their new expresso binding. The lightweight binding has two independent straps with ratchets, making it as comfortable, customizable and precise as a normal binding plus you can fit your foot in from the top when in powder snow or steep slopes.

  • 686 Spring 2007 Collection

    • 686 Spring 2007 Collection

    • 18 August 2006 | Downtime, Features, Product, | Comment

    • 686 has just launched a sneak preview of it’s new men’s collection for Spring 2007. Combining technical and fashionable, the performance-based line includes patented toolbelts, lightweight performance jackets and moisture wicking, antimicrobial, organic wovens and knits – something for everyone.

  • Flatland Tricks

    • Flatland Tricks

    • 3 August 2006 | Features, Trickology, | Comment

    • Word Fresh, Gs. Back-to-back 1080s are all fine and dandy, but going for a burn and busting out flatland tricks is one of the funnest things you can do on a shred stick, and will improve your board control too. Get buttering that muffin!

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