iNi Cooperative is proud to announce it’s current roster of snowboarders for the 2012 season. These great individuals are not just team riders but true agents of change spreading the knowledge and awareness of a better way of doing business and promoting the sport they love.
Eighteen of the world’s best snowboarder’s are settling into Baldface Lodge tonight, as the holding period for Red Bull Supernatural begins. On only one day between today and February 8th, the 18 will be the first riders to drop into Travis Rice’s dream snowboard run, competing to find out who is the best all-around snowboarder on the planet. Red Bull Supernatural is a first-of-its-kind, backcountry snowboard competition, challenging riders’ big mountain, freeride, slopestyle and big air talents all in one spectacular run.
Rider: Knut Eliason Photo: Oli Gagnon
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Woodward that snowboard camp that’s in a barn in Colorado is about to hit a deadline to save you some cash on getting your summer shred on. Now if you don’t know we will be sponsoring the adult session and probably wandering around throwing stickers at children that believe Brucey our intern is in fact [...]
The fourth recap from the first round of the Nike Chosen Crew Video Contest just dropped and it's filled with crews that have caught the attention of Nike's elite. Bobby Meeks returns this week from the SIA tradeshow in Denver, Colorado and breaks down the top three Noticed crews and top three crews that have earned honorable mentions.
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#CANO open finals tomorrow night under the canadian lights !
The second stop of the Superpass Series will be held this Sunday, February 5, at Mountain Creek, NJ. The best snowboarders from the Tri-State Area and beyond will battle it out for an invite to Superpark 16. If the first stop of Superpass Series at Mountain High was any indication, The level of riding should [...]
After his accomplishment last week during the Winter XGames on a board covered in white Crab Grab: Mark McMorris has been asked to join the Crab Grab pro team.
All that can be said about X-games this year is history has been made. Shaun White laid down probably the greatest pipe run of his life to date and solidified himself with a score of 100, something no one has ever been able to do at the X games level in the dude tube. The [...]
The third weekend of the Gatorade Free Flow Tour hit mountain resorts across the country with slopestyle events at Mount Bachelor and Okemo and a superpipe event at Killington Resort. From Oregon to Vermont, the competitors came out gunning for a win and hoping to secure their spot in the Finals, taking place in conjunction with the Winter Dew Tour Toyota Championships this February in Utah. Victories went to Ken
The final two spots for Red Bull Supernatural are now spoken for with Mark McMorris (CAN) and Sage Kotsenburg (USA) both accepting their wild card invites. These two future legends coming out of the freestyle world will join 16 other snowboarders who accepted invites to compete at Red Bull Supernatural, February 3rd through 8th at Baldface Lodge outside of Nelson, B.C., Canada. This first-of-its-kind backcountry snowboard competition, the brainchild of Travis Rice, will challenge, then crown the best all-around snowboarder on the planet.
t was a big week in Colorado for riders on Mervin Mfg’s Gnu and Lib Tech snowboards. Gnu rider Forest Bailey won his first X Games gold in his first X Games appearance by winning the street competition. The next day Jamie Anderson won her third X Games gold in slopestyle riding a Gnu Ladies Choice. Later that night at the TransWorld SNOWboarding Rider Polls, Lib Tech riders took home major honors with Jamie Lynn receiving the ‘Legend Award,’ Travis Rice winning ‘Men’s Rider of the Year,’ and Eric Jackson’s part in People’s “Good Look” winning ‘Men’s Video Part Of The Year.’
Mountain High is proud to announce two members of its newly formed professional snowboard team medaled in the Snowboard Street event at the 2012 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado. Ryan Paul took Silver with his impressive technical tricks including a 270 onto the Jersey Barrier to 450 out, a gap to 50-50 on the down-flat ledge to a backflip out, and a Cab 180 to 50-50 on the ledge to backside rodeo out. Nick Visconti held off some series competition to win the Bronze with his smooth style and hammer tricks including a hardway cab 3 on the down rail, a 270 onto the curved C-rail, and frontside 50-50 to 180 out on the massive cargo container feature.
Words: Pat Bridges Photos: Mike Yoshida
Though the results might appear somewhat predictable the culmination of the 2012 Winter X Games was a dramatic affair.. The pinnacle event at Winter X is always the mens halfpipe finals and the sixteenth iteration of this made for TV spectacle was no different.
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Mervin Manufacturing has cut their teeth in the industry as a brand that consistently looks at things differently. Whether it be their board shapes, graphics, and overall ideology of all things weird, their Boxes For Days events held across the country are no exception. Check the recap from the Copper Mountain stop.
Rider: Jake Devine Photographer: E-Stone
Day two of the show was a little rough around the edges but full of more appointments and products that everyone wants to touch and ride. Day three on the other hand was a full on freaking out running on empty rampage after we got banned for life from the Hard Rock for numerous social [...]
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