As Swiss snowboarder Iouri Podladtchikov twisted, flipped and spun above the halfpipe at X Games Oslo last week on his way to a silver medal, the bottom of his board — one of the more valuable pieces of advertising real estate in the sport — displayed no corporate logo. Instead, it was adorned with an…
February 10, 2016 By TransWorld SNOWboarding 290Share 0Tweet 0 293Share Matt Biolos’ Mayhem Lost X Lib Snowboard Colabs Legendary surf shaper and avid snowboarder Matt Biolos brought a shaper’s unique, highly trained eye and perspective to snowboard design lines and curves with his vision of what a great snowboard should ride like. Check out this…
Its been almost 5 years since I last had the joy of riding a Never Summer Proto and all I can say is the 2016/2017 Type Two was even better than I could have ever imagined. Never Summer’s Type Two is the most lively, fun, surfy, poppy hippie loving snowboard I have ever ridden and…
Do you want to model a snowboard in SolidWorks? Do you only have 15 minutes to learn how to do it? Do you want to do it using the ‘Flex’ feature? Are you stumped when it comes to creating 3D text that follows a curved face? If so, then this could be the video for…
On the hunt for the best women’s ski & snowboard gear coming up in 2017 at the 2016 Snowsports Industries America’s on-snow demo days. Photo: Kersten Vasey Our team spent last week in Denver at the SIA Snow Show and at Copper Mountain for the On-Snow Demo checking out what’s coming up in 2017…
A group of eight friends who would eat, drink, and sleep about snowboarding decided that they’d love to make their own snowboards just for fun. This passion soon turned into a commercial venture and them to be able to do what they love to make a living. Team Eight Snowboards allows each and every customer…
Jeremy Jones presenting his updated and enlarged splitboard line for winter 2016-2017 at ISPO 2016. In detail he shows us the new features of the enhanced Solution, the new Storm Chaser Split and the refined Explorer.
Every year Jones Snowboards comes out with new tech that changes how their boards ride. Some of these features are spin offs from other brands, some are original designs, and still others are a combination of both. But with Jones, the new tech roll-outs are never gimmicky, and they actually affect how the board rides…
Holy bikinis, batman! On Saturday in Siberia, over 1800 snowboarders and skiers stripped down to their skivvies to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest downhill ride in swimsuits. Why? Because making it into the world record book is pretty darn awesome, and shredding in an itsy, bitsy, teeny, weenie, little bikini is…
Barrett Christy is one of the all-time legends of not just women’s snowboarding, but snowboarding. Period. Boasting a CV stacked with X Games wins, Riders’ Poll awards and Barrett Rolls, she helped blaze the trail for the likes of today’s female pros to follow. Currently Barrett is responsible for product design and marketing for the female-specific…