I love snowboarding, and I love riding in Canada (British Columbia to be precise). Sadly that means I have to fly across the Atlantic which is never a particularly great experience (although I did see the northern lights once which was cool). But if we’re honest flying isn’t a great way to travel: Airports, air conditioning, endless security, upright seats, sitting still for hours, bland food etc etc all conspire against us.
All this, and more, are summed up perfectly in this hilarious illustrated account of a trans-atlantic flight: http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/red-eye/ … Read more
Here’s the latest update from our NZ instructor course NONSTOPers. It’s Alice and Sophia turn to write the diary this week, and it seems that they’ve had a week packed with technique development, teaching and rugby games. Enjoy… … Read more
Inspired by a post on Whitelines.com this week, we thought we’d rack our brains for the developments in snowboarding that… well… are less likely to become a global phenomenon. The following might not have the impact on the industry that triple base technology and reverse camber have had (which did seem a little wacky to start with), but they all deserve 10 out of 10 for insanity: … Read more
It’s not just pow, pow and more pow in New Zealand at the moment, although the videos below show that it’s been a week of epic freeskiing. Andrew has provided the written blog this week, so read on below… but to get you started, here’s a little something to get you jealous: … Read more
Here’s a continuation of the week two diary from the famous “Aspen Boy”. Unfortunately no more photos at this stage, but the powder-filled video from Porters is definitely worth embedding again…
After an in-weekend, we were all itching to go skiing again and see whether our skis had survived our first attempt at tuning them. Monday saw us each receive hour-long private lessons from our magnificent teacher, Jase. We all felt our skiing come along leaps and bounds, and we also had a chance to rip up the slopes of Porters. … Read more
Rupert | August 19th, 2010
