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Two weeks ago Stubai Zoo presented the replica of the Billabong Air & Style kicker. German parkdesigners Schneestern made a great opportunity for riders to familiarize with the situation. Almost the same kicker and perfect weather conditions gave riders opportunity to start with even more self-confidence into the Billabong Air & Style.

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Horsefeathers Pleasure Jam! A Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour 4 Star Event! Event 2600m above the sea level! With 3000 visitors! Around hundred riders from more than 15 different countries! Great set up! Mindblowing tricks! Crazy parties! This and much more happened for the seventh time!!!

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Here it is! Our video from the 2009 Absolut Spring Battle! It was filmed and edited by the Pinard crew for SnowBroader.
It’s got it all! Check it out dooders!

When we published our ISPO post featuring our coverage of 2010 outerwear, we mentionned we’d focus on HOLDEN with a dedicated post and an interview with founder and owner: Mikey LeBlanc!
So here it is! No need to introduce Mikey, we all saw him do gnarly bomb drops in lots of videos
Mikey talks about all the exciting things around his brand: the new 2010 collection of course, which offers something different than the other brands in terms of cuts and look, but also the video project he is backing: Videograss.
Videograss will feature some of the most progressive riders out there with the support of some of the freshest brands like Ashbury, Airblaster, or Signal. Stay alert coz teasers should hit the net really really soon. Videograss will surely be a must see next September.
Enough words, click for our interview with Mikey!
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“Don’t miss the opportunity to talk to Jeremy Jones when it presents itself!”. I guess that’s what Mr. Burrows told Mr. Copsey…hence the extensive two part interview with Mr. Jones on Onboard TV!
Well I told myself the exact same thing and took advantage of the Happy Hour on the O’Neill booth to zip a couple of free Corona’s and meet up with Jeremy Jones! After this damn long interview with Onboard, Jeremy was still kind enough to give me 10 minutes that ended up being way over half an hour! It’s pretty sick to sit down with Jeremy Jones and just listen to him. So many words of wisdom…Seeing Jeremy at ISPO is funny tough. That’s definitively not the kind of environment where you’d expect to hook up with him; I was envisioning places like AK, Jackson Hall… But in fact he is super comfortable with it and takes the opportunity to share his opinion and deliver his messages. It’s the same with the internet. I wouldn’t expect Jeremy to spend much time online. But it’s completely the opposite: Jeremy is maybe one of the only big guns out there having a blog and actually really writing the stuff publiushed there! Also he truly understands the power of social media to make more people aware of what he is doing, what his organization POW wants to achieve, and why freeriding has to be looked up to!
So in our interview, Jeremy talks about his short term agenda which is the Big Mountain Pro, the development of his new Rossignol 2010 board, the ultimate freeride weapon - remember it’s ISPO -, and…that’s when my camera decided to go on strike like the Munich railway. So all the part about POW, and most importantly his film project DEEPER due to hit the screen in Fall 2010, are lost…and that’s when Onboard saves the day.

Stoked we met Mr. Jones. Huge respect! Now watch our video!

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Signal snowboards is THE brand getting the most positive vibes and buzz in the US. I heard that at the SIA in Vegas, their booth was the most crowded and visited. Signal is a young brand getting in it’s 6 year and growing steadily step by step, so much that in 2009/10 Signal will launch a sick outerwear collection created by Chris Miller.
Behind this success story is ex-Lib Tech  prorider Dave Lee. Now is the time for Signal to grow in Europe and we didn’t want to miss the opportunity to meet Dave at ISPO.
So here is our interview with the man! Dave comes back on how he went from employee at Mervin to prorider for Lib and now proud owner of a sick snowboard brand. He also presents the Signal 2010 snowboard line and outerwear that you should be able to find in European shops next fall!
Just seeing how stoked Dave is when he speaks about his products, shows the love and dedication that his crew and me are putting into into Signal!

Click for our video interview!

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As you know, the weather conditions during the Mondial du Snowboard, early November, were pretty fucked up, not allowing us to test all the boards that you had asked us to.
So to make up for it, we went around and hunted down some pros and reps to get a focus on some hot products from their product range.
First on the line is our Bro Tim Humphreys. Tim made a special 3 days trip to Europe to come in les 2 Alpes and take part in the contest that was supposed to be the highlight of the week-end. Sadly the contest couldn’t happen so Tim had lost of time to waste for interviews, autograph sessions and so on! We asked Tim to tell us more about the board and bindings he rides and why this set up was allowing him to push it and stomp the craziest tricks. So here is Tim talking about the FLOW ERA deck and FLITE bindings.
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On the pic: Travis, Mark Landvik and TITA’s director Curt Morgan celebrate!

We witnessed TRAVINSANITY. Superlatives are missing after you see That’s it, That’s all: biggER, bettER, slowER, fattER, powdER, helicoptER, …
I’m speechless, the movie is just mind blowing. It pushes the limits of snowboarding into new dimensions. The filming and photography is just soooo perfect shot after shot. The riding is wow: massive, technical, fluid and you get to see riding from legends like the Guch and Terje!
Sometime ago we interviewed Axel Pauporte about his movie Lines and he was stoked on how kids like Travis and Nico Mueller were bringing freestyle into the lines and really pushing the progression. TITA is that to the next level. TITA goes right next to Subject Haakonsen on my shelf. TITA is THE snowboard video of this decade. And Travis is a rock star so here he is for you:

With DC entering the board market this season, we wanted to know more about those decks and how they were really riding. So why not ask one of the team riders who helped design the boards? We met Torstein Horgmo this fall and had a couple of questions for him about DC, and his coming season. The 2007/08 Rookie sensation really turned in on last winter, tearing up the comp circuit and earning respect from riders the world over. Probably the highlight of his contest season was his gold medal at the 2008 Winter X Games XII, after first beating Travis Rice in the semifinals, and then Kevin Pearce in the final.
Torstein already started this new season with a high note and a win at the Burton Australian Open earlier in September.
Check out our words with the man!