Now we know what you’re thinking. Flux has been around for twenty years? Or maybe even, Flux makes bindings? But apparently they have and they do, and are obviously excited to present the new line:
20 years of history and perspective has allowed us to create
the best fitting and lightest weight snowboard bindings to ever hit the snow.
Flux has introduced exclusive and extreme highbacks, a renewed baseplate design,
updated straps, and several other features to make these the lightest and most form fitting design in 20 years.
to see all that Flux has to offer for 2012-2013.
We have released a unique product video for each model
explaining the tech and specs that make each binding the best in 20 years.
Erik & Bjorn Leines want to send you to High Cascade Snowboard Camp for the session of a lifetime.
CELTEK (Founded by Pro Snowboarders Erik & Bjorn Leines) and HCSC have had a long-standing partnership that goes back many years. Erik and Bjorn started going to snowboard camp at the ages of 11 and 13. Some of the most amazing times were had while snowboarding up at Mt. Hood, OR. Being able to snowboard in the summer is an amazing experience with temperatures reaching up to 70°.
CELTEK has put together a Facebook contest that gives one lucky winner a free session to HCSC. This will be your chance to ride with CELTEK team riders who spend a good amount of their summer shredding at High Cascade including: Chris Grenier, Dan Brisse, Ted Borland, Sam Taxwood, Griffin Seibert, Brandon Hobush & more. You may enter by submitting a photo of yourself wearing any pair of CELTEK gloves. Visit http://www.facebook.com/celtekclan for more information and to enter for your chance to win.
High Cascade Snowboard Camp is the perfect way to escape your summer boredom. Don’t be a slacker and do what you normally do…Facebook and enter this amazing contest.
Oh hey look, it’s the video from the first day of Superpark at Mt. Bachelor. If you can make it through the ridiculously pointless interviews, there are some serious maneuvers going down, duh. Thanks for letting us embed this video, Snowboarder Magazine. You guys are the bees knees.
Erik Botner takes one run at the Northstar Park for Nitro’s “One Run” contest.
ONE RUN x HYPED! x Nitro
The idea of a ONE RUN is to capture the everyday riding of people, what and where they normally ride, how they like to ride, and a way for people to showcase their own creativity and riding style. It is also always fun to watch how people snowboard when they snowboard just to snowboard.
Nitro is creating an on-line contest called ONE RUN in collaboration with their up coming film; Hyped! The idea is to get people (you) to go out and capture your favorite type of snowboarding, through your favorite part of the park, top to bottom run, or anything else. Be it a run through rails in the streets, park jumps, powder-runs, bombing hills, pipe runs or whatever. The important thing is that this type of riding is what makes you want to snowboard. We have gotten all of our guys to go out and film a ONE RUN of their favorite type of boarding. These videos will be released once every week.
We encourage kids to go out and film their own ONE RUN, and submit it for a chance to get there run in our upcoming movie Hyped! along with other prizes. The idea is to show how diverse everyone´s riding is. No one snowboards the same and that is what makes snowboarding so special!
Our team of riders (Eero Ettala, Jon Kooley, Austin Smith, Bryan Fox, Justin Bennee, Markus Keller, Gjermund Braaten, etc) will pick out the top three runs they think are the most inspiring, creative and showcase the persons true passion for snowboarding.
1st place will have a quest appearance in the Nitro Hyped! video + Nitro Limited edition HYPED! Snowboard + Hyped! gear
2nd place will win a free Nitro snowboard + Hyped! gear
3rd place will win a free pair of Raiden bindings + Hyped! gear
The Audience Award: The ONE RUN video on our Facebook page (facebook.com/nitrosnbrds) with the most comments and likes will win a Nitro Snowboard signed by our Team Riders.
We will release more ONE RUN contest information next week, but for now, just go out and film your own ONE RUN. Make sure it is in a high quality format. And remember to have a good time while doing it. That is what it is all about!
Nitro One Run Competition Directions:
1. Get someone to film you or film yourself doing a One Run
High Quality videos are best
2. Upload the video to your computer and editing program (iMovie,etc…)
a. Shorten the video from when you want it to start and end
3. Export and save the video to your computer
4. Upload the video to Youtube.com or Vimeo.com (titled: Nitro Snowboards – ONE RUN Contest – Your Name)
5. Post the video to Nitro snowboards Facebook page. (facebook.com/nitrosnbrds)
6. Get your friends to comment on your video on the Nitro Facebook Page (for the most comments award), and spread the link to show your friends how much fun you have while snowboarding.
By now your facebook feed has been flooded with the news that Beastie Boys MCA Adam Yauch has passed away after a battle with cancer. The Beastie Boys are fucking awesome, and so here’s a little tribute: some shred footage of MCA in Valdez, AK. Rest in peace, you’ll always be a badass.
Nate Wessel walks us through the design of the pump track, foam pit and resi jumps. At the Woodward Tahoe Bunker you can ride a snowboard with wheels on the bottom! It’s just like skateboarding! But isn’t. Also, Woodward grand opening party is Saturday, June 9. Get there!
WOODWARD TAHOE GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION SET FOR SATURDAY, JUNE 9 AT BOREAL MOUNTAIN RESORT
Top Pro Athletes from Skateboarding, BMX, Snowboarding and Freeskiing to Kick Off New Action Sports, Digital Media & Cheer Camp
Boreal Terrain Park Opens for a Summer Shred Day!
Lake Tahoe, Calif. (May 2, 2012)—Woodward Tahoe, located at Boreal Mountain Resort, will host a grand opening celebration on Saturday, June 9 for professional and amateur athletes to skate and ride the newest action sports training facility on the west coast. Top athletes stopping by to check out the massive new compound will include freeskier Tanner Hall, BMX rider Ryan Nyquist skateboarder Curren Caples and snowboarder Chas Guldemond, who will be part of the pro demos, open skate sessions, events, music and more. Adding to the day’s fun, the Boreal Mountain Resort terrain park will also spin one chairlift for a Summer Shred Day for snowboarders and skiers.
Woodward Tahoe is the newest addition to the internationally acclaimed Camp Woodward training facilities & youth camps, which have provided training grounds and inspiration for generations of action sports and Olympic athletes throughout the U.S. and abroad. Perched atop Donner Summit at Boreal Mountain Resort, steps from the main chairlift, Woodward Tahoe will offer skate, BMX, cheer, dryland skiing & snowboarding campers the opportunity to train indoors in a brand new 33,000 square foot facility, and allow ski and snowboard campers to train on real snow. The campus was built with the collective input from campers, visiting pro athletes and Woodward instructors and designers with 42 years of experience building the world’s leading action sports and gymnastics camps.
Woodward Tahoe will also introduce west coast campers to the highly popular Woodward Digital Media Lab and Video Production Camp programs, which teach student filmmakers and photographers to produce, film and edit their own action sports videos and photos right on campus with the latest state-of-the-art production and editing equipment.
Highlights of Woodward Tahoe
● THE BUNKER. This year-round indoor training facility is another amazing creation from renowned skatepark builder Nate Wessel. A virtual playground of banked walls, step-ups and transfers, designed for campers to focus on dryland ski/ride training, skateboarding, BMX and cheer.
● SEVEN trampolines designed to develop and train aerial awareness in multiple sports.
● THE LAUNCH PAD. A marquee feature of The Bunker designed with three drop-in levels and three different takeoffs and landings into both foam and resi pits.
● THE SUPER TRAMP. An amazing training device with incredible bounce.
● BagJump®, considered the most state-of-the-art action sports training device in the world. The enormous 50’x50’ cushion for landing is designed to eliminate the “trampoline effect,” absorbing impacts with maximum softness for on-snow progression training.
● Other indoor features include an Indoor Street/Tranny Skatepark, Mini-Mini Ramp, Foam Pits, Spring Floor, Bouldering Wall, Tumbling Track, Double-Mini Tramp and Parkour Zone.
● A lift-accessed private terrain park with a 22ft. Superpipe, jumpline and multiple jibs.
Woodard Tahoe, an American Camp Association member, offers summer and winter camp facilities open to boys & girls, kids & teens, ages 7-20 for full week-long camp sessions or individual instruction drop-in sessions. Woodward Tahoe will also be home to many professional athletes who visit the facility to train or to lead instructional programs for students. Once the summer camp season comes to an end, The Bunker will open to the public for daily drop-in sessions.
The Woodward Tahoe Grand Opening event, located atop Donner Summit just off Interstate 80, is free and open to the public from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. The Boreal Mountain Resort terrain park Summer Shred Day will be open for a $25 day rate, or free to those who purchase 2012-13 season lift passes from 9:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m.
For more information on grand opening events and activities, and to register for regular camp programs this Summer, please go to Woodward Tahoe.
About Camp Woodward
Founded in 1970 in rural central Pennsylvania, Camp Woodward facilities host thousands of aspiring and professional action sports, gymnastics and cheer athletes from around the world, including current and future Olympians. The company recently expanded its properties to include training facilities for surfing, snowboarding and skiing, including Woodward Tahoe and Woodward at Copper Mountain, Colorado; summer camps at Woodward West in Southern California; and Woodward Beijing outside of Beijing, China. For more information on Camp Woodward, please visit Camp Woodward
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Our homies over at Ice Coast Board Shop are having a little fundraiser to help keep the shop rolling through the off season. Hook them up with some cash and you’ll some pretty cool stuff including tees, crews and prints. Watch the video, look into Sean’s eyes and ask yourself, can you really say no to him? Didn’t think so.
We know, we all get in the rut of making the same summer plans and hanging out in the same old haunts. But we know you secretly want to mix it up and have the best summer yet! Come to Woodward at Copper and learn new tricks that you can take home to your local shred spot. I mean what’s better than spending your summer sessioning a 19,000 sq. ft. indoor playground dedicated to the shred, 2 summer on-snow Terrain Parks, skate road trips all over ColoRADo, and everyone’s favorite 75’ Slip N Slide?
So get off that couch and come snowboard with your favorite pro shreds this summer. Don’t miss out on one of the few places where you can get a tan, while stomping new tricks on snow! Check out the new edit from last summer and see how much fun everyone had.
Sign up for Summer Camp by Friday and save some serious dough! Call 888-350-1544 for more details or click here for more info
If you are down don’t forget to “like” us on Facebook, and tell us which jibs you want to see in the Summer Terrain Park.
So stop calling them hipsters, huh? They’re highly sophisticated fashionistas now.
Holden Outerwear announces the company’s relocation to Los Angeles, CA –Scheduled to open in early July 2012, the move represents a significant commitment to the brand’s long-term strategy of extending Holden from Summit to Sea with a four-season offering.
Known in the industry as a market leader for apparel with progressive aesthetics, timeless quality and eco-friendlier options, Holden’s four-season offerings will debut in Spring 2014.
Holden was conceived with a singular goal: To make the most functional and fashionable apparel possible, allowing consumers to be healthy and happy in their pursuit of a life well led. CEO Ben Pruess said, “Holden represents a set of products, values and ideas not fixed by a location. We are a reflection of the global community that inspires us. This move is part of our quest to extend our product offering, allowing more people to enjoy what we make.”
Rooted in mountain culture, Holden’s commitment to snow sports and its Northwest heritage will remain intact and continue to be an intrinsic part of the Holden ethos. Winter products will still be conceived, tested, and designed in the conditions they are built for by Holden’s talented group of team riders, including Scotty Wittlake and Darrell Mathes, and its passionate employees, including co-founders Scott Zergebel (creative director) and Mikey LeBlanc (marketing director). “Having spent the past ten years in Portland making the best snow products, this move is an exciting way to extend the Holden experience outside of our focus on the winter lifestyle and into year-round goods. LA is going to be about new energy, new products and new friendships.” says Holden co-founder Mikey LeBlanc.
Holden’s new address will be:
HOLDEN
1300 Factory Place, Suite 305
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Academy Snowboards’ 6th annual Camp Academy rocked Boreal’s closing weekend this April!! With over 70 campers, coaches, and Academy Snowboards’ team riders coming out to throw down, the weekend was dominated by smiles, slams, slush, and sunshine!!
Some of the highlights from the weekend included Jonas Michilot’s personal powder kicker he built for his campers to chuck backflips off (who had originally showed up to work on their indy grabs)! A couple campers who came out to learn to ride for the very first time were shocked to be thrashing boxes and rails by the end of the weekend. And, Jordan Michilot continued to stoke his campers all weekend and gave them tips on proper boarding style, grab technique, and hair fashion! The weekend also included a live performance by Reggae Artist J-Ras, a sneak-peak tour of the Woodward at Tahoe Bunker, and a camper contest that drew the attention of the entire resort!
A big THANKS goes out to Skullcandy, Capix, Nixon, Arnette, GoPro, 686, Vans, Neff, Airblaster, Snowboarder Magazine, Dakine, EFX, Yobeat, Superfeet, Flux, Clif Bar, Popchips, and Vitamin Water for sponsoring this year’s festivities! Also thanks to all the campers, parents, Boreal staff, and friends that helped make this year’s camp the best to date!!
To read more and see a full photo gallery from the weekend, visit Academy Snowboards’ Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/AcademySnowboards
If you’ve been dying to see the view from Travis Rice’s helmet as he won his own contest, your wait is FINALLY over. Prepare for a heart pumping adrenaline ride down the side of Baldface! We swear it only looks sort of like every other one of these videos Contour has been releasing.
The latest installment of Nitro’s Hyped hype up series one run features Markus Kelveland. If you’ve never heard of him, you’re not alone, but considering he’s 13, we’re thinking that’ll change soon. For now, get jealous/threatened by his skills and then submit your own run at https://www.facebook.com/NitroUSA
Believe it or not, even PRO women snowboarders don’t always land on their feet. Watch as the ladies of PS pay some dues and get some snow in their goggles.
Buenos días! Agarra tu snowboard y tengamos una fiesta de “Mucho Powder” con Evolve Chile para libre! Use your Spanish Translator and come to Evolve Chile with me!
Espero verte este verano en Las Montañas de Andes!
