Hero Boarding With Torstein Horgmo from Camp of Champions on Vimeo.

Few things are more awesome than slow-motion. Maybe finding a freshly-painted rail that’s not a bust, or first chair on the biggest dump of the year come close, but slow mo and snowboarding are meant for each other like hippies and Oregon. The latest manifestation of this fascination comes at us from none other than DC Snowboard‘s Torstein Horgmo and Camp of Champions.

Filmed with a RED camera, one of the best on the market, this short little clip shows Torstein spinning his way through space at 300 frames per second. The beauty of this slow mo snowboarding of matched only by the primal practicality exuded by Torstein and his selection of a trademark outfit.

There’s a reason that he wears a sweatshirt inside a sweatshirt, and its not some crazy clause in his DC contract. The reason is because jackets make that super annoying swish, swish, swish sound when you move your arms. OK, not really, but that really bugs me. Two hoods weighs them down enough to keep them from popping up over your head while you spin, forcing the dreaded blind landing. As as added benefit, that toasty cotton is kind of like a little bit of padding, and losing the sleeves on one of them keeps your arms free to get your triple-cork on.

Grab yourself a pair of hoodies in your own favorite colorway at The House, we’ve got fresh arrivals every day in more styles and lower prices than anyone out there.

Airblaster’s Thank You, Baby. – Teaser / Cпасибо, Kрошка. – задира from Airblaster on Vimeo.

Facemask fanatics rejoice, Airblaster has another video for you this season, chronicling the exploits of Nick Dirks and Brandon Cocard in mother Russia. For most people, Russia just one slot above China on their list of places they’d want to vacation, but for boarders the red state makes perfect sense. I’m not an expert in international weather, but if I had to guess, I would assume that the entirety of the USSR is covered in at least ten feet of snow, year-round.

Thank You, Baby, is the result of a ten day trip, looks like the antithesis of the season’s big budget films like The Art of Flight, but in that fuzzy kind of way that takes you back to the roots of snowboarding in the way that skate crews used to put out tour videos. Not something that would impress the masses looking for quadruple backflips, but something that the core kids will get a kick out of.

Also included in the DVD is a trip to Baldface Lodge with the legendary laughster Travis Parker with Leanna Pelosi backing him up. Add that to skate footage from a summer with Nick Dirks and Jed Anderson and you’ve got a decent way to spend 30-40 minutes. Plus, the Airblaster videos always have a certain je ne sais quoi about them that makes you want to get out there and snowboard for no one but yourself.

Click the pic for the Retrospect trailer

Among the unexplained in this little world of ours is the lure of the underground. For some reason, underground anything is just plain better. Louis Logic is better than LMFAO, The Berrics is better than Transworld, and even a subway beats a bus— just because it’s underground.

Working this phenomenon to the fullest this season is the Videograss crew. Not only have they already dropped one full-length video, Shoot The Moon, but they’ve premiered a second one with staff stocked with some of snowboarding’s lesser-known shreds. Retrospect has been getting less love in the magazine ads, but we’ll give it some worthy real estate here for sure. Newcomers like Alex Andrews, Alex Cantin, Ben Bilocq, Ethan Deiss, Jake Kuzyk and Harrison Gordon, share the slippery slopes on-screen with filming favorites like Austin Smith, Curtis Ciszek and Bryan Fox for a video sure to get you itching for some snow on your streets.

Judging by the trailer, there’s some guys carving up the backcountry just as well as the kids killing the frontcountry, and they’re doing it right. Gap 270 pull-backs and three- on, three-offs team up with the steep and deep so well that we can’t even decide which Videograss movie is better.

Both Shoot The Moon and Retrospect are out now from KidsKnow Distribution, and the latter comes with this super cool 8mm video called The Rascals, created by Bryan Fox and Scotty Wittlake. Keep checking back to The House for updates about premieres coming to your town.

The video editing software at Brain Farm is in high gear this week, while the entire world of snowboarding waits with anticipation rivaling Michael Jackson outside a Justin Bieber concert. Their newest teaser is spine-tingling, and the big premiere of what will undoubtedly be video of the year is less than a month away.

The final teaser rocks out on the heavy-metal side and hints at some hair-raising avalanches, crashes, and of course, banger, after banger, after banger. Also on the newswire from Red Bull Media House is the premiere schedule. You can buy tickets to the big-time world premiere in New York City, or exercise some patience and catch it on the tour when it comes to your town.

The world premiere is September 7 at the Beacon Theatre in Manhattan, and from there the tour goes to the west coast to hit all the big cities as well as the mountain towns. One date we’re circling on our calendar is September 24, when The Art of Flight debuts in Travis Rice’s hometown of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Tickets at the Beacon are moderately priced at $28, but grab them soon because this is going to be the event of the preseason and you’re likely to run into all sorts of big names while you’re there. Tickets are available for most of the following stops now too, with complete availability just around the corner.

The Art of Flight features the riding of Travis Rice, Nico Muller, Mark Landvik, Jake Blauvelt, Pat Moore, DCP, Scotty Lago, Eero Niemela and John Jackson, and is brought to you by Red Bull and Quiksilver.