Ever wonder who takes all those amazing photos you see on the covers of your favorite snowboard magazines? There are a handful of great photographers out there, but there are three that really stick out in my mind, Dean Blotto Gray, Jeff Curtes, and Embry Rucker. All great photographers, all with stories to tell in a non traditional way. If your looking for some insight to what kind of gear they use, check out the My Gear Section of Blotto Photto. Mr Blotto himself gives you plenty of what you need to capture some shots yourself. If your wondering where Burton got the colorway Blotto Grey this year, well now you know.
If you haven’t seen this then you’re seriously missing out. We all have seen the amazing Gymkhana videos, well Mr. Ken Block takes it one step further by attaching the Trax system to his Subaru STI. This video is just a teaser, so keep your eyes open for the full video to come at a later time.
This is when snowboarding gets fun and creative. I wonder if they’re going to jib turkeys and Christmas trees for the next few holidays… haha, keep it real boys!
Pretty much everybody knows the insanely amazing Finny Antti Autti. But what has he been up to lately you might ask? Well, aside from launching a new line of boards (Antti for NDK), leaving Flow, starting up his own website (Anttisworld.com), taking his career in a new direction by getting out of competing, testing his new line in about 2 meters of fresh pow in Austria, and mmmmmm well, still rocking life traveling all over the world, not a whole lot.
Yeah Antti’s life is pretty amazing, but the good news is now we can watch all the killer parts of his life as they happen. That’s basically the point of Anttisworld, his new site, which is going to be launching in just a few days. Transworld business got an interview with Antti where he lays it all down, but basically he wants to utilize his site to market his line of snowboards with Nidecker and more importantly he wants to be able to show us what is happening this season now so we won’t have to wait till next year for it to come out in a video.
In my opinion this is the future of the snowboard industry. His snowboard line is starting off with two main boards, a powder board and a park board, and they aren’t doing any more till they get those ones perfected. And he’s keeping us posted on a current and as-it-happens stream line. Atta boy Antti Autti. This kid just keeps getting ‘em right. Keep your eyes pealed, some are already at it, but I bet you anything more riders are going to start doing this…
Well Loui gave it a good run but the fat lady sang her piece. Yup, double elimination this week and Loui and Chelsie got the boot. All’s well any ways I guess, the kid already far exceeded everybody’s expectations, you can’t really ask for much more than that. And for being the first snowboarder to be on Dancing With The Stars, you gotta give him props. That takes some serious balls to stand up against the opposition and haters like that.
And for the most part there was a lot more love than I was expecting to see. Everybody really got behind him and wished him luck, rather than saying what everyone was expecting the comments to say. I’m so proud of him! He gave the snowboard world a face to the older generations that normally would only see a rather bleak outlook on us. Loui has helped snowboarding take a ginormous step forward in gaining respect from the outsiders.
So I’m sure you have heard by now that Shaun White got his very own halfpipe built for him by Red Bull last season. Yeah, this pipe was sick and incredible and built purely out of natural avalanche snow, and they documented the whole thing so you could see at http://shaunwhite.com/projectx. I suppose when you’re the best at what you do things like that just kinda happen for ya.
Supposedly they are saying that Shaun was able to throw down some pretty sick stuff out there. He spent 34 hours spread over two months in this pipe working on new tricks that no body has ever done before. They said he put together a run that included a Frontside 720, Cab Double Cork, Frontside Double Cork and a Cab 1080. They aren’t telling us a whole lot about any other tricks he was working on, but they are going to shed a little light on November 3rd. So be sure to swing by the site to see what the ‘Flying Tomato’(stupidest nickname ever) has in store for us.
Loui Vito + Argentine Dance = Hotness. I really don’t know that much more can be said about this dance you just have to see for your selves. But one thing is for sure, Loui and Chelsie turned the sex ‘o meter over to fullon. Wow.
Last week there was no doubt that our votes saved him from going home. Well maybe, but his dance really kinda blew. So keep voting! Just think if he had gone home with out your help last week we never would have gotten to see this spiceaaaay little number…
It’s so impressive how snowboarding gets brought to a new amazing level every year. Athletes are double corking their brains out all over the place, off hits that would make the average person crap their pants a little just looking at it, and street rails are at a place where people watching just have to say, “how would you ever think you could actually hit that and live?” Next thing you know we’re going to be seeing 2160′s.
So how, you might ask, did Jeremy Jones manage to up the anti yet again? Well, aside from showing us how to ride one footed with a swively binding, he is now bringing us Deeper. This video is a two year project in partnership with Teton Gravity Research, and will be show casing outstanding big mountain riders such as Jonaven Moore, Travis Rice and Xavier De Le Rue. What is going to make this video so epic is they left behind the limitations of sleds and hellis and they will be hiking everything they want to hit, cameramen included. They have already camped out in Alaska for 27 days and I can’t wait to see what they will have coming next. Keep up on the full story at Teton Gravity Research.
Posted by kater on October 13, 2009
in Snowboarding
It tends to happen that there are a lot of artists among snowboarders, it just kinda falls in with our personality genre. Peter Line being a great example of this with his weird and some times questionable drawings. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about check out
One lucky customer will win a K2 Darkstar snowboard, autographed by pro rider Shaun McKay. Any orders that include K2 products placed between October 12th and November 6th are automatically entered to win.
The K2 Darkstar is a freestyle dream. Refined for the rider ripping in the park, hitting natural kickers and taking tree runs all in a days ride, the Darkstar’s twin tip design and medium flex defines true freestyle versatility. Hyper progressive sidecut and centered stance offer precise response and easy maneuverability while the Hybritaper tip and tail reduce swing weight and has the stability to power through any landing. It has a retail price of $399.95.
Loui Vito and his partner Chelsie Hightower sexed things up a little bit on Monday with their Rumba. Now before rumors start flying, its the nature of the dance. But the judges told them they had great chemistry and they pulled off the dance wonderfully. Oh, and by the way, I had no idea Loui had such a manly chest… who knew the things you could hide under a tall T.
Every year Transworld Snowboarding and Snowboarder Magazine put hundreds of snowboards through the ringer to see which will prove to be the top tested boards for the year. This year over 400 boards were extensively tested in variety of categories, and from different price points. Brands like Burton, Capita, DC, Forum, Gnu, K2, Lib Tech, Nitro, Rome and others proved their dominance with multiple winners throughout the spectrum of categories and price points. You can be sure that if it’s on the list, it will do you right.
Last Saturday was the premiere of this years Forum team video, Forum Forever, While we were walking in we ran into no other than Stepchild and Thirty Two Team rider Joe Sexton. Joe was nice enough to talk with us and give us the up and up of his upcoming season.
