Donate for a cause

http://utahavalanchecenter.org/donate Avalanche's kill over 150 people each year, 90% are caused by the victim or a person in the victim's party.

Eco Friendly

In a world with nothing but polution, some companies have decieded that they should go green and make eco-friendly snowboard's. I may not know much about being economically friendly, but i do know snow needs to be cold, and with global warming. Help save the planet. Because if there's no snow, how do we snowboard?

This is a cool video of Eero Ettala's run at the 2011 X-Games. Eero Ettala won his first gold medal for his performance on this slope just as he said he would. Eero Ettala is a professional snowboarder from Finland and resides in Helsinki, Finland. He has been a participant in the X-Games and other games like these since 1994.   

Northstar DC team

This is a video from last year's DC team's trip to Northstar, The riders show off their awesome skills at Northstar, they mainly hit one feature which consists of a huge jump. a jump to section to jump, or a jump to gondola feature. Its a pretty sweet video and I recomend watching it

Sunday RIver

Sunday River has just started to make new snow, they have started blowing snow on some of their slopes and are getting ready for this upcoming season. Here is a picture above from 5 days ago, as well as a video from last year's season

Torstein Horgmo in your face

Just in case you don't know, In your face is a game that Torstein Horgmo, the guy who did the first triple cork, The rules are, rock paper scissors to see who goes first, then the person who wins calls a trick for the other person. They try the trick and so it's fair they have to land the trick if the other person did. You have 3 lives and if you lose all three lives you kneel down, and then the other person "splashes" you in the face. Which is carving right in front of them and sending snow in their face, it's really painful.

Safety

Snowboard is categorized as an action sport. Most action sports are dangerous, more dangerous than most sports involved on fields. Safety for snowboarding isn't considered as high a priority because most people think of snow as a soft fluffy surface. As we live in the North East, all mountains here are the opposite. During the day the top surface becomes softer from the sun, and then completely freezes over all the water that was formed if any. Around here everything is ice and that causes more broken wrists, concussions, ribs and so on. Basic rules in the park such as spot your landing, call your drop, and be aware of any obstacles (other people who shouldn't be in the park) and know your limits. I consider a helmet to be the most useful article of clothing you can wear, it has many times saved me from serious injury and possible my life. For example last year I hit a handrail and caught my edge on the kink and smashed my head against the stairs, it chipped my helmet but I walked away without injury. This year I also learned how to cork, which is an mix between a flip and a spin, I had fallen too many times in a row and decided to try going faster I over rotated, over-shot the landing and landed on my head, I had a concussion, cracked 2 ribs and was out for the rest of the season, about 2 weeks. Without my helmet I'm sure it would have been much worse than it was. I tell everyone that they shouldn't care if they think helmet's look stupid, everybody wears them and it's actually different if you don't wear a helmet.

Xgames

Shaun White is not as good as everbody thinks, he stopped being good when he deemed himself the man... Torstein Horgmo, is the man. He was the first to tripple cork and even did it in the x-games. Shaun white didn't even deserve to win Louie Vito deserved it. Shaun White wore a leather jacket... Who does that, what is this motorcycle riding. No, it's snowboarding, Get it right. That new guy Sebastian Toutant, he did pretty good 3 double cork on 3 hits. Pretty good but he let go of his grabs to early. Hallador Hallgason is rediculous but he needs to enter more competitions.

This coming winter

Winter is approaching and it's time to get your gear for next season, I would recomend gloomy to eastern border or zimmermans they are both in Nashua nh, by the pheasant lane mall and both have a wide selection of products. Zimmermans is better for ski's but they have a nice collection of clothing to wear but Easter boarder is all snowboarding so I'd check there first

Best brands

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Me and Andre like to kick back and hit the slopes.
We go hard on our 2010 Rome machines and just some ramdom brand thats not even special but his bindings are pretty special
We like to get off the chairlift, strap in to our other binding and then head down some slopes do some jumps, do some tricks, and have a good time. But in all seriousness.
Lets get down to business Burton stinks, all their stuff breaks because its made out of plastic that is designed to last a year and after that year it is usually chipped, cracked, or snapped in half like every pair of Burton binding I've ever owned. The upside of Burton is their flexibility so if you are a normal up and down the mountain kinda guy they will last but if you spend your time in the terrain park, they wont last very long. I believe the best binding to be Ride Binding because they tend to make their ankles a little lower than regular bindings making you have more control of your board, also their best feature is the fact that they are metal, they do not break as easily and i have never had a pair of them snap, chip or crack. In my opinion they have the same flexibility as Burton Binding because of the flex of the straps, but are much more sturdy.