tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27075045877240110292024-03-05T16:23:18.570-08:00illicit snowboardingCONFORMING TO THE NON-CONFORMIST SNOWBOARDING STEREOTYPE SINCE 1896illicit snowboardinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14364307652380301821noreply@blogger.comBlogger225125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707504587724011029.post-82561523932054529122015-11-11T07:52:00.003-08:002015-11-11T07:52:42.610-08:00That's it, That's all Folks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You might have noticed that things have got more than just a little sporadic round here. I'm out. Here's why...<br />
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Seven years ago I decided to see what would happen if I switched off my television set and did something less boring instead<i> [80's British children's TV reference alert]</i>. I figured I'd use the time I saved and try my hand at being a bloggist.<br />
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There's a ton of amazing things happening around the world of snowboarding (and the bonkers world of t'interweb) that isn't usually covered by the standard snowboard press, and seeing as no one else was unearthing it, I figured I'd just have to do it myself.<br />
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A long time later, after a whole lot of writing, trouble making and colouring-in, things have reached some sort of natural conclusion here. I've enjoyed it all, learned a whole lot, met some great people and discovered some really strange things about snowboarding, before I accidentally dealt the killer blow to Whitelines Magazine...<br />
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That was the first spread I wrote for Whitelines last season, and what turned out to be the final season of the print version of the mag itself. My bad.<br />
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And now, because I've clearly reached freaky witchcraft levels of blogging power, I have to stop immediately for everyone's safety.<br />
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OK, truth be told, getting into print was one of the ambitions I had for this little sideline and last season in Whitelines pretty much scratched that little itch. I never had an ambition to turn the blog into a business, or end up working in the medja (I've got a very nice job outside all this), it was all just for shits and giggles (and the occasional free holiday) and after covering all manner of things it's time to bow out before this becomes repetitive and formulaic.<br />
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I'll now be using that extra no-TV time to work on a few other projects. If anyone wants a veritable shit-ton of unfulfilled content ideas, let me know. Feel free to steal any of the ideas I had on this blog and adapt them as your own. If there's anything I can help with give me a shout. I'll leave the blog live because it's on Blogger, costs me nowt, and I like to laugh at my own weak puns.<br />
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P.S My one regret is that RuRoc never followed-through with producing this snowboard I kindly designed for them last season during one of our annual Internet discussions/fights which they promised to make. </div>
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We've been collecting snowboarding celebrity sightings for over seven years and occasionally producing the odd top 10 article, but today we've gone all in and thrown all 141 confirmed snowboarding celebrity sightings into one mega infographic. Welcome to what must be the most overly-researched entirely-vapid snowboarding post of all time....<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Biggest celebrity, celebrity snowboarder - Justin Beiber</span></b><br />
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Lets start with the bad news: the world's most famous snowboarder (and coincidentally the worlds biggest douche) is the Beiber.<br />
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He's a very average snowboarder (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6nyZ6S4jE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here's a clip of him attempting some sorry looking ollies</a>) and his most significant snowboarding contribution was that time <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2542881/Justin-Bieber-enjoys-white-stuff-hits-slopes-Aspen-snowboarding-childhood-friend.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">he pissed his initials in the snow in Aspen</a>...</div>
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At the other end of the scale and racking up a paltry 166 views on his Wikipedia page, is Kevin Bentley. He's a former NFL linebacker who had a ten year career playing for Cleveland, Seattle, and Houston.<br />
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He's a very good snowboarder. Towards the end of his career he qualified as a snowboarding instructor and <a href="http://blog.vail.com/get-to-know-kevin-bentley/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">he's been plying his trade in Vail for the past 6 years</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Most surprising source of good at snowboarding celebrity snowboarders - American Footballers</span></b><br />
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These guys seem to have a lot of spare time to try out other dangerous sports. The latest news is that Troy Polamalu, who just retired after 12 years playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers and starring in Head & Shoulders commercials, <a href="http://pit.247sports.com/Bolt/Troy-Polamalu-the-snowboarder-36789092" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fancies his chances of being a professional snowboarder</a>.<br />
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He'll be most remembered for his impressive Diana Ross impersonation.</div>
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I'm excited that we're drafting this new volume of hair into snowboarding. It's something we've been sorely missing since Shaun White was shorn.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Best at snowboarding, celebrity snowboarder - Lisa Miskovsky</span></b><br />
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The cover of her most recent album is an impressively stereotypical Swedish photo. Umeå must be the name of the sofa range.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Best fake celebrity snowboarder videos - Steve Nash & Ricky Tomlinson</span></b><br />
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Basketballer Steve Nash showcases some dubious snowboard skills and his team mates showcase and impressive array of dubious acting skills...<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sweariest celebrity snowboarder - John Kerry</span></b><br />
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That time when current US Secretary of State and then Presidential contender John Kerry called a Secret Service agent a "<a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/cussword.asp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">son of a bitch</a>".<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Record fine for celebrity snowboarding - Vladimir Radmanovic</span></b><br />
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When he played for the LA Lakers in 2007, basketballer Vladimir Radmanovic was <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2784898" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fined $500,000</a> for separating his shoulder when he tried snowboarding. That's a record NBA fine.<br />
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As well as a shared enthusiasm for leather shorts and coach tours, the people of Germany, Austria and Switzerland also love amassing collections of autographed celebrity photo cards. That's been a great opportunity for the region's little-known slalom snowboarders to raise their profiles by banging out a daft photo pose and scrawl all over them. This week we take a look at the best examples of this regionally specific bit of snowboard culture...<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">5. Just seconds after this picture was taken, Emilie Aubry horrifically crashed into herself</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">4. Philipp Schoch loves his snowboard, a bit too much</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">3. Talking about loving too much...<span style="text-align: center;">Markus Schairer paints his walls with spunk</span></span></b></div>
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In the early 90's Ken Block (him of the spinny cars) and Damon Way, decided to use the shotgun approach to entrepreneurism and start-up every company. Within a few years they'd created Eightball clothing, Type A Snowboards, Droors clothing (which later became DC Shoes) and Blunt Magazine. Blunt ran from 1993 until 1998, when it was closed by the then owners Larry Flynn Publications (him of the porn), because it was a little too edgy for them. We've managed to get hold of the first edition to take a look at why this mag is so fondly remembered in the misty water-coloured memories of a generation of snowboarders...</div>
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Like everything, Blunt developed over time with more ideas getting crammed into each edition, and snowboard photography replacing the "video capture" style that dominated the first edition. Here's a man called Onion looking through a later edition...<br />
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Mr Onion is pretty sad that there's no snowboard magazine like this today and that he can no longer send letters to them demanding upskirt shots of their employee's. But I don't think he needs to pine much though, because what once was only available in Blunt Magazine is now available in overwhelming doses. What was a memorable occasional novelty to snowboarders of the 90s is now the daily reality of the world wide web and this type of content exploded at roughly the time that Blunt closed it's doors. The only real difference is that it's now rare to see misogyny and porn mixed in with the snowboarding content, but them all that's always just a short bookmark away if it floats your boat.</div>
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Skiers dressed in damp, crotch-splitting animal onesies has been one of this seasons most notable clothing trends, but it's possible to put a lot more effort in. These days there's a group people who take dressing-up and not growing-up to another level entirely and now some of them have brought cosplaying to snowboarding. I'm an expert on pretending to be someone else, so let me guide you through the various characters and costumes...<br />
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This season I've been doing some colouring-in to help fill the pages of Whitelines magazine, so for the first time this stuff is being looked over by the terrified eyes of some professional editors. It's been a interesting process and at times things have become very heated as it did with my latest spread. Today I'm going to reveal all and show you what really happens behind the Wizard's curtain...<br />
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<i>From: Duthie</i><br />
<i>Sent: Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:01</i><br />
<i>To: Illicit Snowboarding; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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Happy New Year Illicit, hope you had a good one.<br />
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How's the piece for the next issue looking?<br />
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Cheers,<br />
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<i>[Whitelines Deputy Editor]</i><br />
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<i>From: Illicit Snowboarding</i><br />
<i>Sent: Sat, 3 January 2015 at 13:19</i><br />
<i>To: Duthie; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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See what you make of this. No mega LOLs this time, but I thought it was an interesting thing to graphic up.<br />
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Illicit<br />
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<i>From: Ed Blomfield</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:24</i><br />
<i>To: Illicit Snowboarding; Duthie; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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Hey Illicit,<br />
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This is ace - just noticed that the price for the helmet is different in the pic and in your closing text.<br />
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Some smart arses might look at the lack of board in the first section and think "how can you ride without a snowboard?" Obviously, you mean they could rent, but could be worth adding rental cost in there somewhere, or (to counter the first issue at the same time) give the sections different names e.g. "The Rent Boy", "The Keano", "The Excess Baggage"<br />
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Thoughts Tim?<br />
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Ed<br />
<i>[Whitelines Editor] (As if a man called Ed was going to have any other job)</i><br />
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<i>From: Tim Whitlock </i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:43</i><br />
<i>To: Illicit Snowboarding; Ed Blomfield; Duthie</i><br />
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I don't care about the words, it's just nice to look at.<br />
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Tim<br />
<i>[Whitelines Art Director]</i><br />
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<i>From: Illicit Snowboarding</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, 6 January 2015 at 12:48</i><br />
<i>To: Duthie; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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Good feedback. I felt it has the same problems, but I was too arted out by the time I got to the wording to find a good solution. Liked your naming idea. Does this scan better?<br />
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I've fixed the helmet pricing too.<br />
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<i>From: Ed Blomfield</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 16:22</i><br />
<i>To: Illicit Snowboarding; Duthie; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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I'm glad you put "a bit more final" for the filename cos I just clocked something else. :)<br />
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As it stands you've suggested the keen shredder buys an extra 2 thermal tops (total 3) and 5 socks (total 6). Maybe we're skanky here at WL but even though we get lots of stuff free none of us take more than 2 sets of thermals and 3 pairs of socks on a strict rotation. Could you reduce these down accordingly?<br />
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<i>From: Illicit Snowboarding</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, 6 January 2015 at 16:45</i><br />
<i>To: Duthie; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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I would have to redo all the maths, which means we really have to be sure for me to go to the trouble of making that change.<br />
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I see your 3 socks and I raise you Christmas presents. Surely everyone has at least 6 pairs of socks and extra thermal tops due to Christmas presents?<br />
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Aside from that though, why don't you take more socks? They take up next to no space and it sounds like you have plenty of spare pairs lying around. You're strange sock rationing cult at Whitelines sounds a bit weird to me.<br />
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I used to share a room with a lad that would rotate a single pair of socks on a permanent basis… We don't talk any more.<br />
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<i>From: Duthie</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 16:52</i><br />
<i>To: Illicit Snowboarding; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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Ah but if they're Christmas presents, then surely it doesn't matter how much they cost? No-one's gonna buy more than 3 pairs are they?<br />
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<i>From: Illicit Snowboarding</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, 6 January 2015 at 16:57</i><br />
<i>To: Duthie; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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You still pay for them. It feels like you’re buying a scarf for your mum, but you're really just over-paying for some crappy ski socks. I should probably be putting the prices up if anything.<br />
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<i>From: Duthie</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 17:01</i><br />
<i>To: Illicit Snowboarding; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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Fair point, although I've still never met anyone with 6 pairs of snowboard socks. There have been many times when I wish I had.<br />
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<i>From: Tim Whitlock </i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 17:23</i><br />
<i>To: Illicit Snowboarding; Ed Blomfield; Duthie</i><br />
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I wore the same thermals for 14 days straight last year with only a quick shower rinse out along the way. And in the spring too haha.<br />
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<i>From: Duthie</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 17:32</i><br />
<i>To: Illicit Snowboarding; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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That makes me glad we were only staying with you for the first 7...<br />
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<i>From: Ed Blomfield</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 17:37</i><br />
<i>To: Illicit Snowboarding; Duthie; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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Do as we say, not as we do.<br />
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Which is why I wouldn't recommend anyone copy my own first season, in which I used one pair for the entire winter *without* washing. In the end I believe they began to clean themselves, like dreadlocks. On the other hand you could hold them out straight and they wouldn't bend. They kind of doubled as divining rods...<br />
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<i>From: Illicit Snowboarding</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, 6 January 2015 at 17:50</i><br />
<i>To: Duthie; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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...but instead of the power of finding water they had the power of repelling women?<br />
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<i>From: Illicit Snowboarding</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, 6 January 2015 at 18:05</i><br />
<i>To: Duthie; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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OK guys. I'm giving in and taking on board your dirty protests so I've made the change.<br />
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Illicit<br />
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<i>From: Sam McMahon</i><br />
<i>Sent: Tue, 6 January 2015 at 18:14</i><br />
<i>To: Illicit Snowboarding; Duthie; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock</i><br />
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I was only just brought up to speed on this chat so instead of in gentle stage my mind was blown in one go. SIX PAIRS OF SNOWBOARD SOCKS! WTF?! I did a whole season with just the one pair, admittedly my house mates didn't enjoy it too much but I found a quick rinse whilst I was showering every other day was enough to keep them from crawling away.<br />
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Still using the same pair actually, four years later, though I now own two other pairs. Which I paid for. And that's more than sufficient for actually living out here.<br />
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Yours, astonished,<br />
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Sam<br />
<i>[Whitelines Online Editor]</i><br />
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From: Illicit Snowboarding<br />
Sent: Tue, 6 January 2015 at 18:16<br />
To: Sam McMahon; Duthie; Ed Blomfield; Tim Whitlock<br />
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I'm still not talking to you Sam.<br />
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And that my friends, is how snowboard magazine editing works. At first the one thing I found odd about the Whitelines editorial set-up was that they all work remotely; Ed out west, Duthie in Scotland, Tim in London and Sam in the Alps. After this email exchange I now understand why they can't stand to be around each other. Stick these four guys in an office and it would be a gas chamber.<br />
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Which leaves us with the big question…How many socks do you rock?<br />
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Coroflot is a site for budding designers/creatives to publish their portfolios in the hope of attracting a job. There's some good stuff on there and some very strange stuff, so this week we trawled through it to find the 10 most interesting snowboarding projects. Welcome to the future my friends...<br />
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The see-through snowboard idea might have been done before, but what makes this one different is that it comes with a kick stand/awesome spoiler.<br />
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An idea for a motorised track that bolts on to a standard snowboard. It comes complete with a already defeatist product name, and an incredibly complicated power glove</div>
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The tracks are folded away during descents, but give it the sign of the horns and the tracks will pop-out and back up the hill you go. Advertised anti-gravity capabilities are still at the prototype stage.</div>
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<i>"LUG Snowboard Transportation - A passion-driven project from years of personal experience snowboarding around the world. This Patent Pending product aids with instant snowboard transportation by increasing comfort, reducing muscular pains and reclaiming vital energy expended, allowing a rider to do more."</i><br />
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It's just a plastic handle.<br />
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<i>"Ideations - Because of the nature of the market, early ideation sketches explore various wild and bizarre ideas for eyewear. The goal was to try and push the limits to where eyewear can go and seek out the most marketable and sellable designs for the considered market."</i><i><br /></i>
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<i>"Skullz Snowboard Goggles - The first concept are snowboard goggles mimicking the look of a human skull. Initial sketches were literal interpretations of a skull turned into goggles. However, several variations led to a more refined design which takes certain characteristics of the skull to give the goggles a skeletal and bonelike appearance. These goggles are designed to appeal to the crazy wild extreme sports segment of the market."</i></div>
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Warning: lack of peripheral vision could result in accident, as could looking like a massive bellend.<br />
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<i>"World's Most Boring Bookshelf - Hand Modified snowboard bookshelf. Takes snowboarding to the ultimate low.... reading."</i></div>
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Which might explain why it makes for a really shit bookself after all</div>
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300 hours of work went into building this massively over-engineered worse-than-a-snowboard concept. Looks pretty though.</div>
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Strange fact: The majority of snowboards are not built by the snowboard brands. That's something most snowboarders aren't aware of and most of the companies keep very quiet about. It's all about as transparent as an internal FIFA inquiry, so we thought we'd try and figure out exactly what's going on and shed some light on it...<br />
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Over the past few weeks we've been hacking away in the depths of the internet and interrogating industry insiders to try and build up an accurate picture of what is really happening, who actually builds the snowboards and where are they made.Here's what we found.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The things we learned along the way</span></b><br />
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<b>What are these factories?</b><br />
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Most snowboards are not made by the snowboard brands we're all familiar with, they are often built by completely separate companies known in the business as Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM).<br />
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<b>Why you probably haven't heard of these OEMs before</b><br />
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Most people will never known that their board was made by an OEM. The OEM will not leave their name on the product, OEMs have no interest in promoting themselves to the public because they don't sell directly and in most cases the OEMs are contractually obliged not to publicise the brands they are working with.<br />
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Having their boards produced by an OEM is not something most snowboard brands want to make a big deal about either. There's a stigma to not producing your own boards which means that even the big brands using these methods are reticent to tell people about it.<br />
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As it's not in the interest of either the OEM or brand to be transparent about their relationship it's really difficult to find this information. There may be some errors in our list as a result, despite the amount of digging we've done to get this far.<br />
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<b>It gets complicated</b><br />
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To complicate things a little further, some brands can use more than one OEM to produce their boards. They can use one OEM for high-quality boards and one for low-quality.<br />
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Some brands may have a small factory of their own (which they'll proudly tell you about), where they produce the high-end boards, but their mass market boards are then produced by an OEM (which they won't really mention).<br />
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Brands can shift production from one OEM to another within weeks. This happens surprisingly often and it makes it difficult to track accurately.<br />
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One reason for the frequent shifts is that OEM factories work on small margins and are very susceptible to going out of business when they hit financial difficulties. For example, the Elan OEM factory in Austria used to be one of the world's biggest manufacturer of snowboards until they went went bankrupt in 2013. At the time they were producing snowboards for the likes of, Arbor, Apo, Amplid, Bataleon, CAPiTA, Dinosaurs Will Die, Lobster and Rome. Most snowboarders didn't even notice the loss of Elan, because those brands were able to quickly source other OEMS with limited or no impact on their production.<br />
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Another reason for the quick moves between OEMs is that some brands own the machinery the factories use, which allows them to shift to another lower bidding provider even quicker.<br />
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Snowboard companies are experts at designing snowboards but manufacturing is another skill. The really good snowboard OEM factories can be much more efficient and produce a consistently higher quality of product than one run by a non-specialised company. It's the same reason why the snowboard brands use shipping companies to distribute their boards rather than doing it themselves.<br />
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To produce quality snowboards on any sort of significant scale you've really got no choice but to use a specialist. That's why all the biggest snowboard brands use OEMs.<br />
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<b>Using an OEM badly can be terrible.</b><br />
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What gives OEM a bad name, and why there is a stigma associated with it, is what happens at the other end of the scale. There are a number of smaller brands or zombie brands who take no part in the design or development of the snowboards. They just order off-the-shelf designs from the OEMs with their logos added. They are only really graphics companies masquerading as snowboard companies and it's in the interest of those brands to hide their relationships with OEMs. Unfortunately while the legitimate companies also lack transparency it allows these shonky brands to blend in with the masses tarring the whole lot and making it very difficult for snowboarders to aviod them.<br />
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<b>Building it yourself is not necessarily good.</b></div>
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Because some OEM/brand set-ups can be so bad, any company that makes it's own boards will use that as their main selling point. However just like there's a huge range of quality in OEMs there's a huge range of quality in self-build too. It's not as simple as saying if you build it yourself it's better. Some of these brands will be producing very high quality boards but others can just be a geezer in a garage, using a vacuum press, producing crappy snowboards and offering no warranty.<br />
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<b>Made in China isn't the problem</b><br />
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There's always a lot of discussion about the quality of snowboards being made in China, and how this should be the thing to avoid. However, just like any other country Chinese built snowboards can also be really bad or very good. Here's the guy that runs Endeavour talking about how they work:<br />
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It would be nice and simple if something like 'Made in America' could be used to signify a quality boards, but again it's a range. The companies featured in this chart that build in the US do produce quality boards, but there many other brands built badly in the US either by the brand or by US based OEMs. We've covered this before in our story '<a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2011/10/11-brands-1-snowboard-and-270-price.html" target="_blank">11 Brands, 1 Snowboard (and a $270 price difference)</a>'<br />
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of correlation between the country the snowboard is made and the quality of the product.<br />
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<b>Transparency seems to be the clearest way to separate the wheat from the chaff.</b><br />
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The more transparent the brand is about how their boards are produced, the better the quality of snowboard you'll get.<br />
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Jones snowboards are a good example of how this can be done. Like a lot of other companies they've chosen to have their boards built by an OEM in Austria, but unusually they've decided to be honest about it. They can produce a better quality board in a more sustainable way using this method than they could by building it themselves. There is <a href="http://www.jonessnowboards.com/Supply-Chain-Map.html" rel="" target="_blank">a page on their website</a> that clearly explains some of their reasoning for that decision. They could even have gone further to share more about the development process and how GST works and they wouldn't go wrong. Instead of being punished for Jeremy Jones not personally constructing each board by hand, or for him not building them in his home town, people recognise the open and reasoned approach of that company and and it's growing rapidly. <br />
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There are brands that produce good snowboards that aren't transparent (yet), but there are no brands that produce shit snowboards that are transparent (or ever will be).<br />
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<i><b>GST </b>(Global Sports Technologies GmbH) based in Antiesenhofen, Austria</i><br />
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<i><b>CAPiTA MFG</b> (C4future GmbH) based in Furnitz, Austria. <a href="http://business.transworld.net/130200/features/capita-purchases-elan-snowboard-factory/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CAPiTA acquired the old Elan factory</a> and the brands are in the process of returning. </i><br />
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<i><b>Keil Ski</b> based in Uttendorf, Austria. </i><i>Burton have an agreement with their partner that they have to exclusively produce Burton boards. The last people Burton worked with in Poland couldn't make enough money from only supplying Burton and lost the business as a result. <a href="http://www.keil-ski.at/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Keil</a> make the mid to high range Burton boards.</i><br />
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<i><b>Amer Sports</b> The corporation that owns Salomon along with a number of other companies, has a number of factories around Europe and Asia. There's more about them in the Faceless Corporations link at the bottom of this article.</i><br />
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<i><b>Swiss Lab Factory</b> Part of the Nidecker Group. Nidecker's manufacturing arm hit troubles a few years ago, they closed the Tunisian factory they had and the Swiss factory has now been split out as a separate company. Nidecker also owns or part-owns Jones, YES and Slash but those brands have not been forced to used the same OEM.</i></div>
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<i><b>NBL Sport</b> (<a href="http://www.nblsport.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nobile</a>) These are the guys that used to make Burton boards. </i></div>
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<i><b>Unknown</b> Doesn't matter how much research you do, some of the things that go on in China stay in China. </i></div>
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<i><b>Playmaker </b>and <a href="http://www.playmaker.com.tw/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">their weird pointless flash-based website</a>.</i></div>
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<i><b>SWS</b> (Solico Winter Sport) was set-up in Dubai by a couple of guys that used to work in the Elan factory. <a href="http://business.transworld.net/119879/features/industry-vets-launch-sws-snowboard-production-in-dubai/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">There's an interesting interview with them here</a>. </i><br />
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<i><b>Mervin</b> The name of the company that owns both the Lib Tech and GNU brands.</i><br />
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<i><b>Meditec </b>The old factory Nidecker used to have in Tunisia. They only have <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Meditec/125654394253723" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a Facebook page</a> featuring a few photos of naked women. Posters of naked women are the universal wall paper of snowboard factories. </i><br />
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Edit: StepChild is Canadian, not based in the US.<br />
Edit: The Burton OEM Factory in Austria is Keil Ski<br />
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The one thing that's had the largest effect on snowboarding in the last few years has been the rise of the internet. By that, what I mean is the rise of the internet and it's keyboard-mashing hordes has directly effected the word 'snowboard'. Never before has one word been spelled so many different ways by so many different people. Today we take a look at what happens to some of those sad misspelled snowboards after they are launched from Twitter into the unwelcoming abyss of the interweb...<br />
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Here's where we found that picture we shared on the Twitter and Facebook the other day. Just one dropped 'r' and this great picture was almost lost for all time before we were lucky enough to be able to rescue it...<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/therealcliffyb">@therealcliffyb</a> Norwegian Spoiler Alert! (it’s a Snowboad….) <a href="http://t.co/yNn02WoFpS">pic.twitter.com/yNn02WoFpS</a></div>
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What Rhymes With Snowbaord... http://whatrhymeswith.com/rhyme/snowbaord <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/rhyme?src=hash">#rhyme</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/snowbaord?src=hash">#snowbaord</a></div>
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— What Rhymes With? (@RhymeAnything) <a href="https://twitter.com/RhymeAnything/status/80785207187345408">June 14, 2011</a></div>
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Answer: Nothing<br />
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My new snowbaord came today <a href="https://twitter.com/Lobster_snow">@Lobster_snow</a> so stoked and can't wait to break it in! <a href="http://t.co/stQElx66CR">pic.twitter.com/stQElx66CR</a></div>
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— samuel hurlock (@FLEXsamuel) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLEXsamuel/status/507489556799950848">September 4, 2014</a></div>
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The rare sight of a wild snowbaord before it was tamed into becoming just another snowboard.<br />
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Heading to springs <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/weed?src=hash">#weed</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/funny?src=hash">#funny</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Snowboad?src=hash">#Snowboad</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/youngthug?src=hash">#youngthug</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/stoner?src=hash">#stoner</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/jeep?src=hash">#jeep</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bearnaked?src=hash">#bearnaked</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/legalize?src=hash">#legalize</a> <a href="https://t.co/Jgovk4sbfM">https://t.co/Jgovk4sbfM</a></div>
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I Snowbaord way to much. (Said no-one ever) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mammoth?src=hash">#mammoth</a> <a href="http://t.co/hCScfkA5li">pic.twitter.com/hCScfkA5li</a></div>
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We've got a Celebrity Snowboader - It's former professional footballer... </div>
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At Battersea Power Station today....hope i don't have to snowboad, can't do it, post some pictures later</div>
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— Mark Bright (@Mark__Bright) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mark__Bright/status/5284179462">October 30, 2009</a></div>
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& and a Celebrity Snowbaorder - It's former Red Dwarf robot...<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/lopsi">@Lopsi</a> Tell me about it. he has got a coat on now, he's still outside making a mahussive snowbaord jump. Place full of kids</div>
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— Robert Llewellyn (@bobbyllew) <a href="https://twitter.com/bobbyllew/status/1179982121">February 5, 2009</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This is a section we'd like to call: People who should know better...</span></b><br />
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Hey. Fancy designing your very own Signal Snowbaord? <a href="https://twitter.com/NeffHeadwear">@NeffHeadwear</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SnowboardMag">@SnowboardMag</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Snowboardermag">@Snowboardermag</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPN_Snow">@ESPN_Snow</a> <a href="http://t.co/AQZa3iL5v2">http://t.co/AQZa3iL5v2</a></div>
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Looking forward to seeing Signal make a Snowbaord next Every Third Thursday. Toughest challenge yet.<br />
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These guys got a little bit needy with their attempts to get some extra coverage. Sadly their spelling didn't improve and the great Shaun White wasn't able to give his seal of approval.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/shaun_white">@Shaun_White</a> I bet you know a few people who'd love to see their snowbaord design go into production...<a href="http://t.co/AQZa3iL5v2">http://t.co/AQZa3iL5v2</a></div>
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— Talenthouse (@talenthouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/talenthouse/status/359716546240708608">July 23, 2013</a></div>
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Learn to Ski or Snowbaord for just £169! Treat yourself or get one of our gift vouchers for a perfect Christmas gift! <a href="http://t.co/VkfKxttO">http://t.co/VkfKxttO</a></div>
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— The Snow Centre (@the_snowcentre) <a href="https://twitter.com/the_snowcentre/status/145170767137611776">December 9, 2011</a></div>
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£169 to learn to snowbaord with the added benefit of being the only person on earth to master it.<br />
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Mt. Holly opened yesterday. So glad to be back on a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/snowbaord?src=hash">#snowbaord</a> in Michigan. <a href="http://t.co/w8ktm00DXe">http://t.co/w8ktm00DXe</a></div>
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— David Zemens (@agnarchy) <a href="https://twitter.com/agnarchy/status/401054017515573249">November 14, 2013</a></div>
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Du <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/snwoboard?src=hash">#snwoboard</a> au <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/golf?src=hash">#golf</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/benkilner">@benkilner</a> a remporté le <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KingofGreens?src=hash">#KingofGreens</a> ! <a href="http://t.co/4R6S7UK7SS">http://t.co/4R6S7UK7SS</a> <a href="http://t.co/5KWoUPF1au">pic.twitter.com/5KWoUPF1au</a></div>
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— Red Bull France (@RedBullFrance) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedBullFrance/status/469793615007744000">May 23, 2014</a></div>
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Too fucked-up on energy drinks to spell.<br />
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Looking to get new ski & snowbaord clothing this winter? Here's how to get it right via <a href="https://twitter.com/ALLTRACKS">@ALLTRACKS</a> <a href="http://t.co/UvfGpI7Zg8">http://t.co/UvfGpI7Zg8</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ski?src=hash">#ski</a></div>
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— Iglu Ski (@Igluski) <a href="https://twitter.com/Igluski/status/527414769708318721">October 29, 2014</a></div>
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Pictured: A man snowbaording<br />
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RT <a href="https://twitter.com/Ride_Sessions">@ride_sessions</a>: <hello from=""> Oregon / Trip is done avec <a href="https://twitter.com/mathcrepel">@mathcrepel</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Arthur_Longo">@Arthur_Longo</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/fluofun">@fluofun</a> <a href="http://t.co/IfTWCC8U">http://t.co/IfTWCC8U</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/snwoboard?src=hash">#snwoboard</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USA?src=hash">#USA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trip?src=hash">#trip</a></hello></div>
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— Vans Snow Team (@vanssnow) <a href="https://twitter.com/vanssnow/status/231092759921045504">August 2, 2012</a></div>
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PHOTOS: Women’s Snowboad Cross at 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics <a href="http://t.co/B6nMmju3bB">http://t.co/B6nMmju3bB</a></div>
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— Denver Post Olympics (@DPOlympics) <a href="https://twitter.com/DPOlympics/status/435229922601091073">February 17, 2014</a></div>
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There were no winners<br />
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Denver wrapped up last night, now on to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BostonSki?src=hash">#BostonSki</a> & Snowboad Expo, starting Thursday at noon, at our new... http://fb.me/LTphaBPr</div>
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Who went to the Snowboad Expo?<br />
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#snowboar has a lot of fans...<br />
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Look at that fancy new paint job on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/multorpor?src=hash">#multorpor</a>! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tokenchairliftshot?src=hash">#tokenchairliftshot</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yeahiboard?src=hash">#yeahiboard</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/snowboar?src=hash">#snowboar</a> @ Mt. Hood Skibowl <a href="http://t.co/E2Y1e6uX">http://t.co/E2Y1e6uX</a></div>
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bluebird and no lines... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/flowsnowboarding?src=hash">#flowsnowboarding</a> mennybilam <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/boreal?src=hash">#boreal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/laketahoe?src=hash">#laketahoe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/snowboar?src=hash">#snowboar</a> @ Boreal Mountain Resort <a href="http://t.co/l9PomWNq">http://t.co/l9PomWNq</a></div>
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— Flow Snowboarding (@FLOWsnowboardn) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOWsnowboardn/status/290924128364531712">January 14, 2013</a></div>
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RT <a href="https://twitter.com/WhistlerParks">@whistlerparks</a>: If the world just ended I guess I'm in heaven. It's still looking deep <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/heaven?src=hash">#heaven</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/snowboar?src=hash">#snowboar</a> <a href="http://t.co/AZhXi6sB">http://t.co/AZhXi6sB</a></div>
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S/O to <a href="https://twitter.com/nowbindings">@nowbindings</a> who just added frankapril to their team! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YESSnowboards?src=hash">#YESSnowboards</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YESonSnow?src=hash">#YESonSnow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YESonLife?src=hash">#YESonLife</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/snowboar?src=hash">#snowboar</a> <a href="http://t.co/i74B4oA8">http://t.co/i74B4oA8</a></div>
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check <a href="https://twitter.com/Eurosport">@eurosport</a> <a href="http://t.co/zusoW4Us">http://t.co/zusoW4Us</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/universalsports">@universalsports</a> for live tv&web of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fis?src=hash">#fis</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/snwoboard?src=hash">#snwoboard</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/halfpipe?src=hash">#halfpipe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/worldchamps?src=hash">#worldchamps</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/snowjamboree">@snowjamboree</a> at 12PM ET</div>
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Some poor intern at Thrasher Magazine has been busy scanning every page of every back issue and uploading it onto the internet. That's an incredible administrative feat from a very unlikely source. Good thing for us though is that we can now see the brief period when skateboarders thought snowboarding was cool. Here are all the interesting appearances of snowboarding in Thrasher...<br />
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Well probably not all, because we've got no interns here so we may have missed a few. With that admission out the way, here's a graph of the number of editions of Thrasher (that we found) which featured snowboarding in some way which accurately(ish) charts the exact(ish) amount of shits that skateboarders gave about snowboarding over time...<br />
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The first appearance we found was this advert/review of a Slicker snowboard/snurfer in the <a href="http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/magazine/november-1982/" rel="nofollow" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">November 1982</a> edition...<br />
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A snowboard brand that must of only existed for all of five minutes in 1989</div>
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Classic Damian Sanders bedecked in Ocean Pacific</div>
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<i>"Snowboarding has crossed international borders, transcended seasonal barriers, cracked the big resorts, garnished mass media exposure and been commercialized, incorporated and bastardized."</i></div>
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From that point on snowboarding turned into a regular two-page column called Cold Snap (<a href="https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site%3Awww.thrashermagazine.com%2Farticles%20cold%20snap" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">you can see them all here</a>). Although the coverage was steady for a while here it was minimal and formulaic and we can't find any stand-out interesting articles or ads from December 1993 onwards.<br />
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And there you have it. Snowboarding had it's moment on the front page and generated a whole lot of interest for a while, but it was eventually relegated to the back pages, before being quietly dropped. Along the way though they managed to capture lots of interesting moments and if you fancy having a browse though their impressive archives <a href="http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/covers/covers-index/" target="_blank">here's the link</a>.<br />
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Just in time for the release of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie the crazy hat manufacturers have managed to churn out some copyrightastic balaclavas.<br />
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The first rule of selling crazy hat's through eBay: Crazy Hat sellers FUCKING LOVE CAPITALS!<br />
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Beard masks, crap at the best of times, but they truly make no sense if they're pink. It just looks like you've inserted your head into a Barbie's stroller.</div>
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Monkey? Looks like a the result of that one-night stand between an roofied zebra and Bert from Sesame Street.</div>
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An incredible case of over-selling and under-delivering. Not only is it the exact opposite of 'CRAZY', it's also completely non-functional as a hat. Here's another angle....</div>
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Not a hat, but being eBay any old shit pops up in every category, and this time we got this bowel-looseningly terrifying doll.<br />
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If you fancy buying a hat in preparation for a season of being beaten up at random, here's the <a href="http://www.ebay.com/bhp/crazy-ski-hats" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crazy Ski Hat page</a>. Other similar pages also worth checking out are the <a href="http://www.ebay.com/bhp/mental-hat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mental Hat</a> page, the <a href="http://www.ebay.com/bhp/jester-hat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jester Hat</a> collection and the bemusing <a href="http://www.ebay.com/bhp/mohawk-beanie" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mohawk Beanie</a> range.<br />
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The most inexplicable brand in snowboarding is back with another questionable product...<br />
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But it seems Simon Pegg might actually be sponsored by Ruroc, he could well be their entire sponsored snowboarding team, and now they're now also supplying his snowboards. This tweet just popped up in my Twitter feed.<br />
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Road tested my new <a href="https://twitter.com/ruroc_army" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@ruroc_army</a> Viper Cascade Freestyle today. Benefits included, sweet air, sick glide and radosity. <a href="http://t.co/sQIH7KuMRA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/sQIH7KuMRA</a></div>
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I visited the Ruroc site to find out more and was directed by their homepage to <a href="http://www.ruroc.com/snowboards/145-ice-cascade-urban.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a review on the Natives site</a>. The Natives article features a video of a man you can't hear, who doesn't do any snowboarding...<br />
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But sensing that was a pointless exercise, they've also provided a written review which starts off by saying; "A real nice all-mountain board, solid enough to handle deep pow". You really have to question how the fuck they know that from riding it in a dome, but they're really adamant about its powder riding abilities because later they talk more about it remaining "really responsive in deeper snow or when venturing off piste due to the carbon compression running through the whole body".<br />
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It sound suspiciously like they're just making this shit up and seeing as <a href="http://www.natives.co.uk/news/natives-review-of-3sixtycams-gopro-rental-service/6061" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the reviewer isn't the world's greatest snowboarder</a> I'm not sure anyone should really take this at all seriously even if it was somehow tested properly.<br />
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<i>"The legend continues. First Ruroc revolutionised helmets, now we're moving from head to toe into the world's first never wax snowboard! These True Twin Snowboards not only never need waxing they also outstrip the top snowboards made by some of the biggest brands across the world! With Carbon Compression Couplings, 3AX Fibres™, TES Structure™, Razor Rockwell 48 edges, Isosport Sintered 7700 base, Mirrored wood core and a Stone Ground Base you'll wish you could have ridden Ruroc all along!"</i><br />
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A never wax snowboard, interesting, how does that work?<br />
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<i>"This combined with a product that can't be named protects your base from the need to wax!"</i><br />
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Oh, magic then. Sounds legit, count me in, here's my £380.<br />
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They've got two shapes of snowboards each available in two different mouthwash colours and strangely they all have the same specification.<br />
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Here's their only promotional video, which like the Natives review also includes an impressive lack of snowboarding...<br />
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A snowboard that doesn't need waxing sounds like a really interesting idea, but if Ruroc have really developed that you'd hope that they could show a little more proof by the time it comes to selling production versions. If nothing else, it would significantly improve their ability to sell more of them so there's a big incentive for them to do simple things like; run comparison tests with other snowboard bases, share some insight into the development process, allow some serious snowboarders test them out, or tell people how long it will last and guarantee their new invention. The lack of these things, or any other proof they could have supplied, really is strange and it makes us question the claims they're making.<br />
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So here are the 5 things we've learned from this situation:<br />
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1. Somehow Ruroc are selling enough silly helmets that they're not only still in business, but they've got enough leftover cash to branch out.<br />
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2. They're investing that cash in a famous millionaire and some magic snowboards.<br />
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3. They can't tell you how the magic snowboards work, there's no proof and there's no mention of any sort of guarantee, so you're going to have to hand over your £380 and trust Ruroc.<br />
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4. You'll be trusting a snowboard company where the official spokespeople are quite happy to announce publicly that they have quit snowboarding.<br />
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5. And finally you'll also have to trust a company that we caught telling magnificent porky pies just a few months ago. <a href="http://blag.illicitsnowboarding.com/2013/11/ruroc-decided-to-respond-to-my.html" target="_blank">Here was the lie</a> and <a href="http://blag.illicitsnowboarding.com/2013/11/it-was-intern-wot-did-it-honest-gov.html" target="_blank">here was the second lie to excuse the first lie</a>.<br />
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Reddit calls itself 'the front page of the internet' and it's probably a fair claim. <a href="http://www.reddit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It's homepage</a> is constantly updated with the latest memes and it's the site that "inspires" most of stuff you'll find on sites like BuzzFeed, or Unofficial Networks a few hours later.<br />
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What's it's not though is welcoming and easy to use for first timers. Every once in a while we suddenly receive a huge spike in traffic from reddit and after several years of procrastination we decided it was about time that we finally tried to figure out what the hell was going on in there. After a number of hours of blundering through the unfamiliar depths of it we eventually found ourselves in the /r/snowboarding section where we almost immediately and inadvertently created a shit storm of anger about our flippant use of the word 'hipster'. Still, when people aren't being horrifically <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/snowboarding/comments/2hs7je/how_hipsters_make_snowboards/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">anti-semantic</a> it was clear that this was a really active community of snowboarders with some really interesting stuff going on. But we're inherently lazy so rather than doing more homework ourselves, we decided to contact one of the moderators, david_z to get him to explain things...<br />
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<i>My name is David Zemens. I started snowboarding a bit in maybe 1994 and bought my first board in 1996. There were a few years when I didn't really ride much, either it was an awful winter or more likely I was in college and was too busy drinking beer or whatever, but I've been riding for about 20 years give or take. Which makes me feel old.</i><br />
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<i>I've been on reddit apparently for 6 years. I would've guessed longer than that, though. I started participating in the /r/snowboarding community probably in 2010.</i><br />
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<i>Mods are anointed by other mods. A long time ago I was apparently active enough or posted interesting enough stuff that the other mods thought I’d be a good mod and that’s that.</i><br />
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<i>Basically mods just maintain the community, curate the user submissions, delete spam, and babysit internet fights, although thankfully snowboarders are usually pretty chill enough that we don’t worry much about the latter. Occasionally trying to steer the site in particular direction, or away from certain things.</i><br />
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<i>I don’t do a lot of other stuff on Reddit any more. I used to participate in some of the politics groups, economics, etc., but all that shit just makes me mad. I have fairly radical political beliefs, so all that tends to do is upset me, and I don’t have enough hours in the day to fight with idiots on the internet. I'm a lot happier now that I spend (or waste, depending on who you ask) my time doing snowboarding stuff.</i><br />
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<i>So the “boot” thing came up like this. A few years ago someone snapped a cell phone pic, basically they sat down to strap in and took a pic looking down the hill. It’s basically a picture of their boots. A boot selfie. And they submit this picture to reddit like to say “Hey look at me I’m snowboarding”. </i><br />
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<i>Now you’ve got 40,000 people, most of whom snowboard 3 days a season and they all upvote stuff like this. It’s “me too!” content, copycat content. If one person does it, no big deal. But it never stops with just one. You end up with 20 or 30 of these cluttering up the sub and it goes on for weeks. Seriously!</i><br />
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<i>I had been on reddit prior to starting my own blog at <a href="http://agnarchy.com/">Agnarchy.com</a>, so when I started my site back in 2009 or whenever it was, it was just natural for me to check out the /r/snowboarding. At the time, I think there were only a few hundred users, so it was still really small. I've never gone overboard on self-promotion, especially since I also moderate it, but like other social channels it can be a good way to share your content.</i><br />
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<i>I’d love to have traffic like /r/snowboarding (100k uniques per month) on my own site that’s probably never going to happen, so my own site is just my forum for op/ed or my take on snowboarding current events, I do gear reviews, you know all the usual stuff.</i><br />
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<i>Reddit is a place to just give back a little bit, I can find some new ideas for content but it’s also a place I can answer questions in a format that doesn't require writing an entire article, drafting copy, finding stock images, coming up with a headline that’s “viral” enough or SEO optimized, etc. </i><br />
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<i>Not sure if these are the most active or interesting and I probably am not paying enough attention to usernames but a few always stick out. Phunkstar always posts good videos and has a knack for digging up old videos I think. Also super knowledgeable about snowboarding history. Bladepsycho is another mod, the newest mod since half of them don’t do shit anymore I added him to help out. Irahi, surflessinseattle are usually good. <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/snowboarding/comments/230e1h/less_helmets_in_this_video_than_the_previous/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chulksmack360</a> too, he posts his own videos which are pretty funny.</i><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Some lad getting lamped, submitted by </span><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/snowboarding/comments/1p7wip/snowboard_jump_over_a_lamppost_xpost_rwcgw/" rel="nofollow" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank">manbearpig1204</a></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Classic Shaun White Quote - submitted by </span><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/snowboarding/comments/1yxchl/the_worst_quote_ever_by_shaun_white/" rel="nofollow" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank">Shredgod</a></div>
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Scott Stevens spinning around all nicely - submitted by <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/snowboarding/comments/2j9i0w/scott_stevens_does_pirouettes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">theRippedViking</a></div>
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If you want to take a look through the best rated posts on /r/snowboarding of all time, <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/snowboarding/search?q=&restrict_sr=on&sort=top&t=all" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here's the link</a>.<br />
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<i>The layout and functionality is different from most, it’s very 'democratic' in the way that what rises to the top is the content that people have voted up. This is really neat because someone with deep pockets like a Burton or Transworld can’t just come in with a big ad spend and bump everyone else’s content to the bottom of the feed.</i><br />
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<i>And it’s a great way to share or promote content like your crew’s videos or a set of stills that your photog friend snapped during last week’s rail mission, or hell even to help answer questions for some n00bs who are just getting in to snowboarding.</i><br />
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<i>I think part of what draws people to /r/snowboarding is that you are someone who snowboards – maybe a lot or maybe a little – but you’re already on reddit and subscribing to other interests, whether it is funny GIFs, or Python or smoking bowls or snowboarding, with reddit you get it all in one place. But as a result of this I think the population on forums tends more enthusiast, whereas reddit maybe more novice.</i><br />
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<i>Reddit is like a super-forum. There’s sub-communities or sub-reddits for any topic you can think of, even The Fappening. </i><br />
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<i>One thing that reddit does pretty well is crowdsourcing information. Last year (which reminds me I have to update some of these…) we started <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/snowboarding/comments/1ztu60/shreddit_location_guide/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a crowd-sourced travel guide</a> where people can post a review of any resort and then it’s easy for you to find out information. It’s sourcing that information and collecting it all in one place. Forums can do this too but sometimes forums languish, or the threaded nature of them devolves in to something else, here we can keep it focused pretty tightly and sidebar any real interesting contributions.</i><br />
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<b>At the moment the snowboarding sub, like the snowboarding forums, has an abundance of questions from people who are just getting into snowboarding. What could it offer to more experienced/addicted snowboarders?</b><br />
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<i>I’ve always wanted it to be a place that doesn't alienate the novice riders but also provides value to the more experienced riders without being elitist about it.</i><br />
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<i>There’s a lot of traffic on this sub that’s pretty much untapped right now and it would be great to involve other industry people. </i><br />
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<i>One thing I was able to finagle somehow, and we’ve done it twice now, is that we had an open forum with Dave Lee from Signal Snowboards. <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/snowboarding/comments/1ygjvd/shredders_ama_im_dave_lee_from_signal_snowboards/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">He came on for a few hours to do a Q&A</a> </i>[It's called an 'Ask Me Anything' (AMA) on the reddit]<i>. People were totally stoked on that. I can’t thank him enough for doing that. I wish we could get more “insiders” involved like that.</i><br />
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<i>This comes up sometimes. I think obviously the riders right now that people get really stoked on would be huge: Scott Stevens comes to mind. Halldòr, naturally. I would like to see maybe Danny Davis and I’ve heard some other people mention that one, too. I’d love to see some more female involvement too, there’s chicks out there killing it, Jess Kimura or Danyale Patterson, or maybe that Czech girl whose helmet exploded in the Olympics would be cool perspective to have. It’s not just men in snowboarding even though it seems like that sometimes.</i><br />
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<i>Any iconic riders would be sick to have, too, someone like a Jussi who just retired or Jamie Lynn or Terje, Peter Line is usually good for some laughs… there’s interest in those “old” guys although probably not as much as for the younger, more active riders.</i><br />
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Basically that's anyone. If you are snowboarding-famous please give it a go and <a href="http://www.agnarchy.com/about/" target="_blank">contact David</a><br />
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<i>Reddit? It is basically a crowd-sourced aggregator. Users submit and vote on content, higher scores get more visibility, lower scores kinda disappear.</i><br />
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<i>Getting involved, just ask questions, answer questions, start discussion topics, post anything that you think is interesting. Sometimes you’ll post something that you think is tits, but nobody cares, or the dumbest thing rises to the top. Don’t fret about internet points and don’t take it too personally if something you submitted doesn’t get a ton of upvotes. They are not convertible to currency and are of no use to you in the real world.</i><br />
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<i>It would be rad if videos showed up FIRST on /r/snowboarding, like if this site would become the place to find the latest vids. This probably wouldn’t extend to exclusive premieres or pro full parts, but the mags all share a lot of “amateur” rider parts or crew videos that they’ve found by scouring the internet. I’d love to see people submitting all of their videos to reddit, first, like that would be the place to submit your video immediately after you uploaded it to Youtube.</i><br />
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<i>More involvement from brands and personalities would be great, too. Like I said there’s 45,000 people there with a self-professed interest in snowboarding, and it’s something like 100,000 unique pageviews per month, during the winter season. That’s pretty considerable air time, and it’s free, if you do it right.</i><br />
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<i>I think these things in particular would help make it a bit more relevant to the more “core” snowboard crowd. Even if you don’t want to help out on advice threads, everyone gets stoked for video parts and interacting with pros and industry insiders.</i><br />
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David's blog - <a href="http://www.agnarchy.com/" target="_blank">Agnarchy</a>. It's a bit like this one, but lazier.<br />
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<a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2014/08/gary-harbon-from-carmarthen-built.html">Gary Harbon, from Carmarthen, built a snowboard, out of carbon.</a><br />
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In 1984 two Argentinian brothers Fernando and Santiago Aguerre started up a company making sandals. </div>
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Then they had to find a way to flog those sandals, and the method they chose is proudly described by <a href="http://www.reef.com/company" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the company website</a>:</div>
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<i>"Inspired by the notoriously beautiful women of the beaches in South America, the brothers saw an opportunity to introduce the surf market to an exotic element that they called Miss Reef. Never revealing her face or identity, the brothers used the intrigue of Miss Reef to help convey their idea of the surf lifestyle." </i></div>
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<i>"The first advertisement involving Miss Reef was rejected from the surfing magazines for the controversial content, but after some convincing </i>[money]<i>, the ads finally ran. The surfers who read the magazines were instantly intrigued by the exotic and beautiful figure in the ads. Since then, Miss Reef has become a global icon of the surfing community. She has remained an integral component of Reef's DNA, and can easily be attributed to the success of Reef."</i><br />
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And for almost 30 years they've continued to pursue a dedicated ass-focused marketing strategy.<br />
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Somewhere in the middle of that period Reef were all over snowboarding. This was one of the ads from the first edition of Whitelines <a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2014/10/the-first-edition-of-whitelines-glimpse.html" target="_blank">we reviewed the other week</a>.<br />
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One of the things they also brought to snowboarding were their Miss Reef competitions. These weren't the sort of competitions which celebrate the snowboarding prowess of women, they were more the sort of competition where horny men judged women's arses...<br />
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That was a little close, we almost saw their faces for a moment. There's a danger we could start treating them as individuals and not just "intregue" objects if that happened. </div>
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And all the poses combined. Almost the full range of skills the Miss Reef girls were expected to manage.</div>
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There was just one other skill, and this was the last Reef favourite, marching in formation up stairs.<br />
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Sadly for Reef, despite their best efforts to build a market in snowboarding based on the back(sides) of the Miss Reef girls, things didn't work out in the long-term and we don't see them round these hills any more. <br />
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It wasn't just snowboarding, even in their surf culture mainstay, their ability to use of women's arses to promote their brand has been tailing off. After thirty prolific years of Miss Reef photoshoots, calendars and competitions it seems like Reef are being forced to drop this bottom-feeding marketing strategy. Their last calendar was produced in 2013, the once proud Miss Reef section of their site has been quietly been dropped and all that is left is some of that <a href="http://www.reef.com/eu/culture/zine/2013-miss-reef-calendar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">old calendar content on their European site</a> and a few <a href="http://shop.reef.com/miss_reef/l/132" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sorry looking t-shirts</a> no one is going to buy if they ever have any ambition of getting laid with an actual woman.<br />
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It was a marketing strategy with a few flaws right from the start; it alienated half of their potential market straight away and most of the rest of the market don't really want to wear a brand that makes them look like they're publicly celebrating soft-porn. Despite that there was a niche market that was a moneymaker for Reef for many years, but fatality in snowboarding and unhealthily elsewhere, time told for this dated approach as even the guys that used to love buying their product because they wanted to celebrate the butts of some unidentifiable women, have slowly realised it might be just slightly misogynistic.<br />
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So now Reef are forced to reinvent themselves and find a new way to market their brand, which won't be an easy job by any means and it's unlikely they'll ever work their way back into snowboarding. </div>
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It's the (rear) end of a very strange era in marketing.</div>
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Of course, the alternative is that they could keep the strategy, and try out a new market. After all as we proved just a few months ago <a href="http://blag.illicitsnowboarding.com/2014/07/conclusive-proof-skiers-love-anal.html" target="_blank">skiers are quantifiably arse men</a>.<br />
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illicit snowboardinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14364307652380301821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707504587724011029.post-17583844083322178392014-10-02T06:45:00.003-07:002014-10-02T06:45:31.182-07:00The first edition of Whitelines - a glimpse into the snowboarding world of 1995<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Now that we've saved Whitelines by taking the time explain to them why <a href="http://blag.illicitsnowboarding.com/2014/09/this-season-illicit-is-appearing-in.html" target="_blank">print is dead</a> and what they need to do to save themselves, we figured the next thing we should do is critique the very first edition. We thought it might be interesting to see where it all went wrong, but what we found was a strange glimpse into a vaguely remembered part of our past...<br />
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If anyone wants to read the first post on Illict all you have to do is scroll to the bottom of the archives and you'll find <a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2008/10/true-history-of-snowboarding.html" target="_blank">a very strange story/lie about the invention of snowboarding</a>. The internet is very convenient like that. For print though, things are a little bit trickier. It turns out that Whitelines don't actually have a copy of their first edition, having tossed it out in one of the frequent clean-outs they need to allow themselves to make more paper. Over the last twenty years nearly all of the copies of the first edition have gone missing for similar reasons throughout the country, but we were able to track down one well-loved and dog-eared copy of the October 1995 magazine. It was in the paws of a former pro snowboarder, Chris Moran from <a href="http://allconditionsmedia.com/" target="_blank">ACM</a>. Here are some things we relearned about snowboarding in 1995.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">1. </span></b>It's not all that surprising Chris Moran kept a copy, he was all over it like a cheap suit. He featured in some way on twelve different pages including grabbing the first cover. It's essentially the Chris Moran fanzine by Whitelines. To be fair though, Chris was almost equalled in his magazine domination by just three other British riders; Stuart Brass, Danny Wheeler (who craftily garnered some extra coverage by also running a shop at the time) and the worlds greatest snowboarder - <a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2013/09/these-snowboarders-top-trumps-prove.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steve Bailey</a>.<br />
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Fun fact: Chris Moran actually found a way to ensure he got even more coverage a little while later when he became the editor of Whitelines and he still manages to keep his name in lights as a contributing writer. We are starting to suspect that Chris Moran only exists while Whitelines has his name in it. This magazine is to Chris Moran, what the Picture was to Dorian Gray.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2.</span></b> 1995, the era of marshmallow shoes.<br />
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Some interesting retro insights into the spawny world of wannabe snowboarders Take That, just after they split-up, before they fully split-up, before they got back together, before they split-up again, twice.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3.</b></span> Talking of footwear, before the age of quick internet fact checking, things like this used to happen...<br />
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Still, better than those bloody Nipe boots.</div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">4. </b>90's era snowboards are getting snapped up left right and centre at the moment by <a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2013/11/confessions-of-vintage-snowboard-trader.html" target="_blank">rampant vintage snowboard traders</a>. Amongst all the interesting finds in that market it's easy to forget that on the whole snowboard graphics in the 90's were incredibly plain and mostly absolute shit.<br />
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Here's a whole page of instantly forgettable snowboards.</div>
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This was a page from the very minimalist snowboard review section, just 5 cramped pages in the back of the magazine. Not at all like the 176 pages of fancy separate magazine that this has evolved into today.<br />
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Fun fact: There were 26 snowboard brands featured in that section (16 of which are now dead brands), which strangely enough is more than the 21 brands that appeared in this year's much larger mag.<br />
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Of the 150 snowboards featured in the 1995 edition, only four were in any way not dull:<br />
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The two on the left (Lib Tech's Doug Boy and Division 23's Peter Line model) are classic designs, the World Industries Winnie the Pooh is reminiscent of a simpler time when snowboarding really didn't give a shit about copyright and loved computer generated flames, and the board on the right from The Movement was just stand-out heinous. </div>
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90's cartoon characters, hand-drawn ads and illegible fonts - all ads should be like this.</div>
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Fun fact: Of the 35 shops who bought advertising space in the first edition of Whitelines, just one of those shops still exists (or is at least is called the same thing). If you ever inadvertently time-slip back into 1995, it's probably best not to invest in a British snowboard shop.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">7.</span></b> Back page ads featured snowboarders with soggy asses. You don't see that any more.<br />
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At least we think it's a gear ad, could be anything really.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">9.</span></b> Something all the ads were missing that looks really strange twenty years later - no websites or email addresses. You just had to phone them up, or write an actual letter to muddle your way through figuring out what the likes of Fishpaw were trying to flog you. And if you wanted to buy something, you just sent your credit card details in the mail.<br />
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Credit card fraud. That's where the real money is if you do ever inadvertently time-slip back into 1995.</div>
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100537.521@ Compuserve.com...What the hell are you supposed to do with that? </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">10.</span></b> 1995 snowboard events.<br />
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Minimalist halfpipes, shitty magazine graphics and a man in drag entering the women's event...<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">In the days before the Olympics things were a little different</span></div>
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'The World's Greatest Snowboarder' and another incredibly minimalist halfpipe at a different event.<br />
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Snowboarding in drag must have been close compulsory 1995. I really don't remember that, but you can't argue with printed history.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11.</b> </span>The most bonkers commercial link-up in snowboarding history<br />
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Even Shaun White hasn't managed to get near this record<br />
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If you want to know a little more about the early days of Whitelines I found this interesting piece about the first editor, <a href="http://whitelines.com/uncategorized/farewell-to-chod.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'Chod' Thomas</a>, which is worth a read.<br />
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Let's go back to 2009/2010 and the travesty that was Ed Hardy's attempt to get into snowboarding. They started off with a range of generic branded-up snowboards...<br />
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But things took a spectacular turn for the douche with their incredible clothing line...<br />
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And their startling launch event...<br />
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Just one season later, after unsurprisingly miserable sales, they beat a hasty retreat, leaving swathes of overproduction in their wake, with snowboards still selling as new on Ebay years later.<br />
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Behind the Ed Hardy brand is Iconix Brand Group, <a href="https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ICON" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a two billion dollar business</a> who describe themselves as 'the world's premier brand management company'. What that means is that they are a leading exponent of buying troubled brands and then creatively rinsing every last cent out of them by allowing the brand to be plastered across any cheap crap that they can, before the brand dies a sad and protracted death.<br />
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Strangely, despite their epic Ed Hardy failure, someone at Iconix still has a taste for trying to grab a bit of the snowboarding pie and now they're throwing their keys back in the bowl.<br />
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Zoo York was founded in 1993, it was acquired by Marc Echo Enterprises (MEE) in 2001, and when MEE started to hit the skids in 2009 Iconix snapped up 51% of them, then 2013 they got hold of the rest of the company when MEE continued their downhill spiral.<br />
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So four years later and Zoo York is the next brand from the Iconix stable that's going to give snowboarding a try, and like Ed Hardy they're going to kick things off with a range of <a href="http://www.zooyorksnowboards.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">generic branded-up snowboards</a>...<br />
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Although thankfully they've decided to steer well clear of producing a range of Tiger print jackets and budgie smugglers this time around.</div>
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I don't think anyone at Iconix is all that confident about the success of this project though and they've really not bet the house on this one. There's no sponsored riders, no videos, very little marketing, no social media, even the blog content on the site is just their skateboard news, and tellingly their snowboards are being <a href="http://www.themustachio.com/2013/10/22/zoo-york-snowboards-say-what/" target="_blank">built by a third party</a> called <a href="http://snowboardmill.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Revolution</a>. That sort of half-hearted approach stands very little chance of success and it's a wonder that they've bothered at all.<br />
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Another worrying sign for this latest attempt to break the market, is that this isn't even the first time Zoo York themselves have tried to edge their way into snowboarding. Back <a href="http://snowboarding.transworld.net/news/luke-mitrani-lands-endorsement-deal-with-zoo-york/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">in 2004 they signed-up the then 14-year-old Luke Mitrani</a> in an abortive attempt to expand into the footwear and casual wear market.<br />
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Still maybe between them all they'll be third time lucky. Except it isn't even the third time, there's one more example of snowboarding failure in the Iconix stable. Back in 2006 Iconix acquired yet another failing brand, <a href="http://www.iconixbrand.com/op_history.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ocean Pacific</a> (who knew they were still around?). Although primarily a surf brand, back in the late 80's and early 90's Op actually established a pretty serious foothold in snowboarding. They sponsored some of the biggest riders of the era including Damian Sanders, they funded some key events, they threw around the advertising dollars and they produced an epic range of eye-watering neon outerwear...<br />
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Unfortunately in the mid 90's during one of Op's subsequent dips in fortune they pulled out of the sport and snowboarding's neon phase came to an abrupt and sadly missed halt.<br />
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Today the only connection of the Op brand to snowboarding are some shitty licensed goggles that are available in Japan:<br />
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So now the zombie skateboard company of the zombie streetwear company of the zombie brand juggernaut are having their second attempt to break into a market where their zombie tattoo and zombie surf brand-mates have already failed. It's not going to be the epic failure that was Ed Hardy snowboards, but it's clearly not going to be the next big thing either. If anything it's just another sign of the continued demise of Zoo York as it joins OP and Ed Hardy as a brand that will only exist in the dustiest of discount store sale bins.<br />
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One last strange thing about this whole charade is that Iconix probably could have had a better shot at this if they had tried to resurrect the legacy of Op. They could could have focused on being the most awesomely neon snowboard company around, which at least would give them a real marketing difference (unlike Zoo York which is going toe to toe against Tech Nine in a fight that they will quickly and quietly lose). But even if they had tried with the best brand and the most unique positioning, the lack of investment or effort they're showing with the Zoo York entry would doom any approach to irrelevance<br />
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Better luck next time Iconix, maybe fifth time will be the charm.<br />
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Before you go, this is a good excuse to take a look at the excellent Powder and Rails episodes about Damian Sanders starring some of that awesome Op gear.<br />
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<a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2009/10/top-10-designer-snowboards.html">The Top 10 Designer Snowboards</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2012/07/faceless-corporations-that-run.html">The Faceless Corporations That Run Snowboarding</a>. Since we drew up this last map the biggest news is that Quiksilver's continued implosion gave Mervin Manufacturing the opportunity to buy their way back to being independent. Good news.<br />
<br />illicit snowboardinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14364307652380301821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707504587724011029.post-73697447644330258442014-09-05T05:59:00.001-07:002014-09-05T05:59:04.279-07:00Scientifically this is the most fashionable man in snowboarding<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first Whitelines magazine of the season, <a href="http://whitelines.com/latest-issue/whitelines-100-buyers-guide-2014-2015.html" target="_blank">the buyers' guide</a>, is out on the shelves now and the quick purchasers amongst you might have noticed that a couple of the pages have been coloured in by us. Illicit has gone non-clickable. We were tasked with what turned out to be a very tricky job of creating a mildly-amusing infographic. On the face of it that seemed straightforward, until we realised that those two things are mutually exclusive. Still, we forged on and produced the definitive historical guide to snowboarding fashion trends and weirdly enough it turns out that this cheeky chap might just be the most fashionable man in snowboarding...<br />
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Here's a sneaky peak at all the science we splashed across the two pages of Whitelines. This was the second draft, I was told by the editors that my first draft wasn't "illicit" enough. Once we'd got over the inevitable bafflement that this vague directive caused, I do now agree that the second version was better. Maybe they know what they're doing.<br />
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We can't really show you the whole thing, but all those lines and facts ended up showing that these were some of the key fashion trends for this season:<br />
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<li>Roll-up beanies are in.</li>
<li>Camo is constantly in.</li>
<li>Earthy colours are so 2014/15.</li>
<li>Pants and stances should be rocked comfortably average this season.</li>
<li>And beards are at generational peak.</li>
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Once we'd sent our picture over to Whitelines uncomfortably close to something they call a 'print deadline', another of the Whitelines editors (they have a flock of them) after reading the conclusion, pointed out this guy:<br />
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His name is Brandon Cocard, and although he is blessed by being incredibly on-fashion he has been cursed with the most innuendo-laden name in snowboarding. Cocard is a professional snowboarder in the Capita, Union and Airblaster teams, but perhaps the most significant moment in his life until now was his appearance in Jade the Snowboarder Magazine intern's list of <a href="http://www.snowboarder.com/featured/intern-affairs-jades-top-10-hottest-snowboarders/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">top 10 hottest snowboarders</a>.<br />
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Here is the hotty in action in Absinthe's Resonance:<br />
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But we're not here to objectify Cocard or watch him do his job, we're here for the fashion<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"> and this season the fashion wears 'Dinoflage' darlings</span></div>
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For any budding designers out there looking for camo inspiration this season here's a <a href="http://i.imgur.com/lWai808.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">camouflage map of the world</a>. Australia are the surprising losers, the runners up are Belgium, and Sweden, and the Democratic Republic of Congo takes the prize with a zesty leopard print.<br />
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Enough of this, feel free to go out and buy the new Whitelines 100 floppy book, browse through the snowboard gear porn, and help fund the next snowboard trip/jolly of those nice editor fellas.<br />
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Before there was Cocard there was... <a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2010/09/tom-sims-snowboard-fashion-icon.html">Tom Sims - Snowboard Fashion Icon</a><br />
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Snowboarding Pie Charts, <a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2013/11/extreme-pie-charts.html">Part 1</a> & <a href="http://blag.illicitsnowboarding.com/2013/12/extreme-pie-charts-results.html">Part 2</a><br />
<br />illicit snowboardinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14364307652380301821noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707504587724011029.post-48575843350252630132014-08-21T06:04:00.000-07:002014-10-15T10:48:29.497-07:00Gary Harbon, from Carmarthen, built a snowboard, out of carbon.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year there's a new British snowboard company on the block called <a href="http://www.snowcandy.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Snow Candy</a>. We interviewed them to try and find out just what the hell was going on...<br />
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<i>We really started the company for a huge list of reasons but the best reason for us is we love nothing more that hitting the slopes.</i><br />
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What you're gong to see here is that the team behind Snow Candy answer questions like they're politicians; answering them without actually saying anything. The guy I'm interviewing here is called Gary Harbon, the aforementioned fella from Carmarthen. I can tell you why he started this company, because he has the finest aptronym in all of snowboarding and he was pre-determined to build something out of carbon. He was as destined to build this snowboard as William Wordsworth was to be a poet, Usain Bolt was to be a spinter, Marina Stepanova a hurdler, and Shaun White to be a snowboarder.<br />
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Going back to his answer, a hell of a lot of people love "hitting the slopes", but very few think the next logical step is to build a carbon fibre snowboard company. I tried to dig a little deeper...<br />
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<i>This is true :)</i><br />
<i>The materials we use in our boards and the way they are constructed is what makes us truly unique as well as our philosophy in listening to what people want.</i><br />
<i>To be fair what we really want to get across is we want to get across [sic] that these boards haven't been put together with just the pros in mind but the average boarder.</i><br />
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The only videos of these boards in action are the Snow Candy team riding them in a UK snow dome, and I'm going to have to assume this is them running some testing specifically for their target market of the "average boarder"...<br />
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They have a pretty strange definition of 'pow'<br />
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And of course there isn't a single snowboard company that doesn't listen to what people want or build boards for the average person. I wasn't getting anywhere with this, so I thought I'd help out a little...<br />
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<i>As far as we know yes we are the only snowboarding company based in Wales and the welsh [sic] are well know for coming up with some mad ideas as well as the sheep that can be added into the mix lol :)</i><br />
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From that I was expecting some awesome graphics like the 2012/13 DC PBJ graphic...<br />
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But the Snow Candy board graphics are a little more understated...<br />
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<b><i>Are you making the snowboards in Wales or are they built by someone else to your specifications?</i></b><br />
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<i>At the moment the boards aren't made here in wales [sic] but are made to our specification.</i><br />
<i>We will be be looking to move production to Wales as soon as we are able as we currently looking for [sic] bigger premises to set up shop in.</i><br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">How would you compare yourself to <a href="http://www.douksnow.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Douk</a>? </i>(the only company manufacturing snowboards in the UK)<br />
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<i>In all honesty.... we love what they do! Douk make fantastic boards and the fact that they are based in the UK is amazing as far we are concerned. It just goes to show what guys here in britain [sic] really have to offer.</i><br />
<i>Not that were trying to avoid the question but as for a direct comparison goes we both make boards but from very different materials and until people really go out and ride our boards on mass [sic] who’s to say which construction is better.</i><br />
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<b><i>How much has it cost to set-up the brand in the UK and what's been the hardest part of the process so far?</i></b><br />
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<i>We have spend [sic] a little over £15k so far, all out our own pockets but the reality is we have only just started to scratch the surface of the UK and we know that we have a serious amount of work to do to get the brand out there.</i><br />
<i>The hardest part for us was trying to get the boards construction right which was such a pain as we wanted it to be made entirely out of carbon fibre! In the end we had to combine some elements of a more traditional construction such as a bamboo core.</i><br />
<i>I don’t think any single part of the process has been all that easy, but having spent all our time on the boards themselves we have only just started to our teeth [sic] into the marketing side of the business.</i><br />
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And the initial investment in marketing will be spent on correcting the spelling and grammar of all the previous marketing output. The best example being this video on their YouTube channel, where they've even managed to spell Gary's name wrong...<br />
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<i>We have only sold just sort [sic] of a hundred so far but since we haven't really done enough to market them which are working on [sic] we are hoping to really drive the numbers over the course of this season. Fingers crossed :)</i><br />
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<b><i>What's the reasons behind the name Snow Candy? Were you in some way influenced by the hit song from the presumably transvestite South Korean pop band Starship Planet?</i> </b><br />
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<i>Ha, we have never seen that video but god dame [sic] that was funny!</i><br />
<i>The name came from us having a few beers one night after a day on the slopes and one of the guys just came out with it! We all thought it was a bit cheesy if Im [sic] honest but it somehow stuck.</i><br />
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<i>This was one interesting challenge for us as we wanted to add a few characteristics to the boards that have perviously [sic] been a problem.</i><br />
<i>The entire board with exception of the base, steel edges, and the core, is made out of carbon fibre as we wanted to not only make the board light but also more flexible which was one of our primary goals compared to traditional constructions and also less prone to delimitation [sic].</i><br />
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<b><i>What is a BamBoom! core when it's at home?</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Finally, your site recommends Union, RuRoc and GoPro. What's the link with them?</i></b><br />
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<i>We will shortly be stocking Union Bindings on our site and as for the RuRoc and GoPro we simple [sic] love these companies and all our team use them. A good lid is a real essential for the slopes and what better to catch the action with than with a GoPro.</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Chalet Boy</i> - by Andy Smith</span></b><br />
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Welcome to the tedious and inane whingefest of the 31 year-old chalet boy Andy Smith. This is the memoires of the entirely unlikeable man who spent an entirely unmemorable season in the Alps.<br />
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Every year hundreds of people head to the mountains to do two things: take up low-paid menial jobs that allow them to spend the rest of their time snowboarding and/or partying. Andy Smith unfortunately didn't get the memo about the second part of that deal, then he wrote this book detailing his five months of cleaning and cooking exploits. This is an example of the kind of excitement you're in for if you read this book:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">"I was really worried I was going to mess the carving up and ruin Christmas dinner for everyone. Dan and Tom had done a great job of preparing the birds in advance with stuffing and covering them with bacon and they looked fantastic as they came out of the oven. I needn't have worried because when the time came I managed to do a pretty decent job and all the plates went out with the neatly cut slices of juicy Christmas meat on them."</span></b><br />
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In addition to being a bore, Andy Smith is also a miserable piece of work. During another bout of whittering on about some cooking, he stepped things up a bit with some casual racism...<br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"My feeling was that our menu is way too sophisticated for Welsh taste buds (plus it contains no lamb)"</b></span><br />
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Which is about the most interesting thing about the book.<br />
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<b><i>Chalet Boy - The Diary of My First Ski Season (Aged 31)</i> in a pie chart:</b><br />
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As far as I can tell only two interesting things have ever happened to Andy Smith:<br />
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One was when <a href="http://www.snowboardingforum.com/snowboarding-general-chat/52678-new-ebook-about-life-chalet-host.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">he tried to promote his book on Snowboarding Forum</a>, only to get torn a new one.<br />
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And the other was when he actually did tear himself a new one. When he was nine years-old he decided not to shit any more and a few days later he fainted trying to expel the inevitable massive turd:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">"As the fog of passing out cleared and clarity returned, I realised I was on the floor with blood from both my head and my arse creating a terrible mess. As if that wasn't a bad enough scenario, I still had half of the 'iceberg' left to dislodge. I clumsily made my way back onto the toilet to pass what felt like a sandpaper covered marrow before desperately calling my mother to come and make sense of all of this mess."</span></b><br />
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Today Andy Smith is boring the Internet to death via <a href="http://food-for-fellas.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">his blog about the food he eats</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chalet-Boy-Diary-First-Season-ebook/dp/B00AS9HT2U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405938738&sr=8-1&keywords=chalet+boy+andy+smith" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The book is here if you want to read it (you don't).</a><br />
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As a bad writer you're faced with two choices, either practice and get better before you publish a book, or just don't write a book at all. There are however a lot of bad writers that ignore these simple choices and think that the best solution is to write books for kids, because kids are mugs. Susan Hira is one of these writers.<br />
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1. Early on someone fires a machine gun at some of the kids who are on a chair lift. The kids are a little shaken up by the ordeal, they head back to the hotel, everyone talks about it for a bit, no one suggests options like leaving or calling the police, the holiday continues.<br />
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2. One of the girls later finds out about a Nazi conspiracy that endangers her and all her friends, but she gets distracted by the smell of a tasty soup. She instantly forgets Nazi conspiracy as a result.<br />
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3. This sentence: "Doesn't hurt that Nick has always admired her spunk."<br />
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4. Hitler's octogenarian daughter, who has only tried snowboarding once before, scythes down one of the baddies with her snowboard mid backside seven twenty.<br />
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The first thing you notice about this book, other than the epic use of Microsoft Paint on the cover, is that David Blackwell is addicted to similes. He's constructed his entire book out of them, and when you're trying to produce a whole book of similes some of them become a real reach. Here's just three choice examples from the opening page:</div>
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As you can see, as well as being one of the foremost simile crammers of our generation, he's also an exponent of the flowery adjective. Through that fist page we also get treated to, "playful shadows", "sumptuous eyes" and "fizzing eyes", which sounds fucking painful.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">"Malio was a huge, heavy, meat rack of a man. Breeze blocks for feet, his legs solid and thick like those of a gout-ridden hippo. ... Welded to his stout body were two piston arms, pumped full of dark blood. ... He looked as though he could break things with his bare hands."</span></b></div>
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But by far the best sentence in the book, which combined both his incredible adjectives and bonkers similes, is this one:</div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"Both boys were hizz-whizzing down the slope, crouched up like they were about to get a spanking from their headmaster, buttocks high in the air, clenched."</b></span></div>
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While we're in this very dubious place though, we might as well discuss the plot of the book. It all revolves around an ancient set of nipple clamps that have been acquired for the Courchevel erotica museum (which is sadly fictitious). It involves a couple of skiers who become male prostitutes for the season, a bunch of criminals slaughtering various people to get hold of the clamp and a couple of chalet boys/snowboarders that get caught up in the whole palava. It's kinda what you would get if you mixed <i>Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels </i>together with <i>50 Shades of Grey</i> (not that I've read it or anything) and fluffed it all up with a ton of adjectives and similes.</div>
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It wasn't a good book, but is wasn't the worst either and if your really struggling for something to read it's probably worth a go, if nothing else it's a change to see someone try to write a novel based in a ski resort that isn't about the standard shit that happens in a ski resort.</div>
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This one came out recently, had a lot of marketing money behind it and has been doing the rounds so I thought I'd get involved too, and like the Nazis book, I get to save some time because there's also an intro video complete with epic background music...<br />
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But that's where the similarities with the Nazi book end because this one isn't shit. It's a book that introduces the theory of the psychology of Flow through the stories of a range of action sports stars including our very own Travis Rice and Jeremy Jones. It's an interesting way of approaching the subject and it's pretty much guaranteed to be the only book about snowboarding where you'll read a passage like this...<br />
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It's the one shortcoming of this book that Steven Kotler, a journalist, writes as if he's part scientist and part self-help guru, which did get on my tits after a while. Reading this book won't change your life, like the marketing implies, but it will help explain those fleeting moments of flow that we've all felt snowboarding at some time and continue to strive to re-experience.<br />
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If you can't be bothered to wade through all of The Rise of Superman, we summed up the theory of Flow rather succinctly here: <a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2013/10/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-flow-why-you.html">Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow & Why You Love Snowboarding</a><br />
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Or take a look at <a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/search/label/snowboarding%20books%2Fmovies%2Fgames">the 16 other books we've reviewed so far</a>.<br />
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That last lady had got this whole business suit stock photography gig down pat. Here's my favourite example of her oeuvre...</div>
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<a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2012/10/50-pictures-of-shaun-white-being-dick.html" target="_blank">What a dick</a>. God I'm going to miss this guy. </div>
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The Swingbo was a classic a-bit-like-a-snowboard-but-not-as-good-as-a-snowboard invention that flared up in Germany in the early 80s before dying a quick and merciful death. Like all modern inventions it was launched with a marketing burst and a promo video, and someone has been nice enough to post it on the YouTube. Here's what we found....<br />
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Fuzzy Garhammer, jobtitle: "Freestyle Ski-Pope", was one of the founders of freestyle skiing. No, not that sort of freestyle skiing, this sort of freestyle skiing...</div>
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"Fuzzy Garhammer appears on the scene wearing a Neapolitan straw hat." What an absolute leg end.</div>
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Here he is again on the left with that incredible hat and presumably his life partner.</div>
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If you're trying to promote <a href="http://blag.illicitsnowboarding.com/2014/07/reinventing-snowboard-take-47564-cross.html" target="_blank">your new two-planks-attached-to-a-board-on-snow design</a>, it's best not to parody yourself by alerting everyone to the fact that the concept has failed miserably at least once before.</div>
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<i>"The new way: Swingbo"</i> - Do you swing both ways?</div>
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<i>"A marvellous enlargement of winter sports pleasure - a tingling challenge!" </i>The most innuendo-filled line of marketing spiel ever: </div>
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Followed by the most defeatist bit of past-tense marketing ever; <i>"A new winter sport who caused enthusiasm!" </i></div>
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Swingbo - The most colourfully awesome thing ever to almost happen to snowboarding</div>
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Anyway, if you fancy watching eight and a half minutes of shitty almost-boarding to the sound of pan pipes, then you can experience the whole thing here. Spoiler: I've just shown you all the best bits.<br />
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Some of these pictures were sourced from <a href="http://wackyboards.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/swingbo.html" target="_blank">an article on Wackyboard</a>s, which also features the Deuce Snowboard, a complete copy of the Swingbo that has also now failed, and a new product straight from the Gillette school of product invention, that has an added a third ski.<br />
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Reinventing the Snowboard, Take 47,564 - <a href="http://blag.illicitsnowboarding.com/2014/07/reinventing-snowboard-take-47564-cross.html">The Cross Board</a><br />
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Before Christmas go we took a look at <a href="http://blag.illicitsnowboarding.com/2013/11/is-this-most-awkward-snowboard-company.html" rel="" target="_blank">the most awkward snowboard company ever</a>. Part of what made them so outstanding was their impressively awkward model photo shoot. We wondered if it was actually possible to photograph scantily clad models with snowboards and for it not to be awkward...<br />
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<a href="http://www.craigmuir.co.uk/snowboarding-sam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Snowboarding Sam</i> by Craig Muir</span></b></a><br />
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Snowboarding Sam, has the most aggressive forward-angled wide-stance binding set-up I've ever seen.<br />
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It's another silly grey ear flap hat. Turns out that this type of head gear is the awkward snowboard model uniform of choice...</div>
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<a href="http://thatspecialtouch.tumblr.com/post/33613684811/erika-odara" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Erika Odara</i> by Dan Roerick</span></b></a><br />
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<a href="http://500px.com/photo/58769156/catrina-by-holt-webb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Catrina</i> by Holt Photography</span></b></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.iwinkstudios.com/fashion-photography/colorado-photo-shoot-day-2.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Modeling Portfolio Shoot for Carly Hougan, AKA Carly Jo</i> by iWink Studios</span></b></a><br />
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Then throw in some standard '<a href="http://www.illicitsnowboarding.com/2012/04/women-who-cant-carry-snowboards.html" target="_blank">can't carry a snowboard</a>' action</div>
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And it's straight into another bad case of a model that can't carry a snowboard<br />
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Is she only a foot tall?</div>
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Not too awkward. Let's pan out...</div>
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OK awkward</div>
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<a href="http://500px.com/photo/60218056/margo-i-by-segrei-kurzanov" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Margo I</i> by Segrei Kurzanov</span></b></a><br />
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A little awkward</div>
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And blam! There it is again. Full awkward.</div>
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It's like a Boznuts Instagram photo</div>
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Woman with impressive sideburns awkwardly seduces inanimate object.</div>
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What's that smell? Have I trodden in a turd?</div>
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Can you help me?...<br />
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I seem to have misplaced my dignity</div>
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And the awkwardness continues even when the photo shoots are in snowboarding's natural environment...<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48877394@N03/5489292111" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Snowboard!</i> by Miguel Aguilera</b></span></a><br />
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I hold it like this?</div>
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Like this?</div>
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Use it as an elbow rest? This doesn't seem all that stable...</div>
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Fuck it!</div>
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This shoot goes straight for the classics: Here's yet another can't-hold-a-snowboard pose.</div>
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A bikini change later and it's another one, along with the future classic having-a-poo pose.</div>
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This brace of fools, took awkward posing to a whole new level, about 3000m to be precise.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ilchoni.com/blog/?p=3263" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Elena - the snowboard girl</i> by Ilka Antonova</span></b></a><br />
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The snowboard girl? It's a bloke right?</div>
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Another classic elbow rest stance, but I'm still not convinced.</div>
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Nah, I'm not buying it. The board's definitely there to hide the sausage.</div>
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<a href="http://500px.com/photo/40787652/snow-board-girl-by-tony-mandarich" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Snow Board Girl</i> by Tony Mandarich</span></b></a><br />
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That was a whole swathe of awkward and it looks like awkward model posing has progressed to a whole new level. Since we first diagnosed the can't carry snowboards pose, it looks like the world's photographers are expanding their bag of awkward tricks with the emergence of the elbow rest stance, the taking-a-shit shot and the now prolific silly-ear-flap-hat. Not only has this exercise scientifically proven beyond reasonable doubt that snowboard model photo shoots are always immensely awkward, but it looks like it's going to be the standard state of affairs for years to come.<br />
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Over the past few years former pro snowboarder and amateur gangster, Marc Frank Montoya, has been re-inventing himself as a "Financial Freedom Specialist". It all sounded amusingly bonkers, but unfortunately underneath his veneer of blag, the ways he's chosen to money off the back of his snowboarding legacy are really sinister...<br />
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To become a financial guru you'd think you'd need a strong history of success in business and Marc Frank Montoya (MFM) is not afraid to claim that he's the dog's bollocks. This is how he describes his business background on his website:<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">How I went from "HOOD TO GREAT" </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Discover How I Went From A Struggling "Hustler", To A World-Class Professional Athlete Building Several Million Dollar Businesses As A Serial Entrepreneur!</span><br />
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And on his Linkedin profile, complete with resplendent smugshot, he's claiming near Jedi-level business skills<br />
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Let's take a look at those claims by taking a trip through the rest of his Linkedin profile...<br />
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So that's just an incredibly wank way of saying he was a professional snowboarder. Well that bit of his profile is no surprise, but what about his claim to be a successful entrepreneur?<br />
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That didn't work out so well. He went into business with a really shady character called "Liko" Smith who was the brother of his then wife. The hotels had to be sold off after a few years when Liko Smith, who ran the business, <a href="http://www.boardistan.com/?p=2995" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">was arrested</a> for owing $200,000 in taxes. MFM was only really an investor rather than the person who ran the joint, but he lost a whole load of money on that bet.<br />
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Dead. Let's mark that up as failure two of two.<br />
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That's also gone and is now just a front page for the last thing on his résumé, we'll get to that in a minute. Three from three.<br />
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On top of those three there's been a series of other business attempts that he's chosen not to include on his Linkedin profile including:<br />
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A bunch of failed investments, failed businesses and one zombie website is not the definition of being a serial entrepreneur. It's like a guy with a record-breaking premature ejaculation problem claiming he's a legendary swordsman.<br />
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With no sign of any actual business successes, this guy is surely in no position to be handing out financial advice, unless that advice is on how to lose money prolifically.<br />
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At this point MFM realised that he was about as good at business as he was at <a href="http://youtu.be/9wrvGhnjALg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lip-synching hip-hop</a>, so he looked for another way to make money, which leads us on to the most recent part of his career - scamming people.<br />
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These two businesses (<a href="http://www.mfmandfam.com/what_the_hell_is_this" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">and the zombie site</a>) are the same turd polished in slightly different ways. <a href="http://whitelines.com/features/marc-frank-montoya-snowboarder-gangser-and-self-help-guru.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">There's a good article on Whitelines</a> which takes a look at his most recent reinvention "Financial Freedom Specialist", but what they don't get quite right is how he makes his money. He doesn't make money just by flogging DVDs, the really sinister money behind this site is in the 'Mandatory Trainings' [sic] section. That section, and the whole focus of the other site, is on a scheme called multi-level marketing.<br />
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Multi-level marketing (MLM) sounds pretty innocent, but what it is in this case is one tiny grey step away from a good old-fashioned pyramid scheme. Pyramid schemes, where the whole charade is based on the collection and redistribution of joining fees from new people to people further up the hierarchy, are of course illegal. To avoid the whole awkward jail bit, companies need to offer some sort of product or service to be involved and pretty often that product can be as nominal as 'wealth advice'.<br />
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MFM has joined up with an outfit called the <a href="http://marcfrankmontoya.com/marc-frank-montoya-joins-david-wood/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Empower Network</a>, a company set-up by a couple of very dodgy blokes based out of the hotbed of business success and convenient taxes, Costa Rica. Empower Network is really at the very sketchy end of the MLM schemes, because although they do offer a service, their service is pretty much just a garnish for the joining fees.<br />
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You pay in about $5,000 to join/get trained (you won't get that back) and for that you get some spurious advice on how to make money from blogging and a site of your own (which is build on Wordpress, a product you can get hold of without these guys for the very reasonable price of no money). Approximately $4,000 of that fee goes to the person that gets you to buy in and $1,000 goes up the chain to the guys at the top. You can then hope to make about $100 a month form blogging and for the volume of work involved $100 is a shitty amount of money and it would take years just to break even. But for most people it's even worse, as around 90% of the people who sign-up to this scheme stand to make no money at all.<br />
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The real way to make money in this scheme is not to blog, but to sell the idea to more people. Instead of the minimal $1,200 a year you could make from blogging about something like snowboarding, if you blog and talk about Empower Network and you managed to sign-up one person a month you'll make $48,000. That's a huge incentive for the people in the network to behave exactly like they would in a pyramid scheme and it all operates on the basis of exploiting a lot of people who lose money.<br />
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TL;DR You have to pay to join, and if you have to pay a company to work for them, it's a scam.<br />
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Also another warning sign is that if someone has to spend any time explaining how their business is not a pyramid scheme, it's a pyramid scheme. <a href="http://everyoneneedsfreedom.empowernetwork.com/blog/the-truth-about-pyramid-schemes-from-marc-frank-montoya" target="_blank">Here's MFM doing just that</a>.<br />
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Sure buddy, it's not a pyramid scheme, and this isn't one of the most worst examples of misogyny in snowboarding history...<br />
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So MFM is spending a lot of time and making a lot of money from signing people up to Empower Networks and the first group of people he's been targeting are sadly the people who supported him when he was a snowboarder. Interesting way to thank them. Here's a couple of relevant comments from the <a href="http://easyloungin.com/forum/topic.php?id=7865" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EasyLounging forum</a>.<br />
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Distric - <i>One of my friends is selling that shit for MFM. imo, he lures shred kids in with the vision of being one of his "friends" having meetings at his house and going to bars with him. Friend has tried to get me to go. I want nothing to do with it.</i><br />
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He's basically a financial Jimmy Saville<br />
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<i>MFM claims that juice healed his knee. whatever</i><br />
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Good point. I forgot to mention that he used to also front up another multi-level marketing company that hucks miracle drinks called Monavie. <a href="http://www.monavie.com/en/company/athletes/marc-frank-montoya" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">There's another thing</a> he didn't mention on his Linkedin profile.<br />
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drjcv - I<i>'ve got a buddy that constantly gets hooked by the latest mlm thing, it doesn't matter how many he gets involved in he never seems to learn.</i><br />
<i><br /></i><i>The fundamental thing about any mlm scheme is that its not about selling the product, its about signing people up. usually there is a couple hundred dollar sign up fee. </i><i>The idea is you sell "financial freedom" to people. you hook people in by saying all they have to do is sign people up (and the people you sign up supposedly start making money from the people they sign up who makes money from....)</i><br />
<i><br /></i><i>So you have a guy like MFM, who is successful and charismatic at the top of the pyramid (which has multi levels btw, that's where the name comes from) actually making some money, but no one else does, you're just a brick in the pyramid and the point at the top is embedded in MFM's sphincter.</i><br />
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The thing is that by getting involved with Empower Network Marc Frank Montoya is falling for the same bullshit. He's not at the top of these pyramids, he's a making money, but he's also being taken advantage of. It's a mugs game and he's a bit part player.<br />
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To up the irony, remember the guy that took large sums of his money and lost in on the Block Hotel? Liko Smith "<a href="http://www.theworldsmostextremeceo.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The World's Most Extreme CEO</a>", is involved in these schemes too and more than likely he's the one that got MFM involved. It takes some kind of special sucker to fall for that shit twice.<br />
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<i>[Edit: It seems that Liko Smith's site has just been pulled down for legal reasons. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140214154929/http://theworldsmostextremeceo.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Here's the archived version</a>]</i><br />
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As good as Marc Frank Montoya was at snowboarding, what he's been doing off the mountains has really tarnished whatever credit he had instead of building something on it. By embracing these exploitative get-rich-quick schemes and targeting the people who used to be his supporters MFM is rapidly turning into a rotten legacy for snowboarding.<br />
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At the dawn of the internet, a service called the Internet Archive started diligently recording the history of all websites. This week we use the Internet Archive to explore the early stumblings of snowboarding in the digital age and plunge into a wonderful world of intro screens, black backgrounds, gifs and step-in bindings...<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">"Who can say if the trend is more fueled [sic] by the freedom of expression and air time riding allows for, or the sport's winning number in the lotto of cool and hip. No one could have imagined it thus far, not even Jake Burton, owner of the world's leading snowboarding company. As he admitted in and ESPN interview, he was once unsure of snowboarding's future but he now sees it totally eclipsing skiing."</span><br />
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Mervin, made no promises, but still managed to beat the general trend and produce a website and marketing strategy that was 100% more epic than their current one.<br />
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Sims had this awesome 90s team page, featuring a stunning combination of boring fonts, drab colours and crappy graphics<br />
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<b>Device 1997</b><br />
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The late 90's were mad for step-in bindings, and Device is in here to represent that trend. They've got some classic gifs, some really strange snowboard boots with integrated spurs, and they were well chuffed about their latest win: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19980131170116/http://www.device.com/index1.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Device wins Snow Country magazine Step-In binding of the year!"</a><br />
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Device and Snow Country magazine have since gone out of business.<br />
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Funny thing fashion. Step-ins ultimately never made it, but novelty hats, they're still going strong...<br />
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Dipping to this century, just after every computer on earth narrowly avoided being destroyed by the millennium bug, there's a couple of sites that also need a mention:<br />
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The early noughties saw the simple website intro screen superseded by the even more time-wasting intro video. Winterstick's is the only one we can still find functioning and it's bloody brilliant. With some seriously grimey bass <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020603161558/http://www.winterstick.com/intro.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">it's well worth a look</a>.<br />
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How old does thsi make you feel? We found Shaun White's website from when he was just a 14-yer-old whippersnapper. His whole snowboarding career has been and gone since then, but his website was pretty much the same thing; pictures of Shaun dressing up and gurning, and having an entourage of people working on his publicity.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"1.30.01 - I just got these skate photo's. They are of me skating at the YMCA. It was a super fun day and we shot photo's for a couple of hours. I had a wig on too which rocked. Check out these photos, also if you have aol don't click on the thumbnails yet, you will have to go to the photo section. Apperently AOL doesnt support the code that Microsoft does, my programmer is working on it. So hold tight."</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19981212034249/http://www.yobeat.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yobeat 1997</a></span></b><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Here's Yobeat introducing people to the future of snowboard publishing with their awesome </span>background, heinous logo and a site that's all lit-up like an electric blue disco Knight Rider</div>
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Transworld launched into this brave new world with the worst menu they could possibly create<br />
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One of the multitude of pages they created was an actual, old timey <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19970217233622/http://www.twsnow.com/guest/guestbook.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chat room</a>, which for some reason they have since thoroughly distanced themselves from. I wish their site had a little more of this sort of thing these days...<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>bumblefuck: </b>Jim rippey is a fucking cocky, asshole!he is so damn generic too! He did a shit load of his stupid gay ass , trendy flips at the x games. is that all he can do!?? i'm glad the ass-fuck couldn't land a double flip at the big air. the dumb ass did a flip at the border x too, give me a fucking break, he thinks he rocks just cause he does flips all the time. what a fag. try something new jim any thing but thoseflips you do everytime! oh yeah victoria jealouse rules!i'd love to ride with her and some other stuff, he he. if anybody is gonna be a killington this week e-mail me. c-ya, ride on where the fuck is the snow???????</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>twentyfourseven: </b>hey bumblefuck, youre right about the flips and stuff, they suck. But Rippey is still the UNDISPUTED KING of cliff seven twentys. thats all i gotta say. later</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>bumblefuck:</b> that's true, but he's still an ass fucker</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Charles Kenna:</b> this piece that i write is the shit because no other can match it</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>One pissed skater: </b>All so-called 'AGRESSIVE INLINERS' can eat a fucking dick. All you pussies do is take up space and time at the fucking parks. I don't want to hear you whine about not getting respect becuase you don't give it to us and you don't deserve it. Rollerbladers can eat a big fat dick.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Gay Bob: </b>SKIERS SUCK THERE COCKY AND ALWAYS IN THE WAY. do me a favor if you see one kill em if you are one kill yourself.</span><br />
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The Chinese eCommerce group Alibaba is about to go public in what is expected to be the largest tech IPO of all time. 80% of everything sold online in China goes through this company and they flog more merchandise than Amazon and eBay combined. It's not a company most people outside China are familiar with, so we figured we'd take a look and see what all the excitement is about...<br />
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The Alibaba.com site puts manufactures in touch with importers and when we ran a search for 'snowboard' things didn't get off to a good start. This was the <a href="http://uk.alibaba.com/product/890233384-KX10-Plastic-children-snowboard.html?s=p" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">5th result</a>:<br />
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Neither a snowboard nor a set of plastic children.</div>
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Next in line was <a href="http://uk.alibaba.com/product/687406963-chinese-snowboards-for-sale.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this</a>:<br />
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On the first page of 20 results, along with these two, there was an inflatable sledge, 5 plastic snowboards, a set of dual snowboards, an LED snowboard and a snowboard that thought it was a binding. That's not a good hit rate. But it's not just reams of shonky made-in-China tat that you can buy on Alibaba.com, you can buy crap from all around the world.<br />
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Austria's only product was this set of ground-breaking <a href="http://uk.alibaba.com/product/216956708-Snowboard-bindings.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">snowboard bindings</a><br />
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"We created a new binding concept to uplift the entire snowboarding world: the Strap-in"</div>
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In an uncanny representation of the generation-long shift in manufacturing to China from the USA, this was <a href="http://uk.alibaba.com/product/215141653-Snowboarder.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the US contribution</a>.</div>
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On the plus side we were really pleased to see that <a href="http://stlsnow.trustpass.alibaba.com/productgrouplist-103485969-1/ski_snowboard_jackets.html?isGallery=Y" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">South Korea</a> is still absolutely rocking the fuck out, with their incredible snowboard fashions and awesome model poses. Here are a few of our favourite ones:</div>
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South Korea - putting the swag in swagger.</div>
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A good chunk of the world's snowboards are now manufactured in China, but I think there's some way to go before the companies out there start pushing their own brands into other markets. Here's a glimpse into the current state of snowboard marketing in China from local manufacturer <a href="http://hasiky.en.alibaba.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Haisky</a>:<br />
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From this day forth I'm always going to refer to my bindings as 'feet tramples'</div>
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Snowboard graphics have got some way to go too...</div>
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Amongst all their horrible own designs was this one by French company Windlip snowboards...</div>
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It's not clear on how legitimate that is (I think they may have some part in the production of some of the Windlip snoabords), but it lead us to a few even more dubious snowboards you can buy. From a series of questioningly separate dealers in <a href="http://uk.alibaba.com/trading-search?CatId=0&Country=&SearchText=snowboard+sims&IndexArea=product_en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Slovakia, Ukraine and Moldova</a>, you can buy batches of the Briana Banks Sims Fader board from 2004.<br />
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Seems highly unlikely they have batches of unsold Sims boards from 10 years ago, so your're pretty much guaranteed to either, never see your money again, or get a very shitty reproduction. Either way it's still probably a better way of spending your money, than forking out the $4,000 someone is currently trying to flog <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Sims-Fader-155-Vivid-Topless-Briana-Banks-Snowboard-Brand-New-In-Plastic-/331055757784?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d1475f9d8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">an original one on eBay</a> for.<br />
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My favourite knock-offs by far are <a href="http://s.taobao.com/search?q=arbor+snowboard&app=detail" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">these Arbor boards</a> currently being sold on Alibaba's version of eBay in China, Taobao.com. They've not even tried to make these things even remotely look like an Arbor design and they've got the balls to ask for a hefty $480 per board.<br />
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New for the 2014/15 season, decorated with all sorts of Halloween clip art, comes the Arbor Prospect.</div>
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And even better is the 2014/15 Arbor Sequence with it's karaoking werewolves. </div>
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Alibaba is a company that could ultimately be valued at more than $16 billion, and as far as we can see it's full of tat, dual snowboards, and shonky knock-offs. All things considered, when the opportunity arises, I'll probably not be adding these guys to my diverse stock portfolio.<br />
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