Forum’s first team video “The Resistance” by Mack Dawg Productions was groundbreaking on it’s release in 2001 and remains many people’s favourite snowboard vid. Head honcho, Peter Line added random video graphics, matched his pro model board to his Fear and Loathing acting antics and threw down hammers.
Full Metal Edges was so raw when it came out that Grenade exploded almost overnight. Danny Kass was on a solo mission to make pipe legit again after years of stagnation.
The top 20 iconic board graphics of all time in no particular order, is your favourite listed?
Makia is now in it’s 15th year and the collection looks stronger with every release. We wanted to find more about the brand, it’s history and future, so took it upon ourselves to interview legendary snowboarder and Makia brand manager Joni Malmi to discover more.
With less and less young people taking up snowboarding any program getting the youth into snowboarding can only be a good thing. The non profit Chill Foundation created by Jake and Donna Carpenter seen 20,000 youth take their first turns on a snowboard in North America alone and has now expanded into Europe and Japan. We caught up with Chill’s Executive Director; Alex Bornstein to discover more.
The 2016 Snowboard Spring Break is a wrap, we headed over to Kaunertal to bring you this exclusive gallery.
Werni Stock reaching orbit during the NineKnights
With Ispo increasingly on it’s last legs, brands are forced to find innovative ways to display their products. What better way than to rent out an entire resort and fill it up with media, shops and pros each week? We went to discover more of what goes down at the Rome Lodge.
Sending postive vibes to Noah Salasnek who is currently fighting stage 4 cancer. This part from 1992 saw Noah take his skate tricks to the snow and the truck base pro model is one of the most recognisable and collectable of all time.
Team Europe; Antti Autti, Levi Luggen and filmer Teemu Lahtinen beat Team USA; Scotty Lago, Greg Bretz and filmer Rich Goodwin to win the Iceland Winter Games Video Battle and now you can win a trip to Iceland too.
