Quiksilver Crystal Ground

The fifth season for the Quiksilver Crystal Ground is coming up however it is the same procedure every year: preparations are in full swing.  One should think that planning the season becomes routine and daily business but far from it! Every year they face new tasks …

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Horsefeathers Snowboard Camp

The season, when a lot of us love to be in the mountains is starting right now. What’s a better wish for Christmas than snowboarding with a bunch of friends? Going into its 7th year, Horsefeathers Snowboard Camp has become a tradition at Les 2 Alpes resort in France, which is considered to be one of the best locations in Europe …

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Eero Ettala shotgun

Eero has finally made it and launched his own website! From now on you can be always up to date with Eero. He provides you with daily news received and tells you what he just witnessed …

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PRAY FOR SNOW

It's time to PRAY FOR SNOW. There are a lot of chain letters out there and we thought why not to start one? Send this PRAY FOR SNOW postcard to 5 friends and this winter hell will break loose with lots of powder …

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Coverboy Devun Walsh

Coverboy and Canadian Devun Walsh, convenient and beautiful as usual. Further ADDICTED TO SNOW calendar 2010 pro-riders: Devun Walsh, Chris Wimbles, Jeremy Jones, Kevin Sansalone, Dolf van der Wal, Damien Henzelin, Lauri Haiskari, JP Tomich, Chad Otterstrom, Pat Milbery, Benji Ritchie and Antti Autti …

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The Sports Syndicate: Sneak around with NINJA

The McClellan Nichols Sports Syndicate is a full-service athlete representation agency with particular expertise in Action Sports including Motocross, FMX, Skateboarding, Surfing and Snowboarding. They represent Snowboarders like Torstein Horgmo, Andreas Wiig, Louie Vito, Darrell Mathes, JJ Thomas …

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Annette and Babette Steinbauer: Talented sisters!

Netty's biggest successes were surely the gold medal at the Universiade (students Olympic) in Italy, the German championship in boarder cross in Oberstdorf, several top 15 placings at the FIS-Worldcup or European Open (e.g. in Sweden, Chile, Switzerland, etc.) and multiple victories in the Italian Open and European Cups. Betty among other results won 3 times at the Big Air event at the Kaunertal Opening and came among the top eight at the Universiade (including Italy and Czech Republic).

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Hello Facebook

Just become our friend/fan on Facebook. Leave a message on our Pinboard, say "Hello" anyway. We do not want to answer tricky questions and initially no size information of any kind, we just want to be your friends …

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Addicted to Snow Calendar 2010

The new "Addicted to Snow 2010" calendar features Coverboy Devun Walsh. Convenient and beautiful, as usual!

14,90 EUR

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Manglo Moves DVD

MOG Production already exists for some years, but this year is the first international publication of a snowboard movie, that wants to show the talent and potential of several (still) unknown, young people from Tyrol to a big crowd.

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The Highest-Paid Action Sports Stars

That one can earn a lot of money as a board sport professional can, especially in the US, is certainly not a secret anymore. The US business magazine "Forbes" has recently published a list of the highest-paid Action Sports Stars. The first place is occupied by Tony Hawk, who has earned in 2008 12 million US dollars. Hawk retired from competitive skating in 1999, but he has built a business empire that sold 200 million US dollar worth of Tony Hawk branded …

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Shaun Palmer – World Champion 2009?

Freeride magazine would, of course, have liked to have published an exciting interview about his comeback, but the American only provided the following comments to the questions we mailed him: “Hey man, before I give you any answers ... email me a picture of your smart ass face! LOL! Fuckn Germans! – Shaun. PS: my girlfriend thinks your pretty funny!”

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Shaun White Snowboarding

Shaun White Snowboarding takes the Action-Sport-Genre to a totally new level. For the very first time, players can feel the rocky impact of the mountains beneath their feet – while enjoying the comforts of their own living rooms. This has become possible with the revolutionary Wii Balance Board™. Whether the player slowly makes his or her way down the beginner’s slope or speeds down the challenging, professional slopes, the player shouldn’t assume that he or she has to go it alone – the player will need the support of his or her environment and friends in order to make it to the bottom in one piece.

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Commodore 64 is back!

It´s finally here - the best-selling single personal computer of all time, with over 30 million units sold worldwide. Yes, now you have the chance to replay your favorite games from the 80´s, with beautiful crafted "red-ball" joystick, portrait or landscape mode …

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Ken Block and Rob Dyrdek's Gymkhana

As featured MTV's "Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory", Gymkhana 2.1 takes the epic cinematography and driving from Block that you've come to expect from the Gymkhana videos and mixes in Dyrdek and his "mini-Gymkhana" kart. The two, who have worked together and been good friends since Dyrdek joined the DC skate team in 1995, decided to get the kart built and film the clip when Dyrdek made an appearance in the Gymkhana TWO video earlier this year …

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Untitled. Street Art in the Counter Culture

Compiler Gary Shove has come up with a completely different take on the graffiti book with this trip around the worlds best street art. The book feels like a well communicated poem. Pictures and words interacting to create a commentary that is punk enough to follow its own drum …

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Tribo Skate: 18 years of true Brazilian skateboarding!

Tribo Skate in the center of focus again. Happy birthday, Tribo, as the Mag celebrates 18 years of true Brazilian skateboarding! For almost the past two decades, not only has Tribo been the pushing force which enabled the Brazilian skateboard scene, skateboarders and market to develop itself to one of the only independent skateboard industries worldwide, but it was also unstoppable on pointing out the right way skateboarding had to go …

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Ryu Itadani – Things, Lines and Colors

Itadani was born in 1974 in Osaka, Japan. After living in Osaka, Toronto, Tokyo, London, he currently lives and works again in Tokyo since 2004. He has collaborated with various fashion labels, magazines, newspapers, and advertisings (Dazed & Confused and many more …) …

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PLAYBOARD MAGAZINE – Skate- & Snowboarding Design e-book

rupa publishing brings already new ideas to the e-book market. “PLAYBOARD MAGAZINE - Skate-& Snowboarding Design” is probably the first fully illustrated design book with 10 unreleased layout designs from the early days of the Playboard magazine for iPhone and iPod touch (compared to the printed version you'll save more than 19.00 Euro!) …

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ISAORA high-end Snowboard-inspired Apparel

Style-obsessed adventurers, winter’s urban warriors, and snowboarders alike have a new, versatile and sophisticated option wherever their adventure takes them. ISAORA, the first high-end snowboard-inspired collection of advanced sportswear and outerwear designed for both men and women, is poised to make its debut and prove that technical performance and high style need not be mutually exclusive.

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THE GIRLS OF SUMMER

Spring Summer has well and truly hit some bright heights with Nikita’s new super colourful collection.  Fresh and bright colour combinations accompanied with lots of original prints and patterns, feature some new and former young artists from around the world who are all on a major colour trip.

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Surfrider Foundation Interview

The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our world’s oceans, waves and beaches. Founded in 1984 by a handful of visionary surfers in Malibu, California, the Surfrider Foundation now maintains over 50,000 members and 80 chapters worldwide. We spoke to Olaf Lohr, Manager at Surfrider Foundation.

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Death & Taxes – Jared Strain Interview

Dangerous ideas. Stake-in-the-ground positioning. Culturally relevant execution. Razor sharp creative marketing is part instinct, part disregard for personal safety. You might call them crazed, but we think it takes more than casual interest to anticipate real trends. Seattle and Salt Lake City based Death & Taxes hunts down the latest in music, art, fashion, TV, big screen, and sports. Where did they get all this insight, you ask? We spoke to Jared Strain from Death & Taxes.

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Yannick Simon - Lights, Camera, Action!

Yannick Simon, our talented 24 years old ADDICTED TO SNOW young gun, has already been working for 2 years as photo assistant with various fashion, lifestyle and commercial photographers, and is now on the best way to become a certificated photographer himself. At the moment he’s busy for Gaukler Studios …

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Alexander Egger: Satellites Mistaken for Stars

Explaining someone’s output on the basis of a biography would be short-sighted, ineffective, delusive, and wouldn’t do justice to the variability of life and its complex conditions. Alexander Egger lived the first third of his life on the Italian side of the Alps in a little village where Ezra Pound used to spend his summer holidays …

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Family Affairs

Canada is advertising itself with almost cheesy portraits of the stunning nature that is offering this country in the far north of the American continent. These amenities combined with the typical Nordic weather drew a small but nice Horsefeathers delegation to the land of the maple leaf …

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Keeping up with Jeremy Jones

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, or so the saying goes. Usually, in retrospect, I like to think that it’s more a case of what doesn’t kill you lets you live, sometimes by the skin of your teeth. So here I am balancing on the fine line that separates being able to hold my snowboard’s edge on sheet ice and that same edge slipping out and me falling helplessly into …

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Cathrine Westergaard Interview

Cathrine Westergaard is a native New Yorker, born to a broadway and film producer. She spent her childhood amidst the world of auditions, rehearsals and red carpet openings. Her photographs capture subtle and unconventional beauty. Cathrine Westergaard has done plenty of editorial work for fashion magazines and has photographed celebreties and worked with record labels. She has been chosen a semi-finalist for the Hasselblad Masters competition.

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Natasja Fourie – Image maker, storyteller and artist

Fourie is recognized for a extravagant approach in documenting her friends and their private lives, mixing photojournalism with fashion photography. We´ve asked her 9 questions to inspire your own life …

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Markus Keller Interview

Markus Keller’s affinity toward Santa is a matter of course. This is partly due to his date of birth, which is the 6th December, and partly due to his pleasure in impersonating Santa. Pretty strange. Pretty normal, on the other hand, is the name Keller, which can be found on just about every fifth doorbell in Switzerland – around 20,000 times.

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