For some unknown reason women love Christmas shopping and men loathe it. For me, there is nothing worse than being dragged around a department store, book shop, jewellers and endless clothing stores to find the perfect gift only to find that within three weeks the gift that took blood, sweat and tears to find has been returned for credit or lost in the attic/local charity shop never to be seen again.  This year to help SB-RV readers find the perfect gift for their snowboard addicted loved ones we’ve created a list of 10 items with varying price tags that will have them jumping for joy instead of checking the wrapping for a receipt.

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Bonkers Boards is SB-RV’s salute to the mad scientists behind some of snowboarding’s most radical designs. To launch this feature we’ve chosen the Unity Whale, a powder hungry beast with a nose that would make Gerard Depardieu’s look proportionate and a cheeky little swallow tail to make it easier to prop up outside your post shred watering hole. We asked Unity owner Pete Wurster to give us the lowdown on one of the 2011/12 season’s craziest shapes.

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Last February I finally got a date in the diary to go riding with Peter Bauer of Amplid Snowboards. For those of you who don’t know of Peter, he’s a certified snowboard legend. From World Slalom Champion to AK veteran Peter has ridden it all; he’s even had a pro model at Burton, the PJ, which he shared with French carving extraordinaire Jean Nerva around 1990.

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I’d heard rumours about Nitro moving its snowboard production from Elan, Austria to Playmaker, Taiwan a couple of weeks ago but I didn’t want to jump the gun before everything was made official.

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It’s quickly coming around to the time of year when the nights start becoming annoyingly long, the temperature starts dropping through the floor and just about everybody catches their first cold of the winter season, which means only one thing… the London Freeze festival is around the corner. If you live in the UK and you haven’t got anything planned for the weekend of the 28th and 29th of October get yourself and some friends down to Battersea to see more double flips than a Dutch pancake restaurant and fill yourself with gallons of luminous energy drink which should keep you up all night and then conveniently wear off just as the tube you’re sat on pulls into your station.

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Snowboard-Review.com doesn’t often divert from the path of pure snowboard gear news but we received a press release from Mountain High resort today all about a new project they’ve been working on this summer and it was too good to keep to ourselves. The idea is to bring replica features from the neighbouring city of LA to the slopes of Mountain High.  This is definitely an interesting development in snowboard park design, and unsurprising it’s happening in SoCal where snowboard parks started 20 or so years ago. Here’s a video and press release from Mountain High.

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Sometimes you just don’t see what’s sat right in front of you; this is true of Apex Custom Snowboards. I’d been talking to a friend about wanting to film in a snowboard factory over a couple of Radlers (Shandy to non-Euros), he suggested that I drop local snowboard manufacturers Apex Snowboards an email. I’ve been hunting down small independent snowboard brands for the site for the last three years and despite being less than an hour drive from my front door Apex has not once appeared on my Radar.

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I’ve been so busy uploading this season’s snowboards to the site that I almost forgot some big news! Last week Relentless Energy Drink ran an article on their site about the 8 best snowboarding blogs on the planet and…

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Snowboarding and music go hand-in-hand like cheese and biscuits or Bonny and Clyde. In many cases a good sound track can make or break a big release movie. It’s all well and good seeing Travis Rice Miller Flipping a 60ft Pine Tree but if he’s doing it to the sounds of 80s one hit wonder Rick Ashley it loses a little pizazz. This month’s Every Third Thursday takes the relationship between music and snowboarding even closer with the creation of a Signal Bass Guitar put together with the help of the world’s most famous guitar manufacturer Fender. Once again Signal have excelled themselves creating a seriously entertaining webcast that’s worth a watch.

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The season hasn’t even started and yet brands are dropping late releases on us left, right and centre… give us a chance, we haven’t even got the early releases up on the site yet! We thought GNU’s latest release was worth a news post as GNU is releasing a pro model for long time rider Jamie Anderson. NoCal resident Jamie has been crushing the competition on the slopestyle course for a good few seasons now, our head of testing (perhaps a generous title) was in Sierra at Tahoe all of last season and said Jamie was killing it in Sierra’s many parks all season, so the prospect Jamie having input in the design of the Ladies Choice is exciting.

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