We thought we’d make you guys aware of another freebie from Rome Snowboards. Instead of working out how to sell more snowboards Ron at Rome has been wasting his working hours creating a freebie iPhone App that won’t help Rome make penny more. Essentially the App lets you record all the details from you winter season from snow conditions to your favourite pics in a chronological manner. It sounds great and as it’s free it is definitely worth downloading, if only Ron could make an App for my Nokia 3310, after 10 years I’m getting bored of snake 2.

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Every year a handful of brands appear vying for your cold cash. With small marketing budgets and a little media exposure a lot fade away into nothing and someone’s dream falls flat on its face. Compatriot Snowboards isn’t one of those brands. From the moment I discovered Compatriot four months ago I knew there was something different about what Compatriot was doing and an inherent longevity to the branding and message. Coming out of Jackson Hole with the backing of snowboarding superheroes Rob Kingwill and Kevin Jones, Compatriot is focusing on timeless graphics, low key product awareness rather than over-hyped marketing glitz and mostly importantly quality snowboards handmade in the US of A. I emailed Rick at Compatriot insisting he did an interview for Snowboard-Review.com, Rick couldn’t have been more helpful and promptly delegated the task to Rob (that’s what I call management!). If my experiences are a small peek into how the Compatriot team run the rest of the business Compatriot is going places.

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We’re going to have to promote our resident forum handyman and general geeza Steve to Movie reviewer. This man does not beat around the bush when it comes to reviews. Steve popped down to his local Calgary cinema to see the new Standard Films’ Storming movie and managed to squeeze a whole evening’s entertainment the night into a pine-nut shell. By the sounds of it after all the free beer that managed to find its way down Steve’s gullet I’m surprised Steve managed to remember enough to write a review at all!

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An interesting little press release found its way into the Snowboard-Review.com in-tray this morning. It looks like Amplid, one of Europe’s premium high-tech, high-quality snowboard manufacturers is getting some pretty good traction in South Korea. In fact Korea’s Ski and Snowboard communities are so into the brand that Amplid’s Korean distributor Baek Dong Joon is opening a Flagship store in the nation’s capital. Located in Seoul’s busiest snowboard shopping street (yes they have a street for snowboard shopping!), the store is completely devoted to Amplid gear… it sounds like heaven to us! And the best thing… it looks like an Amplid store could be opening near you with two more stores being planned for 2011.

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Automaton Snowboards might be a company that you’re not familiar with but Brenton Woo and his loyal army of ‘Agents’ have been doing their thing, just under the radar, for over six years now; longer than companies like Signal and Omatic. Anyway, although Automaton rarely benefit from exposure in popular magazines and in the years big video releases; Brenton and his loyal followers have been stirring up quite a bit of controversy online with recent blogs on the Angry Snowboarder and Shay Boarder (our bitter rivals…..only kidding!). Brenton started Automaton as a way of turning his love for snowboarding into a career and although it’s been a slow process Automaton are finally making a small profit and, perhaps more importantly for Brenton, getting their message out there; that snowboarding is all about having fun and that ‘snowboarding saves lives’. Not from a physiological point-of-view but from the perspective that it’s relief from an otherwise boring and sometimes meaningless existence. Snowboard-Review managed to corner the tireless Mr Woo for twenty minutes and ask him ten questions about Automaton:

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Browsing on the web during a slow day in the office I came across an interesting article on the Transworld Business website detailing the rocker/camber hybrid patent war going on between Mervin Manufacturing and Never Summer. I thought you guys might be interested.

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Snowboard-Review.com got wind that Reloaded (also known as Steve in the real world) was planning to head down to the Calgary premier of Absinthe’s latest blockbuster Now/here. We asked Reloaded to jot down a brief blog of his evening, so those not fortunate to be in spitting distance of a tour stop could share the experience… namely us. Damn our stranded little island!

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A couple of weeks ago Tobi aka Zoryfl, Snowboard-Review’s forum guru and snowboarding gear aficionado emailed me from his native Deutschland about putting together a product guide for snowboard bindings. It appears 7 hours stuck on a train back to Berlin can drive a man to be pretty productive! With people asking more-and-more ‘what bindings should I be buying for the perfect set-up’ it’s about time I put a guide on the site, so here it is.

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The movie premier season has started, and Snowboard-Review.com has just had news from Brad at Arbor Snowboards that they’ll be hosting the SoCal Premier of Think Thank’s Left Brain Right Brain and Bear Mountain’s Paint it Red.

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To celebrate the release of Absinthe’s new film ‘Nowhere’ YES snowboards have released a limited edition version of their TYPO board with graphics inspired by the Absinthe Films logo.

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