Snowboard Review

Volie Split Decision Review - The Build

2012-02-01T09:36:12Z

Living in the Alps last winter, staring up at all the unridden lines that clutter Austria’s Salzburgerland, the idea of building a splitboard during the summer seemed like a great way to occupy myself during the snowless months. After a bit of research I’d decided that the Voile Split Decision kit was the best way to go with an outlay of $160 for the kit and $170 for the Voile Tractor skins. Around mid-May I was contacted by a fellow Brit named Dave who offered to sell me an Option 174 Freeplus for £50 (~$80). Dave had been on the site and seen from the forums that I was after a longer board for touring. Sure it’s a good ten years old now but it was in perfect condition. In June when I was back in the UK visiting my folks, my Dad and I set to work building the split, turning Dave’s unwanted gun into a fresh-line seeking powder missile.

Burton Gets All Mysterious

2012-01-24T21:36:25Z

Almost exactly 12 months ago I was strolling through the Burton ISPO stand (or should I say complex) when I noticed a display with an unnamed board and bindings balanced on a set of scales. Unsurprisingly the display was designed to show how remarkably lightweight this all-in-black setup was and it had attracted a lot of interest. After spending 2 days filling my brain with the many good, bad and ridiculous products that the snowboard industry had to show, this secretive setup evaporated from my mind. This week I noticed that a black board labelled the Mystery had appeared on the Burton website… the appropriately named shred had been revealed.

DaKine meets Wolle Nyvelt and Aesmo

2012-01-17T21:00:41Z

Our friends at DaKine Europe sent us this nice little vid of Wolle Nyvelt they made when they visited the Ästhetiker powder ninja at his home in the Zillertal.

Good Times in Europe with the Timeline Crew

2012-01-16T09:26:00Z

Last year the Timeline series was launched to document French mad man Xavier De Le Rue’s season in Europe riding ridiculous lines, with the help of his meaty list of sponsors. The only thing was; while the US was getting dumped on, last season in Europe saw a bit of a drought of the white stuff.

DC Launches Park Live Video Concept

2012-01-13T09:32:41Z

Marketing is a funny thing. One the one hand, we all pay for it through the products we buy. On the other hand snowboarding’s marketing spend supports the media we consume, pro-riders (and therefore snowboarding’s progression) and every once in a while a cool concept that directly benefits us…the consumer.

Welcome to Snowboard-Review 2.0

2012-01-11T20:00:12Z

If you’re a regular on the site you’ve probably browsed-by this week and noticed that Snowboard-Review.com has been replaced with a much slicker looking imposter calling itself SB-RV.

Amplid Shred Recipes: Episode 2

2011-12-28T16:52:52Z

I may be a little late posting the second instalment of the Amplid Shred Recipes Trilogy but it’s Christmas and I’ve been busy shovelling mince pies into my mouth and slowly pickling myself with all sorts of festive booze.

Signal Every Third Thursday - Candy Snowboard

2011-12-15T22:38:15Z

I’ll give you three guesses what happens when you heat a snowboard with a candy base in a snowboard press. In this episode common sense goes right out of the window and the Signal crew attempt to build a snowboard, supplementing the base, topsheet and sidewalls with confectionary… ridiculous in a good way.

Amplid Shred Recipes: Episode 1

2011-12-12T08:04:24Z

Here’s a little gem from our friends at Amplid. Amplid has put together a three part series about ski and snowboard design and RnD. In the first episode Peter Bauer and Anian Thrainer the brains behind the brand introduce themselves and then run through the basics of ski and snowboard geometry. In the second episode due for release next Monday the two co-founders will go into more details about how they conduct RnD. For snowboard geeks and newbies alike it’s a pretty interesting watch.

Crepel Firing On All Cylinders

2011-12-05T21:55:40Z

It’s been a while since the darling of French snowboarding Mr Mathieu Crepel has had a video part to shout home about but by the looks of it he’s back firing on all cylinders again.

Christmas Snowboard Gift Guide

2011-11-30T00:13:15Z

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.

Bonkers Boards - The Unity Whale

2011-11-23T20:57:02Z

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.

Brand Test - 2012 Amplid Snowboards

2011-11-19T13:57:36Z

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.

Nitro Moves Production To Taiwan

2011-11-11T17:34:44Z

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.

Relentless Energy Drink Freeze Festival 2011

2011-10-19T21:17:42Z

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.