Snowboard News

APO Snowboards Finds Swiss Investor

2010-07-28T21:40:24Z

APO front man Regis Rolland has secured his company’s financial future just in the nick of time.

Signal Every Third Thursday Rocks!

2010-07-18T21:05:01Z

Isn’t the World Wide Web fantastic! Along with social networking, Japanese game shows on youtube and of course Snowboard-Review.com, there are some snowboard brands creating some pretty cool webisodes.

Welcome to Snowboard-Review TV!

2010-07-08T21:00:08Z

No need to double take, you’ve read the headline correctly. Snowboard-Review.com is launching its own High Definition TV channel and it’s mega, I mean radical, I mean… you know what I mean.

Arbor Snowboard’s Mega Summer Giveaway Extravaganza

2010-06-24T21:02:42Z

Everybody on the planet loves free stuff, we’re no exception. Snowboard Review just received an email from Brad at Arbor telling us that Arbor have a load of new gear burning a hole in their ridiculously large eco-friendly pockets. The best part is, they plan to give away over the summer… Woohoo!

The Best Snowboard Technology of 2011

2010-06-08T23:36:59Z

Every year tons of new technology hits the board racks; some of it is good, and to be frank, some of it isn’t. After a week of heavy testing, the Snowboard-Review test team have compiled a short list of technology which is head and shoulders above the rest, the goods you should be investing your hard earned cash in this coming season.

UK News: The FBBB progression series hits Hemel

2010-05-23T19:58:51Z

It’s summer time and while the majority of the Northern Hemisphere’s snowboarding population squeeze themselves onto Europe and North America’s last remaining glaciers or migrate south to Queensland in New Zealand or the more exotic locations of Argentina and Chile, UK’s core shredders are hitting the indoor snowdomes. FBBB have been consistently putting on the best events in the UK for the last five years, they’re back for another summer.

Rome United Binding Recall

2010-05-14T12:59:50Z

In today’s safety conscious, litigation frenzied society it isn’t uncommon for a car manufacturer to issue a statement recalling a range of vehicles due to a manufacture or design fault. It is however fairly uncommon for snowboard products to be recalled by a manufacturer, which is exactly what Rome have done.

The 2010 Snowboard Test

2010-05-10T22:08:36Z

The Snowboard Review test team is back from the 2010 snowboard test, a week of putting the 2011 season’s snowboards through their paces. What with Icelandic volcanoes spewing out clouds of ash and paralysing the UK’s airport industry and a week of the most appalling May weather I’ve ever seen, I was blown away by the fact that the Snowboard-Review team were able to test almost 100 snowboards!

Team Signal heads to Europe for the Volcanoes Blow Tour

2010-04-26T21:08:04Z

Big news from our friends at Signal Snowboards. Huntington Beach’s favourite snowboard brand is heading to the Eurozone for some springtime shredding and chilling. Apparently it’s all in the name of Trans-European relations; I say any excuse for a road trip!

ISPO Preview - 2011 YES. Nowboards

2010-04-25T18:59:44Z

The 2009/10 season was a sensational year for the boys at YES. Dropped from the Burton International Team in 2008; with hard work, a great brand and backing from Europe’s most technologically advanced factory Nidecker; JP Solberg, Romain De Marchi and DCP have had quite a reversal of fortunes. 2011 sees YES expand their range from one board to five. Snowboard-Review managed a sneaky peek at their growing range at ISPO, Europe’s premier winter sports tradeshow.

Exclusive: Lib Tech Chewgash Powder Prototype Snowboard

2010-04-14T12:20:09Z

Is it a Wakeboard? Is it a Surfboard? No it’s the Chewgash!

Renowned snowboard shape pioneers Mervin Manufacturing, the guys responsible for Gnu and Lib Tech snowboards are at it again. As if riding pow isn’t fun enough, rumour was rife that long term employees Dave Mounts and Steven Cobb have been working behind the scenes to create the ultimate powder riding experience. I emailed Pete Saari at Mervin to get to the bottom of the story:

ISPO Preview - 2011 All-Mountain Snowboards

2010-04-05T21:14:34Z

Some might be thinking that with the wealth of specialist snowboards filling the shelves of stores world wide, All-Mountain snowboards might be dying a death. Of course, you’d be wrong, All-Mountain boards still make up the majority of sales and still account for most of the boards you’ll see on the hill. Snowboard Review picked out some rides worth keeping an eye out for next season.

Last year’s surprise hit, the Angus sees another year in Rossignol’s snowboard line-up. Largely unchanged from last year’s Angus, the 2010/11 model will feature all-mountain Amptek (camber between the bindings and rocker after) and an even more gruesome graphic (see for your self below). The big news at Rossi is that next year’s all mountain line up sees Amptek technology used on the entire range. Rossi’s all mountain jack of all trades, the One gets another slick graphic and all-mountain Amptek matched up with Magnetraction edges… they’re calling it Magtek, if the retains it’s sub $400 price point it’s going to clear up the market. The JDub, Rossi’s beefed up big kicker charger also gets Magtek and a ton of linear carbon reinforcement, I’m told the result is a hard charging deck without the brutal stiffness the JDub is famed for.

1) Rossignol Angus. 2) Rossignol One. 3) Amplid Hi-Def. 4)Arbor Coda. 4) Lib Tech TRS. 5) Lib Tech Lando Phoenix. 7) Lib Tech Travis Rice. 8) Jamie Lynn Phoenix. 9) Bataleon Omni. 10) Bataleon Project Green. 11) Bataleon Enemy+++. 12) Rome Anthem. 13) Atomic Alibi. 14) Never Summer SL-R. 15) K2 Raygun. 16) Endeavor Guerrilla.

ISPO Preview - 2011 Bindings

2010-03-27T22:59:05Z

Technically Snowboard Review is a site for Snowboards and Snowboards only, but you need bindings to go riding so on this occasion I believe I’m justified in posting preview pictures of next years bindings. So what’s hot and what’s not? Well strap bindings are still fashionable and Switch Step-Ins won’t be making reappearance, amen. Over the years we’ve seen all sorts of reinventions of the traditional strap binding, from Flow’s original slip in binding and Apo’s rather slicker looking Expresso binding which essentially does the same job, to Beyond Snow’s fairly over engineered strap binding designed to cut down the time required to tighten your bindings from 10 seconds to 5 and only at the cost of an extra kilo…hmm.

Brand Test - Volkl Squad, Coal & Cashew Snowboards Reviewed

2010-03-21T21:32:51Z

Volkl is one of those brands that we’d always heard good things about and although they’re a highly regarded and popular ski brand their snowboard division has never really benefited from the same exposure and popularity. Nevertheless they’ve always supported a very core squad of European and Canadian riders and by all reports have made some quality decks over the years. Anyway, with this in mind, SB-R thought it about time our readers found-out whether the hype was justified and contacted snowboarding legend and Swiss distributor of Volkl Harry Gunz in the hope he’d send Tom a few boards……….needless to say Tom wasn’t disappointed!

Contract Battle for Britain Competition Update

2010-03-21T16:57:51Z

It has been eight weeks since the Contract Snowboards ‘Battle for Britain’ began. It is now the final week before the team at Contract announce the10 finalists. Selected from the ranks, the 10 riders will be asked to create a short edit video showcasing their riding skills. The rider that impresses the team at Contract the most will be awarded a place on the prestigious SYS team. For your chance to win a years sponsorship from Poland’s premier snowboard brand submit a photo of yourself laying down some skills at www.contractsnowboards.com/shredbattle . Be quick the final day for submissions is Friday the 26th of March