Snowboard Review Features

Sods Law dictates that whenever you plan a video review to coincide with good weather you get freezing and overcast weather instead. Last weekend I headed up to Obertauern one of Austrias higher less tree lined resorts to put a 166 Salomon Burner through its paces. With a thin blanket of snow in the backcountry I didn’t dare venture off the groomers so I found myself riding faster and faster to try and find the Burner’s limits. Having ridden every snow type under the sun (except for powder), at every possible gradient I can safely say that the Burner has no speed limit, but I do.

Continue reading Tested - 2011 Salomon Burner 166

Windlip offers a truly unique product, custom snowboards. Based in a small town called Pussy (yep that’s a real place) hidden in the Heart of the Savoir, France’s most mountainous region and the home of many a smelly cheese, Windlip produces a handful of boards each year for snowboarders who want the finest handmade rides or completely customised snowboards. Windlip create snowboards designed to match their owner’s ability, stats and riding style. Because it’s every snowboarder’s dream to own a custom freeride stick, Snowboard-Review.com contacted Windlip to find-out a little bit more about their snowboards and their unique approach to manufacturing.

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They say you can tell a lot about a man by the car he drives…….unfortunately I only own a 20 year-old push bike so I’m not entirely sure what that says about me. Anyway, the same conclusions can be made about snowboarders and their snowboards. Tom, our head of testing, delves into his parent’s garage to unveil which snowboards he’s owned over the past 12 years……..you can draw your own conclusions!

If you’d like to share your ‘boardology’ with Snowboard-Review.com’ readers please email a photo of you and your boards, with a few words, to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), and I’ll put together a reader’s boardology over the next couple of months.

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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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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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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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Dave Lee is a snowboarding legend. Not only is he more experienced in snowboard manufacture, design and riding than pretty much any other human being on the planet, he’s also a super mellow and approachable guy. Snowboard-Review dropped Dave an email and he was more than happy to answer a few questions; and let’s face it, Snowboard-Review isn’t Transworld Snowboard Mag… yet.

Signal is Dave’s Snowboard brand, it’s cool, understated and pushing Snowboarding products in a pretty unique and positive direction. We spoke to Dave about Signal’s boards, the Signal Huntington Beach Factory, the slick new range of Outerwear and Coffee of all things.

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As a lot of our precious readers are beginners looking to purchase their first snowboard we thought we’d write an article aimed to help all you beginners out there to choose the perfect board for learning; in essence a board that will take you from making your first turns to taking your first laps in the park. Anyway, as I’ve been a BASI snowboard instructor for the past three years there seems nobody better placed, within the editorial team, to give you a bit of advice. Below are ten important check-points that you should consider before you part with your hard-earned cash.

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A week in the simply awesome Ski Amade ski-region Austria with a selection of Atomic’s 2011 range to test including the Banger, Alibi, Axum and Pivot, could it be the best weeks holiday ever?

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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.

Continue reading The Best Snowboard Technology of 2011