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A couple of months ago Snowboard-Review posted the exciting news that backcountry snowboard specialists Venture Snowboards had teamed up with Swedish big mountain legend Johan Olofsson to create the Odin. We suspected that the fusion of one of America’s only backcountry dedicated snowboard manufacturers and the man who pointed 1000 meters of vertical in 35 seconds in the memorable TB5 video would be rather good. Now, thanks to Backcountry Magazine the board has been certified good, winning the coveted Editor’s Choice award. Being across the pond and without European distribution it’s a little hard for Snowboard-Review to get hold of Venture boards, but we’re happy to concede that Backcountry Magazine do a good job of reviewing boards so their opinion is as legit as it gets without our seal of approval.
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading Venture Odin Bags Backcountry Magazine’s Prestigious “Editor’s Choice” Award
Here at Snowboard-Review.com we’ve loved watching Signal’s Every Third Thursday. There’s nothing that gets us more excited than tinkering with snowboard shapes and materials and if there’s one brand that is experimenting with the most unique and perhaps impractical of these elements it is Signal Snowboards.
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading Signal Every Third Thursday - Season 1 Recap
Every May the Snowboard-Review.com team head out to the Kaunertal Glacier, in Austria, to ride the following season’s snowboards. This year we managed to ride over forty of next season’s boards and put-together some really informative reviews which we’ll drop on the site in August. Here’s a short, but dramatic, teaser to wet your appetites.
Posted by Tom Ewbank.
Continue reading 2012 Snowboard-Review Test Teaser
This month our favourite snowboard series Signal’s Every Third Thursday takes snowboarding back in time, to the late 80s. About the time when Bill and Ted were getting bodacious on VHS and Nintendo released the NES, there was one man in Snowboarding on a winning streak, Terry Kidwell. In this episode Dave Lee from Signal Snowboards teams up with Terry and legendary skateboard designer Paul Schmitt to recreate Terry’s first pro model. We reckon this episode is the best to date.
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading Signal Every Third Thursday - Terry Kidwell
The traveling TTR circus arrived in town two weeks ago for the Quiksilver Spring Battle, a four star slopestyle event run by the Shuttleberg Flachauwinkl and the infamous Absolut Park shaping team. Even though I live in Flachau and the Absolut Park is my local stomping ground I couldn’t watch the competition because of work commitments. Not to worry, this year’s Spring Battle was different; the event was to be judged in-front of a crowd at the after party. I’m not one to miss a good knees-up so I grabbed some beer tokens and headed into town to witness the first ever competition with post competition video judging in-front of an audience.
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading Event Check - The Quiksilver Spring Battle 2011