Snowboard Review Blog + Features (Archive)
It’s not every Sunday that you have a handful of the world’s best freestyle snowboarders competing on your doorstep. With the news that the Pleasure Jam had come to town I headed up to the Dachstein Glacier home of the Atomic Super Park, situated 60km south of Salzburg in the Ski Amade lift region to witness some of the madness.
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading Event Check - The Dachstein Pleasure Jam 2010
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!
Posted by Tom Ewbank.
Continue reading What is your Boardology?
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.
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading Free Rome Snowboard 100 Day Tracker iPhone App
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.
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading Brand Focus - Compatriot Snowboards
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!
Posted by Rich Ewbank.
Continue reading Movie Premiere - Standard Films’ The Storming Calgary
