Method Mag Issue 21.1

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EDITORIAL

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ello Method readers and welcome to Volume 21, good to have you back. Fuck me, what a year. How do I even begin this editorial…

Maybe I should make a joke of some sort to break the ice? Probably a bad idea. Someone will probably demand I resign if I start making jokes of any kind because in these hypersensitive times it’s all too easy for things to be taken out of context and I could end up getting death threats in my DMs or some shit like that. It’s great that you’re all so riled up, but everyone seems to have forgotten one very simple fact: arguing on the internet is stupid!

Anyway, I’m digressing. Here at Method we’ve been asking ourselves what role this magazine should play in response to the many imbalances and problems facing society. It’s not an easy one to figure out, and each time I write something I try to say far too much and the result is something contrived and totally meaningless. Eventually, it dawned on me that while it is my job to respond to these issues, there’s no way I should be doing all the talking. The best thing I can do is to use this magazine to give other people the space to talk, and I should be listening. This might not sound like the most groundbreaking approach to driving social change, but you’d be amazed at how much good can come from simple conversations. Conversations offer the chance to hear about different perspectives and experiences, and even if you take nothing away from them, you will still have read them, and that’s what counts.

Method has always been a platform for snowboarders, by snowboarders. That’s what it will continue to be, and our position will be conveyed through the words and individuals we put on our pages. Whatever our backgrounds, snowboarding is the thing that connects us all. So dig in and enjoy, and don’t forget that we’re all in this shit together.

Theo x

EDITOR: Theo Acworth theo@methodmag.com SENIOR EDITOR: Chris McAlpine chriso@methodmag.com EDITOR-AT-LARGE: Mike Goodwin michael@methodmag.com ART DIRECTOR: Maciej Przężak @pwee3000 ONLINE EDITOR: Will Radula-Scott will@method.tv CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Jérôme Tanon, Oli Gagnon, Ponchikz, Tim Zimmerman, Risto Järvellin, Mike Yoshida, Colton Morgan, Cameron Strand, Dani Rajcsanyi, Erik Nylander, Bernstål, Kuske, The Scandalnavians, Shawn Rei, T-Bird, Dominic Zimmermann, Stéfane Fortier, E-Stone, Konrad Kalisch, Matt Georges, Julius Schmidt.

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It took 20 years for Method to have a girl on their cover?

Really?! I spent two years following women in snowboarding for my “Heroes” project, and meeting up with Elena Könz in Laax was a highlight. She rips any terrain, and it was easy to get this side-hit handplant photo, even with a medium format film camera. I love that photo, the way she tweaks it, standing still for a fraction of a second.

Back to the roots of snowboarding. But why did it take 20 years to get a female cover!? It’s my fault. I did not care. I did not think shooting with girls was important, and I did not question why we had no girls in all our film crews over the years. I write “I” but really, it’s a “WE”. When I finally realised this and took a U-turn to shoot only girls for a couple seasons, I saw everything from their view point.

No budget to get filmers, no photogs around, no coverage, only good for portraits and catalogs. Only good for Iinsta modelling. Well, fuck that! Things are changing, finally, and right beneath your eyes ladies and gentlemen, right here with this historic cover. I can’t be more proud to see “Heroes” making a change. Thank you Elena for opening my eyes. For opening our eyes.

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Cover reveal Interview by Theo Acworth Portrait by Jérôme Tanon

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ey Elena, thanks for finding the time for us. You said you’ve been coaching at the moment. Skate stuff?

Yeah and trampolines, all sorts of stuff. It’s a camp for kids in the Freestyle Academy in Laax.

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Last time I was in there I did a backflip off one of the trampolines and almost flipped into the vert ramp by mistake. I don’t have much aerial awareness.

Oh really?

Yeah, pretty sketchy. But I don’t want to talk about trampolines, I wanted to talk about gender equality, or lack of, in snowboarding, and ask you about any barriers you’ve faced due to your gender?

I’ve actually never felt like I haven’t been fairly treated.

When I got older I started to realise that there were some differences and that things could have been easier.

You were a member of the Swiss Olympic team for a few years, did you receive the same pay as the guys?

They looked at each of our incomes and what we were paid would vary from person to person. The Swiss Olympic Committee gave their support really well and fairly, so that was a good experience That’s cool to hear. I read that Adidas have committed to ensuring equal gender representation of their athletes, I thought that was pretty cool to see a brand stepping up like that, and I guess media needs to do the same.

Yeah you always see this cool stuff that guys are doing, but not so often girls. Actually we should say women instead of girls. We always say men and not boys so that’s already a small step we can take to start making a change.

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That’s a good point.

Sometimes I feel like you have really cool magazines but they only feature guys, and then there’s only one magazine for girls which maybe not many people look at. Or that people are just doing small things to keep the girls happy. It’s not the same.

From our perspective it is tough when there isn’t a lot of female content sent to us, but that just means we need to work harder at pushing what we do have so we can be an example and encourage brands to do the same. If we don’t, then a whole generation of female riders might be missing out on role models because they’re not being presented with them.

I mean I can understand it from the magazine perspective because there are more male riders than female, but it’s a bit of a hamsterrad, a vicious circle to get out of. So there

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have to be some people who take the first steps to change it, because if they don’t, then it never will.

It was cool to see Jérôme making that push himself as a photographer with his Heroes project. You have some sick shots in there, as well as your beautiful artwork.

The handplant shot is rad, it’s not always an easy trick to shoot analogue unless it’s really stalled, which I guess this was!

Yeah that was tough, he kept making me do it again. But it was good. He believes in us and is so sure we can do it, he doesn’t just say ‘oh you’re a girl, so I’m already happy with the shot’. I know some photographers who are happy with their results pretty quickly, even if I think I could have done it better. I mean I’m sure that guys have to deal with these things too.

We’d planned to run that hand plant shot in the Heroes feature, but unfortunately there wasn’t enough space… so we decided to put it on the front cover instead. *reveals the cover over Facetime*.

What. No way. That’s crazy.

We actually don’t have the mag printed yet so I did a DIY version and stuck the cover on an old issue just so you could get a feeling for it. I hope you’re stoked!

That’s insane! Wow, yes.

I’ve been trying to keep a straight face this entire time.

As we were saying earlier, if brands and media don’t step up to ensure female visibility, then no one else is going to. That’s not the only reason I put it on the front, I put it on the front because it’s a sick handplant. We’re psyched with it, and we think you’re an amazing snowboarder, and we couldn’t be more pumped to have it as a cover.

Thanks so much. My first cover! I’m really honoured, I never thought I would be in Method, and I really like the mag, it’s so cool. I would never have dreamt of this.

Did you know that this is our first ever female cover? I’m kind of embarrassed to say that, but I’m stoked that we’ve now broken that trend.

I always thought that getting a cover wasn’t something that was possible for me. Not somewhere like Method.

That’s so sick. It looks so nice!

I think so too, it’s black and white which I love, the handplant is rad, this is real snowboarding.

I can’t stop smiling. I was so tired before you called and now I probably won’t sleep tonight. I can’t wait to get it in my hands.

We can’t wait to send it to you!

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ART PAGE

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Lines are a side product of snowboarding, an abstract record of a moment we get to share with nature. The image of a line can awake emotions and memories. This hidden power made me curious and I started to study “the line” more precisely. While sitting injured at home I found peace in drawing lines on paper with a mix of charcoal, ink and melted snow. Running out of paper eventually helped me to paint more creatively and develop new lines out of the ones I didn’t like. To organise my work I wrote a note for each line that describes it from a snowboarder’s view, creating a sort of painted dictionary.

The series “Studies of the Line” reflects a snowboarder’s world, mind and language, and tells about the beauty and magic of a simple line.

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Open mindedness Empathy Conversation VX1000 Sustainability Dogs on the mountain Diversity in snowboarding Our new sticker pack Turning Print media

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Interview with Joonas Eloranta Photos by Risto Järvelin

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Tell us about this project: After the Postland video (ZZZ) came out, I thought I’d like to do something of my own. I reached out to my sponsors and asked if they’d be able to support me with some filming budget to make a movie but it didn’t work out. I just thought fuck it, I’m going to do it nevertheless. Then I got hurt right in the beginning of winter 18/19 and pretty much missed the best snow conditions in Helsinki, forcing me to do a couple late season filming trips to snowier cities. After that season I was sitting on roughly ten clips plus homies’ footage and decided I’ll do another year for the movie and hope it’ll be more productive. Turned out it wasn’t. In fact, it was the shittiest winter I’ve ever witnessed and then there was the corona epidemic. However I managed to do two luckily very productive filming trips and that was pretty much it. I knew I was going to use Paolo Nutini’s Iron Sky for the soundtrack and after the second season I realized I have just about enough footage to make it a whole so I just started editing, and pretty much edited the whole summer.

The title ‘It’s not you, it’s me’ came naturally. It’s basically my cliche way to “break up” with filming video parts. As much as I still enjoy snowboarding and filming, producing a legit video part has just become so difficult due to many factors. Winters are getting shittier year after year which means one has to travel to film, and to do so even semi professionally, it costs a lot of money to buy a camera, snow tools, car and gas, hire a filmer, rent airbnbs and so on. I’m 31, married to a mortgage loan and definitely not getting any younger nor becoming a professional snowboarder. Also most of the friends I’m used to film snowboarding have sort of faded away and pursued their dreams elsewhere. It’s just the harsh fact that I honestly don’t have the resources to keep doing this in a standard I’m used to. But don’t get me wrong though, this isn’t a bitter story. I’ve been very privileged to be able to do what I love for so many years. And I’ll definitely keep snowboarding until my legs won’t cooperate no longer, just with a little bit more natural approach from here on!

Are you happy with how it turned out?

Considering I’m pretty much just a novice with Adobe Premiere, I’m happy how the video came together with the song, cut, animations, details and everything. I got some help from Mikko (Kempas) and Risto (Järvelin) regarding the cut, like what works and what doesn’t, and that helped me to see everything in a bigger picture. Mikko also did the animations. Don’t ask how many hours the editing took me though hahah... But honestly speaking, I wish the past two winters could have been a little bit snowier to get more stuff done but global warming and injuries are a real deal. No joke!

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Did you plan on this being a ‘goodbye’ video, or did it turn into that during the filming process?

Like I mentioned above, over the last couple years I’ve noticed how many great friends have gotten older and naturally faded away from snowboarding and especially the filming part of it.. So making something a bit more remarkable for myself and then quitting with my own terms became a thing some years ago. Originally this project was supposed to be a casual one-year video with some of my homies but things went differently. I think during summer 2019 I sort of decided that alright, I’ll just keep filming as long as it takes to have enough footage for the video and then call it a day, and that decision just stuck around.

What do you do for a living, and how does snowboarding fit around your life?

I graduated from university of Jyväskylä in 2014 with a bachelor in early childhood education, so I’m a kindergarten teacher. Currently I work with 2 to 3-year-old kids in a local kindergarten, just a couple hundred meters away from my home and it’s great. It’s incredibly rewarding to

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spend time with kids, watch them growing and see them learning new stuff everyday. I’ve been really fortunate to have a chance to negotiate part time contracts since I graduated so for the past six years I’ve just worked more during off seasons and done a couple shifts a week to pay the loan during the winter months. I’m really lucky to be able to have both worlds.

Did you enjoy the process of making the zine?

I honestly loved it, each of its 24 pages! I wanted to make it small, shine a bit more light around the movie and donate all the proceeds to charity. And people seemed to enjoy it. I do have to say it’s definitely a tough job to produce a magazine with quality content, but I got help though. Mikko Kempas did the layout, Risto Järvelin gave the photos and artistic perspective and Aino Huotari did proof reading.

Thank you so much Mikko, Risto and Aino!

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Where can people get it?

We only made 55 copies of it and they got sold out pretty quickly so don’t think you’ll see it anywhere unfortunately... But maybe I’ll upload the .pdf file online one day, or maybe I won’t. Right now I’ll let the people who bought it have the privilege to enjoy it.

Will we be seeing you in the streets again? Or is this an official goodbye?

I don’t know and right now I don’t care too much actually. If it snows tons in Helsinki and things kind of hap-

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pen naturally, I’m definitely down to film more but I’m not going to stress about it anymore. I’m just going to enjoy snowboarding without feeling the urge to constantly refresh the snow depth map and desperately plan the next trip. But I’ll let you know if I have something to show hah!

Any shoutouts?

Everyone who helped me with this movie deserves a major shoutout. You’re all a bunch of great people and I couldn’t have done this without your help. I’m forever thankful for having a chance to make a movie, zine and this interview out of all the blood, sweat and tears I put into it. Also thank you Minna for being so patient with me. I love you.

It’s not you, it’s me in numbers: Relationships broken within the time of filming: (1) Relationships formed within the time of filming: (0) Snowboards broken: (0) Bones or ligaments broken (3) Keys left inside a locked car: (1) Filming days: (28) Filming days in Helsinki: (5) Years of trying to boardslide the triple down: (5) Amount of HVXs used for filming: (3) Kilometres driven: (4000) Filming budget: (0) Hours spent editing because of lack of skills: (666)

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5 things you can remember about touring with the Grateful Dead - Selling Burritos and shirts out of our VW Van. - My Tye Dye onesie.

- Riding in a Red wagon to/from the lot.

- Our tomato curtains in the VW Van. - All the smiling faces.

5 reasons you got married on a boat - First off…Why not, right?

- My Wife, our Pastor, and myself are all kind of like pirates.

- I have amazingly radical friends who own boats on Lake Tahoe and they wanted to help out.

- Someday we want to live on a boat so might as well start off right.

- Makes for a good story (We almost sank the boat).

5 thoughts on fanny packs - Heck yes!

- Makes for a great travel buddy by holding all essentials l like a passport, tickets, money, lighters, gum, papers, headphones, charger, crystal, and small collectibles gathered along the way.

- It’s a highly functional party bag that doesn’t require much weight but can stay on your front for added security.

- I had one from Disneyworld when I was a child and have been fond of them ever since.

- They’re hands free 5 things that are totally overrated - Hippie “Influencers”.

- Americans thinking we’re still a great country.

- Weed growers.

- Supremacy in any form.

- IPA Beers.

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5 things we should know about Snowmosapians - We’re just out to have fun!

- This Earth is important to us, better treat her right.

- The crew rips!

- We are all homosapiens who base our lives around travel, snow, and our community.

- We have a little set of videos coming out this fall so keep your eyes peeled!

5 things you’d say to an alien - “I swear we’ve met before.”

- “Do you wanna go do Karate in the garage?”

- “Please teach me something.”

- “How does our world transcend to the fifth dimension.”

- “Do you have good chronic?”

5 things you’d hope an alien would say to you - “We have met before.”

- “Did we just become best friends?”

- “Hey, I’ll teach you how to fly.”

- “Just do right by this world and your people then tran scendence will happen.”

- “Here you go bud, a nice nug for you, toke up”

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5 things you wish you were better at - Music.

- Spanish.

- Communication.

- Writing.

- Surfing.

5 things you’ve learned from having a weed farm - How to work really hard.

- How to manage a pirate ship.

- How to live in tents.

- How to scare off Cougars.

- How to grow really killer Ganja.

5 potential names for your own strain - Silver Raindrop.

- Aspen OG. - Sour BrainReciever.

- Hyena Hybrid.

- Navigable Kush.

5 things we don’t know about you - I was bitten by a barracuda in nowhere Mexico and had to get 3 layers of stitches in my stomach.

- I have spent a total of 4 years of my life living in tents.

- I love to play golf.

- I DJ lots of “Hippie” dances in my hometown.

- I gave two guinea pigs named Nugget and Cookie.

5 things you love about Matt Stillman (Rome TM) - Everything.

- That I can talk to him in depth about the Grateful Dead.

- He stocks his own fish pond because he’s such a fish head (not PhishHead).

- His Instagram stories (If you’ve never seen them please go follow him).

- His Positive Mental Attitude through shitstorms!

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P H O T O S : C O LT O N M O R G A N CAM ERON STRAN D

What inspired you to start the brand?

I’ve been involved with great brands over the years helping launch Holden Outerwear, moving on to help rebrand ThirtyTwo with its team and launching outerwear there, Volcom snow for a few years and then the last 2 designing for Gnarly. I hit a point in my life where I said I’ve worked for the best and i want to start something where I get to do it my way and see what happens. There’s new things happening from skate hardgoods brands and some coming in from street/fashion, but in our space it was leaning pretty heavy into outdoor trends and I felt like we needed something fresh. I wanted the backbone of the brand to focus on fit. We have 3 fits that we want to brand like a bottoms company does, so depending on how you wear your beanie, you can shop by a specific fit and know it’s going to be consistent season after season. We want to be the beanie specialists.

Why did you choose the name?

Autumn is the start of new in our year. Temperatures dip, days get shorter, and there is this excitement in the air as summer ends and you start pulling out beanies, sweaters and jackets again for the upcoming season. Autumn is the snowboarder’s spring really, where what is ahead is all new and that first round of snowfall has the same feeling as when flowers bloom in the spring. It sets the tone for what’s ahead. The word in general has emotion behind it, and it fit perfectly for what we want to create.

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Which riders are involved in the brand and why?

From the start we wanted Bryan Fox to be involved and set the tone. Bryan has a high taste level and we needed that input as our rudder. Everything he puts out or has his hands in has this special touch to it and he’s not afraid to let us know when we may veer off. I think we need that, every brand needs that really. To be and stay authentic there need to be those uncomfortable conversations about what we’re doing and why. From there we handpicked people who held the same standards - from their riding style to their personal style, we wanted people who defined individuality.

How important are artist/brand collaborations for you?

It’s a huge story for us. This first season in our printables line we have fleece from Griffin Siebert and David Dasiy (Vans Snow Art Director). I feel like there is a creative underbelly that is not being given its right shine in our space. So Season 2 we’ve expanded the artists to include printables from Josh Manoles (Public Snow co-owner and creative director), Bryan Fox, Dane Nomellini and Casey Jones (2 artists doing a ton in the skate world right now from 35th North Seattle to Thrasher tee art), Hannah Eddy, as well as David and Griffin again. We’re also working on things with Kennedi Deck and Franky Villani. It goes back to the same reasons riders were chosen - these artists have a unique style - and them being part of Autumn adds a whole layer to the brand story.

What’s coming in the future?

Season 2 has us developing the fit story further with 8-9 styles for each fit with a lot of emphasis on stripes. We want to own stripes with a variety of options. We’ll be introducing a sustainable collection made with recycled poly yarns that we hope to grow and integrate into the line more every season. I’m also waiting for samples to arrive for a spring 21 injection line of unstructured hats, 5 panel camp caps and bell bucket hats. we’re going to see what Autumn looks like in spring.

Last words are yours.

I started working in a skate/snow shop when I was 16 and immediately knew I was not going to do anything else with my life. 25+ years later I’m fortunate to still be involved in this industry and now I want to see if the same things that inspired me does the same to others. I want to be surrounded by the weirdos, the creatives, the socially awkward or the life of the party… I want my day to be interesting because of the personalities around it. That’s Autumn.

What’s the creative process like at Autumn?

I’d say it’s more real life than a design formula. There’s a ton of information online about what colors, what prints, what style is going to be popular next… and to me that’s pretty boring. All of a sudden, everyone’s products and brands will start looking the same. So we take our inspiration from thrift stores, deep dive eBay worm holes, social media feeds of people who are pushing their own style, my Blunt Mag library, old catalogs, team rider texts of things they want… it’s pretty grass roots.

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Niama Antolin clearly needs no guidance from us in this department. Full speed indy tweaker over a Minnesota triple set. * PHOTO: TIM ZIMMERMAN

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P H O T O : DA N I R A J C S A N Y I * P H O T O : YO S H I DA A

Did you ever worry that being gay would impact your opportunities within snowboarding?

Not that I can remember, but I’m sure I had my thoughts.

Everything went well for me though. Snowboarding taught me to surf through life. That’s the point of it.

Were there any other gay male snowboarders that you were aware of?

Not that I know of but I guess it’s the same as everywhere.

I just heard that some American riders came out. So weird that it’s like a decade later and being gay is still a thing. It would be nice if it would not be such a big deal, just whatever.

Would it have made you feel more comfortable it there were more openly gay male riders?

Yes definitely, a lot. Imagine the dopest riders with the most toxic masculinity would admit they liked hairy asses and big dicks. It would trend for sure. Even straight men would beg for litres of cum just to be part of the cool thing.

There is a lot of peer pressure in every scene, so why not use it for good?

I first met Dani Rajcsanyi 10 years ago when the infamous Shakedown event had crossed the pond to make an attempt of their event in Europe. I watched this curious creature from afar, he had a scarf wrapped around his head, endless tricks in his legs and a schoolboy smile on his face the whole time he was strapped in. After riding I met him at the hotel and hung out. He immediately wanted to initiate me into a secret club. I was down. He was pure joy that extended to his riding and his fashion.

He was openly gay and didn’t care what anyone had to say. On the rare occasions I caught him on the hill later on, I would run to grab the chairlift with him because I knew I was in for a good laugh, unusual conversation and the kind of riding that you has you cackling until the next chairlift back up.

- Alexis De Tarade Interview by Theo Acworth Hi Dani. Give us a brief rundown of your snowboard career, sponsors and video projects you were involved with.

My main chapter was filming the whole year, street stuff and sometimes contests, but mostly rail contests. My favourite Sponsor was Volcom, they were like a family and just nice for such a long time. They even sent me stuff when I was not really riding anymore. Hope they’re all doing good. I think my favourite videoparts were for Isenseven and RockOnSb movie.

When did you step away from snowboarding, and why?

I think it was around 2013, I started to study fashion design and it was a very time intensive and full program.

So I had to quickly learn a new craft which I continue today. Almost all of my art is made with a sewing machine.

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Is your sexual orientation something you ever felt you should hide from anyone?

In the beginning kind of yes but not directly. It was pretty new for me as well so there was not a real time where I was hiding it, and I came out pretty fast.

What was coming out like for you?

When I think back it was kind of weird. Everybody knew it and some were offended by my sexual orientation. They “hated” me because I wasn’t that cliche snowboarder who just liked blonde chicks. Hate is maybe a strong word, it’s more like they were just paralysed by the thought of how yummy dick can be *laughs*. It was new and humans are just curious about new things in life.

A good comparison could be when I started to wear tight pants and ride a tight stance. People were so disgusted by it, until it became popular so they did it too. Same story.

Literally.

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Until recently, snowboard media hasn’t really made a big deal out of gay snowboarders. Should we have done?

Yes of course. Every magazine should write about it. Especially when people in the scene are suffering or have their doubts. Brands and magazines have a duty to educate their audience, not just putting a rainbow flag on their logo. Personally I never had big troubles about it, but my friends and my family were very welcoming to me. I mean it’s just sexuality, I don’t get why we need to pay so much attention to it. It’s like we’re still living in the middle ages. Hello, it’s 2020.

I’ve heard people saying that they don’t think snowboarding is a welcoming space for the LGBTQ+ community. Do you agree?

Yes I think so too. But it’s still different than other scenes.

For example if you’re a footballer it’s way harder to be open about your sexuality. But in general snowboarding philosophy is about expression and freedom. So I guess it should be more welcoming than it is.

How can we make it more welcoming?

Just tag a rainbow on your board. No, but I think talking and writing about it is a good starting point. And it would definitely help if there were more famous riders who’d come out.

Do you think there’s a difference in acceptance of sexual orientation between the USA and Europe?

Yes definitely. I did that Wiener Würstchen video where I jib nude and bail hard. It’s funny that you can see my dick flopping around. European based snowboard media were laughing about it and sharing it while Americans were offended by it. In general I guess there’s a big social difference between Europe and America. For example they don’t have that nude culture like Germany does. Which in the end defines social norms and point of views towards nudism and sexual orientation in general.

3 tips from Dani for anyone struggling with pressures related to their sexual orientation or identity: If you think you are happier with hiding your sexuality, you’re wrong. Gay life is better. Trust me.

If people insult you for your sexuality or your identity, don’t take it personal. Its just a lack of education and knowledge.

Be aware of not getting acceptance from everyone, you can’t force them, so whatever.

Thanks for your time and words Dani, much appreciated.

Last thing, what should we call this page in the magazine? Doublecocksalvation.

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e almost ran this instead of the shot of Elena. Ok, we obviously didn’t, but still, in times like these it can seem like making it big on social media is all that matters. Just remember, it isn’t. No matter how good at snowboarding you are or how much skin you show, you’ll always be out-performed by a snowboarding cat. Think about that the next time you’re stressing about low view counts. Fair play to the cat though.

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Sparked by our love for Japanese mountains, culture, people, and snow, we moved the office and designed our boards, boots, and bindings in Hakuba, Japan. We rode in the mornings, worked in the evenings, and immersed in culture at night.

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he plan was to gather all of our favourite riders from the T Scandinavian countries, riders that enjoy spending time together and push each other instead of just gathering a bunch

of random people together and each of them filming a part of their own.

We wanted to get everyone on the same team and feel like we did this project together and on our own terms. The outcome will hopefully be a mix of some of the best riding, locations and music from Scandinavia. Some people went all in the first year, while others took it a little bit slow, but in the end, they all managed to get great stuff and I can’t wait to share it with the world.

- Kuske

* Legend:

[BTP] - Behind the photo.

[TOTP] - Thoughts on the project.

[ST] - Scandalous Tale

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Sven did the world’s first triple michalchuck on this hip in Riksgränsen, but we much prefer this Method.

Photo: Erik Nylander

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This photo was taken at about 4am in Riksgränsen. We decided to go for both sunset and sunrise sessions on the hip and stay up on the mountain during the two hours the sun was down. The light kept getting better and better the longer we rode and I was really tired, which is probably why I’m flying so low on this method ;)

[BTP]

It’s been sick to be part of this project, it’s pretty much the first time I’ve been able to film a part that I’m proud of. Love to work with Kuske, we’ve done a lot of projects before and he’s always really motivating to work with. I think I needed the first year as a learning experience, because pretty much all of my shots that I’m satisfied with were filmed the second year. Lockdown in Sweden also helped because it meant I could skip all the other events that I had planned to ride and could focus purely on the movie.

[TOTP]

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You can never have enough Methods! Disagree with us?

We disagree with you!

Photo: Berstål.

You gotta kick out a BS air when you’re in Riksgränsen!

I’ve never really filmed for anything this big before and it was awesome to see how it’s done. I also like the feeling of being in a crew where we are all in this together. Your buddy lands a trick and screams, you scream. Your buddy slams and cry, you cry.

It was a lovely winters day in Trondheim, the sun was shining and everyone was stoked for a session. Me, Len, Kuske and Bernstål built a quarterpipe at the end of a pier overlooking a river that leads to the Atlantic ocean. We tried it a couple of times and it felt good. I decided to go higher so I charged at it full speed, but realised that I was coming in too fast. I left the quarterpipe and the pier behind me and ended up taking an icy swim in the river. It was fucking freezing. I unstrapped the board, and it sunk to Davy Jones’ Locker. For the rest of the trip I had to use my BC board in the streets and Kuske’s bindings that were too big. Good times!

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[BTP] [TOTP]

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Liening with Len. Photo: Olav

[BTP]

This is the hip we built on the last day of our 5 day snow camping mission in the beginning of June. The forecast was insane so Ståle, Torgeir, Olav and a couple more homies went to the mountain. I joined them and we rode some fun hips and jumps. So a mix of a sketchy camp setup, good friends and great weather made this photo :)

[TOTP]

I’ve been bothering Kuske about making a new Scandalnavians since the first one came out, but we’ve been busy dudes doing other cool stuff. I’ve had the chance to film for 2 Method Movies and even a TWS movie. Kuske has been busy filming cool stuff for big shredders like Halldor, Tor & Kevin, Sven and other shrednecks. 2 or 3 years ago neither of us had big projects coming up so we felt that if we were gonna do a second one, the time was now. Neither Kuske or I have ever done a 2 year project so we thought we could give it a try. It’s been a real pleasure exploring the great Scandinavia and hanging with all the homies at home. I think I’m gonna keep this going. Especially with Corona still going wild. Norway is a great place to explore.

[ST]

Kris, Johan, Dennis and I hit this spot in Tynset. What we hit was on the city hall. A rail and a wall and some sick stuff. We started our session and starting to feel pretty good. Suddenly the cops roll in. We’re like, fuck we’re boarding on the city hall, we’re toast now. So we all stop boarding and head down to the cops. Say what’s up and starting to make up all these good arguments in our heads to convince them that what we’re doing is cool. Turns out the one cop was super down. He asked if he could take photos and showed us some photos of him pow shredding some of the zones we’d scoped on the way over. He was a G.

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[BTP]

Backflips for bedbugs Photo: Matt Georges

I got bitten by some bedbugs on the last trip I was on. I was itching all summer after that.

[BTP]

[ST]

Hi Alek!

Photo: Matt Georges

The photo is from a really nice day in the alps. Conditions were not looking great but we hiked up from the parking lot hoping to at least get something done. We ended up at this little pillow field with great snow and spent the day there. I also ended up doing this backflip as you can see in the photo, which is a trick I do way too much. This day turned out to be one of the days I remember the best from this winter. I love the days with low expectations that turn out to be great.

It’s early November, the first day shooting of the second year of this project. Ludde, Len Alek and myself made it up to Kiruna to film the first few street clips of the season. It’s a beautiful winter day, bluebird, but cold. Not the coldest we’ve ever been out filming in, but around -20c. I was wearing regular snowboard boots and after a while I started to feel that my toes had gone numb, but that is nothing unusual. They usually get warmed up again when you get back inside, so we just kept on filming. We wrapped up around 3pm, my toes were really cold and numb at this point so we headed straight into the sauna to try to warm them up. After 1+ hour in the sauna I still couldn’t feel them. This lasted for a couple of weeks.

Turned out I had second degree frostbite. The next day I went to a wildlife store and bought a pair of Polar Proven shoes that can handle temperatures down to -70c.

Oh, and while this whole thing happened I somehow forgot the log the shots on the memory card. So no shots from that day were saved. Pretty good start of the season.

But since then I didn’t have a single day with cold feet, and I never forgot to log any clips either.

[TOTP]

I’m proud of what we accomplished this season, especially since the Corona outbreak limited us in where we could go, how to travel and what risks to take.

Kuske’s delicious toes.

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A couple of years ago I got this old 90s Nitro snowboard from a friend. It’s really narrow and different to my other boards but super fun to ride. I brought it on the trip to Riksgränsen to try and ride some fun stuff on it. In the bar at the hotel they have this old poster of a 90s boarder doing a sick surfy carve on a wind lip and we thought it would be fun to try something similar. We had been ridPhoto: Erik Nylander Inverted carving.

Photo: Erik Nylander

ing this spot for fun on the way down and one day I started hitting it together with Nylander and Dennis to try to get something on camera. Started doing this upside down carve flip thing, I landed two but with a laidback landing and with all that force on the old inserts (where I could only fit two screws) the binding just came off the board with the inserts and a piece of the board left on them. So that was my last session on that board, shout out to the nitro love ride <3

[TOTP]

Photos: Erik Nylander

It’s been dope filming for this movie, for once I (almost) kept myself free from injuries and could ride a lot. We have been battling bad winters and then Covid, but I’m happy with the trips I went on with the crew and it was also super fun to ride some spots around my home village.

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You spin me right round, baby Right round like a record, baby Right round, round, round.

Photo: Erik Nylander

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This spot was also a new one for Kiruna and it was really refreshing seeing something new in that town. We had Bernstål with us and he really wanted to get a photo from it with the drone, you only have 3h of daylight in November and it was also a bit too cold for the drone’s battery so we probably only had 15 minutes running time when we went for it. I’m really glad that we got it and that the make was the photo you see here. Plus I ended up going back this spring to slide it, which is probably one of my favorite shots this year.

[BTP]

Best thing I’ve done. We were lucky with most of our trips this year, many good moments with my friends. Really thankful for being a part of a Scandinavian project and making it the best 2 years I’ve had so far. Thank you Kuske and Nitro for this one.

[TOTP]

This spring we were up in Gällivare and there is this classic double kink next to the graveyard which a lot of people like The Pirates and Portland have shot before. Me and Sven started setting it up and the janitor comes up being all mad and stuff and kicked us out. We went back 30 minutes later and convinced him to give us an ok and we got a shot each. A few days later we had some time so thought that we could go back and see if we could try something else on it. In the car ride up I was joking that they’d probably sawn off the rail to stop people riding it. I was the first one out of the car and I started yelling to the others that they actually had sawn half of it off! Not even taken the screws out, just cut it off. Of course no one believed it til they saw it.

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Ollie in downtown Helsinki.

Photo: Justus Hirvi

Full contact BS wallride, then a quick FS 180 to SW BS 180 off the roof.

Photo: Rope Höynä

[BTP]

This street is in the heart of Helsinki, I’ve walked past it so many times and always thought it would look cool to somehow snowboard there. There is a pizza place called Via Tribali right next to the water hydrant and their workers we so hyped on what we were doing that they brought us free pizzas outside when we were finished.

Thank you Via Tribali!

[TOTP]

It was so sick when I heard that Kuske and these riders are gonna make a movie and wanted me join. It was a really easy decision when there is such a good crew behind the movie. I think It was mentally a bit easier to film for a two year movie since you don’t have rush all the time and commit your entire season just for filming. You think a little bit more about what you really want for your video part because you have the time to do it.

[ST]

Maybe the night when we were stuck in the car in the middle of Iceland due to a snowstorm with Kuske and Gunnshow. We had the heaters on and we were stuck for a couple hours at night with +45 degrees in the car and no drinks. Obviously as a Finn I’m used to heat of sauna and the Icelandics are used to all of this mayhem, so it was alright. Weather changes fast in Iceland! We also saw a whale while we were filming. Iceland is unreal.

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File photo.

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Kris getting creepy in Trondheim.

Photo: Chris Baldry

[BTP] This is a spot I’ve been thinking of for many years, but in Trondheim the snow is so off and on, it wasn’t always possible to hit it. We didn’t really have a lot of snow that day either, but I wanted that spot, so we scraped until we had enough. I had Chris Baldry (taking the photo) come up from Voss to stay at my place for some days and I asked Grong (Andreas Grong, filmer in the stairs) if he wanted to film it. He had some time, brought the camera and his girlfriend, she got placed on the longlens angle. I don’t know how many times she had held a camera before, but

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she got it quick! Then we just hit it until we got it like we wanted. Its kind of weird when you’ve been looking at/ thinking of a spot for years, and suddenly you’re standing there seeing the shot you had in your mind. It’s not that it was too crazy, but just a good feeling of accomplishment.

I really liked this one. Thankful for the people helping me!

It’s cool that I could have some of my shots in this project, it’s good that we got some Scandalnavian going. Viking people!

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Halldor making things up midair, as usual. And as usual, it’s amazing.

Photo: Erlendur Thor Magnusson

[BTP]

One weekend at the beginning of the summer I went up to this new zone which is only 30 minutes away from Reykjavik with a heavy crew of Icelandic snowboard legends that I always looked up to. Daniel Magnússon, Árni Ingi, Ásgeir Höskuldsson, Elli Thor Magnússon taking photos, then me, the new Lobster rider Birkir Georgsson and Mr Gunshow himself filming. We found this spot on the way down, hit it a few times natural and decided to just keep it natural and come back the next day for a full session.

on trying the trick until the light faded and I didn’t get it, but me and Birkir both had a sick session and landed some tricks so we were still pumped.

We hiked back up there, shape it for like 10 minutes and started sessioning. Everyone is getting shots but then the quarterpipe starts to get really nasty with a bunch of tracks and bumps. Daniel Magnússon sends a perfect alleyoop-Mctwist-and-a-half and lands on Gunshow, so Gunshow gets sketched out while filming us on the deck because we’re shooting out in all kinds of direction with no control at all. Of course we’re too lazy to reshape the QP. So I’m trying to do an alleyoop Mctwist 720 or something, (I’m not sure how to calculate on those kind of hits and I’m too lazy to try and learn it now, just ask Pierre Wikberg) but then I randomly get mad pop and spin and do what I think was a Mctwist Japan 900. I stomp it and I’m so pumped that I ride away super far, but when I walk back to the quarter pipe Gunshow tells me he fucked up the filming. I was pretty bummed but we were riding so sketchily that I understood why he was also sketched out. I kept

We decide to be super on it and start riding much earlier than before, but when we get up there we see that the quarter pipe is in the shade and is pure ice, so we chilled for like 3 hours before we actually started riding. It felt so much nicer and chilled that me and Bucky ended up doing all the same tricks we did before, but bigger. Then when I try the alleyop Mctwist again I completely fuck it up but feel like I could have almost rewinded it instead of spinning more, so on the next try I end up landing a Mctwist Japan rewind which I was more hyped on than the MCtwist 900, and Mr Gunshow filmed it perfect. I keep on sessioning and that’s when I randomly get the idea to try a crippler method and that’s the photo right here, it actually ended up working out first try which is always a cozy surprise bonus and not my style at all.

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The next week I can’t stop thinking about the quarter pipe and the trick I was hyped on but didn’t get, and I felt that if we would actually shape it a little bit we can go way higher than before. So I go up there and shape it and get it nice and cozy for everyone since I’m fortunate enough to not have another “job” besides snowboarding.

Over all we had such a fun session on that spot so just stay tuned for the shots in the Scandalnavians 2 movie!

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Eiki still managing to get creative and blow minds with this cradle mini loop.

Photo: Bernstål

FS 50-50 creeper for the children.

Photo: Kuske

[BTP] I have always liked the loop feature and this one is the closest thing to a full loop that I have ridden. We were in Iceland at the end of June and found this patch of snow not far from the road that I knew right away would be a perfect spot for a mini loop. It actually worked out perfectly and I’m hyped on the trick I got from it!

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It was Easter and the government had advised people not to travel due to Covid. We wanted to check out this waterfall and found that the road there was closed with a sign that said we would need to pay for the rescue if something happens, but we continued anyway. We were driving on top of the snow and the car got insanely stuck. We were so far away from the next town and knew that calling for help would cost a whole lot so we ended up digging a lot to get the car moving. The weather was getting a bit wild but in the end we luckily managed to get back on asphalt and get back home.

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[BTP]

Folgefonna had record snowfall and we wanted to do something with the walls of snow up there. The weather was too shit for a roadgap but I found this random snow creeper jump to wallride instead. Chris Baldry’s camera sometimes accidentally hangs up but I think this random double exposure photo turned out really cool.

[ST]

On the last trip to Iceland I got way too pumped on the first day we got to Akureyri. We’re skateboarding at 11pm because the sun never goes down, I’m shooting a simple ollie photo with Bernstål and I slam on my ass and also hurt my wrist. So I go to the hospital the next day because it hurts like hell, they take X-rays and said it was all good. We then shovelled like hell for two days for a spot that didn’t even work. Then the hospital calls me back saying my wrist was actually broken! I had to go back and get a cast and then we went straight up into the mountains to build and hit a new spot. Apparently the cast takes 24 hours to dry so I completely fucked it up and by by the end of the trip it felt more like wearing a soggy sock on my arm. It was still the best trip of the year.

Creeper within the Folgefonna fortress walls.

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Masterchefbucky railing toeside Photo: Bernstål

The Scandalnavians at work.

Photo: Bernstål

We were scoping for some snow and were desperate to ride. Eiki comes up with the idea to ride the grass.

The grass was so wet and slid super properly that we all got fired up and had a good grass riding session. The photo was taken

by Mr. Bernstål (shout out).

Thats how it pretty much happened and yeah that is Fridge’s jacket, he let me borrow it so I’d look extra speedy.

[BTP]

Being given the opportunity to ride and laugh with those fellow Scandalnavians was so much fun, I only went on one trip with them in Iceland, but all of them are super lovely guys. I’m super happy about getting some shots of my own and being a part of this insane project. Seeing how much control these guys have is insane and maybe one day I’ll understand how they make it look so easy. But thanks to all <3

[TOTP]

It was 12:00 am and Fridge was desperate to jump in the ocean, the sun’s still up and we have this amazing light. We arrive at the harbour and Fridge gets naked and jumps in and then we are all getting the urge to do the same, so Kuske rips his clothes off like a madman and jumps in after Fridge, and then all of a sudden everybody was naked jumping in the ocean and taking photos (also naked) of this beautiful session.

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Text: Theo Acworth

Language is a strange thing. The meanings and usage of words are constantly shifted about, reappropriated by different generations and subcultures. No matter who you are though, words carry weight. They can be used to achieve awesome things, but they also have the power to do huge damage, often unintentionally. I think we’re all trying to figure out how to make snowboarding a more welcoming and inclusive space, and one very simple step that we can all take is to make some small adjustments to the words that come out of our mouths.

You wouldn’t think that would be a big deal, but it’s harder than you’d think. I actively try not to say the word ‘like’, because I think its repeated usage sounds exceptionally stupid. Once you notice people doing it, it will drive you fucking crazy. I have no idea why we say this word so much, but we just do. Not saying it takes an active and conscious effort on my part, and I still say it anyway. It isn’t easy to break habits, especially with language. ‘Like’ is just a small word though and probably isn’t going to cause much offence to anyone.

We can’t, however, say the same thing about calling something ‘gay’ if we dislike it. This is a phrase you’re more likely to hear from kids in a skatepark than adults these days, but this and other derogatory phrases based around homosexuality are still out there. These certainly have roots in deep-seated homophobia, but at some point, they slipped into our day-to-day language in a far more casual way, which is arguably worse. I don’t know how many of us are actively linking what we’re saying and what it means, but that doesn’t mean that the harm or insult is any less.

How messed up is that, that an expression used in such a throwaway manner can make someone feel like it’s not ok to be who they are? Fuck that.

Regarding discussions of race, have you ever thought about why calling something ‘ghetto’ might not be ok? Yeah, have a good think about that one. I hadn’t until about a week ago. This word originated in Venice in the 1500s, but its usage in today’s vocabulary references something far more recent. It’s now a direct verbal link to systemic racism and the traumatic and divisive effects that it is still very much having on POC. As with the above example, we’re probably not really thinking about what we’re saying when we use this word as an adjective, but that doesn’t make its usage any less damaging or hurtful.

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hearing the phrase ‘man up’ caused him some anxiety, because the phrase implied that something in him was somehow lacking, or that he wasn’t ok as he was. Something that was probably said as encouragement actually wasn’t that encouraging. And just imagine what repeatedly hearing a remark like this might do to a woman’s self-esteem?

There’s a point where this way of thinking can get out of hand though, as it’s possible to find offence in absolutely anything. To never offend would mean never saying another word, and that’s not what I’m suggesting we do. I’m just saying that we could all likely benefit from being a bit more aware of what we say and how it might be received. We’re all on new ground here and every situation is different, so we should try and approach the use of language (both our own and other people’s) with an open mind, instead of feeling like we have to go around with a big censorship brush.

This leads me to the topic of words on the internet. I’ve seen some comment threads recently (ranging from discussions of politics, race, and the dreaded conspiracy theory) that have got seriously out of hand. If they’d been conversations in a bar, glasses would have been smashed and put in people’s throats in the first minute, and everyone would have ended up dead or in prison. As I mentioned in my editorial at the start of the mag, arguing on the internet is stupid! Words on a screen aren’t a substitute for a real conversation, and slamming someone on social media denies them the chance to grow. If we have the chance to turn a negative situation into a positive one, we should at least try.

Ok, that’s all I have to say about words for now. Maybe you’ve learned something, or maybe you think I’m going overboard.

There’s probably a bunch of stuff I forgot to mention that I should have done, but I’m still trying to figure this stuff out myself, so you’ll just have to bear with me while I feel my way through it.

Either way, weigh your words. Think about whether the questions you’re asking someone might make them feel uncomfortable, and do your best to curb any bad habits, for everyone’s sake. p.s I’ve written this article in the hope that you’re not a racist or a homophobe and maybe just need a few gentle reminders about your choice of language. If you actually are, what the fuck? Your life must be seriously boring if you’ve got enough time to worry about the colour of other people’s skin or who they go to bed with, loser!

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’ve heard Kas Lemmens described as a mythical creature, a bit like a unicorn.

Watching him snowboarding just fills you with joy, not only because his riding is incredible, but also because he’s usually giggling and has a huge smile on his face.

This might lead you to assume that he’s like that all of the time, but we’ve only recently found out that there’s a lot more to Kas than what we see on the surface. The following conversation took place on a grassy Swiss hill in July.

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ello Kas, let’s get straight into it. I believe the last few years have been heavy for you. You’ve had a string of gnarly injuries, and you also suffered a heavy personal loss in your family. I guess the best way to start this off is to ask you how you’re feeling right now?

I’m feeling good. But yeah, I’ve never experienced things like that before in my life, so those were definitely heavy years. I went through some stuff, but I’m feeling better than I ever was, which is good. I just started a landscaping job, my girfriend told me that this sort of work is very grounding and good for helping you reconnect with yourself.

That’s cool to hear, working outside is definitely good for the soul. You posted something on Instagram recently saying you’d been opening up about your feelings and how that process had helped you, and I wondered if you wanted to say anything about that?

I think people who know me from snowboarding always thought I was a very happy person, so maybe they didn’t see that sort of thing coming, but that’s the point I was trying to make. I really enjoy snowboarding and am always happy when I’m snowboarding, but I also have my own problems, same as everyone. I’m not always happy but I never talked about it with anyone, and over the past couple of years I realised that things might not go too well if some of these feelings don’t find a way to come out. I just wanted to tell everyone that it’s ok to not feel ok. And that helped me a lot, talking to other people. I definitely found that out late in life, but I’m so glad I did. If I didn’t then I probably would still feel pretty bad.

Have there ever been times where you’ve been made to feel more uncomfortable or more anxious about your feelings specifically because of snowboarding?

There have been situations for sure, where people say something like ‘man up’ or ‘don’t be a pussy’.

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So hearing things like that make you feel like the idea of sharing feelings would be seen as weak in some way?

I guess. I think those phrases happen a lot in snowboarding, and I’ve probably said them myself. I think maybe how you process and deal with feelings has something to do with your family and your parents. You see what your parents do and you emulate that.

So if you see that negative emotion isn’t a normal part of the conversation then you feel like it shouldn’t be?

Yeah. I always saw that in my dad. He never really spoke about bad things. He didn’t like doing it, or maybe he couldn’t do it himself, so he was always focusing on good times. And I always thought that was a good thing, which it can be, but when times are bad then it’s also important to talk about bad things.

Maybe some people don’t naturally want to burden others with their problems, especially parents and their kids.

I definitely think they did that for a while. My parents got divorced and it wasn’t until much later in my life that we found out the reasons why and what happened there. I think it was just their way of protecting us, but I eventually gained a way better perspective on why and how things happened. Just a whole complicated web of things. What was the question again?

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I think I asked about emotion and why it was something that you didn’t talk about?

Oh yeah. Since I was little I was always on my own program, always fine doing my own thing. I always felt like if something affects me then it’s my own problem to deal with and no one else’s. I think that in the timeframe where my dad was sick and I was injured and not able to do the thing that I liked most, I started to figure out that it’s good to communicate with people. I felt really bad and was just sort of locking myself in my room, to the point where if I didn’t take action myself, then people might have let me stay there and I’d just fade away.

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share their feelings, of any sort. I think that’s hard though, to always be open to people. Even to people you know. But I think you can only try, and get better at it along the way.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that the world would be a much better place if everyone was much more open with each other. It starts with your best friend, or a relative, and it goes from there. It should be ok for anyone to talk about their feelings. You often see men having a hard time showing their vulnerability. It’s important to have healthy conversations instead of bottling it up. It should be more integrated into snowboarding, because when people talk openly about feelings, other people who look up to them might feel better about themselves.

I think when you encounter an open discussion of a topic that you thought should be private or you felt you should be kept private, it normalises it. Instead of keeping it quiet and secret, it’s out in the open, and you realise that that’s ok.

That helps so much. Almost everyone is going through things like this. I wouldn’t say that anyone should feel sorry for me; everyone should feel sorry for everyone. One problem isn’t worse than another. I’m trying to learn to receive people’s problems with open arms, instead of reacting with ‘man up’.

Tim Schiphorst on the stairs, Ivika Jurgenson filming long lens, and Kas doing a 50-50 gap 50-50. That would be a descriptively accurate way to caption this photo, but also a seriously boring one. We don’t know what else to write though, because Kas’ snowboarding can’t be tied down by words alone. It’s pure magic, powerful fluid precision, and perfection on a level that has to be seen to be believed.

When it’s normal for you to not reach out, then people don’t expect you to. And then when you really do need help it can be even harder to ask for it. Who were the first people you spoke to about this stuff? Friends, or people outside of your normal social circles?

It was definitely friends first. I was never open to it, but I found out that I had a platform with my friends without even knowing it. I’ve had a really good group of friends that I could talk to. I don’t know if they saw that they helped me in that way, but they really did, and they still do. And now I try to do that back. So yeah, friends first and that made me realise that I opened up a lot more with my family too. I feel so much better. It’s so much better to just talk.

We were also speaking earlier about the idea that when we’re snowboarding it dominates our minds and our time, perhaps to the point where it doesn’t allow the quiet moments where other conversations can happen.

I think that on trips you’re with people who enjoy snowboarding and who are happy to talk about snowboarding all the time, which means it can be hard to find that quiet moment to ‘drop it’. Maybe its because I’ve been going on trips with the same people for so long that these people have become my best friends, so I see them outside of snowboarding a lot as well, and I think that made it easier to talk about these things. If I was on a trip with people I didn’t know so well then it would be harder for me. But I think what I’ve learned is that there should always be a part of you that should be open for people who want to

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If even one person read your Instagram post and found some help or support in it and felt better about their own situation, that’s a great thing.

It takes a lot of courage to start conversations like that.

I think it would be great if people start to realise that snowboarding can be used to promote that message. Then people would be like hey, snowboarding looks really fun, it’s a way to express yourself, and people with an open mind also accept you, whoever you are.

I think we all like to think that we’re all very open minded here but that doesn’t mean we’ve actively tried to make other people aware of that.

We can’t save the entire world and make it perfect, but we can at least try and do something. I think conversation is the start of it.

Yeah I think so too. It’s nice to talk about this topic in general, sharing feelings.

Just talking about talking.

Ha, yeah. I think I actually deleted the post that you mentioned where I talk about feelings. Sometimes I feel so insecure about these things.

Because you were worried about what people might think about you?

Not so much, I sort of took a step back because I felt like I should focus on myself before I can help other people.

Last year I went to some therapy sessions, and I want to learn more this year. I’m still trying to figure things out, but using my words to help other people in some way is something that I would like to do. Maybe later I want to focus on helping other people, but for now I felt like maybe I couldn’t do that, or shouldn’t do that. So that’s why I took the post off. But now I think that it’s never bad to share something.

Not at all, especially if it comes from the right place. And the more you do it, the more you learn from it.

Yeah. When you brought up the post a couple of days ago I was actually kinda surprised that people still remembered it, so it made me wonder why I archived it. Insecurities I guess, emotions running all over the place.

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and that was the best we could come up with.

we’re really up against it with a print deadline

Kas Lemmens is a glassy guy. Sorry for the ter-

rible caption Kas, you deserve much better, but

When I read it I realised that I’d never had a serious conversation with you Kas. Neither had a lot of other people! My thing was to hide my emotions behind my laughter. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not ‘fake’ happy, but I would put out more positivity to drown out the negativity. But that doesn’t make it go away, it just stuffs it into a tiny box in the back of your head, which will eventually pile up and fall over.

In Jake Kuzyk’s Pride interview on Torment he was saying that he’d feel fine all day, until the moment he would get into bed and try to fall asleep. That’s when it all hit him.

That’s it, because you just kept on going and trying to have fun and not thinking about that stuff. He said that very well. I’m very proud of him.

Absolutely, all of those interviews were definitely a big step forwards for snowboarding. I hope that all of us here have made you feel like we’re down to listen at any time?

For sure. I think it’s hard to immediately go from someone who’s never opened up into someone who’s 100% open.

If you can, then that’s awesome, but I think for me that’s something that’s coming with time.

It’s nice talking with you Kas. Yeah, I was just going to say the same thing. I was always interested in seeing your stuff and I thought you were an interesting person, but I never had a serious conversation with you.

It’s hard to find the space and the quiet moments. I’ve been meaning to have this conversation with you all week. We only walked 10 meters away from the other guys, but we had to actively make the choice to do it, and it’s allowed us to sit here and talk easily for the last hour.

Yeah. In a few years I would like to be able to see myself saying that I’m not ashamed of anything that I am. I’m doing good right now but I would love to be able to say whatever I wanted in any situation, as long as it came from a good place. I just want to able to fully accept myself as who I am, but I’m doing good right now.

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I just realised that we haven’t really spoken about snowboarding.

Are we still going to?

I guess we could. All I wanted to say is that I really like watching you ride, and that’s great to see you being backed by companies like Vans, Public and Ashbury, and we’re excited to see what you get up to this year.

I’m just really happy with the people around me in snowboarding. Especially this week, it’s been so refreshing. The past few seasons have been a bit stressful. This felt nice, just hanging out with a great group of people and naturally making something together. It just felt like a holiday.

That’s what I’ve been saying all week!

It’s the best. Also through these trips I’ve met so many great people that I have amazing connections with who I can just talk to. I haven’t spoken much about emotion lately. Maybe because I’ve only really seen my family and my girlfriend in lockdown. It’s nice to share things with people you haven’t shared them with.

Sometimes it’s weirdly easier talking about deeper topics with people you don’t often talk to.

I’m quite proud of what snowboarding is, and what’s going to happen with it in a few years. Good things are happening. And that’s a plus of social media I think. Seeing that there’s more to people than just tricks.

For sure. And if this interview helps even one person feel a bit easier about themselves, then that’s rad.

Never be ashamed of who you are, or to ask for help, on any level. It shouldn’t be taboo. Sometimes I feel like people look at you a little weird when you say that you’re going to therapy.

It’s a word that has some connotations, but I think that’s changing.

I feel like we touched some sick shit. I would rather have an interview like this that has some meaning and isn’t just me talking about switch back lips.

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Guess we can’t use the same joke as the other page for this BS wallride, you’d see right through it.

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Photos and words: Shawn Rei You’re quietly chilling in your bed, enjoying the last sober hours of 2019, mentally preparing for a savage night ahead. Your liver knows what’s coming - a river of champagne leading up to the final countdown. A notification pops up. You automatically check your phone. It’s Ethan Morgan.

“Hey bro!! We just decided to go on a heavy mission to Lebanon. You down? I’d love you to come with us…. by the way, we leave in two days” You tilt up, still in a daze from the pre-game nap.

Lebanon?… Errrr Lebanon?... Are we talking about that place close to Syria? As in the “Middle East”? Uh… Is there even snow there? Maybe they want to Sandboard?... Either way, fuck it, I’m in!

The thirst for a new adventure began. A new year on fresh snow - Yalaaa!

Yalla!

So why Lebanon? I finally asked. After checking the weather forecasts from around the world, believe it or not, it turned out Lebanon had just had the most insane snowfalls and there was much more to come during our trip. Are there even any resorts? Absolutely! We were going to ‘Mzaar’, located in the town of ‘Kfardebian’, which I naturally assume can only be accurately pronounced by doing your best impersonation of Chewbaca, like a proper Lebanese sasquatch. Kfffrrrrr!

Before departure, Ethan contacted the first shop he found on the internet: “Uh… Hey man? Do you speak English?... I’m Ethan Morgan, I’m a professional snowboarder… you can Google me!”

On the other end of the phone was Samer Jureidini, the owner of the snowshop called Board Inc. in Faraya. Out of pure kindness, he helped us set up everything: accommodation, car rentals, sightseeing, spot seeking, a crash course in local vocabulary and most importantly, he promised to hook us up with the best Lebanese food in the country.

And finally, we were set for an epic adventure. We picked a smooth 4x4 rental and cruised up to the mountains. We dumped our stuff at the “San José Residence”, had a quick snack in our new palatial lodgings before setting off on our first mission: scouting. There were tonnes of urban spots: rails, gaps, transfers, road signs… a concrete paradise covered in fresh powder lines. We had only just arrived and it seemed like we wouldn’t have enough time to ride them all! That afternoon, Samer took us to visit some Roman archaeological ruins. On the way back from the tour, he wanted to show us something special. The road was narrow and it was a complete whiteout, the fog was so thick that it was hard to distinguish the hood of the car from a ravine. Suddenly, we stopped. We were in the middle of nowhere. We walked over to a pile of snow near some abandoned house. They were riddled with bullet holes. These were the scars of a more modern history.

After a few minutes, a second car parked behind us. A person walks out.

With visible confusion on his face, Sebi Madlener decides to talk to him and asked if he needed some help with his car.

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Anyway, you can easily go to Kfardebian, it’s only one hour away from Beirut. Aside from racing and doing doughnuts with their cars in the snow, locals love skiing. We learned it the hard way… We started shovelling into the night to set up two spots and showed up to hit them at the crack of dawn. Sadly, we had less than an hour to shoot before it was total chaos and we were overrun with ski instructors, holidaymakers and the locals, on a Monday morning no less. It turned out that it was a public holiday.

Most of the other spots in town we’d scouted a day earlier were also either blocked by a constant flow of people or needed too much work to remove the excessive quantities of snow. Discouraged, we walked back to the car, but little did we know, Simon Pircher had spotted something in the streets: “I think that is doable, and no setup needed” he said. So, he went for it, gave it a few tries and baaam! First banger of the trip. The hype was back!

Everything was working smoothly after that, sticking to the ‘10 trick rule’. The group of friendly locals were watching on. This was probably the first time ever that they saw foreigners coming to their country and snowboarding in the streets. They seemed stoked!

After several days, a routine was set. Wake up early, get ready, eat a ‘Mankoushe’ (Lebanese sandwich, mostly veggies), have a fresh made serum at Habib’s ‘Juice Away’ and hit the streets. It turns out, Habib is the man in Kfardebian: “When you come here, I’m here!”

He was always smiling, welcoming, pressing the best fruit combos you can imagine from the comfort of his ‘Orange’ shaped shop. One morning, the boys, whilst sipping their juices, asked Habib if it would be cool if they jumped over his hut: “Uh, you want to jump? Yes? Okay, what time?”

Flo Corzelius finds a gap in pedestrian traffic to lace this BS boardslide pretzel.

We told him we would circle back around later that day when he was closed as we thought it would be more mellow. When we came back, Habib was there with his friends, waiting for us in the dark, greeting us with cigarettes and vodka - with fresh beetroot. But don’t forget to eat a fresh carrot at the same time because ‘When you drink, you are angry’, says Habib. He invited friends along with him because he wanted as many people as possible to see what was about to go down. He was proud. Whilst Flo Corzelius and Ethan were sending it, there was a real street party going on. Even the police showed up, thinking that we were robbing the place but they soon joined in. Sebi even managed to get the classic ‘Welcome to Lebanon’ shot with them. Probably the best night of the trip.

A well dressed Flo lays down a late night blunt 270 on the juice bar.

Yalla!

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Simon Pircher with his signature frontboard pretzel. Fast and perfect every time.

Yalla!

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Flo avoids taco time with this blunt pop-out.

Simon, nosetap to frontboard.

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Local ripper Roy Riachy joining the session.

Everyday was a different day. One day was blue. One day was grey. If you want to ride spots in private residential areas, remember to build a snowman on the hood of your car, for some reason the security guard will open the gate without asking any questions. One morning we woke up to discover an extra meter of powder which had fallen through the night – this could only mean one thing … shovel time. No big deal for Flo who had been living a healthy life for a while. Conditions were harsh that day, we could barely catch him through the lens. Just dropping the in-run was a hectic mission, trying to keep your eyes focused without getting snow in them whilst jumping onto this rail then pop out quick, if you didn’t want to end up doing a vertical taco into the pole.

Everybody had their big day during the trip, like Simon, jumping from one spot to another bringing the session until late at night in the streets of Faraya to destroy a handrail. Chris and Roy, two local snowboarders who helped out loads during the trip, joined the madness. We were all pumped but we were also all tired and couldn’t wait to go to bed, it was 11:15pm.

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With the trip almost coming to an end, the boys left ‘the balcony gap’ as the last bang.

The clip that would be the icing on the cake. After several hours of setting up the spot, it was time to hit it. The in-run was insane and super sketchy, you needed a ladder to get on the top of it. Once up there, ladies and gentlemen, please make sure not to touch the live electric cables hanging right above your head. All clear.

“Ready? Drop in 5.. Yalaaa!”

It was a full show for the people. Even Habib was watching us from the hut. The clips are probably somewhere on social media. It was difficult to ask everybody to keep it under wraps, but fuck it, everybody was having such a good time that in the end it didn’t even matter. We enjoyed the last sunset in Kfardebian before wrapping it up.

With one week of intense filming in the can, it was now time for us to go back to Beirut and act like the average tourists. On the way down the mountain roads, a van was stalking us. He began to overtake and drew level with us. He honked several times. It was Habib! We pulled over on the side of the road. He didn’t want us to leave before having one last beer together. Such a legend.

Simon Pircher saves the heaviest spot til the end, an AK sized sized step-down after avoiding electric shocks on the inrun.

The streets of Beirut were packed. Later Samer and his girl Christelle joined the party as well as Roy. They got us some traditional Lebanese liquor called ‘Arak’ which was pretty much similar to the French ‘Pastis’ (no offense). We toasted all together to an epic adventure.

One thing you need to know when you party in Lebanon is that there are three ways of saying cheers in Lebanese: Kessak (cheers to a guy), Kesskon (cheers to a group of people) and Kessik (cheers to a girl). But be careful with the last one though. If you pronounce it ‘Kessssssssssik’ that would mean something totally different – ‘pussy’… Be Warned.

Later, the locals took us to a club called ‘The Warehouse’, they warned us that the main thing about this club was about staying until sunrise.

Oh boy, this was going to be a loooong night, and a bit messy. Slowly but surely, the sun was starting to rise and finally we understood why everyone insisted on staying until the very end. Behind the DJ booth, in the

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main room, there was a large window which gives you a panoramic sunrise view of Beirut and all the mountains covered with snow surrounding the city.

A truly relaxing moment.

What else can we say about Lebanon? The landscapes are breathtaking and the country is full of warm, welcoming people - it feels like we should venture there more often and I am sure that one day, this country will be on the map of places you have to go snowboard. Before heading off to the airport, we shared a last glass of Arak. A metaphorical seed of peace and tolerance. One thing we know for sure is that we will never forget this spontaneous trip!

Shoukran habibis!

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“Jill is the type of snowboarder that makes you want to go snowboarding. It’s because she snowboards the same way she lives — All in.

When she first moved to Utah in the fall of 2014, she had just started getting back into skateboarding and was good at it. Really good. It was hard to understand why she wanted to leave a potential future in skateboarding and her hometown in sunny California to come to cold and snowy Utah, but it all makes sense when you watch her ride. She has this way of mixing beauty with danger to create a style that’s completely her own.

But it’s her attitude that sets her apart. You’ll never really hear her talk about what anyone else is doing on their snowboard. She’s not looking and comparing herself to others, she’s carving her own path. Jill doesn’t want to stop pushing the limit just above where everyone else has gone; she wants to take snowboarding to new heights altogether.”

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Surfing in Hoch YBrig.

Photo: Dominic Zimmermann

I chose this painting my dad did of me because he has actually never seen me snowboarding in person. I tell him how vibey and surfy it is and this is his interpretation of it. In my eyes it shows the freedom and happiness we all get from snowboarding.

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Elena Graglia landing herself on the cover with a savage noseslide indy. Nice hoodie too!

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project two years in the making, Jerome Tanon’s ‘Heroes’ is a celebration of women in snowboarding, and is one of the first bodies of work that is dedicated to the passion and drive of female riders across the world.

It’s not just made up of his photographs though, the book is also filled with their words, stories and artwork, and is as much theirs as it is his.

‘Womens Circle’ Artwork by Desiree Melancon

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Naima Antolin & Ylfa Rúnnarsdóttir both have better frontside inverts that you do.

Ylfa, frontside fastplant.

What was your intention when you started this project?

I was feeling really sad to not have any epic photos of girls in my archives, so I set up the project to finally make it happen. I had to put aside other projects and focused solely on women snowboarding for the 2019 and 2020 winter seasons. I wanted to capture banger action shots and meaningful lifestyles to build a body of work which would prove how sick girls are at snowboarding. That was the intention at the start, but it quickly became much more than this.

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So it turned into something different to what you’d planned?

I became more and more passionate about it because I discovered a sub-culture full of dedicated riders, usually with no budget whatsoever, who were frantically going out to shred and get clips. I could tell right away that it meant so much to them. Their stories and their passion was so powerful that I had to dive deeper and tell a larger story. That’s when it grew into a book project and eventually art shows.

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Robin Van Gyn. A seriously power-

ful portrait in a book full of power-

ful portraits.

What’s the deal with your printing process and paper?

First I draw, paint, and etch onto my precious negatives.

I wrote stuff in accordance to what the girls were thinking when the photo was taken. Then in the darkroom the so-called “Lith” process is a beast to tame, giving high contrast but unpredictable results. It involves weird developer chemicals and works only with a very few silver-gelatin papers still available in the world. The one paper I used for its beautiful sepia tone and texture has been out of production for the last decade or more. I bought the entire remaining stock 5 years prior from eBay, just in case. So at every step of the process I was definitely deep in the “no miss” zone.

Did you notice a difference in the vibe compared to shooting with guys?

Yeah. They are tighter. They support each other even more.

They feel for each other. When a badass trick is landed, it’s almost like it’s landed by the whole community. Besides that, it’s pretty much the same you know? You go out, you

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shovel all day, then you eat shit. But I met very different kinds of riders, from lonesome sponsor-less freeriders and teenage park-rats, to established pro figures and Olympic medal collectors. Every shade of it, and still, I was struck by their sense of community.

Any particularly memorable or standout shoots from the last two years?

So many really, but exploring the Whistler backcountry on sleds with Marie-France, Robin Van Gyn & Leanne Pelosi was crazy. It was like a Euro kid’s dream came true. Also the Ms. Superpark shoot in Colorado was insane, and I got to shred with the girls a lot. Then I followed Desiree Melancon & Nirvana Ortanez hitting street spots across Utah & Quebec and loved it. So many good memories, made even more vivid by the fact that I felt like I was doing something important, which really had to be done.

Seriously man, I love these girls.

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Robin Van Gyn. Real snowboarding.

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Zoi Sadowski-Synnott.

Eatin’ Bags of Dicks

Artwork by Margot Rozies

Isadora’s Shoulder Artwork by Natacha Rottier

I know there were a few, but what was the heaviest slam that you saw?

Without a doubt Elena Graglia’s scorpion on a rail to bank to gap in Helsinki. Nobody really understood what happened but she fell in the gap head first and her back cracked big time, you know, with that nasty sound. She was knocked-out, thinking her back was broken, and the crew was stressing out for her. The ambulance came and in the end she turned out to be fine and needed only a couple of weeks rest.

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Estelle Pensiero & Robin Van Gyn, cruising.

You went pretty much all in on this one in terms of budget, how did you feel when your kickstarter reached its goal in less than 3 days?

So happy ! That feeling of community kicked in real hard.

It’s all a big family thing, snowboarding. I felt relieved too, because without it I didn’t have the cash to get the book printed. So now it’s not my book anymore, it’s everyone’s!

I had worked pretty hard to make it work too, to make the prints and get the design started with Matt Georges, to prepare the campaign. Glad it wasn’t for nothing, now I’m able to get 2000 copies printed!

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Elena Graglia.

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Silje Norendal.

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Desiree Melancon, roof drop to a heavy 50-50.

What did you learn along the way?

That snowboard has still a long bright future ahead. These young talents, so filled with passion and good spirit, are not gonna stop in front of any wall. With male and female snowboarding tighter together with every passing season, always finding a side-track to reinvent itself, finding new ways of riding and new tricks to try. They are building new ways to connect snowboarding to other sports & lifestyles, making it even richer.

What are the next steps for you with this project?

Spreading it as much as I can! Have signing sessions with the book in board stores, doing big photo-shows in cities with fine art prints, also in ski-resorts. If you think you can help in any way, contact me! I aim at selling those 2000 copies too. As of today I haven’t seen the final book printed so I’m excited like a kid before Christmas.

Desiree. Wise words on the topsheet.

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Marion Haerty. This translates roughly to ‘Peace out assholes’.

Any shoutouts?

Shoutout to Mary Walsh for writing such a proper preface for the book, out of good heart and passion. All the artists who sent in sketches, paintings, collages, and made the whole project so much more personal and vivid. In the end more than 40 women riders got involved and contributed to the book, so that’s a lot of shout-outs. Thank you, really.

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rik Leon is already actively using his new (and much deserved) pro status to ensure that others have the opportunity to experience the same stoke that he experienced as a kid, and is still experiencing today. We think that’s rad, so we got him on the phone to chat about his latest video project and to find out more about C.O.R.E. INTERVIEW: THEO ACWORTH

Yo Erik.

Whatup?

Not much mate, little early for me (6.45 am) but all good, we’re big fans so are happy to get you on the phone.

Thanks for making the push. I’m also working pretty early in the mornings at the moment.

Where are you working?

Currently at a metal fabrication shop, doing a bunch of welding. Making staircases and railings for million dollar homes.

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How long have you been doing that for?

Pretty much right when the pandemic started. I’ve never really done anything like this before. A friend of mine manages this shop and they needed a hand, so I’ve now been there for five months. It’s a little more than I’m used to, but I’ve learned so much.

I briefly worked in a sculpture foundry and it was pretty rad being around flying sparks and the smell of metal.

You’re never really comfortable around steel until you work around steel.

So this is the summer life of a pro snowboarder?

I guess! I just want to learn as many things before I die and I figured that welding stuff and building structural things was pretty out of my realm, and now I’m pretty comfortable with it. I look at rails so differently now. Some days we build the most perfect stuff and install it, so funny.

I guess you keep track of where you’ve put things in?

Maybe leave a note saying you’ll be back in a few months to do some ‘structural’ checks?

Exactly. My boss is also a snowboarder so he gets it too.

Speaking of snowboarding, you’ve just had your second pro binding with Flux, your first signature outerwear line with Airblaster, and your first pro board with Arbor.

Congrats!

Thanks dude.

How does it feel to see a bunch of things with your name on it?

I’m still tripping over it. I’ve been with each of those brands for ten years now, which is kinda crazy. I was 15 or 16 when I got on and I never thought I’d end up here.

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one was making the most affordable signature product on the market to try and make snowboarding more accessible for everyone. Just making sure that I use my influence with the brands that I work with to offer a signature product that is tailored to anyone who wants to go snowboarding. Like the local liftie who keeps up with snowboarding but can’t afford the latest expensive gear. This is still in their price range.

That’s a really nice attitude to have towards it.

Right before I got on Arbor I didn’t have any boards to ride, and this shop in Big Bear turned their unsold boards into rental boards, and they just hooked it up and let me use a bunch of them. I just hopped on whatever they would let me use for the week. If that shop hadn’t helped me out like that then I might not be where I am today, you know?

For sure.

I feel that what it really came down to was the snowboard community helping the snowboard community. I see so much value in that. It helped my career so much. So the thing that I feel it’s best to do is influence the snowboard scene through my sponsors to bring people together and grow the community.

Gap backlip.

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To immediately try to give back to snowboarding with your first pro gear is rad. That’s more than a lot of people would do with any pro gear, let alone their first.

Thanks man. Snowboarding has done so much for me, so I want to do what I can to influence others to snowboard more. It just brings you around the best kind of people who can change your life forever. I’ve met my closest friends through snowboarding.

So what’s up with C.O.R.E.?

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stands for Community Outreach Riding Equipment. So the idea behind it is that every signature product has a 3-point checklist.

1.Make a signature product that’s as affordable as it possibly can be, while maintaining the highest possible quality.

2.Take sustainable steps in everything that we do produce.

With Arbor the sustainable approach is a no brainer, they’ve been doing this since the day they started. Fast forward 25 years and their sustainable practices are so developed that it was really easy to align C.O.R.E. with them.

All of the Airblaster product that is tied to C.O.R.E. and myself has 50% recycled polyester in the material. The idea is that we may not be able to create a product that’s both affordable and 100% sustainable, but I believe that any step towards sustainability is the best step we can possibly take. Whether it’s 1% or 100%. 0% is just not acceptable.

3.Start community programs and host events in local areas to help underprivileged kids to go snowboarding.

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Erik Leon doing what he does best.

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If everyone does even a little bit, then that’s a collective impact.

Over time things will change, you’ve just got to be a part of the change and help fuel it. We’re also looking at working with and hosting events that donate money to organisations in places like Minneapolis or New York. There’s already one up here in Portland called Snow Days where they bring kids to the slopes and introduce them to the snowboard world.

That sounds great dude, very cool that you’re actively trying to give back and help show others how rad snowboarding is.

Snowboarding can totally change your life and point you in a direction that you never thought you could go. So I hope we can introduce it to people from areas where it just doesn’t seem possible. Without me getting that little push from the shop in Bear, things might have turned out different.

And now things have come full circle and you get to give others your own little push. It sounds like your sponsors have been pretty receptive to your ideas?

Yeah absolutely. I know it hasn’t been easy, but seeing people’s positive reactions when we brought CORE to the tradeshows with the gear made all the hard work and persistence worth it. As soon as I brought it up with the owner of Arbor, Bob Carlson, he was on board. I asked Jesse Grandkoski from Airblaster about two years ago and he was all in. Flux was the same, straight away they were down and trying to figure out how to take the best steps that they can. Immediately there were suggesting their own events in Japan and trying to mobilise the snowboard community over there and further expand it. I mean it’s already huge over there, but they want to make it bigger. I think the best thing about this idea is that anyone can contribute ideas that will help people to experience the same thing that you love. There are so many amazing ideas coming from people and brands about what we can do next with it. Everyone wants to help. To be able to do this with these guys and have them push it forward even harder has been unreal. I couldn’t be more thankful.

Just going out and filming parts is fun but it isn’t doesn’t have a huge amount of longevity, whereas this really seems like something that can only continue to grow and do good things.

Shit I hope. That’s exactly the way I see it. I love filming video parts but it does make you a bit of a recluse. You miss the other 99% of snowboarding. When I’d go filming and travelling with Airblaster we’d always spend time hanging and riding with the local communities, trips like that are always the ones that I feel leave more of an impact.

Just touring around and having fun in crazy places. That’s probably the reason why I’m so hyped on snowboarding as a whole and never really burnt on filming. I’ve been able to witness the snowboard community first hand in so many crazy places that it just hypes me up. That’s what we should be supporting the most.

I just want it to be as fun as possible. I love insane crazy snowboarding, but I’ll watch Airblaster’s April again and again over anything else.

Where did you guys shoot?

Our first trip was to Japan, we were in this zone on Hokkaido that I was drooling to get back into. We brought Tucker Andrews who’s been a homie and inspiration for such a long time and such a good human. Mary Rand who’s newly pro for Arbor also joined. I’ve known her since I was 16 or 17 but I’d never been on a trip with her. We went for two and half weeks and absolutely scored. Even people in Japan were asking where we were, and I didn’t tell them shit.

Sounds quality, where else did you end up?

We went to Quebec for a month and linked up with Frank April and his family, and also Mike Liddle who’s another ride-or-die. I love shooting with him, we always give each other the right amount of motivation. We stayed with Frank while we were there I grew up watching his parts and was so inspired by him as a professional street snowboarder, and for the last 3-4 years I’ve been standing next to him and thinking to myself ‘damn I’m snowboarding with Frank April, this is the coolest thing ever’.

That’s cool to hear that you still have that feeling.

Oh dude, every day. Frank absolutely killed it, I’ve never seen him so hungry. Bode Merrill also came out for the last two weeks. We’ve been filming for the last 4 years or so and it wouldn’t be right to make a snowboard film without bringing him along, the dude is incredible. You can add him to the list of people I trip on standing next to. Not only standing next to, but also looking up to, he’s like 3 feet taller than me.

So you’re still looking up to him emotionally, and physically, nice.

100%. Bode is another ride-or-die. After this trip I realised that I could probably film street snowboarding with Bode forever. We work so well together.

Does the video have a name?

El Sueno. It means ‘The Dream’ in Spanish. This wasn’t about going ham and ruining ourselves. The idea was to snowboard with each other and have fun, just have everyone ride the same spots in their own style. Everyone approaches things differently, and that brings diversity into snowboarding. It’s snowboarding how we want to snowboard, not taking it too seriously.

I agree 100%. So speaking of filming, how’s your movie this year been going?

Anyone making a project in 2020 has probably felt the butterflies that I’ve felt, but I’m pretty amazed with what we’ve come away with. It was still an incredible year, even if we only rode for half of it.

What was your approach to the project?

The plan was to go back to the roots of my snowboarding.

So Kyle Schafer is the filmer, he’s one of my best friends and the person who taught me how to snowboard and first put me in videos. He’s my ride-or-die. If I was going to make my first ever film, then I want the guy who’s been filming me since day one. We said let’s just go snowboarding and have fun like we always did. Let’s create a loose roster that allows us to shoot in different environments.

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The Sparrow takes flight.

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hey’ve known each other since they were kids on the UK circuit, but this is the first time that Sparrow Knox and Will Smith have been responsible for putting together their own project. They roped in the assistance of friend and skate filmer Joe Allen, and have fittingly titled the project ‘Mates’.

I jumped on a train down from Innsbruck to join them in Sestriere, Italy, and this interview was conducted over an Instagram video chat several months later.

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What’s up gents, nice to see you all! Let’s get straight into it, what was the motivation to start this project?

Sparrow: No one else wanted to film with me *laughs*.

Nah we’ve been chatting about doing it since we were 14 but never got around to it.

Will: We wanted to do it for a while now. We’d do the Vans First Layer trips and just wanted to do more of that sort of thing together.

S: The vibes would always be so sick on those trips. And having two English people together was always good. So off the back of that we thought it would be sick to do our own thing.

W: We’d planned it the year before but I had XGames Real Snow and Sparrow had just had Iris (ed. his daughter). So we just postponed it a year and actually had the chance to organis it a bit better.

How’s the overall vibe in comparison to other projects you’ve worked on?

W: It was different because we were actually in charge and had to organise it.

S: Decision-making is a new thing for is.

Was it fun being in charge?

W: It was… different. Usually Sparrow and me just show up on trips.

S: Yeah that’s the dream innit? Just show up and shit’s sorted. Or you’ve paid for it but someone else has sorted it.

W: It was pretty mellow to do though.

S: The vibe was very British though. It was me and Will, then Joe as the filmer. Then you (Theo) came on one trip, James North came on the other, and we had Angus Leith, Andy Nudds and Jake & Joe Simpson. It wasn’t planned to be a British thing though.

Alright mate?

I guess it’s called Mates, so it doesn’t matter too much.

And the name does make perfect sense for you guys, because that’s what you are.

W: I was about 12 when I met Sparrow.

S: Yeah that’s about right, at that first AIM Series in Edinburgh?

W: Yeah. It’s just nice that we still snowboard together.

S: Yeah man. It’s fucking sick that we actually made it happen. I think there will be more of these in the future. It works and we’re both keen, and I think that the sponsors are hyped on the fact that we’re taking charge and doing our own thing.

W: I feel like we just get to snowboard on whatever we want. Not that that’s not always the case, but there’s no outside pressure involved. Just us there.

So the sponsors have been behind it the whole way?

W: Yeah Vans and Monster, and Lobster just got involved.

S: So we actually had some pretty good backing for a first time project, we were gassed on it. The second episode that Will’s cut is sick. It’s 10 minutes long and we’ll release it mid October.

Speaking of filming. Joe, you come from a skateboard background and had actually never filmed or even been snowboarding before. What was it like jumping into our world?

Joe: It was pretty interesting seeing how different it was to a skate trip. The ratio of riding to filming was definitely not the same. On a skate trip you’re just skating the whole time. You skate to and from everywhere. Whereas with snowboarding you’re just driving around and can’t ride until you’ve set up this really intricate inrun and landing and stuff. But it’s cool, I enjoyed it.

Were there any differences for you in terms of the actual filming process?

J: I’ve only ever filmed with a VX-1000 before this trip, not these fancy HD cameras, so I had to quickly learn how to use them. But I got there in the end. We tried one VX shot but it gave up on me and didn’t even record in the cold.

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In another life Sparrow would have made a great burglar.

Switch drop in after shinning up the roof.

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Did you blow any shots?

J: I don’t think so.

W: He didn’t blow any. Even the fisheye stuff, it’s way different than skating.

J: The boards are a lot bigger and the overall dimensions of things are much bigger.

S: I blew one, this 50-50 FS3 shot of Will. He got it so nicely and I filmed it sick, but I double tapped record, classic. Joe fucking smashed it though. He didn’t fuck up one shot.

Sparrow, are Joe and Will ever mean to you because you’re from the South and they’re from the North?

S: Nah, never. It’s usually the Southerners giving them shit anyway!

W: We told you to stop speaking French to people who were kicking us out.

J: You definitely didn’t make the situations any better.

I remember you trying to convince a homeowner that you were a ‘member of the national team’ in bad Italian in the hope that he’d let you ride on his roof.

S: Ah yeah. We went to Quebec after this trip and I have actually forgotten a bunch of stuff, can you remind me what else happened?

My standout moment was when that lady tried to take the camera bag hostage and you went into full beast mode and practically ripped it in half to get it off her. I think she threw your mug of tea at you as well.

W: Oh my god I’d forgotten about that.

S: Oh yeah, that lady. She was psycho.

W: That was funny.

S: We hit so much stuff in that area. Not the craziest stuff, but just whatever we found.

I re-watched the edit a few days ago; I forgot how many sick shots you got.

W: I’d never really filmed in that sort of environment before, in a mountain town. It made me snowboard differently, not only looking for big stuff.

S: I noticed that about you too.

W: You’ve just got to make the best out of what’s there.

That’s a very British attitude Will.

S: And that’s exactly what we did. We didn’t complain, we just rode things that we might not have done if we were with a bigger crew. Just do it man. We’re just there to snowboard, don’t overthink it.

W: I mean we grew up riding dryslope so we’ll make the best out of anything, you know?

Ok I think we can wrap things up there, unless there’s anything else we should talk about?

S: It’s kind of crazy that were in Northern Italy in late January, right when Corona started to hit. I had to go to hospital too when I smacked my head on the fence.

W: Do you remember how ill you were when we went to Canada a few weeks later?

S: Oh god, yeah. Didn’t make that connection until now.

Wow.

Fence bending FS wallride bash from Will.

and yourself for coming and shooting photos.

S: Big up to Joe and Will for being down. Not like it was my thing, but we were all in it together, so big up to the boys and big up to Vans, Lobster and Monster for putting their trust in us. And big up to Covid for shutting it down early.

That was a professional ending right there Sparrow, remembering to mention the right people W: The least professional interview with the most professional ending. He’s had the phone in his pocket for the last twenty minutes and is doing this interview while he’s at work.

S: I’m building a gaming chair right now, working in the art department today on the film set.

Ok art department we’ll leave thing there. Thanks for your time gents, looking forward to the next trip.

Any closing words for our readers?

W: Shout out to Joe for jumping straight in at the deep end,

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Blunt pop-over that cracked the mortar and almost lifted the bricks off the wall.

This tunnel is beneath an Olympic ski jump. We definitely had more fun riding here than the Olympians did. FS3 floater from Sparrow.

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Drop 50-50 to BS180. On the first attempt Will stopped dead and did an accidental frontflip off the roof. He landed it too. This was where the lady ripped the bag and threw the tea.

Joe, Sparrow & Will. Mates.

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Rock-to-rock wallie.

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A bloke shouted at Sparrow just before we shot this photo. He just smiled vacantly back, and the guy clearly decided we were idiots and left us alone to get this shot.

Got the shot mate.

Will has a pretty savage style, as is evident from this brutal BS wallie off the roof.

Seriously, who does wallies like this? So good.

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