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VOLUME FOURTEEN ISSUE TWO
“We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.” - Albert Camus Autumn. Most people don’t like this time of year. It brings to mind rainy, dark days filled with things like school, work, responsibilities and too many layers of clothing. Unlike most people, snowboarders see fall from a completely different, much happier perspective. For us this is a time of gleeful expectation, filled with things like movie premieres, tons of new gear, a crisp, cold edge to the air and, more than anything, that gnawing little feeling in your gut, the restless desire for winter to hurry up and get here so you can strap in and rip your first turn of the new season. It is precisely this feeling I’d like to talk about, the anticipation of a fresh canvas to paint new lines on. There’s something to be said for anticipation, after all. I’m certainly not the only one who finds the build up almost as titillating, if not more so, than the actual realization of whatever it is that you’re pining for. Even Andy Warhol once said, “the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”. So make sure you enjoy these last few dark, rainy weeks before Old Man Winter shows up again, head to your local shop, check out the new movies, buy some gear, support the companies you think are cool, support snowboarding.
COVERSTORY When I showed up in Oslo, I didn’t realize I was going on a backcountry trip. Look at that cheese wedge!!! HAHA. Danny knows so many rad spots in his hometown, all of them very unique and requiring a fair amount of work. In this day and age of snowboarding it takes a trained eye to find something cool and unique out there. I remember showing up to this spot thinking, “what the fuck is he looking at”. Thanks to Danny we turned nothing into something. I highly recommend hanging with Danny if you ever get the opportunity, he’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever meet. He has 10 different personalities and they all come with a different accent. Also, his wife Gro makes a mean pastry to help you start your day. – BOB PLUMB CAMERA: CANON 5D MK2 LENS: CANON 70-200 APERTURE: 5.6
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The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Method Mag’s editorial policy. "A soapbox is a raised platform on which one stands to make an impromptu speech, often about a political subject. The term originates from the days when speakers would elevate themselves by standing on a wooden crate originally used for shipment of soap or other dry goods from a manufacturer to a retail store." - Wikipedia It’s not often you get carte blanche to bitch about what grinds your snowboarding gears, but that’s just what I’ve been offered here. Then I had to think pretty carefully, because a lot of what pisses me off most is pretty particular to the UK: Health and Safety – yeah, you don’t have that in Europe (fucking score). So here is mine: There is a special breed of snowboard twat. They think that backcountry riding is less dangerous than park. They got into freeriding as opposed to freestyle because it was easy to bullshit their mates that they were good at it and harder for their mates to prove otherwise. They do not appreciate that the reason why freeriding is fucking scary and deserves respect is because YOU MIGHT DIE! They wear an avalanche transceiver in the bar, but were never taught to use it. They have a splitboard, but never split it. They carry totally pointless mountaineering equipment in ski resorts. In short, they think that having all of the equipment is a suitable alternative to having the necessary skills and backcountry awareness. They think “somehow getting down a face while people on the lift below think you are going to die” is the same as “putting in a sick line”.
----------------The Doctor is in! Gap out to front board in Cairngorm, Scotland. P H OTO : P E T E R D I E N D E R
They have a GoPro permanently mounted to their helmet, at an angle that is mainly recording the horizon. They congregate at the top of chairlifts, waiting for someone who looks like they know where they are going. They then follow random people who they don’t know and get upset when they get called out and told to “FUCK OFF” (props to Mr. Will Hughes of Tignes fame for entertaining me on this one). They think “waiting for the rider in front to reach their safe spot” means dropping in after two turns. They don’t check snow conditions except by setting off, already in falling leaf for that extra added pressure on the snowpack. If you pass them, it is usually on the blind side of a roller, where they have stopped to wait for their mate who can’t even turn and take a photo. In less than the time it takes for their heart rate to return to normal and the color to return to their cheeks, their sketchy descent has been re-branded as “awesome”, ready for the après claims. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE YOU HEAR ABOUT EVERY FUCKING SEASON, IN EVERY FUCKING
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RESORT. THEY DIE ON SOUTH-FACING SLOPES AT 16:00. OR EVEN WORSE, TRIGGER AVALANCHES ONTO THE GROUP THEY FOLLOWED UP ON THE HIKE AND KILL ALL OF THEM INSTEAD. SO DON’T FUCKING FOLLOW PEOPLE WITH A GO PRO ALREADY STRAPPED TO YOUR FUCKING HEAD AND POINTLESS MOUNTAINEERING EQUIPMENT IN YOUR PACK WHEN YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY ARE GOING. IT WON’T MAKE YOU ENJOY SNOWBOARDING ANY MORE AND YOU MIGHT FUCKING KILL SOMEONE, OR AT LEAST SPOIL THEIR DAY. #ICEAXECUNT Rant over. - Thrashmore PS – I’m not for a second saying that people shouldn’t smash the powder between runs on a blue bird day and enjoy a few face shots, just try not to be a cunt.
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FIVE THINGS
5 people you love - Mom & Dad - The rest of my whole family - My steaming hot girlfriend 5 best beers you’ve ever had - Alexander Keith’s - Guinness - Corona - PBR - All micro brews are good for one 5 craziest nights at the House of 1817 - One night a bat was flying around and Joe got super scared and almost went to his parents house. - Ethan and I would go to college parties that were around there!! - Can’t really nail down 5 stories, I honestly think we just went snowboarding every night and hit street spots!! 5 favorite public places where you’ve gotten naked - Annecy for The Reels! - Downtown Breckenridge! - Japan in the onsen! - Nude beaches! - Barcelona 6 AM for sure! 5 best grabs, in descending order - Switch Japan! - FS crail - Indy tuck knee - Stiffy mute - Switch method
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5 people who just need to shut the fuck up -Thomaz Garcia - Chris McAlpine - Alexis de Tarade - Ryan Scardigli - Laurie Barker - Steve Dowle
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JA K E OLSON -ELM 5 weird things about you nobody knows -That I’m writing this right now, usually the first thing I do when I wake up is brush my teeth - My soccer team in high school were state champions! - I was captain for my high school soccer team and lost it because I got a drinking ticket - I like to cook for hours - I do 40 push-ups a day 5 best things about not using highbacks - Feels loose - Boardslides feel really cool - You can tweak grabs harder - Back lips feel really cool
- You can slash snow without losing speed!! - Also, I used to have knee pain from highbacks and now without them that pain is gone! 5 reasons why the Midwest is the best - Because my family is here and I can fish, hunt and snowboard as much as I want!!! 5 raddest things about ice fishing - Haha it’s an adventure! You look at a topographic map, guess where the fish might be, set up camp, crack a reeeeeeeal ice cold beer and start fishing. Usually you’re with 3 other people so you hang out, party and fish!! Then call for a sober ride home.
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5 scariest spots ever - Triple kinks - The desert, there’s nothing there!!!! - Walking around tall grass when you know mountain lions are around!!! - Contests!! - Spots with no outs!! 5 funniest lies you’ve ever told - One time this guy asked me what I did on this street rail and I lied and said something crazy like 360 on. He was like, fuck! Then that year he didn’t put his back lip on that rail in his video part because I lied about 360 on. Oops!! - Lies that are pointless are the best, like telling someone you got a cheeseburger when you really got a hamburger - Telling people that I’m from Hollywood - If people ask me if my dad owns Elm Headwear I just say yes! - Telling someone it’s only an hour drive when it’s really 4 hours!!
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HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN ON THIS EARTH?
HOW MANY JAEGER BOMBS CAN YOU DRINK?
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----------------That looks like more than 5 or 6 kinks to us! Front board in Spokane.
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----------------Preston putting those Grip Sticks to good use, totally wild boned out roast beef-y type thing on the FS wall at Hood.
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CRAB GRAB
Who is Crab Grab? (Preston Strout) It’s just my wife Dawn and I, and our good-for-nothing dog named Peanut. We’re just a small family business here in Oregon that gets a ton of help along the way from sales reps, distributors, team riders, photo friends, etc. You guys basically cornered the traction market in one fell swoop, what made you decide to make stomp pads and grip sticks? I just wanted to make a product that inspired riders to kind of refocus snowboard tricks on style. The days of really tweaking unique grabs somehow got replaced with just grabbing mute and spin-corking till you land; so that’s where our grab rails or grip sticks came from. Not that you need a piece of foam to grab onto, but it sure feels good to grab them and seeing them on your board is a great reminder of how amazing a simple poked out grab can feel. Stomp pad type stuff was a natural extension of this, so Scott Stevens and Jesse Burtner became our first two team riders. We all spend our summers up on Mt. Hood, and the brand and products were all born out of this environment.
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I’d like to make a side note here. I think the level of modern pro snowboarding is so hard to relate to for your average rider. It’s absolutely incredible where things have progressed to, but it’s very difficult to go emulate. You don’t just go to your local mountain and try to make your triple corks look like your favorite snowboarder’s triples. On the other hand, catching a few feet of air off a bump and grabbing your snowboard makes sense to anyone. The trick then becomes making those grabs look and feel really good. I love the fact that Crab Grab can inspire new snowboarders to have fun trying this.
Aww, thanks. That would be me... I still have the mind of a 14-year old. But I also have the back and knees of a 75-year old so it all balances out.
Not only do you guys have a STACKED pro/ am team, most industry heads are rocking Crab Grab on their decks, along with a ton of rad kids. What’s the secret to your success? Yea, we’re very fortunate to have so many amazing people supporting this project. Every time I see it on someone’s board I feel so honored and lucky. Aside from making really functional products, I think the secret to our success is just focusing on one thing and doing it right. Traction is such a small category for most larger brands that it becomes an afterthought, their stomp pads end up being heinous and most riders just stopped using them. The term itself, “stomp pad”, became synonymous with something shitty you’d see on a rental board. For Crab Grab, traction products are the only thing we make and it’s all I ever want us to make. To just make one thing really, really well.
Where can kids in Europe cop some Crab Grab gear? We have amazing distributors in the UK, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Norway, so I’m assuming your local shops in those places. We still need to figure out the other countries, so hit me up if you’re a distributor down with Crab Grab.
P Pants might just be the greatest thing ever invented, followed closely by Board Barf. Who comes up with this stuff?
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What is the difference between regular Board Barf and Bode’s Barf? On Bode’s Barf, the logo is holding a Cosmo glass, other than that it’s that same barf formula. Dawn and I actually hand make all of those in our garage and it’s a massive pain in the ass. Hot Tip: this season is actually the last year for a while that we’re making Board Barf, so the ones you can find are gonna be collectors items.
Last word is yours! It’s so cliched, but I think the most important part of running a snowboard company is just to snowboard all the time, and share your products, time, and passion with other snowboarders. To me, one hour on a snowboard is more powerful than 40 on a computer, so I want to keep Crab Grab small and efficient. If we grow naturally that’s great, if we fail naturally that’s fine too. Either way, it’s going to happen with us spending our time up on the mountain. crabgrab.com
DOWN TO EARTH
Tell us about Almo Films and why you started it? (Morgan Le Faucheur) We decided to create it because we just wanted to film and show what we do in the way we want. After all those years filming with different production companies I wanted to start my own thing, so I hit up my friend Alban Jehlen and Almo Films was born.
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Do you have to be French to be in the crew? No, you just have to be a nice dude that shares the same vision of snowboarding that we have, I would say. We are open to any crazy new characters who want to join the gang! Tell as about the guys behind the cameras. Evan and Mathieu are the dudes holding the cameras. They are both really different, Evan is a pretty quiet guy cuz he doesn’t drink, and Mathieu is an engineer who decided to stop making money and come waste his time with us. Did you guys really do about “Miles Bornes” in a season? Seems like you do more? We clock a ton of miles during a season! I think we did at least 30,000 km by car, millions by plane and hundreds by walking! The new movie is called “Drole de Vie”, what is the funniest thing about life? The life we lead, thanks to snowboarding, is a pretty funny one. Look at it objectively.
We travel every day during the season looking for the best snow conditions at the best spots. Then we spend hours risking our lives in the cold temperatures just because we love snowboarding. It’s kind of funny, if you think about it. Especially to non-snowboarders. When organizing missions with the crew, what is worse: just winging it or overplanning? You can never plan too much ahead of time since what we do depends on snow conditions, but you have to be ready to move fast when it’s go time. Is there such thing as too much slow-mo? We tried to keep it mellow with the slow-
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mo in our movie. I hope we did a good job with that. What do you think the people of the future are going to think of your movies? I hope they will like it and watch it even though it’s old. Maybe they will see it as a classic. What is something you realize about your crew after a day of riding with them? Whether it’s a good or a bad day, we all realize at the end of it that we are really lucky to do what we do. We spend so much time teasing each other, just saying bullshit and having fun on our boards. Hooray for snowboarding! almofilmblog.com
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IT’S ON TV INTER NET
P O S S E PA G E Jonothan
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Who is It’s on TV Internet? Actually, what the fuck does “It’s on TV Internet” even mean? (Jonas Wilhelmson) It’s on TV Internet pretty much means that it is on TV internet (Ed. note: uh, okay?) and whoever is filming with us is a part of it. Also, what does the name of your new movie, “TV/videobevakning”, mean? It’s kind of a tough word for non-Scandis to pronounce… Tv/videobevakning is what’s written on all the video surveillance signs in Sweden, and to be honest it’s pretty much just a really clever marketing campaign. It also represents camera surveillance, and we use a camera... so yea. Basically, it’s a stupid name and I like it.
whereas It’s on TV Internet is pretty much whoever is on TV Internet for the moment. You should come film with us this winter, dude. We heard rumors about some crazy capoeira grabbin’ action!
Does it seem harder for people to land tricks when the little REC red light is flashing? I think most people actually land more stuff when that little light is shining.
Do you still own a TV? I still own a television set.
Are you guys superheroes fighting against evil Babylon? I’m a hippie, I don’t fight. In other words, yes!
Do you watch more TV or internet? I watch more on the internet. I like watching TV, on the internet, when it’s on.
Does Sweden have a very pervasive public surveillance CCTV system? We are all being watched!
Remember when you were a kid, your parents were always giving you grief about sitting too close to the TV, why is the distance from the screen no longer an issue with computers? It’s actually a myth, there is no science proving that sitting too close to a screen is harmful. And you can’t get worms from eating snow either, worms freeze to death in the snow.
Is everyone in It’s on TV Internet also a part of Cobra? No, the Demon Cobra snowboarding society is a small and secret organization,
Is there something bad about everyone being able to broadcast themselves live from a TV station i.e. the internet? Do I know the answer to this?
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Can you save us or we all doomed? Start growing your own food. Plant a couple of trees. Understand that money is nothing but numbers in a fucking computer! Stop listening to whatever the “elite” has to say. Burn down the banks(not literally). Reclaim t he power of your own life. Be nice to each other and Mother Nature and you too will be fine. How can snowboarding save the world? Snowboarding can’t save the world, but it might save your soul if you’re lucky.
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Most people don't associate Nicolas Müller with death-defying stuntman snowboarding, but this is unequivocally a photo that makes one stop and vociferously exclaim, "HOLY SHIT!". Yes, in case you were wondering, Nico's got a large set of brassy balls to go along with his preternatural style. Yes, in case you were wondering, do not try this at home. Check out Nico slicin' and dicin' in Absinthe's new movie "Dopamine" as well as Nike's "Never Not" and Burton’s “[SNOWBOARDING]” ----------------P H OTO : O L I G AG N O N
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Claudia x Cobratsbag When I was in Paris this summer I met one of the best photographers I know. His name is Yiorgos Kaplanidis. I’m a really big fan of his and of course his photos. He was doing a fashion shoot , so I asked if I could join. He was doing his photos with the model. I make these bags. They’re made out of a plastic fuck doll, so I asked the girl if she could pose for me, very Vogue, with the bag. I don’t remember her name but she was beautiful and very friendly. Ah, yes. You can buy this bag. Just contact me. That was the idea behind it. No idea.
Our little friend Dani Rajcsanyi hasn't been riding as hard as usual lately but he's been (f)arting harder than ever at the fashion school which he's been attending. We checked in with him to see some of his recent work and it is just fabelhaft. Ladies and gentlemen, Dani Rash!
Mia San Mia “Mia San Mia” actually means = we are us or we are IT. There are millions of fanatic fans, they identify the success of other people with their own. They label themselves and hate other clubs. Either in football or in other scenes. It’s always the same, standing behind an ideology and following other’s thoughts instead of thinking on their own. Living in social life is similar to the Nazi movement. This picture shows a Bavarian pattern mixed with swastikas and old German Mia San Mia letters. In the middle is a plastic-covered man who is doing the Hitler salute. He is covering himself with plastic to protect himself, but he is running with it.
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The Northwest has long harbored insanely gifted people. Who knows what it is about that part of the world that breeds that sort of talent and creativity, the coffee maybe? The rain? The many, many volcanoes? Be that what it may, the fact remains that many individuals from this particular region have left a sizable and indelible impression in snowboarding. Two of those individuals are Jamie Lynn and Chris Brunkhart, rider and photographer respectively. Each one silently speaks. Jamie cranks his classic method through the snowy, low Oregon sky in 1998.. ----------------P H OTO : C H R I S B R U N K H A R T
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How long has it been since you “retired”? I was a “professional” snowboarder from 1997 to 2003. Looking back, it was the golden age of snowboarding, big enough to attract a lot of people but still soooo many freaks around the scene. I had the chance to travel the world and see some of the most beautiful places to shred. Definitely some of my best experiences and a unique life-school. Grindelwald, located in the Swiss Alps, is my home base. We have great resorts with lots of backcountry options right outside the door. There used to be a sick pipe here with ISF World Tour stops, but unfortunately it’s gone due to stupid business decisions. Fuck that. I enjoy riding with my longtime buddies Mani, Geri and Murielle, there’s just a solid trust amongst us which is an important issue in the backcountry. It’s great to ride at home, you get to know the layers of the snowpack on an almost daily basis and there’s still so much terrain to discover. You’re still ripping harder than a lot of guys who are younger than you, how many days do you get on your board per season? I get about 80 to 100 days a season, and most of them are just pure quality days with backcountry, powder and friends. This is what I’m looking for and that’s why I snowboard. Tell us a bit about your current gig as a WST judge. Back in 2006 I got a call from Dani “Kiwi” Meier, asking if I wanted join his judging panel at TTR. That’s how I got
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into judging and since then I judge 3-4 contests a season. I love snowboarding and I’m happy to bring my knowledge of the sport combined with a taste for math and numbers. For several years the judging (that I was involved with) was done mostly by ex-pros as judges and for me this worked out the best. Which part(s) of your body hurt the most after a long day on the hill? I actually feel in better shape than ever before and luckily nothing really hurts after a day of shredding. It’s more after partying hard that there is some sort of pain. How do you feel about the current state of snowboarding? It’s so diverse and versatile. The level these days is so sick: Nicolas, Travis, Gigi (and many more) take terrain reading and backcountry riding to a new level every year. It’s all about being experienced in
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the backcountry. On the other hand you have the contest scene with all these kids throwing crazy doubles and triples over massive kickers while some can’t even do proper BS airs. But, that’s the best thing about snowboarding: there are so many options to choose from, you can just do whatever you want. Will you ever stop snowboarding? No. Long life to old farts, last words are yours! Let’s go shred! And check out these great snowboards, handbuilt by another longtime riding buddy, Reto Neiger: www.zensnow.com
----------------How many Fresh Meats do you know film full parts with the Pirates? Back board transfer to front lip in Hochgurgl. P H OTO S : R U D I W Y H L I DA L
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SAMI LU HTAN EN What kind of meat are you? Wazzup, I’m Sami Luhtanen. I live in Lohja, Finland. I’m a 20-year old boy who likes snowboarding.
Once you get past your spring chicken phase, where do you imagine yourself after you beef up and get older? Under a palm tree.
Do you have any bones to pick? Nope.
What is the meat and potatoes of snowboarding? Having fun and spending good times with your friends while you are still young.
When was the last time you thought you were dead meat? A couple of times skating vert this summer I thought my meat was gonna go straight through the plywood.
Who would you consider a fine aged meat? Jussi Oksanen.
Who puts the meat on your plate? Dakine, Dye Snow, Ride, KBR Productions, Pirate Movie Production.
Would you describe yourself as a bag of bones or meaty? I’d say I’m really strong but still skinny. One person’s meat is another person’s poison. Which are yours? Dark autumns. It’s still not snowing, just raining so much, that’s my poison. What makes you still feel like fresh meat on the scene? I guess the fact that I am fresh on the scene. Have you ever been put through the meat grinder? I’ve broken bones in my hand a couple of times skateboarding. On my snowboard I’ve broken my ankle, I got surgery on my shoulder about three years ago and a lot of other smaller stuff.
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RAFFAEL KOSSMAN N What kind of meat are you? I’m Raffael Kossmann, 21 years old, from Bavaria, Germany. Would you describe yourself as a bag of bones or meaty? Bag of bones. One person’s meat is another person’s poison. Which are yours? I like traveling, hanging around with the homies and shotgunning beers. Oh, and snowboarding. What makes you still feel like fresh meat on the scene? I’m on Instagram. I guess that’s pretty hip, right? Have you ever been put through the meat grinder? I never really got seriously hurt. Broke my arm once, some of my fingers and stuff like that every now and then. Fortunately haven’t had a bigger injury yet.
Once you get past your spring chicken phase, where do you imagine yourself after you beef up and get older? I don’t think about these things too often. I don’t really want to get older, maybe that’s why! I hope I won’t get too fat and beefy, though. What is the meat and potatoes of snowboarding? I like how you can basically do whatever you want. There are no rules. Who would you consider a fine aged meat? Pete Murmler. Do you have any bones to pick? Skiers and all these slack-lining, hacky sack-playing longboarders bother me the most. When was the last time you thought you were dead meat? Well, it wasn’t too long ago. We went out in Innsbruck to have a couple of beers at a bar. After several hours we ended up in another spot. I drank another beer there and left. When I got home I realized that I had somehow lost my keys... I went all the way back to the club and searched for my keys, but just couldn’t find them. After giving up
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I went back home again and decided to take a nap on my doorstep for at least an hour or 2. When I woke up, I totally felt like dead meat, haha. Who puts the meat on your plate? Salomon, Bonfire, Skatedeluxe, TheForealProject, Deeluxe, Coal.
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What kind of meat are you? I’m Marion Haerty, 21-year old Frenchwoman. Would you describe yourself as a bag of bones or meaty? Neither, I’m more like French fries. One person’s meat is another person’s poison. Which are yours? I love discovering life every day, thanks to snowboarding, wakeboarding, skateboarding… I hate sitting around doing nothing. What makes you still feel like fresh meat on the scene? I don’t need anti-aging cream or a cane yet.
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Have you ever been put through the meat grinder? My knee recently fell in love with my chin during a bad wakeboard landing, that was a bruiser. Once you get past your spring chicken phase, where do you imagine yourself after you beef up and get older?
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I would like to just get a van with all my boards and search for shred zones and find surf spots with my friends, or my boyfriend. What is the meat and potatoes of snowboarding? For me the big steak is slopestyle and my potatoes are street and backcountry. Who would you consider a fine aged meat? Cheryl Maas or Anne-Flore Marxer (I hope they don’t get mad I said that). Do you have any bones to pick? Not so much bones but ligaments, LCL’s are such a pain... When was the last time you thought you were dead meat? After a 5-hour hike up a mountain, I couldn’t walk for a whole week after that mission. Who puts the meat on your plate? My main sponsors are Rip Curl, Chamrousse, Vans, Rossignol and x_sories.
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1) Okay, I would say the first step involves being able to ride your snowboard. 2) The second is being able to tail block on snow. For people who don’t know what a tail block is, it’s basically like a snowboard version of a pogo stick. 3) Third, you have to be comfortable with normal stall tricks. This is a pretty huge step. If you can’t do a rock ‘n roll or a blunt on a QP, you need to learn those first. 4) So, to do this specific trick you need to land in a “blunt block”, let’s call it on the roof. 5) Get your balance, while loading the flex in your board and grabbing nose (but you can grab wherever, or even do it grabless). 6) Spot the rail below you. 7) Oh, wait, I forgot a step. This one should be either 1.5 or 2.5: you need to be able to boardslide a rail. 8) Pop out of your “blunt block” hard enough to make it to the rail but not so hard you’re off balance. Land on the rail and slide it, make sure you’re bending your knees a bit. 9) Ride away fakie or regs 10) Be stoked and enjoy! Love snowboarding! - Scott
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“Manuel lives the boarding lifestyle to the fullest — he is a snow/skate/surf rat with incredible dedication and personal style. Keep the light shining, Manuelito!” - GiGi Rüf
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----------------All-natty is the way to go, BS7 mute to his own personal backcountry limo. P H OTO S : O L I G AG N O N
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If there was a down rail followed by a medium-sized kicker and I told this is the last run of your life, what would you do on each? Oooh, difficult. Extra Speedy Gonzales front lip into a big ol’ method. If it’s the third Thursday of the month I could switch it up with a backflip instead. If I had yogurt for breakfast then for sure a FS 360 off them camel toes. What was the best part of hitting the road with Rome last season for the “12 Months” project? Did you ever get homesick? The best part was easily listening to Thomas Delfino speak. Didn’t matter if it was in French, English, German or even Spanish, he was so stoked the whole time, and with the French accent everything just sounds so sick! He is just so stoked 054
----------------This might look like just a plain old BS 50-50 but who are we kidding, this is Lenny Powers! Gap out to FS wall smash when he hit the kink. P H OTO : DA N I E L T E N G S
Do you find that everyone seems to do the same tricks in street? Yes and no, because everyone does things differently. Would you say that Keegan’s front board is the exact same trick as Jed’s front board? And we have dudes like Scott Stevens and especially my main man Fredrik D. Perry, who are so creative and just do the coolest shit you’ll ever see. Why are tricks that were really popular now suddenly less popular? Are trick trends a real thing? Duuuuuude, you just got so pitted, bro! I remember like 2 years ago, doing a boardslide 270 off your front foot was WAAAAAAY cooler than off your back foot. You can always easily tell what tricks are “in”. Like last year, it was all about bringing your 270’s to fakie.
see some more Fruit Loops running around. I’ll do my best to be one of them. ALL THE TIME, it’s the best. My dog Reidun, she’s my favorite of all time. Miss her all the time, I keep a picture with me. How do you approach a rail at a contest, differently than one in the street? When I approach a rail at a rail jam, I usually start 2 weeks in advance, preparing myself physically and mentally for the task ahead. It’s all about those 2 weeks, the contest day doesn’t really matter. Are colors really that bad? Why did almost everyone stop wearing bright colors? Is it more fear of expression or are we just living in darker times? I don’t know, it seems like all the colors in this industry just faded out. Along with all the money. I guess we’re all just a bunch of pussies who don’t dare to stand out anymore. And most of the colorful outerwear doesn’t really look good anyway. I saw some cool new Airblaster stuff though, hopefully next year we’ll
When you see someone land a trick, does it affect you? Does it help you land that trick yourself? For sure it helps. Okay, imagine it’s your first time peeling an apple. You have no idea how to do it. You start throwing it at the wall, screaming at it, kicking it and just going crazy. Then you see a dude get a knife and proceed to slice and peel it. Boom. Do you need to actually see him land the trick for this phenomenon to happen or do you just need to be close by? Is there a limit to the range of collective consciousness? As long as you think he landed it, you’re good. We all know the ways of the old Shimparu Ninjas. They’re an ancient clan of ninjas from the Himalayas, located all across the mountain range. The boss is obviously atop Mt. Everest. They only meet once every 4,867 full moons, they all use the same fighting techniques and they all wear the same clothes. How is that possible? For the same reason why you pick a horse instead of a cowbell. 14.2
Is simultaneous trick evolution possible (can two people invent the same trick in different places at the same time) or does everyone get it from somewhere? It would be possible if our toes were blue. Since they’re not and we’re all just a bunch of talking monkeys, we gotta see that superhero do it first, then the rest follows. Do you ever feel that you and Wiberg are telepathically connected? Yes, but only when we think about honey badgers. Wiberg and I share this really irrational fear of honey badgers. Like, we seriously scream like 27-year old girls when we see one. So if I’m getting the heebie jeebies, it’s either cuz I’m listening to Frank Sinatra or Wiberg just saw a honey badger. What is something you always seem to forget when you go to the mountain? My Gameboy. It’s not easy taking care of all your Pokemons! Articuno and Venusaur get so bummed if they don’t get to fight every sixth hour. Machamp and Alakazam think it’s alright though, they just sit by the pool all day anyway (trying to keep them out of the Pokeball as often as possible). Rapidash is out stealing coconuts most of the time and Pinsir just runs around having rap battles with everyone he meets. So you see, it sucks when I forget my Gameboy…
What is your first ever memory? Gettin’ a splinter in my foot and my dad digging it out with a knife. If you had to describe yourself in one word, which would it be? CHOWDAA! Do you think other people would use the same word if they were asked to describe you? Defintely not! So are you half-Canadian? I was born in Montreal ‘cause my dad was working there, then we lived on the East Coast for a bit then moved to Bear when I was 5. Are you still relying on your many fake ID’s or are you now legally allowed to imbibe in adult beverages? Yes, still a fake, haha! I’ve had one since I was 15. I’m almost there though. Best story was I show the bouncer my ID and he goes, “you’re not this person, you’re Zak Hale,” hahaha! He knew who I was...
Blotto says I should ask you about “managing stupidity”. So, pray tell. It’s a life motto everyone should follow: Manage your stupid and you will cruise through life. What’s it like having a pro snowboarder girlfriend, who rips harder? Well, we broke up. Thanks, hahahahaha. (Ed. note: WHOOOPS!!) Why is it so hard to stop saying “noice”? ‘Cause Lick The Cat is a trend and everyone wants to have as much fun as us. NOICE. Do you like licking cats? Yes, unless they’re a hairy cat. Instagram videos or Vine? INSTA, Vine is dead.
----------------Despite not making Zak’s Top 3, looks like Vilnius is the place to be for street stuntage, FS lipslide back to regs. P H OTO : E - STO N E
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Top 3 cities for street right now. Minneapolis, Salt Lake, Quebec. Now that you got your first tattoo, what’s next, full sleeve? Face tats? Spider web on the face. Just kidding, I’ll get a few more, nothing crazy. Who is the frothiest frother of them all? Michael Wick Is the frothiest puppy in the litter. Last words are yours... CHOOOOWDDAAAAAA ZAHNNNN!
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During my last year at art school a part of the curriculum was to work on a photography series about the topic of our choosing. This was when I really started thinking about what I was photographing. In addition, my father has collected cameras for as long as I can remember. Perfect start to a career in photography, in my opinion. Until recently I've used different kinds of cameras, digital or analog, to capture friends in the wintertime, both at the local mountain or the city. Over the last three years my interest in analog photography, especially medium format cameras, has increased and I've often found myself spending days at our local dark room, enjoying film grain and the whole process of creation. With medium format cameras, the basic shape of the photos is totally different than the common digital or analog 35mm film shot. That's why I love them. But lenses for these cameras are often expensive and equipment gets heavy, which sometimes leads to a more restricted, tighter composition. This was probably the reason why I started my DOUBLES series. Using two different medium-format cameras, one captures the action while the other kind of enlarges the perspective. For me it is very interesting to see more of the surroundings and give the photo some context. I'm currently 26-years old and hope to keep photographing for many years to come. I prefer using a Zenza Bronica 6x6 and a Mamiya 6x4.5 to shoot medium format. For 35mm film I mostly shoot with a Canon EOS 1n, as well as other cameras. When I shoot digital I use an old Canon EOS 50D, haha. - Franz
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GERALD FUCHS - RAIL TO BANK - OUTSKIRTS OF VIENNA One good thing about joining a local crew is they always know the best spots. This rail to bank is located a ways outside of Vienna, we were kind of alone out there. Hitting the rough stone wall made a super loud sound which traveled across the whole valley, really impressive moments. It took a little time but working alongside Gerald Fuchs we got this rough spot to work out quite perfectly.
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SEBASTIAN MĂœLLER - RAIL TO BANK - VIENNA Last season I spent some time in Vienna hanging out with my friends from BLV/NTHNG. Vienna is amazing and has a lot of urban spots to offer. One day we went to the entrance of an underground parking. When I first saw this spot I noticed the glass panels, the reflections, and made my decision about where to shoot from very quickly. The spot itself was not easy to ride and we didn't know how much time we'd have until the spot was a bust. In the end we kind of busted ourselves and had to leave. I was really happy when I developed these shots.
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SEBASTIAN MÜLLER - FS 5 - OBERWIESENTHAL Our local mountain is not the biggest, haha. Kicker spots are always rare and only rideable a couple of days during the season. Since I started shooting, we've hit this spot nearly every year. Last season we changed the kicker set up a little bit and I found those nice shadows. Throw Sebi Mueller's riding into the mix and the result is my favorite picture of the last 5 years at this spot.
SEBASTIAN MÜLLER - HANDPLANT - OBERWIESENTHAL Sometimes our resorts get hit by storms which blow away snow or trees, exposing a lot of different stuff. Last season Sebi and I were really lucky finding this root. First we shot some method airs but neither of us was really satisfied. I'm not quite sure who had the idea of a handplant but in the end it was the shot of the day.
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----------------P H OTO S : PAT R I K L Ö F G R E N ( E XC E P T W H E R E N OT E D BY J O N ATA N N Y L A N D E R )
The Random Bastards are releasing their 12th movie and it's about 12 times as awesome as their first one. Daggers features Jocke Rasmussen, Jonathan Lindhe, Dylan Gamache, Hans Åhlund, Kas Lemmens, Felix Engström, Anton Gun, Cees Wille, Nejc Ferjan, Zach Rawles, Clemens Schattschnieder, Peter Ström, Klas Beyer, Marc Swoboda, Dominic Wagner, Benni Urban, Viktor Wiberg, Erik Karlsson, Philip Grund, Marcus Rand, Cam Pierce, Jani Sorasalmi, Dylan Alito and a bunch of other bastards, go pick up a copy at your local shop today. DAGGERS4LYFE, muthafuckas!
"Me and Gerben Verwij of GVconstructions had just finished building the TURBO WINCH for the Bastards, so I came up to Umeå and on my first day there Hans wanted to try it full throttle. He built this spot in 2 days! I showed up, first day, first spot, and I was like WTF, this thing is soooo BIG! Hans had a hard time but he got his trick! When you watch the movie make sure you hit the slow motion to really take in the whole spot, because if you aren't paying attention you might think it's mellow. But you're WRONG!" - Cees 064
“I’ve been looking at this spot for a couple of years now. I finally got to hit it but, as I expected, it was a struggle to get up on it. There was a ton of compression in slushy snow and even if the ramp is pretty big for the street, it’s fuckin’ high to get to where you wanna hit the wall. I took a pretty hard slam earlier in the session, stoked I survived that cause it’s freakin’ concrete all over the place. I think it’s one of the coolest locations for a wallride I’ve seen, cause that curved wall sticking out of the building is insane. It definitely doesn’t make any sense at all, I guess they must have built it for me to hit it!” - Hans
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"This was a sweaty one... After eating some shit, I got the disaster on the electrical cabinet third try. Boom! Legs of fuckin' metaaaaaalll!" - Anton
"This is a back lip to fence ride in Ume책, big ups to Lil' Eric (Johansson) for showing me this spot, I think this was the first spot of the season for me. We had some problems with the winch so we weren't done till 7:30 in the morning, haha! Late night for us, early bird for others. Rolf Nylinder, Tove Holmgren and I had to take laps in between the morning buses, which were already running." - Jocke ----------------P H OTO : J O N ATA N N Y L A N D E R
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"Shit was melting like crazy in Um eĂĽ. It even started to rain. We stayed for about a week at the Ahlund's place, and then we moved to Erik Man's ho use. When we go t there we saw this feature in front of a sch ool next to the house. We se t up on a Sunday so there were no school kid s running aroun d. Hans parked his G wa gon near the in-ru n to get the turbo wi nch out of the ca r but the school's principal wasn't too stoke d that Hans was driving on the grass/snow . Haze got a fine but we got a shot!" - Cees
Anton Gun pulls out the double UZI's after stackin' some footy with filmer Lowe.Â
"This is actually an ender of a small line I did. Finding lines in the streets makes the riding more creative and the feeling is similar to hitting a good snow park." Anton
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"This is at the famous KlabbĂśle zone, on the outskirts of UmeĂĽ, where we seem to never run out of spots. This is actually a whole switchstance line, with a nosepress on the flat rail up top followed by this SSFS wallride transferring into the other lower wallride at the bottom." - Hans
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"This was one of the fun nest spots we hit last winter! The only thing that went wrong at thi s session was the firs t time I tried the in-run I caught an edge on a . rock and fucked up my back for a couple of weeks. Still got this wa llride FS3 out, though ." - Jonthe
This is what MAD STEEZ looks like. Hans getting it done in style.
"I think Terje once said that you rest yourself into shape instead of training. I like that theory, so I passed out at the top of this rail and woke up at the bottom. Man, I wish it was always that easy to stomp a trick!" - Hans
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This is the second installment of CONSEQUENTIAL, a showcase for some of the heaviest snowboarding you’ve ever seen, whose technical difficulty and life-altering consequences can only truly be captured in sequences. As always, our subject is an extraordinarily talented snowboarder. In this case it’s a polite, reserved French-Canadian with a fire burning bright deep in his belly, a fellow goes by the name of Louis-Felix Paradis. They call him Louif. You might have heard his name before. Here is a small sample of Big Lou’s remarkable skills on the stunt plastic, to see all this and many more face-melting maneuvers in full technicolor glory make sure you check out his part in the new Deja Vu movie.
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TEXT: CHRIS GRENIER PHOTOS: E-STONE
When the Boston blizzard officially known as winter storm “Nemo” came through the Northeast, it deposited 24.9 inches of snow in “Beantown”. That’s bigger than your average dump for a Bostonian, and I’m not talking about the bathroom after one too many cups of Dunkin’s coffee. When most people think of Boston, they usually think of our sports teams, the Boston tea party, Harvard, Whitey Bulger, Paul Revere, Fenway Park, Sam Adams beer or the token Ben Affleck or Mark Wahlberg movie. Snowboarding is not the first thing you’d think comes to mind in this part of the world, however some of the best snowboarders of all time have come out of the Bay State area. Big mountain Jeremy Jones hails from Cape Cod originally, Scotty Stevens grew up on the western side of the state and Todd Richards was spawned in Worcester, Mass. Other honorary “Massholes” include Mike Ravelson, Austen Granger, Andrew Mutty, Chris Beresford, Ted Borland, Max Weinberger and Cody Rosenthal. It is impressive that so many East Coasters have grown up on the tiniest hills with the shittiest conditions, yet became such great riders. I think it’s a testament to the New England work ethic, which is a very common theme around the Northeast. All the metropolitan areas in Mass are pretty fast-paced places to live. For anyone that has ever driven through the commonwealth of Massachusetts, it is obvious that the drivers from there are generally aggressive and discourteous. Many out-of-towners refer to the natives as “Massholes”, which I personally find offensive. However, I did you the favor of looking up the real definition to be sure there is no confusion. On a side note, I’d like to say that whoever wrote the definition is a prick. So, here goes nothing: Masshole: N: Generalized term for a resident of Massachusetts. Over the years this expression has evolved to basically mean any obnoxious loudmouth. The most genuine Massholes are so ignorant and belligerent that they think Masshole is a compliment Most of our trip was spent in the central county of Worcester, which is pronounced “Wostaah”. The typical attire for a citizen of Worcester during a snow storm consists of a Patriots Starter jacket and sweat pants. Usually they will be seen muttering profanities to themselves as they clean the snow off their late 80’s Buick LeSabre. It is often these people who get confused or angry when they see others snowboarding in their city. Sometimes we will hear a slightly upbeat reaction like, “you guys ahhh wicked nuts, what ah you filmin’ for, Jackass?”. But I’d say we’re more used to being told to “go break ya neck somewhere else”, at which point they direct us to the local ski hill: Wachusett. I will add that you can see people skiing in sweat pants and Starter jackets there as well.
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As much as I may be painting a bad picture of these “Massholes”, they are incredible people. My theory on the “Masshole” is a combination of things. The Irish and Italian mafia have deep roots here, so there are generations of wise guys still busting balls like it’s 1950. Anther factor is that Massachusetts has an enormous amount of colleges for a small state. Boston has close to 100 colleges and universities within the city limits. This means that there are hundreds of thousands of bushy-tailed college kids coming from out of town to disrupt your home. Naturally this makes locals bitter and resentful towards out-oftowners. Then throw into the mix the worst roads and highway system in America. I’m serious, the absolute worst. Not to mention, all the drivers around you are a volatile combination of hung over, over-caffeinated and pissed off. Add in the fact that every citizen of the Commonwealth is raised in a world of cynical wise-asses right out of the womb and there you have it. These are a few of the elements that together help create a “Masshole”. And yes, I may be stereotyping Bostonians right now. Deal with it.
the Deja-Vu Frenchies, the Think Thank squad and us, the Videograss crew, which consisted of E-Stone, Jake OE, Bradshaw, Stevens, Meyer, Roobs and John Cavan. For the entire trip Jake OE was bright-eyed and rifling off quotes from “The Departed”, “Good Will Hunting” and any other type of Boston movie he could think of, mostly butchering the Boston accent. His “Boston” accent sounded like a cross between a British person and Sloth from the Goonies. Spring break Jake was enjoying himself to the fullest, stomping tricks with a stomach full of Budweieser at every spot. One night he fell asleep on the couch at my parents’ house, and awoke with every piece of Grenier family memorabilia covering his entire body. Jake was really impressed by brother Phil’s ability to “pop top” and “crush ice cold beers.”
Anyway, there were a few crews that came out to the greater Boston area to chase Hurricane Nemo. There was the Technine crew, the Keep the Change guys, ----------------Scotty Stevens must be the only dude in snowboarding chucking judo airs, amirite?
Scotty Stevens was on a tear as usual. He racked up hammer time footage the whole trip, which is a surprise to exactly no one. My favorite Scotty quote on this trip was, “I think I’m gonna keep both feet strapped on this trip”, which was immediately followed by dropping into the next feature we hit with only one foot strapped in. Another of Stevens’ traits, one which is possibly even more impressive than his snowboarding, is his ability to sneak off and go number 2 anywhere in a city. It’s not just where he does it, but the amount of time it takes him, it’s like some type of NASCAR pit stop operation. He’s the goddamned Houdini of outdoor defecation. ----------------It’s pronounced “WORSTER”, Bradshaw bustin’ out backside in Worscester.
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By the the end of the trip almost all of the snow had disappeared, so we packed up and headed home. I spoke with a lot of the other crews that had came out for the storm and it seemed like everyone stacked up some amazing footage. It sounded like all the snowboard spots in Massachusetts got raped and pillaged, a lot like what happened to the Native Americans when Columbus first arrived here in this very state. Snowboarding’s history runs deep in the Commonwealth, similar to the culture here. Yep, Todd Richards invented the Wet Cat 900 in the same state where the Salem witch trials were held. We were battling tricks on the same battlefield where the Revolutionary War was fought. Murdering down rails close to where the Boston Massacre took place, tea-bagging kink rails like it was the Boston Tea Party all over again. When one book in history ends, another one begins. The Blizzard of 2013 and all the hammers that resulted from it will go down as another great piece of Massachusetts history. - - - - - - - - --------Grenier might be from MA thru and thru but he definitely ain’t no Masshole, that’s for sure. Back one tip grab mega blast!
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They started life as YUGOfirst, a Yugo-only crew sporting names like Žiga, Mitja, Nejc, and Matic. Following in the footsteps of fellow Yugos who came before them, guys like Grilo, Pristavec and Valentan, this season they decided to open up their borders to boarders from beyond the ex-Yugoslavian lands and came up with a similar, but more inclusive, crew name: YOUGOfirst. Their first movie under the new and improved moniker is One Wave or Another, a reminder that “there’s always a way. It’s up to you to figure out which one suits you best so you can make the most of it”. ----------------TEXT: VID BARIÇ
PHOTOS: MIHA MATAVZ, PETER FETTICH & MARKO KNEZEVIC
----------------It took a few tries for Žiga Erlac to get this sketchy FS 50-50, this rail is twisted as a motherfucker! You cant really see it from this angle, sadly. Luckily we have a shot from the front on video, it was a snaky bitch. This was somewhere in the suburbs of Maribor, Slovenia. P H OTO : M I H A M ATAVZ
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-- - - - - - - - - - - - - --Žiga Rakovec warming up with a 50-50 transfer to wall ride in Jesenice, on the Slovenian border with Austria. P H OTO : P E T E R F E T T I C H
-- - - - - - - - - - - - - --Maribor local Mitja Kodric getting methodical in Vogel. Mitja is a powder hound and will have a different part from the rest of the movie, more backcountry-oriented. P H OTO : M I H A M ATAVZ
Eastern Europe got hit hard with snow last season. “We filmed a lot in Ljubljana, Maribor, Zagreb and a couple of smaller towns. At one point there was a decent amount of snow in Ljubljana and the guys could finally hit some of the spots they had been thinking about for years. Some of the crew went to Poland and some powder was also scored in Vogel.”
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---- - - - - - - - - - - - - Andrej Marincic with a BS 50-50 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This kid had a sick season, stacking footy every day that there was snow in Ljubljana. Watch out for his part! P H OTO : P E T E R F E T T I C H
Vid Baric breaks down the ethos of the crew: “What’s important are the people you’re surrounded with and the overall vibe in the air. When there’s cool people the vibe is mellow and everything works out great. It’s a simple equation, I know, but for us it’s the wave we’re riding on.” ----- - - - - - - - - - - - Matic Zavodnik with a 50-50 FS 270 into a bank in some random park in Ljubljana. That spot was actually really fun to ride. Some dudes decided to film it riding it like a pole jam with 360s out but Matic and Dejan decided to hit it slower and take it into the bank. ! P H OTO : M I H A G O D E C
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-- - - - - - - - - - - - - --This is me, Vid Baric with a switch back board in Zagreb, Croatia. It took us all night to get a shot on this rail after driving to Zagreb directly from a filming session in Ljubljana. We caught a lot of grief from with these bus drivers since the outrun went straight into a bus stop. Anyway, I got this shot in the bag after an all-nighter, 5 AM. P H OTO : M A R KO K N E Z EV I C
-- - - - - - - - - - - - - --Nejc Pucko with a BS bluntslide, Maribor got a lot of snow last winter so Nejc scored a lot of rails in town. He is a straight killer youngster with mad kicker and rail steeze! P H OTO : M I H A M ATAVZ
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----- - - - - - - - - - - - Maxim Sibirjakov fighting frostbite somewhere over the rainbow, Skittle slide in Stockholm. P H OTO : KO LYA T SA R E V
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Alexander Voitsehovsky led the WEARE2012 Brigade out of Russia through 7 countries and 8 cities, seeking out monumental urban maneuvers for their new movie, CAPITALS. They notched 15,000 miles on the odometer, bruised their bodies, busted a few boards and lost some consciousness along this epic journey, a journey Ulysses himself could have undertaken. They slept in whatever hotel, apartment, hostel, car, or glamorous Finnish club they could find, including 2 stints in prison in Amsterdam and Helsinki to make this movie happen. They partied through unchecked debauchery and powered through gnarly kinks to create what they hope to be the best Russian shred film of all time. NASTROVIA!
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---- ---- ---- ---- the boys riding Cops don’t appreciate Flipping the on the Lenin memorial. r they shut pigs the dirty bird afte Denis’ tea down the session and ing bastards break. “All cops are fuck in Russia!”
O S OVA P H OTO : DA S H A N
----------------?????aring like a gull, P H OTO : ? ? ? ? ? SA N D B E C H
---- - - - - - - - - - - - -Before getting shut down by the po-po Artem Smolin blasted a big ol’ back 1 off the “L” in Lenin’s name, for the people of Russia. P H OTO : DA S H A N O S OVA
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----------------Alexander Voitsehovsky is the main filmer and leader of the WEARE2012 brigade, flossin’ some proper filmer steeze.
----------------?????aring like a gull, P H OTO : ? ? ? ? ? SA N D B E C H
----------------After Amsterdam the crew headed up to Sweden. Uri Rudchik Terrorizing the center of Stockholm with a tailpress while the city slept. P H OTO : DA S H A N O S OVA
----------------Artem, Burka, Vanya and Bonus crushing the spot in an organized Communist manner. P H OTO : DA S H A N O S OVA
----------------This was during a 4-day session deep in the ghetto of St.Pete, filming on the frozen Neva. It’s a get-your-shot-and-get-the-fuckout kinda spot. Bonus with the front blunt pretzel. P H OTO : DA S H A N O S OVA
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P H OTO : DA S H A N O S OVA
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PHOTOS AND TEXT: LENN VERJANS
A seed is planted. Many months of communication and anticipation drive us northeastwards of GV Constructions' HQ in the Netherlands to the Baltic state that is home to expert shaper and StopSpot creator Vytautas Vaicaitis. Red and blue lights flicker in our rearview mirror a mere 5 minutes after entering the sovereign nation of Lithuania. "Give me 6,000 Litas (1,700â‚Ź)." We get off with a warning for not having the correct cargo license and upon entering the capital city of Vilnius are welcomed by a furnitanas.it bus. We hit Liepkalnis, the local hill, to warm up our legs and have a first round of "alus" (beer). At a 30-cat residence we grab our "kastuvas" (shovels) and pop our cherry on a fruitful garage box session. These joints are all over town and host a typical breed of greasy, smokey caretakers who will more often than not laugh their plumber's ass cracks off at our tricks. We quickly realize some "druska" (salt) will make our lives easier. Day-glo, sausages and white crosses, water slip and slide to the podium at the Tauras Venture.
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Thirteen-year old Max de Vries flew in only to be promptly ass-raped by this hefty quad kink. Vilnius uber-loc Vytas committed to a sick back board while Gerben Verwij dangles a front board on the other leg of this beast.
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Two onlooking "draugas" (friends) were tripping: "When he go like that, he can jump out of jail I was in!" Cees with that nasty roof drop to back board. We celebrated with Aleksandr, the manager of this “automobiliĹł servisasâ€? (auto mechanic garage) and hooked him up with a few cold ones.
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Cees stays optimistic while spot-checking: "It sucks, everything is good." Nose pick transfer.
When he’s not demolishing spots Max usually eats candy, breaks bottles and generally lurks around saying shit like, “I’m hood rich!”. Givin's "Too" to wake up in the morning, a flat bar redirect session with the Hate Hard crew to get down at night. Max with a BS noseslide transfer to redirect.
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Cees popped a massive ollie on "Taikos" (peace) Street while a woman yelled, "clean up your shit and get the fuck out of here!". Which led to Smith saying later "that street wasn't peaceful, that woman was Hitler in disguise". We came back later and Will peacefully destroyed a line on the sticky "sniegas" (snow). Stall to BS wall smash.
Will got an appetite for another Cili Pica dinner after stomping this. "I was so hungry, I pretty much inhaled that." BS noseslide tailgrab transfer to roof bonk. We got wild at a sweaty Soulbox "turas"(party) on Lithuania's Independence Day. "How bad was the farting in the club last night?"
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ALARM: 38 E SET OFF A CAR 5 TIMES THE DODG PIZZA DINNERS: T ME UR GO A CILI PIC BEERS: ? D NEVER AGAIN PINK DREAM: 1 AN : 1 ALS MCDONALD'S ME :5 COOKED MEALS
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