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ABOUT THE COVER Cover photo and words: Evgeny Pavlov The cover shot, surely the dream of every snowboard photographer. For me, it’s even more important to show the audience Cees’ outstanding bravery. Now, with his feature interview, people can not only see the photo, but also get a look deep into the whole situation, all the difficulties along the way and how the shot finally became a reality. As you know, when you are able to do something good for your friend - and it works - it’s the best feeling. I’m super stoked about this shot, this trick and this insane spot. I really want to thank Cees and the whole Postland Theory crew (Tim, Will, Ollie) who helped make this moment happen.

AT HOME ON THE ROAD Given some of our featured content over the years, y’all may already know how much I love vans and life on the road. Cees Wille’s winter last year, and ultimately this cover shot, exemplify the glory of both. It’s an absolute pleasure to have him on our cover, his first ever. Cees is an all-time dude who’s always let his boarding to the talking. This issue also marks the first cover shot (and first photo in Method) for Russian photographer Evgeny Pavlov. Method has always been a magazine with doors wide-open to killer snowboarding plain and simple, not beholden to just super-popular, established names. The stature of the photog and rider were not the motive for this shot’s choosing - we knew as soon as it crossed our “desk” where we wanted it to go, and think EDITOR: Mike Goodwin michael@methodmag.com SENIOR EDITOR: Chris McAlpine chriso@methodmag.com ART DIRECTOR: Maciej Przężak PWEE3000.com ASSOCIATE EDITORS “THE WILLS”: Will Radula-Scott will@method.tv William Sleigh william@method.tv CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Daniel Bernstal, Blotto, Diggles, Jordan Enger, Oli Gagnon, Matt Georges, Tuukka Häkkinen, Viktor Hjartarson, Howzee, Stephan Jende, Antti Koskinen, Eric Lamothe, Cole Martin, Cyril Müller, Evgeny Pavlov, Perly, Michal Prouza, Markus Rohrbacher, Tim Schiphorst, Patrick Steiner, Sean Kerrick Sullivan, Jerom Tanon, Silvano Zeiter CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Harrison Gordon, Dillon Ojo, Marie-France Roy, Sean Kerrick Sullivan, Dominik Wagner

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the photo speaks for itself - but we are certainly happy to continue the mag’s tradition of backing the underdogs in such a prominent way.

This issue’s cover photo was a long time in the making, a feat accomplished in the face of obstacles at just about every turn, as Cees details in his interview deeper in this mag. Cheers to a story where persistence wins.

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5 bad habits - Too addicted to snowboarding and skateboarding - Wasting time trying to save the world - Secretly farting in sauna - Speaking to dead homies - Smacking and slurping 5 classic Finnish foods - Karhu (beer) - Blueberries - Raspberries - Rye bread - Shrooms (Psilocybe semilanceata) 5 favorite video parts - The part where Vinny does the board slide tuck-knee (in Rendered Useless) - Andreas Wiig in Derelictica - Toni Kerkelä’s KBR Homework part - Iikka Backstrom’s part in DC’s Must Be Nice - Joe Sexton’s part from Child Support. He was way ahead of his time, spinning out of rails. I was tripping heavy whenever I saw that part.

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5 rules for the sauna - Naked - Shower before - Shower after - If you fart in the sauna you will get warts in your ass - You must go ice swimming if there is a chance 5 favorite white lies Better stay away from lies 5 wildest premiere parties - Every Pirate movie premier with Kalle Olson and Niels Schack was amazing - The world premier of our first movie, Wopminimovie, was dope

5 skateparks you love - Suvilahti DIY - Washington Street - Windells - Burnside - My hometown Loco Park 5 “other” uses for a snowboard deck - Toothbrush - Table for flowers - Chair for rastaman - Kicker - Any kind of art 5 things stashed in your backpack - Passport - The keys of the ghost house - A few screws - Rope - And no dope 5 last words Burn only my left hand

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Questions with Jeremy Burns, Brand Director For those who don’t know, give us a little breakdown on what Rad Gloves is all about and why they’re more radical than the rest?

We’re a small snowboard handwear brand from Australia and have been operating since 2009. We have a lot of fun producing throwback-style products and things that get us stoked on snowboarding.

Perhaps not more radical than the rest, but we like to put our spin on things and we’re gaining quite the following of loyal RAD customers each year.

Snowboarders are notorious for forgetting their gloves, or wearing pipe gloves on a pow day, are you looking to change that?

Both of those situations aren’t ideal… If we can provide people with a pair of gloves that they enjoy so much that they would never forget them, that would solve problem one. As for the pipe gloves, we offer a lot of different models for all sorts of conditions so running pipe gloves all season long doesn’t have to be the end game.

down there with everything from crazy cold rain days to hot slushy days. This gives us a chance to test a lot of styles and make sure they’ll get the job done. If they pass our tests in those conditions, they’ll be good to go for the majority of other snowboarding destinations.

We’re proud to offer a mitt or glove for most conditions imaginable. We’ve got some pretty rude designs and colorways, but also offer some mellower options across each model.

You’ve got a pretty massive team of riders, how did that happen?

We’re lucky to have met a lot of great people in the snowboard world since starting the brand, from meeting people on trips, during seasons, at contests, at trade shows, premieres and through other friends. It’s a dream to have such a good spread of riders, reps, friends and fans.

We are pretty hyped to team up and produce a collab glove with you! Can you tell the people about the design of that glove, what makes them special, and how they can get hold of a pair?

We’re pretty damn hyped to be doing this mitt with you guys How can we get our hands in a pair of Rad Gloves? Where are too! It’s based on one of our best sellers, The Ripper Pro Mitt, they available? which features a goat leather palm with embossed Method Best option is to check radgloves.com and find your local dealer, Mag star, 10k waterproof/breathable Hipora insert, Thinsulate or try our store to get your pick of the entire range. Also follow insulation, a Method Mag logo spread across both backhands. us on Instagram at @radgloves for the occasional contest and This collab mitt is available in Method Black and Method Tan. giveaway.

They’ll be available for purchase in May from radgloves.com and What sort of R&D process goes into a new glove design? Can I’m sure there will be more giveaways through this very publicayou run us through the different types of gloves in the range tion and the Method channels, too! Thank you for supporting a and what they’re good for? small Aussie snowboarding brand! Stay Rad! All of our products are designed and tested in the Australian mountains. We experience some pretty crazy alpine conditions

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When you set out to create Honey Ryder, your book about Nicolas Müller, did you have a set length in mind?

How would you suggest gauging a print project’s length?

Yes, at first Yves Suter (creative director) and I wanted to go for 96 pages with around 50 photos but it was pretty tough to let go of a few shots. It turned out to be 128 pages, which is kind of a lot for a book like that. We roughly split it into four chapters or segments - Nico’s home, my home area with Fredi, California and Japan - but it doesn’t have to be like that. There are not really any rules. It’s just important to keep a nice flow to keep the reader’s attention and interest throughout the whole book.

This can become more tricky with a longer book.

How did you know your shooting, and content gathering, was “complete”?

You don’t really. At some point you just have to stop the gathering and be content with what you’ve got. Otherwise there will always be something you want to add or change and it’ll drag on forever. With Honey Ryder we set out to divide the book into three different layers, which are the photos, the song lyrics written by Rainer Brenner and repros of maps, postcards and old childhood photos. By the end of the editing process I remember I wanted to get one last portrait of Nicolas to make the book “complete”. I got it and that was kind of the moment when I knew that it was complete.

What sort of things do you keep in mind when trying to decide how a book should flow, front to back? Or when trying to organize a photo order?

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number of different recurring layouts for the spreads makes for a good flow as well as making chapters. The chapters don’t have to be obvious to the reader but they’ll help you a lot with the editing. I was lucky that I had Yves Suter taking care of all that.

Here is an abstract one: In your opinion, what subjects are book-worthy? Can a book be about anything?

There are no rules. I think a book can be about anything. To decide if it’s book-worthy or not is really just up to the reader.

You chose a clean, text-only cover for Honey Ryder. What made you go that direction rather than an action shot?

Hard to say. I think a typo-only cover is usually just more timeless in a way. I really just went with my gut on this one as with pretty much any decision regarding creative aspects of the book’s look. I totally fell in love with the structured paper we chose for the cover. It has this natural linen look and feel which fits Nicolas’ personality. The paper with the black font, the black edges of the pages and the open-back binding with the black thread just looked so bad ass. We thought about sticking a little print on the cover but that would’ve just been too expensive.

If you had to compare making a book to anything else in life, what would that be?

I’d say becoming a father, not that I have any experience in that. I remember the first time I had the finished book in my hands, feeling her weight, smelling her pages; she’s my baby.

The feeling is just incredible. It’s the moment when all the hard work, tough decision making and budget scratching pays off.

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Questions with Julien Choiniere Classic Posse Page intro question: Why the name “the Bruners“? It’s a resort reference, right?

Yes, it is. The original Bruners crew grew up riding together at Mont Saint-Bruno, which is a really small hill 15 minutes away from Montreal. One year we started to film each other and make classic park edits (which were a pretty big deal back then). We needed a name for the videos, so we ended up with this name because we were known as “The Bruno Boys.”

Where is the crew HQ? I’d say Montreal because it is where it all started. But nowadays, it’s much more of a Quebec province thing.

Who is the loosest of the bunch, and what makes you say so?

I think it’s me. (laughs) Being behind the camera and not having to drop in and risk the health of your body gives you some advantages!

Everyone wants to know, is Axel Stall really his name?!

Sadly, no. His real name is Axel Theoret. We started joking about it when we were skateboarding as kids, and it stayed.

Most legendary Canadian crew, in your book?

So hard to say! I’ll make it a little easier and split the country in two: West and East. East would be the Deja Vu crew, needless to say why. For the West pick, the Dope boys win this award, for sure, for being rad as fuck!

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How far north in Canada have you guys explored? Shit’s huge!

Chicoutimi area. (Five hours north from Montreal) Most “Canadian” thing you’ve ever seen?

Adding bacon and maple syrup to your 3 a.m. poutine.

It’s popular for Americans to go to Montreal when they are 18 to take advantage of the alcohol laws, and other fun “activities.” You ever cross into the States for anything other than boarding?

For sure. Because the U.S. is a hotter country than Canada, we often go down south during the summer to enjoy the beaches and cheap gas/beer deals.

It’s early evening, and the crew is stuck on a random city street corner. Boarding is done for the day and you’re down to your last $25. How does it get spent?

100% sure it’s getting spent on beers. Actually, the best price/ amount beer deal possible.

If you had a crew anthem what song would it be?

Mogwai’s “I’m Jim Morrison I’m Dead.” This song feels like the chronology of a filming season, with a smooth beginning to a satisfying ending.

Last words?

There are so many people to thank! From a crew perspective, thank you to the Quebec snowboard scene, Montreal, every sponsor, supporters from the industry, and all our friends, family and girlfriends for supporting every day. Thank you, Mike, for this interview as well!

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t took me forever to snowboard Mount Baker resort, not making it that way until 2005... Ugh, I know! My bad! Long overdue, Jussi (Oksanen), Mads (Jonsson), Jeremy (Jones) and I formulated a mission to this historic Northwest region, where we were greeted by a local named Tarek Husevold. He was as nice as can be, and maybe he knew our stoke in visiting this place for the first time, seeing how Tarek was originally from the Midwest (USA), and now called Baker home.

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everything else he’d showed us was amazing. Arriving to this bad boy of a stump, I framed up the composition while Tarek checked the run-in, hiked up, dropped in and sent the smoothest grasser, almost as high over the obstacle as it was tall!

Luckily I left the framing a bit loose as I had to jerk the camera upward to keep him in frame while still maintaining the bottom of the image. I almost blew my very first Mt. Baker photo, but it was a quick education on how the riding goes down in the Northwest - fast, furious and hold on tight!

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From where does your blood run?

I’m Jake Moore, 25 years old, from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

What’s in your blood?

Caffeine and nicotine, but I should really cut the latter.

Who are your blood brothers?

IPP, 1817, Impaler Mag, Skudda Mansion, Chris Brewer, Robert Frank, Dirty Boys, the M3 skate homies, anyone who rides Hyland and all the kids who scooter at Mound, B5, Doipenhagen, Makefriendsordie, Chickenteriyakiboyz.

hamstring injury had me out for about a month last season.

I’ve had a few broken bones on my skateboard as well as two separated shoulders. Hard to say which is the worst.

What makes your blood run cold?

Being an adult.

Blood on my hands…

Too much screen time lately. I’ll catch myself scrolling through the same posts for the fifth or sixth time and I hate it. Respect to Boody for never falling victim to that.

What gets your blood pumping?

Morning coffee, dry boots, Hyland rope.

Got any bad blood?

Nah.

If you were bleeding out, what would be your last mission?

Get some friends together to travel somewhere cool and eat good food. Maybe go back to Japan or Italy, depending on the season. I would like to make it to South America as well.

Who keeps the blood flowing?

The Interior Plain Project, Pete Harvieux, Mom and Dad. Shouts to my sister Emily.

Worst bloodshed?

Plenty of bumps and bruises but I’ve been lucky so far. A

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Thank you.

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From where does your blood run?

What’s rocking?! I’m Rene Rinnekangas, 18 years old from Iisalmi, Finland but I’m studing in Vuokatti at the moment.

What’s in your blood?

I love skateboarding as well as snowboarding. I’ve been snowboarding and skating since I was four years old. I also play bass in my brothers band (Shoutout to KÄTFISH!) It’s really nice! I really enjoy riding all kinds of stuff - jumps, rails, trannys, side hits... Whatever I can find. It’s always nice to find some creative lines or do something different.

Who are your blood brothers?

We have a crew called 292Crew. We make films and edits, it’s really nice to ride and film street as well. Also, my big brother Riko! I started snowboarding because of him. Riko is the best!

What gets your blood pumping?

A lot of things! For example, whenever I see a nice line outside the slope, I can get super hyped about it and hike it for hours. It could just be an ice ball or something as simple as that. And of course, riding with my best friends always gets me hyped!

If you were bleeding out, what would be your last mission?

Good one! I would jump out of a plane and see how many backflips I could do before I hit the ground. (I’m thinking 95, ha!)

To be honest, I would spend a lot of time with my family and friends, show them how much I love them. They’re awesome!

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Worst bloodshed?

I have been super lucky. Knock on wood but I have never been badly injured. Of course, there have been some little things but nothing major.

What makes your blood run cold?

Ferris wheels are super scary because they are slow and I always think they are going to break. I love rollercoasters, though.

Blood on my hands…

Not my proudest moment, but when I was younger I wet my bed next to my good friend (he’s still a good friend) during a sleepover. Ever since, I’ve been blaming the whole thing on my dog. My friend knew it was me for sure, or at least he will after this!

Got any bad blood?

I took a one-year break from snowboarding because I was so into snowskating. (laughs) But that was then.

Who keeps the blood flowing?

Big thanks to my sponsors and all the good friends for the best times! Thank you, Method Mag! Written in blood…

Thank you! Amen.

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From where does your blood run?

I’m Fridtjof Sæther Tischendorf, from ChickenFalls in Norway.

Twenty years old, living the dream!

100 Kroner! It’s a funny story now, even though I passed out for like four minutes and had a pretty bad concussion.)

What’s in your blood?

Boarding is in my blood. Snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing are probably my three favorite things in life. I’m probably a little bit of an adrenalin junkie as well, leaving me to always try and one up myself for that good feeling!

Girls are also a priority, as with pretty much any other 20 year old snowboard dude!

What makes your blood run cold?

For some reason I’m pretty scared every time I’m in the shower and wash my feet. I feel like I might slip and break my arm or something.

So that is pretty scary. Other than that, I usually keep my nerves calm.

Who are your blood brothers?

Shit, I always find this to be the hardest part, because there are so many good snowboard homies out there and I don’t want to leave anyone behind. But the Vagrants have to get a shoutout. Those are some sick people. The guys on the Norwegian team as well. They are probably the guys I travel with the most so they definitely get a spot here. However, anyone who loves to snowboard and send it will always be a blood brother of some sort!

What gets your blood pumping?

Good people are always the best hype! When someone starts to throw down it is hard not to join the hype, and that is always sick.

I also get pretty hyped when I can be that person, and sometimes just the thought of it is enough to send it a little more! Snowboarding in general is usually enough though.

I love to do anything that gets my heartbeat going a little faster.

If you were bleeding out, what would be your last mission?

Ha, I don’t know! I probably would send it way too hard the first day and end up spending the rest in rehab, the hospital or in jail! Might as well jump out of a plane without a parachute and set the world record for multiple flips done in one jump! That way I would definitely end up in the books!

Blood on my hands…

Fuck… Who doesn’t have some?

I’ve got some proud moments in my life and some not so proud moments. A couple of years back during summer vacation, my parents went on vacation for like a month or something, leaving me home alone in the house. This was before I was old enough to drink, but I would always have friends over and do stupid stuff. You know how guys get when they have a place to themselves and get hyper around each other. Anyway, these two girls were having a party, and my friends and I decided to go. I knew I wasn’t getting any action, so I was only there to be an asshole.

We stole all the beer we could find, stole what we thought was her dad’s Snus, broke glass bottles… I’m pretty sure I peed in the kitchen sink. Yeah, just pretty much trashed the place. Turned out it wasn’t her parents house, and she got reported to the police and had to go to court. (If the person this happened to reads this, I would like to apologize!)

Got any bad blood?

Not bummed out about much. If there is one thing, it might be girls expecting you to pay for their shit!

I’m all for equal rights, and that includes them being able to pay for themselves…

Who keeps the blood flowing?

Shoutout to Halldór! He hooked me up with Lobster and is just the nicest dude! I couldn’t be more hyped that he decided to help me out! Shoutout to Diggles for helping me put together a season edit! Shoutout to all the snowboard homies for keeping snowboarding sick! I also have to thank my parents for supporting me in snowboarding and not pushing me to start studying.

Worst bloodshed?

I don´t really know. Probably the ones I don’t remember! It’s hard to say. I’ve had surgery like four times, so it’s pretty much something that just happens and you have to deal with. As long as I can keep snowboarding it’s all good! (Passed out so hard I peed my pants once. No one told me I had peed my pants and I only Written in blood… figured it out two weeks afterward How do blind people know when when I couldn’t understand why they are done wiping their butt? my wallet smelled like piss… I think I ended up selling the wallet for

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Horsefeathers recruit sending ‘er for the Nothing to Lose movie PHOTO: M ICHAL PROUZA

From where does your blood run?

My name is Dusan Kriz. I’m from Czech Republic, currently living in the mountains in a little village called Strazne.

I’ve spent 22 years on this beautiful planet.

What’s in your blood?

If I don’t count snowboarding, most of all I like partying, listening to music, making art, drinking beers (Czech beer, of course), smoking doobies and hanging with friends. On the more serious side, I’m interested in psychology and philosophy.

Who are your blood brothers?

The whole Horsefeathers family: Petr Horak, Mans Hedberg, Antti Jussila, Zoltan Strcula and many more. Also the homies from our Never Too Late movie crew, Roman Dlauhy and the Porkert brothers!

What gets your blood pumping?

On the top of the list is music! That shit makes me really crazy. If I need to get hyped, I choose the right song and I’m there! With good music in my ears, I see my life like a movie and I’m the director, haha! Something like in the movie Baby Driver! I also get hyped on crazy people who are pumped to live life to the fullest. I like to see other people get hyped and be wild!

is the realest! But then I would go take all the money, girls, and weed I could get and go heli-boarding in AK and send it to the moon!

Worst bloodshed?

Ruptured spleen.

What makes your blood run cold?

Boredom, Communism, systems, wars.

Blood on my hands…

Sometimes I smell really, really bad… Mornings are the worst.

Got any bad blood?

I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life. Everybody does, and without the mistakes we can’t move forward.

Who keeps the blood flowing?

I’m super stoked and thankful that Horsefeathers, Vans, Bataleon and Switchback are supporting me and trusting in me.

They are keeping my blood running! I’d also like to make some noise for my family, friends and everyone who I’ve been riding with at least once.

Written in blood…

If you were bleeding out, what would be your last mission?

Be crazy, guys! It’s just a life! Thanks, and see ya on the hill!

I’d like to be with my family as much as possible, because family

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From his legs to jaw-dropping airtime and the slams that go with it, everything about Enzo is big. He won’t back out when it comes down to partying either. I don’t know about you, but being woken up by the cops at 8:00 a.m. in the middle of nowhere after passing out in a random train has never happened to me. Enzo is also gnarly on a race bike. The list of passes he conquered in the Dolomites last summer will make you dizzy. - Stephane Grenet, 686 European Brand Manager This young Frenchman has been getting after it in the backcountry for years now and has been on the Method Radar since throwing down heavy parts for Almo films and Absinthe films. Enzo is part of a new breed of flying French leading the charge of European backcountry slayers.

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You’re a pretty loose guy. You seem to crash everything you touch, your self included? (laughs) Yeah… I snowboard to please the people and sometimes you have to take those slams!

Tell us about your gnarly accident, breaking your neck and almost ending your snowboard career.

And almost ending my life. I’m so grateful for the fact that I still can move my arms and legs. I was at Nine Knights in Italy and I went for a frontside 1440 on the big kicker. I landed the trick but three meters after the landing I wasn’t able to control the twist I still had in my body. I caught my toe edge and did the scorpion of the century, broke my neck and a heli picked me up and flew me to a hospital in Innsbruck. Luckily, the doctors over there are super skilled and put my neck back together nicely. I had to stay there for two weeks. I couldn’t eat nor sleep properly. It’s been the hardest period in my life and I’m so thankful to finally be back on the board again.

Speaking of gnarly accidents, how bad was it missing that high-five with the lady interviewing you on live national TV? It was a good effort to try and save it and use the hand to pretend you couldn’t hear what she was saying. How did that make you feel? (laughs) Man… It was in between runs at the slopestyle world champs and I was just chillin’, watching all the people around the arena. I wasn’t aware the interview had started and I just heard my name. I went straight for the high five at the same time I realized she was asking me a question. Oh man! I got so many comments and attention in the news and all. Things got really out of proportion! Then the nice lady claimed she was all about giving me a high five, though it is obvious she wasn’t if you watch the clip! (laughs) So she kind of tried to steal my shine there.

What about the crash you had in Hintertux when you got hurt pretty bad so you ate a bunch of strong painkillers and had a few beers and ended up falling asleep taking a shit on the toilet.

Who told you this?! Yeah, it was a pretty epic night, as I heard from the other dudes. I don’t remember shit - literally!

On to a more serious subject - apparently your girlfriend is “a lot” older than you? They have a term in Swedish for boys like you, don’t they? I believe it’s called “Lambkott”? (Lamb meat) (laughs) Yeah, I’m a piece of lamb meat (lammkött)! I totally lied about my age when we started dating. She found out about my real age a few months later when she was going to create an iTunes account for me. By then I had already swept her off her feet and we’re still kicking it. She’s retiring soon so she can join me for my travels.

We have heard your dad rips on a snowboard. How’d he get so good? Did you teach him or did he teach you?

Yeah he does! He’s always on the Swedish slopes, ripping with the boys. He noticed I started to get pretty good at an early age which meant that he kept pushing himself to stay even with me (and we still are). He just turned 50 and has never been this good. He keeps improving year after year. It’s amazing!

He wants to quit his job and start his snowboard career. He’s totally up for some sponsorships - don’t hesitate to contact him! His name is pappa_mats on Instagram.

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You’ve got a bit of redneck in ya, don’t you? A few years ago you said you’d rather go sledding than snowboarding, that snowboarding was more of a job for you and sledding was way more of something you did for fun. Is that still the case?

I didn’t get the chance to sled last year. I was working the whole time!

You are a bit of hustler, selling old snowmobiles and motorcycles for extra cash. Is this a pretty good source of income?

Yeah, a real money maker! If it wasn’t for snowboarding I would have been a millionaire hustling the shit outta them vehicles!

Is it true that one of your sponsors, Appertiff, gave you a truck for the season? What happened to it?

Ah, I loved that truck! It was a “Pimp My Ride” kind of truck. I got to keep it for six hours before I flipped the fuck out of that ride. It was a crazy crash and I’m happy I survived with just a few bruises. The truck was sent straight to the car cemetery.

I was so stoked to get that truck and unfortunately Appertiff didn’t give me a second one! (laughs)

You are off to China now for the Air + Style, and last year you went on a trip to China with the Horsefeathers crew. Have you got any good stories from that trip?

The most random part of the trip was when we had a competition called “7th Annual Horsefeathers Nanshan Mogul Slope Race Extremeness.” You began at start gates and dropped in to try to make it through different blocks/obstacles and about 1,000 Chinese people. Everything was just weird and fun!

Some of the people took my LibTech board and threw it into the woods and I never made it to the finish line. Still missing it!

How many flights have you missed due to being drunk? We heard you almost missed one leaving the FIS World Champs and they had to stop the shuttle bus taking you to the plane so you could puke all over the tarmac before entering the plane. (laughs) Just one actually! That trip from Spain was a close call. Niklas Mattsson left me in the hotel room after numerous tries to get me out of bed. Luckily Sven Thorgren succeeded in waking me up and helped me pack my bags and get on the bus. I felt so sick and had to ask the bus driver to stop the bus so I could run out. I was on my knees throwing up. At least the view was nice high up in the mountains and all, but the people on the bus weren’t very pleased.

Winter plans?

After the Olympics are over I’m planning on starting the real season. I’m going to go to Holy Bowly and Superpark. I’ve got a few film projects coming up too. One of them is going to take place way up north in Sweden, filming street, and then going even further up to Riksgränsen to film backcountry and ride pow (hopefully). Another film project is going to take place in my hometown, Bollnäs (Bolle Mountain) and also at Kläppen, of course.

Last words?

It’s just all about the good times!

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MY PORTFOLIO 18.3

Behind the Cameras The unsung heros of the snowboard industry...the lensmen. We’ve all seen the images and films, they’re what inspires, teaches, and motivates us, and this media has always celebrated our culture and the characters that make it such a rich lifestyle. But what about the people behind the lens? What most people don’t realize is that documenting pro snowboarding is as rigorous as pro snowboarding. We have to go everywhere our riders go, but instead of a backpack full of snacks and tea, it’s 30-50 pounds of electronics, in addition to the safety equipment, food, and extra layers needed to survive in the mountains. We don’t take those days off like riders do. When a rider needs a day off, there’s another rider who’s ready to go. A filmer like Shane Charlebois might spend more days on snow than anyone else on Earth. Every day and night, those cameras have to be cared for, much like a human child. The lensmen who I know love snowboarding, and they love art, and they make major sacrifices in life for the sake of this love. The cameras and images are their babies, and these guys would be the best parents a child could ask for. Cameras are fragile, and they safely bring them into the world’s toughest environments, day in, day out.

Could you bring an infant into the backcountry? You can’t drop them or get them wet. You have to wipe their butts (lenses), feed them (new memory cards), burp ‘em (download memory cards) and protect them with your life, just like a parent. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve ate shit, and went down twice as hard because I instinctually protect the cameras I am in charge of. This is a tribute to those honest, hard-working lensmen I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside. Thank you guys for the love and dedication, the snowboard industry wouldn’t be the same without you.

Method gave me these pages to do whatever I want and said a lot of photogs use them to display a portfolio featuring some of their favorite work. I thought about it, and wanted to make a portfolio featuring some of my favorite people I’ve worked with.

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Scott Serfas...a kid in a man’s body. He is the most prolific photographer in snowboarding; his energy and enthusiasm are contagious, and that combo has generated over 25 TWS covers. Could you get jaded after such a long career? Not Scott. Here he is deep in the AK backcountry, seeing everything again for the first time. I’ve noticed a trend in my favorite artists and lensmen; they have the passion and eyes of children, where every day is a new adventure. This was not a posed moment, Scott truly loves the mountains, and collecting wine. Valdez, AK

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Aaron Whitley has two children back home, but snowboarding was his first baby. The man is a real parent, much like Serfas. Only a poppa could navigate this sketchy bootlick with 35 pounds of diesel fuel, coffee, breakfast and a pair of gloves in his hand, at 6 a.m. Notice Bjorn Leines in the background? His sled is already fueled because after riding all he had to do was some yoga, while Aaron spent the whole evening dumping and logging footage. Interior British Columbia, Canada

Shane Charlebois has been filming and riding in this zone for 20-plus years. His contributions to Absinthe films have made that company what it is, and without his passion, snowboarding would not be the same. He lost a close friend to an avalanche in the area, and while he could have a cush job on the beach, he chooses to continue shooting in the backcountry, because of love, and moments like this. Donner Pass, CA

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This is a selfie. I’ve started to run two cameras, and shoot one of them remotely, so I can get a wide and long lens shot at every spot. The man to my left is cinematographer Kyle Schwartz. He just had a daughter, but he’s not a new parent; he’s given birth to more memorable video parts than a Mormon housewife has kids. His newborn daughter is in great hands.

(Rider: Garrett Warnick) Lake Tahoe, CA

Leland McNamara. This guy, he’s got a young son who’s already shredding, and his dedication to his craft is unparalleled. You might see him with pants that are ripped to shreds, and some old-ass board, but that’s because he cares about documenting snowboarding more than he cares about how he looks. A true anti-narcissist, his

craft and family come first, and what you think of him comes last. He saved my life in the Jackson, Wyoming backcountry once, and we almost died together in B.C. He makes “work” fun, and anyone who gets to work with him is lucky.

(Rider: Chris Grenier) Interior British Columbia, Canada.

Cole Taylor has a huge heart, and one of the sharpest eyes in snowboarding. He’s a parent of a little boy and girl, and he’s also produced, filmed, edited and released dozens of full-length snowboard films, and brought unknown snowboarders to the top of the industry in his days as the leader since day 1 of the FODT/T9 crew. He’s won the TWS Team Shootout, X-Games Real Snow edits, and other awards, but he’s also like a parent to me - like the rad dad who tosses you the car keys even though you might not be ready for them. He took me under his wing when I was unknown, and I only wish my work ethic and eye was as strong as his.

Salt Lake City, UT

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E-Stone. Like a rock. This guy, my photo sensei, is wise, humble, hilarious, and one of the hardest workers I know. He has two speeds, asleep, and 100 m.p.h. I have never seen him get angry, and if we could all have attitudes like his the world would be a much better place. Sometimes I wish that when my phone rings at 2 a.m. it’s my beautiful girlfriend reaching out to say she loves me and misses me, but 99 percent of the time it’s EStone. He and I are both night owls, and we might be brothers; we work on the same crazy schedules. Even if it’s 2 a.m. and I need to talk photo, he’s always up, working hard, and leading by example. Salt Lake City, UT

Yours truly, Sean Kerrick Sullivan. I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m doing what I can, working as much as I can, and as hard as I can. Before drones became smaller, this was the best setup I could find to safely get my drone and all of my camera and safety gear out into the field. To be successful, the only thing I do know for sure is you need to be putting 100 percent of yourself into whatever you do.

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INTERVIEW: GOODWIN

Cees and his Chevy G20

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Tall man method in Moscow, and a beauty at that!

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Have you ever had a cover before?

No, man! This is the first one! Right away on Method Mag. It’s super cool!

Oh man! Hell yeah. When that photo came in, I was dying to see the footage. Walk us through last year a little bit, leading up to that shot.

We started out at Rock A Rail in the Hague. Artem Smolin and Simon Houlind slept at my place and then we drove all together to the north of Finland. (To film for Postland’s new movie, LOOSE). We stayed there a few days, chasing snow up north in Lapland and driving down to Helsinki a couple times when the snow was good. Then the Vans team trip was coming up in Moscow, and I had asked Bruno (at Vans) before the season if I could come and join with my van. I’d have all the shovels and things with me and I thought it would be such a cool experience to drive to Russia. I think the experience you get by driving is so unique. For sure it was super far away, but Helsinki to Moscow was a lot closer than Holland to Moscow!

I was thinking like, “Oh, I am going to be in Finland so it’s doable!” I told Bruno I was sure I wanted to do it, looked up what documents and legal papers I needed to have and told him I had it all figured out. He was super stoked! We could have the whole team in the van and all that. Artem lives in St. Petersburg so I stopped there on the way and then drove the last 10 hours to Moscow to stay there for two weeks. I think I drove like 18,000 kilometers the whole season, going all over Holland and Finland and then over to Russia.

Did you have any trouble at border stops, ya know, having this big van and all this odd equipment?

Yeah, man. Artem came by car to Helsinki to shoot and we drove together to St. Petersburg, but he was in the other car, so I was standing at the border on my own and I had to unpack the whole van. I knew I had all the legal documents with me - the visa for myself and also the documents for the car - and I had them ready to give to the officers. I was sitting in my car in a T-shirt and of course the border cops are like, “What the fuck is this?!” The van’s all rusty and dirty and stuff. (laughs) “All right, we are going to check him out.” So I had to grab all the stuff out of the van and put it outside.

These dudes, they don’t speak any english, not even on the border, so you have to talk with your hands. When I think about it now it’s ridiculously funny but at the time I was freezing, like, “C’mon, man! It’s just snowboard equipment.

I don’t do any drugs, please let me go through! Here are the papers.” They just hadn’t seen anything like this so they were surprised by it and wanted to double check. Going into Russia was the tough part, even with the legal documents. Leaving was super mellow.

Tell me a little bit about your van. Where did you get it and what kind of van is it?

It is a Chevy van, a G20, and I bought it five years ago because I thought it would be the best to have a van that all the homies could travel together in. Of course, it is not that cheap to drive, but I’ve always wanted something that I could take five people in. If you’re splitting the cost of gas between five people, it’s all right. It has cruise control and an American V8 engine and it drives ridiculously well. I bought it second-hand on a Craigslist sort of thing in Holland. My friend is a car mechanic and he thought it was a pretty decent car for me to buy. It was quite cheap as well, but had some rust and a few minor things wrong, as all second-hand cars do.

In the five years I’ve had it there has been something to fix ever year but never anything major. I took it to this garage close to my parents place, in the area of the country with the glass houses that Holland is famous for, where there are a lot of farmers who used to drive these big sort of cars. I went in

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for the first time looking for some tires. The guy there was super surprised because normally the American cars here in Holland are like Sunday day drivers. He helped me do a little check on the van and told me I had this, this and this to fix. I did the small things, like changing spark plugs and wires and that sort of stuff. I took it to Austria the first time out but at that point I was only driving on propane. I was super afraid of running out of gas on the road since it’s not as easy to just get a spare tank of propane, like getting a spare tank of diesel.

So handling the fuel intake was next on the list and within five years I had fixed the whole van. Last summer I told him I wanted to get the van in shape to take out on the road for a whole winter while I filmed a part. We did some major repairs and the van made it! It did such a good job on the way to Moscow, it was crazy.

When you bought the van, was it already running on propane?

Luckily the guy before me put the whole propane installation on it. He was only driving on propane because it was cheaper.

That’s why the old benzine fuel lines got stuck, because they were never used. That was a problem I needed to fix as well.

And I had to put a new gear box in like two summers ago. The whole van is basically quite new. Well, it looks like a rusty beast but inside it has a pretty new heart, I would say. The battery, the brakes, the brake lines, the gear box and so on are all brand new. It feels really safe, too. The guy from the American car garage thinks it is so sick that I drive this much with it. I have a good relationship with him so I get the parts for normal price and I do a lot of the work myself. He gives me tips and is always helping me but it doesn’t cost me any money, which is really cool. It’s kind of like a community with these kind of vans. People just really want to help you out.

It’s amazing. Without that, I couldn’t have done this. Having a van gives you such independence. “I want to go there.” Ok, let’s cruise. With planes you have to wait in the hope of finding a cheap ticket. The bus, trains, all that - it’s just a whole different approach than with a van. It’s also nice to really go where you want to go.

Does the van have a name?

Yes, the name is Chef. It’s just Chevy, but shortened and with an F. It’s the main guy!

Cooking up the part! (laughs) The Chef!

OK, let’s talk about the cover shot. I know it’s quite the story.

At what point during the making of your video part did you film this shot? Was this toward the end?

Actually, I kind of had a dream spot list for myself and what I wanted to accomplish. I write some things down like that every year, ideas and such. I showed the ideas to Tim (Schiphorst. Postland producer/filmer/editor) and we’d been thinking about doing a roof gap for literally four or five winters.

Where is this gap on the cover?

The one I did is in Kuopio, Finland, but the first trip where we tried a roof gap was when we went to Estonia with Ivika Jurgenson. She invited us to come there and we found this perfect-looking roof gap spot. We set it up for two days, all built and it was time to hit it and I was not feeling it anymore. I was like, “Fuck, I don’t think I am going to make it!” I waxed my snowboard, changed the in-run and again I did not feel it. I was like, “Yo, guys. I am sorry but this is not going to happen. I am not going to do it.” I was thinking that everyone was going to be bummed because we just spent two days on one spot and it was not going to work out. Such a bummer, you know? But I just didn’t feel it and didn’t think I had the speed so I stepped away.

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Gap to nose press. This should go without saying, but if you haven’t scoped Postland’s LOOSE yet, and Cees’ ender part, you need to get on it!

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We were thinking about it the whole year, and looking to find something similar. After Moscow, we drove up north again to Kuopio. First, we found the roof gap. We were walking around and looking up at buildings throughout the whole city. We went to this industrial area because those are always closed on the weekends and you can do whatever you want a lot of the time. We found the spot quite quickly but were still pretty skeptical about the whole thing because no one in our group had ever done one. It was just something I wanted to do. I decided it seemed all right and measured the distance of the gap by steps. It was around 12 meters, and I took note of the height difference between the buildings. I put it all on my phone and measured the in-run. I had the winch with me but we had never really tested it on full speed so we went to a lake to try it out. And then we broke it. It’s a winch with a remote control so you can set the speed on the winch to have the same speed every time. So if your winch operator is drunk or something, you just press a buttom. It’s a hard task as a winch operator, finding the right amount of speed! But I tried to speed check when we were testing and the rope hit the remote control and took it into the machine. The whole remote got destroyed two days before we planned to hit the roof gap.

I’m just like, “Fuck. This is never going to happen.”

So, I called the engineer who made the winch, which is a story in itself. To have the winch built, I went to a guy who made wakeboard winches and told him I really wanted a good, reliable winch because they always seem to break down. He said he had them and I told him how fast I wanted to go and the whole roof gap idea I’d been dreaming about for years.

He thought it sounded super sick and said he was going to do this and that, program it, put a bigger wheel on it and all that. He came and brought the winch to us at Rock A Rail and it worked the whole season. This winch is ridiculously good. But as we are trying it at full speed in Kuopio, the winch breaks because of our own stupid fault. So I am left calling this guy, telling him I need a new remote, Evgeny Pavlov, the photographer on the trip, is looking to leave on Monday (it’s Saturday when the winch breaks), the snow was really bad and we didn’t really have permission from one of the building owners. Speaking of which, the building on the right is an architect’s office and the left building is the home of a grandma. Well, her house is on top of the building and she lives there with like seven small dogs. The first time I climbed up with my yellow construction vest on, seven dogs are just like, “Woof! Woof! Woof!” This grandma opens up the door and asks what we are doing. We tell her we are just looking, and explain the idea for the video, and professional snowboarding, blah, blah. She doesn’t understand. She calls her grandson and I explained it all to him. He goes, “What!

You want to jump from one building to the other! You’re crazy!” But we assured him it was going to work and that it was all right and he told his grandma that it would be OK. She was super nice and the day that we did it - too bad it’s not in the photo - there was this balcony with like five old ladies watching me jump off the building. It was quite crazy, and really funny.

This shot was a long time in the making then? You’d been thinking about it for a while, had a winch custom-built to handle it, and had already turned down a similar spot after it was fully built. When you finally got up there, were you pretty confident it was all going to work this time?

It was really hard because things were starting to go wrong.

Normally, when everything is going well you get more in the mood to do something really scary, but I was really scared and things had started to take a turn for the worse. The winch breaking down, the engineer saying it’s not fixable, the poor snow, the photographer needing to leave... I decided first things first, you have to do this step by step. We tore the winch remote apart and it actually didn’t seem too bad. It just

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looked really bad. I sent a photo to the builder and it turned out it was his birthday, and he was out to dinner with his family at a restaurant. He is a super engineer, a really smart guy, and super stoked on me doing this so he really wanted to help. He snuck off to the toilet to send me information on how to do it. It was super cool! At 1 a.m. I was working together with Evgeny and we got the winch fixed. Evgeny played a big role in the repair. We had to find a new cable, but in that new cable were nine wires of different colors and the old cable had different colored wires than the new one.

Because the colors were off, we had to determine which wires went into which spots in the HDMI plug at the end. There was a shit ton of glue and the cable turned out so small. Man, we spent like four hours trying to solve the cable drama! So at 1 a.m. we fixed it and the winch worked again!

At that point Will and Ollie were too stoned to climb up a building to build a jump but I was just like, “Fuck yeah, let’s do this.” We built the jump super nice and a whole in-run across the building. We took a lot of time to make it perfect and as safe as we could. Now it was Monday, the day Evgeny was supposed to leave. I told him I would buy his new train ticket home if he stayed one more day to try and do it, provided we got everything sorted out. He was down to try it! Of course, I did not sleep at all that night.

The next morning we went back and I realized that normally you have to put the winch somewhere, like behind a curb, where it can’t slide forward. I ended up buying some stuff at the market real quick to keep it in place. It was on Tuesday, which was Valentine’s Day actually, that I finally did the gap.

I went into the architect building and it turned out that the architect office was just one office in the building and there was a whole office of IT people as well and a kitchen for the IT staff because it was so big. I told them we needed to get on the roof and had permission from the architects. They were OK with it but told us they weren’t sure they knew where the keys were for the elevator to get up there. Well, they found them, and let us put the winch in the elevator so we didn’t have to carry it up! They told us we had to be done before 1 p.m. and we were just like, “Yeah, yeah for sure! Of course!”

We didn’t even really think about it. We just wanted to get the winch up there, and figured we’d worry about getting it off later.

So the winch is on top of the building, Tim is on the other building ready to film, and everybody is super afraid. I went down to see what time it was and it was already 12:15 p.m. I got a text message from my girlfriend saying Happy Valentine’s Day with a kiss and a photo of her and her dog. For one moment I was away from thinking about the spot, and it was nice. My mind flew away a little bit, but I quickly got back on top of the buildling and walked out the rope. I was standing on the edge of the building with my back foot hanging over the corner, like a nose stall, to try to get as much in-run as possible. I just closed my eyes man. For the first time, I closed my eyes. “Fuck it.” Send it. Next thing I knew I felt something under my feet and was like, “Fuck yeah! I made it.” It was a super sketchy straight air. I knew I had to get it better but all the stress had gone away. I threw my board down and climbed down that building and up the other again. I think I fucked up the second hit as well with a straight air and I began to wonder if I’d be able to spin it with the straight air being kind of strange. Then this guy rolls up, security from the office, with a couple of dogs while I am standing on the ladder. He is yelling for me to get down and I am just thinking like, “No fucking way man,” and start climbing up. I am just thinking, “One more hit, fuck this guy. He’s not going to climb up the building.” But he’s super angry and I decide I cannot do it with this kind of pressure. I gave my ID to him and we all came together and he asked if we had permission. We told him we

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did. He said he asked because some IT guys were concerned about people being on the roof, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, this security guy turns out to be a skydiver! So he understands it!

He was stoked on us and then was so nice when he knew we had permission. Or we did not have permission, but we faked it and he believed it, which was super nice. Little white lie...

I get back up there and do another straight air and was deciding between back 180 and front 360. In that time the police showed up as well, but they were just watching from a distance. They did not even come up to me. I decided, OK, I am just going to go up to them and explain that it is all right, that we are professionals and have permission and will be finished in two hours or something. And then...we got the back one! We were so stoked and Evgeny was already packed to get the train to Helsinki on his way back to St. Petersburg.

It came down to last day, last call.

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With everyone there: the IT guys, the skydiver security guy, the police, the old ladies...

The grandmas! (laughs) So many generations, so many weird people. It was super funny.

Have you ever felt fear or pressure like that on any other spot?

No, no. It went so quickly. Normally when you are happy you stay happy for a long time. But I was super stoked to do it and then I got super afraid within like two seconds. You can only keep telling yourself that you can do it. You definitely have to be confident but it is so hard. You know you can do it, but if it goes wrong, it goes wrong really badly. To keep that confidence level was such a mental challenge for me. Oh yeah, one twist I forgot to tell you is that I did it on a broken board as well.

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Ollie across the cover gap.

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one, everybody can do it. But when you are able to do it at the right time in the right situation and make it work… That’s the whole thing. It’s nice to be able to tell the story to people because it gives the photo so much more worth. I think a lot of people may not know how much effort goes into such a photo, ya know? I am really stoked we got to tell it!

(laughs) Of course.

The top sheet of the nose was just no more. After all this stuff the winch braking down on a Saturday, the shops being closed on Sunday when we needed to buy the replacement cables and such, not riding for a couple of days because I was waiting to do this gap and wanted a few building days, and all the rest of it the top sheet was just one extra thing going against us. If your shit is good, you have a better chance of accomplishing what you want. Less to worry about. We were dealing with so many things. (laughs) Well, congratulations man! Hell of a story and even better shot.

That takes a ton of self-control. Being able to keep your mind straight is a tough task in a situation like that, trick aside.

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Everyone was kind of quiet when the whole thing went down. When I landed I was super, super stoked and the other guys still couldn’t really realize it. Later that night, or that week, it was like, “Dude, what the fuck did we just do! You just jumped off a building!”

It was really special for all of us. We all made it work.

Evgeny and Tim especially, they put in so much work.

Without the guys it would not have worked. I was so happy that Evgeny stayed one more day and helped me through the struggle with the cables and the build in the middle of the night. Something really special.

And you had the whole drive home to think about it.

Yeah, man. The feeling is still really hard to explain.

It’s just that certain feeling you get with accomplishing something you’ve wanted for so long, when you’ve dreamed about it. I really wanted to have this exact photo, and it is crazy to have it now. I started riding in the streets when I was 15 and have gone on trips with lots of photographers but this one is so special with the whole mental and motivational battle and keeping on it when everything seemed to be going against us. And then you guys call and say it’s going to be the cover... It’s so special for me.

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Dominik Wagner, 50-50 to firecracker

WORDS: DOMINIK WAGNER PHOTOS: MARKUS ROHRBACHER

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was riding my home resort of Absolut Park at the end of January when my good buddy Wojtek Pawlusiak hit me up and told me about this amazing city in Czech Republic called Liberec that had just received a massive amount of snow. He asked if I wanted to put a crew together and join him so I figured I’d just hit up the homies and make a trip happen!

The crew was Wojtek, Simon Gschaider, Marc Swoboda, Alex Pfeffer, Markus Rohrbacher and myself. We stayed there for a week and got a surprise visit from our good friend Gido Gföllner! I don’t think anybody had been there to board before except Wojtek and the Isen7 crew a couple years back. And the Liberec locals, of course.

When we got there we realized pretty quickly that the weather was kind of depressing. It was foggy and windy pretty much the whole time and you could see that reflecting in people’s looks. One day it started raining in the evening and the low temperatures turned the whole city into an ice rink. There was no way any person or vehicle could operate without sliding all over the place or crashing. We used the slippery surface and “ice skated” to the restaurant and through the city.

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Wojtek Pawlusiak scrapin’ under the bridge

Alex Pfeffer on the cam

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amazing, with a lot of rails, ledges and all kinds of other shit! We had a good amount of snow, a good squad, and people there didn’t really care about us snowboarding either, so we had a pretty good foundation for getting footage. We did get kicked out once at this multi-kinked rail, but we were cutting down bushes and it was next to a big bus stop so we knew there was a big bust potential.

Even that was mellow though. Some guy called the police, they showed up, talked to us, realized we were just snowboarding and took off. They were probably just happy we weren’t into some sketchy business.

What is super convenient about Czech Republic is that it’s pretty cheap for us Central Europeans. We could afford to stay in a nice hotel and eat out almost every day. We even had room service dinners and massages! It was nice to have that luxury for once since the budgets in snowboarding these days don’t really allow you to do those kind of things. As you might guess, the alcohol prices were also low, and the boys definitely enjoyed their fair share of partying, I would say. I was sober the whole winter so I wasn’t drinking on that trip, but one night the boys celebrated Danimal’s birthday and had a big night out. It was pretty funny because Simon had never met any of these dudes and all of the a sudden he was out drinking shots with Danimals, Dillon Ojo and Cole Navin. I think he was kind of star-struck, if you can call it that.

Marc Swoboda front board pop-in

It was really good to have Simon as the young blood joining the crew. He brought good energy to the group and entertained Alex during those late-night drinks in the lobby. We were roomies and after a rough night drinking absinthe and bunch of other shots he came back to the room in the middle of the night and puked all over the bathroom. The good thing with teenagers though is they don’t really get hangovers and he got clipped up the next day. This was his first film trip so he was just hyped all the time and soaking up every single bit of it! It didn’t matter if it was snowboarding during the day or going to the bar at night, he was going all in!

We called the edit we filmed there “Americka” because wherever we went we saw something that connected with the U.S. in a random way. The first restaurant we went to was called “Novy York” and at the first spot we hit there was a bus line with the destination “Americka.” Also, Alex wanted to pay homage to the latest L1 video called Americana so “Americka” was a perfect fit.

There was one last funny coincidence. Pretty much the whole Vans squad rolled into town when we were there so at one point the city was occupied by four different snowboard crews - two Vans crews, the Kill Death guys with Gido and our gang - at the same time. It was pretty funny driving around the city and seeing all kinds of takeoffs and landings all over the place! I can’t wait to see what those guys came up with.

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Crew rookie and party MVP Simon Gschaider goes gap to boardslide

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Ain’t that somethin’…

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I moved to Whistler when I was 20 years old, 13 years ago. The calling for bigger mountains, deeper snow, and people more connected to nature all hooked me in.

Even as a child it was my dream to learn how to surf one day. It took me a quarter of a century to even give it my first real attempts, and it instantly gave me the same feeling as my first day on snow. This is what drove me to choose a life of spending half the year in Whistler in the mountains and the other half on Vancouver Island in the water. Privileged, I know.

But it did take me a while to make it happen. The water connection has always been the epicenter of my source of happiness and growth I guess. Nothing makes more sense.

Last winter we knew that we would be filming all over for Arbor’s new movie, Cosa Nostra, but there wasn’t a legit plan at the beginning. I did make it a goal of the season to spend more time on Vancouver Island and explore the mountains there. By some stroke of luck, the Snow Gods were with us, sending the temperatures low enough on the island to allow for some of the best snow conditions in the last 10 years. Another goal of mine was to do as much splitboarding as possible, which is not the most efficient when you are trying to film a video part! But Arbor Team Manager Sean Black fully embraced my wish and he is the one who suggested filming on the island. Even though we had a very short window and lacked prime conditions, I can say that it was a dream come true to get to ride on the quiet mountains that we witness from the breaks as we wait for waves everyday.

We did some splitboarding around that area and also eyed up another spot, but our only realistic option for access was by helicopter. We dialed up the local heli company, Atleo Air and they were so badass! They had never taken clients skiing but they did go explore with their own skis sometimes and they showed us the most beautiful vistas ever. I will never forget that day! We came back, had a surf a few hours later and I can say that it was a bucket list experience for sure.

Experiences like ours on Vancouver Island are what have made me so stoked on Cosa Nostra and being a part of the Arbor team as a whole. Cosa Nostra means “Our Thing.” At the beginning of the project they asked me what I wanted to do. I said I wanted to splitboard as much as possible, explore my own backyard more and hopefully get people stoked to do the same. We did just that. It was so rad to get to ride with everyone else on the team - they are all absolute legends!

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Marie setting up on a nice little right-hander

Picturesque method

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We can only dream.

Heelside burner in heaven

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Steep FS 50-50 in Murmansk, Russia

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A little fast plant action over the pipes

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So Cole, I think at this point everyone knows that you were on the roster for the first ever Vans snowboard video, Landline. What were those two years of traveling around the world like?

Filming for Landline was awesome! We got to travel to so many unique places. I’m still replaying all the moments that happened on each trip.

Where was your favorite place that you got the chance to travel to and why?

Tough to pick a favorite, but going to Japan was an amazing experience. Not only was the snowboarding great, but the food and culture was so different than anything I had ever experienced, which made it a blast.

Was filming for a two-year project more stressful than the standard one year snowboard video?

There were ups and downs, like any project. Having the extra time might have led to us putting expectations on ourselves that maybe we wouldn’t have for a one year video. Nothing too crazy; ideally focusing more time and effort would lead to a better result.

Do you think that videos should be worked on for more than just one winter? Do you think that multiyear videos are the future?

I think that multi-year projects tend to build hype and expectation; it’s inevitable. It works great in certain scenarios. For example, it gives the whole team a better chance at everyone having something that they are happy with.However, there’s something s pecial and spontaneous about videos filmed in one winter. I don’t think one year videos will ever be extinct, just maybe less common.

Who on the team is the hardest to wake up in the morning and takes the most time to get ready?

Probably me. I like to claim that I’m prepared, but I definitely take time to get out the door. Dan (Liedahl) is another culprit. There are some funny stories about Dan taking forever in the morning. You can never get mad at Dan, though.

You grew up riding rails on the East Coast and have always put out rail parts. Do you have any plans on trying to get out into the backcountry?

I’d like to experiment with the backcountry. I really like the street aesthetic, but as my tastes and interests change, I could see myself branching into other disciplines.

How was riding powder in Japan? Even though you were riding your beat-up street board.

The pow day in Japan was my first time riding in deep snow. It was such a sick experience. I remember setting my stance back after the first run. There was about 17 of us, all ducking ropes and having the time of our lives.

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Everyone was screaming with excitement and flipping off of everything we could find.

Who did you spend most of the winter filming with?

I’d say I spent most of the winter with you, Mike Rav, Jake (Kuzyk), Dan and Darrell (Mathes).

Trying to land a trick out in the cold and non-ideal circumstances can be hard at times. Who on the team has the most energy when it comes to keeping morale high when out filming?

Jake is usually a pretty positive force. He can usually tell you what you’re doing wrong and is a good motivator. I rely on you pretty heavily, too. You’re a great shoveler, which goes a long way.

What’s your go-to meal when out on the road?

I’m usually looking for pizza. Cafes are also my favorite.

Who do you think stands out the most in the Vans video?

I love what Arthur filmed. His part is so scenic, which makes it stand out. I think there are a lot of different styles in the video, so everyone’s parts are unique in their own right.

How was it working on the same project as a few snowboard legends, a lot of them guys you grew up looking up to? Did you get to ride with any of them?

It’s sweet. I pretty much grew up watching everyone in the video. It was a great experience being thrown in the mix. I filmed with Darrell both years. He’s knowledgable and calm, and sets a good example.

What keeps you motivated when going through all the ups and downs of filming on the road? Does everyone in the crew always get along with each other when spending every day together, or are there altercations at times?

The most motivating factor is the group mentality of looking out for one another. During long days in the cold and on the street, a lot can happen and it wears on you from time to time. Everyone is generally good to each other and doesn’t hang onto any negative feelings.

Are you ever going to go back to the courthouse in Massachusetts to try and land that double backflip? (laughs) No. Is there a trick you wish you could do?

Switch backside nose press.

When you’re on a trip, do you keep it pretty serious or do you party?

Eh, I’d say I’m in-between. It depends if it’s the middle of the trip or the last night.

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One imaginative double lipslide in Dresden, Germany

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Gap backside 270 to fakie. That core strength y’all

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Pole jam gap to down

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Let this bad boy sink in, will ya!?! A fucking marathon of a BS boardslide in Dresden, one of the wildest we’ve ever seen. Heard some insane things about this dude’s part in the upcoming Vans Landline movie! Movie drops in January, keep ‘em peeled

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Jacket or fleece?

Jacket.

Reverse camber or positive camber?

Positive camber.

Hat, beanie or none?

Hat.

Which snowboarder has your favorite pant fit?

Keegan.

Mitts or gloves?

Mitts.

Who was your biggest inspiration growing up? Doesn’t have to be a snowboarder or athlete.

My mom.

Beer or mixed drinks?

Beer.

Bungie, winch or natty speed?

Natural speed.

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How many meals a day should I eat to be as big as you?

Five, give or take.

Can you do any press tricks?

No. (laughs)

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Not the only acid dropped on this trip... Keegan finding something to play onÂ

Keegan bought this Division 23 Peter Line Gwar board at a local second-hand store and rode it the rest of the trip

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Teddy Koo exiting a turn looking very koo

I quickly realized that this was not going to be like any other snowboard trip. We weren’t going to shovel massive landings in order to jump off buildings. We weren’t going to build the same cheese-wedge to get the double cork off of and we might not even lift a shovel for days. We weren’t manufacturing obstacles in order to get certain tricks we’d done in the past. We simply snowboarded what was in front of us and made the most of every day. Every spot was shared and every lip was built in less than 10 minutes. Remarkably, we got a lot done.

What we lacked in enthusiasm for building lips and landings we more than made up for in time spent at one the holiest places in all of Japan, 7-Eleven. The 7-Elevens in Japan are completely different than anywhere else in the world. The variety of cool snacks and tasty beverages is truly on another level than what we’ve all grown accustomed to in non-Asian countries and you should be jealous of them for that fact. It would not be an overstatement to say that we’d hit up a 7-Eleven at least three times a day during our month-long journey in the “land of the rising Sev.” When you go there, you’ll understand… Try the pancakes in the plastic bags.

K

eegan Valaika, Scott Blum, and I have come together to make little videos. We’ve grabbed Butters (Brock Nielsen) as the head honcho, chief of cinematography, filming/editing and we are capturing the fun times we have in and out of snow environments. Each trip will be completely different and we will be bringing along special guests, picks tailored to fit our style of snowboard tourism.

Our sponsors did not plan this project for us and they might not even know what they are supporting yet… Or if they are supporting it at all. The end product of each trip will be an edit for your viewing pleasure, or not.

* Harrison

Our maiden voyage was to the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido. We met up with Teddy Koo and a few other longtime Japanese homies who you might know, like Kohei Kudo, Kazuhiro Kokubo, and new guy, Masato Toda. Our photographer for the trip was the world renowned Frenchman affectionately known as Perly and he fit the crew perfectly. The snow was pretty much what you’d expect it to be in Japan - light, dry, fluffy, deep and never-ending. Likewise, the beer was light, dry, fluffy, deep and never-ending. Needless to say, we had everything we needed in order to have a good time.

* Scott

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One of the most Special Guests we chose to bring along... Sammy

Besides snowboarding a lot we experienced some pretty crazy shit. We became close friends with an elderly Japanese man who owns a ramen shop. Teddy almost peed on a baby at the mall. Scott stole/joyrode a mailman’s motorcycle.

I took acid twice in three days. Sammy broke a guitar over his head twice. Butters had a mild freak out because we couldn’t find weed. We watched Donald Trump’s inauguration as the President of the United States and Keegan got drunk a lot.

These are just the things I can remember off the top of my head.

* Teddy

What I can tell you about Brown is that our videos will not be boring. We won’t have corny narration explaining the weather cycles. We won’t have 4K slow motion of endless flipping and spinning. There will be no subpar pop punk, and we will not be catering to the people who love that shit. Our videos will be for us and if you like them then we are happy.

And if you don’t, we are still going to be happy. Welcome to Brown.

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Keegs squeezes through the branches, making it look way too easy. As always

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Jacob Krugmire, aka Fuckmire, hopped in the van one day. Here he back threes into the abyss

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Scott with an Andrecht at the beach where the snow and the ocean meet

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Brock “Butters” Nielsen *

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Harry going the distance on a wooden divider at the local ski jump hill. Scott, Keegan, and Harrison all made it to the end of this long guy

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Photo: Cole Martin Rider: Mike Ravelson Location: Murmansk, Russia Trick: Tailpress

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Photo: Andrew Miller Rider: Robin Van Gyn Location: Galena, British Columbia Trick: Leisure boardin’

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Photo: Perly Rider: Max Buri Location: Japan Trick: Snorkeling Photo: Perly Rider: Sylvain Bourbousson Location: Mt. Bachelor Trick: Slash

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Rider: Niels Schack Location: the Multiverse Trick: BS Tail

Photos: Jerome Tanon Rider: Niels Schack Location: the Multiverse Trick: Realization

Rider: Sami Luhtanen Location: Helsinki Trick: 50-50, BS 180 out

Rider: Cees Wille Location: Home Trick: Ready to roll

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Photo: Howzee Rider: Gido Gfรถllner Location: Andermatt, Switzerland Trick: Nose bonk

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