In the southern areas of Europe, the weather is now good enough to ride! Some of the riders from the “CHoE” crew met last weekend in Marseilles and declared the 2010 season open!
Archive for February, 2010
Season 2010 starts now ?
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
FRA’s 2010
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Save the date y’all – the FRAs are on for October 15-17, 2010.
We’re sick of sleeping in the factory, so we’re doing it up right this time somewhere new: In the city of sin itself – Las Vegas, Nevada
That’s right, Freebord’s going to Vegas, Baby… Get yourself there and we’ll take care of your lodging for 2 nights, plus a fat party on Freebord for the Awards on Saturday. BYO money for food, gambling, strippers, escorts and other vices.
We’ll have a ride on Sat afternoon so pack your board if you’re down to hit the hills. Otherwise, get your liver back in training and brush up on your Blackjack. It’s on!!
Vision Magazine
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Pretty much the Chinese version of Vice, Vision Magazine included this sweet spread in their almost 400-page December issue.
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The pics look good, anyone speak Chinese?
From the Vault: Freebord Prototype
Thursday, February 11th, 2010We finally decided to update our Freebord evolution wall, and hung up bords with the Alpha and G3 trucks.
Some of these boards never really worked right, according to Steen. But others weren’t so bad – check out this video from the vault of Bomze and Sean Ferry riding one of the early prototypes that we have on the wall:
Yeah, they’re actually riding this:
And they make it look fucking good…
Freebord Summer Camp
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Snowboard in the morning, Freebord in the afternoon – the best of both worlds at the first ever, soon to be epic Freebord Summer Camp.
We’re taking reservations now for Summer 2010 – €600 for six days, all expenses paid to shred some of the most beautiful mountains in the world at the 2 Alps ski resort in France. Price includes a six-day ski pass, activities, coaching, and full accommodation in a three star hotel.
The Freebord Summer Camp will take place the week of the 10th-17th July, 2010. Space is limited for this first year, so don’t wait to book – you will not want to miss out on this!
Email Arnaud with questions: camp@freebordeurope.com
For more details and to register, visit: freebordeurope.com/camp
Freebord on CNBC World Business
Friday, February 5th, 2010A legit piece of reporting by our new friends at CNBC World Business.
Cameos from a bunch of Freebord heads, including a nice long shot of John working double time on some hardware packs. Thanks Jim, Vince, Rob and Steen!
…Are we blowing up yet?
Who Dat?
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
…finally decided to drive the street view car down Irwin and got a few shots of the Freebord Factory. The Bean, FJ, Vino and Mazda all made it in the snap… represent!
Corporations That Run Snowboarding
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Illicit Snowboarding blog has an interesting post on the money trail in the snowboarding industry, and which corporations own what brands.
The idea for this came from the forum on Yobeat and some lad called Andrew Nagel, aka ‘GnarBuckets’… Anyway this article answers GnarBuckets question “I was wondering if any one could update it and add other companies that are now in snowboarding and what not and just every one give there 2 cents on this.”
And to answer the first part of Mr Buckets question here is something we just drew up and are going to call a ‘Piste Map’, showing which corporations own the brands in 2010. (click to enlarge)
Some crazy shit right there… if we were on this map we’d probably be the poor kids trying to sneak onto the lifts without passes. So core man…
Winter Rides
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Snow’s still falling and the mountains are calling… happy shredding everyone
