Snowboard Magazine Buyers Guide Online

Oh yes, winter is right around the corner! In preparation for the upcoming snowfall, which is actually already happening at resorts across the country, the 2011 Snowboard Magazine Buyers Guide is now online, featuring 5 top boots from Vans. Check out what they had to say about the Andreas Wiig, Aura, Fargo and Hi Standard men's and women's models. Vans boots are well known for their performance and function, with more than a decade of design and development going into the products. There are plenty of styles to choose from to suit your riding needs, so do a little research before you buy and find the perfect boot for you.

Asymbol Gallery Exhibiting At The Teton ArtLab

It's finally September, the season of art shows and movie premieres. One of the latest openings is this Friday, September 3rd in Jackson Hole, WY. Featuring the art of Vans Team Rider Jamie Lynn, along with Mike Parillo, Ari Marcopoulos and other well known art figures, the show is sure to be a success. If you can't be there in person to celebrate the opening, you can view and purchase prints online at www.asymbolgallery.com.

Asymbol is an online gallery conceptualized by pro snowboarder Travis Rice and artist Mike Parillo. The Asymbol gallery features a collection of iconic photographs and art pieces from the snow, surf and skate worlds that have never before been available to the public for purchase. Each image is offered in a limited-edition run of archival-quality, signed and numbered prints exclusively worldwide through asymbolgallery.com.

OnBoard Magazine Loves Iouri Podladtchikov

Via OnBoard Magazine:

We dig Iouri. He's one of those dudes you know is living the dream and loving every minute of it. He holds it down in the bar as hard as he does on the hill and whenever he bags a prize cheque (which is pretty damn often), you know he'll be playing by the 10% rule to hook the bros up. Fair play to the lad.

Turns out Volcom loves Iouri too, so much so that they sent a stalker out capturing footy and behind-the-scenes carnage (on what seems to be a cellphone camera) all last winter. It's raw; it's also rad. Look out for plenty of doubles, party goodtimes, and Mikkel Bang's failed attempt to be the new Jack Johnson.

Enter To Win a Free Mountain High Season Pass

Via Snowboarder Magazine: Last season at Mountain High definitely took its toll on the brain cells of the snowboard population, but in a good way. Between the endless pow days, the park laps, the bikini contests, the freeriding or the night riding, the brain was jam packed with memories. Great memories. The 2010-2011 season is lining up to be even better, and we don't want you to miss it. Enter below by telling us about your favorite memory from last season. We'll pick the best story and set the owner up with an anytime season pass to Mountain High worth $599. (contest ends Sept. 29th, 2010) Go to www.SnowboarderMag.com to enter.

Eric Willett Signs Snowboarder Magazine Guestbook

Vans newest Team Rider Eric Willett stopped by the Snowboarder Magazine office and signed their Guestbook, which really just consists of him answering a bunch of ridiculous questions that have absolutely nothing to do with snowboarding. Nevertheless, it is entertaining. Check it out to see what Eric's been up to this summer, what he thinks about Mel Gibson, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Sky Mall magazine.

Electronic Aquarium At AR4T Space

Artist Ryan Bahlman aka "RYNo" has a solo show one weekend only. The opening reception is this Thursday August 26th from 7 to 10pm. RYNo's new show Electronic Aquarium is a playful mix of his beautiful and graceful ocean life with the quick moving lines of electronic circuitry. Modern art perfect for your beach house/apartment/cottage. Come check it out this Thursday!

210 AR4T SPACE is at 210 North Coast Hwy in Laguna Beach. Just North of Hwy 133 (Broadway) Easiest parking is found on Cliff Drive and Lower Cliff drive up the hill behind the gallery. Meters are free after seven pm.

OnBoard Magazine Catches Up With Cheryl Maas

Photo: Youri Barneoud

Via OnBoard Magazine: We heard Cheryl Maas was down at the Volcom warehouse the other day to shoot her new Electric ad with photographer Mathias Fennetaux, so our French ed got on his bike and set off down the road to check what what was going on and do a quick catch up interview with her. Turns out that this winter Electric is launching a full-on pro model collection under the codename RIDS (Riders Inspired Design Series), and Maas has her own goggle, as do with Andreas Wiig, Jamie Anderson, Iikka Backstrom and Pat Moore.

As the TTR's first ever female Tour champ, not to mention her selection of heavy video parts, it's safe to say that we know Cheryl rips but her last couple of winters were hit by a succession of injuries. Having battled through the downtime, she's now ready to have at it again...

To read the full interview go to OnBoard Magazine.

Mountain High Season Pass Party

If you're in Southern California, don't miss Mountain High's Season Pass Party on Saturday, August 28th from 3:00-8:00 pm. If you purchase a 2010/2011 Season Pass you'll receive 2 adult lift tickets as a bonus! There will be all kinds of skating and snowboarding going down, autographs from the pros, free product giveaways, free food from Wahoos and much more. It all goes down at Podium Distribution Headquarters in Torrance, CA. For more info and directions to the party, check out www.mthigh.com.

Iouri Podladtchikov Wins Burton New Zealand Open Halfpipe

Iouri Podladtchikov. PHOTO: Frode Sandbech

The eighth annual Burton New Zealand Open Halfpipe finals took place under blue bird skies at Cardrona Alpine Resort with Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) taking first place in the men's event and Kelly Clark (USA) winning the women's competition. Podladtchikov and Clark both finished the day NZ$6,000 richer for their efforts and set themselves up nicely with solid early season results counting towards the 2010/11 Burton Global Open Series and the Swatch TTR World Rankings.

Although the weather was perfect, warm temperatures meant the competition format had to be shortened, in order to keep Cardrona's 22-foot Olympic sized halfpipe in top shape. All 38 men and 19 women semi-finalists went straight into a single final round, with the best of two runs counting for their final ranking.

14 year-old Taku Hiraoka (JPN), who dominated the pre-qualifiers and qualifiers, continued to amaze with his first run score of 89.35 points setting the benchmark. Hiraoka's run was a backside 540, frontside inverted 720, Cab 1080, and massive frontside 900 tailgrab. This Cinderella story proved that it's possible to ride all the way from the pre-qualifier round through to the podium and second place. But taking the win was Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) who let out all stops on his second run with a huge crippler, double McTwist 1260, frontside 1080 tailgrab, and Cab 720 for an impressive 93.70 points. Louie Vito (USA) also had a strong second run to jump up into third place with 88.04 points. Louie's run started with a frontside 1080 double-cork, Cab 1080 double-cork, double crippler, backside 900, and frontside corked 900.

It was also a monumental day for judging, with the newly developed Snowboard Live Scoring system (SLS) proving itself for the first time in the halfpipe. Scores are given for each individual hit during a run, as well as a flow score, to provide a very transparent and informative final score. Viewers of the live webcast on GO211.com were able to see this system in action and watch real-time ranking changes, among other features of the webcast.

Full results are available on www.opensnowboarding.com.

Windells Session 6 Video Featuring Eric Willett

Eric Willett spent some time up on Mt. Hood at Windells Snowboard Camp this summer, practicing some mellow moves like his shifty 900. What?!? That kid's got style. Check out the Session 6 Video Recap which features Eric along with special guest Del The Funky Homosapien from Hieroglyphics.

Windells 6, 2010: Snowboarding from Windells on Vimeo.