Snowboarding

Snowboarding's early roots are blurry but it's generally accepted to have evolved from surfers and skateboarders looking to recreate their sports in a winter environment. Snowboarding maintained relatively unknown to most of America until the 1997 ESPN Winter X Games brought national attention to what the top athletes were able to accomplish on their snowboards. The following year's Olympics in Nagano, Japan would be snowboarding's coming out party to the world.

Today's top snowboard personalities, such as Shaun White, are highly sought after brands, walking a fine line between business savvy and sellout. Snowboarding now influences all aspects of modern youth culture, from music to clothing to video games and are looked up to by kids and adults for their on and off snow exploits.

As it's primarily a winter sport the blogosphere's attention to snowboarding has a strong seasonal bias.  In late winter and early spring blogs light up with sneak previews and catalog scans of the following season's new snowboard gear and accessories. 

Summer is a relatively quiet period, with the bulk of the infrequent posts coming from film crews in the Southern Hemisphere and year round backcountry snowboarders. The blogosphere starts to buzz again as the long summer days turn to cool fall nights and the snow begins to fall once again.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Snowboarding”

• Shaun White Snowboarding World Stage Review

  
  Wii Balance Board Games Blog — Authority: 133
  A portion of the GameSpot review of Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage: "World Stage, like its predecessor, is a well-made representation of the winter sport that is easy to pick up, and its satisfying to work your way to the top of the rankings. However, since there arent any huge differences separating it from ...
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• Shred Life Getting Harder By The Day

  
  Longboarding and Skimboarding Commentary and News — Authority: 149
  A skateboarder in West Valley City, Utah robbed a Credit Union Service Center at 7 PM on November 12, 2009, according to a story on KSL.com. Police say the man showed a weapon and demanded money. . . . Police say he had a skateboard with him and that may be how he got away. . [...]
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• Quiksilver Giving It Away Now

  
  Longboarding and Skimboarding Commentary and News — Authority: 149
  We’ve always wondered where all the Quiksilver and Roxy overstock goes. And now we know at least part of the story. Some of it ends up in the California Central Valley town of Visalia, according to a story in the Visalia Times Delta. Visalia school psychologist Ray Miller has been helping students put clothes on ...
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• Boil The Ocean’s Top 40 Skate Videos List

  
  Longboarding and Skimboarding Commentary and News — Authority: 149
  Erudite skate blogger Boil The Ocean is proving once again that he has watched (and thought seriously about) way, way too many skateboard videos as he counts down the 40 most skateboarding videos of the past decade. While most skaters would be hard pressed to even name 40 skate videos from the last 10 years [...]
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• Eric Stricker Memorial Tomorrow At TWS

  
  Longboarding and Skimboarding Commentary and News — Authority: 149
  Transworld Media will be hosting a memorial skate jam at their warehouse Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 2-6 PM to honor the life of former Transworld Skateboarding magazine Editor Eric Stricker who died September 23, 2009. We’ll have limited-edition memorial T-shirts from TransWorld and The Hundreds, and hats from ...
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• Laaxs new ski resort really rocks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  In Laax, Alpine chintz has been replaced by hip interior design and architecture – especially at a striking new resort built from local rock Once, we knew what to expect from ski resorts. Cosy wood-panelled mountain cafes with a roaring fire, perhaps some early 1900s ski poles on the walls, a flourish of red ...
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• Steely Dad Review: Land’s End SnowSystem™ Jacket

  
  Steely Dad — Authority: 99
  I’ve never written a product review before but when my buddy PJ over at the blog Real Men Drive Mini Vans asked if I’d like to do one for the new Land’s End SnowSystem™ Jacket , I thought it might be a fun project. As this will be my second Chicago winter experience, it occurred to me that adding a real ...
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• Pounding The Trails Skiing In Vermont On Mount Snow

  
  Health & Fitness Blog — Authority: 164
  Vermont, it is widely accepted, offers some of the best skiing in New England. Vermont is where skiing began in Northern America and in keeping with this fine tradition is where you will be able to find a mouth watering selection of sensational ski destinations.
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• Q&A With "The Flying Tomato" Shaun White

  
  Teen Vogue Daily — Authority: 150
  This truly has been the month of athletes for me. I had the chance to sit down with the hilarious Shaun White, whose new video game, Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage , for the Wii balance board comes out November 8th. Dont let his silly personality fool you, this guy is DEDICATED! Hes won multiple gold medals in ...
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• Eat, drink and ski happy in Salt Lake this winter

  
  Gadling — Authority: 694
  Filed under: Skiing , North America , United States , Hotels and Accommodations Whats the happiest place on Earth? Well, Disney claims that title, but heres the problem: Utah does, too. If they were in different countries, no conflict would exist, but since they do, we have to sort this out. A ...
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• KR3W Announces Snowboard Team

  
  CtotheJL — Authority: 597
  Today, KR3W announced their new Snowboard team which consists of Jon Kooley, Jordan Mendenhall, Nima Jalali, Will Tuddenham, Jake Olson-Elm, Nick Dirks, and Jed Anderson. The KR3W team has put together this video showing of their new snow team, hit the link below to view the video. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO ...
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• Magic Moments Trailer from Jackson Hole

  
  Backcountry.com: The Goat — Authority: 507
  The proud Jackson Hole family that is Darrell Miller’s Storm Show Studios is premiering their latest film tonight. Miller keeps it local using almost all Jackson skiers and shooting most of the footage for Magic Moments in the Tetons.
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• Hotel Spotlight: Ahwahnee, Yosemite

  
  Away.com Travel Blog — Authority: 123
  The summer months draw 50 percent of Yosemite National Parks overnight visitor stays; that stat drops to less than three percent once winter rolls round. Concession lodging in the park, like the classic 123-room Ahwahnee Hotel, sees a corresponding drop in visitor nights, with overnight occupancy dropping to about a ...
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• Awaiting the Magic Moments

  
  The Mountain Culture — Authority: 420
  Off-season in Jackson Hole is bookended by a pair of ski movie premieres, starting with Teton Gravity Research ’s much-anticipated debut in September. Tonight Darrell Miller ’s Storm Show Studios presents its latest, “Magic Moments,” before a typically rabid Friday the 13th crowd at Snow King Resort. ...
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• Shaun White - A Phenomenon

  
  Rec and Sports — Authority: 159
  How closely do you watch the sector of snowboarding? How closely do you watch the Olympics? If the answer to either of those questions is closely”, then you almost certainly know the name Shaun White. In fact , he was only the U. S. gold medalist for the Men’s Half-pipe in 2006! It’d be fairly hard to miss that ...
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• Choosing a Ski Holiday in Europe

  
  Airsoft Team of Lingayen — Authority: 132
  There are many areas you can visit if you want to take a ski holiday in Europe. There are many countries that have fantastic ski terrain that are ideal for winter sports. For many years people only traveled to France, Switzerland, Austria, Andorra and Italy. Today people take a ski holiday wherever they can find ...
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• First Backcountry Report

  
  iRide — Authority: 103
  Last week, Nino, 3 skiners, and I headed up just northwest of Black Hawk city for what would be my first (and Nino’s) backcountry trip. I had some of the gear I needed, but still dropped nearly $700 for 2 beacons, another set of snowshoes, 2 shovels, and 2 probes. Nino and I also attended a 1 hour avalanche ...
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• Sean Cliver’s Disposable Blog

  
  Longboarding and Skimboarding Commentary and News — Authority: 149
  While most writers seem to be getting publishing deals after creating blogs (or TV deals after Tweeting for a couple months), Sean Cliver is doing things all backward. He’s launched a blog in support of his most recent book The Disposable Skateboard Bible. I’ve never been a fan of the “b-word” and I’ve ...
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• New Smyrna Shark Nips Number 8

  
  Longboarding and Skimboarding Commentary and News — Authority: 149
  An unnamed 18-year-old surfer was hit by a 4-foot shark while surfing near News Journal this afternoon according to a story in the News Journal. The 18-year-old man, who was not identified by the Volusia County Beach Patrol, suffered only minor injuries, including a bump on the shin where the shark hit him and ...
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• A Surfer’s Theory Of Everything

  
  Longboarding and Skimboarding Commentary and News — Authority: 149
  We’ve occasionally followed the story of surfing physicist Garrett Lisi and the unification theory he calls The Theory of Everything. Some say it is genius, others claim that it is purely junk science from a surfer who is good at math. We have no idea. . . but it looks pretty cool. Doesn’t it? [Link: ...
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