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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Original Technorati articles tagged “snowboarding”

• in Outdoor
  Snowboarding versus Golf
  Discussing the cost of golf and snowboarding; determining the value of each.
  by bigjuice / on Aug 19, 2010
• in Lifestyle
  Hannah Teter's Charity Set up for Long-term Good
  Olympic champion snowboarder Hannah Teter has set her charity up to prosper well into the future
  by toddwrightnow / on Feb 25, 2010
• in Olympics
  Great Day For U.S.A, Three Golden Olympians
  A golden day for the U.S. Olympic team, as they take home 3 golds, a silver, and two bronzes. And memories, oh so many memories.
  by dmdo / on Feb 18, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “snowboarding”

 

• The Most Common Mistake When Trying To Frontflip On A Snowboard

  
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  Today’s reader question: I’m having problems with my frontflips. I throw my weight towards my nose, but I have problems getting all the way around. What am I doing wrong? This is actually one of the most common mistakes when learning to frontflip. When watching a frontflip/tamedog it looks as if the ...
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• Colorado Springs Snowboarding

  
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• Zach Hooper Photography Launches New Website

  
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  Snowboard photographer, Zach Hooper, launches new website.
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  The season brought in $3.4B in retail revenues, up 3 percent...
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• 9th Annual Vans Pool Party Presented by Pro-Tec

  
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• “No Questions Asked Return Policies Are Killing The Snowboard Industry” – Nope.

  
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  One of our readers recently pointed me to an article on Transworld Business ( read it here ) that made this point: No questions asked return policies are killing the snowboard industry It seems the whole article is written by a local snowboard shop owner who blames the excellent return policies of certain online ...
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• High-Five Report: Shirley Sundt

  
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  Shirley Sundt is my hero. She came to skiing later in life, but once she started, she never stopped. Now she’s in her 80′s, has battled cancer three times, and most recently she wouldn’t stop for chemo to save her last breast because she’d already bought her season’s pass. Instead, she told the doctor to, ...
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• Octagon MMA Head Coach Sayif Saud Talks Sean Spencer Visit to Las Vega

  
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  UFC fighter Sean Spencer’s head coach Sayif Saud discusses their recent trip to Las Vegas to train with Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal and Jeff Mayweather.  
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• NZ Snowboarder Sentenced For Offensive Act

  
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  New Zealand snowboarder Jaden Beange, 18, has received a ‘deterrent sentence for a “cowardly and offensive” act’ after stealing a camera phone and posting topless photos he found on the phone on facebook, referring to the victim of the theft as “The Slut,” according to a story in The New Zealand Herald. ...
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• DC PBJ Snowboard with Jeremy Matherly

  
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  Jeremy Matherly of US Outdoor helps paint the picture of the DC PBJ Snowboard which is a great snowboard for Mt. Hood, this time of year. For skiers and snowboarders, Mt. Hood is a special place that exploits our lust for snow long after all other resorts have arrested their lift operations. Government Camp hosts ...
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• Environment Foundation: Highest Donation in History

  
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  EF made the largest grant to protect the Thompson Divide
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• Adidas Expanding SMS Complaint Hotline

  
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• Toots and Reid @ Mont Tremblant

  
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• Moving The Camera Pays Big: New Gyro Game-Changer used by Teton Gravity Research [interview + video]

  
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  Teton Gravity Research Aerial Reel – The Bay Area in 4K from Teton Gravity Research on Vimeo . Fancy gimbals are the rage these days and I love ‘em all. Not withstanding some homies of mine from my action sports days, Teton Gravity Research , recently announced a partnership with Gyro Stabilized-Systems ...
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• Snowboard Trick Secrets – One Last Update

  
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  Note: This is another update on our ‘Snowboard Trick Secrets’ course. If you have no idea what that is I’d start here . Just want to keep you guys in the loop, so this is one last update before I launch our ‘Snowboard Trick Secrets’ online snowboard course. As you guys know I just have to finish hooking ...
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• Moving Mountains With SPT’s Chris “Gunny” Gunnarson

  
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  SPTs Founder discusses their new show, Mountain...
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• The Powder Highway Road Trip – Dispatch #7 – Haines, Alaska (Video + Photos)

  
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  See previous dispatches >> A cold, dark winter subsides as the days grow longer and the sun’s rays intensify. The inevitable change in seasons triggers an innate response in all living creatures—bears awake from hibernation, birds take flight, and fish swim upstream. Migration is a matter of survival for ...
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• Snowboarding vs. Skiing

  
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  Just like many famous grudges of the past, the long-standing battle between snowboarding and skiing is one that has divided loyalties over the years, with each camp claiming theirs is best while dismissing the claims of their rivals. However, for … Continue reading →
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