A movie about shredding the mountains…
Featuring snowboarders and skiers exploring the backcountry of Whistler BC – challenging the terrain and themselves. Having fun riding with friends and pushing each other to new limits and places. If you love riding and you love pow – Heart Films will not disappoint. Please check out all 8 volumes at heartfilms.com for downloads and updates.
Riders: Takafumi Konishi, Akifumi Hiraoka, Yuta Watanabe, Yu Sasaki, Futa Adachi, Tomohide Inoue, Geoff Brown, Taisuke Kusunoki, Tetsu Kawaguchi, Shikaichi Ueki, Kazushige Fujita, and more…
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Shortsighted marketers are riding snowboarding into the ground, but there may still be hope to keep the sport alive.
I was a state college kid the first and only time I rode a snowboard. This was in the 1980s and snowboarding was still illegal at New Hampshire’s ski resorts. A classmate from New York City named after Dylan Thomas (and who called everybody he didn’t like a chucklehead) brought a board to campus after the winter break. It was a Burton Woody. Skegs on the base. No edges. You just strapped your Sorels in and went.
Actually it wasn’t that easy. First we had to boot pack up a local gravel pit, lock into the board, and take turns pushing each other bobsled style off the ridge … More
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