I love testing snowboarding innovations. So I was very excited to conduct a review of Mahee V shaped snowboard as potentially it’s a game changer. The base of the Mahee is V shaped from tip to tail with a third edge down the middle, that should make for easier freeride snowboarding plus other benefits. Innovative Mahee V shaped snowboard…
The growth in helmet wearing by skiers and snowboarders in the last decade has been coupled with many improvements and innovations. POC have been at the forefront of this development, so I was keen to conduct this review of POC Receptor BUG adjustable snowboarding helmet. With a simple but distinctive look, POC are one…
After retiring my old snowboarding pants, it was time for some new high performance and hard wearing trousers suitable for backcountry riding. Check out this review of Helly Hansen Backbowl freeride snowboarding pants to find out if I made the right decision. What I expect from freeride snowboarding pants When I…
Have you ever reached the top of a ski lift and thought ‘what’s over that rise?’, perhaps you have seen people or tracks going away from the piste goes and have wondered ‘where are they heading?’. With FATMAP 3D freeride snowboarding maps for mobile, you can answer those questions instantly on your smartphone. Introducing FATMAP 3D…
Every snowboarder remembers their first drag lift, and most of us recall stacking it a few times before we got past the first support post. Big Mountain Extreme Sports know this pain so they’ve created Snow Tow, which is making drag lifts easier for snowboarders. I have been snowboarding for around thirteen years,…
Lacking in significant ski resorts (sorry Scotland) it is a surprise that there are any UK snowboard brands. But the inventive British spirit, and the popularity of snowboarding in our Green and Pleasant Land, means we can buy British and do our bit to support UK companies. UK snowboard brands range from global giants to small…
For the last four years I have been riding a range of bindings by Raven Snowboards. In this review of Raven bindings, I’ll share my experiences and ask the age old question: are they the best cheap snowboard bindings? Lets start with some history. Four years ago my snowboard was stolen. At the time…
To be honest when faced with the opportunity to conduct a review of Teko eco-friendly socks my first thought was ‘how am I going to write about socks?’. But Teko don’t just make ‘socks’, they make high performance sports footwear that has minimal environmental impact, so my second thought was ‘sock…
I had always been reluctant to try snowboarding in bib pants, mainly because I associated it with skiers wearing high and tight salopettes in a 90s winter version of Simon Cowell. But with skiers now being the cool kids on the slopes and us snowboarders are apparently in decline, I am probably safe to go bib without losing my X-Factor….
As if a review of Striding Edge, the first eco-friendly British snowboard brand, isn’t exciting enough I got to ride with Olympic boardercross athlete Zoe Gillings-Brier and Britain’s fastest snowboarder Jamie Barrow. We spent a day shredding the Hemel Hempstead snowdome on Striding Edge, putting it through its paces to decide whether…
It’s hard to imagine how brands like Rip Curl and Quicksilver were once almost completely unknown. These board sports brands may have started small but they had big ideas. They wanted to transform their sports from lifestyles into global enterprises. They succeeded and created a blueprint that’s been followed by…
