Indholdsfortegnelse for Volume 2 i Snowboard International

“A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HOW WOMEN CHANGED SNOWBOARDING” UNCOVERING THE UNTOLD STORIES AND FORGOTTEN FOOTAGE OF THE WOMEN WHO HELPED SHAPE SNOWBOARDING INTO WHAT IT IS TODAY. THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES OF SOME OF THE WORLD’S TOP RIDERS AND INDUSTRY LEADERS, THE FILM SPANS 40 YEARS OF TRIUMPHS AND CHALLENGES – SHOWING HOW PERSISTENCE, DEFIANCE, AND COMMUNITY HAVE LED TO A MOMENT OF UNPRECEDENTED SUPPORT AND GROUNDBREAKING ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT. FEATURING ANNA GASSER / BARRETT CHRISTY / BROOKE GEERY CHANELLE SLADICS / CHLOE KIM / CIRCE WALLACE / DARRAH REID-MCLEAN / DESIREE MELANCON / DONNA CARPENTER / ELENA HIGHT GABBY MAIDEN / HANA BEAMAN / JAMIE ANDERSON / JESS KIMURA JILL PERKINS / KELLY CLARK / KIMMY FASANI / KJERSTI BUAAS LAURA HADAR / LEANNE PELOSI / MADDIE MASTRO / MAGGIE LEON MARIA THOMSEN…

I remember when the first The Bomb Hole episode dropped. It was an interview with Justin Bennee, recorded in Chris Grenier’s garage, unpacking the highs and lows of pro snowboarding, drug addiction, Nike, death, hitting rock bottom, and rediscovering himself – a brutally honest deep dive that pulled you in from the first minute. This was what snowboarding had been missing: a platform that celebrated everything that we love about snowboarding and snowboarders: dumb jokes, nostalgic trick talk, and most importantly, those raw conversations that usually stay off record. The magic ingredient? Chris Grenier and his team’s exceptional ability to make every guest feel at ease. With more than a dozen video parts under his belt, including the ender in Videograss’ Mayday and gold from X Games Real Snow 2015,…

FOR MOST SNOWBOARDERS, Japan is a dream destination. A powder pilgrimage that lives in video parts, Instagram edits, and whispered stories: bottomless turns, perfectly spaced birch trees, ramen steam rising from a bowl after the best day of your life. A trip, a taste, and then back home. For Jaume Pons, snowboarding has never been about ticking off destinations but about building a life around the mountains. Becoming a snowboarder in the Pyrenees, he began as a park rider before powder became his true passion. He worked as an instructor and coach, now rides for Arbor, and spends half of the year guiding in Japan and the other half surfing in the Canary Islands. In 2016, that search for snow brought him to Hokkaido. What was meant to be a one-off…

Call it quiet authority. Sebbe de Buck rides with the kind of ease that makes everything look intentional. Craig Kelly once said riding deep powder feels “like flying”… a state of “complete freedom.” That magnet still pulls on snowboarding’s best, and it’s the feeling Sebbe rides for. He took the classic path – contests to build a name, then a turn into filming – to protect that freedom. Here’s where that turn happened, and why. LEAVING THE Sebbe is candid about why the contest lane stopped fitting. “During those last years doing contests, I wasn’t having fun and was doing it for the wrong reasons. My contest career always felt like a struggle, like mostly getting fourth places, not the score I was hoping for… Or I’d have to change…

Hey Michael. Thank you for taking the time to talk to us about the new FASE® system. What problem were you trying to solve in day-to-day resort riding that traditional two-strap or Step On or Supramatic didn’t, and what made 2025/26 the right time to ship a fast-entry solution? I don’t think there is a single problem that we were trying to solve with FASE®; we were working to make the experience of strapping in more efficient, simpler, and more universal for all riders. We look at FASE® as the logical evolution of two-strap bindings, working seamlessly with any standard boot on the market and following the same motions/setup procedure as traditional two-strap bindings. Seven years is a long R&D arc. Was there a single prototype or on-snow day when…

THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS are the perfect testing ground for gear designed to keep you dry while performing at the highest level during extended adventures with variable alpine conditions. One minute it’s sunny, the next you're in a blizzard, and there’s always the chance snow turns to rain and back again just to keep you on your toes. Many top-class gear combos have failed in Scottish Highland mountain conditions, so I was excited to give the brand-new, fully redesigned Patagonia Powslayer jacket and pants a proper test in good old gnarly Scottish conditions. This backcountry freeride-specific kit got thoroughly tested over the past season while I was leading splitboard groups in the Scottish backcountry with Wandering Workshops and filming with a visiting Warren Miller production crew. The best time to test…

The cover shot, captured by Alex Pashley, comes from the final day of Nik Baden, Mateo Massitti, and Austin Smith’s trip to Alaska to film for their sponsor. To see more of their trip and Alex’s photos, check out our tribute photogallery. This was from the last day of the trip, it was the last photos we shot with Alex. He passed away nine days after this photo. Nik doesn’t share much emotion. I was never sure if he was nervous, excited, happy or bummed on the trip. I hope this photo makes him happy, a reminder of a special place and time on planet Earth. – AUSTIN Austin and Mateo always sat in the front of the chopper which allowed me to sit next to either Pashley or Butters.…

GNU PRESENTS “ÉTRANGE MÉLANGE” A STRANGE MIX OF RECKLESS YOUTH AND WISE MENTORS BREWS AN ELABORATE CONCOCTION. RIDERS CANNON CUMMINS / JADYN CHOMLACK / TEMPLE CUMMINS MARKUS RUSTAD / MITCHELL DAVERN / AUSTEN SWEETIN / ERIC JACKSON / MATTEO SOLTANE / BRAYDEN CHARETTE / ALEX KIRKLAND ANTONIO ASTILLERO PRODUCED BY MATTEO SOLTANE / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JESSE BURTNER / FILMED + EDITED OLIVIER GITTLER PREMIERS IN SEATTLE, ON NOVEMBER 13 AND WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE FROM NOVEMBER 18 ON GNU SNOWBOARDS YOUTUBE…

ARBOR SNOWBOARDING PRESENTS “EL CAMINO”, A SHORT FILM FEATURING JARED ELSTON AND HIS DEBUT PRO MODEL SNOWBOARD, “EL CAMINO”. PREMIERING OCTOBER 10TH IN BEND, OREGON, AND RELEASING ONLINE OCTOBER 13TH. SHOT AND DIRECTED BY LEGENDARY FILMMAKER JAKE PRICE OF 500 MOTORS, EL CAMINO FOLLOWS JARED THROUGH BRITISH COLUMBIA, JAPAN, ALASKA, AND BEYOND. WITH MASSIVE EXPECTATIONS SURROUNDING HIS MOVE TO ARBOR, TO SAY JARED SHOWED UP FOR THIS ONE WOULD BE A MAJOR UNDERSTATEMENT. LIKE THE CAR IT’S NAMED AFTER, THE EL CAMINO IS RUGGED, HAULS ASS, AND IS NOT INTERESTED IN POLISH. IT’S HARD-HITTING, IN-YOUR-FACE BIG AIR BOARDING WITH CAMEOS BY RED GERARD, PAT MCCARTHY, AND GRIFFIN BIANCUCCI.…

FIS WORLD CUPS & OLYMPICS It’s that time again: an Olympic winter. Whether you like the Games or not, they supercharge progression. This summer wasn’t rest – it was a steady drip of airbag clips, training edits, and brand-new trick attempts. And winter hasn’t even begun. Slopestyle will, as always, ignite debates on approach, judging, and how different styles and strategies stack up. There’s been a clear change of guard: Canadians Liam Brearley and Cameron Spalding enter as big favorites after dominating last season’s slopestyle circuit. But current silver medallist Su Yimming will be looking to redeem what slipped through his fingers in Beijing in 2022. Pre-season socials have been a spin-fest, especially from the Japanese squad. Where 1800s (and the occasional 1980) used to be the ceiling, we’re now…

“I’ll never forget what the nurse said. She looked at me and said, ‘You seem fine, but we’ll take a CT scan just to be safe.’ A little while later, she walked back in completely pale and said, ‘You’ve been bleeding in your brain for two weeks. Your brain has shifted 11 millimetres. You have a guardian angel, and you wouldn’t have survived another night. You’re now on your way to emergency brain surgery.”– KELSEY BOYER A CONCUSSION is an invisible injury – just as real as a broken bone, but harder to see, harder to justify, even to yourself. According to the ReFORM synthesis of the 6th International Consensus Statement on Sport-Related Concussion, concussions are caused by “a direct blow to the head, neck or body resulting in an…

From viral follow-cams to full-blown big mountain productions, Spencer “Gimbal God” Whiting has built a career on hustle, risk, and relentless creativity. Spencer emerged with a GoPro in hand and a knack for chasing friends down massive park jumps in mesmerizing follow-cam clips. A decade later, he’s behind some of snowboarding’s most striking visuals, blending edgy POV shots with cinematic backcountry projects, all while running his own production company. His path has taken him from editing “StåleLIFE” and viral park edits to brand campaigns and major contests. But behind the hype are sleepless truck-life nights, glacier missions, burnout, and loss – and one thread tying it all together: he never stopped dreaming. Let’s start with this past season. What have you been up to? 2025 has kind of been “able…

For three decades, the Burton Custom has been more than just a snowboard – it’s been the benchmark for what a board should be. Launched in the 1995/96 season, the Custom set a new standard by proving one board could do it all: float through powder, charge steep lines, and still deliver the snap and precision needed in park and pipe. At a time when boards were divided between freeride and freestyle, the Custom bridged the gap and created a true all-mountain icon. What makes the Custom special is not just its design, but its staying power. While trends, technologies, and even the definition of snowboarding have evolved, the Custom has remained the longest-running model in Burton’s line – consistently refined but never losing its identity. For many riders, it’s…

Let’s start at the beginning. Where did the idea for the Tidal art show come from? The spark goes back to 2017. I was painting boards at ISPO and met PJ (Peter John De Villiers), who invited me to an art show in Oslo with folks like Bryan Iguchi, Jamie Lynn, Danny Larsen, and Schoph. It felt like “adult art camp” – painting in a barn, camping on an island, the whole thing. Once I returned home and shared my experience with my roommate Jonathan Voellmy, he was quick to bring up, “We should try to do this in the mountains!” From there, we built upon the concept of shows like Human Nature and Ethos that were held in cities, and brought the residency to the resort in LAAX: snowboard…

Austin Smith, Nik Baden, and Mateo Massitti took a team trip to Alaska in March, with photographer and friend Alex Pashley, who captured the stills and the forever memories. Alex Pashley, Jeff Keenan, and Jason Remple were caught in an avalanche on Monday, March 24, 2025, north of Kaslo, in British Columbia. This photogallery, put together with the help of friends and fellow photographers Ben Gavelda and Aaron Blatt, and captioned by the riders themselves, is a small tribute to Alex. Neither Nik or Mateo had been to Alaska before and I sounded like the old guy saying “You guys, it’s not usually this good, you don’t know how good we are getting it” over and over again. What a trip! – AUSTIN First lap in Alaska. Adrenaline was hitting an…

It’s largely thanks to the Uninvited film trilogy that most people finally caught on to the importance of equal representation in snowboard videos. With that accomplished, a new Uninvited objective emerged: spotlighting under-the-radar talent and putting money in the pockets of deserving, upcoming riders. It’s difficult to reconcile being on the outside of the action at a snowboard event. Contests have never been my preferred avenue in snowboarding, but suddenly I was feeling immense pressure to perform in one. The Uninvited movies shaped so much of my snowboard career that it seems only natural I’d be a competitor in the Invitational. A 60k prize purse sounds pretty nice, too. But after facing MUCH internal resistance, I had to accept that maybe the Uninvited Invitational isn’t an event for snowboarders like…

If there’s one thing snowboarding keeps giving me, it’s a reason to point at a faraway spot on the map and dream about the mountains there. The opportunity to explore and discover new places through the snowboarder lens is both a privilege and a commitment. New countries are always a thrill, but it hits different when new also means unexpected. Georgia, tucked where Europe shakes hands with Asia, between the Black and the Caspian seas, was one of those places I never quite imagined I’d ride. And then I did. OUT ON THE FAR EDGE OF EUROPE Thanks to the Freeride World Tour putting unlikely freeride zones on the map, Georgia is now firmly on the radar. The Georgian side of the Greater Caucasus rises in abrupt walls and cathedral spires…

When you picture a snowboard movie being made, you probably imagine helicopters circling remote peaks, bottomless budgets covering production costs, and pro riders with nothing else to do but chase clips. For Seth Hill and his friends, the reality looks very different. Their latest films are produced between school runs, day jobs, family schedules – and a four-camera system held together by grit, creativity, and a whole lot of passion. “We filmed forty days last season,” Hill says, almost casually, while I shake my head in disbelief. “And that’s with kids in school, full-time jobs, and everyone juggling their own lives. It’s not about money. We're not doing this to make a living. We're doing it because we just love snowboarding.” Listening to him describe his self-filming setup, I couldn’t…

A TRIP meant for filming and sharing excitement took an unexpected turn, drawing French pro snowboarder Victor Daviet into a real-world test of community. From that moment came Snowboarders of Solidarity, a rider-led nonprofit based on a simple idea: when snowboarders look out for each other, mountains move. In this conversation, Victor explains how a chance encounter became a mission, what "solidarity" means when the cameras are off, and where the project is headed next. Let’s start at the beginning. What set you on the path toward creating Snowboarders of Solidarity? I’ve been a pro snowboarder for 15 years. I competed in freestyle first, then shifted to freeriding. In 2021, I traveled to Pakistan with the nonprofit Zom Connection. They collect gear in the Alps and deliver it to Pakistan, where…

Hey Jan, thank you for taking the time to talk us through the new boot collection. Burton rebuilt the Step On boot range around two families – Waverange (softer/more maneuverable) and Highshot (firmer/more responsive) – Standard (single BOA®), X (dual), and X Pro (triple). What problem were you solving with this reset, and how should riders translate from legacy models like Photon/Ion to the new names? Our boot line had grown organically over the years, resulting in a lot of different models with different identities, tech features, and price points. This made it difficult for many riders to easily understand the full line offerings and find the right boot model for their needs. So, we decided to start over and build a clear line based on customer wants and needs with…