Transworld Snowboarding has unleased their brand-spanking-new website on to the Internet you are currently surfing.
The good news is the site has a great new look with a ton of new features, plus a ton of the archived stories have been included in the redesign.
The bad news is all of FrontLipped’s links to the old Transworld site no longer work. I’ll be working on updating those this week, I promise.
In the meantime, you can take the direct route over to the new site and start poking around.
Snowboarding is, without a doubt, the most beautiful sport in the world and it means everything to me.
What else is there to say after that?
It’s obvious that Alex Ferland’s passion for snowboarding is bound to take him a long way. Coming up from the cold slopes of Mont-Avila, Quebec, Ferland has taken some big steps towards being one of the next big names out of Canada. Combine that with the fact that he’s equally as comfortable on big kickers as he is on street rails or in the pipe, and you have the formula for a burgeoning career.
Head over to Snowboard Canada dot com to see what else he had to say to Scott Birke about being one of Quebec’s, and Canada’s, up-and-comers.
TJ Schneider brings you three more episodes of the Snowboard Realms to close out the summer camp season at the Camp of Champions in Whistler, B.C.
Episode 34 is all about the ladies, and brings you some great highlights and quick interviews with Nat Gough, Spencer O’Brien and Elena Hight from session C at COC. Epsiode 35 wraps up session C and Nomis week at the camp. Check it out for a full-length interview with JP Walker and some quick riding footage. Episode 36 features more riding from session D, cameo appearances from Chris Brown, Eero Niemela, Paavo Tikkanen, Mikey Rencz and Chris Dufficy, a quick interview with Laurent Paquin (aka LNP) and a sneak peek at Scott Stevens’s part in Think Thank’s new movie Stack Footy.
In this installment of Sunday Cinema, FrontLipped invites you to check out Quebec-native Ben Bilocq, and his demo reel from the 2005-06 season.
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Just in case you missed it when it went up a few months ago, check out the link for some quick shots of TRZA (a.k.a.Trevor Andrew), SCO Dubbs (a.k.a. Scotty Arnold) and clever nickname missing (a.k.a. Chris Grenier) catching up to the short bus in Newfoundland.
The 2008-09 FIS World Cup will be making two stops on Canadian soil on its way to the final stop in Valmalenco, Italy on March 21, 2009.
British Columbia’s Cypress Mountain will play host the 4th Halfpipe event of the series on February 14th, The series will then move to Stoneham, Quebec for a Big Air event on February 18th and another Halfpipe event on February 21st.
This year will also be the first time a Slopestyle event is added to the FIS calender. The inaugural Slopestyle event will take place in Bardonecchia, Italy in early February, one day prior to the Halfpipe event at Bardonecchia.
For more details on the entire series of events, as well as to see a full schedule, check out the full story on Snowboard Canada’s website.
Aaron Johnson keeps it short and sweet in his check out with Snowboard Canada’s Scott Birke. Johnson talks about getting his first sponsor after a sand pit session, feeding off of his future children’s success and what makes him warm inside.
Keep an eye out, because Aaron Johnson is next.
With such a large contingent of unbelievable Canadian talent, Rome snowboards is bound to get a lot of play on this blog. With filming wrapped for the new team video, No Correct Way, the people at Rome sat down with a few of their riders to ask them about the past season.
Jesse Fox
1. Best part about filming for NCW?
The best part about filming for No Correct Way, was getting to hear all the epic Yan quotes he dishes on a daily basis.
Drinking / smoking in the airport…
Me –“Hey Yan you know what gate we’re suppose to be at?”
Yan – “No man, I just sit here till I hear my name call over the speaker, den they tell me where to go.”
2. Romania? Vacation or Survival Challenge?
Romania = survival challenge. I’m sure our survival was minor compared to what Romanian people have been through….
Transworld Snowboarding and Snowboard Canada are both hosting videos of all the highlights from the Stepchild Snowboards session at Whistler’s Camp of Champions. Take a peek here, or here, to catch some of your favourite shreds including Simon Chamberlain, Matt Belzile, Louif Paradis, Nick Dirks and JP Walker.
Transworld also has the brand new episode of Stepchild Saturdays, brought to you live (but not really) from the Camp of Champions. Check it out for highlights of JP, Simon, E-man, Joe Sexton and JP’s new signature Stepchild stick.
I also just realized that we totally forgot to highlight the coverage of COC’s second session. Check out the video while you’re on Snowboard Canada, or Transworld.
Renaud Belisle (or Reno B, as he has come to be known) rips it up in Whiteout Films’ 2006-07 release Wear It Well. The man has come a long way from representing Canada on the stage of international halfpipe riding, and it’s safe to say we’re all glad about that.
