Tomorrow will bring with it the first day of October, and will also bring all of us one day closer to the most glorious season of them all.
As the winter creeps closer, FrontLipped is planning on changing with the colours of the leaves. You’ll see some changes this month (as long as I get around to making them all) which will include a new banner, some new opinion articles from yours truly and just maybe a couple of reader polls. Once again I’d like to sincerely thank you all for supporting the site and also invite you to come join our Facebook group.
Although Burton hasn’t brought ‘The Stash’ to our home and native land yet, Eastern Canadian shredders will have a great opportunity to ride one of the most unique runs in North America this winter.
Killington Resort in Vermont, announced this week that they will be developing ‘The Stash’ at Killington in conjunction with Burton snowboards and Burton’s team riders. Killington will be the fifth home of ‘The Stash’, following in the footsteps of Northstar-at-Tahoe, USA; Avoriaz, France; The Remarkables, New Zealand and Flachauwinkl Resort, Austria.
With features including a street-style wooden handrail and staircase, a jibbable fence and a fully rideable Vermont sugar shack, it will be more than worth the 3.5 hour drive from Montreal to enjoy ‘The Stash’ at Killington when it opens on December 19, 2008.
Alterna Film’s brand new release KNOCKOUT ‘the tenth round’, is now available to be purchased from the online store of the Alterna Action website. Check out the link here.
If you’re not content just being the first of all your friends to own a shiny new copy of KNOCKOUT, you may want to start looking at flights to Calgary so you can be at the premiere of Alterna’s 10th anniversary project. The premiere is going down on October 15th at the Plaza Theatre on Kensington Rd. NW, Calgary. Doors for the all ages show open at 6:30 p.m. with the cinematic adventure kicking off at 7:00 sharp.
Check out the event page on Facebook for all the details. Premiere parties will also be happening in Anchorage, Alaska on October 4th, in Whistler, B.C. on October 9th, in Toronto, Ont. on October 17th and in Golden B.C. on October 24th. All the details are also on the Alterna website.
Calgary’s Jed Anderson and Raewyn Reid both put down top 3 performances at the 2008 Hot Dawgz and Hand Rails competition at Bear Mountain.
Jed took the top spot on the men’s side with a ton of technical tricks on the rails, a down bar and a down-flat-down. Chas Guldemond and Scott Vine took the 2nd and 3rd spots respectively. On the women’s side, Reid placed third behind Desiree Melancon (1st) and Marie Huchal (2nd).
Check out photo albums on Transworld and Snowboard Revolution, and two videos chock full of bangers and bails on Transworld.
After putting so much time and effort into building Nomis, it was only a matter of time before Simon Chamberlain’s work on his clothing brand started bleeding over into his pro model board from Stepchild.
Simon’s pro model for the 2008-09 season comes in five lengths (148, 153, 156, 156 mid-wide and 158) and two different colourways (blue and green) to kit up with your Nomis signature hoodie.
Carbon stringers and a P3 design give this board the pop and versatility you need to ride it on the mountains or in the streets.
Check out Stepchild’s full line of boards for this season, including JP Walker’s pro model, here.
Double Decade will be the last annual snowboard movie released by Mack Dawg Productions. Starting this season, Mike “Mack Dawg” McEntire will leave the world of part-based shred flicks to embark upon a greater variety of projects.
“The snowboarding films that everyone’s making, if you don’t snowboard, you’re not even gonna be stoked on it. There’s not much to it that an average person can get out of it. When you’re talking about telling a story then you’re getting into a way bigger audience. Any time there’s human interest involved, then that opens the door for tons of people to be interested in it,” says McEntire in an interview on Transworld Business.
The stories that McEntire plans on telling include documentaries on the lives and careers of snowboard legends such as Peter Line and Jeremy Jones, as well as a piece on the history of snowboarding.
“Obviously, we have a lot of footage of tons of people and we’re going to explore some online stuff and cut some ‘day in the life’ type pieces as well. We’re going to do some commercials and bigger feature stuff as well as 3-D and just move into some different avenues,” says McEntire.
Check out the full story on Transworld Business to hear more of what Mike McEntire has to say about the state of the snowboard film industry.
Mack Dawg Productions will premiere Double Decade, and the MDP People flick Down With People, on September 25th in Montreal, Quebec. This season is a milestone and the end of an era concerning MDP studios (more on that to come tomorrow), as Mike McEntire releases his 20th film under the Mack Dawg moniker.
The doors at Saints Showbar on Rue-Saint Catherines in Montreal will open at 9 p.m. with the first movie kicking off at 10 p.m. Tickets are $10 and will only be available at the door.
This video might not have much of a relation to Canadian snowboarding, but you’d be hard pressed to find someone who’d say this is not one of the greatest videos of all time. Watch and see for yourself.
Vancouver-based Endeavor snowboards has locked down a multi-year deal with New Zealander Jacob Koia. Koia has been a part of the family at Endeavor for many years, but this announcement solidifies the partnership.
Jake is coming off a breakout year filming with Standard Films for their new release Aesthetica. Check out what Koia and the guys from Endeavor have to say about the deal on Transworld Snowboarding.
Tomorrow will bring with it the first day of October, and will also bring all of us one day closer to the most glorious season of them all.
