11.2 English Method Snowboard Magazine

Rider: Jonas Karlsson Spot: Strangnas, Sweden Trick: Gnarly gap to back lip Photographer: Daniel Blom

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EDITORIAL

Faith plays an integral part in the human condition. That inherent belief in ourselves, others or even destiny is what shapes us as humans. Without faith we are hollow shells, devoid of hope and desire. Thus it was inevitable that once man became civilized, religions would rise to codify faith.

Throughout history there have been countless dogmas, and from the “pagan” gods of ancient times to the completely hypocritical religions of today it’s been a long and bloody struggle on humanity’s path to “finding God” (or whatever other hackneyed expression you choose to express enlightenment).

Why long and bloody? Because despite preaching acceptance and humility, all religions are intolerant of dogmas besides their own. Call it, if you will, an unremitting aspect of human nature that keeps rearing its ugly head in the most conspicuous of ways.

In a strange way, snowboarding is also about choosing your path and “finding God” your own way. And just like in the real world, there is a lot of intolerance within our community, a lot of people who claim that there is only one interpretation of snowboarding, that everything that falls outside of that category doesn’t qualify as “real” snowboarding.

Well, just like in real life, we think that intolerance is the fucking bane of our existence on this mortal coil. So what if you think contests are a drag and triple corks are lame, chances are there is someone out there who thinks powder sucks and someone else who thinks street shredding isn’t legit. The fact is, snowboarding is what you make of it, what you want it to be, there is no right or wrong way to “find God”.

Contest kid, street slayer, splitboard hippie and pow junkie, we are all trying to find enlightenment our own way. It’s okay to poke a little fun here and there, in fact it’s important to do so and keep self-righteousness and arrogance in check. But in the end, hating something just because it isn’t part of who you are is lame. Accept the fact that there are as many different paths to enlightenment as there are humans on this Earth. And stay safe out there, winter is finally here!

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COVERSTORY BY: OLI GAGNON

I’ve been trying to shoot a photo of Nicolas doing a pow butter for a couple of years now. Every time he would do one, I would either have a super shitty angle or the photo would be totally out of focus... I finally got it this year! The thing is with Nicolas, you can’t really plan anything. It just happens when it happens and you have to be on it or else you blow it. Nico doesn’t do shit twice.

- Oli

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Canon EF70-200mm Aperture:

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22. Little Labels How would you describe Academy in a single sentence?

Good people, great snowboards.

What makes Academy special, what is your secret ingredient?

Academy is truly rider-owned and inspired. We genuinely care about snowboarding and want to see snowboarders having fun outside the seriousness of contests, photoshoots and structured events. This emphasis goes into our boards, brand, team, and gatherings (our fun version of a photoshoot for all our domestic and international riders). Bottom line, we are a true family. And everybody is friends, from our sales reps to our team riders.

Who is Academy and how long has it been in existence?

Academy was started in 2002 and is made up of a small group of individuals who haven’t stopped following their dreams. The original founder and owner Jeff “JB” Baughn still works in the office everyday and packs board shipments every year.

How involved is the team in the creative and technical process?

Our team runs the program 100%. They decide graphics, shapes, and flexes of the boards. If the team doesn’t like something about a board, we’ll tweak it until they’re stoked!

Will and Jonas are good humans. Photo: Academy

Is there an academy that churns out Academy super shreds?

I’ve heard of a top secret training facility in Tahoe ready to sweep in the 2018 Olympics, haha. The foundation is having fun and we build upon that.

What’s up with your base graphics, are you guys just really nice people? Will you ever do you one that says “BITE ME” or something in that vein?

We are a positive brand who like to promote stokedness! But, that is a good question because next year we are getting a bit edgier. You might have to ask us again in the future.

Where would you like to see Academy end up in the grand scheme of the shrediverse?

First board to ride on the moon. But seriously, solid distribution in 30 countries, known for the best riding snowboards, having lots of fun, and making some money along the way.

Tell us a funny story about the Academy family, feel free to name names!

We showed up to a Team Challenge to defend our title. We got a tequila sponsor and a ski with shot glasses built into it to make sure everyone had a good time. We ended up getting all the competitors drunk in the middle of the contest and turned it into one big party.

Our team manager ended up riding the ski down the mountain and to our hotel. Which then turned into Jonas Michilot and Derek Dennison spraying the fire extinguisher later in the evening which lead to our eviction out of the hotel. This is unfortunately typical of our crew, we can’t take things too seriously.

What will your epitaph read?

Went down smiling. academysnowboards.com

24. My Cameras

PHOTOS: VANESSA ANDRIEUX, Armelle Le Cordroch ILLUSTRATION: RAUL VÉLEZ NAVARRO

Tell us how photography came into your life.

I was really passionate about snowboarding and I wanted to do something that would let me ride as much as possible, so as soon as i finished school I bought a camera, moved to the Alps and started shooting.

How do you see your personal style evolving?

I’m always trying to progress, for me there is always something new to learn. I never think about my personal style, actually I don’t really perceive it, I just shoot things the way I feel them.

Biggest pet peeve when you’re shooting?

When the riders pee on the kicker and I have a big yellow stain in my shots.

If you had to take one last photo before kicking the bucket, which camera would you use?

A few years ago my grandfather gave me his old Leica, it’s a really nice camera, so I think it would be this one.

Why do we see so few female pro shooters?

Maybe because it’s a tough job, you have to carry a lot of weight on your back the whole day, ride with it, hike with it. But it’s evolving and there are more female snowboard photographers now, especially in North America.

What talks louder, the photo or the riding?

I think it’s a bit of both, if you have a good rider at a sick spot but a shitty photo then it won’t run anywhere, and if you have a really bad rider with horrible style but it’s a really nice photo it’s not gonna be used either. So it has to be a good balance of both, I believe.

Longest you have waited for a shot?

Most of the time I have to wait a couple of hours until I can get some bangers but it can be way longer, if you find a good spot but the snow conditions are not good then you might even have to wait until the next season.

5 things things you want to make sure you do before it’s all over?

- It’s never over!

5 things we can look forward to on Torstein.net?

1.Next level slow motion 2.Extreme lifestyles 3.Awkward bails that look retarded 4.A ‘tardedly bad food show 5.Maybe some snowboarding 5 things that are on your walls at home?

1.Dust 2.Dirt 3.Pictures 4.Cheap frames 5.Leftover food 5 things going through your mind when flying through the sky next to Ken Block’s rally car?

- Dude, I don’t remember...

5 things that make someone a boss?

1.Boss sauce 2.A fancy car 3.Someone driving you around in said fancy car 4.Saying “I’m a a boss” a lot 5.Having people actually believe you everytime you say it

5 things you need to know how to do before you land a triple cork?

1.Sag your pants below your knees 2.Wear a tight leather jacket and no thermals 3.Eat way too much food for breakfast (good for aerodynamics) 4.Pre-roll down all the windows before you go for it 5.Maybe check your speed 5 things a perfect jump has?

1.Blocks 2.Built by naked babes 3.An in-run 4.A landing 5.Some powder 5 reasons Norway has such a healthy economy?

1.People make way too much money 2.People pay more taxes than what they actually earn 3.The government controls the sale of booze 4.Good work ethics 5.Terje Haakonsen 5 things that are kind of a big deal this season?

1.Snowflakes hitting the ground and forming a snowpack 2.Halldor Helgason 3.Homemade tacos 4.The Storming 5.Modern Warfare 2 Live 5 things that make Norwegian chicks stand out?

1.Tit #1 2.Tit #2 3.The hair 4.The blue eyes 5.The ass 5 things you have been putting off fixing at your house?

- Nothing, my roommate takes care of it. I hope...

5 things that cost more than they are worth?

1.The iPad 2.The iPod 3.The iPhone 4.The Macbook 5.All the software that company makes 5 things that you would put on your ice cream?

1.Cocoa powder 2.Chocolate fudge 3.Nuts 4.Blueberries 5.Strawberry frosting Yea, triple rainbows and all that, but Tor also puts down the hammer in the streets. Brutal blunt in Oslo. Photo: Frode Sandbech

28. FLASHBACK

PHOTOS: Rob Mathis ILLUSTRATION: Friedemann Zschiedrich

This is from Chicago, during the filming of the Forum True Life video. This trip will go down as one of my favorites over the 15 years I’ve been shooting snowboarding. Nate was thro wing down everyplace we went, this ledge was just the first of the many bangers that went dow n. Hands down Nate had the best style on a snow board, everything looked effortless. I feel lucky that I was able to document one of the most influential snowboarders of the last decade.

- Rob

e scariest thing I’v , That ledge is the ng ki in th r remembe ever done. I just it. th or w t n’ as e. It w if I die, then I di ng zu Bo -

30. PRODUCTION VALUES Random Bastards. Who comes up with name like that? For a few seasons now we’ve been getting hit with bigger and better things from this Swedish crew based in Umeå. They have managed to do something that many have failed at before, coming at you with the sword and the spear by presenting snowboarding and skateboarding on the same platform. After last season’s movie 6X, they are about to bomb drop this year’s creation, 7UP. So who are these random bastards exactly? We tried to find out by sitting down with the RB’s Swiss Army knife, Eric Hörstedt, who includes such helpful tools as founder, CEO and producer of Random Bastards, as well as one half of Trainspotters, the musical sidecar to the Bastards.

riders stepped up crazy much. Just watch it. It’s out on Method.TV right now, check it out and drop us a line!

What is Random Bastards?

I guess you could call it a collective. We’re basically a bunch of snowboarders, skaters, artists, musicians, DJs, graphic artists and friends who hang out, collaborate, get drunk... stuff like that.

We just dropped the snowboard film 7UP together with you guys, our clothing line and skateboards are in stores, club projects Goodfellas and SKETCH stay packed, we’re touring with Trainspotters debut album Dirty North and working on the music/ lifestyle film 8BALL as well as skate film 9LIVES. Everything is documented on Random Bastards TV. We’re grinding!

What came first: skate, snow, or music?

Me and George Kaplan (other half of Trainspotters) first met through skateboarding when we were 14 and 12, respectively. We started out making some videos and rapping with our friends. Kaplan’s knees and shoulders are fucked up but he’s still rolling. It’s always been 50/50 with snowboarding and skateboarding in our movies + good music, but this year we’re making three different ones (snow, music, skate)!

Does it help you be more creative with your editing because you know how to produce music too?

Yeah, no doubt. It’s good to have producers and DJs involved in the process. Academics is crazy with beats and Chefen is the boss DJ. Also, from touring we know a lot of people, so there’s never a problem

Are your parents comfortable referring to you guys as the Random Bastards?

Haha, yeah and the police too.

What do you think about all the hate that a lot of skaters give to snowboarding?

We love snowboarding, we love skateboarding and we really love the haters. That’s it.

What is the artistic relationship between music and skate/snow video? What influences the final product more, the music or the video?

For us it’s been like a holy trinity between the music, the skate footy and the snow footy. Each ingredient is essential. Our riders film the tricks they want to film. We choose the music and edit the parts together. It all it just comes naturally. In the end, the footage is the main ingredient but soundtrack is vital.

getting a good line-up for the soundtrack.

I’m really stoked on what the riders and Kuske (Kristofer Fahlgren, director/editor) put together for 7UP. Do guys rap on the chair lift?

Battle me, suckers!

Is hip-hop dead?

Is Method dead?

What can we expect from 7UP? Shredding on metal, ice, snow... dubstep, nudity, guns. All that good shit.

Kuske really came through this year with the filming and editing. All the

Where can we hear your music and stay tuned in to what’s new with RB? Go to trainspotters.se for the tunes and randombastards.tv for the video. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@randombastards, @rewindandkap) for daily updates! You won’t regret it. We also have tracks in the two latest Pirates’ films Hooked and Overseas.

What’s your favorite things coming out of snowboarding right now?

7UP – because of our riders and Kuske.

Pirates – because of their skill and dedication. Haze – because it’s fresh, local and Hans is so real. Method – because you rep snowboarding in a good way. Skål!

PHOTO: FRODE SANDBECH ILLUSTRATION: Ian “Buttless” McGillivray

Now here’s someone who puts up huge, and I mean HUGE, boners. His name is Christian but most people know him as Gigi. Sometimes you just gotta whip that thing out and crank on it real good, as our esteemed friend herr Rüf knows so well. I mean, look at the size of that thing!

Some seriously obscene shred porn right there. Gigi Smalls, raunchy front 3 tail boner in Damüls.

...at first glance this may look like a blurred, double-exposed argentic print but it is really a photo of a fossil. A fossil of a snowboarder. A man that once flung himself from mountain tops towards the gods with no nitrous boosters, for pure enjoyment and personal satisfaction. While riding a previously dormant and suddenly active volcano we’ll call “Mount Austria”, he was swallowed mid-flight by thick tendrils of red hot liquid magma sometime in the early Digital Era. It was a disaster similar in scale to Pomp’eii, with hundreds of “holiday goers”, as they called them back then, perishing under a flowing river of molten rock. This catastrophe occurred during a time when riding was pure emotion, just for “fun” as the ancient printed magazine scrolls proclaimed. An idea long gone in these days of cyborg creatine-amplifed humans hucking mega spinners over Evel Knievel death gaps on their anti-gravity boards. In a dry, arid world where snow stopped falling over a millennia ago, one can only let the imagination take us on a “fresh pow” run of the ancient past when observing this fossilized relic of time. But just recently there have been sightings of kids with modified anti-G boards hitting spacecraft scrap metal yards, thrashing the trash outside of the life dome, just for “fun”...

- Al-Xs De TRD Historian, 3449 AD Aron Holterman 50-50 FS 180 out Photo: Carlos Blanchard

36. POCKET TRANSLATIONS

38 SOAP BOX Welcome one and all to Danny’s painfully-subjective-and-mostlikely-factually-incorrect Snowboard Quiz! This is in no way an attempt at trying to create an accurate test of your snowboard knowledge, but rather a test to see if you and I can be snowboard friends.

Q: Where is a proper Method air supposed to be grabbed?

A: Between the binders, but do you have the balls to tell Terje he’s not doing it right?

Q: Best Method grabs in the history of mankind and probably dinosaurs too?

A: Jamie Lynn, and I’ll fight you if you disagree.

Q: Is powder riding more ”real” than street jibbing?

A: Give me a fucking break, if you’re doing something on a snowboard that involves movement it’s snowboarding.

Q: Who did the first BS rodeo on film?

A: Terje Haakonsen, or Håkonsen (never figured out the right way of spelling his name). He put one down off a natural hit in Subjekt Haakonsen before Peter Line was ever credited for inventing the BS rodeos. No one has done brodeos as cool as Mr. Line ever since, though.

Q: Which trick should you do to get the better score in an important big air contest: a switch back 9 or a cab 9?

A: Who cares.

Q: Who was the first person to own the heelside BS 7 that Andreas Wiig is famous for, commonly called the ”Wiig Roll”?

A: Sigurd Haga, a Norwegian snowboard legend. He made a bunch of Norwegian contests his bitch with that trick, and it’s called an Oter’n.

Q: If Sani Alibabic had to choose just one favorite snowboarder early one morning over Skype, who would he choose?

A: Gigi Rüf, because he’s been killing it since the first day they rode together, and that’s a goddamned long time ago.

Q: What size is Johnnie Paxon’s t-shirt in that sick BS lipslide on the wall in FODT’s new flick Hard To Earn?

A: He thinks it was ” ...like 4XL tall or some shit, lol”- Johnnie Paxon

Q: Best song ever used in a Pirate Movie according to Pirate producer Basti Balser?

A: He has no idea, he’d rather be politically correct and say ”too many good ones to choose from”. Basti is a polite gentleman.

Q: Who is the laziest snowboarder when it comes to preparing a spot for shooting: Hans Åhlund, Danny Larsen, Gulli Gudmundsson or Kalle Ohlson?

A: Erik Botner, and to top it all off he will spend the whole shaping session bitching about Hans being lazy and not helping out.

Q: Is Travis Parker goofy or regular?

A: It depends on which way he mounted his bindings before he went out the door. On a trip to Chile I saw him ride goofy +45,+45, regular +45,+45, centered duck and goofy +30, +15... in one day.

40. GETTING THE MOST FROM... tion isn’t funny at all… haha. No, it’s actually hilarious traveling with Flo, Bobby, Mario and Seb. There was one moment this season that just cracked me up. This really nice girl from Austria living in Vancouver let us stay at her place. Mario Wanger went to the bathroom and after 20 minutes he came out screaming. He had flushed a couple of times but it was backed up so the whole bathroom was covered with his shit water. Two hours later we got some plumbing tools and fixed the toilet. But it was too late, the whole place smelled like Mario’s ass for the next couple days… haha.

PHOTO: Michael Obex

Mog is a funny name for a production company, but Mog wouldn’t have it any other way.

And by Mog I mean, Mog the man, not the production company. Mog is Martin Vernier be he prefers to be called Mog. As the man behind Mog Production, one of the most ridiculously entertaining film crews in Europe, we sat sat down with Mog to pick his brain.

What camera do you film with?

I film with a Sony EX1, which is my absolute favorite, but after a couple of slams it’s a little trashed. This season I also filmed with the Canon 7D and some serious lenses.

What movies are you influenced from in the past?

At first it was True Life and The Resistance from Forum, I think I watched True Life over 100 times. After that I watched all the Defective Films movies like Promo Copy and Derelictica, and after that it was inspired by Elekrep, Picture This and all the Isenseven teasers, but not the movies.

Nowadays I don’t watch too many snowboard movies, I just watch Hollywood stuff and try to produce entertaining snowboard movies.

What does Mog stand for?

It stands for me, it’s been my nickname

since kindergarten. One day I decided to call the movie thing we do Mog Production, since I’m the one who makes them!

What is something that you would like to bring to the Austrian scene and beyond?

I’d really like to produce a spectacular, fun movie full of emotion which gives people goosebumps and sticks in their head for days and makes them want to watch it again and again.

Do you think the world sees Austrians correctly? How do the North Americans react when you guys when you go there?

Yea, I think so. We’re not Germans and people know that. Our biggest problem is that we’re a bit too shy for the big world outside of Austria. The Americans are always great to us (especially the girls), so I think that’s the reason we keep going back to those resorts, year after year.

Funniest: Filming with Mog Produc-

Most Painful: I stopped snowboarding because I slammed too much and my body wasn’t really feeling it. But last season at Baker we were shooting this spot and all the riders were too drunk to snowboard, so I did it, mostly because there was this cute chick there.

I jumped a couple of times, landed flat both times but I really wanted to impress that girl with my skills so I kept hitting it till I blew out my knee. I was the only guy on that trip who got hurt.

What a fucking idiot.

Drunkest: In New York we drank tons of alcohol in our room. Then we went out to party.

At 2 AM I saw Michael Obex standing in front of 3 bouncers that had kicked him out of the club because he was sleeping inside. Later that same night I couldn’t find anyone so I jumped into a big black limousine I couldn’t pay for. But more importantly, I didn’t know the name of our hotel or where it was. So the limo driver kicked me out somewhere in Manhattan and I spent the next few hours wandering around alone in scary neighborhoods.

Most Frustrating: I ruined two expensive cameras in one year from water damage. It’s always extra frustrating if a hard drive falls off the table. I hate those moments.

Most Miraculous: I don’t believe in miracles. I want to thank every miraculous woman I’ve ever met and wanted sleep with but didn’t let me…haha.

Scariest: Lost in Manhattan being followed by bums at 5 AM...

Most Fulfilling: I think that moment will come soon, when I read this interview in Method Magazine… yeahh!

42. R.Y.E

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TEXT: Jesse Grandkoski PHOTO: Marek Michalski

our boots connect via laces to your feet. Your straps connect your boots to your bindings. Screws connect the bindings to the board. Having a screw loose might mean you’re crazy. You’d have to be crazy to attempt a tandem back flip through trees. Or you’d have to be well connected, at least to the person you’re riding next to.

In this day and age, “connecting” to other human beings is often achieved--or at least attempted-by using our fingers and thumbs to send information across airwaves.

More subtle and human connections are made with eye contact and sound, touch and body language.

And sometimes we can connect directly to another human being seemingly through the airwaves, with no eye contact, only by reading the air, the vibrations, and by inherently being connected with and to people we are in tune with.

Such a connection is highly recommended if you’re tandem backflipping. Travis Parker and Ben Lynch are lucky enough to have such a connection, so nobody was decapitated while getting this shot. How did they do it? Electrical cords were disconnected, boots were connected to feet, feet to snowboards, minds were connected to nature, and human connections were activated to make something out of imagination. So get out there and get connected.

PHOTOS: Vanessa Andrieux

Please introduce yourself.

Hey, I’m Enzo Nilo aka Renzo Mytho. I’m 17 years old and I come from France. I started snowboarding 10 years ago and I still enjoy it.

Where does your meat come from?

My meat comes from Bidart, it’s near Biarritz so I also surf.

3 reasons why your meat is fresher than the rest?

Cuz I have too much energy, I’m still young, beautiful and strong, haha. Plus crazy shit happens to me all the time...

What is your favorite kind of obstacle to throw your meat off?

Anywhere I can find some snow under my base. I don’t have a favorite obstacle, it’s all good.

Who are your favorite meats to shred with?

The A Branler homos —Maxence Tevellle, Félix Carlier, Niels Shack, Victor De le Rue, Victor Daviet and Thomas Delfino— are my favorite meats to shred with because they’re always motivated and funny.

Where would you like to take your snowboarding as your meat ages?

The most important goal is to have fun while progressing. I also want to get good results in contests and shoot some crazy stuff in the backcountry.

What is your favorite kind of meat?

Everyone who has a positive attitude towards life (girls are welcome).

What’s the last kind of meat you ate?

I don’t remember her name but I think she was a brunette, hehe.

What meat would you not eat?

I wouldn’t eat fat meat, it’s not good for the health.

Which sauce do like on your meat?

White sauce on the meat balls, haha.

How do you like your meat cooked?

Well done and hot.

What do you think about vegetarians?

I think vegetarians are either gay or still virgins.

Anything you’d like to say about actual snowboarding instead of meat?

We need more sweet girls in actual snowboarding.

Who are your sponsors?

Quiksilver, Rossignol, Vans, Moskova, PAG and A Branler Crew. Big thanks to my family and everyone who helped me along the way.

Enzo always wanted to play the steel drums in a Calypso band... Miller Flip in Val d’Isere

Please introduce yourself.

Marcus Kleveland, 11 years old. My local hill is Dombås Skiheiser.

Where does your meat come from?

I am from Dombås, a small town in the middle of southern Norway, we have lots of space, ;) 3 reasons why your meat is fresher than the rest?

I really don’t know, :) I’m young,

TRO PHOTOS: NI

What direction would you like to take Marcus hucks hi s little “kleaver”, your snowboarding as back 7 over a m assive table in Ju vass your meat ages?

I want to go PRO! I just want to have as much fun as I can and improve my tech and style every time I ride, but first I have to finish school, then I’ll be able to do even more snowboarding.

What is your favorite kind of meat?

That would be a big slice of moose steak.

What’s the last kind of meat you ate?

Red meat in a taco.

What meat would you not eat?

Rat! What kind of sauce do like on your meat?

BBQ, ketchup and sweet & sour.

How do you like your meat cooked?

Grilled!!

What do you think about vegetarians?

They’re nice people, but it’s not for me, :)

Anything you’d like to say about actual snowboarding instead of meat?

Snowboarding is my kind of life! I hope to travel around Europe and the US as much as I can, starting this season.

Who are your sponsors?

Volcom, Nitro, Electric, Sweet protection, Aerial7, Session snowboard shop and let’s not forget Mom and Dad. I have to send a big thanx to everyone who puts in so much effort in making my life go where I want it to go.

I go big and I have a big smile, I love what I do 100%... You pick!

What is your favorite kind of obstacle to throw your meat off?

I like big kickers, kinked rails and boxes and perfectly shaped rollovers!

Who are your favorite meats to ride with?

I love to hang out with my homeboys, they always make me go a bit bigger, ;) For sure also my friends on the team and anybody else who really LOVES to go snowboarding 24/7.

PHOTOS: Cyril Mü ller

Please introduce yourself.

Hey, I’m Niels Schack from France and Denmark, 17 years old. Right now I’m just chillin’, skating shit loads, waiting for the season to start and film some rails.

Where does your meat come from?

I don’t really know, I don’t often go to the supermarket. But because I live close to Switzerland I think it comes mainly from there. But sometimes I see on the packaging that it comes from Argentina.

3 reasons why your meat is fresher than the rest?

‘Cause it eats real grass! That’s the only one I can think of...

What is your favorite kind of obstacle to throw your meat off?

Well, I only tried from my balcony but It sure seems fun.

Who are your favorite meats to shred with?

Sparrow “Kebab” Knox and the A Branler “Beef Jerky” Crew.

Where would you like to take your snowboarding as your meat ages?

I just want to film more and more. Oh, and buy

a freezer to keep my meat nice and fresh!

What is your favorite kind of meat?

Flaeskesteg, it’s like ham but there is a crunchy crust on it which is fucking amazing. If you don’t know what it is, you’re missing out!

What’s the last kind of meat you ate?

Well, yesterday I went skating with my friends and after we had a barbeque. I ate a halfcooked piece of chicken, not too stoked on that.

What meat would you not eat?

Horse or like kangaroo, that just creeps me out…

Which sauce do like on your meat?

Gravy, goddamn is that shit good!

How do you like your meat cooked?

BLOODY!!!

What do you think about vegetarians?

Bunch of hippies, but no disrespect, I kind of think it’s cool.

Anything you’d like to say about actual snowboarding instead of meat?

Not really except I’m going to film all season with Homies and I hope get a video part I’m happy with, and have fun doing it.

Who are your sponsors?

Burton, Analog, anon, DVS shoes, ABS skateshop, Avoriaz, Street Gypsies.

Snow-wake-boarding-stalefish-cliff-drop-to-waterfall-transfer in L2A. Niels is on some next level shit, son

3 reasons why your meat is fresher than the rest?

My meat is less fresh then, yours, his or hers.

What is your favorite kind of obstacle to throw your meat off?

Any rail that has a wall for a landing.

Who are your favorite meats to shred with?

All my homies back home, or anyone having fun, finding new lines in the park.

Where would you like to take your snowboarding as your meat ages?

Into the mouths of the youth before it begins to rot!

What is your favorite kind of meat?

Steak.

What’s the last kind of meat you ate?

Steak.

What meat would you not eat?

I’m forced to eat everything due to the economy.

Which sauce do like on your meat?

A-1 sauce.

How do you like your meat cooked?

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What do you think about vegetarians?

They’re missin’ out dogg, but I back ‘em.

Anything you’d like to say about actual snowboarding instead of meat?

It needs to snow here before I lose my marbles!

Who are your sponsors?

Burton, Gnarly Clothes, Monster, House of 1817.

Ethan rolls the dice on some street steeps, Minneapolis, MN

• First of all, you have to be able to get onto a rail switch backside.

• Once you feel comfortable with the switch backside 50-50, make sure you lock down frontside 180s out of those.

• Now it’s time to press your board, the switch nosepress is easy because you press on your strongest leg.

• Make sure you keep your eyes on the rail and as you make your way down, look at the end of the rail.

• When you start feeling like you will make it to the end, you want to start turning your shoulders.

• Try to keep your board straight until you pop out of the rail.

• When it’s time to come off the rail, you want to do a fakie pop and spin your shoulder, hips and board all together as much as you can, otherwise you might hurt your back (like I did in the past).

• Land on both feet at the same time and ride away.

PHOTOS: Oli Gagnon

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Are you in a good place in your life right now?

This summer was the most difficult time of my life, my entire personal life went to pieces, both friends and family, with a particularly difficult situation at home with my mom being mistreated.

I don’t have the solution to any of it but more than ever it’s taught me to enjoy the present and live the happy times to their fullest!

Simple things like a sunrise, seeing wildlife, laughing and having good times with the ones you love are the moments to be savored.

Fun sports are also a great remedy, a way of putting hard times aside, it feels good to concentrate on your own physical abilities and build your self-confidence through progression. It’s one of the small things that help you keep your chin up.

What are the biggest challenges you face professionally?

- Getting on a film crew - Getting a board sponsor - Being taken seriously as a strong sno boarder even though I don’t compete

How has your snowboarding evolved over the years?

I like this question! As a kid, all I did was take long pow runs, always looking for the untouched line. There was no park at my home resort back then so my buddies and I would just hit natural booters all around the ski hill, mostly off-piste. A few years later, we finally got a snowpark and snow conditions were really bad, that’s when I started riding the park with my friends. I met the Psykopit crew and traveled to most of the European events with them, and we started filming for their first movie in the park and on backcountry jumps. I was also hitting street rails at that time. I did a few contests in the US the following winter but went straight back to filming after that. While filming it became clear to me that what I really wanted to do was shred pow, hit backcountry jumps, cliffs and pillow lines. Those shots are much harder to get and are still my all-time favorite thing in snowboarding! I’m getting more and more into hitting natural terrain and riding bigger, wilder mountains. I hope I get the opportunity to try out bigger lines in good conditions next winter.

What is the most bullshit thing about the snowboard industry?

I would say the lack of health insurance for most people who work in the industry, riders, photographers, film makers, etc... As long as you do good and don’t get injured it’s all great, we make it look so fun and perfect. But the day something happens to you, you’ll be left hanging out to dry by the industry with only yourself to count on.

What goes through your mind when I say the words “soul of snowboarding”?

Shredding pow with friends, freedom and fun lines, big slashes and big laughs.

What is the most progressive thing happening in women’s snowboarding right now?

Most of all that there is not only ONE thing or ONE female rider killing it, but a whole bunch of them, each in their own terrain and style! It’s awesome to see the diversity of personalities, not one exception but a group of women stepping up, raising the bar of the sport on the female side and setting it up for the next generation to kill it! There always used to be one exception, one girl who could shred like the boys so it was difficult for other girls to relate, but now as a young shredder you see all these girls doing different things and killing it, so it makes you feel like you can do it too. Just go for it!

A lot of people don’t have much respect for women’s snowboarding, why do you think that is?

That’s just stupid, old-fashioned, European and mean. People used not to have much respect for black people or Jews either.

Overall in Europe, women still get paid around 20% less than men for the same job, even though it is agreed and accepted that women and men share equal levels of intelligence and competence. As for snowboarding, I think some men are scared of women who do well in sports, we are so much better off looking anorexic in heels and mini skirts!

How do you deal with the unpredictability of life?

Unpredictable is good, it makes life exciting and new everyday, so I take it as it comes. And when the unpredictable turns out to be bad, emotions eventually pass, they don’t last that long anyway. I like to provoke the unpredictable, I guess this is one of the reasons why I like traveling so much! You never know what to expect!

3 things you want to do before you pass this mortal coil?

- Burn my feet on the hot sand dancing samba at the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro - Ride through the Mongolian steppe on horseback - See my mom live a happy life

Call her Anne-Flore or you’ll hit the floor. Steep and scary in NZ. Photo: Tony Harrington

Ain’t no half-steppin’ with Bennee, triple set nollie blast in Ogden. Photo: Andy Wright

You used to film with Absinthe and this year you switched things up a bit and filmed with Videograss, what are the fundamental differences between the two crews?

Mainly just different people, at the end of the day we are all really good friends. I actually was lucky enough to get out with the Absinthe crew this year in Switzerland, some of the shots in my Videograss part were filmed by Brusti from Absinthe. Obviously Videograss is more street, and Absinthe holds it down in all aspects of riding, they’re just different styles of movies is all. Fundamentally the riding and editing are a bit different but both offer what snowboarding needs. I always love the Absinthe movies.

What role does music play in your life, what does it mean to you?

Music has gotten me through some of the roughest times in my life, it started with playing the guitar when I was a kid, escaping from the bullshit at home, I could pick that thing up and forget about the rest. That evolved into DJ’n and making beats, which is part of my everyday life, that’s what I like to do. Like when I make a beat that just makes you nod your head to it, it gives me the same feeling as if I landed a good trick on my snowboard. I think I just chase that feeling.

A lot of people hate on Nike and say they have no place in snowboarding, despite the fact that this time they are doing it right, unlike in the past.

What do you have to say to those people? What’s it like working on the Nike Snowboarding program?

Hahahahahaha, the only reason people are hating is because their billfold just got smaller as soon as we came on the scene. Nike makes really good stuff that is unparalleled in snowboarding, so as far as other companies hating I think it’s because they feel threatened.

Which they should. Working with Nike is really how snowboard companies should work, they do nothing without rider involvement and it’s not some square who doesn’t know dick about snowboarding calling the shots. Nike is rider-driven so anyone hating is just ignorant.

You are known primarily as a street rider, how much pow do you get to ride per season? Do you see yourself focusing more on riding lines and tricks in

the backcountry as you grow older?

If I could choose to hit a rail or go ride some powder I would definitely go ride some powder, and I definitely would like to show myself as a more well-rounded snowboarder. So yea, as time goes by hopefully you’ll see me doing some double rainbows into pow.

You were in Europe quite a bit this past season, tell us what you like the best about this part of the world and what Euro idiosyncrasies you can do without.

Switzerland is so nice, some of the best times on my snowboard were there, no wonder Nicolas is a ninja because that place really tests your riding ability for sure. But somebody needs to introduce Mexican food to Europe, I don’t even think they have tortillas there or even heard of one. I think when I’m done snowboarding I’m gonna have a burrito stand in Europe, I’ll be like the culinary savior. White boy making burritos.

Street snowboarding is progressing really fast these days, but in an attempt to raise the tech bar some kids are doing some pretty goofy stuff on rails.

Are there tricks that aren’t “legit”, certain things that just shouldn’t be done for the sake of style and credibility?

Yea, I don’t know what’s up with that, when you push it too far in that direction it starts to look like you’re rollerblading. I personally like to see tricks that aren’t necessarily the craziest maneuvers but ones that are done proper. Smiths on a snowboard are NOT legit, come on now. Wolle Nyvelt is making a huge push in a new direction with his noboarding, I think that is sick.

Which brings us to my next question, skateboarding seems to be losing it’s old role as a magnetic north for snowboarding, as snowboarding has become more mainstream the jock mentality seems to be taking over as the norm. Which is precisely what skateboarding hasn’t done, even the competitive aspect of it is legit (Street League) and supported by the right people, whereas snowboarding seems to be headed in a totally weird direction... Thoughts?

Well, I think the wrong people are calling the shots in the snowboarding industry, I think some of these guys have a boner about making you the next big-shot competitor that’s going to be doused in their gear lookin’ like some chump on TV. I don’t know, it seems like Shaun White is kind of our representative to the masses, so it doesn’t help when he’s looking like a Backstreet Boy version of the Warriors on international TV. I’m not hating on his shine or discrediting his skill on a snowboard, however I do think snowboarding has taken a turn down the wrong road. There needs to be loyalty and longevity with some of these riders, everyone is trying to hook up the next best kid and make them the next big thing before they even paid their dues. I don’t even know, maybe too much mainstream coverage without the right voices is what’s hurting snowboarding? All I know is I like to snowboard and hopefully one day all this confusion will settle and we can recover what’s left.

What is the biggest misconception about you?

Probably that my name is pronounced Ben-nay, when it’s really pronounced Ben-knee.

Why do nollies feel so good? Who would win in a nollie battle royale, you or Marc Frank?

I don’t know, they’re just one of those tricks that not everyone can do right, so it’s still cool cuz you don’t see everyone doing them everywhere. And Marco would probably win, he is stupid good at snowboarding.

Is there any hope for the human race or are we just straight up doomed?

I’m no prophet but it seems that we are just straight up doomed. Sorry, everyone.

PHOTOS: Oli Gagnon

Louif keeps his inner child alive with a torqued-out playground method

Traveling with Scotty, Grenier, Harrison, Java, Snarski, Oli and Alex is pretty much guaranteed to be an unforgettable time. When you combine this crew with a destination like Stockholm covered in snow, your trip instantly becomes certified AAA-grade jambon. Especially when bosses like Kareem, Robban, Felix and Ralph show you around and provide you with all you need for a successful “rail trip”.

That’s what I realized after only a couple days there, and that’s why we decided to extend our trip to 3 weeks instead of 2. Leaving just didn’t make sense. We were all having the best time and being very productive at the same time. We felt like there was so much more we could do that leaving early felt like unfinished business.

The first thing we got in Sweden was a megaphone, it was Jan’s idea. I’m not gonna lie, at first I thought it was stupid but now, looking back, I think it was genius. The only two negative things I can think of was the lack of shovels in hardware stores and the first hotel we booked into, the Formula 1, don’t go there. That’s all. And we found a solution to both pretty fast.

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“Sorry Scotty, the lens cap was still on...”

This is at 3 PM in January in Stockholm. Crazy, huh?

Harrison, nocturnal noseslide transfer to tail press down the bank

Sweden has the highest concentration of beautiful women per capita in the entire universe. In between rail missions we would sit at the food court in the mall, fully dccked out in snowboard gear with our jaws dropped, drooling over the native females. Every bar we went to and every street we walked down I would see at least one super model-quality chick. The women are also very friendly compared to chicks back in the States. I guess when every girl is beautiful you don’t need to keep a chip on your shoulder. Hot, well-dressed and good personalities, I will find my wife in Sweden. Oh yeah, they have some sick rails too!

Van Tetris®

“You best be getting this frosty switch back lip!”

Sweden was the best trip of my season without a doubt, maybe even the best snowboard trip of my life. It was AWESOME! First of all, we had the best crew ever: Louif, Chris, Harrison, Scotty, Oli, Jan, Java and me. Everybody was so funny!!! When they invited me to go on this trip I wasn’t too sure because I was the only rider who wasn’t on the Salomon team, but at the same time I wanted to go so bad. I met Kareem El Rafie a few years ago and he was always talking about Stockholm being the best place to snowboard and party, and after the first day I realized he was totally right.

I got there one day after everyone else because one of my flights was delayed. I was so tired when I got there, super jet-lagged and on top of that they lost my bags. The crew picked me up at the airport and everybody was ready to go out and film, all geared up and boots on. Meanwhile the only thing I wanted to do was go to sleep... So we went to the first spot, I helped them with the setup and they got some nice shots.

After that everybody wanted to go out for a couple of drinks because it was our first night in Sweden, where the most beautiful girls in the world are from. We went to a really nice bar and after maybe 20 minutes everybody was talking to a different girl.

It was crazy, haha! I couldn’t believe it. We ended up at an afterparty in downtown Stockholm and around 7 am I realized all my friends were gone. So I took the subway and tried to find the hotel by myself in this huge city. I made it, though! That was my first day in Sweden, hahaha!

The next day the airline found my bags and I didn’t party for the rest of the trip.

Alex Cantin switch backside nosepress through the stinky kinky

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Louif likes a little hang time on the side when he has his “Jambon�, gap out to switch back lip

Scotty doesn’t fuck around, goin’ downtown with a nasty boardslide thru the kink

Sweden, well it’s not a good place to go if you have a girlfriend, but it is if you’re into drinking booze that can send a grown man to the hospital after just one shot. Word on the street is that I enjoy a tipple a little more than the average man, but this is neither true or false and slightly besides the point anyway.

The point is that the bar in question is the xxxxxxxx and the shot in question is a “Rattlesnake”. The amazing asshole who gave me this shot is Robban. Robban is your go-to guy for anything Salomonand Bonfire-related in Sweden, and an all-around good dude... sort of. We were at the bar with the guys and Robban asks me if i like to drink. He said it in a way which suggested I was a lesser man if I didn’t or something like that, but either way I didn’t like his tone. He offered to buy me a drink, so I said “of course”. He then hands me a shot, it was warm so I assumed it’s some sweet girly shot that these Swedish pussies think is gnarly.

Before I took it I asked what’s in it but being the manly man that I am, I yelled out “doesn’t matter” (which has now become somewhat of a nickname for me) and took the shot. For your information, a “rattlesnake” is made from vodka infused with 20 different kinds of chili peppers and Tabasco sauce for 2 months on the floor of this dingy bar. What happened next was like being kicked in the face, it nearly sent me to the floor, I started feeling nauseous and tried to put out the fire in my mouth. I’m sweating like mad as Robban is laughing his ass off, telling everyone how he had done this before and had to take his friend to the hospital... such a rad guy. I tried to play it down as best I could but I was in a world of hate. We went back to the hotel. I’m sitting there and thinking “I am okay” as a second wave of nausea, sweats and general “I might be drunk again” feeling comes over me. I couldn’t sleep and had to ride it out... Good morning, hangover!

If I learned anything from this experience is that these guys might take you out and show you all the spots to shoot at and set you up at all the bars and clubs, but if you turn your back on them, even for just a second, they will get you and they will fuck you up. Go to Sweden before you die. There is a video of this incident on the internet, by the way. You’re welcome.

Love,

Grendys on the lookout for getaway sticks...

There was an absurd amount of beautiful women in Sweden, I think I’m gonna try to find my future wife out there. Fucking amazing meatballs, sweet techno clubs and more hot chicks. Kareem el Rafie is a fuckin’ boss. And of course, there were amazing spots for days...

Grenier, slippery like a salamander, tailpress front one off to halfcab transfer

PHOTOS: Oli Gagnon & Frode Sandbech ILLUSTRATIONS: JAVI CHALER

All natty switch front 3 tail snatcher into the dream cream, Chatter Creek, BC. Photo: Oli Gagnon

In Laax Nico is the man, BS180 japan.

Photo: Frode Sandbech

So you are the proud owner of a super sweet home in Laax, was this the realization of a dream for you?

Yeahh, it’s a manifestation of a dream for sure. I have seen myself in a house with a garden close to a mountain for a while. Four walls and a roof where I have my own rules and principles. It feels great and I really needed to get grounded after traveling up a storm for the past ten years.

Is the house eco-friendly?

I am the second owner and it was built in the seventies, so the heating is an oil burner. I will eventually look into changing that. But aside from that my house is by far the most eco-friendly and life-loving house around. My garden is the most appealing to all insects and animals. The birds love it too, cause of the diversity of plants. I just let it grow naturally, whereas the neighbors and the rest of the hood just trim everything down and it’s just sterile green grass. No space for life. Then I have my own compost pile in the back, so I convert my organic produce waste into nutrients for the herbs and things I grow. I barely put trash on the street and recycling everything makes me happy, :) All the soaps and detergents in my house are made from 100% organic and animal test-free ingredients, so no toxins down the drain either. And the kitchen goes by the motto: “healthy crops, healthy craps”.

I heard the ping pong tournaments last season were legendary, who is the King of the Paddles?

No doubt, good times in the basement.

I have to admit that Chris Bachmann is the defending champion at the King’s Castle Cup. Sudden Rush Guarana is definetely high on the list, but not on the doping one. Jungle Power and elixir of youth!

Being one of the most vocal proponents of ecologically sound solutions for sustainable evolution, what do you think are the key things we need to change as a society?

I think the key is deep inside us. It’s the balance of life. It’s simply not possible to be a modern human being, wearing helmets, having a social security number and all that... Basically we need to find our way back into the circle of life again.

The linear way of our modern world, science and technology don’t fit the multidimensional, spiritual being that we are. The information is all there right in front of us. If we started paying attention to the flora and fauna instead of just cutting them down and eating them, we could actually learn how to live on planet Earth.

Day by day, for a very long period of time, other animals have figured out how to live with one another. And there’s no waste. It fits into the cycle. Together as opposed to against. Garbage is a design failure and we are starting to realize that. But that’s just the materialistic side of it. Mind, Body and Soul, right? On the soul side, we seem to be tapping into the darker side of ours, which keeps us from developing further. Hmm, and life... is all about experiences?

Nico loves trees, so he threw up this sweet stalefish to stoke them out.

Photo: Oli Gagnon

What do you think about so-called “eco Nazis” and people that are willing to fight for the planet to all ends? Are we in a state of emergency or are they fanatics?

The fight is here and it can only be won by the heart. And that’s the solution if you ask me. Vibrating on the frequency of love. Unconditional pure love. Attitude and action speak of consciousness, but fighting cannot be stopped with more fighting. Choose your route, but at the root of it be aware if you are headed towards the light or not.

What year will all the glaciers and the snow line rise so high that snowboard mags will become just story books from long ago in a world of desert people?

Yeahh, right?! But what if we are actually entering another Ice Age and snowboarding becomes the smartest way to travel? Snowboard mags will replace newspapers and we’ll have 91 words for snow again, ;) When are you going to ditch the heli and slap on some skins?

As soon as we’re out of oil, I guess, and this shit oil lobby finally gives up and the doors open to smart and clean technologies for transportation. We’ve had these technologies for a long time already but the corporations have no desire to use them.

But hey, as long as I get paid to jump in a heli I can channel some of that money to the Atlantic Rainforest Institution and I know that there are trees being planted and the di-

Nicolas has to believe in reincarnation... right?? 100% committed AK cornice sender. Photo: Oli Gagnon

versity of life has a refuge.

Would you rather eat an organic free-range chicken sandwich or a salad from McDonald’s?

Haha, you got me. I wanna say the organic free range chicken sandwich with salad. Now, would you rather date a McDonald’s chicken or a free range cock?

Your recent move to Nike outerwear and boots caused a big ripple in the industry. Why did you decide to make the move from Burton? Was is it easy to negotiate a hardgoods-

only deal with them?

The decision came naturally, intuitively. Looking back at a year ago, everything happened smoothly. I was ready for the next stage in my life. Expand my horizons, have more relationships to grow personally. Getting a call from Nike asking me if I wanted to represent Nike Snowboarding, I thought, “wow, heck yea!” Michael Jordan, Roger Federer, Ronaldinho... they are all the best at what they do. They’re winners, winning the challenge of creating their own world and standards. And besides teaming up with the goddess of victory, Nike, I just wanted to be part of this collective of people who have the atti-

tude that anything is possible. Let’s do it, just do it. On the other hand, once the season started up again and I moved into my house in Laax, I brought back all these old boards, a ten year quiver of Burton snowboards and I simply knew that whatever happened, at the end of the day there’s no other board I wanna ride. And I couldn’t be any happier right now!

Nicolas is used to bitch, mind-be making the mountain his nding ollie up to BS drop, NBD. Phot os: Oli Gagnon 270 rock

What do you think about people that are against companies like Nike that were not here from the beginning and say they shouldn’t be in snowboarding? Does their argument hold any water?

Not really, even if they actually knew what they were talking about. Most companies in the industry should take note of what Nike Snowboarding is doing. In Switzerland, the only two core shops that get the high-end Nike Snowboarding collection are run by snowboarders. At SigSagSug it’s Guido, Marco Lutz and the crew and here in Flims at the Chopp it’s Gian and Heavy. These guys are on the mountain every second they are not in the store rapping, hyping, celebrating (you name it...it’s the culture) and selling snobwoarding stuff. But we might as well all stop tomorrow if the same product is in a big chain store for half the price. So it’s a cycle again, together we can do it. Plus nobody owns snowboarding, except the people who live it with respect.

You had another crazy good video part with Absinthe, you looked like you were having a lot of fun. Are cheese wedges for suckers?

No, I just like the cheese better when it’s fondue all over the mountain. But I just got a serious call from Brusti at Absinthe about a request for some big booter time. I wanna build stuff again, I love shaping snow into kickers, corners and QP’s. It’s like playing in the sandbox back in the day. And I think it’ll happen for sure... it’s just that, uhhhm... this run looks really fun right now!

That section with you and Blauvelt in the movie gave us a huge chub, tell us more about the approach you guys have to snowboarding, riding lines and incorporating freestyle into them.

The trip with Jake to Chatter Creek Lodge was a career highlight for me.

To get out there in a cat with a cat is as good as it gets. And it’s funny, we’d get to a spot and we’d both be scanning the slope and go like, “here, there and there.

Where do you wanna go? I don’t care and you?”. But actually we both knew exactly where we wanna go, so it was

a who-gets-to-pick-first kind of deal. But again, there’s infinite potential in everything. Our approach is like going to Disneyland on steroids, or crack or whatever.

What’s better to film, a new place with an old trick or old place with a new trick?

This is a really good question. But after you realize the only thing that matters is the moment, it’s always a new trick at a new place.

You are known for your style, if you had to describe it with one word, which would it be?

Definitely not sick... so maybe healthy.

Do you like watching street snowboarding? Do you think that stuff is legit?

100% pure legit, I love watching it. Personally I just like to hang out in nature as much as I can.

I heard you were given the title of “O Presidente” of the new skatepark that the Breathe Foundation built in Itacaré, Brazil. Tell us more about that whole deal.

“Presidente” was my nickname in Itacaré, cause I am the President of the Breathe Foundation. Sir Drew Stevenson and Chris Bachmann and an army full of angels lighting up the place. The Crème sketchy bowl got scooped and the Sudden Rush Art Jungle was in full effect. Muito booooom!

You’ve been to Brazil a bunch of times, what is it about that place that attracts you?

The forest with it’s wildlife and the ocean. The culture isn’t Americanized. I’ve spent the most time in Bahia, it is so beautiful. People are alive and happy cause they are not dependent on stuff. It’s the joy of life that is so contagious and very refreshing. Obrigado, Brasil.

So Arcus is done, give us the skinny on your new venture, Atreebutes.

Arcus evolved into Atreebutes, it’s a more sophisticated and wiser version of Arcus. A much larger approach to making our own clothing. Pricier, high quality garments manufactured in a sustainable way. There are three main investors, Fredi, Zico and myself. A real company run by us. Learning by doing. All I can say is get your hands on some and become an Atreebutor yourself.

Do you enjoy running your own brand? Are you into the business aspect or is it just another creative outlet for you?

Yes, it’s a good experience. Success lays in personal relationships.

The money-makes-the-world-go-round thing can be a bit overwhelming sometimes, that’s when it’s time to find the joy by being creative, for sure. What’s it worth living for if you can’t express yourself?

What is the one question that you’ve never been asked in an interview that you always wished you could answer?

Q: Are you over cell phones?

A: Yes, I am. Done. They’re bad for the cells... but you can reach me at home. If not, I’ll see you when I see you...

Last word is yours!

Never give up.

Homie throws a smoking method on your plate, thasss whassup! Photo: Oli Gagnon

WORDS & PHOTOS: Dan Milner

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or the first time in my life I’m glad the snow is hard and crusty. I’m swapping the sure-footedness and edge hold of soft snow for guarantees that the snow-bridges over the crevasses are still firm and safe to cross. I can’t see them, but the crevasses are out there somewhere, swallowed up by the looming darkness. All I have to go by is a small pool of light from my head torch as it dances on the narrow, icy track left by Jonaven Moore’s crossing of the glacier the previous afternoon, back when the snow was soft. Jonaven’s still out there, alone, doing the solo bivouac mission it takes to drop into the line he wants to ride at sunrise.

He might be alone, perched on a dug-out ledge on top of a meter-wide snowy ridge, but at least he’s still in bed. He’ll wake just before seven, eat some breakfast and toss his loaded pack down the 45° face before following its tumble in a ruckus of Mach 10 powder turns.

As for myself and the two filmers with me, we’re left to cross the glacier in the dark to arrive at our planned photo spots in time to catch both Jonaven’s pack and his turns; three isolated pools of light working their way slowly across a field of ice. For someone who has never relished the idea of pre-dawn starts, crawling out of a warm sleeping bag to wrestle on frozen snowboard boots and splitboarding across a glacier before sunrise is about as welcome as missing breakfast. On that note, that’ll probably happen too.

Mount Tantalus and its Rumbling Glacier are our home for three days, and we’re get-

ting to know their contours and icy forms well. Working with Jeremy Jones and Jonaven always sees to that. Perched 2,603 meters above the town of Squamish in the Coastal Mountains of British Columbia, Mount Tantalus is visible from the counter of the downtown Starbucks. Just out of reach, its Alaskan-style spines and surrounding pointed peaks sit teasingly as if to say,“come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough”.

Four years ago Jonaven thought he was and rushing up to the Tantalus by heli he found himself in the deep end when his fellow rider released a massive slope-wide avalanche that nearly took both their lives. It’s a different story now though. Big mountain rider Jon-

aven spent the following four years watching and waiting, biding his time as he regarded the glacier from the window of his converted railway car-cum-home near Squamish. His near-death experience helped force a change in the direction of his snowboarding, turning his back on the mediafrenzied pressures of risk-saturated pro riding.

The avalanche experience also meant he knew that to scratch the Tantalus itch properly meant taking the time to do it right. For years he studied the mountain’s moods and formulated a plan, one that would work only when both weather and snow stability factors converged; it would involve a base camp and a lot of splitboarding. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, the planets aligned.

Our Tantalus mission represents a regrouping of friendships, some established a year earlier during Jeremy’s Deeper project Alaskan epic – a 27-day splitboard snow camp out in the Glacier Bay National Park. This was the trip that put splitboarding firmly on the map for good, but for riders Jeremy Jones and Jonaven it was merely a honing of the direction their snowboarding is going. The splitboard ethos –approaching your line by your own power, on your own two feet- sits squarely with the two riders’ re-evaluated priorities in snowboarding: it’s less about riding for other people and photo incentives and more about doing it for yourself.

However the splitboard program came about for our group, one thing is for sure; without splitboards up here on the Tantalus, we’d be stuck. As twilight arrives and our visual sense is returned to us I pause to look back at our cluster of tents, perched on a far away ridge. I’m surprised how far we’ve come in a couple of hours, way faster than snowshoeing and a lot safer across the snow bridges too. Within another forty minutes we’ll be at our vantage point, nestled between gaping open crevasses in time to film Jonaven slay yet another big mountain line.

“That’s the best night’s sleep I’ve ever had”, he says, pulling up to us and grinning widely, his slough still rolling to a stop. “It was so peaceful up there.”

“Peaceful” is almost guaranteed on the Tantalus. Although you can see the suburbs of Squamish and Highway 99 towards Whistler from the corniced ridge on which we’ve sited our handful of brightly colored tents, we might as well be in another world: around us is nothing but ice and snow. While far below is a world waking to another day of normality, of driving to work, of coffees to go, of paying the bills, our world has become one of eternally melting snow for drinking water and trying to prevent our boot liners from freezing solid at night.

Our last link to the mechanized world came in the form of a 5-minute heli ride up to the glacier. While

restrictions keep the Tantalus free from heli-skiing, we were able to set down with our excess baggage of amassed camping kit on the edge of the national park. If we could, we’d be hiking the 2,000 m up to our camp spot too, but in BC’s Coastal range such high pressures are rare and short-lived: “wasting” a day to hike up there is not an option.

Our weather window, if the forecast is correct, is a pretty generous three-day affair. But even then, at the end of the third afternoon, we cut it tight, being plucked out of the park as the wind picked up to almost heli-grounding force and another approaching storm gathered in the wings, the skies over our ridden lines darkening by the minute.

The experience of sitting out a ten-day storm in our camp in AK the previous year made the Tantalus, with its five-minute heli access and cell phone coverage seem like a luxury vacation by comparison.

The decision to hit the Tantalus came unexpectedly. For a month prior the whole of interior BC had suffered a major weak layer in the snowpack, rendering almost any slope avalanche-prone and a potential killer. While the Coastal range escaped this layer, it also suffered from a distinct lack of snowfall, something highlighted at the nearby winter Olympics. Suddenly, with a change of fortune, several days of windless snowfall were followed by our three-day high pressure window coming right out of the blue.

After three weeks tip-toeing around the fragile slopes of interior BC, the sudden proposition of hitting the Tantalus came as a just reward for the frustrating weeks that have passed.

Jeremy already knew about Jonaven’s itch, and took no further persuasion to join the group. Nor did local rider Mikey Nixon. Canada is on the Jones’ annual radar, though he usually thinks of the trip as a pre-AK ernd o w ex are er we ou n nev Like y a e. . If wn e, D pin do fram the s . y wa ing” ir off wn.. sy ea miss nd a ay do e th he “ seco y w es t s tak ed to nch a he ea r e t v n u ne ppe to la akes a t en av at h aven ever n h Jo w Jon n n ing cted nave pe d, Jo sai

warm up. But by the time we’d finished our boil-in-the-bag dinners on our second night in camp, the Tantalus had changed Jeremy’s perception of Canada.

“Within an hour of leaving our base camp I realized we were in terrain every bit as intense as Alaska,” he admitted, sipping on a mug of tea, then adding with a smile, “This is no warm up, this is the real thing!”.

The “real thing” for Jeremy, and anyone with him, means early starts, often before sunrise.

Simply put, the man is a machine. It’s this envious energy and experience that tells him not to waste time when weather is on your side, and within a halfhour of our arrival he had our whole group on a recon mission, following his skin trail up the ridge that sat just north of our proposed camp spot.

What looked like mini-terrain from the heli on the inbound flight now seemed big and overpowering. I felt dwarfed by my surroundings and swallowed down my fear as I shuffled along the exposed skin trail, trusting my splitboard skis. To my right the slope rolled away into a 45° blind void, coated in wind crust, and a meter to my left the ridge dropped into a 70° cliff face. Exposure, it seems, is an alarmingly regular part of shooting the Deeper experience.

When the riders disappear down a gully ahead that they needed to negotiate to reach their target face, I decided that I was already in as good a vantage point as any to shoot their lines. I kicked myself a snow platform and dug in for the show to come. It took the three riders a further hour to climb back up to their mini-peak and a further half-hour to dig a snowpit to assess the snowpack. Happy about stability, first Jonaven drops into an insanely steep chute, airing into it to be slingshot into a long backside slash on a vertical windlip. When Jeremy slides into the convex entrance to his steep line, he triggers a release that cascades down before him. He pauses, recomposes himself and then rips his line, sluff tumbling about him, before floating a 10-meter air off a windlip hip in the run out. Finally Mikey drops a similar line, leaving myself and Garry suddenly feeling quite alone on a very exposed ridge...

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PHOTOS: Oli Croteau, Dave Brewer & Oli Gagnon

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Peep Show is an allgirls snowboard film company headed up by Esthera Preda and June Bhongjan. Peep Show is different from other film crews in that it is purely driven by snowboarding and creativity, not sponsor dollars. We made the rider roster based on skill and style rather than whose sponsors would throw in the most money. It’s straight from the heart and self-funded. From the very start Peep Show has done everything on its own, from filming/producing/editing/being riders in the movie to having arts and craft sessions to create graphics/premiere tickets/silk screen dvd covers/envelopes.

That said, we feel it’s only normal that this time around we are the ones interviewing the Method Mag crew.

June & Esthe Photo: Oli Croteau

Out of all the little shred flick companies, how in the world did Peep Show stand apart from the pack for you?

ADT: Well, I saw the name and thought there might be some pole dancing and holy shit, there was. I had never really seen girls pole... uh, I mean rail dancing on snowboards like that before.

FDM: The name. I’m not going to lie, I felt concerned. Also, some of the girls in the line-up are riders I really respect. And I always felt like one of the girls, I mean, that’s what people tell me.

TAG: Mostly what drew my attention was that you guys were being backed by the right people.

That and the name... I mean, who doesn’t like a peep show, right?

You know how girls are self-conscious about everything and at some point in the relationship they will ask you what was your first impression when you met them? Well, we’re not an exception. Do tell, what went through your mind at this moment?

ADT: BONER! Then I was like, “SHIT! They’re better than me...”

FDM: I had this odd feeling. It was as if Michael (Leblanc) played mother hen with some girls for a while, influencing and teaching them things about life and shredding, and eventually releasing them into the wild to spread the gospel of all that is righteous. I found your frame of mind irresistible.

Desiree finessing TAG: “This is going to be FUN!” a nosepress front

one to the bank.

Photo: Oli Gagnon

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Ma meaty method at Photo: Oli Gagnon

The Don’t Care Bears: Est he, June, Des and Laura.

Photo: Dave Brewer

Campfire boardin’.

This would just be kinda sad if it was in the city but it’s nice cuz they’re in the woods with squirrels. Old Dirty Hades blasts frontside. Photo: Dave Brewer

Method and Peep Show have been in a 2-year relationship and you’ve seen us since the beginning. How does our video this year differ than the last one? How have we grown?

ADT: Cleaner landings in the new one but it seems like you guys ran out of time with the intro name graphics compared to last year’s stop frame goodness. But there is no doubt, the new movie blurs the line between girls’ and boys’ street boardin’ more than ever.

FDM: I had to type a password on Vimeo to watch it. Last year, I did not. Oh, it’s also a little piece of art this year.

TAG: This year’s movie is much tighter, which makes it much more impacting. A lot of new companies make the mistake of including every shot they have instead of only the triple AAA-grade ham, it just dilutes the truly remarkable shit. This year it’s all killer, no filler, so props for that!

There are always funny situations that come about in the adventures of filming. We’ve had generators falling out of the bed of our trucks and boobs popping out. We try to capture the personalities behind the riding through our film. Do you think this should stay out of snowboard videos? Or would you like to see more?

ADT: I like it in your films because it’s real, but I don’t think every movie should have that “dirt bag” feel. If that’s how your crew rolls, live it up. Just don’t smash a bottle in your teaser and act like maniacs cause everyone is doing it (speaking to the general public here, definitely not you guys).

FDM: I agree with De Tarace. Too much barbarism would wipe out desire.

TAG: There are as many different sensibilities as there are people, some are into straight up high def shred porn and others like it a little messier and rougher around the edges. Personally I love the lifestyle stuff but it’s all good if somebody else doesn’t, variety is the spice of life.

Peepshow started as a small, homey video with a group of girls who started filming together. Do yo think this project has any affect on the women’s shred scene? How so?

ADT: Eighty percent of women’s snowboarding that is showcased in the media is comp riding. You girls just stole the show. Besides a few powder princesses, I don’t even hear a peep from any other girls... Oh shit, see what I did there?

FDM: I guess so, even though Europe seems pretty late in terms of hedonistic women snowboarding. Maybe you should share whatever it is you girls are using or consuming.

TAG: Abso-fucking-lutely! Peep Show is LEGIT and will spawn a new breed of female shredder, you heard it here first.

Are there any similar projects in Europe?

ADT: I’ve heard of a few tough chicks out east towards Slovenia but otherwise it’s just your “token girl in an all-guy crew” for female appearances these days. There were some attempts at all-girl comps, but it seems like there are less and less girl projects than ever.

It’s up to y’all to inspire the Euro youth, I guess.

TAG: Not really, most girls in Europe are full-on contest riders, very rarely do you see them outside of the park or pipe.

There are some chicks who chase powder, but it’s hard to have a career doing that here, sponsors are really focused on getting good contest results.

Watch out, boys, Jess is coming for your paycheck! Round bar switch front board, Quebec City. Photo: Oli Croteau

If you were running Peep Show what would you do differently?

ADT: Get in the powder a bit more and add a few more Euro broads to the squad.

Bring back the stop-frame intros!

FDM: I would definitely hire Midnight for the soundtrack, those guys would have the same effect on you as your first encounter with Scientology.

TAG: More tits!

What’s important in a snowboard video?

ADT: Creativity of visual mediums and shred spots. What happens off the hill is important... and music.

FDM: The entertainment provided. At least two banger parts. The adequacy of the soundtrack.

TAG: Heart. Honesty. Legit tricks. Banger soundtrack. Shenanigans. In that order.

Terra tearing it up, 50-50 bomb drop in QC. Photo: Dave Brewer

If you were a rider in Peep Show who would you be and why?

ADT: I’m gonna have to say Esthera. Gus is a total babe.

FDM: I would love to be all of them, why would I choose to be one of the girls when I can be all of them at the same time? Imagine what a crazy hybrid I would be...

TAG: I would be Terra, just to have some of Jonas’ sweet style built into my DNA. You run a snowboard shop and a kid asks, “Hey, should I buy this video?”, what do you say?

ADT: “Yes or else you will wake up with skis for feet and poles for arms.”

FDM: “Yes. It’s time to become an adult, little man.”

TAG: “Yes, as long as you are secure enough to not feel threatened by women who snowboard better than you.”

Got any advice for us?

ADT: Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em?

FDM: Bring a cleaning lady on every trip.

TAG: Less is always more.

Have you heard any rumors about us?

ADT: All your tricks are done with After Ef-

fects and you’re all just huge computer geeks.

FDM: I have.

TAG: I heard you guys have farting contests.

Are there any questions you would like to ask us?

FDM: I do, but I need privacy to do it. Kind of embarrassing to do it here, with everyone watching.

ADT: I got some, here you go!

What is your best remedy for pain?

June: Arnica, Vicodin and staying off your injury.

Esthera: All of June’s remedies and if the pain doesn’t go away: Disneyland.

Tell me about the best mistake you ever made...

June: My BEST mistake? Probably getting in over my head. I had no idea what I was getting myself into with Peep Show and there are a lot more responsibilities than I ever imagined. It forced us to learn everything quickly. There is soooooo much more to it than filming and editing.

Esthera: Maybe when I left my brand-new laptop outside on the sidewalk at LAX and lost it forever?

Then June told me to not worry about it because it’s just material. Well, she was right and now not only I’m more detached from material but I also make sure twice that my stuff is properly backed up.

June has some serious POP, steezy seatbelt tail in Minnesota. Photo: Dave Brewer

Butter or cream cheese? Can you bring us some bagels. We can’t get them shits out here.

June: Butter. Onion, poppy, or blueberry?

Esthera: Don’t you guys eat Nutella and croissants? Bagels are overrated.

TAG: Oh wait, I got some too!

Mama Hades fluffing up some pillows, Brighton. Photo: Dave Brewer

Why do girls eat shit so hard? The slams in this year’s movies are some of the craziest I’ve ever seen...

June: I don’t know? Because our boobs and butts throw us off balance? Oh wait, some of us don’t even have those. Uhm, because… we figure there’s nothing we can do so we just let go and hopefully gravity will take it easy on us?

Esthera: I think it has to do with girls progression.

You can’t learn new tricks if you don’t go out of your comfort zone. Now why it looks so painful... probably because our knees are sooo skinny??

Jess about to pull the trigga! Photo:

Oli Croteau

What legacy would you like Peep Show to leave behind?

June: That snowboarding is what you make of it.

It can be contests, it can be big mountain riding, urban street boarding, or a little box you and your friends set up on a patch of snow. It’s about doing what you love and surrounding yourself with good people who also enjoy it.

Esthera: Maybe just leave sufficient inspiration to keep pushing this side of women’s snowboarding for the generations to come...

When the summer comes around the coaches will have a hard time figuring out where all the scuff marks on the goal post came from...

Desiree pole jam to fence ride in the dead of the Minnesota night. Photo: Dave Brewer

Commander M端ller scouts ahead of the main Rebel force advancing against the Imperial troops on Hoth. Photo: Frode Sandbech

...and God’s voice clamored from the Burning Bush: “Let there be backside boardslides!”, Jake Kuzyk gets biblical in Calgary. Photo: Oli Gagnon

Jonas Michilot rocking out like it’s mid-Movember. Photo: Oli Gagnon

“Kidding? How am I meant to know you’re kidding?

You’re breaking my fucking balls.” Gooner in Ogden, UT. Photo: E-Stone

Sean Genovese is MEGA MAN! Uber ollie in AK. Photo: Alex Mertz

Jeremy Jones duck dives under this spine in the Tantalus Range, interior BC. Photo: Dan Milner

METHOD approved Method, low altitude ‘Fonna rawness with Mathias Nesheim. Photo: Daniel Tengs

We all ride for Kevin Pearce! Photos: Blotto Photto

Beckna warps the time-space continuum with a BS7 through the wormhole. Photo: Carlos Blanchard

Jonathan Nilsson, nasty nosepress before catching a train to Gnartown. Photo: Daniel Blom

Synchronized snowboarding will make its debut in Sochi 2014. Bryan Fox and Ben Bilocq don’t give a fuck, Canyons, UT. Photo: Andy Wright

Bjorn Hartweger BS 3 mute

Dimi Fesenko BS 7 indy 4 Pirates x 4 tricks x 1 spot = 100% rawesome.

Photos: Carlos Blanchard

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