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Current State: Snowboarding – A Book Review
From the man who brought you, the first ever frontside double cork 1260, the seminal film Afterbang, the seminal film 91 Words for Snow, the seminal film Lame, a bunch of other seminal films (and no,...
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Legends of the Fallen – Vintage Snowboard Stickers Celebrating Lost Snowboard...
The early days of snowboarding were a time of invention and excitement. Every other day a new company would pop up with a new game-changing idea or innovation. Some of those early developments have...
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What we should have done this winter if we were real men
For some time now we’ve been coming to the horrifying realisation that, despite engaging in what is commonly regarded as being an extreme sport, we’re more than just a bit soft in comparison to our...
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Women Who Can't Carry Snowboards
If you're editing a newspaper and you need to rustle up some photos to quickly tart up a crappy article about snowboarding, then you can turn to stock photography for help. Unfortunately the models...
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Unusable Snowboarding Stock Photography
"Picture editor, I need a photo for a story we're printing about snowboarding.""No problem. Do you want the snowboarder to be doing anything specific?"“Yeah, I need an action shot, get a picture of...
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Current State: Sandboarding
Following the success of David Benedek’s book Current State: Snowboarding and now that it’s the end of the season we thought we’d dissect snowboarding’s summer cousin, sandboarding…The BeginningThe two...
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Top 20 Dumbest Snowboard Questions on Yahoo Answers...Answered
When you have a question to ask that's so stupid you can't ask anyone you know then why not post it on Yahoo Anwsers, the internet's repository for defeat. Today we try to help these people by...
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Rapper Slash Snowboarder: Top 15 Celebrity Snowboarding Rappers
A week ago I’d just started to research another in our entirely vapid series of celebrity snowboarder spotting articles and I was checking an old article we’d done on Adam Yauch when, bang, my TV...
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Yahoo Answers: Top 10 Unintentional Innuendos
Caesar is Yoda's online avatarCum-faced Shaun White from the intro picture is actually a legitimate vintage poster. You can spunk out $550 for a copy here if you fancy plastering all over your...
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The Snowboard Masterpieces of Fine Art America
We're back after a temporary travelling-in-the-middle-of-nowhere caused hiatus. This week we look at a site you're all familiar with called Fine Art America. No? You must have heard of them. Its the...
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The Faceless Corporations That Run Snowboarding
A couple of years back we took a look at all the big faceless corporations that exist behind the familiar brands of snowboarding (and skiing, and skateboarding, and surfing, and now rollerblading) and...
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The Hypersexualisation of Snowboarding – 12 Pro Snowboarders Who Got Their...
Photo by kind permission of Nathan Gallagher, who is not at fault for, and bears no responsibility for, the subsequent hacking up, crude Photoshoppery and desecration by larey scribbling, of the...
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The Tyranny of Choice – A problem for snowboarding that’s waiting to be solved
Traditionally we consider choice to be a good thing, but is it really?Over the years as snowboarding has developed it’s become an increasingly complicated sport, just take for example the snowboard and...
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The Urban Dictionary Guide to Snowboarding
What would happen if you used the Urban Dictionary as a reference to learn the language of snowboarding? ...Let's start with the word snowboard...So snowboarding is a sport exclusively performed by gay...
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Urban Dictionary & The Sordid World of Skiing
Last time out we took a look at what the Urban Dictionary could teach us about snowboarding. One the the main things we learned is that we should hate all skiers. This week we do our research into...
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Slash 'n' Grabs & The Case For Unbranded Snowboard Stickers
Last season, in Whitelines Episode 99,Ed Andrews wrote a nice piece of guest editorial about manufacturer branded stickers. Not sure if you read it, it was easy to miss even if you had the magazine,...
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The 2012/13 Snowboard Porn Product Guide
Each year the snowboard magazines (or treeware as they're know by the incredibly wanky word I heard for the first time today) churn out a special edition introducing at the newest snowboards and gear....
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Reports of the death of snowboard are greatly exaggerated. + How to get more...
Earlier this year Nate Fristoe from the consulting firm RRC Associates presented some worrying statics on the current situation in snowboarding titled ‘The Rise and Stall of Snowboarding’. His speech...
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50 pictures of Shaun White being a dick
The other day, while we were Facebook stalking, one of our imaginary friends mused; "So far what I've learnt from working in Action Sports media is that the only 2 things that sell are tits and Shaun...
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Top 10 Lift LOLs & The Bottom Half Of The Internet
In the last article we wanted to test the hypothesis that the only two things people read about were tits and Shaun White. To test it we combined the two topics into one composite article and bloody...
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