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How Dangerous Are Avalanches? - A Statistical Avalanche
Over the last few weeks ESPN have been releasing some great articles on the effects of avalanches in the US. They’re now mid-way through a run of six articles and they’re also mid-way to scaring me...
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Twitter Bombing #skishow2012
Illicit went to the Ski and Snowboard Show and had a go at live tweeting the experience. For those of you that missed it, here's how it went...Here are a few things I also found out but didn't get...
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Craptions - The top 10 crappiest puns in the October edition of Snowboarder...
It's sometimes said that puns are the lowest form of humour, but for years I've argued that the dubious honour should actually go to the likes of anagrams, pranks, mother-in-law jokes, slapstick and...
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Pro Snowboarder Autobiographies - The Mega Book Review
This week we review every single pro snowboarder autobiography ever written…We found four.First up its Todd Richards’ succinctly titled - P3And it’s a good one. To give you a sense of what you’re...
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What’s Wrong With Snowboard Movies? - The Tyranny of ‘The Format’
Can you guess which snowboard video this describes?It starts with musical intro and a roll of the sponsor’s logos.After the opening credits it launches into the first segment featuring one snowboarder...
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Top 10 Snowboarding Pop Princesses & Where You Might Run Into Them
It's another in our hard-hitting investigative series in which we out celebrity snowboarders - This week we track down our top 10 pop songstresses...Katy PerryCakey PerryEveryone’s favourite...
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The 12 Maddest Vintage Snowsports of Modern Mechanix Magazine
It's amazing humanity survived the early part of the last century When they weren't busy filling their time with intermittent bouts of genocide, all-encompassing global conflicts and inventing weapons...
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Snowboarding’s 10 Worst Crowd Funding Ideas
If you've come up with a cunning plan to create the greatest snowboard company ever seen, the first thing you'll need is money. Traditionally your options were limited to breaking open your piggy bank,...
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Win Big with Nokia x Burton & Illicit
I'm flying off to cover the Burton European Open (otherwise known as the BEO - pronounced BeeYeow!) at the start of February courtesy of some fine fellows at Nokia. There you go readers, proof that all...
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The Übermap of Dirty Ski Resort Names
This week, for a rare change of focus we've headed off to the Burton European Open in Laax, courtesy of Nokia, to attempt some live event reporting. So far things haven't got off to a great start, the...
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The Burton European Open 2013 - All the really important bits from days 1-4
I've been here since Sunday getting into the spirit of this event. It's the first time I've gone out of my way to go to one of these competitions. Here's what I've found so far...Day Onepowderday....
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Nokia X Burton & The Dangers of Democracy
A couple of weeks ago we mentioned an art competition Nokia and Burton are running. That competition is now at the public voting stage so we decided to see how things were progressing. There was good...
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Nokia Giveaway Caption Comp
Nokia gave me a phone for the Burton European Open coverage and now it's time to give it away. I promised to do this before I got the phone and after a few days of playing with it I'm regretting that...
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Classic Snowboards - The Snurfer Era
After all the excitement of recent weeks and the sudden proliferation of posts, we're finally back to our more sedate weeklyish article rate. This week to simulate your eyes I've arted a pretty poster...
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Snowboarding is not a spectator sport, but it could be?
A few weeks ago I went out to the Burton European Open and somehow managed to avoid mentioning the actual competition in any of the coverage. I didn't do that purely because I'm a contrary git; when I...
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Bringing Sexy Back – What we can learn from vintage snowmobile fashion
I was just reading the last magazine of the season from those part-timers at Whitelines and in it there was an article by Chris Moran about the current state of snowboarding fashion. At the end he...
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Is Louie Vito a Dwarf? And some other things we learned from Google Instant
A few years back Google Instant was launched, the feature that tries to anticipate what you're trying to search for while you type. When it launched the Google marketeers promoted it with three key...
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Legends of the Fallen II - Stickers of the Lost Snowboard Brands
A while ago we created a bunch of stickers for pioneering snowboard brands that had gone the way of the step-in. Seeing as those stickers have been selling like things that occasionally sell, we...
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The 10 Most Bonkers Snowboard Inventions Ever Patented
It's said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. For some people all they have is perspiration. Today we celebrate the efforts of these incredibly moist and flagrant folks...10. Hula-Hoop...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The industrial design future of snowboarding...
Behance.net is an internet place that arty folks congregate to show off their wares. Amongst the mass of creativity are some industrial designers having a crack at improving snowboarding. Some of the...
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