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The 15 Best Snowboarding Posts on Imgur
This week we scoured the depths if Imgur to find their best snowboarding posts. Imgur is the photo sharing site beloved of Redditors and the great thing about it is that the photos come with their own...
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Olympic Snowboarders Mug Shots - Why all the sad faces?
I thought I'd have a look around the snowboarder profiles on the Sochi Olympics site and two things struck me; firstly, the website was full of interesting glitches which made this process very tricky...
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Snowboarding @ Sochi - The Story So Far
Just like our friends at the NSA, the team at Illicit Snowboarding have been tracking and spying on all the world's conversations. Here's the scoop of what we've found people have been talking about at...
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The Fine Art of Pissing Off All The Right People
Sometimes it's not who you know, it's who you don't want to know...A few things have happened during the Olympic slopestyle event that will have some interesting knock-on effects for...
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What's the Score? It's time for a new judging system
Yet again, during and after an important snowboarding competition, one of the main things everyone was talking about was the judging. Questioning the judging of a sport isn't a topic unique to...
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Ed & Tim's words of wisdom as motivational posters
So that's the five-ringed circus over for another four years. One of the unexpected highlights for us was the poetic musings Ed Leigh and Tim Warwood when they were let lose on the BBC coverage. To...
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The sweariest (and possibly best) and least sweariest (and dullest) snowboard...
The rise of the internet has transformed publishing in the same way that it transformed the music industry. If you fancy becoming a writer these days, you're no longer at the mercy of a few big...
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Illicit went to Mayrhofen and this is what we found...
Last week we went snowboarding in Mayrhofen and while we were there we noticed a few strange things...By law all Austrian booze labels must include a portrait of a creepy beardyĀ old geezer"Hey ladies,...
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Split Personalities - Is this the graphic future for splitboards?
In 1991, Brett "Cowboy" Kobernik was the first person to saw a snowboard in half, thus inventing the splitboard. Over the following two decades splitboarding slowly become more popular as it moved from...
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Rants From The Mountain - The Vilest Snowboard Book Ever Written
A few weeks ago I reviewed two self-published books, one was great, the other incredibly dull, but as I mentioned I had planned to review three. This week we deal with that third book - Rants From The...
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Honest Snowboard Brand Slogans
Honest Slogans is a great single-theme Tumblr that imagines what would happen if companies used honest marketing slogans. It got us thinking what might happen to the world of snowboarding...And they...
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Back to the Future - Checking up on the Olympic predictions
Immediately after I posted last week's honest slogans article, Brooke Geery from the YoBeat, dropped me a message to let me know that she'd LOL'd, then she had a stab at predicting the number of people...
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4 Things Isabella LaboĢcks' appearance in Playboy tells us about the current...
Over a year ago we put togetherĀ an articleĀ looking at what was then a small trickle of professional snowboarders who had taken their kit off for publicity. At that time there were 7 ladies and 5 guys...
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Alibaba and the 40,000 Crappy Snowboards
The Chinese eCommerce group Alibaba is about to go public in what is expected to be the largest tech IPO of all time. 80% of everything sold online in China goes through this company and they flog more...
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Online Snowboarding Like It's 1999
At the dawn of the internet, a service called the Internet Archive started diligently recording the history of all websites. This week we use the Internet Archive to explore the early stumblings of...
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Marc Frank Montoya and the Pyramid Scheme
Over the past few years former pro snowboarder and amateur gangster, Marc Frank Montoya, has been re-inventing himself as a "Financial Freedom Specialist". It all sounded amusingly bonkers, but...
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The 5 Best Moments in the Incredible 1985 Swingbo Promo Video
The Swingbo was a classic a-bit-like-a-snowboard-but-not-as-good-as-a-snowboard invention that flared up in Germany in the early 80s before dying a quick and merciful death. Like all modern inventions...
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Crappy Stock Photography of the Week: Snowboarding in Business Suits
Stock photography is a very strange business, with thousands of photographers around the world trying to eke out a living by trying to anticipate the visual fodder needs of editors or designers. One of...
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Nazis, Supermen, Nipple Clamps and Baking - 4 More Snowboard Books Reviewed
After a number of years of reviewing books on this site, I think I'm probably now the world's foremost expert on ski resort based literature. Sit back and bask in my knowledge as I use all that...
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