Tugga gloves...

Vic Wild is to Russians, what a Russian bride is to Americans. He was the American lad who switched nationalities to Russia after he married fellow snowboarder Alena Zavarzina. He went on to win double gold in the parallel grand slalom and the parallel slalom at Sochi and Alena won bronze in the parallel giant slalom. Now they are Russia's golden couple and since the Olympics they've starred in a multitude of awesome photo opportunities. Here's what's been going on...

Ruroc are currently the world's second largest snowboard company according to Facebook likes. A year and a month ago they had 264,819 likes, now they're up to 508,242. At that growth rate in another year and a month they will overtake Burton.

That's Christmas sorted then...

I found this ad in a magazine today. I was just going to post it up as an amazing example of something someone was actually paid to design. However it turns out that Lacoste are not just selling smelling water, they've also released a snowboard...

Here's a strange little product war currently raging in the world of professional snowboarding...

It's a belt made from snowboard binding technology...

I've just realised it's the 10th anniversary of this...

Jeff Proctor Lives in Portland Oregon. Illustrator, Graphic Designer, Artist, Jeff wants to help you concept ideas and turn them into visual solutions, in exchange for US dollars. Jeff enjoys petting cats and eating donuts...

This is Willy Bogner Jr...

So I think this is officially a thing now...

For a few years the Swiss photographer Robert Bösch has been working on this project for Mammut and it's produced some stand-out images...

Angie likes to paint pictures of snowboarders and skiers, unfortunately her paintings are inadvertently the stuff of nightmares...

The world's of snowboarding and snowmobiling have a lot in common, beyond the common wish that we'd both thought of more succinct names for our activities when they were invented. However both things come from very different backgrounds which keeps the cultures distinct in a few very specific ways. Because snowmobiling harks from the world of motoring it does have the unfortunate propensity to embrace a few things snowboarding wouldn't touch, like the use of shitty graphics, the addiction to three letter acronyms and what we're looking at today, the objectification of women. To demonstrate that difference let's take a look at the output of Snowmobile Calenders. Maybe this is the real reason why Jeremy Jones chooses to walk everywhere...

Another sign of the approaching snowboard season is the first call-out for someone to work for free and Rider's Lounge the UK distributors of Capita are the first to get involved this year...

Whitelines have given us two pages of each edition to fill in this winter. We thought it would be best to start off by breaking the news to them that print is dead...

In our ongoing quest to categorise the internet of snowboarding, this week we've pulled together 18 of the best snowboard event posters we can find. It turns out that half of them are for banked slaloms, a huge over-representation of a type of event that makes up just a dinky proportion of all snowboarding events....

Believe it or not, in the 1950s there was a brief period when skiing was cool, and in that fleeting moment wherever skiing was spotted being cool it was inevitably in conjunction with a Porsche...

The now sadly long-defunct Snurfing News first hit the shelves in March 1979. The first edition covered some of the seminal events of early snowboard/Snurfing history including an actual in-competition straight air and a full 360° turn. Let's take a look at all four pages of it...

The other day we stumbled across what could possibly be one of the most inane snowboard blog posts ever. A company called Custom Ink, in an attempt to drum up some orders for their t-shirt printing business, decided to produce an inspiration list of skiing and snowboarding phrases that people could have on their shitty matching vacation t-shirts. Take a look. They've managed to think-up some of the blandest and worst possible t-shirt slogans that are perfect examples of the sort of inane shit you see around ski resorts or chocking up your Facebook. We thought we'd see if it was possible to take this truly uninspiring list and turn them into something even remotely creative...

I haven't tried it myself because as British man I work best in a constant pent-up state, but for a lot of snowboarders yoga is a key part of their lifestyle. It certainly makes up a dominant proportion of the Instagram output of professional female snowboarders like...

Ever wanted the main feature of your snowboarding to be your brightly coloured arse? If you have, a company in Japan has come up with just the answer: introducing the Anthem Powgard...

If you ever find yourself searching for a picture of an avalanche, one of the strange things you'll find is a proliferation of avalanches formed by ethereal snow horses. We decided to find out who the culprit was...

GoPros look really silly, but before they were invented things were even more strange, like Formula 1 legend Jackie Stewart here, styling it out with a movie camera and a can of spam strapped to his head. Let's take a quick look at some of the incredible predecessors of the GoPro...

Smut video peddler Porn Hub, have conducted some research into who's been searching for anal porn in the US and it looks like mountain men love ass...

Jenny Jones just posted up this sad story on the Facebook, and so far 222 have indicated that they 'like' the post. But these people are not alone in wanting to getting involved, but having nothing to contribute, here's a look at some of the comments on that post...

This week the man bravely stepping up to the plate to reinvent the snowboarding wheel is a guy called Dave from Australia...

The big news of the 2014/15 season isn't the fact that Vans have messed up and won't be able to deliver their snowboard boots, or that Yobeat have redesigned their site to look a little more like this one; no the big news is that this year sees the much-anticipated launch of Goggle GraffitiTM... 

Ever had that nagging feeling that something was missing from your snowboarding, and that something was dressing like a hamburger? Good luck buddy, this is about to be your year...

To fulfil our strange need to tidy up the internet by grouping things together, this week we've created a collection of the finest vintage ski movie posters. What we've learned from this is that ski movies fall into 4 distinct groups; war, romance, frolics and porn...

The little-known Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame and their website, are the unlikely hosts of a surprisingly rich horde of memorabilia from the early days of snowboarding. Here's a look at one of the things that caught my eye, the booklet from the 1982 National Snow Surfing Championship, the event that ultimately evolved into the US Open...

Featuring the best monoski invention you'll see this week...

I ran across this graphic design portfolio and it needs to be shared. It's got all the standard features of a designer's portfolio; magazine covers, logos, and plenty of example of Photoshopping, but it's the quality of the product that's amazing...

Moments after the first person invented the pointless baby on board sticker, someone else invented the mirth-free baby on board parody sticker. Just a few moments after that, some other japester put this trend and snowboarding together to invent a new version - the entirely literal baby on board parody. Now there's a veritable smorgasbord of options for anyone who is determined to inform all of the motoring world that they're a dick. Let's take a look at the options...

Also this week: The world's most annoying twats are back, another amazingly awkward snowboarder photo shoot and a cat video...

Not so much because of that poster, more because of this video...

One of the biggest problems that used to face people who wanted to dress like complete idiots, was that other people could recognise them. Now thanks to Ai Storm those people can look like the complete idiots they always dreamt of, in complete anonymity...

This week's episode features some epic Olympian poses, face-pulling and sexual positions...

A few week's ago we took a look at the best 15 best snowboarding posts on Imgur. This week we take time out of our busy schedule of laughing at ourselves, to laugh at some skiers. Here's the 15 best ski posts...

During Vancouver the medical staff kept a record of all the injuries suffered by the competitors. Turns out, to no one's surprise, that snowboard cross is by far the most dangerous winter Olympic sport. Over a third of the riders were injured at some point and they were twice as likely to get injured compared to competitors any other event...

I wrote a long article yesterday about the art of pissing people off. Someone said it was a little bit wandering. Here's a top 10 list...

Following the 300 complaints that were received by the BBC about the commentary during the Women's slopestyle event on Sunday, the BBC has now received over 22,000 messages officially complaining about the complainers...

He is clearly Rad in human form, but can you spot the 15 individual reasons why? Answers after the break...

Once again monoskiing didn't make the cut for the Olympics, fuck knows what the organisers are thinking. Here's what we're missing out on...

Monarch Airlines, the self-proclaimed 'skiers airline' (which I suspect might make then slightly prone to bias in their research), and respected judges of what is or isn't cool (see above photo), have conducted some dubious research to show that skiing is cooler than snowboarding...

Did you know that Pat Moore has no penis? Read all about it here, along with nine other things you need to know...

Just a little more Olympic art work and news for the end of the week....

Like snowboarding, art is nominally a subjective medium, but like slopestyle and the halfpipe that doesn't prevent people from trying to judge it. Today we've amassed the poster art from the history of the Winter Olympics so that we can all practice for the Olympics by having a good topical judge. See what you think...

The hiatus is over. Here's something about skiers...