Questionable Snowboarding Product Name of the Week

Tugga gloves...

What happens after you win the Olympics? For Vic Wild & Alena Zavarzina the answer has been a plethora of strange photoshoots

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...

Chart of the day: In 2015 Ruroc will become the biggest snowboarding company in the world (measured in Facebook Likes)

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.

Inspired design of the week: Smoking Mittens

That's Christmas sorted then...

Fashion Snowboard Watch: Lacoste have joined the game

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...

The Great Snowboard Water (bottle) Fight

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

Kickstarter snowboard product of the week: The Clickerbelt

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

Notorious Moments of Snowboard Marketing History: Example 1

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

Snowboardery Artist of the Week: Jeff Proctor

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...

Willy Bogner Jr: Wanted for crimes against winter fashion

This is Willy Bogner Jr...

Pictures of ladies looking smug in snow goggles cutting onions

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

Art inspiration: Robert Bösch's photography for Mammut

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...

The terrifying nightmare art of Angela Skoubye

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

Snowmobile Calendars - Chilly Ladies With Bra Problems

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...

Did you love 12 Years a Slave? Now's your chance to get involved with Rider's Lounge and Capita

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...

This season Illicit is appearing in Whitelines magazine (it's a kind of virtual website)

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...

Art Inspiration: Banked slaloms have all the best posters

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....

Remembering that brief moment of history when skiing and Porsches were cool

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...

Celebrating the 35 and a halfish anniversary of the first edition of Snurfer News

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...

Cool Skiing & Snowboarding Sayings for T-Shirts & Sweats

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...

Freaky trend of the week: Snowboard-Yoga

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...

Anthem's powder diapers - Could this be the new worst snowboarding fashion accessory ever?

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...

Jim Warren's Avalanches of Horses

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...

The Ridiculous World of Massive Vintage GoPros

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...

Conclusive Proof - Skiers Love Anal

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' computer was stolen, but it's looking unlikely that the Facebook hive mind will solve the crime

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...

Reinventing the Snowboard, Take 47,564 - The Cross Board

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

Craptastic Product of the Week: Goggle Graffiti

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... 

This year's ultimate snowboard fashion statement - Dressing like a hamburger

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...

Art Inspiration: 28 Great Vintage Ski Movie Posters

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 1982 National Snow Surfing Championship Program - Featuring a Snurfing Unicorn

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...

Top TENuous 13 - The Greatest Snow on Earth

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

Game of The Week: Can You Spot The Photoshopping?

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...

Crap Snowboarding Bumper Stickers of The Week - Baby on Board

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...

Top TENuous 12 - Featuring Some Awesome Jibbery Flippery

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

Fuck this, I'm off to Mayrhofen for a week

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

Epically Rubbish Product of The Week: Ai Storm's Bobble Gimp Jackets

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...

Top TENuous 11 - 'Keep living of the hate ya ball bag!'

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

The Best of Imgur Episode 2: Top 15 Ski Posts

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...

Boardercross is the most dangerous winter Olympic sport

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...

Top TENuous 10 - Best of the Olympics

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...

Go Huck Yourselves! - Olympic snowboarding commentary draws 22,000 complaints about 300 complaints

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...

Quick Friday Game - The Absolute Definition of Rad!

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

9 Things we're missing out on because monoskiing isn't in the Olympics

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...

Crappy PR of The Week: Skiing Now Officially Cooler Than Snowboarding, Claims Monarch Airlines

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...

Top TENuous 9: Pat Moore's Missing Penis

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

We've gone massive in Russia & If you're going to buy one Sochi-themed calendar this year, buy this one...

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

A Brief History of Winter Olympics Poster Art

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...

Reasons we aren't skiers No. 21,678: Sweaty Beer Boot Binging

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