Smith have announced that they are expanding and to the next season 06/07 they will launch a helmet line. They are currently working directly with a helmet factory to develop cutting edge lightweight helmets.
Read the entire article at Skipressworld
I mentioned earlier in the review of the snowboardmovie Futureproof that Gigi overjump a crest, quite much. He gets way too much speed and just flies. Here is a clip of that jump.
Cool video with Corey Martinez, some great street bmx riding there. Love his 720 off the tilted street obstacle. The video is 3:54 minutes long.
Check out the video clip
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All you have to do win a Sims limited edition Electroshock snowboard is to be creative and fill out a puzzle. Click the man at the lower left corner. While you’re there check out there product for this season.
Higher ground is this season skimovie from Warren Miller, other than skiing it involves some snowboarding and BASE jumping. It’s mostly about big mountain skiing and freeriding. Part action/adventure, part documentary, Higher Gorund feature riders such as the swede Kaj Zackrisson, Glen Plake, Seth Morrison and many more. The trailer is 200 seconds long and available in HD.
The Dorada Crew from the swedish skate magazine Defekt.se went on a trip to tenerif (the canaries) to flee from the cold dark swedish winter. They’ve published a photoalbum from the trip, a nice album with cool photos taken by Nils Svensson.
Are you going to bring you camera to the skihill, make sure you have the right settings so the snow don’t turn up grey and dark instead of white and bright.
The camera can have problems with knowing what’s white and what’s not on a cloudy day, one easy rule is to exposure compensate with +1.
The great Ken Rockwell has posted a more detailed article about this.
How to photograph snow
Ken also has a great guide on what camera to buy in different price ranges and for different occasions and needs. It’s based on Kens personally view and opinions but if you have no idea you could use his advice as pointers.
What camera to buy
