The park had a flat ground loop/track for towing kids around, a mini-pipe, a bordercross type feature with a roller, a berm, and even a box. It was pretty sweet seeing these kids learning how
to snowboard by hitting features (Burton calls this terrain based learning). No rope tows or lifts, just grommets shredding it up.

Most of the boards had a special new technology called a riglet. Basically, its a retractable tow line so you can pull the kids around while they get a feel for sliding over the snow.

Check out this short promo vid and keep your eyes peeled for a longer more detailed version coming out in the near future.

If you want to get your hands on some of this “mini-shred” gear click here for the boys collection and here for the girls stuff.

catch ya,

Nev and the Snowboard Addiction team

We run 8 weeks of Snowboard Addiction camps during summer. 4 weeks at the Camp of Champions on the Whistler glacier during July and 4 weeks in New Zealand during August.

All coaching is with SA head coach Nev Lapwood and Canadian pro snowboarder Braden Dean.

We’ve decided to limit the amount of campers we take this year to 10 per week to ensure everyone gets quality coaching time with Nev and Braden.

Space is filling up fast!

Check out www.SnowboardAddictionCamps.com for more info on whats included in the camps as well as the dates and prices.

Hope to see you this summer,

Nev and the Snowboard Addiction Team
www.SnowboardAddictionCamps.com

SA campers with Devun Walsh

Along for the ride was pro snowboarder Etienne Gilbert.

The snow was light and fluffy and the lines were unbelievable.

They tested out their latest gadget, check out the results below.

As you can see, they got some pretty sick footage.

The boys had nothing but good things to say about the new cam.
It was a breeze to operate and produced ridiculously good looking HD clips.
They can’t wait to take it out again and show you how Snowboard Addiction does it!

Shaun White, also sponsored by our good friends Burton, has been training hard for this years Olympic games. He recently learnt a huge trick just in time for the final Grand Prix before the Olympics and showed it off in a video for Burton’s YouTube channel.

Check it out below. It is amazing!

What is a most annoying thing about going sledding in the back-country? It is for sure having to carry your board attached to your bag, or your back. Well our new sponsors are aiming to make the whole process a lot easier with their snowboard racks for sleds.

The CFR Snowboard Bracket System is the best and safest way to keep your snowboard out of the way while snowmobiling. Using the CFR snowboard bracket will make you will forget that you have your snowboard with you until you get to the top of your favorite snowboard line or jump spot and turn around. This package contains parts and hardware to carry one snowboard on D or Double D rack. Another snowboard bracket system can be purchased to carry up to two snowboards on D or Double D rack.

Source: http://cheetahfactoryracing.com/snowboardbracket

CFR installed one of their racks on our sled recently and just last week Nev took it out for a spin with Braden on Rainbow Mountain in whistler. Check out this video that they put togther while riding:

After going for a ride and using the snowboard bracket Nev confirms that it is totally sick. Any sled rider could do no better than to get set up with one of these amazing racks.

Check out these photos of CFR owner Dave Basterrechea installing our sled rack for us:

CFR Snowboard Bracket: http://cheetahfactoryracing.com/snowboardbracket
Video Source: Braden Dean’s Personal Blog

The tradeshow trip turned out to be a huge success for Snowboard Addiction. We went down there to scope out industry interest in what we are doing and are trying to achieve here, and feedback has been 100% positive.

The biggest news from the show is that Burton have brought themselves heavily on board for yet another season with us. They are very happy with what we have been doing and are very excited about supporting us even more this year. This is great news for us because it means we will definitely be making a load more videos this season for you guys.

Lots of other companies have told us how great they think our stuff is as a result of the show. So hopefully we will be posting more news in the coming weeks regarding new sponsors for Snowboard Addiction.

A short word has to go out to ‘GoPro‘ as they have hooked us up with a new helmet/multi mount HD camera for shooting our videos, but we’ll leave that for another blog post soon.

The new material we are planning on producing is:

• Butters/flatland Tricks
• How to Ride Powder
• Board Set-Up
• New Learn to Ride Program

Hope you guys are as excited as we are!

Picture taken from – http://www.angrysnowboarder.com/

I went out sledding on Friday for the first time this season for a “fun day” up Rainbow and to get all the bugs worked out before getting into sledding again full on. Unfortunately certain members in the group were less experienced then others and the day began with a snowmobile sending itself down a creek bed and into a deep ravine over 1500′ below any form of trail and into an extremely steep and DEEP area which took almost 7 hours of digging and breaking trail to get out of. The day ended with a long descent back to the trucks in the dark.

We woke up the next morning to find it completely bluebird in Whistler and quickly decided that there was no way that our day could be nearly as frustrating as the day previous. We were right, we shuttled a nice steep powder face for a couple hours, ate lunch on the top of a ridge with a beautiful view of Whistler/Blackcomb and made it down while it was still light out. Here’s a short video of myself and SnowboardAddiction owner/coach Nev Lapwood doing a couple laps holding the GoPro POV camera.

Source: Braden Dean’s Personal Blog

Check out Braden in the Voleurz video Outdoor Graduation.

Snowboard Addiction and Vivo have been tight for a while now. But as of today that friendship has become even greater by us confirming Vivo as a new sponsor of Snowboard Addiction.

Being a Snowboard company can be quite tough at times, so it’s all about the friends you make and supporting each other through our endeavours. This is exactly what Snowboard Addiction and Vivo intend on doing with each other in the future.

Vivo Headwear is a company focused on bring-ing you high-end exclusive products working with premium fabrics and attention to detail. Vivo knows your everyday fit from street to snow. We work with our heavy hitting team to bring you what the riders want. Vivo embodies the past, epitomizes the present and lives to develop the future.

The Vivo team is made up the following riders:

• Tadashi Fuse
• Markku Koski
• Kale Stephens
• Andrew Geeves
• Marie France Roy
• Corey Sheppard

Check out the release party that Vivo had at the beginning of December:

Vivo Headwear – http://vivoheadwear.com/

Nev is a regular in Whistler’s ‘Fire & Ice’ show every year these days. Jumping through rings of fire on his board to entertain the watching tourists and locals at the foot of Whistler mountain. For any of our local readers, if you haven’t caught the show before, you should definately check it out one Sunday. It sure is an impressive show.

Moving on. We were flipping through the latest ‘British Columbia’ magazine here in the SA Offices and came across a piece on the ‘Fire & Ice’ show. The picture for this piece turns out to be of our company Director, Nev! Pretty random. See the picture below (click on it to see it full size):

Vancouver based company Recon Instruments is brewing up something that is going to take the action sports goggle industry by storm. They are ready to blow all the competition out of the water with their revolutionary techno-filled goggle.

Darcy Hughes, Chief Marketing Officer for Recon, says:

“What Recon Instruments has brewing up is a huge evolutionary step for alpine sports, and all action sports in fact. Wearable technology and sports is the newest ideal elevating performance, safety, training and fun, and Recon Instru-ments has the innovations and experience to lead the sporting world forward.”

But what exactly does this goggle do?

Recon Instruments will be unveiling the goggle design with its own advanced optics and display technology inte-grated inside the goggle itself with the following features:

• Speed
• Altitude
• Vertical Odometer
• Stopwatch/ChronosMmode
• Temperature, Time
• GPS Capabilities
• USB Charging and Data Transfer

All of this on show for your pleasure inside your goggle!

The goggles will also come with software designed to keep track of your statistics so that you can keep track of your PB’s on the slopes.

The goggles will retail between $350 and $450 and will be available in Autumn 2010 throughout popular and specialized retail, as well as online, shippable around the world from www.reconinstruments.com.

We are all very excited about these goggles inside the SA Office. We highly anticipate the release next autumn and dream of the day we get to try these goggles out! Until then, check out these promo pictures that Recon nicely sent over to us and check out their website @ http://www.reconinstruments.com

Recon Instruments strives to innovate and lead direct-to-eye communications in any fast-paced environment, such as action sports. A multi-patent-pending technology platform integrates Head Mounted Display systems with state-of-the-art sensor and GPS technology, providing easy access to navigation, communication, and performance based-information. Founded in 2006, incorporated in 2008, Recon Instruments is a privately-held company with just fewer than twenty employees. With offices in Vancouver and boundless testing grounds in Whistler and beyond, Recon Instruments is dedicated to advancing the performance, participation and ethos of sport.