Pop Magazine Closed

Started in 2005, Pop Magazine published a free quarterly magazine focusing on Australian snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing. Pop grew to produce a feature length snowboard movie, an industry leading website for daily news, web-casts and digital versions of the magazines as well as premiere events and consultancy. Ten years later, …

by Rick

How To Start A Magazine: Lessons from 10 Years of Pop Magazine

In 2005 Dave Keating and I, Rick Baker, set out to create a free press surf, skate and snowboarding magazine. 10 years later, we’re closing the ‘doors’. The whole endeavor was always about capturing the creativity and excitement that surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding gave us and from that, building a …

by Rick

2015 Dirksen Derby

I’d been hearing about how fun Josh Dirksen’s charity banked slalom event at Mt Bachelor was for a couple years. And with all the hype surrounding El Niño I figured this season would be the one to go all in on. So after a few seasons of forgoing snow in …

by Rick

Diaries Downunder Is Back For 2015

Diaries Downunder is back and looking better than ever – Nick Hyne, Nick Brown and Mahi Mains go deep into the Southern Alps and to Cecil Peak before hot-tubbing together on top of the mountain. The new title sequence looks awesome and the music is rad. Great way to start the …

by Dave

2015 Cattlemans Rail Jam Results And Photos

If you woke up Saturday morning, looked out the window and thought that a new ice age might be approaching, you’d also realise that it had to be Burton Cattlemans Rail Jam weekend… It’s the only kinda weather this event happens in. Jye Kearney took out the win for a fourth …

by Dave

Jake Burton Recovering From Serious Illness

Jake Burton is recovering from a serious illness diagnosed right after the Burton Open back in March. He suffered from Miller Fisher Syndrome which is apparently a varient of Guillan-Barre Syndrome. Burton spent nearly two months on full life support – his case of the disease was serious enough to cause temporary paralysis of …

by Dave

Odd Folks’ Pre Peri Peri Chicken

Jeremy Saunders shot through this edit for Odd Folks featuring Rocco Rachiele, Josh Vagne, Jordy Crockford, Bryan Bowler, Troy Sturrock, Joel Cuntle and Jye Kearney. The guys are having a few runs in the Perisher park on some pretty nice looking days. Check it out.

by Dave

Grindhouse’s Afterlife Teaser

Here’s the teaser for U.K. outfit Grindhouse’s new film, Afterlife. It features Andy Nudds, Janne Lipsanen, Antti Jussila, Jonny Pickup, Zakke, Petrus Koskinen, Jamie Nicholls & Nik Länsiö. To be honest, I’ve only ever vaguely been aware of Grindhouse but this definitely got me to sit up and take notice – looks like …

by Dave

Manboys Spring Edit

The Manboys have released a spring edit where they hit a few events, muck around a bit and hit a massive spine (which I might be wrong but I’m pretty sure was built by Charles Beckinsale – see his Insta below). Spine 30ft tall 65ft long, next time I build …

by Dave

10 Years Of Cattlemans History

Check this clip out… If you can tear your eyes away from Chunk’s glorious beard for a minute and pay attention to what’s being said, you’ll be getting a history lesson on the Cattlemans event. A decade of memories – from Robbie Walker’s three year winning streak to some of …

by Dave

10 Years Of Cattlemans This July

Happening on July 11th will be the tenth Cattlemans Rail Jam event – there’s $10k up for grabs and the contest will follow the same format as the last few years with qualification on the replica rail during the day followed by the event at about 6pm that night, Kooroora after. There’s a …

by Dave

Snowboard Big Air Added To 2018 Olympics

Photo: Nick Hamilton for Transworld. Yuki Kadono at Air and Style in LA, 2015 The IOC has announced four new events at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics, including the addition of Big Air to the snowboard list. This is, however, taking the spot of the snowboard parallel slalom… I’m feeling …

by Dave

Kyneee Snowboards – Just One Trick

Kyneee Snowboards has got $500 up for grabs – all you need to do is upload your best trick to Instagram with the hashtag #justonetrick and you’re in the running. See all the deets below. ### Official Word From Kyneee Kyneee is all about giving back to snowboarders and exposing …

by Dave

Blueprint’s All In Ender

Here’s the big ender part for series two of Pat Moore’s awesome Blueprint series. This one features a recut from all the season’s clips and stars all the talent – Pat Moore, Jeremy Jones, Jake Welch, Bryan Iguchi, Ben Ferguson and more. Something to keep you hanging for (fingers crossed) a …

by Dave

Travis Rice Getting The Shots

GoPro took a bunch of crew out heliboarding in the BC backcountry as a goodbye to the 14/15 season and captured this pretty damn epic footage… If this doesn’t get you hyped for the next T-Rice film, nothing will.

by Dave

Chapter 4.2 Of ‘This Just Happened’

Here’s the latest ‘This Just Happened’ featuring Halldor Helgason, Eiki Helgason, Felix Engström, Sven thorgren, Kevin Bäckström, Tor Lundström, and Ulrik Badertscher. The guys are riding in Kläppen, Sweden. Enjoy! Via Transworld.

by Dave

Snow Craft Generations – Full Movie

Lukas and Jesse Huffman have released the full film of Snow Craft Generations. The film covers the early days of snowboarding with the founders of companies like Winterstick, Gnu and LibTech. The old footage and hearing the stories about the hard times getting the businesses to work are awesome to …

by Dave

ETT Goes Behind The Scenes Of John J’s New Board

I think this might be the best ETT to date as it delves a little deeper into the process of making a board for a pro. John Jackson sketched out what he was after for the team in the factory who got into some real detail with it and tested …

by Dave

Blueprint’s Alaskan Ender

Pat Moore takes one last trip to Alaska for the season with Ben Ferguson and John Jackson in the latest Blueprint. We get a good look at Ferguson’s awesome style and the guys have a few rad days out there. Another great ep!

by Dave

Sexual Snowboarding’s Chapter 4.1

There’s not a whole lot to say about this one – some nice slow mo action over a jump followed by something more chaotic… and painful. But fun. Enjoy! Via Transworld Snowboarding.

by Dave

Shaun Palmer “The Miserable Champion”

Image via ESPN. The documentary, Shaun Palmer “The Miserable Champion”, is available now to grab through Vimeo on Demand. It tells the story of Palmer who excelled at quite a few sports but most notably snowboarding. This actually looks pretty awesome, definitely one to watch. Check the trailer above then grab it …

by Dave

Blueprint’s The Last Frontier

Here’s the latest Blueprint episode featuring Jamie Lynn, Bryan Iguchi and Pat Moore hitting Valdez, Alaska. The guys talk about the good and the bad/scary of being in the area, their past experiences and what it means to ride there. A good watch for sure.

by Dave

NBD With Halldor, Sage and Eric

I’m at a loss for words on this one. There’s some fun riding in here – and the little bumps and hits are done with style… Then, well, there’s just some other stuff in there.

by Dave

Last Weeks Energy Drink Fuelled Meat Spin

Last week was a big one for upping the spin count in snowboarding. Max Parrot stomped a Quad-Underflip 16 while Billy Morgan nailed a Back 18 Quad Cork. See above and below. Parrot’s jump was landed off a 75 foot booter at Whistler while Morgans came off a spot in …

by Dave

Blueprint In Italy With Mathes, Longo and Iguchi

Here’s the latest Blueprint episode which sees Pat Moore along with Danimals, Darrel Mathes and Arthur Longo head to the Alagna and the Aosta Valley in Italy. The guys have a few days riding before bringing in Bryan Iguchi for some fun. Check it out.

by Dave

Sexual Snowboarding : This Just Happened : Chapter 3

Here is Chapter 3 of This Just Happened by Sexual Snowboarding. Featuring the usual crew of Halldor Helgason, Felix Engström, Nils Arvidsson, Luda Lejkner and Ethan Morgan, it is the mix of weird, gross, funny and all round rad that we’ve come to expect. Enjoy!

by Dave

DC’s L’Invasion 2015 Looked Like Fun

Photo: A few familiar faces in attendance. DC have held a team-retailer party thing in Meribel, France recently and damn, did this look like fun. The company had the likes of Devun Walsh, Anto Chamberland, Iikka Backstrom, Ryan Tiene, Justin Fronius, Mat Schaer, Mons Roisland and others there, as well …

by Dave

Blueprint Visits An Old World For A New Perspective

In this episode of Blueprint, Pat Moore travels to Europe to hang out and ride with Jake Welch, John Jackson, Nicolas Müller and Jake Blauvelt – not a bad crew. This is Moore’s first trip to film pow in Europe which is crazy considering how long his career has been. It’s another …

by Dave

Vail Resorts Acquires Perisher For $176 Million

Vail Resorts have acquired Perisher for AU$176.6 million (US$136 million) and is grouping the resort in with its other holdings to offer passes that can keep you going year round. The Epic pass (which was available for for $749 till March 31st) includes riding at “Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado, …

by Dave

Blueprint With John Jackson

I’m a week late on this but with good reason that I wont bore you with… Anyway, Blueprint is back and this time with John Jackson after a prolonged absence from the sport due to knee injuries. And it was very prolonged – first air time in about three years. …

by Dave

ETT Creates A Product They Can Sell

Christian Hosoi and a man in a lab coat help out in this latest ETT to create a low-fi snow skate – and they actually put them into production to sell at $99.00! If you’re lucky enough to live in a town that gets regularly snowy, this could be a lot …

by Dave

South Korea Confirms 2018 Snowboard Venue

In only three short years we will be seeing the worlds best snowboarders compete at South Korea’s Bokwang Phoenix Park. It is located in the township of Bongpyeong-myeon, in the county of Pyeongchang. Apparently negotiations around the resort have been difficult but Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism, Kim Jong-deok has got …

by Dave

Mess Up Meribel

I got put onto this one earlier today and it is a bit of fun… Kiwi Nick Hyne along with Alex Stewart, Victor Loron, Giacomo Erriciello and Gabriele Baj got messy and did some filming at the DC house in Meribel. Semi male-nudity, atomic wedgies, falling into fires, running barefoot through fires …

by Dave

Never Buy A Snowboard Video Again

In the past I have always had mixed feelings about torrenting snowboard videos. For some, like brand videos, I see them as a marketing exercise and the brand benefits from more people seeing it – I don’t feel too bad about that. For others where they have inexplicably decided to make Australian …

by Dave

Yuki Kadono’s Winning Back to Back 16s

For all the bitching about style and spinning to win, Yuki deserves so much kudos for how solidly he lands the second 16 in this run, if for nothing else. This run won him the Burton U.S. Open slope contest for 2015 and deservedly so – he scored 90.05 ahead of second …

by Dave