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The first snowboard profile - the traditional camber - came from ski, but since then some snowboard brands developed a lot more types of profiles as well as edge technologies (not to speak about the influence snowboard had on ski itself, we're just here for snowboard gear! Sorry for that one...) that since then, some of them, have been adopted by the ski industry.

Some snowboard brands invest time and resources in developing the sport and that they succeed in doing it. There would be no rocker profiles if it wasn't for them. Other brands, that mainly sell skis or other stuff, just pick knowledge from the first ones (which we call "true" snowboard brands) to build some boards and flip them for a profit through their already existing publicity and distribution channels. This brands won´t invest in developing snowboard, they may though get you lower prices, or not.

So if you want to help your favorite sport evolve and have more and more fun with it, a great way of doing it is by supporting "true" snowboard brands and shops (mostly local specialized shops that favor "true" snowboard brands). It's not easy if you don't know the brands, and that's where the good snowboard shops come in, also try to read about them before buying. We have both a snowboard brands list and a snowboard shops list you can check. And once you get the brands figured out come back to our snowboard size chart, snowboard width chart and snowboard boots size chart to get everything in the right sizes, since we always try to favor the pioneers too.

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The slush-slasher is yellow again! Hooray!!! This CAPITA/SpringBreak is a fell good board, a comfort-snowboard if you will, and let's face it, last seasons slush-slasher's colors were depressing as cheat. Those colors may fit other boards with other personalities, but the slush-slasher I see it as a FUN board, and a fun board requires fun colors.

Now in all fairness, the board I'm reviewing is the 2017/2018 model, the one I owned (and my ho my, did I own it, happy times on that short flexy bright thing), I can do it because the capita/springBreak slush-slasher is a board that changed few or nothing at all in this 2 seasons. And it's yellow again! (OK I'll stop it now).

The first day I've tried it my company said "you're flying on that thing!". It was in a figurative way, but I ended up really flying a bit on it since I've used it all season which included some considerable cliff-drops, although most of the season was on trees and slopes.

To land bigger stuff the slush-slasher is obviously not the best snowboard, but it's a board that makes the not so big stuff a lot more fun, maybe because it makes it a bit more technical or because it just makes it different. It's sooo refreshing to ride a board like this capita/springBreak when your mind tells you "lets just enjoy, no goals, fell the fun". And as riding different boards will naturally expand your skill-set, with the fun comes improvement.

So if you're looking for a little change, whether as a daily snowboard for more or less time or as a second/quiver board, the capita / spring break slush-slasher is here to make you smile. Just don't expect it to last forever, it's really not meant for that, the base and core are very soft and easy to blow up with heavier riding. Like most things, it's fun while it lasts!

So this morning I had a LinkedIn mail notifying me that someone added me to her LinkedIn network. I barely visit LinkedIn and have never done anything with it, I just accept the few "add me to your network" requests I get, time to time. I usually don't pay much attention to these few new connections either, unless I'm spoken to. But this time it was someone with a Portuguese name (I'm Portuguese too) working for a company named snowpass. I thought "this must be a snow-sports related multinational company with representation in Portugal" and wanted to know more so I went to their website to check it out and found out about the first European snowboard/ski pass!

That's right, snowpass.com is a freshly founded company that offers the first European ski pass, and they're now backed by FIS (international ski federation), the main regulatory body in the ski industry. This was probably the best endorsement they could have got as it gives the project a lot of credibility right from the beginning. Both, clients and resorts, seem to be looking forward for the inaugural season and to see how well it works.

The pass costs 895€ for adults and 695€ for children (born between 2007-2015 inclusive), but for the first 50.000 passes there is a (very) special price of 395€ for adults and 345€ for children. There are also passes for baby (born before 2006 inclusive) at 49€.

After knowing about the company and it's product I went on to learn about the people, about the company itself and it's short but strong history. It is a family company based in Portugal (Lisbon area, which is my residence area in the summer) doing it out of passion and doing it right!

Rider: Dian Manolov   Level: Snowboard Instructor   Media: /dia.nanbono

Board: Salomon Assassin (2014)

I use it everywhere and for everything, literally, as much park laps as freeride runs and on slopes too. My everyday board, to ride and teach.

Has a stable edge on slopes for my type of riding. It's easy to butter with and floats well in powder because of the softer nose and tail.

It could be stiffer for even more stability and added pop

2020 update: The model I've reviewed in 2018 was the 2019 one, the first strata bindings, now comes their second year. People say the 2020 union strata is all about delivering control and response to the edge of the board. If Union improved the last strata model while keeping the same profile, then that is for sure a true description of these bindings. Even if there where no changes at all besides aesthetics the "it's all about response" still holds true.

Check out the bindings page to know how to choose your next snowboard bindings like a pro.

A youtube playlist with lots of good advices by the pro rider (pro snowboarder) Jeremy Jones, owner of Jones Snowboards.

music: drunk

by: monte booker

Just found this image in a random google search. Snowboard is about doing whatever you want and there is no writes or wrongs. Those "no grab zones" are there because those grabs don't punctuate on the important competitions because they're "ugly" or "easy". But please do it if you like it!

  #happyriding   #truesnowboard

This ain't probably new to most of us out there but, the EG2 is a great mask!

Only thing that may feel "old" is when you have to change your lens, the system is the most ancient one of all, but for the system they use, they're surprisingly easy to deal with.

Really comfortable and functional, the whole "your HDTV for the mountains" thing doesn't feel too stretched, as you can really SEE with these due to their size and shape. Also, they are pretty good looking.

My choice for the past season.

This time in Lisbon. There is no snow here but there is a snow culture (each time larger) made of people that started to get the taste for snowsports while still kids in their annual winter vacations with their parents, people that work the summers to spend the seasons riding or people who heard from a friend that snowboard is awesome and since then go ride one week per year or so. One thing that most of them have in common is a love for surf, bodyboard, skate or anything else. There are very few "snowboarders" here, but there's a lot of people who love to snowboard as a compliment to their main sport.

The only resort in Portugal is in Serra da Estrela, about 300km from Lisbon, a 3 hour drive. The largest and most known resorts nearby are Sierra Nevada (Spain) and Grandvalira (Andorra). You also have some smaller ones in Spain and all the resorts from the Pyrenees (Spain, France, Andorra).

Thanks to Ricardo Xaomim for the photos.

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My new every-day board.
Apart of being a bit too soft it's all I've been dreaming about during the whole summer, really playful with an amazing grip due to the camber between feet and to YES.'s edge technology "under bite" - the edges going inside 1mm close to the bindings positions - that works really well.
The extra grip from the "under bite" edge technology plus the pop from the camber between feet, both make the board change edges REALY fast. And the rocker at tip and tail let you initiate turns easily and gives you magical floating powers in powder.

Probably the most playful board I've tried that also gives you a good control sensation at moderate-fast speeds. And it's a true twin, which makes it really playful in both directions. YES! A great freestyle board that can also rip some steep spots at slow to moderate-fast speeds and also carve some great lines in mid-range groomed terrain.

For a beginner the choice is fairly easy, beginners have less to choose from. Experts are always looking for the next thing that will improve their performance and progression but they (usually) know what they want on a board from experience, which also makes it easier to choose a snowboard. But almost everyone fits in the intermediate/advanced snowboarder category.

So be wise with your snowboard gear choices, the better you get the more influence it has on the fun you have on the mountains and on how much and how fast you will progress. And stay cool, if you are reading this you've already found the best tool to help you on the task. We want to help each and every snowboarder to progress faster, jump higher, laugh more while doing it.