Time to grab your friends, throw your wood planks in the car and head toTimberline for Airblaster’s Board Games! Prepare for an all-around good time with your buds shredding Terry’s Maximum Airtime Rhythm Section. Get ready to tweak, turn, flip and rip with your friends! Join us for the third Board Games at Timberline since it’s resurrection from the dead. First thirty entrants will receive a fun bag (a bag full of fun stuff) from all our ...

Riders from all over the World flocked to Andorra this weekend for the ninth Edition of the Grandvalira Total Fight. This year the Total Fight upgraded to 5 stars on the World Snowboard Tour making it one of the season’s most globally anticipated slopestyle events. This year’s slopestyle started off with a rail zone which consisted of a choice between a 6 metre rail or a rail king, followed by a down box with a 5 metre gap ...

On Friday, March 22, 2013, Iouri Podladtchikov landed a trick during the X Games Tignes Men's SuperPipe finals that no one had ever thought to do before, much less attempted and ridden away from clean. Unfortunately, the trick, a switch frontside 1440 -- better known now as the "YOLO flip" -- was not the last one in his run. Having finally landed the YOLO, a goal he had been aiming for since X Games Aspen, I-Pod came into his final hit ...

brightcove.createExperiences(); Don't miss Vans Team Riders Pat Moore and Wolle Nyvelt in the Red Bull Ultra Natural airing this tomorrow on NBC. Viewing schedule by location USA 10:30 a.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT Rest of the world Starting 3:00 p.m. PT / 6:00 p.m. ET Red Bull Ultra Natural is available On Demand online for 24 hours at www.redbullsignatureseries.com.

Zac Marben getting upside down. Photo: Darrell Mathes. Looks like the Videograss dudes have traded the mean streets of Minnesota for the high alpine of the Whistler backcountry. Darrell Mathes and Zac Marben have fired up the sleds and moved from handrails to big hits, building booters and shredding Whistler's endless backcountry terrain, proving their worth as well rounded riders. Check out more some photos that Darrell shot from one of the first missions on howlsupply.com.

Hana Beaman, Robin Van Gyn and the gang explore the backcountry at Whistler.

Watch Travis Rice's X Games Pro Series with Mark Landvik. X Games is partnering with some of the most entertaining personalities and awe-inspiring athletes in action sports for a series of video chronicles following the adventures of their daily lives. X Games Slopestyle superstar Mark McMorris kicked off the fun in January with the first of his Road To X videos. Skiers Sean Pettit and Bobby Brown joined the party during the lead-up to X Games Tignes. And now ...

Words and Photos: Thomas “Beckna” Eberharter. The second stop of the Vans Hi-Standard Series Europe took place in Mayrhofen, Austria on Saturday, March 23rd. The comp was held on the roller jump at the bottom of the pro line of the Vans Penken Park Mayrhofen which was just the right size kicker to have some fun and allowing anything up to the limit of 720 degree spins and in between. In the end Mayrhofen local Flo Heim took top honors ...

Andreas Wiig is a world-renowned snowboarder with multiple podium wins, video parts, featured product lines, and a new business venture. This series will document Andreas’s travels, passions, lifestyle and his everyday life. Contest Details: Leave a comment on the youtube page for a chance to win an Andreas Wiig prize package that includes gear from Andreas’ sponsors: Norrona, Vans, AWSM, Electric Visual, and Rockstar Energy Drink. One winner will be selected Monday, April 1st! - via Rockstar Follow Andreas Wiig ...

Arthur Longo sending it in semis at XGames Tignes 2013. Words: Larry Nunez. Photos: Beckna. Superpipe Finals at XGames 2013 was another one for the books, as the native Frenchman Arthur Longo had the run of his life to take home the Silver medal! Arthur blasted some of the Biggest Cab Tens, Frontside 900s and Frontside 1080 Double Corks of the entire week, and scored a 92.0 on his very first run to set the bar for everyone to ...

The Vans Team has been killing it at X Games 2013 in Tignes, France this week. A combination of powerful snowstorms and sunny, bluebird days has made for an eventful contest so far. The competitors have been ripping around the massive mountain getting bottomless powder slashes in between Slopestyle and Superpipe Semifinals. Both Iouri Podladtchikov and Arthur Longo qualified for the Superpipe Finals in blizzard conditions on Wednesday night, while Eric WIllett cruised through Slopestyle semis today ending up in ...

Shout out B4BC for tipping us off to this interview with Hana Beaman, prettytough.com's March Rider of the Month. Pretty Tough delves deep with Hana getting into her childhood, fantasies, Olympic aspirations and more. Check it the full interview with Hana at prettytough.com.

Check out the video from the first annual Jeff Anderson Memorial Banked Slalom at Mammoth Mtn Ca. This was a damn good time and sure to be a yearly gathering. -via Snowboarder Magazine.

Hana Beaman and Gabi Viteri go to Silverton, Colorado ... and use horses and cars for an in-town "urban" shred session.

Words and photos: Larry Nuñez North America has its fair share of big mountain resorts. The Tetons, the Sierras, the Cascades and the Canadian Rockies all have a spot or two that can hold their own. But absolutely nothing on that side of the globe, except for maybe Alaska compares to the sheer size of the Alps. Spanning eight countries including France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria, these mountains are unlike anything in the world, and almost any resort out of ...

At just 24 years old, Arthur Longo already seems like a veteran in professional snowboarding. With several Pirate Productions film parts under his belt and a victory at the Arctic Challenge in 2009, Arthur has accomplished so much for someone his age. Now with a renewed focus on halfpipe, he's looking to make a push heading into next year's Olympics and add another item to the resume. We sat down with Arthur just after last week's Arctic ...

Words and photos: Larry Nuñez For the second time in a row Vans Team Rider Iouri “IPod” Podladtchikov won the most prestigious halfpipe contest in all of snowboarding, The Arctic Challenge in Olso, Norway. Founded by the legendary Terje Haakonsen, The Arctic Challenge (TAC) is the final stop of the 2012/2013 World Snowboard Tour and stands as a testament to Terje’s lifelong commitment of uniting competitive freestyle snowboarding around the world. After falling ill for the finals at ...

Words and photos: Larry Nuñez Every snowboarder loves the local mountain. It’s a place that’s hopefully not too far away where you can easily go to forget your troubles and escape for a day. Somewhere comfortable and familiar – somewhere that feels like home. For anyone that lives in Portland, Oregon, Mt. Hood Meadows is that kind of mountain. A short, 60-mile drive from Portland on Highway 26, Mt. Hood Meadows has been satisfying the city’s powder jones ...

brightcove.createExperiences(); Snowboard all-rounder Markus Keller stars in his own movie due to be released in Fall 2013. This web series seeks to highlight the making of process of the movie as he and his crew travel the world in search of perfect snow.

Vans Team Rider Andreas Wiig has a new web series premiering this month from Rockstar Energy Drink called "Under the Wiig". The teaser is out now, and by the looks of it this show is gonna be sick! Big ups to Andreas and Rockstar, check out the teaser and go to Rockstar's YouTube page later this month to see the first episode.