Tuesday's... Dead Episode 2 from PYP on Vimeo.Featuring Eliel Hindert and friends! var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
November Meow Mix from NIMBUS INDEPENDENT on Vimeo. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
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CHECK THE FULL STORY HEREen route plan b from NIMBUS INDEPENDENT on Vimeo. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
New Zealand circa 2005photo by Blake Kimmel var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
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photo by Adam Clark My names Adam Shaffer, lifetime skier, ski patrolman, video/photo-journalist, and P&C.T.C (personal and commercial technology consultant... Fancy way of saying I'm a geek haha!) I've been speaking to them about doing a interview with you guys about how you started and why, it's Warren millers skiing mag.. Also about all the designs and rockers and just surface causewell and joystick as well. Plus all the things your doing for Eco friendly with the green life's and giving back with the save life's. I have the nine lifes and 3 years ago I could barely walk from a god awful thrashing, I was doing a switch corked 900 tail grab. but coming off the lip "since it wasn't a finished tabletop, it was just 45ft table of plowed up rock hard ice boulders and snow they started the launch and landing with groomers but the middle was 45+ft gap by 15ft wide 20ft tall with just chunks of ice and boulders of ice and one the size of a vw bug. But on my launch I was in stance and hit the lip got the pop and started to spin... But my left leg got hung up in a ice boulder at the top left of the launch on my swing to start my spin, so it ripped the Meniscus cartilage in half also shredding the cartilage behind the patella (knee cap) and tore most of my tendon. After what seemed like an hour in the air i wound up landing in the ice boulder field tearing my meniscus and patella's cartilage and #12 of my concussions lol (I have 16 to date! 1/2 With a helmet ha! The others well let's just say I was young and reckless I was superman made of glass, I'd take a terrible yard sale with just a beanie and goggles. But I'd get up find my stuff hike up and keep launching Till I'd land It, huck it right, redo my tree lines, or even just catching an edge or Even a tumble down from a peak. With out a helmet then when I finally got a dome globe/helmet) they really have to redesign them, I just got an idea maybe make helmets under causewell! **More details and ideas below after the story** but after 3 surgeries in one year and nearly 2-1/2 years of therapy..fun...not! (but it was all to get me skiing again, it was personalized for me for skiing all mountain, park, pipe, and racing! Before I was done I ordered the 09 nine life's with look (rosi) jib bindings and went against what they said and skied any way on them and even raced them and they were so amazingly light and perfect I loved the early rise especially, perfect for racing and park. I'm 5,9ft tall 169lbs and 172's are perfect a little longer then what I usually get (heads with tyrolia bindings) which are at my chin but I found it to be way to slow and I'd sink in powder and they where heavy like cement blocks on your feet!! And the nine lifes are up to my forehead and half the weight. :-) which allows me to learn and do new tricks pluss race way faster my times dropped drastically! And my knees arnt killed from them finally a perfect almost hand made ski company!! I was once sponsored by head thrills and sessions clothing 4 years ago and these big company's threw me out and cut me off from getting gear when I need it and you guys have the feeling that this is what you love to do next to bomb a line or launch and it shows even in your customer service and turn out amazing products with a friendly homely way. if I was on your team as an "am" and was hurt you wouldn't just drop me unless I couldn't ski or you guys couldn't afford it and had to drop me till I healed. Now since I'm healed and skiing already and finished my schooling (that's what I did with the time off) and love photography, skiing, journalism, and marketing. So I combined them to make my own journalism skiing filming photography and movie making and formed HTC.PR firm to film and report about everything from skiing to surfing hiking and new gear and company with a review on all the products to evaluate and review and bring my work and transform it into articles and just true honest reports (but I must say you guys are the best I've ever skied!) So precise and perfect and amazingly talented and their also amazing because how the Perform in everything I've thrown at them it's like butter so smooth tins of pop and perfect I need more I'm so dying to try a 3 stage rocker setup (so sexy lol) I've skied almost every ski company and every style through the years which is now.7 17yrs I'm 21 I'll be 22 on 12/11/10 haha! So I'm having a huge party, I can't drink because when they did the surgery, I found out I have a rare form of chrons disease that's actually rheumatoid arthritis that's progressing faster and faster, my knees, elbow,s spine, and all my joints become brittle and super stiff to the point where it hurts to stand. but I take an injectable drug one needle full a week and have to live on terrible drugs I hate it.and theirs no cure just treatment not even charities or awareness for it and it sucks in a few years I'll be like tin man. So back to the interview I'd love to call ask you guys some questions and need some pics to advertise I'd love to test these out mainly the three stage rocker but I'm on the east cost I have bindings and all I just need to get the skis but I'd love to do the interview since your Eco friendly and everything skiing mag will love this they've given me questions to ask and things and explain each ski you make and are making, I also have a design for......the following information is classified, but we assure you Adam's idea's are epic. Thanks again. Adam Shaffer Video/photo/journalist PCTC var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Ian Matteson Photo Dear friends, Going slow into features, casing jumps, and constantly struggling to increase your velocity will ruin your ski day and potentially cause injuries. Thankfully, waxing skis has been around since the dawn of the sport and even though we ski over concrete, wood, and a variety of harmful substances, waxing helps. The downside of course, is the chemical make-up of wax may be contaminating the very substance we cherish most. For us, a world with contaminated groundwater and poor snowpack sounds genuinely awful and we wish to increase knowledge on how to wax better, more environmentally friendly, and reduce the consumption of fluorocarbon waxes. To better address this issue, take the time to read the following article: "Waxing for a Greener Tomorrow" by Evelyn French As always, keep shredding, having fun, and doing everything in your power to protect our snowpack. After all, when we're 75, skiing with our grandchildren will be far more enjoyable than telling stories of a forgotten activity. A message from Surface Skis 2010 var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Switzerland is immaculate. photo by Banks Gilberti var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Surface is the Bee's Knees Be Advised. photo by Banks Gilberti var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Friend, photographer, and design artist Aaron Schwartz has been silently killing it for Surface Canada the past few seasons. From designing our flyers for the Canadian Demo Tour to customizing Eliel Hindert's skis, Aaron is a rad character with an artistic eye. For more of Aaron's designs check out HIS WEBSITE HERE. Thanks for the STOKE Aaron Schwartz! var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Our boy Jason Arens checks in with some baller photos from Heavenly Resort! var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Operating under the firm belief that the youth shreds just as hard as their adult counterparts, we created the "Next Life," and unveiled the first true rockered ski to the youth market. By first true rockered ski, we mean a ski that is designed and built to perform like an adult rocker ski, just smaller. The Next Life comes equipped with wood cores, sidewall construction and a waist width of 100 mm to ensure the Blake Nyman?s of the future can slash, stomp and send it just like their hero?s. Early Rise and Low Rise Hybrid make for an extremely smooth turn initiation and exit. along with keeping the tip of those boards ontop of the deepest snow. The Hybrid Camber underfoot allows for that edge hold when snow tends to firm up or when terrain gets steeper and you need that extra bite. The Low Rise allows for "catch free skiing" making turn entry a breeze. Never Doubt the Youth! var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
I'm thankful for travel. Those times when you wake up at 4:37 am, drive two hours through snowy roads to the nearest airport and post up, half exhausted at your gate with nothing more than an iPod, cup of coffee, and book. I'm thankful for new perspectives, genuine people, genuine haters, people to love, friends to see, hilarious events, and astounding scenery. I'm thankful for freedom. The freedom to pick up and disappear, the freedom to leave a location and arrive in the next, the freedom to live completely unshackled from routine and any shred of normalcy. I'm thankful for time in the air, hours completely shut off from cell phone and email conversations, spent in perfect solace staring at a quiet world. I thankful for highways that connect town to town, city to city, and state to state. I'm thankful for truck stops with hilarious t-shirts, endless subway sandwiches, water, and 5-hour energy drinks. I'm thankful for music. Blasting songs from limitless musical options is refreshing and can pass the time for hours. I'm thankful for travel, for it is but 1/100th of what makes our lifestyle absolutely incredible. Travel Safe & Be Well. photos by Banks Gilberti var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
With an uncertain future, we must live completely devoid of fear. photo by Banks Gilberti var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
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Cal Trail Terrain Park from Heavenly Mountain on Vimeo. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
photo by Adam ClarkSkiing by Anthony Boronowski var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Boreal TVC 2010: ///Surface from Paul Braunstein on Vimeo. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
The Walks of Life is a Surface team movie that we have tried to make a reality for at least a couple years now. With the help of Paul Braunstein, we were finally able to put together a 20 minute short featuring Surface riders: Blake Nyman, Banks Gilberti, Ian Wade, Jeff Kiesel, John Ware, Josh Bishop, Scott Damon and of course, Anthony Boronowski. The premier will be held at the Tower Theatre at 876 E. 900 S. in Salt Lake City this coming Monday, November 29th at 7:00pm - there will be a $5 admission fee but don't trip because plenty of swag will be tossed and there will also be a BALLER raffle going on as well. To top it all off, the party will move just a short walk up the street to FRESH SLC 870 E. 900 S. for a look at images from Surface photographers Adam Clark, Ian Matteson and Jason Eichhorst. Show will start around 7:00pm - For more info call us at (801) 733-4195 var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Anthony Boronowski photo by Adam Clark var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Dendrite Studios "Out of the Shadows" is available online!!!! Digital HD: $1.99Digital SD: "Pay What you Want" rate starting at $1.99 or SD Limited Edition DVD: copies available for 29.95 Toques (HATS) available at the online store Word to the wise: watch the trailer below & BUY THIS FILM. Eliel Hindert's segment is WILD!!!! var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Rob Heule hard at work in Vancouver, BC! Keep slaying dawg! var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-16248534-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
