Reviews

The Mission bindings have been in Burton’s range for a long time… a good quality, all-round binding that can go everywhere, tried and…

It was time to replace my snowboarding helmet – after trying a few on and considering different options I ended up with the…

I’m a big fan of Absinthe snowboard movies: Futureproof and More are among my favourite shred films. Consequently the bar is high when…

Have you seen it yet? If not, read this review. Looking for the soundtrack? It’s at the bottom. Here’s the review… The riding…

When it comes to snowboard luggage there’re a lot of options. However, I think the primary choice is between an all-in-one boardbag approach…

This is a guest review, written by René Weiß. René is an intermediate snowboarder, happy riding powder and starting to learn some freestyle,…

The first time that I went snowboarding, Chamonix in January of 2003, I didn’t have any base layers. Cotten t-shirts and a snowboard…

The snowboarder’s pocket tool can come in really handy on the hill. If you’re experimenting with binding angles, you’re gonna need some way…

The Snowboard Jedi Program is a download-able course designed to improve your abilities as a snowboarder. The key difference to this program is…

Absinthe’s Nowhere: I’ve enjoyed this movie, as you come to expect with Absinthe, it’s full of top notch shredding and some brilliant sections.…

Snow Search Japan is an excellent guide book, targeting more than just the individual Japanese resorts. It will help you choose the region…

This is a guest review, written by a friend, Jonathan Dicks. Jon’s been shredding for a good while now and the review below…

Learn to Ride is an instructional video from Snowboard Addiction. It’s aimed at first time snowboarders and starts from the absolute beginning. The…

In part 1 of this review, I explained that I was making two claims from my travel insurance: one for a delayed departure…

I was asked to write a review of this Nokia Bluetooth Headset, which is advertised as offering convenient on-the-go access to music and…

Snowboard Addiction provide a whole load of instructional snowboard lessons. This is part 2 of the Freestyle Lessons review. Part 1 provided an…

Travel Insurance is one of those things that, whether it’s your own fault or not, you don’t find out how good it is…

OK, so I ended up getting SnowboardAddiction’s Freestyle Download. The download covers the same five DVDs that you can buy in physical form,…

This is a quick review of my last set of snowboard gloves, made by Level. Unfortunately I’m not totally sure what model they…

It’s a belt, there’s not much to say, right? That’s fair enough, but here are a few points: Tools. Most of the 686…

The Custom has been marketed as “the snowboard that does everything and some more”. The Custom gets so many good reviews, it sounds…

The T.Rice is an awesome snowboard. I wanted a soft-flexing, freestyle board, that I would ride in the park and around the whole…

During the 2007/2008 season, we stayed in the Cornerstone Lodge, in Fernie, Canada (BC). The Cornerstone Lodge is in the actual resort, rather…

For a while now I’ve been intending to move away from having an all-inclusive, wheeled boardbag (e.g. Burton Wheelie Locker), to using two…