The Snowboarder's Journal:
"What the snowboard industry does doesn’t really affect me in any way. I live in southern Vermont, so far away from anyone in the industry, and am making classes for people to build boards. Those nose and tail shapes are mostly suggestions for people who want to take a class, and a lot of people go off of that and don’t stick to that script. Some [templates] are only there because we think they look awesome..."
The Sickle - Resort Ready
The Sickle packs the PowderJet ethos into a board that you can rip every day. It has traditional camber and a nice tight sidecut for carving up corduroy while maintaining an ample taper and setback to flow effortlessly through powder.
As with all PowderJets, we will customize the width, nose, and tail to exactly what you want. Just ask.
From The Ledger
The Shop Scratch Pad
A rambling collection of things that stoke us
Snowboarding's Forgotten Pioneer - Dimitrije Milovich
Well, of course gravity is not an illusion in the sense that we know that things fall. Most people, certainly in physics, think we can describe gravity perfectly adequately using Einstein’s General Relativity. But it now seems that we can also start from a microscopic formulation where there is no gravity to begin with, but you can derive it. This is called ‘emergence’.
Professor Erik Verlinde, an expert in string theory from the University of Amsterdam and the Delta Institute of Theoretical Physics
Meanwhile in Siberia
Here's 60 inches of powder, press mute, watch for a minute, move on
Now, it’s exactly the opposite of what was attractive about snowboarding all along. We’re turning it into something that’s not attractive anymore because we’re turning it into the thing that we hated in the beginning. Don’t we see that?
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