Jake competed at The Farmers Jam, a slopestyle competition held at a dry slope in Norwich, UK.He rode well and was a bit nervous going up a category this year to the 12-17's, he held his own, pushed him self hard and took some big falls, Dendix (known in the UK as the diamonds of death) is not the most user friendly surface to ride on and takes no prisoners, I have broken both of my thumbs on the stuff, years ago.

A sunny day in the Perisher park. from Rich Jonas on Vimeo.

On July 2nd it was my 12th birthday and my Mum and Dad put a little comp for me, at The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead to celebrate. As it was my birthday, I asked a my sponsors and some of our friends in the industry, if they could give me some goodies to give out on the night. They included Buff, DC, Flow , Electric, The Snow Centre and my friends at Burton, Monster Energy, Westbeach, Skullcandy, Forum, Eleven, Whitelines, FBBB, Bern and SCUK. So a big thankyou and many, many thanks  for sending me out outerwear, stickers, hats, t-shirts, hoodies and loads of other lovely goodies.

 

Mark Raper at the ReUnion Event Reports

Friday Night was Reunion Night. Another episode on the Castleford ParkStrife Calender.

Supported by yours truely, we wondered if this one would live up to the hype, after all FoTP had certainly made a big fuss, to get the riders to the hill and to take the opportunity of another wicked nights shred.

Would the Reunion be another one of the infamous Castleford nights? Would all the big plans Castleford had for this superpark come together?

More than 150 riders that had made the journey for the session were about to find out.

Again, the quality of the park was without doubt, awesome. The variety of features out on the hill was plentiful, plenty of lines, plenty of jibs and plenty for everyone. The center piece for this event; a 40ft long, behemoth of a butter box that dominated the snow.

The Reunion by design, was a night for the UK shred scene to get together, specifically those that wanted to catch up after the season just past.

For the whole story and great pictures from the event check out www.fearofthepark.co.uk

The Brits 2010

We got to Laax, Switzerland Saturday evening and it took about an hour just to get our bags to our apartment from the underground car park. Our apartment was pretty big, my bedroom was really small, but least I wasn’t sleeping on the sofa like my Dad. Sunday was sort of a free day of riding, but Monday was practice day which was really good because it was a bluebird.

Dropping In – Nitro's Snowboarding UK Team Rider Mark Raper

Check out the latest from Fear in the Park. Nitro Team Rider Mike Raper is killing it......
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Will The International Nitro Team Riders Ever Let UP!!!!!!

NO WAY!!!!

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NITRO RIDERS DOMINATE THE FREESTYLE.CH 2009 from Nitro Snowboards on Vimeo.

Scotty Lago Sign’s New Contract with Flow Snowboarding

SAN CLEMENTE, CA – June 29th, 2009

FLOW SNOWBOARDING is pleased to announce that Twenty One year old FRIENDS Crew Member Scotty Lago from Seabrook, New Hampshire has signed a new contract with FLOW SNOWBOARDING.  We are very happy that Scotty will continue his loyalty to the Board, Boot, Binding brand of FLOW SNOWBOARDING.

What The F**k Are Graphics For?

Now you may remember that last season within Whitelines they ran a feature that looked at, reviewed, discussed, criticized and gave a good over view of graphics for snowboards, ranging from back in the day boards to current season models and the feature proved to be a great success and created much interest within the industry.  Well they have now uploaded the feature onto the Whitelines website so if you rancey a cracking read check out Whitelines Online Magazine Here....

Pryde Group UK are newly appointed distributors for ARBOR

Pryde UK are delighted to confirm their appointment as UK and Ireland distributors for ARBOR’s Snowboard, Skate and Apparel lines. Founded just over a year ago PRYDE UK have quickly developed an extensive portfolio of brands building most recently on their snowsports division which already includes NITRO and FLOW.

 Flow Team Trip to Argentina

Far far away below the Equator in South America lies the beautiful country of Argentina. between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast, and Chile in the west and south. And sure it sounds soooo fun to get to go to snowboarding in Argentina here at the end of Summer. Most of us would do anything to get to shred a foot of pow right now, am I right or what? So that's just what our Flow team did, anything and everything to get their asses out to the Ar to the Gentina. Travel Time: 3 days: 2 missed connections 24 hours in DC, 18 hour bus ride

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