Last winter, we gave our friends—team riders, shop owners, locals, magazine editors, artists, employees—the opportunity to say what snowboarding means to them in 50 words or less. Each perspective is unique to the individual. Now we want to hear what riders all over the world think “This Is Snowboarding” means to them (in 50 words or less).
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This Is Snowboarding To Us
SDS Op/Bavarian Shop Kid, Simon “Esel” Schollhorn
Aug 19, 2008 05:01 PM
It doesn’t matter if its cloudy or sunny, if there is a perfect shaped park or just a bunch of bumps, if I’m cruisin’ fresh pow or being at a dirty mini-jib trashyard. As long as im there with my friends, I will have the best day of my life! THIS is SNOWBOARDING!!!!
Jay Moore, owner of World Boards in Bozeman, MT
Aug 19, 2008 05:01 PM
I thank God for it and consider it a privilege to be able to ride good snow quite often. I love the feel of laying down a good line in good snow. Riding pow with family and friends, with no given agenda is what I like most about snowboarding.
LNP
Aug 19, 2008 05:01 PM
Snowboarding is what I live for, just like skateboarding. I think about snowboarding 24/7. If I'm not snowboarding I don't know what to do. If I watch TV, I watch a snowboard or a skateboard video. Snowboarding and skateboarding are my life. That’s all I can say.
VT Deathrider/ Darkside-fame, Jake Sullivan
Aug 19, 2008 05:01 PM
I still think it’s about rebellion. Snowboarding is being able to have a fun time with friends and at the same time piss off that stuck-up security guard or old-school skier in the lift line…. I dunno, this question is hard to answer. I think it should be changed to "What do mustaches mean to me?” In that case my answer would be the same, rebellion.
NZ Shred Karl Dunham
Aug 19, 2008 05:01 PM
Snowboarding is a blinding faceshot powder landing. One that you sink up to your waist on, but ride out. It is also when you get a method or tweak just right. That feeling of flying through the air, really cranking it out and holding it.
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This Is Snowboarding To You
Nov 18, 2008 03:07 PM by lambros90
Snowboarding’s about waiting for that perfect day with fresh pow or stomping that trick that you have been working on for months. It’s about riding with your boys and not being a baby back bitch and hitting that new rail that no one else will try.
Nov 18, 2008 09:12 AM by kayslate
Catching the last lift on a powdery day, looking across the lift of friends laughing hysterically,finally landing that bak 270 you were trying all day, and watching the sun set while you hit the next rail. snowboarding to me is staying young and damn i never want to grow up.
Nov 17, 2008 03:55 PM by SDS
with nothing behind you theres even more pleasure ahead. snowboarding is something else;unique moves, sick air, awesome set, rad back country, gnarley sessions, "different feeds for different needs", thats what makes it special. THIS IS SNOWBOARDING
Nov 17, 2008 09:41 AM by RomeAyi1
i live, eat, sleep and breathe snowboarding. its riding from late nov to early april. its dreaming of it from april to nov. first chairs, last calls. adrenaline,laughs, friends and fun. clean parks to the street..its life. with out riding id have nothign to live for.
Nov 17, 2008 09:37 AM by RomeAyi1
its a place where you lose yourself, but find yourself. snowboarding is a drug, how high can we get? where nothing else matters. snowboarding is being fully alive. go big or go home. theres no dress code or standard, just you and your board.
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