School of Rocker
feedproxy.google.com 10/5/2009 — 2010 is the year of reverse camber boards. What seemed like a gimmick last season has turned into a major technology trend sweeping the industry. Nearly every company is offering a board with reverse camber this season yet they are all called something different.  Are you confused? Do you ...

Shay’s take on the 2010 Good Wood
shayboarder.com 8/25/2009 — As the 08-09 season was winding down, I made the trek to Breckenridge to spend one day watching the Good Wood Test to get a feel for what the test was like behind the scenes and document the experience on shayboarder.com. Now the results are out for the 2010 Good Wood Test with the Transworld ...

Snowboard Review: 09-10 Never Summer Premier F1-R
shayboarder.com 8/30/2009 — Location: Steamboat, Colorado Snow Conditions: Snowing with powder on runs, some groomed areas. Setup: I rode the Never Summer Premier F1-R with Union Forces/Rome Shifts and my Rome Vamps size 8. First Impression: The Premier F1-R makes the pow just that much better. Size: 157cm Weight: ...

2009-2010 Never Summer SL Review
hybridsessions.com 3/3/2009 — Here's the second of 6 board reviews from the 09/10 on snow on demos that I participated in a couple weeks ago. You have to keep in mind that I only took at most 4 runs on each of these boards and all the following words are my initial reactions to how each of them rode. Had I been able to ...

Product Testing
shayboarder.com 8/3/2009 — Every snowboard company has product testers who test the products before they even reach the showroom floors at SIA. For years, months, days these testers take out products and give that feedback to companies. Sometimes it’s the employees, shop kids, testing programs or just a variety ...

Shred flick it up in CO with Ride, TGR, Forum and Burton
shayboarder.com 10/1/2009 — It’s another weekend of movie premieres in Colorado with a selection of snowboard flicks hitting up the Denver area and even one for Steamboat. The snowflakes are falling outside my window, snowguns have been running and hopefully Colorado will open the lifts for snowboarding soon. ...

A rocker start or a rocky start?
shayboarder.com 8/31/2009 — Every snowboarder starts out at the beginning, learning the basics and getting through those rough first days when it seems like you and the snow have become close friends. With the re-introduction of reverse camber, it’s been brought up in comments and questions whether reverse camber ...

Never Summer Industries: US Manufacturing
boredyak.blogspot.com 7/7/2009 — In amongst Rocky Mountain National Park and astride the Continental Divide is a section of the Rockies called the Never Summer Mountains. To find the action sports company that bears their name, one travels east to Denver and looks amongst factories and astride a northerly section of Colorado ...

Gearing up for the season
shayboarder.com 10/4/2009 — My gear never really gets stored in the summer since I snowboard year round but today was the first day where I set up the new gear and cleaned up last years gear so it’s ready to go for opening day. Hardgoods Each year I try not to get too much gear because I know how many [...]

Board Poll Results
angrysnowboarder.com 4/7/2009 — You guys voted and some magically creature inside the digital world calculated it. Some interesting upsets I didn't foresee happening. Check it out. K2 33 (14%) Ride 9 (3%) Never Summer 37 (15%) Mervin 10 (4%) Capita 26 (11%) DC 8 (3%) Unity 1 (0%) Smokin 3 (1%) Salomon 4 (1%)  ...