Mark McGettigan, who was the editor of Snowboard UK Magazine, has contacted us this evening to say that Freestyle Publications today officially suspended the magazine. All the editorial staff were made redundant this morning.
Mark Nuttal, owner of Freestyle Publications added it's just a harsh reality of current times and said the whole company has ceased trading. He is hoping that SUK will continue this season and is working hard to find the right backing.
Launched in 1991, Snowboard UK was the UK's longest running snowboard magazine and had a readership of over 68,000. Freestyle Publications other titles include Boys Toys, Koi Carp and Paddles.
With indoor slopes, dryslopes, flights to the southern hemisphere, glaciers a hop across the channel away and street rails in every town, the British summer is no reason to put your kit away.
SnowCorps have launched the Summer Media Challenge to offer up a whole host of awards for the best photos/videos that the UK ski/snowboard community can put together over summer. We’re looking for teams of 5 to put together the best video and/or photos they can from June to September.
You can check out all the information for teams right here and stop wasting your summer.
Following a heap of entries from girls in the most recent Nikita Photoshoot Contest we have hand-picked two girls to fly to Miami with the Nikita crew and forever be a part of the Spring Summer 2010 Nikita streetwear look book.
Congratulations and a big thanks should go to all the girls that participated (we’re still receiving entries!), but the winners have been chosen and they are Ana Pereira from Portugal and Lucie Klecková from the Czech Republic.
Ana lives in Braga, Portugal and loves to live life to the max. She travels a lot which she says is like an addiction, getting to know different places and cultures. In winter she heads to Andorra to snowboard and meantime keeps the night time alive by partying! During summer she takes full advantage of the local surf and hangs out at the beach with her friends.
Lucie, 19 years of age sent her entry in one day before the deadline on 14 April. Like Ana, she sent in some great photos, including looks that are really natural showing her bright blue eyes, a fun surf picture and a killer shot of her in a bikini.
Both girls have been contacted, are super excited about winning and can’t wait to join the photoshoot. So after being whisked off on their trip to Miami at the beginning of May for some hard days shooting and of course plenty of fun, there’ll be some sweet pictures to show for it.
Do you think you have what it takes to become the 2009 Nike 6.0 Media Apprentice?
Is your camera an extension of your arm? Do you have sharp eyes for a standout shot? Are you constantly on the internet uploading and plugging your footage? If so, Nike 6.0 needs you!
Every year Nike 6.0 offers a talented filmer or photographer a once in a lifetime opportunity – a one year contract that gives them the chance to rub shoulders with the most influential people in the action sports world. The winner of the Media Apprentice gets a coveted chance to ride and shoot with the Nike 6.0 Team, travel to competitions and events in both the UK and abroad as well as a whole host of money can’t buy opportunities.
You will have the chance to film the best riders, hang out at the best parties and meet the movers and shakers of the action sports industry. Oh, did we also mention that your work will be splashed across action sports magazines, media and even featured on TV!?
‘Well how do I enter?’ we hear you cry – well to be in with a chance of winning you need to be over 16 and fanatical about film and photography. Then you need to create a short film between 30 seconds and 3 minutes OR upload 5 to 10 of your best photos. Any action sport can be the subject and you choose the style you want to shoot in… Even better, you are allowed to enter as many times as you like, the more films you upload the better.
After submitting your film or photos, our ‘top of their action sports game’ judges will decide who to put through to the next stage – The Nike 6.0 Media Apprentice Bootcamp round. Yes, Bootcamp! Those chosen few will work on location alongside the big wigs of your chosen sport; the results will be judged by our panel of experts and then the 2009/10 Apprentice will be chosen.
We’ve had some sick entries so far, check them out here:
Video: LINK
Photo: LINK
If you think you can do better, get your entries to us by May 1st!
So what are you waiting for? Go to www.mpora.com/nike6-apprentice and start uploading. You can also take a look at work done by last years Nike 6.0 Media Apprentice, Josh Knox. There is just one last thing to add and that is to wish all who enter... Good Luck!
To promote their new snow-themed website Snow Stories (http://snowstories.kodak.com) and their new ski resort mobile application, camera giants Kodak are offering snow lovers the chance to win top snow and camera equipment prizes.
Snow Stories is Kodak’s funky new web portal for all things winter and snow. As well as offering users the chance to upload their own content (in the form of video or pictorial ‘Snow Stories), the site features a brilliant Snow Insider guide to 40 of Europe’s best resorts. The guides were put together by top snow journalist Matt Barr, author of Footprint’s acclaimed Snowboarding The World and Skiing Europe guidebooks, and includes the inside line on the continent’s best places to go shredding. As well as resort overviews, there are concise guides to the best runs and the best bars to check out once the lifts are closed. Just what you’d expect from the author of snow guides acclaimed by the Observer as ‘invaluable’.
Even better, the site lets user download the info directly to their mobile phone, meaning you can have the information you need at your fingertips from the moment you arrive in resort. Becoming a local in your resort of choice just got a lot simpler.
As if that wasn’t enough, Kodak are also offering visitors to the site the opportunity to win some brilliant prizes, including snow equipment and Kodak cameras. Head to the site and add your own story from whenever you were last in the mountains, and the best ones will be in with a chance of winning. Visit snowstories.kodak.com for more information.
Another epic Oakley Jib-Vid crowns the 2009 winners; the O’Neill / Isenseven team of Fredrik Evenson, Andre Kuhlmann and Alex Schiller. Their incredible film “Technical Difficulties 2.0” was judged as the overall winner out of the 17 amazing Jib-Vids that the teams created over just 28 hours. Featuring incredible riding and filming as well as the editing that also claimed them the “best editing” award; the team really deserved the 5,000 euro prize; along with an Xbox 360 each and a special pair of engraved Oakley goggles each.
With some amazing luck; Mayrhofen was besieged by snow throughout the night before the official start of the event, with the weather clearing throughout the morning creating a beautiful bluebird day. The riders were spoilt for choice with the Vans Penken Park in great shape, including specially-built Oakley Jib-Vid features, and a huge amount of backcountry to choose from as well.
The competition was incredibly tight this year with just 7 points separating the top 8 teams in the initial judging period. The top 5 teams from this period were announced after a short break; and re-shown for the teams and judges to make their final decisions and reveal the eventual winners as the O’Neill / Isenseven Team.
Onboard editor Tom Copsey has been out at the Oakley JibVid right now and has already done some really cool features, which we thought you might like to see.
This year the Oakley Jib-Vid received a record number of team entries (38 in total) and all of an incredibly high standard. The fantastic response to the contest meant we had to spend an extra 48 hours making our team selection to ensure we went through all of the team video links and information thoroughly. Due to the high standard we found it impossible to single out 15 teams so have extended the number of start spots to 18.
Below we have the list of the teams who have been selected to compete in the Oakley Jib-Vid 2009. Thanks to everyone who registered and we hope to see you in Mayrhofen in a couple of weeks or your entry in next year’s contest.
Onboard - Tom Elliott, Joonas Mustanen, Niki Korpela
Lockdown Projects - Tim Warwood, Scott Mcmorris, Paddy Graham
Whitelines - Collum Mytton, Mike Austin, Robin Fenlon
Oakley Ski - Mike Wakefield, Joe Murrel, Eddie Thelwell
Oakley Snowboard - Tyler Chorlton, Vicci Miller, Chris Kelly
Oakley Tigers - Phillip Strauss, Erik Botner, Niko Jentsch
The Hippies - Tom Klocker, Stef Zeestraten, Filmer tbc
The Seeker - Thomas Tramnitz, Benny Wetscher, Bernhard Dengg
Tacky.nl - Jasper Bakker, Dio Homman, Joris Nijdeken
Team name tbc - Halldor Helgason, Chris Sorman, Richard Prendergast
Dalikfodda - Billy Neilson, Mark Ruperelia, Rich Hookes
O'Neill/Isenseven - Fredrik Evenson, Andre Kuhlmann, Alex Schiller
Grenade team - Dan Wakeham, Sam Cullum, Dom Harington
Protest team - Florian Heim, Steve Kroell, Julian Pintarelli
LMP - Matthias Vogt, Gregor Kienzle, Niclas Loeffler
Chamonix 9000 vertical feet - Johno Verity, Ben Kilner, James Webb
Team Burton - James Carr, Gary Greenshields, Tom Guilmard
Cheeseburgers - Tobias Strauss, Alex Tank, Felix Urbauer
How many clips can you send in before the end of the month? With all the snow we've seen around, we're expecting a stream of them through. Entries for the Nikita Snowboard Clip Contest is coming to a close on 30th March 2009, so get the footage, edit it as you please and e-mail it over to Nikita HQ.
The competition is open worldwide, for all female snowboarders to send in some great clips of their riding. Nikita checks out all the entries and posts them on Nikita s YouTube contest site and Vimeo channel. All the videos are openly rated, the best clips will then be checked out by the crew in Iceland, including Heida Birgisdottir and the winner decided.
The prize is a trip to Iceland in the spring, all expenses paid! You will be flown out to Reykjavik, Iceland where you ll meet everyone at Nikita HQ, be looked after, fed, watered and shown around aplenty. You ll also be treated to a full Nikita outerwear setup. Be assured there ll be some fun excursions planned so be properly warmed up for the action!
There are more opportunities to get your pinkies on some Nikita swag with prizes also up for grabs when we give away a Nikita outerwear outfit to each of the two runners up and some streetwear threads to the most fun, creative and stylish clip seen.
To enter all you have to do is:
Be a chick!
Be 18 years of age or over
Enter snowboard clips ONLY please
as long as there is some sort of snowboard action, the Nikita panel of judges will accept it
Maximum of 3 clips per person
Clips can be as long or short as you want as long as they don t exceed the size limit
Maximum size limit of clips is 5 MB
Accept that all entries sent in will be put on Nikita s YouTube contest site and Vimeo channel
Send in your entries to internis@nikitaclothing.com before 30th March 2009
Please include your full name, date of birth, postal address, e-mail and contact telephone number along with any other info you feel is relevant.
Here's last year's Nikita Snowboard Clip Contest winner, Kasia Kwiecien from Poland on the trip she went on to Iceland in 2008: www.youtube.com/nikitaclothing and www.vimeo.com/1322040 Just click on
the Nikita Iceland Roadtrip 2008.
This week White World has highlights of the Big Mountain Pro and Engadin Snow, an interview with Swedish legendary boarders Peter Strom and Stefan Karlsson and also action from them, Dave Young and Chris and Nick Southwell from Verbier. There is also another classic crash and clip of the week and a product review of the Allian Prism.
White World reviews the freesking of St Moritz and Davos Klosters mountains. The show also features a slide show of Pally Learmond and the first clip of the week and crash of the week.
ThirtyTwo and StepChild have launched www.UhhSon.com for the upcoming ThirtyTwo StepChild video. The site will provide video updates, a chance to name the video and then a free download of the video in September 2009.
White World Episode 6 brings you highlights of the World Freeride Tour in Sochi Russia and the Air and Style. There is also a profile of Warren Smith, a review of the K2 obsethed and how to's.
White World is back and has been relaunched as a twice weekly show that will provide all snowsport enthusiasts with there weekly fix of news, competition highlights, how to's, equipment reviews, destination reviews, athlete profiles and much much more. On Tuesday's you will be able to catch up with the latest competition highlights and industry news, check out a gear review, see a leading athlete profiled and brush up on your riding with how to's. The Friday show will provide you some out and out action, a park or destination review and clip of the week.
Having been in the snowboarding industry for a fair few years, Nathan has taken thousands of photographs of hundreds of riders in many different places around the world.
In his book he's created a collection from a certain time period which try to convey the love of snowboarding in photographic form.
Photographs on the subject of snowboarding taken in Canada, France, America, Switzerland and Austria.
Featuring Charlie Hall, Mark Ruparellia, Jono Wood, Laura Berry, James Carr, Seb Kern, Johno Verity, Steve Revil, Sam Cullum, Henry Jackson, James Thorne, Chris Chatt, Jonny Barr, Gary Greenshields, Mark Kent, Ryan Davis, Vicci Miller, Tyler Chorlton, Adam Gendle, Jenny Jones, Tom West, Jonny Rodderick, Tim Warwood, Ricky Barrow, Nate Kern, Ollie Plumley and Stu Edwards.
Winter X Games will be hitting Freecaster.tv again this week... LIVE and EXCLUSIVE for Europe. Starting on Friday 23rd January and running until Monday 26th January, Freecaster.tv will once again bring you all the action from the World's greatest snowboard, freeski and snowmobile athletes.
We'll be LIVE on air every day from Friday. And for those who can't join us for the web casts, we'll be featuring all the highlights in our snowboard, freeski and snowmobile channels, in addition to our dedicated X Games channel: www.freecaster.tv/1000192
Starting Hours Live Shedule CET
Friday 23 January
03:00 - 03:30 CET Snowmobile Speed & Style Final
03:30 - 04:30 CET Skiing SuperPipe Men's Final
04:30 - 05:00 CET Snowboard Big Air Final
Saturday 24 January
03:30 - 04:00 CET Snowmobile SnoCross
04:00 - 05:00 CET Snowboard SuperPipe Women's Final
05:00 - 05:30 CET Snowmobile Next Trick
21:00 - 22:00 CET Snowboarder X Men's & Women's Finals
22:00 - 24:00 CET Snowboard Slopestyle Men's & Women's Final
Sunday 25 January
03:00 - 04:00 CET SuperPipe Men's Elimination
04:00 - 04:30 CET Snowmobie SnoCross Final
04:30 - 05:00 CET Skiing Big Air Final
20:00 - 21:00 CET Skier X Men's & Women's Finals
21:00 - 22:00 CET Snowmobile Freestyle Elimination
22:00 - 23:00 CET Skiing Slopestyle Eliminiaton & Final
23:00 - 24:00 CET Mono Skier X Final
Monday 26 January
03:00 - 04:00 CET Snowmobile Freestyle Final
04:00 - 05:00 CET Snowboard SuperPipe Men's Final
Ski Sunday's editor explains what was wrong with last year's new format and why the show will now be split in two. We'll start with the SCUK discussion.
Get down to a Snowboard Asylum store and pick up your free copies of this year’s TSA films, be fast though as it’s a limited pressing and when they’re gone that’s it.
Just like last season we are bringing you not one but two films, Mountain Stories and This Is Britain 2 - Broken Thumbs Tour.
Mountain Stories was a snowboard film competition where riders and film crews got together to tell us tales of UK riding from around the globe. 10 films made it onto the dvd with teams headed up by Johno Verity, Adam Gendle, Neil McNab and Mike Austin to name a few. Each short film is totally unique, showcasing both snowboarder and film makers personality, style and even in some cases, comedy value.
This Is Britain 2 was filmed over the summer of 2008. A four man crew of UK snowboarders and film makers packed up a van a headed out on an ambitious tour of the UK to document the British snowboard scene. Without a mountain in sight pro riders and local heroes got together and showed us just how good home grown UK riding really is.
Both DVDs are available now and for FREE so what you waiting for.
Dan Milner has been Senior photographer at Snowboard UK for the past ten seasons - and to celebrate they're running a retrospective in their January issue. We're looking to put together a Q & A style interview and are looking for input.
You can either pose some questions via the SCUK forum or email them direct to SUK at suk@freestyle-group.com
Snowzone tv brings you the latest episode of White World from The Slopes at the 02 Arena. This week's episode features news on the up coming World Freeride Tour for 2009 with interviews and action from two of the tours top athletes Geraldine Fasnacht and Aurelien ducroz including breathtaking and unmissable content of Geraldine flying in her wing suit. We also have all the action from the opening night of the Slopes at the 02 and a movie extract from dedicated-project.com
White World Posted Friday 5th December 2008, 9:45 am by Stu Brass
Snowzone tv brings you the latest episode of White World from The Slopes at the 02 Arena. This week's episode features news on the up coming World Freeride Tour for 2009 with interviews and action from two of the tours top athletes Geraldine Fasnacht and Aurelien ducroz including breathtaking and unmissable content of Geraldine flying in her wing suit. We also have all the action from the opening night of the Slopes at the 02 and a movie extract from dedicated-project.com
Amplid just opened the BALLS TO THE WALL Photo Contest on their website. All you need to do is turn in a photo from your best wallride and win an Amplid Aggronym Snowboard.
What will make you win: An awesome shot of a stylish trick, executed on a wall. Brick, wood, steel …you name it ! Rock’n’roll, handplant, layback slide … you do it !
The best photos will be posted on December 21st.
You will find more details on contest rules and format at www.amplid.com !
The new issue of Cooler hits shops today and it's arguably our best yet!
Here’s what we have in store this issue...
Cover Girl: check out our exclusive shoot and interview with one of Europe’s most stylish snowboarders – Lisa Filzmoser.
Jamie, Champion of the World: we chat to reigning TTR world snowboard champ Jamie Anderson.
Travel: the best snow trips by train; live like a local in Barcelona; take a trip to the unsung slopes of Iran; and find out how to have a carbon neutral surf trip.
Park and Ride: road trippin’ with the Oakley snow and skate teams.
Angels with Dirty Faces: a 1970s photo story with California’s finest skateboarders.
Walking the Plank: the world’s best longboarders shot at the Roxy Jam.
PLUS! School of Seven Bells, how to make your own jewellery, dates for your diary, the best winter sports and street fashion trends,and the usual mix of snow, surf, skate and BMX action.
SCUK 
Mark McGettigan, who was the editor of Snowboard UK Magazine, has contacted us this evening to say that Freestyle Publications today officially suspended the magazine. All the editorial staff were made redundant this morning.
Ten Years As DanMilner.com - inside the mind of our Senior Photographer
Having been in the snowboarding industry for a fair few years, Nathan has taken thousands of photographs of hundreds of riders in many different places around the world.
Get down to a Snowboard Asylum store and pick up your free copies of this year’s TSA films, be fast though as it’s a limited pressing and when they’re gone that’s it.
Dan Milner has been Senior photographer at Snowboard UK for the past ten seasons - and to celebrate they're running a retrospective in their January issue. We're looking to put together a Q & A style interview and are looking for input.
The new issue of Cooler hits shops today and it's arguably our best yet! 
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