All Eyes On Us
Four pro riders share their wild tales and dicey dispatches from the farthest corners of the world.
Snowboard Canada Women’s Annual 2008
Travelling all over the world is one of pro snowboarding’s best perks. While the rest of us are lucky to squeeze in one trip per season, pro riders spend their winters gallivanting around to all sorts of places. Glamorous as it may seem, this privilege also comes with its share of hazards. Evil airline staff, homicidal hall-mates and death-defying drives are just some of the crazy situations pro riders Marie France Roy, Dominique Vallee, Spencer O’Brien and Sachi Tanaka have found themselves confronting over the course of their travels last season. Throughout the winter, we spoke to each rider about their most unusual destination and what it takes to travel to some of the farthest corners of the world.
Read the whole story here.
Snowboard Canada Women’s Annual 2006
This was the year when all-female snowboard movies really hit the mainstream, offering girls the chance to land a real video part in a snowboard movie, rather than a token few shots, if any at all, in anything in the male-dominated snowboard movie genre.
Read how the founders of two all-girl snowboard movie production companies took the leap into making movies for girls, by girls, and what it took to get everyone on board.