More About The Author

I’m Gavin Hope, I live in the North East of England; I really like to snowboard. I started this blog back at the beginning of 2006. Back then I didn’t have a specific reason for blogging about snowboarding. I’ve always liked writing about things and a blog seemed a handy way to document my snowboarding experiences. It was an ongoing chronicle of my snowboarding experiences from the UK and beyond…

Over time I’ve added reviews and articles; resources that others have found interesting. With time, the content and the goals of the afterbang site changed. It’s now mostly about providing useful information to other snowboarders – I continue to get enjoyment from doing this. You’ll still get a mix of my personal experiences too. On that side of things I most of all I like to write about two things: the snowboarding trips that I go on and my progression as a snowboarder.

If you’d like to contact me, my email address in on the contact page.

What’s the deal with “afterbang”?

If you’ve seen Robot Food’s film, afterbang, you may be thinking why’s this guy stolen their name?

I didn’t use the name for that reason. Back in January of 2006, when I started this blog, I was signing up with blogger and I thought crap, what am I going to call the blog? A few options came to mind, words, phrases, but they all seemed a little lame; then I had this thought I know, I’ll call it afterbang – that’s a sick name.

Robot Food was my introduction to snowboarding, it got me hooked. Well, that and a handful of lessons on a dendex slope. I watched that DVD before I bought my first piece of snowboarding equipment, even before I’d ridden on snow. The soundtrack to afterbang was playing as we drove into Chamonix. A lot of the fun and the reasons that I love to snowboard are associated with that word, which is why I called the blog “afterbang”.

Thanks Robot Food. Thanks Pierre Wikberg.

Author-related content

If you’d like to read and watch some of my own, personal snowboarding experiences, the following is a list of my favourite posts/categories/work. Enjoy…

Writing for the World Snowboard Guide (wsg): I’ve had the opportunity to write some reviews for the wsg. I started with some of the UK slopes, but then took on the mammoth task of the Portes du Soleil – 12 resorts spread between France and Switzerland.

Favourite posts

Previous snowboarding trips

Tignes, March 2006

Gallery

There are plenty of photos and videos scattered around this site; this is a collection of those that relate to my own riding. With regards to the photos, the collections below are a mixed bag. Some of them are photos of my own snowboarding experiences, whilst others are groups showing different snowboard parks. For the videos, all of the links are for video of me or my friends, both snowboarding and a little skating…

Photo Collections

A collection of afterbang favourites:

The full list of photo collections…

Videos – Snowboarding

Here’s my most recent “season” edit:

Here are the rest of the edits…

Videos – Skateboarding

I started skating around the same time I started this blog. If you can’t stand sideways on a snowboard then why not do it on a skateboard, hey? Seriously though, I really enjoy it. My skills are pretty weak and I’ll sometimes go twelve months without skating; but it’s still a lot of fun. It’s also a good way to keep fit and I’m sure the balance helps with the shredding! Here’s my favourite little edit, way back from 2006, learning to manual on a box…

Here are the rest…

Enjoy the site!

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