Gear for Sale

Tweet I’m planning on putting some snowboarding gear on eBay – but thought it would be worth mentioning them here first. For Sale: Rome Anthem 158 cm 2003/2004 season Less than 3 weeks riding Selling because I don’t need two boards! Hopefully you don’t need to ask how good this board is… but just in [...]

Riding with Music

Tweet A lot of people these days seem to ride with music playing. I hadn’t tried it until my recent trip to Chamonix… where I spent the last couple of days riding with some tunes playing. Beforehand I thought that it was going to be distracting, but it was actually not. There’s a little bit [...]

Native Skatestore: Newcastle

Tweet Just a quick note. A little before Christmas I bought my skateboard from Native Skatestore in Newcastle. It’s a cool little shop: loads of decks, decent shoes and clothes and a healthy selection of DVDs. Yesterday Mike got himself a new setup, and Grant replaced his nose-less/tail-less deck with something new. It’s time to [...]

Extreme Sports Channel: P.I.G

Tweet I don’t know if you’ve see the P.I.G show on The Extreme Sports Channel – but I’ve been watching it a little this week. All week long it has been Ski P.I.G, which is cool, but I really want to see some snowboarding. Not knowing when the show started I thought I might have [...]

Snowboard Instructor

Tweet Over the past 6 months or so, I’ve decided that I’m interested in becoming qualified as a snowboard instructor. At the moment I have no idea what qualification I need to go for, how long it will take and how much it will cost… I guess it is time to start finding some of [...]