For those of you learning to snowboard on a half-pipe, here’s a slow-motion video of Shaun White you can enjoy.

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For those of you who want to learn how to snowboard half-pipes and get air, here’s some tips to get your started.

Some more tips from pro-snowboarders:

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If you are planning for some good footage of yourself and your buddies snowboarding, you might want to be equipped with the right equipment for taking photos and videos while you snowboard.

The best camera/camcorder for snowboarding in our opinion is the GoPro HD helmet camcorder that comes with 1080P 30fps/720P 60fps recording with ability to capture more with its super-wide 170 degrees lens.

Also the GoPro HD is completely water resistant up to 180 feet (yes, you can take it underwater) and shock-proof.

Check out what you can do with it:

Get the GoPro HD on Amazon for $299.99.

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Here’s a great deal, get 20% off select items:

Snowboard Wear – Use Coupon Code SANTA at check out and this link

Snowboards- Use Coupon Code SANTA at check out and this link

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Here’s a bunch of awesome pro snowboard tricks from pros Blair Habenicht, Jesse Flies, Manuel Diaz, Cristian Wehrhahn, Matt Edgers, Austin Hironaka, Andy Walbon, Sammy Luebke, JP Audisio, Sean Mansfield aka Donnkie, and more…

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Here’s some footage of Arron Bittner, a good pro snowboarder.

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Here’s Pat Milbery showing you how to snowboard like you skateboard.

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Check out JP Walker comes back from a broken jaw and missing tooth!  Some crazy jumps he does dudes…

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Here’s some more insane avalanche rides!

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Check out this amazing video of snowboarding through an avalanche!

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Watch as Xavier De Le Rue Lives Through an Avalanche with his ABS!

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Lol, I guess snowboarders have the best chance of surviving avalanches!

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Here’s some throw-away footage of Louie Paradise, pro snowboarder.

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Here’s an interview with Hannah Teter, one of the most aggresive female snowboarders alive.

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Wow, check out these awesome insane jumps on a snowboarding going over like a 30-foot gap of nothing!

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Here’s a really cool snowboard multi-tool screwdriver and pipe from Italy.  I do personally own a similar screw tool but this one is extra special since it comes with a pipe that you can use while on the slopes.

The device is sturdy, and the screwdriver’s been helpful countless times I’d want to adjust bindings quickly. The handle and spring loaded release for the tool are easily useful with gloves on, and lock at 90 and 180 degree positions for more screwing speed or power. The tape measure is a bit short at 22 inches, so not that great for measuring between the feet when setting wide stances. The entire thing is extremely durable, except the plastic lid for the bits, wrench and pipe. The pipe itself works really really well, as you can see from the photos above where it is being demonstrated, packed, with basis leaves and pencil shavings. The aforementioned plastic shield working as a built in wind shield during lift rides.

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Here’s a fun new technology for snowboards, a banana-rocker that supposedly helps you to float better in powder while achieving better turns.  You can get these boards at Lib Tech.

This has several effects: It helps boards float a bit more in powder and over choppy snow, pivot the entire board between the feet for quick slash turns, make the ends less accidentally catchy, and precurving the board’s ends in an arc that allow the board to carve well when you lean over enough. It gives the overall board a very free feeling, like a surfboard or park board with no edges, but let you carve when necessary when you put the board up on its side.

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• To freeze someone zipping down the mountain, shutter priority is the way to go, with a shutter speed of at least 1/1000 second. Adjust depending on how much light you’ve got and if you’re still getting motion blur.
• You can also use a slower shutter speed if they’re coming toward you, just prefocus on where they’re gonna be, and lock it.
• Get close and get low—it makes even little jumps look like massive air
• If you’re usin’ a point-and-shoot (a shock-and-freeze proof model’s the way to go), it should have a sports mode to do most of the work for you. Fill flash will help you out as well on detail.
• To get fancy, you could try an action flash technique which’ll catch a skier against a color motion blur. The basics of it are to use a rear-curtain sync flash (which is useful for a lot of stuff anyway since it fires at the end of the exposure, so you should get familiar with it if you aren’t) with a slower shutter speed in a lower light situation. You’re probably gonna have to play with it a bit, but make sure you watch out for bright lights.

I might also add that you might want to use a waterproof digital camera case just in case you fall while taking pics.

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Some snowboarders got lost in the alps. The guy with the iPhone, Jason Tavaria, used the phone’s GPS to aid his rescue. Tragically, his friend did not make it. Rescuers found the second lost person’s body at the bottom of a +60 foot fall next to a stream. The lost snowboarders’ friends kept in touch via twitter. It appears that while these skiers and snowboarders went off piste, none of them carried any sort of radio or satellite personal locator beacons…

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Here’s some action from Darrell Mathes!

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Here’s a bunch of new swarovski-studded snowboards that might help you look a little bit more stylish on the way down.  Of course, these crystals will fall off eventually, just the nature of snowboards but if you need to look good while your snowboard is new, go ahead, we won’t stop you.

Two leading Swiss and Austrian companies have collaborated with the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) to exhibit original and offbeat snowboards at the 2008 Milan Furniture Fair. Under the leadership of Pierre Keller, director of the ECAL, and Augustin Scott de Martinville, a member of the ECAL te/aching staff, students studying Industrial Design and Visual Communication were able to “-customise-” snowboards manufactured by Nidecker by graphically inlaying Swarovski crystals.

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Here’s some real street grinds from Mikey LeBlanc, it’s almost he’s skateboarding, not snowboarding.

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Here’s some random boarders from going snowboarding in Chile.  I’ve always wanted to go there too and snowboard…

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Here’s a bunch of cool snowboard tricks and jumps from Todd Richards. Enjoy~

Yes, we can’t get enough of this, that’s why we made this site!

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I don’t really recommend snowboarding over water, plus it can make your board rusty with so much water but here’s someone who is “crazy” about snowboarding.

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Here’s some snow for you boarders out there.

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Check out this video of Devun Walsh, hitting some radical jumps in fresh snow. Way too cool.

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Here’s a cool duo of Wille Yli Luoma and Eero Niemela doing some tight jumps on snowboards.

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Without delay, here’s some of the best snowboard bags on the market today:

Burton Snowboard Bag is a must for serious snowboarders, this bag can also carry more than 1 snowboard.

The AVI Snowboard bag is pretty nice too with plenty room for snowboard boots, clothing, and more.

Here’s a generic brand snowboard bag with wheels!  If you are traveling a lot, wheels can’t hurt.

Well, there’s a bunch more but I think I’ve covered the best snowboard bags for now, go knock yourself out!

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Here’s an old video of Josh Dirksen snowboarding at Mount Bachelor couple years back, tight.

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Well, I don’t speak good enough German to understand what David Benedek is saying here but BagJump looks like a lot of fun.

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For the ultimate snowboarding experience while listening to your favorite music on-the-downhill, we recommend you to get one of these tight-ass Sessions SSC Jacket with iPod pocket and SkullCandy headphones let you switch back-and-forth between  your favorite music.

• zip hood
• fixed storm skirt
• iPOD Switch
• Skullcandy 5 button navigation keypad on sleeve
• RECCO
• Active 10,000/10,000 twill
• 100% nylon/100% poly
• brushed mesh/light mesh wicking lining (100% polyester)
• loose fit

SkullCandy Detail Page

Get the Sessions SSC Jacket on Amazon for $144.98 (Comes in Black or White)

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Here’s a little bit of creative jumps by J.J. Thomas. Can you do this?

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Here’s a video profile of the Winter X Games winner Andreas Wiig.

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Here’s a bunch of cool snowboard tricks.

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Check out this video of some crazy tricks such as one leg off while jumpin’.

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Here’s a Chase Cleveland and his snowboard tricks.

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Here’s a great video that can show you how to jump on a snowboard.

Btw, welcome to the new BoardSport1.com Blog, a blog about snowboarding, skateboarding, surfing, wakeboarding, or anything boarding plus extreme sports coming soon later down the road.

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The Whip is the new lamborghini of snowboards, or so they are trying to market it.  Has anyone tried this?  It doesn’t look too bad but I wonder how it performs in real life.

Cheetah Ultra Sports has apparently developed the Whip F-117 after four solid years of research, development and taking oodles of time off to hit the slopes. In short, it’s dubbed the Lamborghini of snowboards, promising to make riders go faster, feel lighter, turn quicker, edge harder, carve sharper and be broker. Yeah, we’re just kidding on that last one, though the $1,899 price tag may just disagree

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