PowderJet Cleaver: A mini-review – OMFG

So about a year ago, I heard rumblings of a small snowboard company in the backwaters of Southern Vermont. Ok, no big deal right? Well then I heard that they were making snowboards by hand, using US sourced sustainably farmed wood with the same eco-resin that Grain Surfboards uses. Started by Jesse Loomis, former staff …

Jake Blauvelt is Snowboarding

Check this out from TransWorld Snowboarding. What makes this part supremely epic is that this video makes you want to grab your deck and go ride. In many ways, Jake Blauvelt’s time “off the grid” surfing in Costa Rica and shredding with Nicolas Muller paid off. And that result is this video. The terrain and …

An Update from YES (we can) Snowboards – 2010

I was talking with some of the folks at YES (thanks JMZ, Sarah and Donny) and wanted to give a quick update from my last series of posts of this interesting little new brand. You’ve probably seen these boards being tested by the likes of Shayboarder, etc. They also had a bit of a controversial …