Torah Bright is one of the most talented and beautiful snowboarders in the game.  She was the 2007 TTR World Snowboard Tour Champion, X Games 13 Champion and since 2001 has an event resume that would blow your mind.  You can see it on her website http://www.torahbright.com/
Also check out our interview with Torah Here:

There has been talk about a reality show featuring Danny Kass and The Dingo for some time now. This youtube video looks like the pilot/ teaser for the television series. They feature the scene from last years Grenade Games where the entire Grenade crew got kicked out of their hotel. It was a pretty funny thing to see and it will be even funnier to see it again on tv. So whens it dropping??

Snowboarding tops lists for outdoor injuries

By STEPHANIE NANO Associated Press Writer
Published: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:12 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:12 p.m.

NEW YORK - More people are hurt snowboarding than any other outdoor activity, accounting for a quarter of emergency room visits, according to the first national study to estimate recreational injuries.

Trailing snowboarding are sledding and hiking, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report in the journal Wilderness and Environmental Medicine.

The most common problems were broken bones and sprains, accounting for half of all cases. About 7 percent of ER visits were for concussions or other brain injuries.

“We want people to participate in outdoor recreational activities. But we want people to recognize that there’s cause for concern and people can and do get injured,” study co-author Arlene Greenspan said Tuesday.

She said injuries can be avoided through planning and preparation: making sure your fitness level and skills match the activity and using proper equipment like helmets.

Greenspan said the study is the first to look at injuries from all activities, instead of individual sports or geographic areas.

The researchers looked at data on nonfatal injuries from outdoor activities treated at 63 hospitals in 2004 and 2005. They calculated that almost 213,000 people annually were treated for such injuries nationwide. About half of those injured are young, between ages 10 and 24 and half of the injuries are caused by falls.

Males are injured at twice the rate of females, but the research didn’t look at the reasons.

“It could be that males are more risky or it could be that males just participate more than females, or a combination of both,” said Greenspan.

Nearly 26 percent of the injures were from snowboarding followed by sledding (11 percent); hiking (6 percent); mountain biking, personal watercraft, water skiing or tubing (4 percent); fishing (3 percent) and swimming (2 percent).

From his experience on ski patrols, “it makes perfect sense to me that snowboard injuries rank high,” said Dr. Paul Auerbach, of Stanford School of Medicine.

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Shaun White Snowboarding Coming From Ubisoft

Today Ubisoft announces the development of Shaun White Snowboarding, a title destined to break all former action sports video game notions and redefine the action sports genre. The game will appear on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, Windows-based PC, and the Wii home video game system from Nintendo, and is scheduled for release in Holiday 2008.

Powered by the award-winning Assassin’s Creed engine for Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 system, Shaun White Snowboarding truly captures the action sports lifestyle. Shaun White Snowboarding is being developed from the ground up for the Wii system, taking full advantage of the Wii Balance Board accessory and featuring its own unique storyline and adventure with Shaun White.

“Shaun White Snowboarding will turn all of the traditional ideas and experiences of past action sports titles upside down,” said Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Ubisoft. “The combination of Ubisoft’s innovation approach and the influence of Shaun’s lifestyle and perspective make this gaming experience like no other.”

Developed in close collaboration with Shaun White, Olympic Gold Medalist and eight-time X Games Gold Medalist, Shaun White Snowboarding allows players to enter a world of total freedom, where they can create their own experience and choose how, where, and with whom they want to ride.

Key Features of Shaun White Snowboarding for Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 system, and Windows-based PC:

Open World Mountains: Choose how you ride in open-world mountains across the world. Conquer extreme peak conditions, create your own paths in the back country, or compete with fellow riders in the terrain parks.

Your Friends Are Always Around: Play in a world where your friends are always around. Do your own runs on mountains populated by real gamers, or join your friends for a quick session from any mountain.

More than Just Snowboarding: Have fun with your friends on and off the board! Throw snowballs, hike to access secret spots, film your friends doing ripping tricks. You can also upload your videos online to share with the world.

Ride Your Way: Express yourself through tricks, riding styles, and highly customizable avatars - both in single-player and in the online world. Use the intuitive dual analog control to pull off a huge variety of tricks that express your style.

Next-Gen Technology: Built on the Assassin’s Creed engine, this game creates a massive world with gorgeous visuals and realistic NPC interactions. This is also the first time a snowboarding game is completely driven by physics instead of animation.

Authentic Snowboarding: Ubisoft has worked closely with Shaun White to infuse the gaming experience with authenticity, personality and humor. Shaun is a friend and mentor in the game, and will help you with your skills. And, if you are deemed worthy, you may even be able to play as Shaun in the game.

Key features of Shaun White Snowboarding for the Wii system:

Exclusive storyline: Everybody loves a road trip! You and your crew travel the world to participate in a variety of the largest and craziest events to become a world-renowned athlete. Life on the road to success wouldn’t be the same without the support of your friends, who will always be there to help you out and keep your head on your shoulders. Stand together with your friends - both in the game and in the living room - and you will be able to conquer the madness that fame brings.

Go on a globetrotting adventure with Shaun White as your partner - Ubisoft worked in close contact with Shaun White in order to infuse the experience with the most authentic elements of his riding style, personality and sense of humor. Shaun will act as a good-natured friend and mentor to the player, hooking him up with the right friends to conquer challenges together, introduce him to new locales, or simply be around to share in a laugh.

Wii Balance Board Integration - Get yourself into the game like never before by using the Wii Board to control your rider. Control your carves, jumps and grinds with the intuitiveness and fun of having a snowboard in your own living room.

Everyone plays, no one waits - Engage in a seamlessly integrated multiplayer experience for two to four players, where every player is active in the game at all times.

Get together your crew - In the world of snowboarding, it pays to have friends on your side. Your crew of friends will always be there to help you by offering you unique abilities to improve both your riding and keeping you grounded with friendly pranks; filming all the antics along the way.

Fame and Respect - Getting your name out there by doing well as a pro snowboarder is bound to get you some recognition. As your fame grows, so too does your ability to take on bigger and bigger challenges, from new mountains to more prestigious events and competitions. Fame, however, isn’t everything. You’ll need to gain your friends’ respect by riding with style in order to gain their support; they will help you find hidden areas, share their favorite music tracks and keep you laughing.

For more information on Shaun White Snowboarding, please visit shaunwhitegame.com.

Words: Joe Carter
Photos: Joe Carter, Andrew Miller

Spring time in Mammoth’s main park is in full swing right now. With many of the resorts around the country closed for the season, as always Mammoth is still going strong. There are still two halfpipes, plenty of jumps, and fun rails in the Unbound park. Right next to main is the Forest Trail park with some smaller jumps and fun mini jibs.
The photos you will see here are all in Main with a pretty big crew of us just cruising around with Andrew Miller, Scott Blum, Mac Spedale, Kyle Lopiccilo, Greg Bretz, Cornell Agee, Shayne Pospisil, Nick Russell, Cody Rosenthal, Lonnie Kauk, and SNOWREV owner Johnny Centi. There will be plenty more from Mammoth coming soon since this weekend is the West Coast Invitational, Superpark and also be on the looking for the Revolution after hours session that went down at the beginning of the week. Stayed tuned for it all… Mammoth is not done by a long shot yet with plenty of snow and the new spring park high up on the mountain coming very soon. Here is a quick update from Main Park:

- Main parking looking prime

- Lonnie will lap out anybody all day in this park. Bottom booter cab 720

- Lonnie and SNOWERV owner Johnny Centi

- Peter Benchtler Mammoth local and radical dude lofts a backside japan

- Kyle Lopicciolo sends one over Scott Blum. These guys love to tag team each other

- Still tons of snow up here in the Eastern Sierra. Chair two parking lot

- Nick Russell for president

- We all shred here at the Revolution. Photographer Andrew Miller taking some laps at the end of the day

- Kyle Lopiccolo double over head off the hip

- Cornell Agee taipan or Canadian bacon?

- Greg Bretz was on a rampage all day

- Kyle double tail grab three hundred and sixty degree rotation

- Mac Spedale flying high as a free man

- Shayne Pospisil right before he tweaked his ankle.. hope that heals up fast man!

- This was shot around 3:30. Lonnie was the only snowboarder still hitting the jump. Lonnie probably spinned every single rotation every way from 10am to 330. He is the man.

- Cody Rosenthal has one of the best methods in our book.

- No better way to end the night than with a Belliago de Norte session.

Stay tuned for more Mammoth updates and the Revolution After Hours session that went down on this jump that night.

Happy Birthday to our very out Mr. Johnny. Let the Golden year Begin!!!

In our attempts to spread the good word of shred in Europe, we came across a distribution company that handles brands like Airblaster, Celtek, DinosaursWillDie, Eesa, Flux and O-Matic.

Heres an update from the crew:
A group of 12 including riders, photographer and ourselves went to austria to do a one-weekend teamshoot in longplaypark, obertauern. it was just a gipsy hangout and
sessioning the obstacles. funfunfun.
Riders were: sebi müller, thomas schwarz, andrea lucht, joel spori, simon reichel, boozy
and paddy hiob.

Paddy Hiob testing his 7-euro-fun-tire on the quarterpipe.  Photo by SAID BURG

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 Avalanche safety in Jackson Hole Wyoming during the Quiksilver Natural Selection.

The teaser for Travis Rice and Quiksilvers new Movie called “That’s it, Thats All”

Photos by Lonnie Kauk and John Centi

As a spectator of the x games you may be in Aspen watching the event live or you may be watching it on ESPN live through the tube. What you don’t always get to see is the behind the scenes coverage from the riders view. Lonnie Kauk is a pro snowboarder that competed in the x games slopestyle event and he is also one of the Snowboard Revolution Crew members. Lonnie brings you inside the athlete lounge with all the competitors during the slopestyle finals and also shows you a look in what goes on behind the scenes before the riders drop in.

The riders prepare for there runs in many different ways, some are very mellow and seem like its another day in the park with their friends. Other riders get very focused and remain quite while prepping for their runs.

In the riders tent each competitor sits their and watches the other riders runs through the live X Games feed that you see at home. The first thing I noticed was how stoked all the riders were when the other competitors stomped a solid run.

The next thing observed was the focus that the cameras give Shaun White and it was kind of a trip to see his reaction to all of the attention. During the Shaun White interviews that you see on tv, Shaun removes himself from the room and goes to focus on the current situation at hand which is his next run. He seems like the rest of us who dont necessarily like to see ourselves in old home videos. Shaun is human.

Travis Rice who did not qualify for finals was watching the event in the tent and gave all the riders a ton of encouragement as they would walk out for there runs.

Heiki Sorsa was pretty intense to see because based on the his mellow persona before his run you would never think he would attempt something as gnarly as he did. During his run he took one foot out of his binding and did a one foot 360. That is very crazy and you would think that he would have a crazy focus just thinking about the consequence, he carried himself much different and seemed like he was just having a good time. When Heikki stomped the one footed three sixty all of the riders were cheering so much.

Andreas Wiig who won the event about to drop in to the course.

Chas Guldemond The Knight focusing on his run.

Lonnie Kauk (cowk) and Chas Guldemond

Mason Aguirre preparing for his run, he was pretty chill.

This camera remained on Shaun White the entire time.

Shaun heading out for his run

X Games Big Air Gold Medalist Torstein Horgmo was chilling with the rest of the riders.

Torstein sledding down to the riders tent, from the Slopstyle drop in ramp.

Jamie Anderson was in the tent with the guys.

Jussi Oksanen always in good Spirits

Tim Humphreys is a powerful rider. This kid is going to blow up.

Kevin Pearce from FRENDS was stoked. Kevin, who stomped his way to second place was very mellow and you could tell he was truly focused on his next moves. Jussi seemed to be having a good time just being there.

Lonnie Giving Mikkel Bang encouragement before his run.

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