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Burton Juice Wagon

clock Sunday January 13 2013 14:33

An EST board where Burton proudly return to proper camber.

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GoPro Video, Poles and Cropping

clock Tuesday February 28 2012 20:02

If you're one of the people who uses a GoPro on the end of a pole to shoot yourself snowboarding, cropping is what happens when you chop your head off, or cut the board off the bottom of the shot.

Maybe that doesn't matter to you, but as a snowboarding photographer I'm always left wondering if the riding's really as bad as the upper body suggests, or if the rider really does look better without a head.

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Using Burton's 2011/2012 Channel System with 4x4 Bindings

clock Wednesday January 11 2012 14:42

Burton changed their channel design again this year. Well everyone said it was broken when it was launched, and as they've changed it every year since perhaps they realize we were right. Here's how you make the 2011-2012 channel system work with 4x4 bindings, thanks to Dustin @Wiegele's who worked this out.

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Burton Joystick/ Lib Tech Trice - a tale of two boards

clock Tuesday January 03 2012 06:38

Snowboard reviews are mostly useless

Here's an example... I just rode two boards on two consecutive days. One was excellent, the other was almost useless. They're both perfectly good boards, but one happens to have the characteristics I need, the other doesn't. So if you don't weigh precisely 62kgs and ride powder fast, then your experience may differ from mine, hence the value you can get from this is limited.

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