Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics Schedule Download | Skiing & Snowboarding
The Winter Olympics are brilliant. Four years seems like too long, and I love it when they come around again. But let’s be honest, how often have you watched figure skating or curling in the last four years? What about ice hockey (‘Heated Rivalry’ doesn’t count) or luge? So, if you love skiing and snowboarding,...
Will a Lamborghini snowboard make you faster?
The Italian ‘supercar’ manufacturer Lamborghini has announced the release of ‘Warpspeed’ – a new snowboard. The ‘Warpspeed’ has been designed in collaboration with Capita, using Falcor composite fastenings. The front and back of the boards have been shaped to resemble recent Lamborghini supercars, coloured with a special purple finish. It also comes adorned with the...
Xavier De La Rue interview on Fall Line Magazine
Fall Line Magazine has just published Iain’s latest ‘Chairlift Chat…with Xavier De La Rue‘. Iain met with the legendary snowboarder in Verbier earlier this year. As well as covering Xavier’s career, they discussed his trip to Antarctica with his brother Victor and daughter Milla in November 2023. The film from that trip ‘Of a Lifetime’...
Freeze Big Air Brings Snowboarding to London Olympic Stadium
Big news for British snowboard and freestyle fans as the long-rumoured Big Air competition in London has now been confirmed. And the super-exciting news is that it will take place on Saturday 14 November 2015 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Stadium – helping to keep the Olympic theme after the success at Sochi 2014. World...
Happy Socks take snowboarding into the skies
You’d think that selling socks is not much of a sexy business: feet pong and socks are often hidden under jeans, whether skinny or not. But Happy Socks don’t buy any of that. Their recent promo shows that if you’ve got an imagination (and a decent marketing budget) you can convert a great content marketing...
The 100 Rouble Olympic Snowboarder (now available on ebay)
To celebrate the impending Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Russia has minted a new 100 Rouble note with a snowboarder design. A mere 100,000 have been printed, with the snowboarder image on one site and the main stadium of the Games on the other side. Available on ebay If you can’t make it to Russia for...