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Alp-n-Rock, Ultra-Luxe Lifestyle Apparel Offers T-Shirt Therapy for Tough Times
32 years ago
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Alp-n-Rock a fresh young brand from California, is using “T-Shirt therapy” to resonate with consumers. It grew from 15 to 100 retailers from 2008 to 2009 and has roughly quadrupled its sales since last year indicating that its luxury, eco-friendly T shirts with powerful messages such as Fallen, Temptation or Desire are appealing to consumers ( who are not blinking at price points of between $150 to $200).
Forum’s FOREVER Now on iTunes
02 years ago
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Forum’s 6th team-inspired snowboarding film FOREVER is now available for download on iTunes. For just $6.99, don’t miss Pat Moore’s all out slaughter of everything from park to backcountry lines, John Jackson’s best part to date complete with five double corks and good vibes all around, Nic Sauve’s technical urban assault, plus much more from the rest of the Forum crew. (more…)
Venture Partners With Protect Our Winters For Green Board Graphics Contest
02 years ago
Silverton, CO – October 12, 2009 – Venture Snowboards is proud to announce a partnership with Protect Our Winters.
Protect Our Winters (POW) is a non-profit environmental organization formed in 2007 by professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones. The organization’s mission is to reverse the global warming crisis by uniting and mobilizing the winter sports community to have a direct and positive impact on climate change. For the winter 2009/2010 season, Venture will emblazon all its Euphoria powder boards – both solid and split – with the POW logo, and donate a portion of sales from these boards to POW.
In addition, Venture and POW are sponsoring a snowboard graphic contest to increase awareness of environmental issues. Through January 1, 2010, Venture is accepting submissions of artwork that focus on winter, the environment, and activism. The winning design will be incorporated into a run of special edition POW boards for winter 2010/2011. (more…)
Burton Techknow Tuesday – True Fit
52 years ago
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So imagine if you had to spend more than a year traveling around finding and measuring size 7 feet- better than digging a ditch or something, but pretty gross. Fortunately for all the women out there though, our engineers were ok with doing that and on top of taking foot and calf measurements on more than 40 ladies feet they spent more than 2,500 hours testing the results and creating our True Fit™ design. (more…)
Rome PureFlex Lacing Sneak Peak
22 years ago
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I don’t usually show stuff for the next year to anybody, but we just got the 2011 boot samples in and I’m stoked about the PureFlex lacing system boots which the SDS has been working on for the past two years. As Product Manager for boots, it’s really my job, what I’m supposed to do. But it’s been just a fun and totally immersive experience, kinda like laboring on a piece of art, eating cold pizza, not taking showers, trapped in my own apartment, losing 10 lbs (honestly been there before) then finally seeing it come together in the final stages. It’s very rewarding. We started off with a clean slate, to try to do something that’s different from anyone else. We talked to shops, we listened to riders. (more…)
Destineer Announces Stoked™: Big Air Edition “It’s Time To Strap Back In”
02 years ago
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– Highest Rated Xbox 360® Snowboarding Game Now Includes Racing, Even Better Controls, Two Massive New Mountains, Upgraded Visuals, and More –
September 30, 2009 – Stoked, which has the highest Metacritic score of any advanced-generation snowboarding game, is now faster, bigger, easier to control, and even more gorgeous in Stoked: Big Air Edition. New features include racing, marked trails that make it easy to find great runs, lots of park objects to use for tricks, two new mountains, better visuals, and faster and smoother riding. Stoked: Big Air Edition is priced at $39.99 and will be released exclusively for the Xbox 360 videogame system from Microsoft® on November 24, 2009. (more…)
Oakley News Update
22 years ago
Gretchen Bleiler’s Signature Series combines fashion with function and reflects everything that’s important to the most accomplished female snowboarder in the world. Her passion for the environment played an instrumental role in the creation of key pieces within her collection. This season, a focus of Gretchen’s collection is to generate awareness about the issues of global warming. Oakley, together with Gretchen, has created and developed a segment of her Signature Series apparel line using technical outerwear pieces made with recycled and recyclable fabrics.
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Jackson Hole and Resorts Tapped Announce Launch of iPhone App
02 years ago
(Teton Village, WY. September 29, 2009) Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and Resorts Tapped LLC are pleased to announce the launch of JH Tapped, a GPS iPhone application developed exclusively for Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. JH Tapped uses the iPhone’s built-in GPS to locate the user and their friends on the official Jackson Hole trail map and log the user’s runs and vertical feet travelled. This unique app allows users to pinpoint their location on the actual Jackson Hole trail map, not a hard-to-read topographical or satellite map. JH Tapped is the first app tailored to an individual resort, making it a must-have tool for any visitor looking to maximize their Jackson Hole experience. (more…)