After an eight year hiatus, the Nixon Jibfest is back. Powder & Rails just released the first in a three-part series that explores the history and future of the Jibfest, including interviews with JP Walker, Jeremy Jones, and Chris Gunnarson. Check it out after the break
The boys of Powder and Rails are back with a special mini-series on the resurrected Nixon Jib Fest which was back this year after a way too long 8 years away. When the guys at Nixon asked if we wanted to be one of the only few people “media” people there we jumped at the chance and soon Trevar Cushing (Powder and Rails producer) and his trusty cameraman we’re off on a plane. This three part series explores how the Nixon Jibfest came to be and who were the faces then and who are the young bloods now.
You don’t need me to tell you jibbing is snowboard speak for doing skateboarding-inspired tricks like sliding on obstacles. But maybe what you didn’t know is that the first mention of it came during a 1989 interview with pro snowboarder Nick Perata.
Soon after the Nixon Jibfest started in 2000 as an invite-only event. In this episode, we jump back to the early ‘90s and talk to some of the riders who pioneered jibbing on picnic tables and street rails. We talk to JP Walker and Jeremy Jones, who came up with the concept for the original Jibfests, and then also hear from Snow Park Technologies’ Chris Gunnarson and Nixon co-founder Chad DiNenna about the so-called anti-competition’s 8-year hiatus, and about making this latest one their biggest and best. This installment of
The Nixon Jib Fest basically brings together three generations of snowboarders who have all influenced each other on the biggest custom courses that have ever been built. So, as Jeremy Jones says, “Dudes are just stoked.”
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