The Winter Film Festival: "Take It Easy", a snowboarding movie

Edgework: How about one more long video to top off Saturday’s program for the Winter Film Festival (WFF). This one, “Take it Easy” is sponsored/produced by Quicksilver, 3M, Snowboarder Magazine and Method Snowboarding Magazine. It is–as you surmised based on the names of the sponsors–centered on snowboarding, which is a that deserves equal air time …

Olympic Briefing: Snowboard Half Pipe

Paying Attention: The snowboard half pipe (joined at this year’s Sochi Winter Olympics by skiing half pipe) is the equivalent of the dry land half pipe beloved by skateboarders. The idea is deceptively simple: drop in from the top of the pipe, get up some speed, go over the top on the opposite edge, do …