Mark Clavin

Que Andrew Gold. Thank you to these four for being friends and dropping Kiitos. Well worth the watch if you like snowboarding, Finland, both, or neither. Enjoy.

We are starting to roll through the past season and post all the videos that we might have missed. No idea how we missed this one. This one is a long way from Springfield. A recent drop from the Simpson brothers on a trip to Oslo. Very worth the watch, which makes sense on why Method Mag put their stamp of approval on it. Enjoy.

Not like an Instagram reel, this video is much longer. Actually, it looks like editor Ted Borland made this thing for the aspect ratio of your grandparents’ TV. Must be because it is TIMELESS. Boom. Brought that one around, didn’t I? If you don’t know what Soy Sauce Nation is, this might give you an idea.

The entire replay is above if you want to relive the entire event. The Bomb Hole also put up a great recap video of the entire event as well with Julia Spadaro interviewing a ton of people in the crowd and on course. So is there really a reason to write a recap when you can just watch that? We could comment on how powerful it is to see this event as the industry is still trying to grow and figure it out. We could comment on how sick it is to actually pay riders a solid prize purse (insane work locking that down to Jess and crew) or just the importance of elevating women in the space and backing it up. We could also comment on how amazing it is to see Jess Kimura’s original project from a few years ago snowball into quite the movement… but we will just leave you with a full batch of photos to go through from Emma Dubrovsky and enjoy. We thought Emma was a Salt Lake-based photog but it turns out she is actually from Montreal. Thanks for making the trip out and snagging all these shots for us! Photos and results below:

First off, congrats to Valentino and Brooke! Our apologies for all the skiing, but we had to watch the whole thing to get to Valentino Guseli’s new world record height for the largest air out of a hip. As well as Brooke D’Hondt’s world record air which it looks like isn’t even highlighted in this video? We kind of scrubbed through but we didn’t see it specifically called out (on second scrub we think we found it but they didn’t give the height reading like they did for the men). Jay Rawe was also pretty insane hitting the thing in a sit ski which we like to call a sit-forward snowboard.

What is it like to spend a day in the heli with Mark McMorris? Well, for those of us not named Stan Leveille, this is as close as we might ever get. The mystery is officially solved with the latest RAW update from Sparky’s BTS series. Try a few new boards, eat a few cookies, let the hair down and take some turns. Oh, and a gourmet soup lunch on the beach. Not a bad first day back for McMorris and crew. Enjoy.

Damn, Monster just dropped a dope edit from trip a few years ago with Euro heavyweights Ståle Sandbech, Torgeir Bergrem, and Rene Rinnekangas. The boards date the edit which are obviously from a few seasons ago (rumor is the trip was in 2020) but to our knowledge, the clips and photos have not been seen until now. The trip was in Norway, the home country of Stale and Torgeir, with Rene joining up out of Finland. Pretty rare for something to go unseen for that long in the current social media landscape, but we have to say it was well worth it to see the full package as it was intended. Maybe it is because I have never seen the Northern Lights, but coming fresh off of seeing a total solar eclipse in the U.S. this past month, I can only imagine how cool it must have been to be riding under the vivid green from the aurora borealis. Impressive work behind the camera as well from Marcus Skin, Gimbal God and the crew to capture all of that. Enjoy.

We know a bunch of world records have been broken recently and massive hits have been going down, but Yuto Yamada’s recent upload to Insta might be our favorite so far. Out in Sweden for his team week, Yuto went MASSIVE on a hip that looks to have taken quite a beating by way of the landing. Going that big on a perfect hip (so we have been told) is terrifying enough, but to do it late in the day with a bombed out landing is downright psychotic. With 35k likes and counting and a ton of comments from fellow pro riders, this clip will definitely stick in our brains for much longer than the average Instagram. Check it out below:

Salomon’s Sven Thorgren and Method Mag just dropped their firework-containing recap of The Rip Off Session that went down at Kläppen in Sweden last week. A stacked crew including Sven Thorgren, Stale Sandbech, Torgeir Bergrem, Sage Kotsenburg, Annika Morgan, Cocomo Murase, Judd Henkes, Oyvind Kirkhus, Vlad Khadarin, Mons Roisland, Myiabi Onitsuka, Tova Nejne, Novalie Engholm, Patrick Hoffman, Dusty Henricksen, Taiga Hasegawa, and Mason Lemery all came out to ride at Sven’s home hill, which put on quite the show for the out-of-towners. A custom build and plenty of fireworks at what looks like one of the highlights of the season. Solid recap from the crew over at Method! Enjoy.

T. Bird and Mark Clavin check in with Bend royalty, Jared Elston, as he waits to see if he is going heliboarding in Alaska. Pardon a few of the audio issues, Jared was using his phone for a hot spot and to be honest, it held up pretty great! They cover his trip, Natural Selection, the housing market in Bend, going from Adidas to Arc’teryx, and plenty more! Listen in for another episode of Mark My Bird!