Last winter, we gave our friends—team riders, shop owners, locals, magazine editors, artists, employees—the opportunity to say what snowboarding means to them in 50 words or less. Each perspective is unique to the individual. Now we want to hear what riders all over the world think “This Is Snowboarding” means to them (in 50 words or less).
It doesn’t matter if its cloudy or sunny, if there is a perfect shaped park or just a bunch of bumps, if I’m cruisin’ fresh pow or being at a dirty mini-jib trashyard. As long as im there with my friends, I will have the best day of my life! THIS is SNOWBOARDING!!!!
I thank God for it and consider it a privilege to be able to ride good snow quite often. I love the feel of laying down a good line in good snow. Riding pow with family and friends, with no given agenda is what I like most about snowboarding.
Snowboarding is what I live for, just like skateboarding. I think about snowboarding 24/7. If I'm not snowboarding I don't know what to do. If I watch TV, I watch a snowboard or a skateboard video. Snowboarding and skateboarding are my life. That’s all I can say.
I still think it’s about rebellion. Snowboarding is being able to have a fun time with friends and at the same time piss off that stuck-up security guard or old-school skier in the lift line…. I dunno, this question is hard to answer. I think it should be changed to "What do mustaches mean to me?” In that case my answer would be the same, rebellion.
Snowboarding is a blinding faceshot powder landing. One that you sink up to your waist on, but ride out. It is also when you get a method or tweak just right. That feeling of flying through the air, really cranking it out and holding it.
Turning up the highbacks to max, killing a black diamond, losesning up those straps and hitting a jump, racing your friends, carve snow at a girl, freezing your ass on the chairlift, hold the index and pinky fingers up and say, ROCK ON!
Snowboarding’s about waiting for that perfect day with fresh pow or stomping that trick that you have been working on for months. It’s about riding with your boys and not being a baby back bitch and hitting that new rail that no one else will try.
Catching the last lift on a powdery day, looking across the lift of friends laughing hysterically,finally landing that bak 270 you were trying all day, and watching the sun set while you hit the next rail. snowboarding to me is staying young and damn i never want to grow up.
with nothing behind you theres even more pleasure ahead. snowboarding is something else;unique moves, sick air, awesome set, rad back country, gnarley sessions, "different feeds for different needs", thats what makes it special. THIS IS SNOWBOARDING
i live, eat, sleep and breathe snowboarding. its riding from late nov to early april. its dreaming of it from april to nov. first chairs, last calls. adrenaline,laughs, friends and fun. clean parks to the street..its life. with out riding id have nothign to live for.
