i love myself some hard-as-fuck PARTYSNAKE
keeping it real from vancouver to whistler

Snakes on a bus 3: Tha End of an Era from Joey Vance on Vimeo.

greetings from the boardwalk
MAHFIA style

I ♥ SUMMERCAMPS
what a great place to come together with like-minded people to celebrate snowboarding in sunshine. i mean, only passionate riders will use their summers to go shred, right?!
no fakes on the mountain haha

how about Camp Of Champions for some superfun glacier sessions (June 24- July23) in NorthAmericas best and biggest summer park??

Or hit up SASS camp in South America? It’s their wintertime so you get to shred epic POWDER at Bariloche, Argentina (july 25 - sep 3) ??
SEE YOU THERE !!!

check out Hockenstein’s video from the KING OF THE HILL 2010
Valdez, Alaska

http://www.snowboardcanada.com/Blogs/post/89/AK-Updates-with-Queen-Of-The-Hill-Vera-Janssen

read up on my ALASKA adventures

http://push.ca/blogs/hockenstein/archive/2010/04/11/get-to-the-choppa-heli-in-ak.aspx

this is alaska !!!
YIIHAAAA

i made it !!! www.tailgatealaska.com
first time ever to ALASKA - the ultimate snowboard destination !!!!

it’s been a crazy trip so far -
rode the motorhome up from whistler !!!

read our blogs and watch webisodes from our crew on

www.push.ca
www.snowboardcanada.com

yesterday was the legendary KING OF THE HILL contest and the Alaskan sun blessed us with the nicest of days. shredding with Shawn Farmer, Mike Basich, Julie Zell, Nick Perata and playing in their backyard…
best time ever !!!
Annual AK-trips for life !!!!!!

the secret’s almost out …

MAHFIA.COM Teaser 1 from MAHFIA.COM on Vimeo.

Been out in the Whistler backcountry shredding with Dave Short and Hockenstein. We’ve been on a superfun program - just drawing our lines on to the white untouched mountains and exploring new valleys and bowls.
Here is a little video Brian made on one of those days last week…

A Day Out in the Whistler Backcountry from brian hockenstein on Vimeo.

With the olympics going on right outside my whistler house, many of my deep emotions from the past have been brought up lately.

please let me share with you the wikipedia article on the ISF - International Snowboard Federation R.I.P.

“The International Snowboarding Federation was a body organised to run snowboarding competition.

Following the collapse of the National Association of Professional Snowboarders in 1990, five nations and 120 racers established the International Snowboarding Federation (ISF) with the goal of keeping the officiating by riders and for riders. It sought to bring the world’s best competitors together to test their skills in an environment which embraced competitiveness, but stressed the idea of having fun. The ISF eventually attracted riders of varying ages and abilities, which allowed one-time rising stars such as Terje Haakonsen, Daniel Franck and Danny Kass to sharpen their skills at an early age on their way to joining the professional ranks. The ISF set the standard for snowboarding competition, which contributed to the development of it as an Olympic sport in the 1998 Winter Olympics.

In a controversial move, the International Olympic Committee recognized the Federation International Ski (FIS) as the sport’s official governing body. Three-time world champion Terje Haakonsen boycotted the Olympics as a result of the FIS being appointed to oversee the officiating. Other riders followed in Haakonsen’s footsteps and concluded FIS rules to be inappropriate for snowboarding. The FIS has maintained its control over the Olympics, giving credence to the position that snowboarding is a discipline of skiing and not its own, individual sport.

Although the ISF continued to represent snowboarding on an international level, it began to lose power, sponsors and finances to the FIS, and ceased operations on June 22 2002.”

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Snowboard_Federation

MBM’s vote for European Rider/Videopart of the Year is online !

Go vote for your favorite shred

http://www.snowboardermbm.de/cgi-bin/adframe/article.html?ARTICLE=/sonderaktionen/rider_of_the_year_2009/Content.snp&id=126294380714525397741818