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Jan 30

The Real SIA: 2012

By Ryan Dunfee2 Comments

Hardgoods fo’ life!  Photo courtesy of/stolen from SIA 2012

While keeping a low profile, BroBomb used all of 2011’s ad revenue, $36.78, to buy a cab halfway to the airport to fly to Denver to get to SIA. You didn’t see us at the show? We took over Ninthward’s booth for a couple hours while they wandered off and skipped all their buyers’ meetings to eat mushrooms in the bathroom.  We gave away free goatees to anyone we saw wearing a Flexfit hat at a crooked angle. Since then more than half our views have come from the Denver TapOut MMA league, and I just got a card in the mail for a free neck piercing next time we’re in town. We also stole Brooke Geery’s tallboy when she passed out in a hallway.  We shared it. It was way more fun than the chardonnay the nerds from Kjus were sneaking media folks in their booth.

If you didn’t see us, that’s okay; we were all disguised in Beardhats anyway.  If we’d been recognizable, we wouldn’t gotten hit up way too many times by pro skiers praising our genius, and we wanted to get some real work done instead.  We actually just spent the entire time snaking Camel lights from Jon, but after looking at Newschoolers’ copious 2013 product photos, here’s what we think are the five hottest trends for next season:

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Jan 26

Sneaking Pow Edits on to BroBomb

By Ryan Dunfee1 Comment

This video, “Cold Faces” from North Cascade Productions is an appropriate venue to launch the latest BroBomb poll.  Answer true to yourself so we can sell the data to Newt 2012.

Jan 20

What to Do to Ensure it Dumps This Weekend

By Ryan DunfeeNo Comments

This kind of skiing can really happen… if you are disciplined enough.  Courtesy of Jeffrey Kohnstamm

Well, it appears to be over.  The extended snowless purgatory that has plagued much of the West Coast this ski season seems to be dying a sputtering, moist death with the jet stream pushing a slew of storms south towards California, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado.  But as a superstitious bunch, we can certainly imagine this all turning to rain if we do something as stupid as wax our powder skis or show up for first chair.  We must maintain our collective discipline and ensure these storms do indeed deliver by engaging in the following ironic and delusory activities:

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Jan 17

Orage Enters a Tired Debate Five Years Late

By Jon Hartley1 Comment

This suuuper hypocritical “edgy” proclamation by Orage has led us to declare today “Ski However the Hell You Want, Cuz This ‘Debate’ is Pretty Boring DAY.”

Oh, and Ryuta is the shit. Beginning of conversation.

Jan 14

iPhone Photography Gets Classy

By Jon Hartley1 Comment

We don’t really do too many tech posts, but this little gadget caught my eye as far as ski applicability.

If you’re anything like us, you own a halfway decent camera, but it spends 99% of its time in the car if you even remember to bring it to the hill. Therefore, most of your ski photos/videos are taken with an iPhone. Olloclip looks like it might help you take the quality up a notch in your lazy quest to become the next Josh Berman or Blake Jorgenson. This little guy comes with a fisheye, wide-angle, and macro lens.

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Jan 08

Leaky Faucet: Mysterious 2013 Moment Ski

By Jon Hartley5 Comments

What we have here is a 2013 Moment release that may or may not be called the “Deathwish” (that was the filename anyhow).

Our sources tell us that it’s going to have “new” Moment technology/shape that they’re calling “Dirty Mustache Rocker.” Not sure what “dirty” refers to, but mustache rocker used to refer to camber underfoot with rockered out tip and tail.

As for dimensions, we’re looking at 112 underfoot and lengths of 164. 174, 184, and 190.

 

 

 

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Jan 05

Leaky Faucet: 2013 Line Chronics

By Jon Hartley1 Comment

It would seem that those luminescent-orange skis you’ve probably spotted in The Weak are the redesigned 2013 Line Chronic. We’ve been told that the new Chronic will have regular camber underfoot and early rise in the tip and tail. While we don’t really have a great shot of the topsheet, we’re told the graphic is Jerry Garcia inspired (hopefully the Dead’s legal team isn’t like Kiss’s). Clearer photos after the jump

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Dec 30

Best Top 10 List of 2011

By Jon Hartley6 Comments

In a Top 10 list of the best Top 10 lists, we’d put this one in the top 5. That’s right. So don’t you dare argue that we missed a deserving skier because that’s impossible. We must have sent four emails back and forth finalizing this list. No one has been overlooked. The list is in no particular order, except for JP– he wins.

Best People in Skiing for the 2011 Calendar Year

 

1) JP Auclair: Last year JP made the decision to step away from Poorboyz and work on a different type of segment. The result? The viral edit of the year. His All.I.Can street segment crossed over to an audience beyond skiers. The only thing to rival this thing’s popularity with the non-skiing set is perhaps Tanner’s “my ankles” video. And thank God this is what went viral and not some video of a superpipe cut into “cubes.”

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Dec 12

Living Life in a House on Wheels

By Brody Leven1 Comment

Over the course of the past 19 months I have lived in/on tents, couches, guest beds, floors, crawlspaces, basements, attics, RVs, snowcaves, and real caves throughout various continents. Skiing is to blame for this lifestyle.

My most recent home of 3 months, a gently used 24′ Winnebago Majestic, provided me a few lessons about life. Here the lessons to live by, specifically for a life in a House On Wheels:

-Stay clean

-Don’t even think about trying to have a girlfriend.

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Dec 07

Breaking News! We Try to Replace PBR (Again)

By Ryan Dunfee6 Comments

Those are skateboarders.

As tastemakers, trend-setters, and king-makers within the action skiing/freeride-styling community, it’s our pleasure to (once again) announce this most breaking news: PBR IS DEAD! My hunch was that another, better-tasting-although-equally-cheap tall boy would emerge to replace PBR as the go-to parking lot tailgate, road soda, pocket soda, and all the other  hipster euphemistic drinking experiences, and I was right.

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