In addition to dishing out advice, they’re holding video contests in the forums. They seem pretty informal, but it’s a hell of an opportunity to get your edit exposed to a different audience than it might if you simply put it on NS. Their last contest was based solely on editing and they specifically said that quality of riding doesn’t matter. I like that because the next great ski or snowboard filmer probably isn’t the sickest rider on the hill and he/she doesn’t need to be either.

We’re planning on bringing some edits to BroBomb once winter starts rolling, so I’m sure we’ll be taking advantage of some Knife Show advice.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with their work, this is my personal favorite:

So where does this long chain of self conscious replication end? Well that’s a hard question, but it most certainly extends beyond skateboarding. You see, skateboarding’s style comes from spending some time in the trendy parts of any major city and then emulating the most ridiculous butthole of a hipster you can find there. This makes sense, because by nature skateboarders spend more time in major cities than any of the aforementioned sports. Therefore, they are there to behold the hipster ridiculousness pouring out of a Man Man (or any other band nobody has ever heard of) concert .

So for all you ski fashionistas, if you want to leapfrog the biting all the way to the front of the line then grab the keys to mom’s Audi, leave the McMansion, and head on down to your local major city to get inspired/bite that shit hard. If you’re near Philly I recommend anywhere in N. Liberties or Fishtown. If NYC isn’t too far, I bet just about anywhere in Brooklyn would do the trick…otherwise you’re on your own, but it can’t really be that hard.

If big cities scare you then just jump on www.latfh.com and do a little mix and match. It’d be hard to go wrong with anything this guy is working with:

So ANYHOW, one of the blogger’s points was that skiers copy snowboarders on pretty much everything, just two years late. Well in the interest of filling up some space on my own blog I would like to propose an experiment to get to the bottom of this issue. Here’s how this works:

I choose one relatively new snowboard style: For our purposes I will be using the flipped-up hat a la beach volleyball. Seems to me like something that’s about to get bit like bandanas and tall T’s.

And now we wait. I’ll keep my eyes open and you keep yours glued to every fashionista in your home park and wait for a skier to show up looking like this dude:

Or just get proactive and bite this style in its infancy and claim “I ride with tons of snowboarders, we all influence each other.”

Happy hunting.