If you’ve read the interviews in the Betties section of our site, you’ve seen that most people stated that the worst trend in snowboarding has been tight pants on the hill. I hate to admit it, but I’ve almost gotten so used to seeing this that it’s not such a big deal to me anymore. Now something else has taken its place.. Unzipped Jackets. Why are so many shredders rocking the open jacket…I don’t really get it? It’s one thing to have your jacket/hoodie zipped up half-way, but another to have it flapping around in the wind and wing-like when you jump. Sometimes, at least to me, it makes tricks look sloppier. And, when you eat it there’s way more snow down your pants/sleeves/shirt than normal.
It takes relatively little time to zip the jacket up half-way, or take it off.
Do you know what the deal is? Comment.
Wondering when your favorite snowboard brand will have all their new gear online? Stay tuned for updates on the latest snowboard companies to make their 08/09 sites live. Right now, sites that have their 2008-2009 gear online are:
As of late, most of us on the Shred Betties staff have gotten sick…with Olympic fever. It’s not that we’re die hard sports fanatics, or routinely follow unusual events like synchronized diving, the triple jump, table tennis, or trampoline (which actually may be the sickest sport ever). It’s not even that we’re following the games because it’s what’s expected in our culture because of all the hype. There’s just something captivating about watching your country go all out, shattering world records or making history, in the pursuit of a medal that comes once every four years. Even if it’s watching sports that normally you don’t care to watch like swimming, volleyball, gymnastics, and the list goes on.
While I’m sure you’ve seen the headlines surrounding Phelps inhuman accomplishments in the pool, you might have overlooked, or just been fed up with, the amount of media attention surrounding the age of the female Chinese gymnasts. If you’ve watched them in competition, most of them look 12-14, not 16 as their passports state. Their teeth are tiny as if they still have baby teeth, their bodies look like they haven’t hit puberty, and their faces look mighty young. These gymnasts have been allowed to compete (the governing bodies at the Olympics refuse to investigate their ages further) and took home the gold in the women’s team competition, placing the US team in 2nd. This got me thinking. What if snowboarding had age minimums?
Groms these days in snowboarding have been on the major up-and-up. Continue Reading »
Through the wonderful world of Myspace, we get all kinds of requests from companies trying to make a mark in the snowboard industry, so I thought I’d start sharing some of them with you. This week, we got a friend request from a new company called “Glowboardz.”
We’ve seen the glow-in-the dark topsheet paint on the 2008-2009 80’s inspired designs, but this company has taken it a step farther. They’ve come up with snowboarder’s answer to neon under-car lights, adding a strip of lights to your snowboard. Their myspace says that they manufacture boards, or do the glowing lights as a retrofit to your existing board. They don’t really explain how they do this, but we would be curious about how the process might harm the structure, and we find the strip of bolts alongside the lights a bit disconcerting.
Although their Myspace page says they make their own snowboards, the snowboards they picture come from Chinese manufacturer Freesport, a maker of low end price-point boards, with the amusing motto: “for the skaters and the snowboarders, we are not only making funs, but also health and happiness.”
I thought I’d just let you all know about the Evogear Outlet’s sale right now. The women’s clothing department has some nice stuff for sale. Some that’s even marked at 80% off, some that’s priced at $6 dollars! Hoodies for $20, nice jackets for $20. Go check it out! Evogear Outlet Sale
Yes, I know it’s not tuesday, but it’s summer and you don’t see many people wearing hoodies so hoodie tuesday has taken a hiatus. However, good ‘ol Wednesday (or hump day as it’s sometimes called) is a little lonely. So we’re giving it some love (get it? Hump day, love? I crack myself up sometimes).
As a little pick-me-up treat for the summer we bring to you a cool hoodie to buy before it’s sold out. Burton recently sent out their catalog, and, if you remember last year’s airplane decorated hoodie for men, they have put out the sleeper hoodie for women this year. It’s called the sleeper hoodie because it has everything included so you can take a nap in a plane.. or at work, or school, or in the car (though not while driving).. or whatever. You can find this hoodie available in their flagship store and online.
As long as snowboarding has been around, there has always been an attitude the that we were an underground sport, that we were “core”. To this day, people still feel this image exists and strive to try and maintain a sense of “core”. I won’t deny that I was one of these people for years, but as snowboarding changed, and I grew older my idea of what snowboarding is has moved forward with the times. However, many people and companies still stick to this image as if it is the end-all-be-all of what snowboarding represents.
Urbandictionary.com defines Core as:
1.Meaningless adjective usually preceding ambiguous noun. Used by corporate executives, public relations flacks, politicians and spin-doctors who want to sound like they know what they’re talking about.
2.A suffix that signifies suckiness and overall lack of quality in a pathetic attempt to make something sound “badass”!
While I couldn’t find a definition of what being “uncore” was, I believe it is safe to assume that it would be the direct opposite of being “core”.
Hi I am an intern and my name is Kayla. I am currently stuck in one of the lamest parts of the country…The Texas panhandle. This is  a place where not only the summer is terrible, but so are the winters because it does snow but due to the vast area of flatness there is nothing to do with it. I think deciding to move away from Colorado to finish school here was a terrible decision in some ways, but luckily I am a short drive from from the mountains. I decided that because of my love for the snow and art I would dedicate my side to it forever, and even though it’s over 90…. well maybe even over 100 degrees here I will have a little snow with me always.
