Snowboarding, like most sports, is about pushing yourself and extending your own comfort zone. As important as it is to push yourself, don’t go so hard that you get hurt.  Ride for you, not the other kids in the park, and not for the gapers watching you from the lift.  It’s a lot cooler to have fun and ride the way that makes you happy than it is to try and show off.

No one has fun with a kid who has to chill on a donut.


Another issue of Boarder Patrol is up!
 
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 Bode Merrill and the boys are back at it.  This time, they leave the urban setting alone and return to the mountain.  Although they may have come back to the mountain, the riding is anything but conservative.  Headplants, switch-ups like I've never seen before, and even a TAILBLOCK FRONTFLIP DROP IN!  What the fuh

This is a video you definitely do NOT want to miss!  CHECK THIS ISH OUT!!!



MERRILL TIME: PARK! WATCH HERE!

Screeching and sputtering like broken nails on a crusty chalkboard, the metal edge of my snowboard grinds sketchily across the ice. Flailing my arms and regaining my balance, I have just enough time to pop a sizeable ollie. Luckily, the ollie was high enough to clear the patch of grass and lump of rocks left uncovered of snow.

Johnny Drama, from HBO’s “Entourage,” said it best:

“Hell, if you can ski Hunter Mountain, you can ski anywhere.”
I’m with Drama on this one.

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She’s all I can think about.  There is nothing distracting enough to keep me from thinking of her. Sleep doesn’t even act as a safe haven from these slaloming thoughts. They always seem to carve deep turns through the snow-covered forests that are my dreams.
Just weeks ago we were planning our upcoming trips together. All the fun we were going to have.
Now, I can barely even look at her.
The air in the room tells me the feeling is mutual. Since my most recent skateboarding injury, I’ve been unable to shred. 

My sweetheart, Cecelia, is upset that I can’t ride her.

Another Boarder Patrol is up

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Carinthia, Mount Snow's all-park peak, is open and shreddy to bro.  

The homies up there in Vermont put out a quick edit showcasing the early season set up, featuring riders such as Ian Keay and Shaun Murphy.  Did y'all know that Murphy, a Mount Snow parkrat, was invited with the Bataleon crew to shoot at Superpark 16 last year?  Homie is definitely on the come up.  Maybe we could have another East Coaster go pro like Forrest Bailey from Stratton Mountain in VT and Mike Ravelson from Loon Mountain in NH.  

You never know!

Watch it here 

Not that I ever a need a reminder of how much I love snowboarding, but a video like this highlights what the sport is all about: Pushing yourself, getting hurt and landing new tricks.  Working, playing, traveling and tightening the bonds of brotherhood through a shared passion.  

In the RK1 crew's 2012 season edit, riders such as Stale Sandbech and Len Jorgensen exemplify the specs above perfectly.  These guys travel the world, entertaining themselves and others everywhere they go.  Along with the glowing, heart warming vibes I get while watching this video were the awe-inspiring, jaw dropping tricks thrown down in it.  Never have I ever seen so many fucking cork variations. I didn't even know that there were that many triple cork variations invented.  

Literally blown away. Watch this shit.

RIGHT HERE!

There is a reason Bode Merrill has such a big name in the snowboarding world, but if one needed more clarification on the magnitude of his greatness they just need watch this video part. 

In Monster Energy's Merrill Time: Street, Bode and his crew exhibit a level of skill and insanity unfathomable to most.  I keep on thinking that the envelope cannot possibly be pushed any further, that the limits of what is humanly possible on a snowboard are soon to be reached - and then I see this.  

Do yourself a favor and take seven minutes out of your day to watch this edit.  You will not be disappointed. 

Warning: NSFW  - you will be screaming in excitement

Watch it here, thanks again Transworld!