Introducing Jed Anderson

 I didn’t realize this video was 6 years old. Anyways this is pretty much the reason I continued to snowboard back in the day (6 years ago I guess). Back when snowboarding was dominated by the OG’s it was more of a backcountry scene that you would watch in videos. Don’t get me wrong there was urban jibbing, but it felt like in order to be a snowboarder you had to send huge backcountry jumps. Which looked really fun, but was always more of a dream like maybe if I get better somehow I’ll be able to do that stuff. When Jed Anderson came out with this video (which was apparently filmed in 3 days) it opened my mind up to the potential of being able to snowboard. I was witnessing a skinny dude doing arguably the most stylish/technical tricks I’ve ever seen. It was at that moment that I realized skinny dudes can still snowboard and have fun, and it’s been history ever since. Almost every trick in this video is done with skate style that looked so fun to be able to do. If you pay attention to what tricks he does regular/switch you will be surprised. Jed Anderson pretty much started a revolution after this video and it’s not hard to tell a lot of kids took notes. Safe to say Jed is the king of skate style snowboarding and continues to push the game with every part he drops. Do some homework and buy some Videograss movies.
http://snowboarding.transworld.net/photos/full-part-friday-jed-anderson-get-real/

SiTP 2012: 17

Sunday In The Park 2012 Episode 17 by Transworld

 All the Sunday in the Park edits from 2012 got me so hyped to go to Bear Mountain. Watching Brett Wilkinson every Sunday was pure gold. One of my favorite riders to watch, Sunday in the Park could only be Wilky and it would be way better. Just watch all the other SITP’s in 2012 and watch how he rips Bear. The sunny California vibes are the real deal, and luckily I got to check it out for a month in 2013. One of the best moves I ever made, I would recommend it to anybody that loves to snowboard. Pretty much always sunny, perfect conditions. Not to mention the entire mountain is littered with park features. Truly a boarders paradise. Get to Bear Mountain you won’t regret it. Wilky shows us why he reps bear and just cruises the park with effortless style. Bluntslide 270 sameway, followed up by a bluntslide 450 sameway. A perfectly cracked Ollie over the stair feature that looks so fun. Other than that their was some other honorable mentions but you should definitely check out the rest of the Sunday in The Park videos to see more Wilkinson shots. Beef also does a sick job filming and editing all the Sunday in The Parks at Bear Mountain so shout out to Beef for holding it down. Be sure to check out Beef’s project Avante Garden as well. –The Rat



Brett Wilkinson Welcome to Active from Fed List on Vimeo.

Loonatics Episode 9 from Keep The Change

Loonatics Episode 9 from Keep The Change on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/21785573
Keep The Change is one of the best snowboard crews around. Coming from Loon Mountain, New Hampshire they have built up a solid amount of videos proving their come up. With Loonatics to Friendly Fire, and now a professional video production crew. Keep The Change have made their mark on the industry and are helping to push snowboarding in the right direction. 

I chose to post Loonatics Episode 9 because it really captures some innovative hammers. Super clean riding from start to finish, and amazing camera work is what really gets me. The filmer for Keep The Change is one of the best in the business, and truly captures skate style snowboarding, shoutout Skyler. These videos are so well filmed and edited it actually doesn’t matter what trick is happening because it is just so cool to look at.

Opening the video is Mike Rav with some nifty maneuvers like that tailpress closeout wallie backside 180 which I really enjoyed. Backside 360 to frontside 360 the creeper wall was also a standout. Cole St. Martins backside 360 50-50 frontside 180 out was also pretty cool. Then the boss Brendon Rego shows off his buttery style with nollie backside 180 on, nollie front board, frontside 360 on, and a perfect nollie back tail sameway 270. Dylan Dragotta got a well deserved ender for this edit by putting down some of the most stylish tricks with ease. His cab 270 line to back 270 nosegrab was classic. Followed by tearing apart the creeper wall with backside 180 hardway 360 out, cab 360 on cab 360 out, and a hardway frontside 360 on backside 360 out was mind numbing.

Keep The Change dudes are true park rats and hold it down for the sport. Go buy their newest video “Homage”.  Looking forward to more edits. –The Rat

Blunt Trauma from DOPE INDUSTRIES

E-man & Stathis 'Blunt Trauma' from DOPE INDUSTRIES on Vimeo.

Ok so I had to post this edit because it is an instant classic. If you haven’t heard of D.O.P.E. Industries do some homework. In this edit, DOPE mastermind Brocklebank captures the styles of legends E-man Anderson and young Al Stathis. I remember watching this edit for the first time. That first ollie by E-man into the powder looked so fun, and really makes you want to get to Whistler. This edit  “Blunt Trauma” shows off some real nice skate style snowboarding with E-man popping some hard nollie/fakie 180 variations over some fences, and even gets caught up on a sign and goes flying.  Al Stathis killed the game in this edit with textbook tricks all throughout. Cab 270 through the down-flat-down 270 out, switch front board, and a back tail all like a boss. His switch back 270 blunt to regs was G-code too. Just like E-man’s back nose blunt pretzel to snow explosion. Throughout this whole video E-man and Al back each other up by doing difficult tricks with style one after another, true G’s. At the end of the video they match each other’s tricks on a down rail doing 180 press variations that you could watch for hours.

Brocklebank put together a dope classic with “Blunt Trauma” and continues to save snowboarding with D.O.P.E. Industries edits. The dope crew holds it down and does their thing and doesn’t care what other people think. Hyped for more G footy. Get to whis.

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Haunted Hyland from 1817

Haunted Hyland from 1817 on Vimeo.

There are so many good Hyland Hills edits that I could have picked any one to do a review about, I may post another in the future. However I chose this one because Justin Fronius' ender really stood out to me, and I always think about Hyland as this is what snowboarding is all about. Chill skatepark like vibes, with a tow-rope for endless laps is the future of snowboarding. The house of 1817, and make friends dudes, and anyone in Minnesota that gets to ride Hyland or Trollhaugen is super lucky, because they are in the middle of where snowboarding is going, by having a blast (looks like!). Got to get out there this season! 

The house of 1817 guys did a really good job with this video, the cartoon visuals in between parts were really cool and kept things fun to watch.

In this edit I was hyped to see Jake OE (tranny king) show off his ninja skills. Boody sending a method deep off an up tube which was sick. Colton Morgan coming through with a steezy tail press hand drag boardslide pretzel. Can never get enough Danimals but I was especially stoked on his frontside 360 at 7:15 that he somehow managed to do without his hat falling off, which was straight G. Also cool to see Tommy Gesme get a couple shots with a really stylish switch hardway 270, and also Louif Paradis came through with a couple dope japan 180’s and some tricks on the rainbow box which he always kills. Justin Fronius got ender for good reason. His line combinations were sick, and all his tricks were done with classic style that makes snowboarding look so fun. The line he did in between the little kids was so good and makes Hyland look like a good place to raise your kids. Fronius’ ender line with backlip on the side of a jump, to front blunt sameway 360 blunt to regs was most excellent and definitely deserved ender. Holding down snowboarding.

Haunted Hyland is an instant Hyland Hills classic and a reason why you gotta check out Hyland Hills Snowboard Park, place looks so fun!

BIRDgang snowboarding at Whistler by FootyFiend

BIRDgang from FootyFIEND.com on Vimeo.

To kick things off with Ratfeed I'm going to post a classic snowboard edit. Arguably one of the best/most stylish edits to drop of all time this is one of my favourite videos, and always gets me hyped on snowboarding. In this edit FootyFiend manages to capture BIRDgang on the slopes of Whistler, Canada and remains as one of the best edits on the internet.

This edit begins with Legend Dave Scott a.k.a. Davoucci Mane truly showing why he does not need to snowboard anymore. Tailgrab tailpress 270 pretzels, and 360 tripod 360 reverts like a boss, shutting down the industry. Followed up by Matt Butel showing the kids how to snowboard with one of the best tree tranny’s of all time. Butel then does the steeziest tail grab boardslide that has still been untouched in snowboarding, like a lot of tricks in this video, like the front board melon poke to fakie that he shows up a skier with that makes snowboarding look way more fun. Davoucci Mane does his tricks with the best stee in the game, like his switch back 270 switch up, and back 270 ons. This video gets heated at 1:23 with an assortment of game changing 270’s that are the best variations of the trick ever put into one video. We see Loosh throwing down the steeziest back 270 boardslide ever which has influenced how I snowboard ever since. At the end of the video Butel puts down one of the best nose bluntslides that solidifies the Bird gang style. Not forgetting Jordwan from Footy Fiend who put together this video with the Yung Joc track “Birds” and continues to put together classic snowboard edits under the Footy Fiend name. 

This video is almost 5 years old and is still one of the best snowboard videos on the internet. This Bird Gang snowboard edit is a huge influence to up and coming riders, and proof that having style is way more fun to watch. Bird Gang puts the style in snowboarding. 

Click here to watch Bird Gangs full length movie