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Mike's picks for Shred Flicks.

As you may know we have in quite a few new videos, and seeing as how they are all right around 30 bucks picking the right video for you is pretty important. No one wants to blow 30 bills on a shitty video! So to aid in your purchasing decision I have compiled my top 3 video choices for 2010! (all of the links are to the video's teaser)

#3: Get Real(Transworld Snowboarding)- This is Transworlds Sophomore effort in the snowboarding world, and much like there fist video "These Days" it's awesome, not quite as good as These Days in my opinion, it was my favorite video last year. This year they have a whole new crew of dudes including Southboro's own and EB homie Chris Grenier along with fellow masshole Scott Stevens, as well as one of the best new up incomers in the game Jed Anderson. Grendy killed it with the first and in my opinion the best part he really stepped his shit up this year and he should blow up after this, couldnt happen to a better dude. The rest of the video has a nice array of backcountry killers like Devun Walsh, Iikka Backstrom, Sammy Luebke, and Mikey Rencz all of whom have sick parts. But fear not rail doggies Stevens does some really unique shit and contorts his body in a mind boggling way and considering he broke his leg mid season managed to still put out a killer part. Jed to no ones surprise had last part and came through with a pretty amazing part, once you watch it a couple times take the time to figure out what's switch and whats regular its pretty nuts. Overall a well rounded video that pretty much anyone can get into.-$29.99

#2: Neverland (Absinthe)- For anyone who keeps up with snowboarding videos every year they no doubt know about Absinthe Flims! Every year they are in my top 3, they make videos that are cinematically breathtaking and feature some of the most amazing snowboarders in the world, they usually have a pretty good soundtrack on top of that. This year was no exception once again the editing and cinematography was top notch and the riding of course is about as good as it gets. Absinthe staples like Nicholas Muller, Gigi Ruf, and Travis Rice always have mind blowing parts and of course they came through once again, in my opinion Gigi and Nicholas have some of the best style out there and I always really enjoy watching them ride. This year brought a few new faces to the crew like Kevin Pearce, Bode Merrill and my favorite lady in snowboarding Ms. Marie France-Roy. All of whom have great parts and Marie shows woman can drop cliffs and slay the backcountry too, while being way hotter than anyone else. This video doesn't have a ton of rails but if you like snowboarding you'll like this video. -$29.99

#1: Videograss- I have been hyping this video up for quite sometime now and for once a video actually lived up to the hype. I may just be a little partial to this video because it happens to feature most of my favorite snowboarders out right now and is made by one of my all time top 3 favorite riders; Mikey LeBlanc. This is definitly not your typical snowboard video, you wont see any crane or helicopter shots in this baby, which is fine by me. If you've seen any of the old Kidsnow videos (burning bridges, love/hate) its a lot like those, which happen to be some of my all time favorite videos. This is a rail kid video through and through. This video has an absolutely jam packed roster of rail shredders: Ben Bilocq, Laurent-Nicolas Paquin, Nick Dirks, Jonas Michilot, Louie Paradise, and Jake Olson-Elm for the tight pant crowd and Justin Bennee and Aaron Bittner for the snow thugs. This is a no part skipper video, every part is sick. Some stand outs in my mind are Laurent, Jake OE and Louie, who scores last part and has an absolutly amazing ender. Ben Bilocq really impressed me as well and managed to get first part and is probably one of the only full blown metalheads in snowboarding which is awesome. The soundtrack is great as well, everything from Biggie to GG Allin and even some Project Pat for good measure. Overall this is the most enjoyable video for me to watch this year. If your looking for 100+foot booters look else where, but if your looking for a video that has a skate video feel and looks like it was just made by a group of friends who are having fun on their boards definitely pick up Videograss. Two thumbs way up.-$27.99

I hope this helps you in picking a good video to invest your hard earned money in. Come on down and pick up any one of these great videos and get psyched for the snow, its only a few weeks away now! -Mike

Also be on the lookout for The Skeleton Crew video"Group Effect" dropping online real soon from what I've heard its going to be epic! Possible east coast premier in the works as well!

A few other note worthy videos: Nice Try (People), Forever (Forum) and The Airblaster Movie (Airblaster)



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High Fives

With Todd Richards, pretty funny.



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This would have been ALOT cooler 10 years ago

So if you couldn't tell this is a picture of Pamela Anderson "shredding" hard at Mammoth yesterday. She's not quite what she used to be, but hey at least she dressed appropriately. There's one more picture below for good measure.





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Product review: Rome Postermania '85

I swear Mike wrote this post at the same exact time Nashua was. Too weird.



I've been a big fan of Rome Snowboards for awhile, I've rode a Rome for the past 3 out of 4 seasons and this year i'm making it 4 in a row. They're a good group of dudes, they're east coast based, and they know how to throw one hell of a party! Most importantly they make a damn fine snowboard! My board of choice is a 153 Graft, its basically a beefed up Artifact with reinforced biaxial fiberglass, impact plates underneath the inserts, a carbon V stringer going from underfoot to the contact points, and also has a sintered base. The board i'm reviewing today is the exact same thing just with reverse camber. Just like everyone else this year, Rome has their very own kind of reverse camber jargon, 1985 Free is the classification they give. What that actually means is that in between your bindings there are 3 mm of reverse camber, the nose and tail are straight with no camber, leaving you with 7 mm of reverse camber at the contact points. This allows for a very well rounded board, it performs just as well on rails as it does in pow. The mellow reverse camber gives it a soft playful feel in the park and a light floaty feel in powder, all around fun feel everywhere else. I got the chance to test out the Postermania last winter at a few demo days. The first thing I noticed is that it rides very similar to the Graft, but a little softer which is to be expected with any reverse camber board. On rails and boxes it's great, no problem pressing everything out. It ollies a bit weird at first (like all RC boards), but you get used to it. On jumps it's stable and smooth, not sure how comfortable i'd feel about taking it off a 50' booter, but the 25-40 footers are fine. It holds up pretty well at speed, with minimal chatter if you really start to push it. Overall I really liked this board, not quite as much as the regular cambered Graft, but thats merely a personal preference. If you want a well rounded rail board that you can still slay a foot and a half of Vermont's finest on, then you should definitly check out the Rome Postermania 1985. $449.99 in sizes 147, 150, 153, 156




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Ramblin'

Check out this weeks terrible tuesday tips with Pat Fenelon: this week it features my good friend and EB homie Ramblin' Rob Millon who is in Utah living the dream. He also just picked up a fancy new HD camera so be on the look out for alot more of ramblin'.

Terrible Tues Tips: Milk the Early Season with Ramblin’ Rob



This is another video of their early season rail session, the rail is concreted in.



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