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Koraloc board bags – fire your surf sherpa

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor anyone that has to hike to get to a secret or not so secret spot, you understand how much it can suck to have to carry your board over long distance. Who wants to have pumped-out arms after a long hike before you even get your toes wet? Last week I hiked to my […]

Trace – activity monitor for action sports

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteGPS enabled device allows you to not only capture your snowboarding runs (vertical, calories, airtime, speed, etc) or wave’s surfed (waves, speed, cutbacks with turn radius, etc), but easily (almost automatically) overlay that information over your GoPro footage…

Is Marcus Kleveland the best of his generation?

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Reading Time: < 1 minutePhoto: RedBull.com – Sixteen-year-old Norwegian snowboard phenomenon is progressing snowboarding with big air and ground tricks and begins to spread his wings in other disciplines such as backcountry powder. A peek at the future of snowboarding with jaw-dropping video to get you amped for winter…

Infento: am I too old for this?

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Reading Time: < 1 minutehttps://vimeo.com/130314832 As the father of two girls that have gone through wagons, tricycles, rip sticks, razors, BXM bikes, mountain bikes and other forms of transportation, something like the Infento would have been welcome news… 15 years ago. Described as “Bigger than Meccano and Lego. Much bigger. With just one kit and one tool you can […]

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Hoverboard by Zapata Racing

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpecs: Thrust routed through an 60′ hose up to the Hoverboard Personal Water Craft (PWC) follows behind the rider Can fly as highs as 20 feet with speeds over 15MPH Minimum power requirement: 180HP Maximum power requirement: 300HP Cost: $2,500.00 – Purchase Here Source: EPICTV

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Mike Basich Gets It

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Reading Time: < 1 minutePro snowboarder Mike Basich has built himself an off-grid tiny home (228 sq ft) about 10 miles outside of Truckee, California (USA). Basich lives here when he’s not snowboarding or photographing throughout the world. The house has solar power, wood-fired hot tub and other amenities, but non as cool as the single-chair chairlift he built […]

Surf Sauna

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Reading Time: 2 minutesA few friends and I like to surf a fairly remote spot with about a mile hike-in. About 3/4 of the way on my hike I noticed the leg of my wetsuit felt thin – shit, wrong suit. With head-high waves clearly visible at this point I wasn’t turning back. Once I started to suit-up, […]

Radinn Electric Wakeboard

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrom the looks of the video this electric wakeboard looks heavier than the carbon fiber construction might lead you to believe. The point of wake boarding is to have a wake to jump

Vintage skateboards

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Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been skateboarding for a long, long time; More than 35 years (and yes, still counting). I’ve been through loads of decks, countless sets of wheels and grinded through my share of trucks. But for some reason – maybe I was nostalgic even as a kid – I always kept my first skateboard and kept […]

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Otterbox Pursuit Series – waterproof dry box

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMost Sunday’s in the Summer I like to paddle up Narrow River to meet friends on the beach. We hang out with our kids, BBQ, swim, explore the estuaries for crabs and other wildlife, climb the rocks, hunt for tidal pools and surf. All of these activities have one common thread – water. Most of […]

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G-Form G90 – phone to GoPro in a ‘Snap’

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m a big fan of G-Form products and not so long ago we reviewed the G-Form Elbow Pads which I now wear religiously for snowboarding. G-Form announced during CES 2013 that in June of 2013, they will sell the G90 waterproof phone case with a 90° angled lens/mirror with up to an impressive 140° field […]

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Back on Track with YakTrax

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Reading Time: 2 minutesWe got like 6″ – 8″ of snow where I live in the Northeast and it’s been hanging around. The first few days I did some snowshoeing, but over the next few days the snow melted just enough to get crusty and the trails got pretty tracked-out and I was relegated to hiking. Given my […]