October 2011

• Olympic Games-Changer

  Terje Talks Slopestyle
  By: T. Bird
  Terje talks about the veil of corruption clouding the FIS and IOC’s decision to include slopestyle in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and what snowboarders can 68do to change the current state of competitive snowboarding.

• Will the Next Travis Rice Please Stand Up?

  By: T. Bird
  There will never be another Travis Rice, but when he decides to pass the torch, there are four riders who may be able to carry it. Turn to page 68 to find out who they are.

• Standard Transmission

  By: Pat Bridges
  Twenty movies denote the canon of Standard Films and in turn, this mass of media provides a visual history of a quarter century of cutting edge snowboarding. The footage that the brothers Hatchett and their colleagues have amassed includes some of the most iconic, inspirational and groundbreaking riding ever framed. As their 20th film TB20 enters popular rotation, SNOWBOARDER sat down with Mike Hatchett, the founder/owner of Standard to have him reflect on a life spent behind the lens and the memorable moments that have happened in front of it.

• Eastern Bloc Party

  Estonia
  By: T. Bird
  MFM, Dylan Thompson, Derek Dennison, Jonah Owen, Austin Hironaka, and Johnnie Paxson take a trip to Tallinn, Estonia and uncover not only an untapped urban utopia, but the story of a nation that sang their way to freedom after five decades of occupation from brutal foreign regimes.

• The Launch

  By: Pat Bridges
  As the next generation of professional riders are fast becoming household names, SNOWBOARDER invited a new class of up-and-comers to The Launch to strap in and unleash. While McMorris, Toutant and Kotsenburg reveled in their veteran status as they lapped Park City last spring, a new crop of underage overachievers emerged to silently reap their own rewards.