2012 Burton Mission EST Restricted Snowboard Bindings Let’s get this out of the way first. When you see “EST” in the binding name it means the’ll only work with Burton boards featuring The Channel. Luckily, Burton makes a standard version of their snowboard bindings. The performance between EST and standard versions of bindings should be [...]

Natural and manmade powder pillows await! Japan is a great place to visit to enjoy the big city as well as pristine backcountry just a couple from each other. In Episode 2 of Japan Journals the crew goes out to Niseko, just a short plane-ride from Tokyo. What awaits them is days of untouched powder [...]

Chris is still big into snowboarding, but has also started getting heavy into MX Chris Roach is a professional snowboarder from Grass Valley, California. What’s really cool with pro snowboarders from the early 90′s is that they are all friends and know each other from back in the day. If you’ve ever pulled a Power [...]

Marko wants to remind you that hard boots aren’t just for racing anymore! We’re traversing the Alps with Red Bull rider Marko Grilc. He’s moving through Austria, Switzerland and Ital with plenty of park riding along the way. There’s plenty of resorts throughout the Alps as well as tons of talented riders. Marko is joined [...]

Mostly done in halfpipes the Alley Oop can also be done off quarterpipes! We’re looking at a very graceful version of Burton’s TricTrac today. We say grateful because it’s all in slow-mo. The subject of today’s TricTrac is the very difficult Alley Oop. Definitely not an easy one to master, but if anyone has it [...]

Perfect handplant, good stiff arm with the weight centered and a solid grab! Burton’s got a few of these TricTracs floating around out there and we like to highlight them from time to time. This one’s all about the handplant, a trick that’s not particularly easy to do on a snowboard. Luckily for us we [...]

Nothing like shooting down the middle of the halfpipe, pulling one grab and taking the title! If you haven’t heard of Jeff Brushie then you haven’t really followed the evolution of snowboarding. Brushie really brought the skate style to the sport. He got his beginnings doing slalom in Vermont and was on the Burton team [...]

Nothing like an early morning park session! The Burton women are at it again. This edit features Kimmy Fasani, Kelly Clark, Hannah Teter, Arielle Gold, Cilka Sadar and Enni Rukajarvi riding in a variety of locations and conditions. They’re hitting the backcountry, resort terrain parks and a massive springtime superpipe! Anybody that says women can’t [...]

Burton has evolved by leaps and bound sing 1977! Jake Burton is one of the biggest innovators of snowboarding and it’s acceptance by consumers and ski resorts. At their headquarters in Vermont there’s a wall that has all of their boards. It’s amazing to see the evolution from board to board with materials shape and [...]

So much powder, so little fuel! Stephan lives a life that we wish we could live. When we’d look at a peak and think “We can probably only get 3 runs in today,” he looks at the helicopter swooping in to pick him up and thinks “Here I go again!” It doesn’t hurt that he’s [...]