Thank you to everyone who submitted for the 2012 Freebord Pro Team! The submissions were great and we had a lot of ripping riders to choose from, which made our decisions very tough. This year’s team is an unbelievable mix of riders that feature old and new faces from across the globe. Freebord is proud to give you the 2012 Pro Team!
Check out the 2012 Pro Team Page at www.Freebord.com/Team or click on the rider’s image below to view his page.
Big props to the guys at Smorgasboarder Magazine in Australia for writing a great feature about Freebord. These guys really did their research and took the time to learn how to ride our boards, which definitely showed up in their article. Thanks, Mark!
Check out Smorgasboarder’s latest issue at www.smorgasboarder.com.au (our story starts on page 168) and check out images of our story below.
Your board’s all tuned, you’ve got the perfect playlist ready to go and you’re just about to hit that first hill of the day… what’s the last thing you need to remember before you drop? If you’re like us, you strap on your helmet, give your 4ST sticker a little love tap and start bombing! Why? Because we’re around skateboards all day and know full well the consequences of not wearing a helmet.
But that’s just our reason. We want to know why you wear a helmet!
Tell us why you wear a helmet and you could win a free Triple Eight helmet and a bunch of 4ST Decals. We don’t care whether it’s because your mom makes you do it or because you generally value your own health — we hope it’s the latter. Just let us know why it’s important for you to wear a helmet and we’ll pick our favorite entry to send a free Triple Eight helmet and some 4ST decals.
To enter, just write your response in the comments of this blog post before Friday, February 3. You must have taken the 4ST Pledge in order to enter. Click here to take the pledge.
A big thanks to Triple Eight for providing the helmet to run this contest! Check them out online at www.triple8.com.
You guys did it! You really did it!
Last week, we asked riders to show us how they’ve been getting through this snowless winter by creating some sort of crazy, creative, project and everyone came back with some epically weird — but awesome — stuff. But now that it’s snowing out here on the West Coast it’s time to pick the top three projects, all of whom win a free set of Da Blues wheels.
Here are your top three No Snow No Problem projects, in no particular order. Congrats to Tyrone Corbett, Byron Treece and Dallas Phillips! We’ll be hitting you up via Facebook to get your address so we can send you some new Da Blues!
Dallas Phillips — “Bently Poster”
Tyrone Corbett — “No snow, No Problem…make your own snow”
Byron Treece — “No Snow No Problem”
There’s a snow storm set to hit Tahoe tonight, which means you only have until the end of today to submit for the No Snow No Problem Contest. Click here for more details about the contest and submit before the end the day today, January 18th! We’ll be picking winners later this week.
Back in early January, the Calaveras Enterprise did a story about Darren Baca and Adam Stanton winning the 2011 Freebord Best Submitted Video Contest.
Last week, another Sonora, CA local paper, the Union Democrat, wrote a little follow up piece about the BSV-winning duo. Nice work again, guys!
Check out the followup story here and check out their award-winning video below.
Home – Freebord BSV 2011 from Reel Eyes Media on Vimeo.
Fact: Haiku’s promote snowfall
No snow, no problem
Get out and shred with Freebord
Please wear a helmet
Mother Nature is being a salty bitch right now — at least for those of us who want to go snowboarding. On the bright side, this lack of snow is perfect for Freebording and we’ve been taking advantage of all this great weather by getting out to ride as much as possible! Even so, we’re still antsy for winter’s arrival and need a creative outlet to channel our frustrations — check out our epic graphic below!
Now we want all of you to send us something epically creative that represents how you’ve been getting through this dry spell. It can be whatever you want– video, photo, photoshop image, etc. — but it does need to tie in Freebord and be able to be posted on our Facebook wall. The contest will last until one of the western mountain ranges gets its next snow storm. When the snow starts flying, we’ll choose the top three projects and send them each a FREE SET OF DA BLUES!
To enter, just post your project to www.Facebook.com/Freebord.
Here’s a little something extra to get the creative juices flowing:
As many of you have already seen, we’ve created a campaign to promote helmet use among riders of all kinds called Wear a Helmet 4ST. We’ve gotten a ton of riders to take the 4ST pledge to wear their helmets and have sent 4ST decals all over the world. It’s so cool to see the decals popping up in a lot of the videos and photos coming through Freebord and we’re psyched so many people are getting behind this movement.
That said, here are just a few examples of what Wear a Helmet 4ST means to some of the fans. Please go to www.Facebook.com/WearAHelmet4ST to take the pledge and share your story with us!
“Hey guys, I got my stickers today, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. One of the guys from our crew got into a monster crash while going downhill yesterday. He’s bed bound for a week but no major damage, thanks to his helmet which now has a 15 cm crack down one side (picture). It could have been way worse. Moral of the story, wear a helmet and stay safe. Thanks for helping spread the message. So much love for you guys from Australia ♥” — Amanda Amelle Young
“I’ve just received the stickers in the UK, thanks guys! I survived a severe brain injury and your pledge came out just as I left hospital. I didn’t used to ride with a helmet but now I realise the danger that exists. I think it’s a great idea and I’ll be spreading word about always riding with a helmet.” — Matt Turnbull
“Just arrived to Argentina!! Sharing to everyone’s who rides!!” — Uli Bayer
“Being lucky enough to be able to call Sam Trowbridge one of my best friends, I’d like everyone to know how humbled he would be at the incredible response of this by everyone involved. Thank you all do much, Duncs.” — Duncan Wright
Oeve Geypen
Backside edge head crash from GeO on Vimeo.
“My son had a serious freeboarding accident last summer where he nearly died. He had a helmet on but not properly. He fractured his skull along the temporal lobe, broke his ear drum and had a brain injury. My kids were never allowed to ski, snowboard, skateboard, bike ride etc without a helmet. I support this page and pledge, shared it to all my friends of Facebook…but please wear them properly as well…nothing worse than being told your child may not survive.” — Cheryl Houghton-Flamand
Daniel Vega
Did you see our ad on Fuel TV over the holidays? Check it out and let us know what you think!
