Articles by jammiefreerider

Things are not done right in France, snowboarding is seen as a subsport of skiing. It is absolutely retarded situation. The French are great at revolutions, in fact they are probably the best. The Association Française de Snowboard (AFS), a section of the Fédération Française de Ski (FFS), wants...

In case you all haven't seen the video of Mondays storm: http://www.skipass.com/videos/le-jandry-dans-la-tempete-le.html People were stuck in the gondolas for 5 hours before they were rescued. To my knowledge luckily nobody was seriously hurt. Only, tales of puking kids, piss bottles, bruises...

Why is the music industry still moaning? Does anyone know? Music piracy is slowing down, more people are buying music and the industry falling out of its slump. The reason is, that their numbers still aren’t as large as they were before. The industry bosses have spent millions and millions...

Almost all the trailers are out now, very belatedly, but the reactions and questions about the films are still the same. There are too few exceptions but ski movies have one mould, which is bent now and again in different ways to make it seem fresh. The problem I have, is that we have a sport...

I'm injured at the moment with a torn tendon in my finger and torn cartilage in my knee (lateral meniscus). I'm trying to get my Nation Health Service (NHS) to give me the surgery that I need, but being the public service it is, they don't want to put me onto the waiting list for surgery until I...

I agree it's a bit odd to be putting a techy issuse on an NS blog, but (I say) most of us love Apple (laptops/iPods/iTunes etc) because they are the most innovitive, progressive and stylish company outside the snowsports world. This is something we look for in a company, it's the same reason why...

This last year, I have been watching in awe of what skiers are doing. It all started with Charles Gagnier's splits rail slide (I still haven't heard anyone name it yet, anyone know?) at the Tignes Airwaves and the rodeo-to-rail in the L1P LSS trailer. Now at the Jon Olson Invitational, there are...