Articles by PlanksClothing
Andy Parry's famous Tell a Friend Tour is back for 2023, and we're stoked to be supporting it for the second year running. The rail wizard himself, with the Line Skis crew, will be road-tripping around the US once again, travelling to some of the best ski hills the east and mid-west have on...
These are the best ski pants ever… and you’ll prove it!
We’ve been working with Woodsy for some time to create the ultimate pant. It began with Woodsy bringing a ton of crazy ideas and features he’d dreamed-up during his decade long career to the table, which we toyed around with until they...
Mars may be the next frontier for human settlement, but it sucks as a ski destination. Our planet is amazing, and we must help protect it!
The “No Skiing on Mars” capsule collection is a collaboration between Protect Our Winters UK (POW) and Planks Clothing. Through sales of this limited...
Winter 20/21 was one of the best Scottish seasons in decades. Unfortunately, most Brits were not only deprived of mountains abroad, but unable to travel to the ski resorts on home soil too. To rub salt into the wound, the Scottish resorts were being dumped on... all winter long.
Travel and...
The Mayrand Podcast is about skiing, life and everything in between. Straight out of the gate in its first season the show has hosted some serious guests including; Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, Alex Bellemare, Alex Hall, Jason Levinthal, LJ Strenio, Phil Casabon, Vincent Gagnier and many more.
As a...
The creative geniuses that go by the name of Real Skifi have been at it again, bending the minds of freeskiers across the globe. In their latest episode, Real Skifi Tenet, they took a leaf out of Christopher Nolan's book with some trippy cinematic creativity. Real Skifi are known for their...
We linked up with our boy Lupe to talk about Real Ski, his roots and social media's influence on the prospects of professional film skiers.
Competing in X Games Real Ski has been your goal since street skiing's debut in 2016. How does it feel to finally get the opportunity to compete with...
We had a chat with James "Woodsy" Woods about his NEW signature series and skiing.
What are you most excited about from the NEW Woodsy Signature Series collection?
?AH! Everything is so exciting! Honestly, it is an amazing thing to have such input into the products I'm going to use.
It...
WE COULD NOT BE MORE STOKED TO ANNOUNCE THAT BRITISH FREESKI LEGEND JAMES ‘WOODSY’ WOODS IS BACK ON PLANKS!
Woodsy has been a long-term friend and keen supporter of the brand after first meeting founder Jim Adlington over 15 years ago. As a British brand with our own dryslope roots, we know how...
Hey dude! Why don’t you start by letting everyone know where you’re at right now and what you’re up to?
I'm currently back in the UK doing nothing but studying before my final A-level exams in June.
How hard is it to balance your skiing with finding time to study?
To be completely honest, I...
We wanted to share with the Newschoolers community this Tribute T-Shirt we are producing in Matt Heffernan's honor. Heffy skied for Planks and we as a brand decided this was the least we could do to help honor his family, friends and the man himself.
The HEFFNASTY T-Shirt is a tribute to Matt...
This summer Planks is excited to announce the signing of three big new names to our Pro Team. Jib wizard Andy Parry, shred jedi Dale Talkington and style master Lupe Hagearty have all been added to our roster, each bringing their own unique style and personality to the brand.
When asked what...
Come and ride with the Planks Team at Woodward Copper June 14th - 20th. Duncan Adams and Dan Dougherty are both gonna be there and we'll be announcing more riders over the next few weeks. #ShredOn
Register here for Session 2: http://www.woodwardatcopper.com/summer-camp.html?layout=edit&id=3362
The back story...
Now before we get into it, we want you to know Planks isn't a big company, we don't have fancy offices and we aren't owned by a group of rich investors who don't let us have a say in how things are run.
We're a small group of friends who live in the mountains and love skiing...
Being in the back country is where we feel the most at home. It's an environment where you need to get the most of your equipment. We wanted to produce an affordable, light-weight, heavy duty, hard working collection that will not let you down on those epic days you will always remember. We took...
Preview of Planks 14/15 collection starting with our new outerwear series. The Yeti Hunter and Good Times provide 2 options based on what your skiing preference is from backcountry to park. 20K and 15K rated, using Planks new RideDry20 and RideDry15 systems. We've also launched our new Graduate...
James Woods has been making big waves in the free style ski world this winter, 3rd at the euro winter X games,1st at the Andreas Hatveit backyard battle and 5 th at the WSI 2011 slopestyle finals. Killing it, nice one WOODSY.