Team rider John Rodosky is bringing his freestyle flair to the Freeride World Tour and is flipping people’s conceptions of what competitive freeriding is in the process. John’s not your typical freerider, growing up in Jackson hole has given him incredible big mountain skills alongside technical freestyle abilities, combining these in a top to bottom [...]

News in from the Cartel is that Amplid took control of the podium at this year’s FTP Monster of Formigal contest in Formigal resort, Spain. Noah took numero uno with Pako in 2nd and Luka in 3rd. Once again the Syntax proved itself to be the go-to park ski for slopestyle contest dominance. Congratulations gentlemen [...]

There are some that would argue that  riding with Teddy is in no shape or form a suitable prize for any competition. However, when Teddy’s sock sponsor CEP Sports throws in a Heli ride in Alrberg and bounds Teddy to the conditions that he must wear outerwear at all times then it doesn’t seem so [...]

Ahh… imagine the life of a Pro Skier, a playboy lifestyle, flying from one exotic mountain range to the next, racking up air miles as you dash across the globe in serach of the next line or the next world class park. Not according to Cartel rider Steve Stepp who breaks into cold sweats as [...]

Amplid Cartel rider John Rodosky is competing this weekend in Fieberbrunn, Austria at the 5th Freeride World Tour stop. John will be riding his socks off to secure a starting spot in Verbier which is granted to the top 5 snowboarders and a place on the tour for next season which will be awarded to [...]

There are only four days to go before the Academy riders need to submit their edit for the 3rd challenge, so the pressure is on! Cartel rider John Rodosky impressed with what he’s seen from the Academy riders so far wanted the guys to step out of their comfort zone and take their freestyle riding [...]

Rain, slush and bitter cold; whatever weather the mountain could throw at him, lens man Tyler Orton endured to get the shots necessary for the fourth instalment of his Sweeney Todds series. Once again featuring Cartel rider Justin Norman.

Last week team rider McRae Williams was competing against an international field of riders in Slopestyle at the Austrian Freeski Open in Kaprun, Austria. After breezing through qualifiers in third place with a score of 88.25, McRae stepped his riding up again for the finals scoring 92.00 points with a Switch Left Double Cork 1080 [...]

Wouldn’t it be a dream to be able to take laps through Park City’s pristine transition and feature wonderland whenever you felt like it! We reckon McRae’s ridden PC’s terrain park so many times he could ride it blindfolded. Check out this edit by Dylan Ferguson filmed in two days and then tell us we’re [...]

Lukas Schoepke fires off a monster booter Here’s some hot off the press Swiss Ambush team news coming direct from Swiss TM Dani M. Riders Alex Neurohr and Lukas Schoepke have been racking-up a serious set of competition results between them. Alex Neurohr started January with a convincing 1st place at the Verbier Qualifier Week [...]

Ever wondered how snowboarding came to be? Burn energy drink commissioned this rad 90 minute movie to document the story of snowboarding from its beginnings. Shut Outlook, turn your cell to silent, turn your work monitor so your boss doesn’t notice the neon and watch a collection of some of the pivotal moments in Snowboarding’s [...]

The second AAA task, set by Amplid’s inhouse cliff seeking missile, Mr Teddy Berr, was to film a 30 second POV edit using the GoPro cameras generously provided by GoPro to the Academy athletes. Once again the bar was raised and the quality of the video submissions impressed. Videos that deserve a mention include Alex [...]

Last year Dash teamed-up with clothing sponsor Jiberish to release a park edit filmed at Park City, Utah. The video was rammed start to finish with bangers and blew up big time with a huge number of views and comments praising Dash’s unique style. This winter Jiberish hooked Dash up with fellow team rider Joe [...]

Steve told us he’d been working on a top secret video project which he said we’d be “stoked on”. Well to be honest Steve, you’ve surpassed yourself; this is truly the most disappointing video we’ve ever seen. Please get to the gym immediately and do some reps… remember more medals less fictional quotes please Steve.

This month on Newschoolers, team rider Steve Stepp got the 5 Questions treatment from Evan Heath Visual. As expected Steve was pitted against the collective whit of the Newschoolers forum which resulted in some pretty fuuny questions, HQ’s personal favourite being “How do you feel about 12 year old kids at Park City who throw [...]

Amplid’s go-to lens man in the Pacific Northwest Tyler Orton dropped HQ an email with a little edit he’d put together featuring Mt. Bachelor’s Sweeney Todd crew and of course Cartel shred-head J-Norm. We reckon Tyler, who considers himself a photographer rather than a filmer, has done a stand-up job of the filming and editing [...]

Last weekend the Cartel’s contest killer Dash Kamp and his HiDef 155 were in Davos for 6 Star TTR event the O’Neill Evolution. Dash had the highest score in Round 1 with a super clean backside double cork and a 5050 backside 180 out of the tricky elbow rail at the bottom of the course. [...]

Aspen Snowmass put together this tasty little edit of team rider McRae Williams and fellow X Games competitor Matt Walker familiarising themselves with the X Games slopestyle course. McRae and his Antidogmas look to have the course on lock so fingers crossed for the Slopestyle Eliminators on Friday.

So submissions are in for the first Academy challenge set by Cartel rider McRae Williams and the Amplid Ambush Academy riders have done themselves proud. The task of setting the next challenge has fallen to Amplid’s Big Mountain destroyer Teddy Berr. Teddy wants the Academy riders to film a short POV edit of any line [...]

“After my crash at WCS, my life has changed. But, I still feel young and I still love to freeski even though I am 34 years old. I hope you enjoy my edit!” -Pako Pako partnered with Freeski movie mogul Evan Heath to release an edit with riding from the past and present. The edit [...]

In a recent article on Unofficial Networks, Teddy’s 50m naked front flip at the Nine Knights competition took third spot on “The 7 Funniest Ski & Snowboard Video Clips Ever”. Two years on and Teddy is still bathing in the glory of this moment of madness. To find-out which videos made-up the rest of the [...]

When Norwegian Ambush riders Martin Bøygaard & Bendik Øye aren’t dressed in smoking jackets and roll necks, sipping single malt Scotch and enthusiastically comparing notes on Miles Davis records you’ll find them riding through the grooves of Norway’s perfect corduroy parks. Here’s a little mix tape they put together over Christmas.