Isn’t it terrible when the boss gets to shred perfect Alpine pow while you’re hard at work. Two days ago Amplid Ambassador Stefan Falkeis went riding with Amplid co-founder Peter Bauer in the Austrian Alps with the strict instructions to shoot him mid pow turn. Stefan got a little confused and took a photo instead. [...]

From 55 degree Chamonix Couloirs to fun lines in the trees, French Ambush rider Nico Antony made the most of France’s epic snowfalls last season. Nico emailed this season edit through to HQ and there’s some great footage in the edit including some smooth POV lines with some hefty drops and pedal to the metal [...]

Last year was a world of couch surfing and pow day face shots up and down the Rockies and the West coast for Cartel rider John Rodosky. Chasing the snow and persuing his dream of riding on the Freeride World Tour meant putting school on hold and throwing away the comforts of normal life to [...]

Running a ski and snowboard company might appear to be a piece of cake but actually it’s damn hard work. One of the toughest jobs is testing new shred shapes in the conditions they are designed for. This week the arduous job of testing Amplid’s latest powder specific prototype in bottomless powder with faceshots-a-plenty fell [...]

The response to the Amplid Ambush Academy was incredible. Within a month the ARC had recieved hundreds of applications from talented riders wanting to be a part of the Academy for the 2012/13 season. Recieving the applications was the easy part; it then took an entire week to sort the applications and with the help [...]

Everybody who’s anybody was in Breckenridge this weekend for the first Dew Tour event of the season. Cartel riders McRae Williams and Dash Kamp rode hard in qualifiers but falls in windy semifinals against a heavy hitting line-up of riders meant that neither Dash or McRae took their riding from the semis to the finals. [...]

Last winter Ambush rider Anderl Zissler took a splitboarding trip to Kosovo, not your usual snowboarding destination. Sandwiched between Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro in the heart of the Balkans, Kosovo’s boarders are lined with peaks that climb to around the 2500 meter mark. The A.R.C caught-up with Anderl to find out more about splitboarding in [...]

Located inland roughly 120 miles from the Pacific coast, Mt Bachelor is one of Oregon’s snowboarding hot spots. Being a dormant Volcano (don’t worry it last erupted 8000 years ago) Mt Bachelor’s has a unique conical shape that allows the mountain to be ridden on all sides and also makes for 1000+ meters of vertical [...]

Swiss Ambush rider Aaron Berger scored a nice little double page spread in Swiss shred mag Whiteout, in an ad createdby his shop sponsor Beach Mountain. Swiss pillow lines on the Amplid LoBro, that’s what dreams are made of!

In case you haven’t heard, there wasn’t much snow in the US last season. That didn’t seem to stop Cartel rider John Rodosky finding what pow pow there was and building all-time kickers to propel himself into it. John put this little edit together of his 11/12 season. We agree with the words of Brandon [...]

You won’t be suprised to hear that Amplid’s new Cartel Team signing Dash Kamp wanted to test Amplid’s boards before signing with the brand. So this summer Dash took a handful of our decks upto Mt Hood and put them through their paces. Saga TV was there to catch Dash checking the on-rail shred-ability of [...]

When Andal Zissler is not shredding Heise’s park or the rails of Innsbooklyn, he’s getting arty. Pictures talk more than words, check it out …

Amplid is incredibly proud to announce that US snowboarder Dash Kamp has joined the Amplid Research Cartel. Raised at Sandpoint, Idaho, Dash is now based at Boreal resort California. For the last year Amplid has been keeping an eye on Dash’s progress. With results like a 2nd place behind Seb Toots in the Slopestyle event [...]

Yep Amplid’s very own Benny Deeg scored a cracker of  a covershot on the 2012  Snowboard Monster Backside Magazine resort guide! Last season Benny hooked-up with photographer Rasmus Kaessmann and fellow Amplid shredder Stefan Falkeis in the snow buried Arlberg region of Austria to make use of bluebird conditions and some light and fluffy mid-winter [...]

During last season Amplid Ambush rider Simon Guenther emailed across a few stunning images of cliff drops and some gorgeous black and white spine airs. Everyone at Amplid was wondering if we’d get to see any video footage from these sessions.. well that was until today, when German Ambush TM Andi Nitsche fired-over Simon’s and [...]

Utah rider Jeremy Tidwell just joined Amplid’s Ambush team so we fired a few questions at him to get to know him better and find-out what makes him tick. Involved in grass-roots athlete development programs and a true master of pimping himself and his sponsors -out to the media, Amplid is stoked to have such [...]

Today Amplid in partnership with GoPro the world’s most versatile camera launched the Amplid Ambush Academy. The Academy is a grass-roots sponsorship program created to find young, unsigned and talented athletes with next level riding, media production and self promotions skills for the International Cartel team.Amplid co-founder Peter Bauer said: “It’s crazy how being a [...]

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It’s expensive but necessary to replace your shredding hardware regularly if you work on the mountain and your equipment is the tool of your trade. That’s why if you’re an Instructor, Guide, Park Shaper, Lifty or Ski Patroller, Amplid is throwing you a bone in the form of a 30-40% discount, depending on the region [...]

September has become International J-Norm month. Last week Justin’s season edit blew-up in a big way and his summer digging at Windells generated some serious banger footage. In fact there’s so much killer footage of Justin on the internet at the moment that we keep missing it. We discovered this little gem on Justin’s boot [...]

French ambushmanYannick Pebrel is trying to catch up with his dream by trying to catch up with his shadow, while riding down some windblown slushcrust gully in La Hoya (Argentina)… In case that all sounds like the diagnosis of a shrink who just told Yannick that he is suffering schizophrenia – no worries: When Yannick [...]

News from our friends at SWITCHSTANCE: Our two hosts Dogu (Ancient Astronauts) & Protassov jumped into the recording booth and taped a brandnew Switchstance Recordings Radioshow. Show No. 32 features – as always – one hour of music from genres like Hip Hop, Breaks, Downtempo, Reggae and much more. TRACKLIST: 01. 2econd Class Citizen – [...]