If you are ever in an avalanche here are three people you don’t want to be responsible for digging you out. According to an article posted on industry site Skiingbusiness.com the group of four was sharing two avalanche beacons and two packs between them. Fortunately the skier caught in the avalanche was wearing a beacon [...]

In case you’d forgotten or you just didn’t know, Steve kicks back at Park City these days where he shreds with the rest of the 4bi9 crew. As usual it’s slick steeze packed shredding from the Dumpster Mummy in this month’s I Ride Park City episode. Soundtrack courtesy of Pete Rock and CL Smooth we [...]

Enjoy the FREESKI CREW’s latest movie DYNAMITE, featuring our ambush riders Fex Althammer and Juergen Nigg, and obviousl ythe rest of the rocking freeski crew !

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 [...]

If you’re a regular reader of the Amplid bog you’ll know that Spain’s favorite son and Amplid’s joint favorite Spaniard, Pako Benguerel has been at the Early Camp in Val Thorens, France. Whilst he was there the heavens decided to open and dump a meter plus of precious white gold on the resort town. Pako [...]

Last weekend the annual Killington “Rails to Riches” contest kicked the season off with a bang. After another summer season of camp up at hood, Cartel rider Steve Stepp was there ready to do battle. The qualifiers saw the 37 strong field cut to 12, but in the words of Newschoolers man on the scene [...]

McRae hasn’t quite made it to the catwalks of Milan although the podium at Modena wasn’t so far off. One of the jobs of being a pro skier is getting shots for your sponsors catalogues and ads. Last season McRae was invited to chill with the rest of the Orage freeski team in Keystone to [...]

Russia’s favorite freeskiing sons Dima, Yura and Alex hit Moscow’s indoor shred dome to limber-up for a season of urban assault, which means two things; 1) it’s almost winter and 2) LSM are creating another series of episodes around their 2012/13 winter. We’ll be glued to the series, that’s for sure.

We’ve had to wait three months since the epic trailer, but finally LSM’s latest full length release is here. A great follow up to Life Steeze Media’s ‘Russian Revival’, ‘My World’ featuring Dima, Alex, Yuriy and friends takes in all of Moscow’s latest urban spots.

This week Ed from BuOlOco questioned Amplid’s co-founder Peter Bauer about the dissappearing art of carving. As you’d expect, PB aka The Catsuit Crusader had a lot to say about Eurocarving, his days gate bashing in Hardboots and how to be a complete rider Carving has and always will be an important part of snowboarding.

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 [...]

Steve Stepp aka Dumpster Mummy aka Green Goblin… the man with many aliases, just dropped a mash-up of a load of summer Windells footage. For a masterclass in swag style click play and enjoy some uber stunts and future spins performed by the Trap Star himself.

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 [...]

I think it’s fair to say that it has been a good summer for Amplid riders at Windells, Mt. Hood. In one of the last edits of the summer months Amplid Cartel rider Steve Stepp and his buddies from his clothing sponsor SAGA shred the Windells slush tearing-apart all sorts of transitions, jibs and rails.

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 [...]

When professional photographer / videographer Peter Alport writes “I am privileged to shoot Justin. He is hard working, punctual, positive, and usually ends up with the best shot of the day! I only get to work with him 10 or so days a year, but those days are the 10 days of Christmas, or so [...]

Here comes ambushman Koskelainen’s latest edit. 18 year old Vili is from Finland – well, from where else with that name. :-) Enjoy …

Ever wondered what it would be like to spend a day in a Cartel rider’s snowboard boots? Cartel rider Benny Deeg put together a season of POV footage from his GoPro so you can experience a winter of pow riding and throwing inverts like the pros.

A.R.C. rider Pako Benguerel with friends Nick Miles, Kevin Malone und Alex Martini taking a few runs atMt. Hood OR. The newest installment of MontageVision.