http://www.snowboardwax.info/lyrical Snowboard Rants, News, Articles, Reviews & More! Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:57:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Perched 1,500m up on a very sunny south-westerly facing mountain shelf way up above the Rhone valley, Verbier is a fairly attractive place set in the massive ‘Four Valleys’ ski realm in Switzerland. Although the English visitors make up around 10% of total visitor numbers many chalets are Brit-owned and ... http://www.snowboardwax.info/lyrical/32/verbier-review-how-great-is-the-ski-resort-of-verbier/ Those great people at Lib-Tech Snowboards have gone and created some seriously powerful innovations, again. Seemingly on a quest to push the limits of snowboarding technology further than they already have, behold ‘Mage-Traction’. This award winning advancement to board design takes the traditional two contact point practice of standard boards edges ... http://www.snowboardwax.info/lyrical/31/get-ready-for-the-next-big-thing-in-snowboarding-magne-traction/ Just watched this great video from the talented guys over at PheelGoodInc. With winter just around the corner again I thought I’d post this up here to get us all in the mood for what will hopefully be an awesome season. I personally hope to get more riding in than ... http://www.snowboardwax.info/lyrical/30/pheelgoodinc-snowboard-video-mix/ Check out this insane air … watch for right at the end of the video clip. Big mountain riding gone MAD!! http://www.snowboardwax.info/lyrical/29/crazy-snowboard-flying-video-clip/ A middle eastern desert tends to be the last place you would go for a spot of snowboarding. Sure, you can go and surf down a large dune, but what I’m talking about here is going down a snowy piste, at any time of the year in the middle of ... http://www.snowboardwax.info/lyrical/28/snowboard-in-dubai/ Snowboarding boots - The key to comfort on the hill. The boots that you wear when snowboarding will make a huge difference with your ability to control your snowboard and your comfort on the hill. You will quickly find that cold, sore or wet feet will destroy a day of snowboarding ... http://www.snowboardwax.info/lyrical/27/snowboarding-boots/ If you are like me and you happen to live in an unfortunate place which doesn’t get snow and so the only time you get to snowboard is when you go on a trip or season,… well then this is for you! Freebords are simply the nuts. You have more than ... http://www.snowboardwax.info/lyrical/26/freebord-snowboard-the-tarmac/ I have just back from a short break at the french Alps resort Val D’isere. The holiday was just a week long, no seasons for me this year , and it was certainly a strange week in regards to the conditions. When I arrived (26th Dec) they had pretty ... http://www.snowboardwax.info/lyrical/25/just-back-from-val-disere-in-france/ If you are looking to try something new and a little different this season then you certainly couldn’t get anything more radical than the new snowboards built by Bataleon Snowboards. Bataleon have gone and created snowboards with their patented triple base technology. So you may be asking ‘what the heck ... http://www.snowboardwax.info/lyrical/23/bataleon-triple-base-snowboard-technology/ There are four basic ways to how a snowboard can be constructed, however, each method is in fact a variation of the sandwich snowboard construction technique. Sandwich Snowboard Construction This technique is the most expensive method because of the labour involved. Each of the layers in the snowboard is manually placed on ... http://www.snowboardwax.info/lyrical/22/how-are-snowboards-constructed/