Welcome to Never Summer

We will be at the Snow Centre in Hemel this weekend with a load of snowboards. These are the 09/10 boards due out in September. This gives you an early opportunity to demo them. There will be other brands available for demo too! This is the official opening of the Snow Centre!

This is the video of Gary Zebrowski's winning run at the FIS Valmalenco snowboard half pipe competition. He is riding an 09/10 Never Summer Evo. It is an amazing run and truly shows off the board.

As the title says - the 09/09 SL-R has been reviewed by the NY Times gear tester Cameron Hunter. His comments were With "a lot of pop" and "great edge-hold," it was good everywhere and in all conditions: "very, very stable at high speeds," "floated through the powder amazingly," "great in trees" and "plowed through cruddy snow." He said the board is for the intermediate or advanced rider. It was his favorite board of the test, and a board he would ride every day.

In the first episode of Never Summer's new show Jeremy gives us a tour of the Never Summer factory and Tristan shows us around the print facility. They walk us through the process of making a snowboard start to finish. Jeremy tells Tristan about the wild Monday they had at the factory when Sunset Limousine showed up with VIP's and Entertainers from Shotgun Willy's on their way to A-Basin.

Charles is a super motivated, all round snowboarder. Foremost he likes to ride full speed trough the powder, combining a fluid yet aggressive style with airs and cliff drops (up to 15 m.). Not afraid to hike, he enjoys and respects the Alpine environment. He is also an avid and stylish freestyler and is able to bust massive 720’s on the biggest kicker line, ride (street) rails and represent in the halfpipe.

We covered the Hemel Hempsteads Snow Centre PR day already. I Saw this video of the first freestyle night and immediately recognised our team rider Lon on his evo. There is also a mystery Never Summer SL in there as well. Those lumo green bases stand out so well.

“The best snow this side of the alps” it sounds a little bit cliché but could not be more true for Hemel Hempstead’s new and very anticipated snowdome. As a few of us had arrived for the special PR day we were greeted with free drinks and food just for us. They had a fantastic bar that was very homey with different areas for observing, resting, eating, an outside terrace to watch the slope. They even had computers where you could pick up your pre booked tickets helping save a lot of time.

One of our retailers just sent me some photos of one of their top longboard riders. He is riding a Never Summer Eclipse. These pin tails are great fun and so very easy to ride. Take a look at the photos.

Jesse has released a new video of himself riding on the Soldier around the devonshire hills on Christmas Day 2008. He is fully kitted up in his trademark lime green leathers.

As the weather gets better, the roads are dryer and it becomes longboard season. We no longer need to session on slippy roads or hide out in car parks. Even if it is just a quick run to the shops, it is worth getting your board out. The clocks changing gives us time to session after work too.