Attn: bros

Hey bro,

If you've ever tried to find something actions sports-specific on craigslist or ebay—say, a used snowboard—you may have found all the posts you have to sift through that are NOT used snowboards a little frustrating. Like that guy who is selling a paid of used Ray Bans from the 80s but puts the word 'snowboard' in the title, because that's what he used them for 26 years ago, when he was a bro. Lame.

Well, some bros have created a solution for you, bro. Broslist.com is modeled after craigslist, but is skate/surf/snow/bro specific. Bro, you can buy gear, sell gear, list services, list events, find a travel partner or deal, and even hook up with a chick. Or a bro. Your call.

The site is brand new (beta, in fact) so there's not many postings yet. Now might be a good time to post something to sell, bro, and help them get some traffic flowing and bro-ing. Good luck. Bro.

Legendary

Dave Seoane, life sentence

What do you get when you combine 80s era neon snow gear, vintage snowboards with sketchy bindings, a shovel-made jump ditch, and a handful of early snowboarding's most colorful characters? You get the 5th annual 'Legends of Snowboarding' event at Donner Ski Ranch, and you get a live snow show that is half hall-of-fame ceremony, half comedy skit and half halfpipe event. (Yes, I was never good at math.) 

On Saturday March 14th, the gang converged again on The Ranch and engaged in a friendly freestyle battle, with the sum of the entry fees—$520—on the line for the winners. Men's winners were Mike Basich (1), Chris Roach (2) and Jason Borgstede (3) and Tina Basich rocked the women, making it a Basich sweep. Other legends in attendance included Dave Seoane, Dave Alden, Bob Klien, Terry Kidwell, Edgar 'Pineapple' Rivera, Tom Burt, Joel Gomez, three dudes from Italy, Jeff Grell and Jeff Brushie, among others. For proper coverage and tons of cool photos, check boardistan.com.

 

Tom Burt, still charging

MC Pineapple raps with Norm

Spring cleaning

Not a lot of people would understand this, and sometimes I'm not sure I understand it myself, but my collection of vintage snowboarding media is kind of, um... massive. Imagine bins stacked upon bins full of magazines—pretty much ALL of them—videos (VHS of course), catalogs, posters, stickers. (There's a Public Storage space full of actual boards too, but that's another post.) It's a mountain of stuff and lately I've been going through some of it, sorting, scanning, and assembling it into what will eventually be a website. And this project is both enjoyable and tedious.

Now imagine that Chris Sanders (Avalanche Snowboards founder, friend and employer) tells me he's got a bunch of bins too, and would I like to, you know, sift through it all with him and sort it and oh my god, are you fricken kidding me!? Bust those bins out and I'll go get some beer and HELL YEAH look at all this ridiculous neon and giant laid-out backflips! Oh man, did snowboarding really look like that? Yep, it did.

Times are tight

If you're like me, your wardrobe consists mainly of casual clothes from the action sports zone and some technical pieces from Patagonia and The North Face. And if you're like me, you always wonder why surf trunks should cost a blazing $55 and cool shoes cost $75 (or much more) and sunglasses cost a small ransom and you wonder all this while you're at the counter parting with a handful of twenties.

Fortunately, all those youth brands (Quik, 'Bong, Spy, etc) do a terrible job of forecasting their unit sales and make way too many of everything and it all has to go somewhere to be sold, eventually. Somewhere is sometimes this little gang of websites.... brociety / whiskey militia / steep & cheap ...where products are spotlighted regularly throughout the day, every day. The website names are dumb, the prices are smart—sometimes through the floor. I have found that it's worth the occasional look to see if those $45 flip flops are on sale for $17. They often feature hardgoods and women's gear, too. (Marie gets all the credit—and taken out to dinner—for turning me onto these sites.)