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For more than 17 years, Bataleon has led the industry in 3D shape technology. Fuck me, what a year. How do I even begin this editorial… Maybe I should make a joke of some sort to break the ice? Probably a bad idea. The best thing I can do is to use this magazine to give other people the space to talk, and I should be listening. Method has always been a platform for snowboarders, by snowboarders. Whatever our backgrounds, snowboarding is the thing that connects us all. Theo x. It took 20 years for Method to have a girl on their cover? She rips any terrain, and it was easy to get this side-hit handplant photo, even with a medium format film camera. I love that photo, the way she tweaks it, standing still for a fraction of a second. Back to the roots of snowboarding. But why did it take 20 years to get a female cover!? I did not care. I did not think shooting with girls was important, and I did not question why we had no girls in all our film crews over the years. When I finally realised this and took a U-turn to shoot only girls for a couple seasons, I saw everything from their view point. No budget to get filmers, no photogs around, no coverage, only good for portraits and catalogs. Only good for Iinsta modelling. Well, fuck that! Things are changing, finally, and right beneath your eyes ladies and gentlemen, right here with this historic cover. Thank you Elena for opening my eyes. For opening our eyes. No liability is accepted for the accuracy of the information contained herein, nor are any guarantees given by the magazine. Copyright worldwide of original material is held by Method Media Ltd and permission must be obtained for any use, transmission, storage or reproduction. Opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily shared by the publisher. Method Media Ltd assumes no responsibility for the loss or damage of unsolicited material. Thanks for choosing Method Mag. We sure hope you like it! Skate stuff? Yeah and trampolines, all sorts of stuff. Last time I was in there I did a backflip off one of the trampolines and almost flipped into the vert ramp by mistake. Oh really? Yeah, pretty sketchy. When I got older I started to realise that there were some differences and that things could have been easier. You were a member of the Swiss Olympic team for a few years, did you receive the same pay as the guys? They looked at each of our incomes and what we were paid would vary from person to person. I read that Adidas have committed to ensuring equal gender representation of their athletes, I thought that was pretty cool to see a brand stepping up like that, and I guess media needs to do the same. Yeah you always see this cool stuff that guys are doing, but not so often girls. Actually we should say women instead of girls. Or that people are just doing small things to keep the girls happy. So there. You have some sick shots in there, as well as your beautiful artwork. Yeah that was tough, he kept making me do it again. But it was good. I know some photographers who are happy with their results pretty quickly, even if I think I could have done it better. No way. Wow, yes. Thanks so much. My first cover! I would never have dreamt of this. Did you know that this is our first ever female cover? Not somewhere like Method. It looks so nice! Lines are a side product of snowboarding, an abstract record of a moment we get to share with nature. The image of a line can awake emotions and memories. While sitting injured at home I found peace in drawing lines on paper with a mix of charcoal, ink and melted snow. However I managed to do two luckily very productive filming trips and that was pretty much it. As much as I still enjoy snowboarding and filming, producing a legit video part has just become so difficult due to many factors. Winters are getting shittier year after year which means one has to travel to film, and to do so even semi professionally, it costs a lot of money to buy a camera, snow tools, car and gas, hire a filmer, rent airbnbs and so on. Are you happy with how it turned out? Mikko also did the animations. But honestly speaking, I wish the past two winters could have been a little bit snowier to get more stuff done but global warming and injuries are a real deal. No joke! So making something a bit more remarkable for myself and then quitting with my own terms became a thing some years ago. Originally this project was supposed to be a casual one-year video with some of my homies but things went differently. What do you do for a living, and how does snowboarding fit around your life? Did you enjoy the process of making the zine? I honestly loved it, each of its 24 pages! I wanted to make it small, shine a bit more light around the movie and donate all the proceeds to charity. And people seemed to enjoy it. Thank you so much Mikko, Risto and Aino! Where can people get it? Will we be seeing you in the streets again? Or is this an official goodbye? If it snows tons in Helsinki and things kind of hap-. Any shoutouts? Everyone who helped me with this movie deserves a major shoutout. Also thank you Minna for being so patient with me. I love you. What inspired you to start the brand? I wanted the backbone of the brand to focus on fit. We want to be the beanie specialists. Why did you choose the name? Autumn is the start of new in our year. Temperatures dip, days get shorter, and there is this excitement in the air as summer ends and you start pulling out beanies, sweaters and jackets again for the upcoming season. The word in general has emotion behind it, and it fit perfectly for what we want to create. Which riders are involved in the brand and why? From the start we wanted Bryan Fox to be involved and set the tone. Bryan has a high taste level and we needed that input as our rudder. I think we need that, every brand needs that really. From there we handpicked people who held the same standards - from their riding style to their personal style, we wanted people who defined individuality. I feel like there is a creative underbelly that is not being given its right shine in our space. It goes back to the same reasons riders were chosen - these artists have a unique style - and them being part of Autumn adds a whole layer to the brand story. Season 2 has us developing the fit story further with styles for each fit with a lot of emphasis on stripes. We want to own stripes with a variety of options. Last words are yours. I want to be surrounded by the weirdos, the creatives, the socially awkward or the life of the party… I want my day to be interesting because of the personalities around it. Niama Antolin clearly needs no guidance from us in this department. Full speed indy tweaker over a Minnesota triple set. Did you ever worry that being gay would impact your opportunities within snowboarding? Everything went well for me though. Snowboarding taught me to surf through life. Were there any other gay male snowboarders that you were aware of? I just heard that some American riders came out. It would be nice if it would not be such a big deal, just whatever. Would it have made you feel more comfortable it there were more openly gay male riders? Yes definitely, a lot. Imagine the dopest riders with the most toxic masculinity would admit they liked hairy asses and big dicks. It would trend for sure. Even straight men would beg for litres of cum just to be part of the cool thing. There is a lot of peer pressure in every scene, so why not use it for good? I first met Dani Rajcsanyi 10 years ago when the infamous Shakedown event had crossed the pond to make an attempt of their event in Europe. I watched this curious creature from afar, he had a scarf wrapped around his head, endless tricks in his legs and a schoolboy smile on his face the whole time he was strapped in. After riding I met him at the hotel and hung out. He immediately wanted to initiate me into a secret club. I was down. He was pure joy that extended to his riding and his fashion. On the rare occasions I caught him on the hill later on, I would run to grab the chairlift with him because I knew I was in for a good laugh, unusual conversation and the kind of riding that you has you cackling until the next chairlift back up. Give us a brief rundown of your snowboard career, sponsors and video projects you were involved with. My main chapter was filming the whole year, street stuff and sometimes contests, but mostly rail contests. My favourite Sponsor was Volcom, they were like a family and just nice for such a long time. They even sent me stuff when I was not really riding anymore. I think my favourite videoparts were for Isenseven and RockOnSb movie. When did you step away from snowboarding, and why? I think it was around , I started to study fashion design and it was a very time intensive and full program. So I had to quickly learn a new craft which I continue today. Almost all of my art is made with a sewing machine. Is your sexual orientation something you ever felt you should hide from anyone? In the beginning kind of yes but not directly. It was pretty new for me as well so there was not a real time where I was hiding it, and I came out pretty fast. What was coming out like for you? When I think back it was kind of weird. Everybody knew it and some were offended by my sexual orientation. It was new and humans are just curious about new things in life. A good comparison could be when I started to wear tight pants and ride a tight stance. People were so disgusted by it, until it became popular so they did it too. Same story. Should we have done? Yes of course. Every magazine should write about it. Especially when people in the scene are suffering or have their doubts. Brands and magazines have a duty to educate their audience, not just putting a rainbow flag on their logo. Personally I never had big troubles about it, but my friends and my family were very welcoming to me. Do you agree? Yes I think so too. But in general snowboarding philosophy is about expression and freedom. So I guess it should be more welcoming than it is. How can we make it more welcoming? Just tag a rainbow on your board. No, but I think talking and writing about it is a good starting point. Yes definitely. European based snowboard media were laughing about it and sharing it while Americans were offended by it. Which in the end defines social norms and point of views towards nudism and sexual orientation in general. Gay life is better. Trust me. Its just a lack of education and knowledge. Thanks for your time and words Dani, much appreciated. Last thing, what should we call this page in the magazine? Fair play to the cat though. Sparked by our love for Japanese mountains, culture, people, and snow, we moved the office and designed our boards, boots, and bindings in Hakuba, Japan. We rode in the mornings, worked in the evenings, and immersed in culture at night. We wanted to get everyone on the same team and feel like we did this project together and on our own terms. The outcome will hopefully be a mix of some of the best riding, locations and music from Scandinavia. Photo: Erik Nylander. We decided to go for both sunset and sunrise sessions on the hip and stay up on the mountain during the two hours the sun was down. Lockdown in Sweden also helped because it meant I could skip all the other events that I had planned to ride and could focus purely on the movie. I also like the feeling of being in a crew where we are all in this together. Your buddy lands a trick and screams, you scream. Your buddy slams and cry, you cry. It was a lovely winters day in Trondheim, the sun was shining and everyone was stoked for a session. We tried it a couple of times and it felt good. I decided to go higher so I charged at it full speed, but realised that I was coming in too fast. I left the quarterpipe and the pier behind me and ended up taking an icy swim in the river. It was fucking freezing. Good times! This is the hip we built on the last day of our 5 day snow camping mission in the beginning of June. I joined them and we rode some fun hips and jumps. So a mix of a sketchy camp setup, good friends and great weather made this photo :. Neither Kuske or I have ever done a 2 year project so we thought we could give it a try. Especially with Corona still going wild. Norway is a great place to explore. Kris, Johan, Dennis and I hit this spot in Tynset. What we hit was on the city hall. A rail and a wall and some sick stuff. We started our session and starting to feel pretty good. Suddenly the cops roll in. So we all stop boarding and head down to the cops. Turns out the one cop was super down. He was a G. The photo is from a really nice day in the alps. Conditions were not looking great but we hiked up from the parking lot hoping to at least get something done. We ended up at this little pillow field with great snow and spent the day there. I also ended up doing this backflip as you can see in the photo, which is a trick I do way too much. This day turned out to be one of the days I remember the best from this winter. I love the days with low expectations that turn out to be great. Ludde, Len Alek and myself made it up to Kiruna to film the first few street clips of the season. I was wearing regular snowboard boots and after a while I started to feel that my toes had gone numb, but that is nothing unusual. They usually get warmed up again when you get back inside, so we just kept on filming. We wrapped up around 3pm, my toes were really cold and numb at this point so we headed straight into the sauna to try to warm them up. This lasted for a couple of weeks. Turned out I had second degree frostbite. The next day I went to a wildlife store and bought a pair of Polar Proven shoes that can handle temperatures down to c. Oh, and while this whole thing happened I somehow forgot the log the shots on the memory card. So no shots from that day were saved. Pretty good start of the season. A couple of years ago I got this old 90s Nitro snowboard from a friend. In the bar at the hotel they have this old poster of a 90s boarder doing a sick surfy carve on a wind lip and we thought it would be fun to try something similar. We had been ridPhoto: Erik Nylander Inverted carving. Started doing this upside down carve flip thing, I landed two but with a laidback landing and with all that force on the old inserts where I could only fit two screws the binding just came off the board with the inserts and a piece of the board left on them. You spin me right round, baby Right round like a record, baby Right round, round, round. This spot was also a new one for Kiruna and it was really refreshing seeing something new in that town. Plus I ended up going back this spring to slide it, which is probably one of my favorite shots this year. We were lucky with most of our trips this year, many good moments with my friends. Thank you Kuske and Nitro for this one. Me and Sven started setting it up and the janitor comes up being all mad and stuff and kicked us out. We went back 30 minutes later and convinced him to give us an ok and we got a shot each. A few days later we had some time so thought that we could go back and see if we could try something else on it. I was the first one out of the car and I started yelling to the others that they actually had sawn half of it off! Not even taken the screws out, just cut it off. Of course no one believed it til they saw it. There is a pizza place called Via Tribali right next to the water hydrant and their workers we so hyped on what we were doing that they brought us free pizzas outside when we were finished. Thank you Via Tribali! It was so sick when I heard that Kuske and these riders are gonna make a movie and wanted me join. It was a really easy decision when there is such a good crew behind the movie. You think a little bit more about what you really want for your video part because you have the time to do it. Maybe the night when we were stuck in the car in the middle of Iceland due to a snowstorm with Kuske and Gunnshow. Weather changes fast in Iceland! We also saw a whale while we were filming. Iceland is unreal. I had Chris Baldry taking the photo come up from Voss to stay at my place for some days and I asked Grong Andreas Grong, filmer in the stairs if he wanted to film it. He had some time, brought the camera and his girlfriend, she got placed on the longlens angle. Then we just hit it until we got it like we wanted. I really liked this one. Thankful for the people helping me! Viking people! Halldor making things up midair, as usual. Photo: Erlendur Thor Magnusson. One weekend at the beginning of the summer I went up to this new zone which is only 30 minutes away from Reykjavik with a heavy crew of Icelandic snowboard legends that I always looked up to. We found this spot on the way down, hit it a few times natural and decided to just keep it natural and come back the next day for a full session. We hiked back up there, shape it for like 10 minutes and started sessioning. Everyone is getting shots but then the quarterpipe starts to get really nasty with a bunch of tracks and bumps. I was pretty bummed but we were riding so sketchily that I understood why he was also sketched out. I kept. We decide to be super on it and start riding much earlier than before, but when we get up there we see that the quarter pipe is in the shade and is pure ice, so we chilled for like 3 hours before we actually started riding. It felt so much nicer and chilled that me and Bucky ended up doing all the same tricks we did before, but bigger. Then when I try the alleyop Mctwist again I completely fuck it up but feel like I could have almost rewinded it instead of spinning more, so on the next try I end up landing a Mctwist Japan rewind which I was more hyped on than the MCtwist , and Mr Gunshow filmed it perfect. Over all we had such a fun session on that spot so just stay tuned for the shots in the Scandalnavians 2 movie! We were in Iceland at the end of June and found this patch of snow not far from the road that I knew right away would be a perfect spot for a mini loop. It was Easter and the government had advised people not to travel due to Covid. We wanted to check out this waterfall and found that the road there was closed with a sign that said we would need to pay for the rescue if something happens, but we continued anyway. We were driving on top of the snow and the car got insanely stuck. We were so far away from the next town and knew that calling for help would cost a whole lot so we ended up digging a lot to get the car moving. The weather was getting a bit wild but in the end we luckily managed to get back on asphalt and get back home. Folgefonna had record snowfall and we wanted to do something with the walls of snow up there. The weather was too shit for a roadgap but I found this random snow creeper jump to wallride instead. On the last trip to Iceland I got way too pumped on the first day we got to Akureyri. So I go to the hospital the next day because it hurts like hell, they take X-rays and said it was all good. Then the hospital calls me back saying my wrist was actually broken! I had to go back and get a cast and then we went straight up into the mountains to build and hit a new spot. Apparently the cast takes 24 hours to dry so I completely fucked it up and by by the end of the trip it felt more like wearing a soggy sock on my arm. It was still the best trip of the year. Creeper within the Folgefonna fortress walls. Photo: Chris Baldry. We were scoping for some snow and were desperate to ride. Eiki comes up with the idea to ride the grass. The grass was so wet and slid super properly that we all got fired up and had a good grass riding session. The photo was taken by Mr. Being given the opportunity to ride and laugh with those fellow Scandalnavians was so much fun, I only went on one trip with them in Iceland, but all of them are super lovely guys. We arrive at the harbour and Fridge gets naked and jumps in and then we are all getting the urge to do the same, so Kuske rips his clothes off like a madman and jumps in after Fridge, and then all of a sudden everybody was naked jumping in the ocean and taking photos also naked of this beautiful session. Language is a strange thing. The meanings and usage of words are constantly shifted about, reappropriated by different generations and subcultures. No matter who you are though, words carry weight. They can be used to achieve awesome things, but they also have the power to do huge damage, often unintentionally. Once you notice people doing it, it will drive you fucking crazy. I have no idea why we say this word so much, but we just do. Not saying it takes an active and conscious effort on my part, and I still say it anyway. These certainly have roots in deep-seated homophobia, but at some point, they slipped into our day-to-day language in a far more casual way, which is arguably worse. Fuck that. Yeah, have a good think about that one. In his interview on the next few pages, Kas Lemmens says that. This leads me to the topic of words on the internet. As I mentioned in my editorial at the start of the mag, arguing on the internet is stupid! If we have the chance to turn a negative situation into a positive one, we should at least try. Either way, weigh your words. If you actually are, what the fuck? The following conversation took place on a grassy Swiss hill in July. Interview by Theo Acworth. I believe the last few years have been heavy for you. I just started a landscaping job, my girfriend told me that this sort of work is very grounding and good for helping you reconnect with yourself. And that helped me a lot, talking to other people. So hearing things like that make you feel like the idea of sharing feelings would be seen as weak in some way? I guess. I think maybe how you process and deal with feelings has something to do with your family and your parents. You see what your parents do and you emulate that. I always saw that in my dad. He never really spoke about bad things. I definitely think they did that for a while. I think it was just their way of protecting us, but I eventually gained a way better perspective on why and how things happened. Just a whole complicated web of things. What was the question again? Oh yeah. Since I was little I was always on my own program, always fine doing my own thing. Even to people you know. But I think you can only try, and get better at it along the way. It starts with your best friend, or a relative, and it goes from there. It should be ok for anyone to talk about their feelings. You often see men having a hard time showing their vulnerability. It should be more integrated into snowboarding, because when people talk openly about feelings, other people who look up to them might feel better about themselves. I think when you encounter an open discussion of a topic that you thought should be private or you felt you should be kept private, it normalises it. That helps so much. Almost everyone is going through things like this. Tim Schiphorst on the stairs, Ivika Jurgenson filming long lens, and Kas doing a gap That would be a descriptively accurate way to caption this photo, but also a seriously boring one. And then when you really do need help it can be even harder to ask for it. Who were the first people you spoke to about this stuff? Friends, or people outside of your normal social circles? It was definitely friends first. I was never open to it, but I found out that I had a platform with my friends without even knowing it. And now I try to do that back. So yeah, friends first and that made me realise that I opened up a lot more with my family too. I feel so much better. It takes a lot of courage to start conversations like that. I think it would be great if people start to realise that snowboarding can be used to promote that message. I think conversation is the start of it. Yeah I think so too. Just talking about talking. Ha, yeah. I think I actually deleted the post that you mentioned where I talk about feelings. Sometimes I feel so insecure about these things. Because you were worried about what people might think about you? Not so much, I sort of took a step back because I felt like I should focus on myself before I can help other people. Last year I went to some therapy sessions, and I want to learn more this year. Not at all, especially if it comes from the right place. And the more you do it, the more you learn from it. When you brought up the post a couple of days ago I was actually kinda surprised that people still remembered it, so it made me wonder why I archived it. Insecurities I guess, emotions running all over the place. Neither had a lot of other people! My thing was to hide my emotions behind my laughter. He said that very well. Absolutely, all of those interviews were definitely a big step forwards for snowboarding. For sure. Yeah, I was just going to say the same thing. I was always interested in seeing your stuff and I thought you were an interesting person, but I never had a serious conversation with you. Are we still going to? I guess we could. The past few seasons have been a bit stressful. This felt nice, just hanging out with a great group of people and naturally making something together. It just felt like a holiday. Good things are happening. Never be ashamed of who you are, or to ask for help, on any level. I feel like we touched some sick shit. Photo: Ponchikz. A notification pops up. You automatically check your phone. We just decided to go on a heavy mission to Lebanon. You down? Are we talking about that place close to Syria? Uh… Is there even snow there? Maybe they want to Sandboard? The thirst for a new adventure began. A new year on fresh snow - Yalaaa! So why Lebanon? I finally asked. After checking the weather forecasts from around the world, believe it or not, it turned out Lebanon had just had the most insane snowfalls and there was much more to come during our trip. Are there even any resorts? Do you speak English? Out of pure kindness, he helped us set up everything: accommodation, car rentals, sightseeing, spot seeking, a crash course in local vocabulary and most importantly, he promised to hook us up with the best Lebanese food in the country. And finally, we were set for an epic adventure. We picked a smooth 4x4 rental and cruised up to the mountains. There were tonnes of urban spots: rails, gaps, transfers, road signs… a concrete paradise covered in fresh powder lines. That afternoon, Samer took us to visit some Roman archaeological ruins. On the way back from the tour, he wanted to show us something special. The road was narrow and it was a complete whiteout, the fog was so thick that it was hard to distinguish the hood of the car from a ravine. Suddenly, we stopped. We were in the middle of nowhere. We walked over to a pile of snow near some abandoned house. They were riddled with bullet holes. These were the scars of a more modern history. After a few minutes, a second car parked behind us. A person walks out. With visible confusion on his face, Sebi Madlener decides to talk to him and asked if he needed some help with his car. Would you like honey? Cedar honey is the best one in all Lebanon Aside from racing and doing doughnuts with their cars in the snow, locals love skiing. We learned it the hard way… We started shovelling into the night to set up two spots and showed up to hit them at the crack of dawn. Sadly, we had less than an hour to shoot before it was total chaos and we were overrun with ski instructors, holidaymakers and the locals, on a Monday morning no less. It turned out that it was a public holiday. So, he went for it, gave it a few tries and baaam! First banger of the trip. The hype was back! The group of friendly locals were watching on. This was probably the first time ever that they saw foreigners coming to their country and snowboarding in the streets. They seemed stoked! After several days, a routine was set. Okay, what time? We told him we would circle back around later that day when he was closed as we thought it would be more mellow. When we came back, Habib was there with his friends, waiting for us in the dark, greeting us with cigarettes and vodka - with fresh beetroot. He invited friends along with him because he wanted as many people as possible to see what was about to go down. He was proud. Whilst Flo Corzelius and Ethan were sending it, there was a real street party going on. Even the police showed up, thinking that we were robbing the place but they soon joined in. Probably the best night of the trip. Everyday was a different day. One day was blue. One day was grey. If you want to ride spots in private residential areas, remember to build a snowman on the hood of your car, for some reason the security guard will open the gate without asking any questions. One morning we woke up to discover an extra meter of powder which had fallen through the night — this could only mean one thing … shovel time. No big deal for Flo who had been living a healthy life for a while. Conditions were harsh that day, we could barely catch him through the lens. Everybody had their big day during the trip, like Simon, jumping from one spot to another bringing the session until late at night in the streets of Faraya to destroy a handrail. Chris and Roy, two local snowboarders who helped out loads during the trip, joined the madness. The clip that would be the icing on the cake. After several hours of setting up the spot, it was time to hit it. The in-run was insane and super sketchy, you needed a ladder to get on the top of it. Once up there, ladies and gentlemen, please make sure not to touch the live electric cables hanging right above your head. All clear. Drop in Even Habib was watching us from the hut. The clips are probably somewhere on social media. We enjoyed the last sunset in Kfardebian before wrapping it up. With one week of intense filming in the can, it was now time for us to go back to Beirut and act like the average tourists. On the way down the mountain roads, a van was stalking us. He began to overtake and drew level with us. He honked several times. It was Habib! We pulled over on the side of the road. Such a legend. Simon Pircher saves the heaviest spot til the end, an AK sized sized step-down after avoiding electric shocks on the inrun. The streets of Beirut were packed. Later Samer and his girl Christelle joined the party as well as Roy. We toasted all together to an epic adventure. One thing you need to know when you party in Lebanon is that there are three ways of saying cheers in Lebanese: Kessak cheers to a guy , Kesskon cheers to a group of people and Kessik cheers to a girl. But be careful with the last one though. Oh boy, this was going to be a loooong night, and a bit messy. Slowly but surely, the sun was starting to rise and finally we understood why everyone insisted on staying until the very end. Behind the DJ booth, in the. A truly relaxing moment. What else can we say about Lebanon? The landscapes are breathtaking and the country is full of warm, welcoming people - it feels like we should venture there more often and I am sure that one day, this country will be on the map of places you have to go snowboard. Before heading off to the airport, we shared a last glass of Arak. A metaphorical seed of peace and tolerance. One thing we know for sure is that we will never forget this spontaneous trip! Shoukran habibis! When she first moved to Utah in the fall of , she had just started getting back into skateboarding and was good at it. Really good. It was hard to understand why she wanted to leave a potential future in skateboarding and her hometown in sunny California to come to cold and snowy Utah, but it all makes sense when you watch her ride. I chose this painting my dad did of me because he has actually never seen me snowboarding in person. I tell him how vibey and surfy it is and this is his interpretation of it. In my eyes it shows the freedom and happiness we all get from snowboarding. David Djitte. What was your intention when you started this project? I was feeling really sad to not have any epic photos of girls in my archives, so I set up the project to finally make it happen. I had to put aside other projects and focused solely on women snowboarding for the and winter seasons. I wanted to capture banger action shots and meaningful lifestyles to build a body of work which would prove how sick girls are at snowboarding. That was the intention at the start, but it quickly became much more than this. I became more and more passionate about it because I discovered a sub-culture full of dedicated riders, usually with no budget whatsoever, who were frantically going out to shred and get clips. I could tell right away that it meant so much to them. Their stories and their passion was so powerful that I had to dive deeper and tell a larger story. First I draw, paint, and etch onto my precious negatives. I wrote stuff in accordance to what the girls were thinking when the photo was taken. It involves weird developer chemicals and works only with a very few silver-gelatin papers still available in the world. The one paper I used for its beautiful sepia tone and texture has been out of production for the last decade or more. I bought the entire remaining stock 5 years prior from eBay, just in case. Did you notice a difference in the vibe compared to shooting with guys? They are tighter. They support each other even more. They feel for each other. You go out, you. But I met very different kinds of riders, from lonesome sponsor-less freeriders and teenage park-rats, to established pro figures and Olympic medal collectors. Every shade of it, and still, I was struck by their sense of community. Any particularly memorable or standout shoots from the last two years? Also the Ms. Superpark shoot in Colorado was insane, and I got to shred with the girls a lot. So many good memories, made even more vivid by the fact that I felt like I was doing something important, which really had to be done. Seriously man, I love these girls. I know there were a few, but what was the heaviest slam that you saw? Nobody really understood what happened but she fell in the gap head first and her back cracked big time, you know, with that nasty sound. She was knocked-out, thinking her back was broken, and the crew was stressing out for her. The ambulance came and in the end she turned out to be fine and needed only a couple of weeks rest. You went pretty much all in on this one in terms of budget, how did you feel when your kickstarter reached its goal in less than 3 days? So happy! That feeling of community kicked in real hard. I had worked pretty hard to make it work too, to make the prints and get the design started with Matt Georges, to prepare the campaign. What did you learn along the way? That snowboard has still a long bright future ahead. These young talents, so filled with passion and good spirit, are not gonna stop in front of any wall. With male and female snowboarding tighter together with every passing season, always finding a side-track to reinvent itself, finding new ways of riding and new tricks to try. What are the next steps for you with this project? Spreading it as much as I can! Have signing sessions with the book in board stores, doing big photo-shows in cities with fine art prints, also in ski-resorts. If you think you can help in any way, contact me! I aim at selling those copies too. Wise words on the topsheet. Shoutout to Mary Walsh for writing such a proper preface for the book, out of good heart and passion. All the artists who sent in sketches, paintings, collages, and made the whole project so much more personal and vivid. Thank you, really. Yo Erik. Not much mate, little early for me 6. Thanks for making the push. Where are you working? Currently at a metal fabrication shop, doing a bunch of welding. Making staircases and railings for million dollar homes. How long have you been doing that for? Pretty much right when the pandemic started. I briefly worked in a sculpture foundry and it was pretty rad being around flying sparks and the smell of metal. So this is the summer life of a pro snowboarder? I guess! I look at rails so differently now. Some days we build the most perfect stuff and install it, so funny. My boss is also a snowboarder so he gets it too. Thanks dude. How does it feel to see a bunch of things with your name on it? There are a few goals that I wanted to hit, but the number. Just making sure that I use my influence with the brands that I work with to offer a signature product that is tailored to anyone who wants to go snowboarding. This is still in their price range. I just hopped on whatever they would let me use for the week. I feel that what it really came down to was the snowboard community helping the snowboard community. I see so much value in that. It helped my career so much. To immediately try to give back to snowboarding with your first pro gear is rad. Thanks man. Snowboarding has done so much for me, so I want to do what I can to influence others to snowboard more. It just brings you around the best kind of people who can change your life forever. So the idea behind it is that every signature product has a 3-point checklist. Take sustainable steps in everything that we do produce. Fast forward 25 years and their sustainable practices are so developed that it was really easy to align C. All of the Airblaster product that is tied to C. Start community programs and host events in local areas to help underprivileged kids to go snowboarding. Snowboarding can totally change your life and point you in a direction that you never thought you could go. Without me getting that little push from the shop in Bear, things might have turned out different. And now things have come full circle and you get to give others your own little push. It sounds like your sponsors have been pretty receptive to your ideas? Yeah absolutely. As soon as I brought it up with the owner of Arbor, Bob Carlson, he was on board. I asked Jesse Grandkoski from Airblaster about two years ago and he was all in. Flux was the same, straight away they were down and trying to figure out how to take the best steps that they can. Immediately there were suggesting their own events in Japan and trying to mobilise the snowboard community over there and further expand it. I think the best thing about this idea is that anyone can contribute ideas that will help people to experience the same thing that you love. There are so many amazing ideas coming from people and brands about what we can do next with it. Everyone wants to help. To be able to do this with these guys and have them push it forward even harder has been unreal. Shit I hope. I love filming video parts but it does make you a bit of a recluse. Just touring around and having fun in crazy places. I just want it to be as fun as possible. Where did you guys shoot? Our first trip was to Japan, we were in this zone on Hokkaido that I was drooling to get back into. We went for two and half weeks and absolutely scored. Sounds quality, where else did you end up? I love shooting with him, we always give each other the right amount of motivation. Oh dude, every day. Bode Merrill also came out for the last two weeks. You can add him to the list of people I trip on standing next to. Bode is another ride-or-die. After this trip I realised that I could probably film street snowboarding with Bode forever. We work so well together. Does the video have a name? El Sueno. The idea was to snowboard with each other and have fun, just have everyone ride the same spots in their own style. Everyone approaches things differently, and that brings diversity into snowboarding. It was still an incredible year, even if we only rode for half of it. What was your approach to the project? The plan was to go back to the roots of my snowboarding. I jumped on a train down from Innsbruck to join them in Sestriere, Italy, and this interview was conducted over an Instagram video chat several months later. Will: We wanted to do it for a while now. S: The vibes would always be so sick on those trips. And having two English people together was always good. So off the back of that we thought it would be sick to do our own thing. So we just postponed it a year and actually had the chance to organis it a bit better. W: It was different because we were actually in charge and had to organise it. S: Decision-making is a new thing for is. Was it fun being in charge? W: It was… different. Usually Sparrow and me just show up on trips. W: It was pretty mellow to do though. S: The vibe was very British though. It was me and Will, then Joe as the filmer. W: I was about 12 when I met Sparrow. W: Yeah. S: Yeah man. I think there will be more of these in the future. W: I feel like we just get to snowboard on whatever we want. Just us there. So the sponsors have been behind it the whole way? W: Yeah Vans and Monster, and Lobster just got involved. S: So we actually had some pretty good backing for a first time project, we were gassed on it. Speaking of filming. Joe, you come from a skateboard background and had actually never filmed or even been snowboarding before. What was it like jumping into our world? Joe: It was pretty interesting seeing how different it was to a skate trip. The ratio of riding to filming was definitely not the same. You skate to and from everywhere. Were there any differences for you in terms of the actual filming process? But I got there in the end. In another life Sparrow would have made a great burglar. Switch drop in after shinning up the roof. Did you blow any shots? J: The boards are a lot bigger and the overall dimensions of things are much bigger. S: I blew one, this FS3 shot of Will. He got it so nicely and I filmed it sick, but I double tapped record, classic. Joe fucking smashed it though. S: Nah, never. W: We told you to stop speaking French to people who were kicking us out. S: Ah yeah. We went to Quebec after this trip and I have actually forgotten a bunch of stuff, can you remind me what else happened? My standout moment was when that lady tried to take the camera bag hostage and you went into full beast mode and practically ripped it in half to get it off her. I think she threw your mug of tea at you as well. S: Oh yeah, that lady. She was psycho. W: That was funny. S: We hit so much stuff in that area. Not the craziest stuff, but just whatever we found. I re-watched the edit a few days ago; I forgot how many sick shots you got. It made me snowboard differently, not only looking for big stuff. S: I noticed that about you too. Just do it man. I had to go to hospital too when I smacked my head on the fence. W: Do you remember how ill you were when we went to Canada a few weeks later? S: Oh god, yeah. S: Big up to Joe and Will for being down. Not like it was my thing, but we were all in it together, so big up to the boys and big up to Vans, Lobster and Monster for putting their trust in us. And big up to Covid for shutting it down early. That was a professional ending right there Sparrow, remembering to mention the right people W: The least professional interview with the most professional ending. Thanks for your time gents, looking forward to the next trip. This tunnel is beneath an Olympic ski jump. We definitely had more fun riding here than the Olympians did. FS3 floater from Sparrow. Drop to BS On the first attempt Will stopped dead and did an accidental frontflip off the roof. He landed it too. This was where the lady ripped the bag and threw the tea. A bloke shouted at Sparrow just before we shot this photo. He just smiled vacantly back, and the guy clearly decided we were idiots and left us alone to get this shot. Will has a pretty savage style, as is evident from this brutal BS wallie off the roof. Seriously, who does wallies like this? So good. Photo: Sparrow Knox. What seems to be the officer, problem? Turn static files into dynamic content formats. Method Mag Issue Create a flipbook. Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios , online yearbooks , online catalogs , digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.

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