And check out Episode 4 from Vancouver’s Mt Seymour on the snowboard realms website.

TJ Schneider just got Episode 3 of the Snowboard Realms up, and you have a chance to win a brand new Capita Stairmaster just for checking it out. Head over to the Snowboard Realms website for more details.

The latest episode of TJ Schneider’s Snowboard Realms has hit the web. In the second episode of the season, TJ hits up Mt Hood Meadows with Bobby Meeks and Nick Dirks.

Check out the first episode of Season Three on YoBeat.

www.sbcwomen.com

So being home again means more blog posts, hooray! I stopped at Xtreme-Adrenaline on my through Regina the other night and Eldon passed along a copy of the new Snowboard Canada Women’s Annual to me (Thanks Eldon! ) and I’ve got to say I was super impressed by this issue compared to the past ones. There wasn’t a huge change in the amount of content or the appearance or anything, what impressed me was the actual article ideas and most notably the Step Up section. You might recall me whining about the problem’s with women’s snowboarding a while back with my post Good for a Girl. The inspiration behind that post was the SBC women’s annual trick tip, which was a 50-50 on to a rail. In this issue the trick tip (Step Up)  is a Cab 540! Hooray! Finally a trick that brings us a little bit closer to the level of trick tips that the men are always getting. Jess Kimura is the “teacher” in this one, and it’s pretty much perfect… thanks SBC for giving us something awesome this time around, I love it! 

Desiree Melancon, photo: snowrev.com

Another one of my favourite articles in the new mag is called “Defining Style.” It takes a look at the riding style of five female shredders in five different photos. Cheryl Maas, Marie-France Roy, Laura Hadar, Hana Beaman, and Desiree Melancon are all the ladies featured in this one. I really liked the idea of this one because in snowboarding your riding style is just so important. If you have a messy or sketchy style it will come through in shots or in video parts and make you look like you have no idea what you’re doing. I can think of a million examples of bad styles that I’ve seen over the years, there are lots of girls that are good riders but they just have bad style and it makes them look out of control all the time. If you don’t know what I’m talking about go watch some female video parts (think la la land, ro sham bo, or stance) and you’ll definitely be able to see the difference between the riders who are really solid and have good style and the riders who are definitely talented but are lacking in the style department. For example, when you see a shot of MFR or Laura Hadar you don’t need to see a name to tell who the rider is. Their style shows through in the shot right away! Okay anyways enough of that rant for now…

This issue also has a short story from Allie Jenkinson (http://alliejenkinson.com/blog/) Who is a phenomenal writer, you can go read the story on her husband Mike Berard’s blog…The story is called All Time Hereafter. Then go check out her blog for some more stories!

There’s so many premieres going on, and resorts are opening and basically the season is slowly starting. Just in case you’re getting wondering and getting anxious here are opening dates for some of the bigger resorts in western Canada:

Canadian Olympic Park (Calgary, AB) – Open!!!

Mt. Norquay (Banff, AB) – October 31st

Lake Louise (Banff, AB) – November 7th

Sunshine (Banff, AB) - November 11th

Marmot Basin (Jasper, AB) - November 11th

Whistler-Blackcomb – November 26th

Silver Star (Vernon, BC) – November 28th

Big White (Kelowna, BC) – December 5th

Fernie,  BC – December 5th

Other things you should probably know… Xtreme-Adrenaline has launched their new blog, and you should go check it out by clicking here.

Regina’s own Angelisa Hollick won one of Nikita’s photoshoot spots for the Fall/Winter 2010 cataloge, check it out – http://www.sbcwomen.com/hotbox?news_id=292

Sara Tollestrup has a review of Peep Show up on the SBC Women’s site. Go check it now! 

The powder highway is having a ski bum contest this year, meaning you could win accom + food + season passes for the winter just by telling them why you deserve it. Check it out… http://powderhighway.com/SkiBum/

Sun Peaks is also doing a similar contest, www.snowbumcanada.com

The second Party Snakes teaser is up…

TJ Schneider & the snowboard realms take a look at Vancouver’s streets…

“just a short little movie I put together of Bart , Brad and Sylvain. 3 homeless men from Vancouver.
I made portrait of Sylvain and gave it to him to sell to try and buy some food, I like that he wanted to keep it.
The night we met he told me I was different than most people.
That he could tell …. I am a good man.”

This one is random…but it’s an Iheartsnow productions vid and they’re making me so jealous. We have no snow again..

The Westbeach webisodes are back! Go check them out here… http://vimeo.com/6899085

Do you all remember this? Switch the Movie, for some reason it’s all over the internet again. Maybe it’s actually coming out this time? Chris Brown is in it, FYI. I remember Zach showing me this like two years ago, and I wanted to see it sooo bad but then it just disappeared… I was actually wondering about it a few weeks ago… anyone know the story behind this? I heard that it’s got new producers, and it’s coming out this year sometime. Rumour or truth?

Next week we are headed down to Breckenridge Colorado on the 18th to ride the 19th through 23rd , check out the twitter feed for info on where we will be meeting , what we will be doing . Come out and ride with us.
Tj
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I am very happy to bring you the second season of The Snowboard Realms.
Our first season brought you 37 episodes, and rewarded me with one of my most memorable seasons ever. I had a great time sharing with you my experiences, and I am looking forward to sharing this season with you.
enjoy.

TJ Schneider

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