Alex Cantin with Videograss

This year Alex bagged the opener for the newest Videograss flick "Bon Voyage."  This kid has some seriously style and great tricks; check out some of his footage from last year.

Here's a trailer for "Bon Voyage" as well, definitely worth your money; its got some great riding in it.

"This Video Sucks" by StepChild

Here's the full version of Stepchild's 2009 film "This Video Sucks." JP Walker's part is actually all switch which is pretty damn impressive. Also featuring the riding of Simon Chamberlain, Joe Sexton, Markku Koski, Stian Solberg, Eman Anderson, Risto Ruokola, and Fredu Sirvio.  Definitely an excellent free movie.

Mark Sollors Clips

Mark Sollors is probably my favorite Canadian shredder out there; he's such a well-rounded and stylish rider. Here's a 2007 montage of him riding for the StepChild movie "Child Support" as well as Sandbox's "Time Well Wasted."

This is his 2009 part in Variety Pack's film "Not Bad."

Click here for an interview with Mark while he filmed for Transworld's "In Color." In it he discusses his past season as well as his frustration with the hate that sometimes exists between backcountry, street, and contest riders.

Seb Toots!

Kids are getting crazy nowadays. Here's his part from "Knockout" by Alterna Films a few years ago...

his 2009 part from "Black Winter" by Standard Films...

and lastly him practicing at the Red Bull Development Park in New Zealand. I love how he can throw down frontside and backside double corks, regular and switch.

Video Review: "F IT"

As winners of Transworld's prestigious video of the year award in 2009, I had high expectations for Forum's newest flick. "Forever" was an excellent film with great riding as well as editing. "F IT" was no where close to reaching my expectations and fell several strides short of "Forever". Not only did the film fall ten minutes shorter than most snowboard videos, but the editing was, for lack of a better word, immature. It seemed like they just wanted the opportunity to swear a lot. Though I at first thought their sex, drugs, and rock snowboards were funny, in light if this film it seems like it's just a cheap marketing strategy to get kids to buy their product.  The editing in the film made very little sense; though the production effects were excellent, is that necessary in a snowboard film? In addition to that there are clips of unicorns, swearing owls, bodybuilders, space expeditions, and of course some annoying autotuning. It made very little sense and actually got a bit annoying to watch. Now that I've gotten all my criticisms out of the way, I can focus on it's pluses, mainly being the riding. It was great to see former Variety Pack rider Cameron Pierce shredding with Forum; he's an extremely talented and stylish rider that deserves to be on such a well-known team. Nico Sauve also had an incredibly impressive part; since his first Forum flick "First Chair / Last Call" he has made incredible progress. However, John Jackson is definitely what made this video. Check out one of my earlier posts, he has an insane part! The only other rider I know that goes as big as John is Travis Rice and that is a pretty impressive feat. Not only does he throw down almost every trick in the book, but does some really cool pillow lines. He's just a tank. So basically I wouldn't suggest buying the DVD but iTunes is pretty cheap so maybe download it there and then mute it when you watch it.