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Shredbots have just released their Australian segment from their latest film called SHREDTOPIA.
The crew continues to grow bigger & bigger and so does the riding - They are constantly pushing the boundaries and not too many people go as big as what this crew does.
This Ozzy segment features a lot of heavy hitters such as
Torstein Horgmo
Brage Richenberg
Anto Chamberland
Craig McMorris
Mark McMorris
Jye Kearney
Scotty James
And many more.
Watch em blow perisher resort apart
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO US?
The reason is quite simple - It's much more than a hobby or a way to pass the time, it's deeper than that .It gives you freedom, creativity, peace it allows you to leave your comfort zone, travel to a foreign land, eat crazy food, smell the weird smells & not be afraid of embracing different cultures. The people we meet along the way leave lasting impressions, we may not speak the same language but snowboarding is universal. It shares it own language that allows all of us to connect. It becomes quite apparent that you start to have homies all over the world.
We are not a corporate body, it's just a couple mates out of West oz wanting to apply all of these fundamental elements into an app. our goal is to create the most rad digital community around. A system that you can use when you travel to a foreign land to meet up with new people or ride with new crews. An app which gives you live up to date snow and weather forcast so you know what resort you need to be riding at that day. A place to post and share your content - make people froth. most importantly it is an app to make you want to *ride more*
Grow with us at S N E A K Y S N O W
This fascinating documentary gives an in-depth look into the early pioneer snowboarders who first started to explore whistler and venture into the backcountry on their turbo sleds through the infamous S-chute. The S-Chute is pretty much the front door into the alpine and once inside there is a tonne of famous spots that have been featured in numerous videos - To see the progression in just shy of 30 years is truly amazing.
Will Linstead is the type of guy you can find rolling around the back streets of Melbourne on his skateboard, coffee in hand with a camera strapped to his body searching for new perspectives and opportunities to shoot! it is quite apparent that Will’s talents run deep inside the skateboard & snowboard scene for his photography work.
He has worked alongside and help capture pro skateboards such as Curren Caples, Chris Joslin, Pedro Barros & much more.
When Will is not shooting in the concrete jungle you can guarantee to find him amongst the snow coved mountains, it is very hard to keep track of this guy due to the amount he travels.
Will does a lot of work alongside his homies from the “Rusty toothbrush crew” stacking shots for DC Snowboarding, Transworld snowboarding & getting 4 page magazine spreads throughout Transfersnow magazine.
Will Linstead is the type of guy everyone wants in their circle of friends, super genuine, super humble, worldly knowledge and very inspiring.
We caught up with Will to have a little chat - Make sure to check his interview below.
Name: Will Linstead
Age: 30
Location: Based in Melbourne. Winter trips to Japan & NZ
Instagram/website:
@wlinstead
www.wlinsteadphotography.com
WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO PHOTOGRAPHY?
My Dad first got me into it when I was like 12. He was, and still is an amazing photographer and artist. He got me my first 35mm Canon AE1, which I still have. I always shot skate photos when we were growing up around London, and studied fine art photography through college, and a university degree. I wasn’t really sure where I wanted to take it when I graduated, as my degree was leading me towards the exhibition world of topographical landscape studies. So I thought I’d take a year to travel, starting in NZ, where I got fully hooked into the snow scene for like 6 years. I guess I found I could apply all my classical photography training in the arts to the snowboard stuff. Same photos, just people hucking themselves off stuff in them haha.
WHEN WAS YOUR FIRST MAGAZINE FEATURE AND CAN YOU RECALL WHAT THAT EXPERIENCE WAS LIKE?
Yeh, my first printed publication was in NZ snowboarder of Alex (A.Stewart Rusty Toothbrush). We were at Cardies (Cardrona NZ) filming for Diaries Down Under, and the park crew had built us a gap to rail just for the day to film on.
Lots of tricks went down over the first few hours, with it already being a pretty successful day, but I knew Alex wanted to get something big, and man did he. His Back-rodeo 540 to front board bonk, is still one of the gnarliest things I’ve ever seen on a snowboard (In jeans sunnies and a shirt haha). He put in the work that day and so did I shooting for like 8 hours. We were trying to get that for like 5 hours, and was getting down to the wire, as you can see from the shadows, we were about 15 minutes away from losing the light.
I was so stoked to even be part of that day, and to get my first print from it just topped it off. Alex, you are a beast!
WHO DROPPED THE BEST PART THIS PAST WINTER?
Not sure about the best part, but anything 1817 boys put out or any of the trollhaugen edits get me really pumped to ride. Anything creative like that is good!
ON A SCALE OF 1 TO MAYHEM, WHAT'S IT LIKE BEING SO TIGHT WITH THE RUSTY TOOTHBRUSH CREW?
Hahaha man, those boys know how to have a good time! It’s been amazing to see how far they’ve taken “Rusty” since our first project filming “Southern Nights” in Queenstown. They’re the hardest working crew I know, and they deserve every bit of publicity they get. The crew’s grown a lot since then, but I’m super pumped to hang out, and film again with them this winter in Aus (and smash 100 beers!)
I COULD IMAGINE SHOOTING IN THE SNOW CAN BE A LOVE HATE RELATIONSHIP AT TIMES, YOU ARE CONSTANTLY EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS.
DO YOU HAVE ANY SESSIONS YOU RECALL WALKING AWAY FROM EMPTY HANDED?
That’s the nature of the beast I guess. I used to put so much pressure on getting a banger from everything I did, but I learnt that sometimes it just wasn’t meant to be that day.
I remember my good buddy Jimmy building this HUGE gap off a construction site in Canada, but the weather kept closing out, and we didn’t end up getting the shot we wanted. I always feel for the rider when that happens, as it's hard to build yourself to do something like that, and not to have it work is a real mental battle.
But, we ended up getting the amateur photo of the year for Transworld which was rad and means we can forget about the time he dropped off a 3 story building to flat haha.
WE BELIEVE WHEN YOU ARE NOT BEHIND THE LENS YOU ARE TINKERING ON AN OLD SCHOOL BIKE, CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE MORE?
Yeh, I got myself a little Bratty Café Racer. It doesn’t go very fast, and I have no idea what I’m doing on it, but it makes a shit load of noise and sets off car alarms which makes me happy! I’d love to get something bigger, but for safety sake, ill stick with what I’ve got for now.
WHAT UP AND COMING WORK DO YOU HAVE ORGANISED FOR THIS YEAR?
I have a few secret plans in Melbourne for the rest of the year which I’m pumped about. The Rusty Toothbrush boys will be here too, so be good to have them all come crash with us, before some snowy missions.
Rad homie - Thank you for taking the time out with us today to give us a little more depth into what your all about, we love your work and keep doing what your doing!
Before you get to the exciting part of pre-travel packing you may want to consider these few minor things that will benefit you in the long run and eliminate the risk of total embarrassment when you arrive at the airport to find that you can not even leave your own country - believe me, it happens and it sucks!
First things first
- PASSPORT
Make sure your passport is up to date or has “at least" 6 months remaining on it, don't wait till the final week of departure from your 9/5 lifestyle to realise that you may be up s**t creek without a paddle. Allow enough time before you depart for a renewal of your passport identification. I would recommend 2 weeks.
- VISA REQUIRMENTS
Where ever you may be heading make sure to do your research and find out what the minimum requirements that you will need to take before they allow you to enter into their country.
This can be a very long process with lots of emails getting sent back and forth depending on which country you are entering into, allow a few months prior to departure date to get this major key factor in place.
- TRAVEL INSURANCE
For god sake this is vital, don't be the kook who thinks they won't be needing this because they think they are some god who descended from the skies to…….. NO! just no alright.
it pays to shop around and I can guarantee you will be surprised at the various price difference between different insurance companies.
It pays to get the maximum cover for snow sports, so reach into them pockets just a little deeper and pay that bit extra.
The last thing your parents need is a phone call from the insurance company to find out you were ducking ropes off piste, broke your leg and had to get airlifted out of that s**t.
I don't think they would appreciate having to sell the family home and possible your younger brother just to cover your medical bills…….. NO THANKYOU!
- THINGS TO PACK
Correct packing for a snow trip does not come over night, many of times I have over packed/ under packed, not packed the correct gear for the location. but with many years of experience safe to say, i have got packing for a snow trip down to an art form.
Hopefully, this guide and checklist will help you for your next snow trip, without exceeding your airline weight limits .
make sure when you finally start to pack your bag to place as many things as you possibly can within your snowboard boots, this will free up more room within your bag.
Place boots in the bottom of the board bag were the wheels are leaving all of your heavy belongs down the bottom - this will make lugging your bag around in transit a lot lighter and easier for you.
place your more delicate belongings i.e. goggles, sunglasses or go pros within your bindings folding the high back down, this will act as a form of protection.
Eddie's Wall is a weekly interview/podcast series hosted by former professional snowboarder Eddie Wall. Eddie famously climbed up the pro ranks while working a night janitor job in mammoth mountain so that he could shred during the day. In just a few years he has become one of the biggest names in pro snowboarding.
We listen to this Podcast each week and each time we walk away learning something new within the snowboard industry. From the earlier pioneers, to the contest progression scene this podcast covers everything.
Easy to follow, super interesting and it is free.
Make sure to click here and subscribe to this great podcast.
With so many different crews these days dropping edits on the regular it can be difficult to stand out from the rest.
We all love watching snowboarding edits but a lot of the content these days starts to feel all to familiar.
Saying that there is a certain crew that we can not take our eyes off!
Over the past 4 seasons Kevin Bäckström and Tor Lundström have been blowing up the internet with their web series documenting their travels through different continents , riding world class mountains, staying at epic resorts and parting like rockstars!
These are the type of guys you watch in envy and say to your self....... Damn these guys are living life right.
When you watch there web series it is quiet apparent that these guys are not doing it for the fame, but more the fact of exploring the world with the homies, destroying park laps, building back country kickers, shredding the streets in there local home town and pouring champagne over beautiful woman........
BYND x MDLS will not disappoint.
