Tales

So you are thinking about buying a new snowboard and checking out some online stores to see what is what and quickly realise there is a lot of choice with a lot of different prices, shapes, etc. How do you…

The Berlin-based label Ucon Acrobatics is the child of founders Jochen Smuda and Martin Fussenegger. This year marks their 20th anniversary and despite the fact the brand is globally sold in over 500 stores in over 30 countries, the team…

Submerging yourself in ice cold water gets popular more and more these days. The acclaimed health benefits such as being a boost for your strength and immune system trigger the interest of many of us. Nowadays it’s not just only…

The essence of snowboarding isn’t about not giving a fuck and swimming against the stream. It’s not about performing, jumping the highest, riding the steepest and shredding the gnarliest. The essence of snowboarding is about being filled with nothing but…

November is here again, the last month of fall season. Where most humans nowadays use this month to prepare for another awesome Black Friday score, the trees of our Northern Hemisphere use it to get ready for winter. Deciduous forests…

It’s all about e-commerce these days. Shops are struggling to survive in their local streets. We as ‘consumers’ are getting socially slapped in the face 24/7 with advertisements through our media channels. So how refreshing it is when you discover…

The first time I met Richard de Ruijter was somewhere back around 2005. I worked in a snowboard and surf shop in Utrecht city and Richard was a regular customer. Always full of energy and enthusiasm with enough stories to…

Recently surf enthousiasts Jeroen van der Kolk and Wilrik Wels made a statement. A message to address an underrated threat to ocean life. They shaped a remarkable “cigarette surfboard” that contains 8000 cigarette butts, embedded in a cartboard core. It’s…

I can keep watching these videos over and over again. Insane smooth mountainbike riding through the intense green coastal rainforest of British Columbia. The Coastal Crew is a group of local mountain bikers from the West Coast of Canada. They…

Holland. Our beautiful little country. Ask anyone worldwide about it and you hear words like cheese, windmills, tulips and weed. Not too many people start about surfing. Over the years surfing became popular in Holland just like everywhere else on…