FORUM AT SNOWBOARDER MAGAZINE'S 12TH ANNUAL SUPERPARK

Mammoth Mountain hosted this year's Superpark, entitled "Son of Berzerker". Pat Moore came down for a few days to meet up with For'ams Greg Bretz, Trevor Jacob, Niko Cioffi, and Cameron Pierce. You'll have to wait for next season's issue to drop for all the magazine worthy coverage, but for now, here's a sneak-peak.

WCI 2008

Mammoth locals Greg Bretz and Trevor Jacob were joined by fellow For'am members Cameron Pierce and Niko Cioffi for the annual West Coast Invitational and Fiesta De La Pipa situated in Mammoth, California.


They definitely shined in the competition, but unfortunately, not bright enough to walk away with any cash in the winner take-all-event. So yeah, there's not much to update when nobody wins anything. Just chow down on some photos from the weekend's event, and wash it down with some Corona while you enjoy your Cinco de Mayo.

FORUM ANNOUNCES “FORUM OR AGAINST’EM” VIDEO PROJECT

Forum Snowboards is proud to announce “Forum or Against’em”, a high-definition, full-color film starring the influential members of the Forum team.



Set to release in Fall 2008, Forum or Against’em will contain a compelling mixture of video imagery, documenting remarkable backcountry adventures, progressive urban exploits, and the notable times spent in-between.

Forum or Against'em will be Forum's fifth team-video release, upholding the progression of an acknowledged movie-making process that has made legacy releases so noteworthy – including The Resistance, True Life, Video Gangs, and That.

Forum or Against’em will feature the riding of Peter Line, Joni Malmi, Eddie Wall, John Jackson, Pat Moore, Jake Blauvelt, Stevie Bell, Travis Kennedy, Jake Welch, Nic Sauve, and Daniel Ek with production and editing by Jeremy Pettit, Nathan Yant, Kurt Heine, and Mike Bishop.

Options for viewing the trailer:

1) Watch it big and bold right here
2) Watch it on YouTube
3) Watch it on Forum's Shred Or Die page
4) Simply download here

JAKE WELCH UPDATE

Since Jake Welch is so fond of the crew at Forum (and vice versa), he decided to take a quick flight out from Salt Lake City to provide some feedback on various things. Here he is with Dave, the Forum Board Designer, providing some thoughts on women’s jib board. Actually, this photo is nothing more than testing out our new blog capabilities.

THE LAUNCH

Snowboarder Magazine took their tried-and-true Superpark formula and created an atmosphere where the youngest generation of up-and-coming riders could prove themselves.


Entitled The Launch, it was held at Northstar-at-Tahoe and featured For'ams Greg Bretz, Trevor Jacob, along with Northwest Foregional Rider Austen Sweetin. Check out the pics and/or this link that brings you to the Day 3 story on the Snowboarder site.

HEINE SNAPSHOTS

Forum team filmer, Kurt Heine, put down the video camera to check-in with a few shots of the Forum Team. But don't expect too much, as it's just a set of posing and posing and posing some more. With that noted, here are the shots.

ASKING JAKE

Jake Blauvelt has been on a tear in the Pacific Northwest backcountry - opting to collect knee-deep memories, rather than podium trophies. His prowess and natural board control is a thing of inherent beauty. Read some words (as asked by Forum correspondent Joel Muzzey) right here.

DROPPIN' F BOMBS / NORTHSTAR AT TAHOE AND BRIGHTON

DROPPIN' F BOMBS - NORTHSTAR
A sizable midweek crew came together at Northstar-at-Tahoe for a detonating demonstration of explosive snowboarding, bomb sliding, gut bombing, and bomb dropping. Chris Bartkowski brought home a Forum Destroyer Snowboard for being the first to 50/50 540 off the missile. Cody Boan got some Forum boots for a nose-press f/s 360 off the firecracker stick, and Andrew Brewer received Forum bindings for his f/s Chuck Norris Chop b/s 450 revert off the upright F Bomb.



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DROPPIN' F BOMBS - BRIGHTON
Meanwhile, over at Brighton, Utah over 100+ contestants signed-up to test their skills against the F Bombs. Ben Farrell was rewarded Forum bindings for his 50-50 to Bennihana off the missile jib. Alex Andrews will be stomping around in some Forum boots for his cab 450/450 out on the firecracker stick, and Christian Hobush will be jibbing in style on a brand new Forum Youngblood for his 360 nose bonk on the upright F Bomb. Mucho gut bombs were served, so one should shudder to think what the Brighton bathrooms looked like. But, the biggest explosions came after the contest when Brighton lit-up a fireworks show in celebration of all the bombs being dropped.

DROPPIN' F BOMBS SUMMIT AT SNOQUALMIE

The Northwest produced it’s (almost) patented moist and hazy weather for what proved to be an energetic stop of the Droppin' F Bombs event type thing at Summit at Snoqualmie. The custom course contained a bomb-drop drop-in, mogul minefield and three custom F Bomb jibs.



The unique set-up allowed for serious creativity, where hick-ups (from gut-bomb burritos), hang-ups and stylish bonks were all fair game. After a full days session in the course, a Forum board, boot and binding were rewarded to three worthy competitors.

SUPER SESSION

Peter Line and Daniel Ek met up with For’ams Niko Cioffi and Cameron Pierce at The Summit-at-Snoqualmie for a Snowboarder Magazine “Super Session.” The park crew put together some unique features and let the team have-at-it for the better part of a week, documenting the action for a magazine issue to be released next fall. The Super Session also coincided with the Annual Holy Oly Revival, where the crew sessioned one of the finest quarterpipes the Northwest has ever seen.

SESSION AT SQUAW

A crew of emerging Forum riders (aka the For'am Team) made their way to Squaw Valley, California for a park and pipe photoshoot. There's really not much more to report than that, so if you feel inclined, check these photos of Daniel Ek, Trevor Jacobs, Niko Cioffi and Cameron Pierce.

SIA (DAY) TRADER SHOW

Forum recently attended the SIA show in Las Vegas, where snowsport manufactures, retailers and lurkers came together to check out the latest and greatest in snowsport equipment. Amidst all the skis, sleds, snowboards, boots and bindings, there were scantily clad individuals, copious amounts of booze and numerous other "did you see that" happenings.



The Forum booth held down space G72 (whatever that means) where the theme was Wall Street Day Trading. Buying and selling snowboard equipment was the deal, and needless to say, many deals were had. Forum's 09 equipment is in production – Unfortunately, you'll have to wait until next season to get it.