Sending Kevin Positive Vibes

The Burton family is starting off the New Year with some unfortunate news. On New Year's Eve Kevin Pearce was seriously injured while riding at Park City, Utah. He was landing a cab double cork, caught his toe side edge and was knocked unconscious.

He is currently at the University of Utah Hospital in the intensive care unit, and remains in a stable but critical condition as he sustained a severe traumatic brain injury during his fall. Kevin is getting the best care possible, and we know he has it in him to get through this. Kevin has a long recovery ahead of him and his family has created a Facebook page where you can follow his progress here.

Everyone at Burton Australia is sending Kevin positive thoughts, and cannot wait to have him come visit again.

Burton Olympic Uniforms

There is a kind of big deal event coming up soon called the Winter Olympics, it will be happening in February 2010 in a little place called Vancouver, Canada. Burton is the official outerwear supplier for the USA snowboard team and they have just relased the uniform the likes of White, Pearce and Teter will be wearing.

Check out more images of the Canadian tuxedo inspired outerwear here.

Mikkel Bang Best Trick At Stylewars

Grandmaster 2009 - www.stylewars.com.au from richard hegarty on Vimeo.

Stylewars managed to catch a break in the weather for the last day, after being locked down for most of the event. Burton Australia good buddy and frequent visitor Mikkel Bang took out the best trick with a switch back 12. There is a little bit of a back story to this as Mikkel is recovering from a broken foot that he suffered earlier in the year at a Mountain Dew event in the USA. He came over to Australia from New Zealand where he is getting some extra on snow time to help with his rehab, he wasn't even planning on competing and at 4am on the last day of the event he was still up having a good time. Check the Stylewars video above for Mikkel's run as well as the other international visitors Charles Reid and Marko Grilc.

If Mikkel is still in rehab mode we wonder what he has up his sleeve when he is 100%.

Stylewars Update

The weather gods have not been to kind to Stylewars this year with the first 2 days canceled because of conditions. Charles Reid did managed to tie for first in the rail comp last night and Mark Sollors scored best trick so at least the boys have some dollars to pay off the bar tab they have been racking up.

Over at transfersnowboard.com they have a blog post which gives you an idea of what Nick Gregory, Jye Kearney, Chris Decampo, Charles Reid, Tom Pelley, Marko Grilc, Mikkel Bang and Mark Sollors have been up to.

Hit up the post and images here.

Down Day In Manly

Mikkel Bang, Mark Sollors, Marko Grilc and Charles Reid landed in Sydney over the weekend. After a night out on the town the boys joined up with Nick " Pistol " Gregory, Chris Boadle and Russell Holt for a down day in Manly which consisted of a late breakfast, surf checking, jump rock and finally a couple of quiet beers at the Wharf Bar. The crew are heading to Falls Creek today for Stylewars and then to the Boost SnoSho at Perisher on Friday.

Jump Rock Set Up.
Charles Reid backflip from the sketchy top railing. Charles wasn't into jumping at all and pulled this off for his first go.
Marko Grilc
Mikkel Bang
Chris and Russ.

Shaka Bra

When Mark Sollors and Charles Reid stopped by for the MTV Snow Jam they managed to squeeze in a quick surf at Manly beach.

Charles Reid.

The boys learning about the North Steyne hang.

Shaka with Chris McAlpine editor of Australian & NZ Snowboarding and Manly local.

NZO Halfpipe Day

The NZ Open halfpipe finals will go down in the history books as a bit of a turning point for new tricks in a competition. To give you an idea of what went on here is the top 3 guys runs.

3rd Kazuhiro Kokubo - Huge McTwist, a frontside 900 tailgrab, an alleyoop chuck nose grab, and a frontside 1080 indy.

2nd Luke Mitrani - Double inverted 900 melon, a frontside 720 indy, a Cab 720 mute and a frontside 900 tailgrab.

1st Shaun White - Frontside lien air, to backside 900 melon, followed by a frontside 1080 stalefish, into a Cab double cork 1080 stalefish, to frontside double cork 900.

Luke Mitrani also took best trick with a Double Michalchuk.

Guys you want to get girls and be famous?

Then learn to ride halfpipe like Mr White.

Transfer Issue 2

Pick up issue 2 of Transfer Magazine and you can see Jye Kearney spend 48 hours in New York with photographer Jake McBride as well as read about the FRENDS crew at Charlotte Pass.


Jye in Central Park NYC.

Luke Mitrani showing us his method.

Sollors And Reid Are In Town

Mark Sollors and Charles Reid arrive today for the MTV Snow Jam so if you see them about make sure you say hey.

Jib Ya Head Off Over At The Hub

Over at the Snowboarding HUB they have a collection of photos from when Tom Pelley showed Jeremy and Keegan around Falls Creek. Check the images out here.

AUS & NZ Snowboarding Issue 1

Australian and New Zealand Snowboarding magazine has just hit the shelves. The Froth issue has a story with Burton global team rider Nicolas Muller, as well as a story on Jeremy Jones and Keegan Valaika visiting Falls Creek last season with Tom Pelley as their tour guide.

Mitch Allan mid powder turn.

Jeremy Jones at Falls Creek.

Mitch Allan showing us his method.

The Mitrani Brothers

The Mitrani brothers Luke and Jack have made a couple of visits to Australia, with each visit featuring solid riding and funny adventures. They have a double interview in the latest East Coast Snowboarding magazine with photos from their most recent trip to Australia during the 2008 Open.


Luke during the Open Slopestyle and the top photo is Jack during the Open Pipe.

Keegan X Falls Creek X DPS

Now if you are a fan of the Burton Australia Facebook page you would off seen that we shouted out this double page ad from the March issue of Snowboarder (USA). This ad is a little special to us here in OZ as it was taken at Falls Creek when Jeremy Jones and Keegan Valaika came to visit last year in August.

You may of seen some other photos that came from this trip including Jeremy's interview in issue 11 of Pop Magazine.


Photos by Blotto

Or some behind the scene photos on SITW by Shane Carter.



Photos by scarter5000