Be Kind To Your Mind
When a professional surfer’s lifestyle comes to mind, one usually thinks of tanned, water-loving athletes, travelling the planet, surfing some of the best breaks without a care in the world.
While this may ring true for a minority few, Cooper Chapman is not one whose identity is tied solely to his surfing and the stereotypical lifestyle associated with it.
Sharing The Stoke
“I was at this new resort, I didn’t have my girl gang that I had in Falls Creek to ride with, and it took a fair bit of the season to find my people,” said Bridie.
Bridie Rawson struggled to find an easily accessible profile of women’s communities in snow sports, which has been part of a broader issue within snow sports.
Women are high achievers competitively, yet within the sport itself, they are under-represented and under-supported.
As the season progressed, she found her people but wondered if there was a way to ease this connection process.
Canberra teen Valentino Guseli lands stunning snowboard world record
Canberra snowboarder Valentino Guseli has had a 2021 to remember.
The snowboarding phenom broke a Guinness World Record in April for the highest air in a halfpipe, a record set by Shaun White 11 years prior.
A day before turning 16, Guseli was measured airing 7.3m off the top of the Superpipe in Laax, Switzerland.
Outside the Lines with Canberra’s First Sudanese Player
While young adults watch their friends from grassy slopes that surround the playing field. Midday beer’s in hand, laying in relaxed poses entirely in contrast to those they are watching. It is an utterly Australian experience.
One of the players spectators are here to cheer-on is 35-year-old Dhieu Biar Mading, playing in his 50th game for the Woden Blues Football Club, which is a grand milestone in itself. But an extra exceptional milestone considering Dhieu is the first Sudanese player not only to crack the 50 game mark but the first Sudanese registered player to compete in the AFL Canberra leagues.
MEDIUM Gets to Work During Lockdown…
While most of us have been watching daily updates, binging old school snowboard videos and drinking way too much cheap piss (or at least this human has). Medium’s Reuben Riegler has been working hard behind the lens to pump out Medium’s second edit; Court.
Court is a rugged, rough, raw and resoundingly appealing 6-minute edit, filmed around the Perisher and Guthega area during the Jindabyne/NSW lockdowns.
Riding out the pandemic
The Australian snow industry is in crisis. The summer of 2020 saw horrendous bush fires throughout south-east Australia which forced the evacuation of Jindabyne and left many other alpine villages with little to no business.
Then, in March, COVID-19 swept across the world just as these towns were gearing up for winter to recoup their losses.
What it’s like to own Canberra’s longest running skateboard shop – Meet your locals
It is a pipe dream that is often thrown around skateparks all across the globe; “How good would it be to own our own skate shop?” Well, for Queanbeyan local Dave Donoghoe, opening his own shop is precisely what he did.
This December will mark the 15th anniversary of Canberra’s oldest independent skateboard shop.
Trilogy Skateboards will celebrate their first year in a shopfront and out of the Civic Centre to sweeten the anniversary. An important milestone in skateboarding culture, authentic ‘local’ shops will almost always be found in shopfronts and not in large malls.
SIMS Snowboards | Turning Skiers Into Snowboarders Since the 70s
No one can say for sure who created the first snowboard. But snurfers aside, many credit the creation of snowboards as we know them today, along with the culture of snowboarding to Tom Sims and his core brand Sims Snowboards. Represent.
Sims Snowboards is one of the oldest snowboard brands, launching around the same time as Burton in the late 70s. But unlike Burton, Sims Snowboards has been lost in the woods since their dominance of the market in the 80s and early 90s. A little hiatus to reconnect.
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