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Navigation Search Content Other Mpora SitesEvery skateboarder craves a skatepark they can call home but when someone like DC wants to create a new home, you’ve got to make sure it’s done right. So, in order to make sure it’s done right, DC Shoes have collaborated with some of the most respected European riders and some of the world’s best [...]
It’s always going to be quite a claim for a snow film to be the best film ever but is The Art of Flight going to take that crown? With Travis Rice being the main man in ‘Hollywood‘ snowboarding right now, any film with his name in it is going to be a big one, [...]
Apologies to those of you that have already seen this but I’ve only just gotten my eyes on it and I have to write about it! Lindsey Jacobellis: Queen of the ultimate Olympic fail as she thought that performing a backside method on the second to last jump would be a good idea. It wasn’t. [...]
BASE jumping is a pursuit for the crazy, the unhinged and the downright eclectic. However, as crazy as it is, I think there’s a part of us that likes to believe that we have the mettle to do it ourselves. The majority of us though, myself included, just like to live vicariously through someone else’s [...]
After the debacle I spoke about yesterday with the UCI and their new title sponsor, Rocky Roads, the FIS have managed to make some headlines in the snowboarding world. Terje Haakonsen wrote an open letter back in January to the FIS about the ruling of the qualification process. He states: “The Olympic system for snowboarding [...]
No mention of the chocolate delicacy here as a bitter taste is being left in the throat. Here at Mpora towers, we’ve got wind of a new sponsorship of the UCI for the next three years. It appears that Rocky Roads has grabbed the title sponsor of the UCI but there’s a huge question mark [...]
Holy shit. There’s not a lot of videos that make me swear but the new teaser from Pirate Movie Productions literally makes me weep. They’re a crew that has been around for a long time in the snow industry and are known the world over for their incredible films such as Hooked and Jolly Roger [...]
This is one of those times where you sit at a computer for a good while to write out a detailed article about something interesting, and then don’t get the chance to hit publish. SO… because of that fact, I’m going to post up what I had written just because I can but I have [...]
Helsinki, Finland was the venue for Gary Young‘s gold medal winning run! With the Simpel Summer Session 2011 going down as one of the biggest BMX contests ever thrown in Finland, you just know that it was something you shouldn’t have missed. Photo: Mats Kalhstrom Rider: Alex Coleborn Out of 67 riders, almost half of [...]
We can smell the start of the new season and we can also smell the scent of freshly opened snowboard gear. I mention the new snowboard gear because it’s something that everyone thinks about when the new season starts to roll in. We’re always clambering to find some internet so we can research what’s going [...]