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The most important thing to us lot working on Mpora is you guys. We need to make sure that you’re watching the best videos and enjoying them with at least 90% enjoyment. But we realised that there’s plenty of you out there that enjoy a good ride/shred/skate/surf or anything in between but might not be [...]

Every once in a while we like to deliver something special right to your door… or your computer screen and luckily enough, this is one of those days. The sun’s been beating down on our office quite hard over the past few days but that doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped thinking about the upcoming snow [...]

As everyone knows the IOC haven’t been the best of friends with the snowboarding fraternity, or the rest of the snowboarding world for that matter. Now that the IOC have decided that slopestyle is going to be an Olympic discipline there are still people in the world who aren’t happy about it. With the FIS [...]

Photo: Hansi Herbig This is some unfortunate news for the snow world as the founder of Burton, Jake Burton, has been diagnosed with testicular cancer. It’s in its early stages and has been caught early, which is a great sign. The majority of people survive after chemotherapy and possible surgery. He sent an email to [...]

Morrison, Colorado was the place to be on September 16th as Standard Films rolled into town with their new film – TB20. Along with the screening off TB20 the cast were there and ready to entertain. There was also an autograph session with Kevin Jones, Lonnie Kauk and Aaron Bittner. The whole cast and crew [...]

There’s simply no better way to spend the afternoon then looking through photos trying to pick out the best one. Normally when I’m doing this at home it’s all to do with which one I want to get enlarged or which one I want to put on the wall. But this time around I’m picking [...]

Owen Wright and Kelly Slater met for the third consecutive final and it marked a first in ASP history. No two competitors have ever faced off in three successive ASP Dream Tour Finals. Slater was in outstanding form on the final day of the Hurley Pro 2011 as he scored then highest heat total of [...]

It’s always nice to see good talent rewarded with the credit it deserves but it’s even better when that talent is part of your own clan! Last Saturday night was the night of kings as the Youthstream Motocross Awards were handed out in France. MOTO‘s videographer Mikey Neale was rewarded with “Videographer of the year” [...]

Photo: Gabe L’Heureux – “There’s only so much advertising space on a helmet.” Shaun White is, without a doubt, one of the biggest names in snowboarding. He’s won numerous gold medals in the Winter X Games and the Winter Olympics. He’s had a private halfpipe built for him, earnt millions in sponsorship and been on [...]

It’s always funny when you look back at old fashions throughout the decades. A lot of the things that have been worn have also permeated through into skateboarding. In some cases skaters have started their own fashions – just think of Dill. It would be hard to argue that style isn’t an inherent part of [...]