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ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - The Burton RED Tantrum G1 Bluetooth Audex ($200) is the updated model of the already super featured snowboard helmet from industry leaders Burton. This is a great way to stay connected and entertained while going down your favorite slopes by seamlessly connecting to your bluetooth enabled mobile phone and music player. Plus it looks pretty slick and has a one-touch mute button so when your buddies are screaming at you from down the hill that there is an avalanche coming you hopefully will hear them and won’t get creamed. Hopefully I will be buying this for the snowboard season and will do a review for it. Keep you posted.

Head over to The Anti Hype blog where I will soon be posting a snowboarding playlist for you to test drive this baby with.

Features

* Motorola® Bluetooth® wireless technology
* DJ-Style Headphones
* One-Touch Mute
* Compatable with any iPodâ„¢, MD, CD, or tape player
* Removable headset included
* SoftFITâ„¢ Comfort Liner
* Removable Goggle Gasket
* Ultra Lightweight In-Moulded Polycarbonate Shell
* Quick Clipâ„¢ Earpads
* Zip Clipâ„¢ Ratcheting Chin Buckle
* ASTM 2040 / CE 1077 Certified
* Compatible with Bluetooth 1.1 or 1.2 phones that support headphones and hands-free profiles
* Compatible with devices that support Bluetooth Stereo Music (A2DP) and Control (AVRCP) Profiles
* Includes Motorola S805 Bluetooth Stereo Module

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All-rounder board that’s classified as a park board. Well worth considering! In Burton’s words: “the infamous dark horse”. This board feels at home on pretty much any terrain.

Review of Burton Seven snowboard
Rated as 4/5 on Aug 16 2007 by Neal McQuaid

4/5

WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - This is based off the experience of someone who’s snowboarded for a total of about 4 weeks so hopefully this will be of use to some beginners who are keen to buy their own snowboard and not use rental boards anymore.
On a side note, snowboarding gear is insanely expensive in New Zealand!

It’s been used extensively on the ski fields of Cardrona, New Zealand. I’ll start straight away with my first thoughts on the board: it’s a great all-rounder but I (personally) wish for a bit more flex. Once you find some powder, pistes and lots of open space, and if you are willing to commit to some of the bigger jumps, it provides amazing stability and control and puts most boards I’ve tried (I think I’ve tried about 10 different boards in total now from rentals to borrowed friends) to shame.
I purchased a 158cm board (slightly longer than usual - I’m usually on a 155) and have only noticed the longer length as a problem when it comes to throwing the board around on smaller jumps (meaning less time to rotate, etc. and hence I mean trying bigger jumps) and pulling the board up on it’s tail (5-0’s) due to it’s longer length meaning more effort required for spins and lack of flex. Of course, that could be down to just my in-experience and needing to get stronger :) The stance also feels quite wide.
I’m not a big fan of rails, etc. but am willing to bet that it’d be a great ride to it’s stiffness.
As for feel, well I wouldn’t regard it as the greatest of seasons here in New Zealand but it’s handling all the icy bits really well - feedback is great.

The board actually sits at the upper end of Burton’s range of park boards but if you look at it’s classification (under Burton’s opinion) you’ll see it’s a pretty good all-rounder. Direct link to Burton’s webpage is here

In short, a great board and one to consider.

Image Credit: the authors board sitting pretty after a tough day at the office.

- Neal :) -

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WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - Another DVD but this time of a different sport.
I’ve been trawling Burton’s website in the hope of finding this and have had no luck through Google, but since I’ve just been to the world premiere, I thought I’d post a quick entry.
The Burton Open is currently being held here in Wanaka, New Zealand and as part of the event, they premiered this year’s new DVD of their pro team in action, ‘Thanks in Advance’.
Considering some of them hadn’t even seen the footage before it was shown, it made for interesting viewing! And with all the big names of snowboarding in the room, there was a great buzz.

In short, the DVD has no real order to it, but the footage is pretty incredible covering exotic locations from the usuals of France, Canada and New Zealand to more exotic locations like Chile and Iceland. As always with a snowboarding DVD, the footage was stunning and proves what is possible on a snowboard. With the original footage of the 9.9meter jump on a quarter pipe and the boarder in question almost crashing heavily after over-rotating, this DVD will easily keep you occupied for the 45minute duration.
Unfortunately I’ve no idea when it’ll appear as there’s no record of it on Burton’s website yet!

- Neal :) -

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