Team Geared Up

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - Want to know about how snowboarding started and some of the major events involving snowboarding without having read several paragraphs of wiki articles? Then check out this brief yet informative vid, you might learn something you didn’t know… [...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - The big thing stopping me from back country or off piece snowboarding is all the horror stories you hear about people getting in an avalanche and eventually suffocating if the force of colliding snow didn’t already kill them. True, methods of avalanche p[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Well you enjoyed our top 5 mountain bike crashes, so here’s the next in the series! Top 5 Snowboarding Crashes by TGU. At 5… Hitting your face off a rail! At 4… Jumping steps and clipping a rail. Head landing! At 3… You don’t even need s[...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - If you wish you could snowboard all year but can’t, check out the board, that truly needs its own category in board sports, that San Francisco based Freebord Manufacturing has developed. Though hard to learn (like learning to snowboard all over again b[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The Ski Club of Ireland will re-open for the 2007/2008 Winter Season on Monday 3rd September 2007 for practice session and classes for all abilities. The dry slopes are located in Kilternan, Dublin, and boast two ski lifts, two nursery slopes, an intermediate slope an[...] Read More »

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 connect[...] Read More »

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 snowboardRated as 4/5 on Aug 16 2007 by Neal McQuaid WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - A tip-off today (thanks to reader KM!) alerted TGU of two upcoming courses being run by the ‘Irish Association of Snowsports Instructors’. While we don’t have exact dates, details or costs yet - we’ve been promised the press releases are on the [...] Read More »