Did we go overboard putting a Halloween Costume on the Freestyle Website? No way, just like your Halloween Costume it’s only temporary, and worth showing off for a bit. Here’s your chance to show off your costume for the chance to win a Freestyle Prize Pack. Post a photo of you in your Halloween costume to our Freestyle Fan Page on Facebook by Nov. 1st, 2009 at Midnight. We’ll announce the winner on Monday Nov. 2nd. Enjoy the video below for some good old fashioned Halloween Pranks!





MADE Trailer from Callum Swift on Vimeo.

You got to love when Halloween lands on a Saturday night! So what are you going to be? Post a photo or video of your costume to our Facebook fan page by Sunday, Nov. 1st 2009 at Midnight. Best costume scores a Freestyle goodie package including an Orange Shark Watch. We’ll announce the winner on Monday, Nov. 2nd.

Bear Mountain

You can feel it in the air today, a slight nip of cold, a dry wind, and if you're a snowboarder in Southern California you know what that means! Both Bear Mountain and Snow Summit have fired up the snow guns. One thing's for sure, you don't get a top 10 terrain park rating by waiting around for Mother Nature to do her thing, you got to make it happen. Time to get the board tuned up! Thanks for our friends at Big Bear Resorts for sending the photos.



Snow Summit

Wow, this guy is lucky one! It just goes to show you never know what’s around the next bend in life, so make the most of everyday. We are stoked this guy is ok and that he vows be back in the water soon. That’s the spirit!

Our buddy Tyler Martin just sent us a new skate edit. Look’s like he’s been having a blast and his skating is looking top notch. Like we’ve said before, you got to pay to play, and as you can see from this post from last year, Tyler has paid his dues. You don’t get this good without taking some gas along the way. Thanks Tyler!




Imagine surfing perfect glassy waves, then the wind turns on and blows out your session, you retreat to the beach thinking your surf day is over. What if, instead of being bummed you we’re stoked and just grabbed your kite and went back out and continued the shred fest? We’ll that’s the life Ben Wilson lives. Why let the wind bum you out when can kite with your normal short board, no strap or binding system needed. Anything to keep us riding more waves is awesome and something worth looking into. Peep this preview for “Coming Together”, a Ben Wilson movie for a glimpse into the kitesurfing revolution.

Coming Together Preview from BenWilsonSurf on Vimeo.

Even with the long wait, we would still rather be sitting in this Mammoth line then sitting at the office. Doesn't anybody work these days? haha!

Thanks to Nick Rockwood for sending us the photos from his phone.

We love this satellite image, both for the snow it’s hopefully dropping and the waves it’s building. Sorry if this storm is impacting anybody negatively, we are just looking at the positives from a board rider’s perspective. After the storm and winds bail out the waves should be good, maybe Thursday morning. Let’s do this!



No doubt, the ocean is going to get pretty mean over the next couple days!

Here’s a bit of inspiration to get you through your case of the Mondays and kick start your thoughts about what to do next weekend. We received this cell phone shot from Big Mountain Skier / B.A.S.E Jump madman, Matthius Giraud who recently solo hiked from the Alta Base to the top of Baldy to get his first tracks of the season. As you can see, he was the first to drop this line! Good things don’t always happen when you sit on the couch, sometimes you got to take the bull by the horns and hike 3-hrs up a snow dumped mountain to reap life’s rewards. Thanks Matthius, we don’t want to slow you down so we’re sending you out a new Shark 88, the lightest most durable watch we make, you won’t even know you have it on!

After raiding the Volcom warehouse, up and coming snow shredder Spencer Whiting dropped by Freestyle for a little face to face lunch meeting. It’s always nice to finally meet a rider in person, especially one that has been doing such an awesome job representing. If you haven’t seen Spencer’s New Pollution on Fuel TV, we recommend you watch it now for a little winter inspiration. Be sure to give the kid a big Freestyle rock out with your clock out high-5 when you see him at your local mountain!

A friend sent us this shot of a mini mako shark caught last weekend somewhere between Newport and Catalina. Of course they let this little guy go to swim another day, but we are wondering…if there’s a baby, then where’s mama?

There’s tons of debate about what will happen in 2012, but one thing is for sure, this 2012 Movie trailer is legit. We are the kind of company that lives in the now, and takes each day as it comes, so frankly we aren’t going to worry too much about 2012, if it ends at least we went down doing something we love. Anyhow, on the bright side the 2012 movie looks like an intense Hollywood experience and worth a trip to the theatre. What do you all think?




While Freestyle Snowboarder and Video Marketer, Davis Paul, has been out milking the last bits of summer by editing teasers for the upcoming winter, his girlfriend has been in Africa doing humanitarian work for an organization called ELI (Empowering Lives International). Somerlyn Wood and Alie Renton sent us these photos from their trip, which also included delivering 2 babies, counting thousands of pills, giving countless shots, and even flipping a car (no one was hurt, thank goodness)! From all of us at Freestyle, we want to give you a loud and powerful high five! You make the world a better place.





In the meantime, back in California, Davis has NOT been delivering any babies, but he has been revisiting last winters footage to get psyched for the pending snowfall. He’s working on a little project for Freestyle called Tick Tock! Here’s a winter teaser to get you fired up.