Forum Snowboards’ Founding Fathers Peter Line and Steve Ruff sound off on launching and growing a company in difficult economic times.

With the country’s top park firm, the snowboard industry’s most recognizable name and a state-of-the-art indoor snow dome, the landscape of Chinese snowboarding will be forever changed this June 14th when Qiaobo Ice and Snow World unveil their brand new Burton Mellow Park.

Burton has hooked up with Mellow Parks to build a world-class quality indoor snowboard park, just outside of Beijing.

Burton is proud to announce the “Because of Snowboarding” grand prize winners, selected from among 6,000 applicants who were asked to complete the sentence, “Because of Snowboarding…”

After months of industry whispers, Gravis has finally launched their new Web site for their skate program.

Burton Snowboards were one of the first companies to support Mitch’s snowboarding and, after a 5 year absence, are very happy to welcome Mitch back.

The series will kick off in New Zealand this summer, starting July 29-Aug.2.

This year’s event brought out some of the industry’s best and raised more than $25,000 for Chill’s North American learn to ride snowboard, surf and skate programs for under-served youth

The European snowboard industry took time out from its busy forum schedule to recognize the companies and individuals that had the biggest impact during the season. The drinks were flowing, mystery porridge was being served, and people were dropping in to the slide that doubled as an entrance to the bar.

A first look at the new crop of first layer. Check out the latest trends for the 2008-09 season, right here: