The Snowboard Project

The Splitboard Project Presented by Spark R&D That Time of Year • Season Two Episode Two  The Splitboard Project is a 'magazine style' podcast for splitboarders of every ability co-hosted by Spark R&D founder Will Ritter and The Snowboard Project host Mark Sullivan. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners. In the our third episode of the...

Chris Wellhausen was the final photo editor for both SNOWBOARDER Magazine and Transworld Snowboarding before taking a role as photo editor of the Men's Journal. From his start as a dedicated East Coast snowboarder to the pilgrimage to the west, Chris followed the same path as any core riders, before  picking up a camera and finding his calling. The rest, as some salt is history.      Today's episo...

Olympic Qualifiers Almost Live & Behind the Scenes In this episode we take you one a behind the scenes look at The US Grand Prix at Mammoth, which wrapped up 12 hours ago. The Grand Prix serves as the qualification events for the US Olympic Snowboard scene.  This is an experimental episode - so let us know what you think - email mark@thesnowboardproject.com   Featuring: Stuart Clark @stuartseeclar...

Chip Wilson is a self made billionaire - who got his start as a snowboard clothing brand founder.  After selling the brand he started, Westbeach, Chip went on to create the first yoga pants - creating the brand Lulu Lemon. Perhaps the most revealing part is the entrepreneurial struggle of starting brands - and achieving a good work/life balance - as well as some hard learned insights from the most...

REAL TALK featuring Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines.   This season our format will change to do deep dives on  a single subject matter - in this episode we talk new snowboard contests leading up to the 2022 Winter Olympics.   Today's episode brought to you by Artilect http://artilect.studio Cardiff Snowcraft http://cardiffsnow.com Baldface Lodge http://baldface.com Tow Pro Lifts http://towpro-lif...

Real Talk 4.4 is coming. unfortunately one of our cohosts got a case of the Delta and is feeling pretty miserable - so we will wait for him to feel better.

The Splitboard Project Presented by Spark R&D Rad Dads & the Shire • Season Two Episode Two  The Splitboard Project is a 'magazine style' podcast for splitboarders of every ability co-hosted by Spark R&D founder Will Ritter and The Snowboard Project host Mark Sullivan. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners. In the our second episode of...

  Today's episode brought to you by Artilect http://artilect.studio Cardiff Snowcraft http://cardiffsnow.com Tow Pro Lifts http://towpro-lifts.com Owner Operator HTTP://owneroperator.us United Shapes  http://unitedshapes.us 686 Outerwear http://686.com Electrovoice Microphones http://electrovoice.com  Oakley Snowboarding http://oakley.com The Baldface Lodge http://baldface.com     Help support The...

On today's episode of Pro Files: Well Seasoned - Gary land. Gary Land is an award-winning director and photographer whose career has produced an unparalleled portfolio of broadcast and print work. He began as a photography legend in the snowboarding industry, and from there has shot countless A-list celebrity athletes, numerous large scale ad-campaigns from Nike to AT&T to Coca-Cola, and collabora...

Career Starter Pack: So You Want to be Sponsored? In this episode we take an in depth look on what it takes to be a sponsored snowboarder and break down some broad ideas that can help you achieve or maintain sponsors in the sport.  Hosted and Produced by: Mark Sullivan   Business Development:  Mark Sullivan Mark@thesnowboardproject.com     Subscribe to us on YouTube for video content {including Re...

The Splitboard Project Presented by Spark R&D A New Season • Season Two Episode One  The Splitboard Project is a 'magazine style' podcast for splitboarders of every ability co-hosted by Spark R&D founder Will Ritter and The Snowboard Project host Mark Sullivan. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners. In the our first episode of the new...

On today's episode of Pro Files: Well Seasoned - Jeff Baker. Jeff got his start in media as a photo assistant for Snowboarder Magazine. When I took over as Editor in Chief,  I promoted him to photo editor of the publication.  When launching Snowboard Magazine, I tapped him to be the first Editor, creating what are known as the best snowboarding magazines in the history of the sport.  After a brief...

REAL TALK featuring Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines.   This season our format will change to do deep dives on  a single subject matter - in this episode we talk new snowboard movies for the 2021/2022 seasons.   Wind Slab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2hyw79e3wk Living Room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwviv1Jz78 Oh Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBvD3y6J1Uc Dustbox Dreamcastle https:/...

REAL TALK featuring Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines.   This season our format will change to do deep dives on  a single subject matter - in this episode we talk new snowboard movies for the 2021/2022 seasons.   Wind Slab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2hyw79e3wk Living Room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwviv1Jz78 Oh Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBvD3y6J1Uc Dustbox Dreamcastle https:/...

On today's episode of Pro Files: Well Seasoned - E Stone. He got his start as an aspiring pro with a number of flow sponsorships. Upon graduating high school he promptly moved to colorado - in no small part to watching the seminal Mack Dawg film The Hard, The Hungry and the Homeless. And in his first season out West he started what many would consider one of the important brands in the history of...

REAL TALK featuring Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines.   This season our format will change to do deep dives on  a single subject matter - in this episode we talk about loyalty in snowboarding - specifically The US Open of Snowboarding being cancelled after a 36 year run.  Today's episode brought to you by Artilect http://artilect.studio Cardiff Snowcraft http://cardiffsnow.com Tow Pro Lifts http:/...

In today's episode we talk with Selema Masekela - perhaps best known as the face of the X Games. But there is more to Selema's story than meets the eye. Son of a world renowned jazz musician ( Hugh Masekela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Masekela ) Selema grow up on the East Coast going to late night jazz clubs on the weekends, rubbing elbows with the greats. From there, he moved to Carlsbad,...

REAL TALK featuring Chad Otterstrom and Bjorn Leines.   This season our format will change to do deep dives on  a single subject matter - in this episode we talk about loyalty in snowboarding - specifically Terje not riding for Burton Snowboards anymore.     Today's episode brought to you by Cardiff Snowcraft http://cardiffsnow.com Tow Pro Lifts http://towpro-lifts.com Owner Operator HTTP://ownero...

The Splitboard Project Presented by Spark R&D Welcome to Corn Season • Episode Six  The Splitboard Project is a new 'magazine style' podcast for splitboarders of every ability co hosted by Spark R&D founder Will Ritter and The Snowboard Project host Mark Sullivan.. Each month, The Splitboard Project will release a new episode to educate and entertain its listeners. In the sixth episode, our segmen...

THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT Pro Files : Sam Klein Sam Klein is one amazing rider - his approach to street may fall outside today's popular mini shred type features. Instead, Sam draws inspiration from riders like Frank Bourgeois  and Jed Anderson and instead of focusing on what is the flavor of the day, goes for big rails with immnediate consequences for coming up short.  This story is an interesting on...

In this, our final real talk episode of the season, Chad Bjorn and Mark talk about events like the natural selection, and do a deep dive into the best of the 2020 and 2021 season. Pretty crazy but Chad dropped Johnny B's passing during this episode and so today show and our season of real talk is dedicated to the legendary snowboarder Jonny Baiocchi.  Today's episode was brought to you by Melvin b...

In this episode, recorded live on Clubhouse we cover the Natural Selection Tordillo and learn from the organizers of the event including Travis Rice, Liam Griffin and Circe Wallace and are joined in a live Q/A setting by some wintersports legends.    In this episode we learn about future plans of the Natural Selection tour as well as the importance of Alaska to the snowboarding world.    This epis...

In this episode, recorded live on Clubhouse we cover the Natural Selection Tordillo and learn from the organizers of the event including Travis Rice, Liam Griffin and Circe Wallace and are joined in a live Q/A setting by some wintersports legends.    In this episode we learn about future plans of the Natural Selection tour as well as the importance of Alaska to the snowboarding world.    This epis...

In this episode, recorded live on Clubhouse we cover the Natural Selection Tordillo stop with a live watch party. Travis Rice takes on all questions in the in depth and unique look at the Natural Selection tour. In is episode we are joined by Travis and two of the other organizers of the tour, Liam Griffin and Circe Wallace. Bjorn Leines, Gavin Jocais, Annie Fast, Lyndsy Dyer, Mark Warner and othe...

In this episode, recorded live on Clubhouse we cover the Natural Selection Tordillo stop with a live watch party. We were joined by the event organizers - Liam Griffin, Travis Rice and Circe Wallace. In this episode we cover the qualifiers - and get a real insiders perspective from two of the people who put the event on.  These shows will give a unique, inside perspective on one off the sports mos...