Free the Ride
Gravity grips as I drop into the fall line, my speed races, the cold air rips against my gore-tex as I penetrate its stillness my velocity increasing. I rock slightly back, extending off the front foot, flexing the rear thigh,…
BC Voyager Riksgransen, Sweden…
Riksgransen Riksgransen first came to fame in 1996 when Ingemar beckmann graced the front cover of pretty much, every Snowboard magazine of the time with his record breaking 6.5m backside air launched out of a hand built, windswept, Riksgransen quarter…
BC Voyager – Lofoten 2017
Lofoten 17 - I visited the amazing Lofoten Isle twice during the winter 2016, the first time, early in February with legendary mountain film maker Seb Montaz. The days were short and sharp, the weather changed every 15 minutes and…
The season so far… keeping fit and riding hard!
Wow, the season is flying by! It’s been a while since I sat in the office and had the time to think about writing a blog post, (as is evident by my lack of posts I guess). Once the season…
Welcome to the Winter 2017…
So since my last Blog post Christmas has passed and we’ve move on a year. I finished off 2016 with a Video shoot for Nikon who are launching some new action cameras. With no fresh snowfall for weeks and weeks…
Early season shredding in Chamonix and beyond…Nov 16
It seems a little strange to be writing a blog about, the Winter so far, when its only the end of November/start of December but as you probably saw by everyones excited media posts (my own included), like last year,…
Muscle memory is great!
Isn’t muscle memory great? Something we don’t really think about so often, but when you get up the hill after 6 months of not riding (through the summer months) and strap your board on for the first time, there’s that…
Winter 2017 is coming!!!
Chamonix, Courmayeur, Gressoney, Lofoten, Riksgransen, Iceland...the winter is coming, lets get ready to Ride! It's been ages since I last wrote a blog, my everyday story and activities can now mostly be found through my instagram account neilmcnab_snowboarding, but I'm…
It’s Winter 2015/16 and we’re off…
So 2015 is closing out and 2016 is rushing in… I’m just back from my first course of the Winter season that I ran over in Tignes. I run a pre season warm up week over there every December to…
Welcome to my Winter 2016…
Mid way through an amazing Autumn here in Chamonix and heading into what is being hailed as the big winter we’ve all been waiting for… Only time will tell, but there’s already good snow high up in the mountains and…