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We are now running an ongoing monthly photo competition on Flickr, all you have to do is add your photos to our group pool and you’ll be in with the chance of winning a 10% discount code to use on our website! We will pick our favourite photo each month and contact you with your code as well as feature your photo on here.

To kick off the competition Skullcandy have very generously given us an Audio Link backpack worth over £100 for our favourite photo in April. The backpack has got built in speakers so you just plug in your iPod or other MP3/CD player and blast out the latest tracks by Lionel Richie or whatever the hell it is you crazy kids are playing this week.

This is a pretty snazzy prize so unless a lot of people submit it’s going to rollover to next month. If you are desperate to win it NOW then get submitting and get your friends to submit, and their friends, and their gran and her dog; you get the idea.

You will have to join Flickr to be able to add your photos but I think it’s worth it! I have added some of my own skate photos to kick things off, good luck, and happy shooting! If you have any questions post them in the comments below or hit me up on Facebook and I’ll help you.

Sheffield Ski Village now has its very own airbag! It’s absolutely perfect for learning new tricks and just going generally bigger than you usually would. Check out the dates under the video and if you go there send us some video or photos and we’ll post them up here.

Sheffield Ski Village – Airbag Opening Weekend from Ben Marshall on Vimeo.

Airbag Session Dates (don’t take my word on this contact them before travelling!)
10th & 11th April 3pm – 6pm
1st, 2nd & 3rd May 3pm – 6pm
29th, 30th & 31st May 3pm – 6pm
19th & 20th June 3pm – 6pm
26th & 27th June – Carpet Burns competition
17th & 18th July 3pm – 6pm
28th, 29th & 30th August 3pm – 6pm
18th & 19th September 3pm – 6pm
9th & 10th October 3pm – 6pm

Here’s one for all you iPhone and iPod Touch owners out there. MPORA, which is like the YouTube for action sports, has it’s own free app. In their own words “With the MPORA app you can now browse and watch movies from your favourite action sports. MPORA has one of the largest catalogues of action sport movies out there with over 25,000 videos at your fingertips.”

You can filter your videos by type which is really cool so if you only want skate videos you only get skate videos, if you want snowboarding and surfing but hate skiing then it will do that for you too. For more screenshots, info and to download the app go to www.mpora.com/iphone

Have you got this on your iPhone/iPod Touch? Love it? Hate it?

This looks like it’s going to be a great series of videos on the history of snowboarding. An absolute must watch if you are even remotely interested in snow sports. I’ll keep updating this post with the new parts so be sure to check back or subscribe to our RSS feed to be notified.

History of Snowboarding and the TTR – Burton, Haakonsen, Kidwell (Part 1) from ttrworldtour on Vimeo.

Check out the latest breakout from the first TV Show on the 09/10 TTR Bundle: Ever wondered how snowboarding became one of the biggest winter sports? This is story of Snowboarding, the people who progressed it, and genesis of the Swatch TTR World Snowboarding Tour. Taking you through from Sherman Poppen through to the beginnings creation of the renown Oakley Arctic Challenge after snowboarding became an Olympic sport in 1996. With interviews from snowboarding legends Terry Kidwell, Jake Burton Carpenter, Terje Haakonsen.