In March this year, Dan Wakeham became Britain's first male snowboarder to ride in the Olympic halfpipe finals. For Dan, it was the result of many years hard training, dedication, and as he puts it, the coaching from "a fat ginger canadian with a goaty!"

The modern world demands perfection, and the snow and skate worlds do not seem to be immune to this notion. In competitions, judges insist on absolutely flawless landings, perfectly smooth rotations, and solid held grabs.
This is simply not reflective of what snowboarding is really like. More often than not, riders slam, and when they do, they sometimes slam hard! There's no need to hide it, it's all part of the fun. So with this months photo gallery, we are saluting the slam, in all it's glory....

Seeing Jon Comber floating smooth switch backside 180s out of kickers in the Avoriaz snowpark last season, you'd be forgiven for thinking he was closer to 20 than 40. Truth is this guy can outride most of his younger peers, but that's not even what he's there for...

It's one of the biggest and definitely most expensive cities in the world, so vast that only those who have lived there for a long time ever really get to know it truly. Our city check this month hunts out some of the best haunts in the UK's capital.

The long awaited DJ MK night at London's Fabric had 100's of clubbers taking the tube to Faringdon on Friday 21st July. We sent our man Ed Andrews to give us his verdict on what promised to be the night of the month on the UK hiphop calender...

Ominous Words has been making music with a message straight outta California for quite a few years now. With one of his tracks used on Marc Frank Montoya's section in the Bear Mountain snowboard video, and the release of his second album this year, we thought we'd get the low-down from the man himself, Steve Caprio.