Check out YoBeat’s review of the Destroyer ChillyDog! Its guaranteed Continuous Rocker FUN!

Photos courtesy of Ian Ruhter

FORUM is proud to announce the 2010 Destroyer ChillyDog, Youngblood ChillyDog and Seeker have just received Good Wood honors from Transworld Snowboarding for the upcoming season!

Awarded Good Wood in the over $400 Park category, the Destroyer ChillyDog is a new twist on a Forum classic. This ChillyDog-infused flagship brings Continuous Rocker fun to those destroying what lies in their path.

The Youngblood ChillyDog, winning Good Wood in the under $399 Park category, exemplifies that progression lies at the very root of the Youngblood soul. It only makes sense to bring ChillyDog Continuous Rocker to this established street stick for less on-edge hang-up and increased stability.

A continuing two-year Transworld Good Wood champ, the Seeker offers a poppier flex and a more aggressive edge. The result is a fast snap and quicker response while ripping.

Forum Youngblood, Rusty Ockenden, studied hard this winter, filming with Sandbox and documenting his exploits all over Whistler. Pick up the newest issue of SBC and keep an open mind while he drops some serious knowledge on you with his FINAL EXAM.

Prior to the release of Forum Snowboarding’s upcoming video offering, “Forever”, comes TEASING FOREVER…not so much a series of teasers, per se, but reflective insights on individual filming experiences from various members of the Forum Team.
In this clip of TEASING FOREVER, Jake Blauvelt speaks up on his first shoulder blowout of the season, and filming his entire part in the month of March.

FOREVER is now finished and Forum is pleased to announce very minimal information on some North American tour dates. FOREVER will be premiered over one weekend in various cities throughout the US and Canada. When venues are settled, stop in to see some of your favorite Forum team members, and check out some of the year’s most highly anticipated snowboarding footage. Be sure to check back often to see where FOREVER will be showing near you.

OFFICIAL TOUR DATES SPANNING THE EAST COAST, WEST COAST, AND EVEN PLACES WITHOUT COAST.

Thursday, October 1st
Friday, October 2nd
Saturday, October 3rd

9 STOPS, 3 DAYS. Confused? You’ll be filled in shortly.

FOREVER FINISHED is more like it. Countless rough edits made, the music rights acquired, color correction and sound design have been completed. Cutting room blues, love, hate, anguish, joy, and exhaustion have all been experienced. The final product? Exactly what you’d come to expect from Forum. Set to hit shelves mid-September, be ready to get your copy. Guaranteed to make you laugh, possibly cry, and most importantly, give you the desire to go ride with your friends.

Check back for news on the World Premiere and North American Tour.

If you haven’t already seen this little video nugget lurking on the internet, here it is! Straight from High Cascade Snowboard Camp and Peter Line, comes Forum’s ChillyDog Continuous Slide. With over 200lbs of chilly, slippery goodness, campers were on their frontsides and backsides slipping their way to victory and taking home Peter Line’s Pro-Creation ChillyDog board. Happy Boarding!

Click here to check out the full video!

Forum is pleased to announce the release of Forum JAMZ Volume One for free download on iTunes. This is the first launch in a series of attempts to remind us all why we snowboard.

Lets all have a good laugh together about how serious snowboarding has become.

Happy Boarding!
-The Forum Crew

Stevie Bell’s been keeping busy this summer, and various websites have been tracking his adventures. You can check out his work on the greens for a chance to win his golf kit, or head over here to see how the man gets down with Oregon’s sushi.

Check out the award-wining Shaka binding ad in the September issue of SNOWBOARDER MAG.

Letting bros and brahs feel the Good Vibes, this setup mounts to any four-hole pattern with the Good Vibes hinged disc that allows a board to bend without interrupting it’s natural flex. The Good Vibes pad with FGel cushioning lets toes chill into a plush cushion. Taken holistically the Shaka provides a freer underfoot flex when destroying the park, blasting through the pipe, slashing the pow or shredding with your bro brahs. No need for a new board to get a new sensation, simply mount these puppies on any ole four-by-four stick and you’ll be feeling the vibes – the Good Vibes.

Try with a ChillyDog Continuous Rocker board for a state of heightened shredness never achieved before!

Click here for more info on the Award-winning Shaka Binding.

Shaka Brah!

Photo: Daniel Blom

Pennsylvania isn’t really acknowledged for producing world-class shreds. In fact, it’s a state more associated with steel mills than ski hills. However, the Keystone State slopes have groomed some of snowboarding’s most formidable uber-groms in their early years. Such is the case for PA native Eddie Wall. However, Wall’s home hill can’t take all the credit for his on-snow success; Eddie’s personal drive and endless ability is what catapulted him into the upper echelons of awesome. Mopping floors and cleaning toilets in the Mammoth base lodge at night and fine-tuning his skills in Mammoth’s Main Park by day, Eddie introduced himself to the snowboard world around the turn of the century, and since then has rewritten the “video pro” handbook, cranking out one next-level part after another for the last decade. A sponsor switch-up to Forum later, Eddie has become a team captain of sorts-as he’s been around the block a few times-but don’t go thinking that the dude’s “hitting the wall”. Eddie spent last winter filming for Forum’s new team video Forever, and as usual, you can expect the unusual with Eddie’s astounding offering. In the meantime, we’re giving you the chance to cop Eddie’s kit.
-Tom Monterosso

To hear what Jake had to say about his third SNOWBOARDER cover, head over to SNOWBOARDER MAG for an exclusive online video.

Photo: Tim Peare

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ARE YOU A DESTROYER CONTEST OFFICIAL RULES
- No purchase is necessary - No fee to enter - A purchase will not improve your chances of winning
Contest begins at 12:00 AM ET on August 28, 2009 and ends at 11:59 PM ET on September 7, 2009.
ENTRY IN THIS CONTEST CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES
Sponsored by FORUM SNOWBOARDS (“Forum”), located at 152 Industrial Parkway, Burlington, VT, 05401, U.S.A..
ELIGIBILITY This contest is only open to legal residents of the continental United States (excluding RI) and Canada (excluding Quebec). It is subject to all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Employees of Forum and its respective parent, retailers, distributors, affiliates and their agents, advertising, promotion and production agencies and their immediate family members (parents, children, siblings and spouses of children or siblings) and household members are not eligible. Participants under the age of 18 must receive permission from a parent or guardian to enter.
By attempting to submit an entry, you release Forum and its parent company, and their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, retailers, distributors, affiliates and their agents, advertising, promotion and production agencies from all losses and any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, costs or expenses, rights, claims, and actions of any kind in connection with the contest, including without limitation, property damage, criminal prosecution, personal injury and/or death, arising out of your participation in this contest.
Failure to comply with all rules and regulations associated with the “Are You a Destroyer” contest could result in disqualification from the “Are You a Destroyer” contest.
ENTRY AT FORUM@THEPROGRAM.COM OR THROUGH THE U.S. MAIL
Submit an original photograph or sketch of yourself snowboarding to forum@theprogram.com or via U.S. mail to Are You A Destroyer Contest, 152 Industrial Parkway, Burlington, VT 05401. These are the only methods of entry. Forum is not responsible for any lost, late, delayed, illegible, incomplete, mutilated, or misdirected entries. Forum is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate entry information caused by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of the entries in this contest.
ALL SUBMISSIONS All registration materials, including forms, drawings, sketches, designs and photographs submitted during this contest, are considered public domain. Forum reserves the right to, in its sole discretion, cancel, modify or suspend this contest. Potentially offensive entries to the “Are You a Destroyer” will not be considered. By submitting an entry you warrant that it is wholly original and does not infringe any copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy or other proprietary right of any third party, union or guild. Entrants in the contest agree to assign the rights, title and intellectual property rights in their submissions to Forum as a condition of competing for a prize. Winner must sign all necessary documents to affect the transfer of rights. You hereby give Forum the absolute right to use your response for any lawful purpose whatsoever in any and all forms of media. You hereby waive any right that you may have to inspect or approve the finished product(s), if any, that use your entry and any compensation resulting from the entry you submit.
All entries are subject to verification. Any entry that is tampered with, counterfeited, illegible, mutilated, reproduced, contains printing or other errors, obtained where prohibited or not obtained legitimately, is null and void. In the event that production, seeding, printing or other errors cause more than the stated number
of prizes of any category to be claimed, Forum reserves the right to suspend delivery of prizes, without prior notice.
SUBMISSION REVIEW All entries must be received by 11:59 PM EDT on September 7, 2009.
A review of all completed registration forms and photographs will begin on or about September 8, 2009. All submissions will be reviewed based on a combination of the following criteria: creativity/uniqueness; quality of execution; and applicability to contest theme. Winners will be notified by email or Federal Express on or about September 15, 2009. If a Prize Notification Letter or a Prize is returned as undeliverable, the Prize will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner in a random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries.
PRIZE AND ITS APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUE (“ARV”) There is one (1) prize, consisting of one (1) Forum Destroyer ChillyDog snowboard. Approximate retail value of the prize is USD Five Hundred and 00/100 Dollars ($500.00). The prize must be chosen from available stock.
Winner will be solely responsible for all federal, state and local taxes, license, fees or other costs. Forum will ship prize to each winner via Federal Express at Forum’s expense. Forum is not responsible for delays in delivery of any prize. Winner shall bear all risk of loss to prize after it has been received. Forum is under no obligation to provide winner with any other substitute prize. In the event a winner is or becomes ineligible, the prize may be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner in a random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries.
Prize is non-transferable; no substitutions, exchanges, or product redemptions. Winner will be required to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability Release within fourteen (14) days of notification or prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner selected.
By participating in this contest, entrants agree to abide by and be bound by these Official Rules. Participants agree that this contest is exclusively governed by the laws of the State of Vermont. Any claims arising out of the contest shall be governed by Vermont law and may be brought only in a federal or state court in Vermont. If any provisions of these Official Rules are held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions hereof will remain in full force and effect.
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It’s been speculated that Peter Line has sold more boards to female riders than Tara Dakides and Shannun Dunn. Rainbows and unicorns may earn the 6 time X Games medalist and 96 US Open Big Air champion points with the ladies, but Pete is gonna have to ride his model like a man if he wants to take home the Top Pro title.

Want to hear a joke? “Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” “Pat Moore.” “Pat Moore who?” “Pat Moore who is going to kick everyone at SNOWBOARDER Magazine’s ass if they make some joke about him being a jock in the America’s Next Top Pro Model writeup!” Kidding aside, you know what isn’t a joke? How seriously good Pat Moore is at riding a snowboard. If it’s covered in snow Pat can shred it. Keep in mind that the second-to-last time Pat competed at Hood he won the Abominable Snowjam halfpipe title and got second in the World Tailblocking Championships!

For behind the scenes photos of Forum’s production at The Transworld Team Shoot Out, head over to their site and get the scoop

Have a look at the teaser or purchase the entire Team Shoot Out Video exclusively at iTunes.

It’s Peter Line’s birthday today. Celebrate at some point and cheers him to a great year, and if you happen to see him wandering about Seattle, buy the man beer.