After countless pitches, explanations and justifications to the Kazakh consulate about how three snowboarders were looking to ride in their streets and not the nearby Himalayas, they finally agreed to let this motley crew in. The result was something far beyond our expectations—a rail mission that became an adventure. The crew bartered with locals for a van named “Rick”, continually bribed off corrupt officials, visited the Kazakh healthcare system and fought off bums or stray cows while t...

The reason was simple. We wanted to find snowboarding where you would least expect it. Following a year in search of shred, the Rome SDS set out this past season to look even deeper into the possibilities of snowboarding. We chased snow to the streets of Kazakhstan where snowboarding is young and on the verge of booming; we sent it to the frontier of North America and the summits of active volcanoes on Alaska’s wild Aleutian Islands; and we hit the road for a month-long road trip to experi...

There is no better place to go ride pre-season and get warmed up for a year of filming than Bear Mountain. Scott Stevens, Joe Sexton, LNP, Darrell Mathes, Chris Grenier, Sam Taxwood, and more headed out to Bear for some good times. Although it rained on us and we were forced to abandon ship, we still walked away with this quick edit for ya. Enjoy! and Stay tuned to VGSNOW.COM for info on the new VG projects in the works!!!!

Chris Grenier made this little video from the Salomon trip to Japan. Starring Laurent-Nicholas Paquin, Louie Paradise, Java Fernandez, Bode Merrill, and Josh Dirksen.

LNP is from Quebec, has strange hairs and ride weird stuff. but he's good at it, so the folks at Kids on Shred re-edited his part from the 2008 Rome Snowboards team video: No Correct Way.

And here we go with the much anticipated Kids on shred productions for Rome snowboards Teaser: KIDS ON SHRED. AWESOME. GNARLY AWESOME.