Anne-Flore Marxer has been taking part in a football tournament in France alongside some of Europe's finest snowboarding talent. Here is her blog on the event:Last week most of the European snowboarders met in Biarritz for the "We’ve Got Balls" soccer tournament. We are talking about a football World Cup for snowboarders.

If you're still mulling over your summer camp options, don't forget that the MGT Snowboard Camp girls are doing some special sessions. There'll be a session at the SASS in Argentina. Expert terrain park builder Josh Lampert will be designing the park all season and overseeing air time. Josh is infamous for his work at Loon, Heavenly at Tahoe, Timberline and with Oakley and Burton.

Next winter's Roxy video podcasts will be produced by British film production company Lockdown Projects. While they put together their winter series, they've made a one-off film with Torah Bright. It features the Aussie star talking about her new Roxy Signature Outerwear in Austria, when suddenly things start to get a bit scarey...

Britain's longest-running snowboard magazine Snowboard UK has suspended publishing. Its editor has been made redundant and it won't appear on the shelves this forthcoming winter.  Not sure what your rights are if you have a subscription but there are contact details for Freestyle Consumer Media at freestyle-group.com if you need to get in touch.

There'll be no excuse for not taking cool snaps on your travels this summer if you take up Eastpak's UK summer offer.From July 1 if you buy any piece of wheeled Eastpak luggage at selected stores, you can get your mitts on a free Eastpak limited edition Lomography Fisheye camera.These little babies are worth £40 and were the first 35mm compact cameras with a built in fisheye lens.

June 21, 2009 We’ve been here a month now and I think we’ve done more in the past four weeks than I’ve ever done in a month at home.

The winner of last season's Nikita Snowboard Clip contest has just been to Iceland to meet the Nikita crew and check out the country's natural wonders. Ashley Thornton from the US won the event and she did this report on her visit:  “So I got a call from my good friend Kari. She had seen that Nikita Clothing was doing a video contest on their web page.

In the latest part of our series profiling the people behind the world's online snowboard stores for women, we chat to Kim Goldstein and Jan Kodadek of shreddingbetty.com   Who is involved in shreddingbetty and what are your roles there?   Kim Goldstein is the Founder and CEO of shreddingbetty.

So after a few days checking out Banff, we headed along the highway, through more incredible mountains and past the Colombia Icefields, to Jasper. Talk about chalk and cheese.