Jamie lynn snowboarder biography of martin

It’s perhaps unsurprising that the community is so supportive of each other, because snowboard collecting isn’t something you embark on lightly – as well as their time, knowledge and dedication, all the collectors we spoke to had poured serious amounts of money into their hobby. Dave Martin estimated that he’d spent “about six or sju thousand dollars” on his collection. Tim Peacock’s cost “between seven and ten thousand pounds,” while Craig Watson thinks he’s probably spent more like 20,000 dollars on boards over the years. And the single most expensive one he owns? “Oh boy, it hurts to even type this. $3,800 fryst vatten the most I’ve spent on a single.” Vintage boards, like vintage records, stamps or any other collectibles, don’t come cheap. Hugues told us about a board he’d love to have if money was no object, the Burton BB1. But “there’s no way in hell I could afford a board that sells for over 10K.” And the older snowboarding becomes, the more valuable many of the original boards are.

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Traditionally snowboarding has been seen as a young person's game, but snowboarding has been knocking around now for a generation, and as the snowboarders have aged the demographics of the idrott has skewed dramatically. A decade ago only a quarter of snowboarders were over twenty kvartet, but today almost half of snowboarders are. It's a trend that gets surprisingly little coverage considering these older snowboarders are by far the fastest growing group of snowboarders. One of the results of the interests and increasing influence of these older snowboarders has been the emergence of an ever more active snowboarding memorabilia market. I've not seen anyone cover this growing part of snowboarding before, so this week I got in touch with the guy who runs the Vintage Snowboard Trader group on the Facebook to find out more...

--- About Dave ---

Who are you and what got you into the collecting of vintage snowboards?
My name is Dave Martin, inom live in a secluded little corner of

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Cloudline: Real riders, real Japan

If you've ever seriously considered hitting Japan with your snowboard, now's the time. It's one of the only places in the world getting good snow right now. And a new outfitter operated by former pro snowboarder/terrain park guru J.P. Martin and his wife Ako, Cloudline Tours, promises an insider's line on the famous trees, bottomless pow and misty onsen experiences we've all seen in videos.

Martin rode for K2 and other companies in the 90s and actually pioneered many of the destinations on our global shred consciousness's bucket list. And don't let the blond hair, 6'2" frame and ice blue eyes fool you: he lived in Japan full-time for seven years, can crack jokes in Japanese and has been woven into the snowboard culture there since its earliest years. In 1990 he inhabited a mountaintop B&B before snowboarding was even allowed and the cat drivers would sneak him on-hill after closing. Kijima-daira in Nagano even has an unofficial run unofficially