NobleCustom: NEWS

December 2007

This is just a vague promise that I will soon actually put some news on this section.....honest....just as soon as I get time.

August 2006

We are involved with demo kit etc with the excellent "Our Camp" girls sessions.

Hi Guys, Thanks for coming along to the launch of Our Camp at the Sno!zone, Xscape. We had such a good night and we know and appreciate how far people had to travel and all the bank holiday traffic you all had to contend with! Some of you met Miles, who had a killer journey just to bring us Wild Duck and Endevor snowboards, Sp bindings and boots and Demon to demo. The boy did good, next time we need to drag him out for a drink! I hope you feel you got the Our Camp vibe at Castleford. We’ve already booked dates for Milton Keynes 20th October, Braehead 17th November and Castleford 8th December. –So we’ll hopefully see you at one of those, if not at our winter Camps on the snow (starting January)

enquiries to gilly@ekawear.com our camp website

August 2006

We have just taken over the UK distribution of Option snowboards and NFA clothing.

Watch this space for lots of Option/NFA related stuffOption's website.
NFA website

August 2006

SP Danny kass pro model coming soon

Here's the news from SP in Austria.
say SERVUS to danny kass! SP bindings welcomes their new team mate, danny kass... his personality, style, riding, skateing, knowledge and way of having fun fully backs our ideals and dresscode. danny has been riding his personalized 06/07 SP Centroid bindings already for some time: " i am proud to ride such strong binding and look forward to making some sweet promodels together". so be prepared for good things to happen, lean back, enjoy real schnitzel & beer and say SERVUS to danny ! by the way, SP-UNITED turns 20 next yea(h)r... "been there, done that and still running" for the new line and updates shred www.sp-united.com watch whiteout`s "wear it well" and pirate`s "lubedence" your friends from SP .

February 2006

We're supporting the Back Country ski Festival in Aviemore

Sounds like a great event running over the weekend of 24 - 26th February. Details are hereevent website .

February 2006

Danny Kass has opted to ride SP bindings

We heard at ISPO that Danny Kass has moved to SP bindings. Apparently he was unhappy with his previous bindings and tried several options before approaching SP. We're pretty pleased he liked them so much especially as there is still a bit of an American/European divide, which he was obviously happy to cross. He'll be using them at the Olympics - watch this space.

February 2006

News from mark Kent

After damaging his back last season, SP & Demon rider Mark Kent is back in Morzine and as ever, providing us with some great photos. This one is SOOOO... SCARY!
Here's the commentary
Hi Dave
Good to hear from you. I'm sorry i haven't been in touch as well. Had a really bad slam at the end of last season so no summer riding, but i've been busy with the family furniture business. My back is fine now, and i've been out in morzine since christmas. Had a really good start to the season so far, in fact one of the best ever. Great snow and loads of kicker building in the back country. Got some good footage so far for next years video and plenty of photo's. Check out the attatchment it's pretty mental, but i totaly got away with it and rode out in front of it. Lucky me.

What scares me, is how far up the mountain is the fracture line?!!!

February 2006

British ski mountaineer joins Movement

Phil Ingle has joined the UK Movement team and will be exploring the scarier bits of Chamonix on the new super-fat Goliath skis. We look forward to the photos, which will appear here Phil Ingle's website . The site is well worth a visit for some great mountain photography.Phil also works with the UK magazines, so we can expect even more Movement coverage.

January 2006

Movement go mad in Morzine

Ben Thorburn and Gav and Jamie Mackay found a bit of time to chuck themselves off cliffs
Hi Dave, Think you might still be out in 2Alps but here are the shots from last week in Morzine. If you had it anythink like us then you'll have hit the jackpot too. We got perfect weather, with snow at the start and then bluebirds after that. There was enough snow to tick off a few cliffs I've been wanting to do for a while and Jamie and Gav were really pleased with the Gladiators. I got some new orange outerwear so after a couple of years in the dark I should stand out more in the shots with any luck. Gav's off to the Alps again in 3 weeks time to compete in the Euro tour and the Red Bull Monta Rosa Snowthrill so I think he's pretty happy with this weeks practice. I havn't seen it yet but I think there are more shots of Jamie and myself in Fall Line with a Fiat Panda. Real nice... we're the new face of Fiat UK, yay! Right that's the chat for now, hope everything is cool. Cheers Ben

December 2005

Swiss front cover

In a classic "coals to Newcastle" story, Movement rider jamie mckay gets the front cover of Swiss magazine 30 degrees with this great shot from Engelberg.

November 2005

Girls camp

We'll be sending some demo boards and bindings to the "OUR CAMP" weeks run by Gilly Seagrave, Sonia Shaw and Emma_Lea Rogers.Here's some details
The Our Camp diary for 2006 has now been decided- All of the camps will be coached by top British female pro’s with guest pro’s appearing on camp for day sessions.
January 7th-14th ‘06 Tignes (dragon lodge)
January 22nd-29th ‘06 Morzine (freshphish chalet)
March 19th-26th ‘06 Morzine (Ride and Slide Chalet)

All enquiries should go to gilly@ekawear.com our camp website will be up soon

october 31 2005

scary Endeavor

Endeavor fan Cameron Dobroski had too much time on his hands and sent in this photo of his handiwork - nice one!

October 2005

SP & Endeavor Rider Mike Austin is crowned Best of British

Here's how we heard

Hi Dave, Just a quick message to say that I won the Best of British Big Air on the weekend! MIKE

Here's a write-up of the event.
Surprises as new Best of British Champions are crowned

The 2005 Orange AIM Series Best of British showdown at the Daily Mail Ski and Snowboard Show on Friday the 14th October conjured many surprises after a very tight battle between the UK’s top snowboarders and freestyle skiers.
The line-up for the afternoon qualifiers was a who’s who of British snowboarding and freestyle skiing. Taking on the snowboard battle were Gary Greenshields, Ryan Davis, James Thorne, Scott McMorris, Mike Austin, Sam Cullum, Danny Wheeler, Nate Kern, Josh Wolf, Nelson Pratt, Stu Edwards, Tyler Chorlton, Jamie Nicholls and the first ever lady Mollie Percival. Fighting the ski corner were Tom Last, Jamie Cameron, Andy Bennett, Paddy Graham, Mike Wakefield, Brad Scott, Andrew Colin, James Woods, Eddie Thelwell and Murray Buchan.
All riders and skiers had just two practice runs and two judged runs, from which the best score counts, in both the qualifiers and the final. The top three scores in the final then went head to head in a one run super final. Considering the restrictions of an indoor jump with a much narrower, dicier run-in and landing area, the standard of riding was incredibly impressive. Going as fast and high as they possibly could in the quest to win the title, the watchful crowds witnessed a fine display including 5’s, 7’s, D-Spins and rodeos.
In the snowboard competition it was soon clear that the firm favourites, Orange Brits Big Air Champion Tyler Chorlton and Scott McMorris, Orange Brits Slopestyle Champion, were in for stiff competition from fellow contenders. Riding super well all day, Mike Austin definitely surprised with his strong front rodeo 7’s, as did 12 year old Jamie Nicholls who stood out among all the other riders double his age! After the qualifiers Tyler took the lead as he stomped a corked backside 720 mute grab, closely followed by Mike who also stomped his frontside rodeo 720. Following third was Ryan Davis with a cab 7 and Nate Kern, Sam Cullum, Scott McMorris, Danny Wheeler, Stu Edwards and Jamie Nicholls also went through to the evening’s final.
After a few hours rest the riders were back on top of the jump for the finals. Qualifying last into the final, Jamie Nicholls was on top form as he took revenge with a corked backside 7 to qualify third into the super final, equal with Mike Austin’s backside 720. Scott, who won the title last year, retaliated from his qualifying runs with a cork backside 7 indy to secure second spot in the super final just after Tyler, who held on to his lead with a clean cork backside 7 Japan.
After a rapid fire display by all riders and skiers that did not make the super final, four snowboarders and three skiers lined up for their one run chance to win the Best of British title 2005. Scott, who went for a corked backside 7, lost points as he messed up his landing finishing fourth. Taking third place Jamie went for the competitions first 900 but fell upon landing, as did Tyler performing another corked backside 7 Japan. Taking the title was a stunned Mike Austin with a frontside rodeo 7.
Full story here soulsports

October 2005

Movement skier Mikey Nur stars in Jib team comp

yo yo!! just got back from the london ski show, i was the highest scoring skier, i got best trick and the 'ssv crew' won the team event, so it was all a good weekend, and the skis (Joysticks)are wicked

september 2005

Another title for SP rider Marc Andre Tarte

three in a row! last weekend, M.A.T took the title of freestyle.ch a 3rd time in a row! a crazy style "one foot backflip" secured him the first place. congrats!

september 2005

Cody Hierons big air success

Alex Spence sent us this update on young the Wild Duck rider....Cody came third in big air at Warmwell AIM. So Cody is ranked 3rd in the country for big air now.

september 2005

Sam Cullum sent us details of his new website

Hey Guys Just thought I would get together a summary of this year's events so far for you to see. Thanks for all your support it's much appreciated. Check out my new website www.samcullum.co.uk

september 2005

we're supporting the Yeovil Jam

The comp has its own website www.yeovilsnowjam.com and we can be contacted via e-mail info@yeovilsnowjam.com Thanks again for all your support Regards Neil "Branny" Brannagan.

August 2005

SP and Endeavor riders in Transworld Snowboard mag

US magazine transwororld snowboarding carried a "set-up" review of 101 of the worlds top riders - here's some of the SP and Endeavor contingent.

August 2005

New Zealand Freestyle

We hear the snow's not been great in New Zealand, but here's MOvement rider Jan Buczinski having some fun.

August 2005

Endeavor dry slope action

Alex Spence sent us this photo of himself at the Welwyn Garden City competition..

30th January 2005

good conscience creation

buy anti greenhouse gas projects to offset your pollution
Those of us who fly as often as possible to ride in the mountains are guilty of adding to the pollution that may destroy the very environment we love. This site allows you to calculate the damage caused by your travel and offset it by paying for environment enhancing projects to redress the balance. Not really an excuse for ignoring our environmental responsibilities but does help the conscience. It is also surprisingly cheap - 4 return flights from Nottingham E.M. to Geneva create a charge of only Ł5. Pretty cheap way of acquiring some good karma I reckon. From now on all our business and pleasure flights will be balanced using the system.

2nd December 2004

We've signed up to distribute Endeavor snowboards

Endeavor are are top quality Canadian freestyle brand with an impressive team and great boards. Endeavor's site
Next winter we will be distributing their range in the UK. We will have demo boards any day now, so are looking forward to getting out on them in the snow that's surely just about to dump!

4th November2004

So that's why it happened.

I know it's only one small effect of the whole ghastly thing but the world's biggest pollutor votes to carry on destroying the planet and melting the snow election explained .

30th October 2004

top telemark skier joins Movement

Bob Mazerei, one of the best telemarkers of the world has joined the Movement skis’ team .

26th October 2004

I was thinking about how many UK events we support

I wonder if any other company supports such a wide range of local grass roots stuff.Already this season we've helped with dry slope events at Halifax, Sheffield, Aldershot, Chatham. Llandudno, Plymouth, Bracknell. That's only the ones I can remeber. We do support Scottish events as well in the Winter, but are not as well in touch with the scene up there as we should be - so if you have an event, let us know - we may be able to help.

23rd October 2004

We're proud to be sponsoring "Standing Sideways"

Look out for this DVD which will soon be available in snowboard shops. It features the best of UK riding - dryslope and indoor.Wild Duck, SP and Demon are all sponsors of what looks like the best UK DVD we've seen. If you want details contact Damian Doyle at astandingsidewaysfilm@hotmail.com .

12th August 2004

National Big Air title goes to Wayne Taylor

Last Weekend, SP Wild Duck Rider Wayne Taylor won the AIM series Big Air title at Halifax slope. With Tom Bridges already holding the Halfpipe title, we just need one of our riders to grab the Slopestyle crown next month for a clean sweep of national titles for Wild Duck and SP.
Not bad when you consider our top freestyle board this season costs just Ł259.

14th July 2004

Summer can be fun too. This track I found in Eastern crete went from here, 700 metres vertical to sea level.

30th June 2004

We now have the first samples of the Demon crash protection which looks really good. The riders who have tested it in Tignes and Solden are really impressed.

30th June 2004

Sorry about complete lack of news for a few months - I went to Val Thorens for a last week at the end of the season and broke my leg, so nothing got done. Skis have been to both Fall Line and SIGB tests and went down well. Boards have been to SUK and are at Document test week now. First reports are excellent. more news to follow soon.

28th february 2004

Just back from the UK trade show SOLTEX
here's a bit of a preview of next season's skis and boards as seen at the show.

Sam Noble worked hard all show as you can see here.

15th february 2004

news from Emma Lea-Rogers
Hi Dave.. How things with u. Had some great powder days in the past couple of weeks and duckcifer is as solid in the powder as in the park. So impressed with the board, the base is crazy - by far the fastest I have ever riden. Really enjoying riding Wild Duck!

15th february 2004

Mark Kent sent this mail and photo from Morzine. Isn't it great to know that someone's out there doing this stuff for us!

photo by Andrew Hingson
Had a quick peek at the website and it looks good. Munson also brought out the SP and Demon Brochures for me to have a look at. Next years SP stuff looks really good especially the bindings, which look as though they have come on leaps and bounds. The Demon stuff looks good too and their team is amazing. They seem to cover all the small things that you always need. I am in Morzine again this winter and it has been good so far with plenty of powder days some in the trees others out at full speed in the open fields. I have been shooting photos for SUK and there seems to be some good stuff already in the bag. Check out the attatchment. I have been out riding with Mike Austin a few times and we did a SUK trip to La Rosiere in Jan for next years Mag. The snow wasn't very good but hopefully we got the job done.

31st January 2004

news from Mike Rhodes
hey dave hows it going. am in telluride colorado for the season. before i came out i won the 10th morrow jam at welyn garden city. telluride is a pretty sweet place, ridings good,parks sweet, some darn good rails. got a 4th in a slopestyle comp not long ago here and am entering one of the nationals in slopestyle here in a couple of weeks.

26th January 2004

The Guys at Snowride Mountain Adventure just sent an email We really love the skis, they are possibly the best I have ever skied! As Good on piste as off, really fantastic.
Snowride run off-piste holidays in Engelberg snowride.net and have been trying out the Movement Demon skis. Their response is pretty much typical from people when they first use Movement.

19th January 2004

Jon Weaver sent us this graphic of the SP logo - nice one!

15th January 2004 Wild Duck and SP clean up at AIM series events

Whitelines issue 52 just hit the post box. They have a section in this month's mag called"made in Britain". Great to see that almost all the riders mentioned are riding Wild Duck and/or SP.

The report on the Sheffield leg of the AIM series mentions five riders for "stand-out riding" - Rob Yeomans, Sam Cullem, Wayne Taylor, Tom Bridges, Terence Thompson. All were riding Wild Duck and SP!

Tom Bridges became the British halfpipe champion!

At the Halifax AIM series event it was a similar story with Wild Duck & SP riders taking many of the prizes.

Tom Bridges spins his way to the title despite his pants falling down!

11th January 2004

Next season we will be distributing "Demon" snowboard accessories in the UK. Demon are an American brand producing top quality tools, bags, gloves, helmets and loads of odds and ends.

They have an awesome international team including Jeremy Jones, Ali Goulet, Bobby Meeks, Gaetun Chanut, Marius Otterstadt.
British riders will be added soon.

You can see the products and check team news etc. at demonsnow.com

24th December 2003

Mike Austin sent this mail from Morzine where he's set to spend the season...... Been riding the Duckcifer for about a week now and I can honestly say it's the best board i've ridden, it hold's down so well switch and it's got flex and pop in all the right places. It's going to be great fun riding it this season. The boots are great too, all my friends keep complaining of cold feet and ill fitting boots. I just tell them mine are toasty warm and they should buy SP!

17th October 2003

Amazing the desperate lengths folk will go to get get some riding in October. Jon Weaver shows off the SP Union Jack bindings in their traditional home!