We had a feeling that Burton had more up their sleeve. Not that the first teaser for "Standing Sideways" wasn't sweet in it's own right but what can we say? We wanted a little bit more of a preview. To put it lightly, they delivered.

Under the title "Winter Storm Warning -- It's Happened Before", Burton has just released five and a half minutes of pure snow porn. The classy kind, not the kind that makes you feel uncomfortable. Danny Davis and Jack Mitrani pull their usual antics in the beginning and we'll never complain about that.

Hammers, bails, pow days, park booters, massive hits, street rails...it's all there, and then some. Everyone has shown up in this trailer and got us running laps around our living room in anticipation for winter. I wouldn't be completely lying if I said I am wearing my outerwear right now.

Share the stoke with this trailer 'cause this team isn't holding anything back.

Okay, that sounds offensive. Let's clear this up. Not Easter the holiday, more like the backcountry jump dubbed "Easter" near Pemberton, B.C. Keegan Valaika, Mark Sollors, and Mikkel Bang sessioned this perfection of a booter this past year and sent it. Sure they stomped their tricks over and over again but they also fell a few times.

Their stoke is palpable in this edit from Burton and leads us to believe that we should expect great amounts of awesome in their upcoming video, "Standing Sideways".

What happens when you load up an RV in middle of France with Burton shreds, Jack Mitrani, Mikkel Bang, Gary Greenshields, Niels Schack, and Simon Gruber?

Shredtastic shenanigans!

The crew cruises around "living the California dream" and manages to surf, shred, and skate all during the course of a week in Corsica.

Check out the video of the crew getting after it in this episode from The Liftline.tv.

Oh the life of a pro snowboarder. There's so much work involved that there's really no time to play. Jeremy Jones shows us just how hard it is to be pro on a recent promo trip to Korea and Japan. The legend recently posted a video on his blog that shows all the backbreaking work he did while on the sponsor-paid trip.



He filled his days with perfecting the art of kickboxing, taking advantage of Asian toy claw machines, skating streets, experiencing the culture and even squeezed in a little snowboarding inside a dome covered with fake snow.

He's wicked on a board and deserves every bit of the fun, so we're not hating, just spewing some jealousy over Jone's wicked life as a pro.

Check out this shred handling it all during just another work trip. It's okay to be a little envious. We are.

Terje Haakonsen's method - the epitome of what style in snowboarding is. Such a simple maneuver to the spectator but on the other hand, a "classic" method relies on a great deal more than the ability to pull it off.

So much of what snowboarding stands for is based upon a rider's style - regardless of what trick they are attempting. However, these days the tricks are getting so technical that one might think it'd be impossible to pull them off without looking like a flailing idiot.

Over the years, riders have been pushing the progression of snowboarding - adding rotations, flips, tweaks, and grabs. Like Mikkel Bang so bluntly put, doing flips used to be considered "gay". Now, it is massively accepted in snowboarding with the double cork epidemic.

The only constant thing in snowboarding - the one aspect that will always be placed above all else; is style. That is what separates the best riders from the rest; not how many spins you can manage to pack into the amount of time you're in the air. However, these days it happens to be that people are capable of doing these advanced tricks with plenty of style to go around.

Shaun White, Scotty Lago, I-pod, Mikkel Bang, Kazu Kokubo - they all have their own signature style and are at the top of the competitive circuit. Ultimately, all we want to see is a confident and natural ease - the ability to make these ridiculous tricks look effortless. If a rider can accomplish this unspoken feat, most likely they have the snowboarding world watching on in amazement.

Case in point - Shaun White's flawless double cork. Kazu's epic McTwist. Any of Mikkel's slopestyle runs. Or Terje's immaculate method. They are all such different riders but with the same ability to make a trick their own and embody "style" in every sense of the word.

Who knows where snowboarding will be in the next decade or how far these riders will take it but one thing is a given - the appreciation of style and natural ability will always remain the most important factor.

Check out what the pro's (rookies as well as legends) have to say about the matters of style: