jibfest : 4 vidéos

Following the awesome 2011 Nixon Jibfest episodes taken from a narrative view - check out this new exclusive edit from Snowboarder MBM based on pure shredding but this time no narration, no interviews just groundbreaking snowboarding! Music: "The Black Veil" by The Obsidians Buy it on i-tunes: bit.ly/the_obsidians Join the conversation on www.facebook.com/nixon.europe </p>

Jibbing is snowboard speak for doing skateboarding-inspired tricks, like sliding on obstacles. The first mention of it came during a 1989 interview with pro snowboarder Nick Perata, and the Nixon Jibfest started in 2000 as an invite-only event. In this episode, we jump back to the early ‘90s and talk to some of the riders who pioneered jibbing on picnic tables and street rails. We talk to JP Walker and Jeremy Jones, who came up with the concept for the original Jibfests, and then also hear...

The second episode of Nixon’s behind-the-scenes series of the 2011 JibFest is now available to watch on Vice.com’s Powder & Rails. The show takes a look back at the history of jibbing and Nixon’s JibFest, an event created in 2000 by original team riders and jib pioneers JP Walker, Jeremy Jones and Dave Downing. Episode two gets nostalgic with stories from the events creators and original attendees as they talk through the early years of JibFest and what made it rad then and what makes it m...