“When I hear people say that an agent is only good for people who make a lot of money, I think that’s wrong” - Sebastian Tutant.

With the heavy financial strain put on professional photographers, the Manboys have become their own media house, they were early adopters of...

So, although this is a weird time, and things may be uncertain - like whether Holy Bowly will be cancelled! Remember, that weird can be good.

However, that shouldn't be too much of a surprise. That's what you get when you bring a group of talented people into an environment that is tailored to them. It’s a perfect storm.

The average video part includes approximately 20 clips. That’s a good year. By good, I mean maybe a couple of productive trips,...

This past Saturday, March 7th, in Bromont, QC, we experienced one of Quebec’s biggest snowboard gathering of the season. The Empire Games,...

The World Ski & Snowboard Festival (WSSF) by Gibbons Whistler is returning to Whistler on April 16th – 26th, 2020 and will feature 11 days of...

Photographer Jarrod Au has been a contributor to King Snow since it’s early years. With a passion for skate/snow culture, he was...

When you rearrange the letters in Jon Kooley’s name they spell, “Ok, looney J!” Seems slightly fitting, doesn't it?

Words by David MacKinnon Photos by David MacKinnon & Eric Poulin The 34th Legendary Banked Slalom blew in hard. Swaying hemlocks and...

Maybe, depends who you ask, some would say I’m fucking up, others would say I’m living the dream. When you’re a kid, a middle-class Canadian kid, you don't worry about money as much. When you get older you realize no one makes money in snowboarding and it’s really expensive to do this shit.

Straight up! He blessed me when I touched his hand, so I got something going on there.

We saw, we high-fived, we drank delicious beers with beautiful people. And behold! Here’s a collection of the things that caught our...

It was cold. Like, -17 cold. But that didn’t stop people from showing up and sharing style on the esthetic setup. There...

NOT YOUR AVERAGE KICKOUT If you’re reading this, you’ve probably experienced getting kicked out of a spot. It’s all the same, some...

2020 Vans Hi-Standard at Horseshoe Resort / Outlaw Terrain Park was the first stop of the tour. In the midst of constant...

Matt Belzile on Investing Interested in retiring at 45? Yeah, Matt Belizile is too. A few years ago Matt realized how much...

Jody Wachniak is a snowboarder through and through. He first showed up in shred movies as a street boarder and has graduated...

The issue is out, our 2019 volume is done. It’s been great. Before we go snowboarding we have to shout out the...

Snowboarding makes our lives better. There’s no denying that, although we should remember that it’s not the be-all/end-all of life. Sometimes snowboarding...

Blindspot is out! And we caught up with the best person we could think of, Joseph Roby, to give us the inside...

In celebration of Jake Kuzyk’s new collection with Vans, last spring the entire team went on a two-week road trip along the...

By Mathew Wanban Today almost every local mountain boasts a rad park accessed by high-speed chairlifts and  maintained by a full-time park...

We’ve been motorboating laptops and smashing keyboards so you can feast on our second issue of the season! Our latest offering is...

Come to the premier of Sicky! It’s a film that follows around Jake Durham, Danimals, and their awesome friends while they snowboard....

There’s a new Vans short film about to be released. This one follows Jake Kuzyk and friends on a 14-day spring fling...

By William Fraser Laurent-Nicolas Paquin aka “LNP,” an innovator, an artist, a guy with tight pants, a guy who shit his pants,...

By Chris Fitzsimmons Age | 28 Place | Whistler, BC Sponsors | The North Face, Capita, Union, Vans, Dragon, The Circle So,...

Climate change and mounting environmental degradation poses an existential threat to life as we know it. We are in a period of...

In the mid ’80s, Rob Dow got in trouble with the law. His mother sent him from their home in Richmond, Vancouver...

Aaaand we’re back! For our 11th year! The cockroach of snowboard magazines keeps getting stronger. BEN POECHMAN, Whistler, BC. [O] Ben Girardi...

​I don’t know if everyone feels the same about the end of the winter, but I can say that for my friends...

By Rob Lemay | Photos [o] Ben Girardi Andrew Burns. That name goes hand in hand within Canadian snowboarding. It’s one that...

By William Fraser TJ Schneider, like any good Red Deer Albertan, grew up a hockey player who didn’t care about snowboarding at...

WORDS & PHOTOS ROB LEMAY | VIDEO COURTESY OF SNOWBOY PRODUCTIONS The Holy Bowly is an event unlike any other in snowboarding....

You first step on a board not knowing what will happen, where it will take you, and how it will develop you....

BY ROB LEMAY AGE: 21 BORN: Mission, BC CURRENTLY: Whistler, BC How’s your season going this year? What have you been getting...

Moments after the U•S•Open Slopestyle hardware had been handed out and while the podium was still sobering up from its champagne shower....

Spencer Whiting, aka Spenny, aka Gimbal God. The man behind a million successful straight air’s has been spending time in Whisler filming...

Whistler was blessed with another Oakley Week as the 4th annual affair brought Prizm-like clarity to a festival-esque week of boarding, bonding,...

Wooowee! The first west coast stop of the 2019 Vans Hi-Standard rocked the Rockies at Mt. Norquay this past weekend. The good...

Snowboard filming changed a lot in the mid-90s when snowmobiles opened up the backcountry to us. The limitations of the sleds and...

By William Fraser | [o] Photos by Joseph Roby China has the potential to be a serious player in snowboarding’s future. It’s...

This past Saturday Blue Mountain Resort kicked off the start of the contest season in Ontario with the 10th anniversary of Frozen Rail...

The snowboard community has a stronger foundation because of Flynn Seddon. There’s more character, passion, and heart thanks to him. He’s been...

According to major scientist studies, the last woolly mammoths (Mammuthus Primigenius) disappeared a couple thousand years ago, due to climate and to...

NOT JUST A CLEVER NAME For those who don’t know, let’s quickly get you up to speed. The Powder Highway connects eight...

Hot on the heels of the 11th edition of the iF3 Festival in Montreal, iF3 is making its return to Whistler on November 9th...

Banff has been our backyard since the day we were born. But JJ and I did not appreciate it for what it...

  Craig McMorris is no stranger to the camera. He’s been filming video parts for years and he’s a household name to...

For the third year in a row, The North Face is proud to partner with Whistler Blackcomb and celebrate the return of winter. Come...

COVER | Chris Rasman [o] Ben Girardi Keeping with the less is more theme of our first cover of the season we present Chris...

FRANK BOURGEOIS, Method, Quebec City, QC. [o] Joseph Roby MARK TREMBLAY, Frontside 360, Whistler, BC. [o] Erin Hogue MARIA THOMPSON, Boardslide to...

  We’re turning 10! Who would have thunk it? Our first issue of the season is filled with celebrating a decade of...

By William Fraser During an 18-year-long career, Natasza Zurek shook the snowboard scene. With a quick Google search you can unveil multipage...

Chris Witwicki’s roots in snowboarding are thicker than his coke bottle glasses. As a coach for the Canadian National Slopestyle Team, he...

By William Fraser Well, folks, I’m happy to present to you a man with a Colgate smile, Stevie Bell! Cuz really, where...

It was a heavy Friday morning hearing about the tragic and deeply saddening news of Dillon Ojo’s accidental passing. Dillon’s infectious positivity...

INTERVIEW BY EVAN RISSI  Dillon, let’s talk about one of your favourite things in life: pizza. How and why did this happen?...

…As Told to King Snow Magazine We were in Utah, in the High Uintas mountains. It was January 11, 2017. It was...

Age | 22 Place | Whistler, BC Sponsors | DOPE INDUSTRIES, SANDBOX, SALMON ARMS, FIX, SPY Where did you grow up and...

GEOFF BROWN, Backside 1080, Whistler, BC. [o] Guy Fattal LOUIS-FÉLIX PARADIS, Backside 50-50, Hokkaido, Japan. [o] Oli Gagnon  CRAIG MCMORRIS, Switch Boardslide,...

Lucky number seven for the ECS semi secret super sensational Invitational went down this past Saturday May 26th. The momentum keeps rolling...

Why do we snowboard? We should all be able to agree that we’re out here for a good time. Whether for you...

Skyhawk in the Wind As told to King Snow… At the end of last season, I kind of overshot a stepdown in...

Winter in Quebec has been good and the clips have been even better. The streets are dry and now it’s time for...

Over thousands of years of evolutionary history, homosapiens have evolved to carry many different things in many different ways. They can be...

Whistler Valley Snowboard Club @whistervalley Twenty years ago, Whistler Valley Snowboard Club was one of the first of its kind. Today, WVSC...

December 14, 2017, and Craig McMorris is spending his 26th birthday with friend Anto Chamberland to give us the insider scoop on...

Once again it was OAKLEY Week in Whistler and we were invited to tag along for some Heli boarding and a one-day...

Age | 15 Place | Pemberton, BC Sponsors | Volcom, Vans, Oakley, NOW, Capita, The Circle, Whistler Blackcomb Damn, look at that...

[o] Priscilla Cannon Interview by Stephanie Lake The hype is real when it comes to Robin Van Gyn. She is a straight...

John Leslie was recently named to the 2018 Paralympic Snowboard Team. He’s an Ontario native that has been training out of Whistler,...

THE OLYMPIC SHAKEDOWN “ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?” They’re back, baby! Four years ago we watched the introduction of Slopestyle with a pessimistic...

Was this the best thing to happen to snowboarding at the Olympics? Johnny Lyall, Indy Bomb from the cheap seats right into...

Welcome to the future. The Candian NextGen Slopestyle Team is pushing the potential of kids on the come up. Josh Reeves, Sean...

Snowboarding pics from the mountains and the streets. Best in show from issue 9.2 on shelves and in stores now. 9.2 ISSUE PREVIEW...

Alexis grew up snowboarding under Je Page’s wing, which allowed him to be around some of Quebec’s all-time greatest snowboarders, and the...

We’ve seen the future! We came, we saw, we dried out in the mile high city. Outdoor Retailer + Snow Show kicked...

In the east corner of North Vancouver, we have little Mount Seymour, weighing in with three chairlifts and just 330 metres of...

Whistler got some snow this week. A lot of snow. 157cms in the last week. These photos & video were shot together...

“So, it started probably eight months before the winter. I was at the fire station having dinner with the boys, like we...

When you think of a kid that went to a snowboard academy, you might have the mental image of somebody vigorously training...

All things must end. This last issue bookends our 9th volume preaching the good word of the board. Winter is here and...

“Terabithia Gap” Last season, while shooting for The Pepper Movie, we were in Utah filming on this super-classic springtime hip. As we...

Nic is one of the newer additions to The Bruners crew, and if you’ve seen any of his previous parts, it’s obvious...

“Saw this spot on our first day in Germany, across the street from the McDonald’s we were having lunch at. The build...

As told to King Snow… I don’t want this to come up weird but… I don’t fall that much. But when I...

Words, Photos and Video by Rob Lemay    Manitoba isn’t a place that you think of for snowboarding. It’s flat and cold,...