Imperivm Snowboards

Skateboarding team expansion!

ChristophePons — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:10:14 +0000

We have got some new talent in our skateboarding team!

Jelle Willemsen is 19 years old and lives in Kalmthout (Belgium). Most of the time he rides the local park, but he tries to go skate in Antwerp as much as possible. He rides everything, but preferes streetskating.

Check out his massive pop and sick balance in the video below!

We’ve got us a World Champ!

ChristophePons — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:00:46 +0000

Last saturday, great news got in for those who didn’t already see it on the FWT live stream. Our long-time team freerider Jonathan ‘Douds’ Charlet – a Chamonix native – took home the Freestyle World Tour title. It’s also his 3rd consecutive top 5 spot, finishing 4th on the rankings in both 2010 and 2011. This year he stepped it up and rode stronger than ever before, which resulted in three tourstop wins. The first in his home spot of Chamonix, a second one in the beautiful Austrian resort of Fieberbrunn and the final victory dominating the world famous and gnarly terrain on the Bec Des Rosses in Verbier, Switzerland. Perhaps the excitement of becoming a father soon fuelled his motivation and riding stamina? A 2nd place in Revelstoke, Canada, 3rd in Courmayeur and a 4th spot in the Norwegian Roldal have contributed to his overall top score in the 2012 FWT edition.

Anyways, the least we can say is that his consistently focused and smooth riding clearly impressed the judges throughout the entire tour, and that this overall tour victory is more than deserved for the Haute Savoie native which is working as a professional mountain guide in the surroundings of the Mont Blanc whenever he’s not touring the world for freeride contests. His riding is always fluid and creative, and he doesn’t omit to throw in a few freestyle moves on the way down those steep faces. Truly amazing eye-candy that is! He’s also the best ambassador for our high performance Montana boards, which have

We’d love to wish him an awful lot of congratulations on behalf of the entire Imperivm Snowboards family. Merci et nos sincères félicitations Douds!

Imperivm’s creativity

ChristophePons — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:21:29 +0000

The one but last stop of the Freeride World Tour was held in Fieberbrunn, Austria. With 20 cm fresh snow and a group of hyper motivated riders the conditions couldn’t be any better. This event promised to be one never to forget.

Who else than our rider, Jonathan ‘Douds’ Charlet, could make it happen again by confirming his supremacy on this years’ tour? He didn’t only stand out with a very creative approach but he exceeded the expectations. He took the first place at the event and is currently ranked first in the overall rankings! With only the final event going down in Verbier in two weeks he’s on his way to a nice victory in this iconic and craving freeride competition.

Here’s what he had to say of his performance: “My run was very good. Many people took the line I initially intended to ride, so I chose a new one where nobody else went. I had jumps and I had a straight line. And we had good powder! Now I have the chance to win the tour in Verbier!”

Congrats Douds! The whole Imperivm team has one thing to say to you: “we’re proud of you, go kick some ass in Verbier!”

Take a look at his run and some of his pictures.

Pictures: http://freerideworldtour.com/

Imperivm keeps on scoring

ChristophePons — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:25:29 +0000

Our two home-bred style machines, Jens Rummens and Simon Van Haeken, took part in the third stop of the Flanders Freestyle Cup in Peer last weekend. The level was really high in the groms category but the two managed to throw down some solid spins.

We want to congratulate them both! Simon just missed the final, but seen his shoulder injury this is an insane result. Just so you know, he’s still recovering from a broken collarbone. Due to his consistency and his sick style Jens tweaked himself into third place!

With only one stop to go we already dare to say that our riders performed very well on this national championships tour. Watch out for these two guys on the final stop in two weeks in Ice Mountain, Komen. Afterwards they’ll be preparing themselves for the Belgian Champs in Les 2 Alpes, France.

VANpire Media: Season 2 episode 1

ChristophePons — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:39:48 +0000

Here’s some footage of our Swedish rider, Alexander Davidson, and his crew in their local park.

Take a look at how these guys kill this beautiful park! Who needs to go on vacation with a park like that in your backyard?!

Alex told us that the conditions were a little weird, but if this is the first episode of the season, we’re looking forward to the next ones!

Vanpire Diaries – s2e1 from VANpire Media on Vimeo.

Anto killing a cold Finn

ChristophePons — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:00:29 +0000

A SESSION WITH NIELS AND ANTO from Ero One Films on Vimeo.

A few weeks ago we announced that Anto Brotto is one of the chosen riders for the upcoming 2012-2013 project of Ero One Films. As we already mentioned he had left for a rail killing roadtrip to Finland. Here you definitely can see that Finland isn’t his snowboarding Mekka just only for the pretty blonde girls but also for the monstruous rails that need to be tamed.

During this trip he was testing one of our totally new freestyle and jib boards. Take a look at a day in Anto’s trip and to one of the Finnish animals he has tamed.

Imperivm has got talent

ChristophePons — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:13:58 +0000

The Burton Park Jam Tour is an event for young riders. It is a series of nine contests in eight different countries. It’s a contest, both for boys and girls. They are divided in two categories: Girls & Boys (14 years and younger) and Women & Men. Every stop of the Burton Park Jam Tour is a 2 star TTR event. This allows the young rippers to earn points for the TTR World Tour and for the WSF World Rookie Rank. This gives them the opportunity to be listed on the same rankings as their freestyle hero’s. Therefore it’s like the Winter Dew tour for young European riders. Our two youngest riders, Jens Rummens and Simon Van Haeken, went to the fifth stop of the tour, in Nesselwang Germany. We had a talk with one of our youngest family members. This is his story:

“It was a very fun day. In the morning there was a lot of fog but later on it cleared up. The atmosphere was very chilled out and everybody was very friendly. The organization was clockwork perfect.

The contest consists of two jamsessions. Every rider’s two best runs count. Jens thought it was a smooth park with different kickers, rails and other jibs. His best runs included a 180 out on the up rail, cab 180, bs 360 mute, double tailgrab over a rail, noseslide down the doublekink and nosepress 180 out. On the pro line he did a tailgrab, rocket air, 180 over a rail, 50/50 noseslide on the doublekink and fs 180 on switch back 180 out.

Jens also told us that he and Simon have always given each other tips and hints for the next runs. Thanks to their stylish runs Jens finished second and Simon third.

Both of them were testing the follow-up of our junior board, the Animila. We believe it’s going to be a good year. Our new line isn’t on the market yet and already tree of our riders rode them straight to the podium.

More pictures are available on the event’s Facebook page . Pictures by Nick Collins.

Nice Price Snowboard Packs

ChristophePons — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:20:53 +0000

Have you been saving your money up for your upcoming trips to the mountain? Low on cash to invest in new gear?

Well … let’s crank up the generosity a notch from this week on! You’ll find the ’11-’12 boards at a nice 20% discount in our online webshop. We’re even upping the ante with nice package deals on the Goddesses, Montana’s, Cities and Classic range. One nice price board for every type of rider. Enjoy these killer boards with a DJ Black or White binding. Now you only have to get your ass up to a mountain or indoor slope to have a blast.

Discover everything on the Special deals page !

La neige est en fin au rendez-vous partout dans les Alpes et heureusement même les Pyrénées commencent à doucement se couvrir d’un manteau blanc.

Préférez-vous investir votre budget dans vos prochaines escapades montagnardes? Plus trop de thunes pour remplacer votre vieux matos de snow?

Eh bien … nous augmentons notre générosité d’un cran à partir de cette semaine! Vous trouverez les boards ’11 ’12-à des prix sympa sur notre webshop. En plus de nous avons préparé quelques packs Goddess, Montana, City et Classic pour offrir à tout le monde un set parfait, qu’il/elle soit amateur de freestyle, freeride, jib ou d’un peu de tout. Avec une fix DJ Black ou White ça va envoyer gros dans les Alpes dans les semaines qui suivent!

Retrouvez toutes ces promotions sur la page Super Deals Matos !

Hemsedal Boardshop crew rocking Imperium decks

ChristophePons — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:41:53 +0000

The snow avant premiere at La Cluzaz from Magnus skovly

The guys and girl from Hemsedal Boardshop (Norway) that took the trip down to the French Alps for the Snow Avant Première in La Clusaz just released a video of their testing streaks. Check out a few nice park-laps and flatland trickery and get a sneak preview of what is to come for next year. We can already tell you one thing: they loved it! FYI: The Snow Avant Première is a testing event for professionals, giving shops the opportunity to test before they buy.

Check them out on their Facebook page !

Recap of Douds Charlet’s winning streak

ChristophePons — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:15:34 +0000

As we already mentioned in a previous post our freerider Jonathan “Douds” Charlet snatched away the 2^nd place at this year’s Freeride World Tour first stop in Revelstroke, Canada. The second stop was in Chamonix, Douds his local town. We still don’t know whether it was the cheering of all his friends and family or the Imperium snowboard under his feet, but he killed the mountain and stole first place.

This is what the official FWT site had to say of his local conquest:

Rock solid in Revelstoke, Douds was again on the top of his game taking a creative line on the extreme lookers right of the face. He was smooth and clean throughout, a textbook Freeride lesson for any youngsters with world tour ambitions. ”It’s great to win at home in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. I threw a front side 360 at the top and dropped four cliffs overall. I tried to stay fast and clean and I think I achieved that.”

The third stop of the FWT was held in Courmayeur-Mont-Blanc. This is one of the best freeride spots in Europe with awesome steep passages, vertical drops and perfect views from all angles. In other words, perfect terrain for Douds! Flying and turing his way through the rocks and cliffs he again cruised into 2^nd place. This also puts him in second place in the overall ranking.

Here’s a little secret… He’s riding the follow-up of this year’s Montana, how good is that one going to be? We believe that the results speak for themselves. Hopefully this winning combination can keep performing like this in the upcoming FWT stops in Roeldal, Fieberbrunn and finally the closing event in Verbier, Switzerland.

Congrats Douds!!!

1st stop: Revelstoke

2nd stop: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

3th stop: Courmayeur-Mont-Blanc

Pictures: http://freerideworldtour.com/