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Ralf Manflimfla is known as the crazy Swiss guy.

Barry: “Hey Ralf”
Ralf: “ya wat u want Barry?”
Barry: “You make a nice double nose grab cab five over there.”
Ralf: “Ya gracia. I think now we go finish the snow box now. The world isn’t ready for what I want to do today.”
Barry: “Yeah really? What are you thinking about doing?”
Ralf: “Ya don’t worry Barry, you will see.”

Ralf has a reputation in Chile as the crazy Swiss guy and every week he seems to live up to his reputation.

Taking over 2 days to construct, we ended up with this….

Ralf only speaks the truth. The world is not ready for the sequence of what he did over the snow box.

686 founder and creative director Michael Akira West has been getting wild lately. Collabs and limited edition runs for dayz. West’s most recent project, “In My Eyes,” has us particularly excited. For Installation 1, West enlisted the help of artist Nathan Sayawa to recreate 686’s Smarty Complete 2.5 Ply jacket with Legos.



Also in the Installation, 686 created their Smarty Admiral womens jacket out of International Code Flags—the flags that are used to signal between ships.



(via hypebeast.com)

…and cuts mad fools! Rumors have been flying about the shakeups on the Burton team, so agr is going to take a moment to lay these matters to rest. To refresh yr memory, the hoopla is about the following riders no longer being listed on the Burton Global Team: Romain De Marchi; DCP; Keir Dillon; Ross Powers; JP Solberg and Anne-Flore Marxer (via TWBiz). And the answer my faithful readers, lies within this video…



HAHAHHA!! Wasn’t that great!?!?! Oh man, sooooo cool. Feel free to watch it again, we will wait.

In case you still have questions, you can watch the video again. If you are upset by the shakeups at Burton, you can join a Facebook group that is going to “BOYCOTT BURTON SNOWBOARD.” This is a good group for you to join if you are: 1) angry with Burton about cutting yr fav rider (OMG), but still buy their products because they make that sweet plaid helmet cover you like; 2) from Europe and are “actually really good friends with them”, them being everyone at Burton that is cool, or 3) want to meet hot babes named “Peter” and “Georg.” Go get it. And then watch the video again.

The Internet is a wonderful place. It is like a dream land, where you can find whatever your heart desires: dinosaurs, stolen property, people, funny pictures of animals, and pictures that will get you kicked off public library computers.

The Internet also lets Joe Schmo make a website to promote himself, his ideas, products, or his doomed snowboard company.

Recently, we came across Joe Schmo and his new scheme “Storm Snowboards.” Storm is a start-up snowboard manufacturer who claims to have two patents pending that will revolutionize the way snowboards are designed. Because the only thing better than doing something yourself is having someone else do it, Joe is holding a contest for people to come up with a logo and website design. Good idea Joe. Hey Internet! We are having a contest too: it’s called “who gets to do our laundry?” If you win, you get to do our laundry.

Oops, somebody already won the logo design contest. Take a look…

Hmmm, looks kinda like a hockey team logo or something. Storm also shares that their “innovative board design was NOT created for the two million people that currently snowboard - it was created for the twenty million (or two hundred million) that do not.” That’s a good idea! Make snowboards for the people who don’t snowboard. Man, we wish we had thought of that. Given this mission statement and logo as a guide, who can guess what kind of dazzling new designs Storm will be using?

agr’s guess is that Storm Snowboards will: (a)have a handle bar that extends from the board, because people like to hold onto things when they are on boards; and (b) have a cotton candy machine on the back, because everybody loves cotton candy, and if you don’t snowboard, you will by a Storm Snowboard because you want cotton candy.

agr takes pride in maintaining the highest degree of journalistic excellence, so that you, the goodreeder, receive the most accurate, fair, and thorough stories that matter. We strive to never allow personal biases to influence the news reported. That said, there are somethings that just push our buttons.

Burton x Futura “Forest Camouflage” Series



Holy canoli, another damn collaboration. Everybody is doing collabs, even our toast: it collaborated with some raspberry jelly and came out amazing. But this collection from Burton tastes like putting dish soap on our toast. Actually, it tastes like putting a tree on a coat, which doesn’t taste good either. (via Highsnobiety.com)


In fact, the only tree that we can think of that tastes good is this one.

Since my cover was blown in the Three Valley Ski Center I had to change locale. Current whereabouts cannot be disclosed at this time, but be advised that Big Perm has taken my place in Chile as a somewhat satisfactory substitute. Mission objectives are still in progress as we’ve suffered some unexpected set backs. In the meantime, I’ve been trying to mingle with the locals at happy hour to figure out why Chileans are so bloody obsessed with Pisco.

El Colorado Happy Hour Fun from El Gato on Vimeo.

 Karl makes a great undercover agent too because he likes to freestyle which the Chileans also seem to enjoy.

While we ARE attempting to fulfill agr’s South American mission requirements, public help is always appreciated. After a snowboard binge of nearly 14 days, wet boots the whole time, AGR has contracted some foot fungus. Please contact us if you are aware of any remedies for curing stinky feet!

If you weren’t already convinced of the radness of Travis Rice and Curt Morgan’s new film “That’s It, That’s All”, we have new evidence…

It now has a website: thatsit-thatsall.com

And we all know that if you have a website, you are awesome.

“That’s It, That’s All” is the new snowboard film produced by Travis Rice and Curt Morgan and presented by Quiksilver and Red Bull. It was shot in HD 35mm and super16 film in terrain such as New Zealand, Alaska, B.C., Munich, Tokyo, and Jackson Hole. TITA features Travis Rice, Nicolas Muller, Terje Hakonsen, Jeremy Jones, John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Pat Moore, Scotty Lago, Bryan Iguchi, Jake Blauvelt, Danny Kass, and many more…It is going to be silly and comes out September 2008.

Cruise on over to the website to enter a contest for a five-day Heliboard trip for two to Valdez Alaska with H20 Guides and more…

Summer.

Side Hits



“Sidehits”, starring Ben Lynch, courtesy of Kyle Norman.

Hello World. Benivenidos a la internet.

Hell. We flew in, and for the first 13 days of the trip we have spent a total of 10 minutes on the internet. The saying goes
while traveling, the less time spent on the internet, the more fun you be havin’. But it feels damn good to have fingers glued to a keyboard again.

After 24 hours of landing we hooked up with the “Big Show”. He’s somewhat of a big deal down here as you can see above.  Straight out of the UK he’s been throwing down some serious old school hammers. Not to mention he hasn’t cut his hair in 6 years. We haven’t cut ours either.  He’s a slayer.

For the first couple days we were cruisin’ around. Mountain touring. No new snow = small park days and beer sippin’. As our hearts were jerked around with the falty snow forecasts of “www.snow-forecast.com”, the storm finally arrived late night last Tuesday. A glorious Wednesday. Blue skies and 2 feet of fresh. Unfortunately, a late night of partying the night before, and an unforgettable 3:30 am powder run home, we plugged in our camera charger to the wrong circuit and blew every fuse in the house. Hard to believe……… The best day of the trip so far went undocumented by photos.

After a few days of powder cowboys, the AGoodReed team began practicing for the “Freestyle Tour at Valle Nevado” presented by Rossignol and Lippi. Our newest addition to the team, Ralph began working with Mr. Gillis on tricks for the new competition. Just like any snowboarder out of Swisssaland, ie ISENSEVEN, he likes lots of fancy tricks. Ralph claims he knows the fellas from ISENSEVEN and when ever we reference the movie he gets a foul taste in his mouth because us Americans jock the movie.

Ralphy tailblocking the meadow of Valle Nevado.  Proper.  I guess spending 50+ hours in your snowboard boots doesn’t prevent you from competing in a big air and doing tailblocks.

Ralph taught Doctor Gillis Truckdrivers. The doctor stomped one in the competition on Saturday landing him in 3rd place. Ralph claimed that because he taught The Doctor the trick that he should buy him beers for the rest of the night….. just another irrational statement by our Swisssa friend.

The only picture we have of the truckdriver is this one.

The photographer for the competition was a local bystander. He may or may not have been blind. Sadly enough this was the best shot of the 20 photos he took.

After all was said and done. Doctor Gillis made the podium along with a local Chilean Tomas in second and a fellow Canadian Tamo in 1st. Prizes we silly. A pair of gloves, thermals and ONE Redbull. Just ONE Redbull……

We do a lot of hanging out in the parking lot. Looking for tickets on days we don’t want to purchase.

Mario ordering Barry to come about.

Amongst all the fun, we did run into a little accident. Our fearless Chilean Tour Guide Mario Hevia suffered the patented snowboard injury. Grade 3 shoulder separation. After a girl complained about breaking her arm during our last run… (Everyone knows you don’t jinx yourself like that), Mario separated his shoulder. A week off the snowboard and he’s back riding tomorrow. A salud to Mario.

That’s it and that’s all for now. Shout out to all the friends at home. And a farewell to Dr. Gillis. Have fun in LA bro bro! You won’t be disappointed in the substitute.

Everybody’s doing it….



Capita Horrorscope FK (via Mr. Schneider)

At select retail locations in October. As seen on Snowboard Realms: Episode 33.