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New for the 16/17 season, Voile introduces their Pinless Speed Rail splitboard binding.  No more fiddling with pins and clips with this baby. Upward-facing, totally-bomber hooks create the fore ends of the...

  An eight part feature presented by Vans Snow and brought to you by Jake Price. Featuring: Siggi Johnson, Nick Kalisz, Forrest Shearer, Ragnar Sigurdsson, Bryan Iguchi, Andre Miller, Jeremy Jones,...

Every autumn we put out the call to all the artists, graphic designers, and other creative types, to submit a design for a Spark R&D T-Shirt. Over the years we've had some amazing entries and every...

The 7th annual Canuck Splitfest will be held January 13th-15th in Revelstoke British Columbia. Trapper Snowboards will be the Title Sponsor for this seasons event and will assist with some of the...

On October 7th, Spark R&D celebrated Manufacturing Day. A day where businesses which manufacture everything from beer to splitboard bindings can showcase the manufacturing process. Part of the goal of...

If you've already upgraded to the Spark T1 bindings you may have had some troubles deploying your climbing wires with ease. If you're not interested in working on your flexibility or doing additional lunges,...

Check out the trailer for the upcoming FREE film featuring Nick Russel, Wyatt and Cory Stasinos, Jeremy Jones, Forrest Shearer and others. FREE premieres, October 27th in Tahoe City, California or online at...

The people of Petran, Turkey, have been snowboarding for roughly 300 years. It’s not snowboarding as we know it, but you’ll recognize it. In this film by WRKSHRT, we follow Alex Yoder and Nick Russell into...

Without a doubt splitboarding has evolved in leaps and bounds from the DIY builds, Burton’s splitboard interface, Voile’s plate kit, and Spark R&D’s Ignition binding. Even with all of the advances in...

Grassroots Powdersurfing - A chronological journey taking us 8 years into the past starting with the development of the first ever split-powsurfer prototypes on earth and moving forward through years of...

Colorado based OZ Snowboards is known for creating high quality handcrafted splitboards. Adam walks us through their 5 part video series which details the construction on their carbon fiber...

Grassroots Powdersurfing introduces their 2016-17 "Classic" and "Transformer" Split-surfer models. The "Classic" allows for several binding options during the skin up and binding free riding during the...

SPARK R&D looks back on the last 10 years of products and innovations. When an idea hits – there is a spark – energy is released and the gears start turning. For us, that spark happened as Will...

With Venture Snowboards welcomed return this year, we are excited to see they have launched their website for the 16/17 season. As Venture had teased during the trade show, this years line up will feature some...

Furberg Snowboard's Team Rider, Davide Capozzi's talks about his recent first snowboard descent of Aiguille Verte "Les Z," on Mont Blanc in the French Alps.   In spring 2013 Julien “Pica” Herry spotted...

After years of marketing jargon and hype, it seems that riders have become more cautious or dismissive when it comes to new "tech." Especially when these new “tech” pieces demand a large chunk of your...

By: Leon Butler Technology has a major impact on our everyday lives, that's a fact. For many people their release from tech is to head to the mountains where they can escape from the watchful eye of mobile...