Spring skiing is one of the many pleasures of the ski season. Warm days, blue skies and sunshine. It is like the reward for enduring the cold windy weather in the heart of winter. With the change in weather comes a change in conditions and for the best experience on the snow you need to [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Bodyfactor – Positive Physical Wellbeing
Physiotherapy – Podiatry – Sports Massage – Personal Training working in partnership with With more than 11 years of experience in the sports injuries, physiotherapy and podiatry industry, Bodyfactor provides excellent service and treatment to all its patients. Established in 1998, in conjunction with Snow+Rock, the practice is based in both Chertsey and Covent Garden. [...]
INTRODUCING: Warren Smith, Snow+Rock’s Technique Expert
The Warren Smith Academy brings together some of the sport’s top professionals to create a unique coaching team that actually guarantee technique solutions. This is achieved by evolving traditional methods of coaching and adding two additional layers of biomechanics and physiology. The combo of technique, biomechanics and physiology is rapidly becoming known as the new [...]
Don’t forget your thermals
It is extremely cold in resorts at the moment and without the right kit extremely cold temperatures can make for very unpleasant conditions on the mountain and can curtail your enjoyment. To get the most out of your trip make sure you get yourself some good base and mid-layers. Here are our recommendations: Garments from [...]
The BRITS Snow & Music Festival 2012
The BRITS Snow & Music Festival, held in the award winning resort of LAAX, Switzerland from 18th – 25th March, is the original weeklong winter festival that plays host to the British Snowboard & Freeski Championships. The week (popular with both winter sports fanatics and hardcore partygoers alike) is packed full of live music from [...]
It’s Trade Show month – with ISPO in Munich and SLIDE in Telford
A team of 12, consisting of buying and marketing peeps, headed out to Munich on Saturday 28th January. We were welcomed with snow on the ground and a chill in the air – a perfect setting for finding exciting new products for next winter! ISPO is the biggest snowsports and outdoor trade show in Europe [...]
Check out these 3 great new snowboarding brands we’re stocking!
This little side project of an Icelandic streetwear shop has grown to become one of the hottest brands in women’s snowboarding. Nikita have earned their reputation and credibility by creating clothing with attitude and always having their finger on the pulse of snowboarding culture. Their collection is cool, up to date outerwear for female snowboarders [...]
Staff Profile: Mat Robinson – Snow+Rock Southern Area Manager
Mat Robinson, Snow and Rock Southern Area Manager dishes the dirt on winter pressures, tricks of the trade and consumer trends. Give us the low down … I had 17 years’ management experience with Sainsbury’s Supermarkets before joining Snow and Rock seven years ago. I started as store manager in the original store – High [...]
Snow+Rock – showcasing the best in snowboard developments
Snow+Rock’s current range of snowboards features some new brands and models at the forefront of snowboard innovations and technical developments: Silbaerg Snowboards feature one of the most forward thinking design innovations to date with their exclusive ALD technology. This groundbreaking design engineers the fibreglass construction of the board to affect the way the edges work [...]
Fischer VACUUM FIT Technology
What is VACUUM FIT? The global innovation – the first ski boot that really has a 100% fit! Fischer VACUUM FIT technology makes it possible for the first time to have a completely anatomical fit of the entire boot in a quality that was previously unattainable. The basis for this is the new, patented Fischer [...]