The Snowboarder's Journal - The Snowboarder's Journal 21.3
NO SLIDE
Photo: Mark Gallup. Caption: Colin Wiseman 2023-12-06 11:06:38
“You carve, you carve, you carve, you carve, no slide… even if it’s icy.”
—Jean Nerva, Burton Snowboards CHILL, 1989
Photo Mark Gallup
Caption Colin Wiseman
In the late ’80s, as snowboarding’s freestyle revolution was just taking hold, “Euro carvers” Jean Nerva and Peter Bauer held their line. Known as much for their perpendicular on-piste antics as their far-out big mountain descents in the Alps, Andes and beyond, the duo cut their own path. Although hardboots and asymmetrical alpine boards had fallen mostly out of fashion by the mid ’90s, a recent resurgence of nuanced edge control shows that the pair’s approach was timeless—as displayed here in 1992 by the late, great Nerva in Las Leñas, Argentina.
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NO SLIDE
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