REWIND No Slide “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 be-yond, the duo cut their own path. Although hardboots and asym-metrical 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. 030 THE SNOWBOARDER’S JOURNAL
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