You might have seen in the news in the last week that Snowsports GB (SSGB), the national governing body for skiing and snowboarding in the UK, has gone into administration.As a result, the British Snowboard Association (BSA) has been resurrected to give direction to the sport.

Adidas recently held a competition to find a design for the goggles that will be worn by British adidas eyewear sponsored athletes at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Young designers were invited to send in their creations based on the new iD2 goggle to the Talenthouse contest - with a tidy $20,000 prize fund up for grabs. Members of the public voted for their favourite designs and adid

To celebrate the success of Jenny Jones winning her second X-Games gold medal The Snowboard Asylum have knocked 17.5% off some of their best women's snowboards - the equivalent of them paying the VAT for you. The deals include: Artec Laura Hadar. Was £275.87 – NOW £234.78   Artec Venus.

We’re all a bit partial to some smash-up time after a cruise around the mountain. And in St Anton it’s all too easy to get on the train to Smash-up Central. There are so many choices that, after nearly two months in resort, I’ve probably visited fewer than half of them. The good thing is that they’re generally really different.

Last year Jenny Jones became the first Brit to win an X Games event  - this year she became the first Brit to defend her title!

Fenchurch turns ten this year and to mark the anniversary, it's joining the cast of bijoux club with their own headphones. There are two models - the Astoria and the Academy. The Academy is a chunky monkey with large ear-cups while the Astoria is a more slimline model with leather padded ear-cups and Fenchurch branding on the headband and ear-pieces. They come in white or blue/red/white.

I read in The Age that Olympic gold medal hopeful, Aussie Torah Bright was hospitalised last week with her second concussion in three days.