HEIGHT: 5’11’

WEIGHT: 150 lbs.

BIRTHPLACE: Newton, MA

CURRENTLY LIVING: Jackson Hole, WY

HOME MOUNTAIN: Jackson Hole

YEARS SNOWBOARDING: 6 years

FAVORITE PLACE ON EARTH TO RIDE: Cerro Catedral, Argentina

SETUP: Westmark 153, 20” 18 -12

OTHER SPONSORS: Jackson Treehouse, Smith, Spacecraft, Skullcandy

FAVORITE ARBOR PIECE: Westmark

TOP 5 SONGS ON YOUR iPOD: Sookie Now- Big K.R.I.T., Role Model- Eminem, Cloudburn- Feed Me, 1970Somethin’- B.I.G., All Along the Watchtower- Jimi Hendrix

FAVORITE FOOD: Village Café Pizza

IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE AND RIDE WITH ANYONE WHERE WOULD YOU GO AND WHO WOULD YOU RIDE WITH: Alaksa with Travis Rice and Jeremy Jones

FAVORITE TRICK: Tindy Backflip

WHO/WHAT MOTIVATES/INSPIRES YOU: Rob Kingwill, Travis Rice, Halldor Helgason, style and crazy big mountain lines

WHEN I’M NOT RIDING I’M: Playing drums or skating

SOMETHING ONLY YOUR MOM KNOWS ABOUT YOU: She won’t tell me

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Arbor offers “The System” to provide riders with an amazing amount of edge hold in a rocker design that preserves the full range of performance associated with true-rocker shapes. “We did this by perfecting the true-rocker profile (Parabolic Rocker), while building in real edge control through a unique sidecut (Grip-Tech),” says Carlson. “In our opinion, the award winning “System” has proven to be the best rocker design yet offered.”

Arbor is 100-percent committed to producing the highest quality Austrian-made snowboards with new technology that truly provides the best riding experience for snowboarders. “For Arbor, it’s not about jumping on bandwagons, it’s about engineering, research and development and delivering products that work,” says Carlson.

Arbor is giving away a bunch of their eco-friendly products, every week, all summer long including bamboo apparel, skateboards and snowboards. This week you could win a Arbor Westmark bamboo tee shirt. Read below to find out how to enter. To check out the Arbor men’s bamboo apparel line click here and for the women’s click here.

On our website, arborcollective.com, make a quick comment (you must make a real comment) on any news story in the comment section and write, “I want to win free Arbor stuff!” Make sure to use a real full name and email address so we can make contact should you win. Upon submitting a comment, you will be entered into a random drawing. Within one week, we’ll post the winner’s name on the Arbor website, Facebook and Twitter. The lucky person will be contacted by Arbor to obtain pertinent information and the product will be shipped to their location. Participants may enter as many times as they like by commenting on multiple news stories. GOOD LUCK!

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Nick Visconti one-footer...photo by Jason Privett.

Visconti is a NorCal kid from San Ramon who now resides in Truckee. Whether he’s at the resorts, out in the backcountry, in the neighborhoods and towns or in his buddy’s backyard, he spends most of his days shredding in and around the North Lake Tahoe area. “Nick is an exciting addition to our family,” says Bob Carlson, co-founder of Arbor. “He is part of a new generation of snowboarders who understand how to effectively market themselves. Just being a great snowboarder isn’t enough for most professionals today⎯they have to be able to sell themselves and Nick gets that. He has a great attitude, a larger than life personality, a priceless sense of humor, an amazing work ethic and his solid skills as a rider complete the package.”

As Arbor revamps their snowboard team, they are welcoming riders to the family who are as passionate about their snowboarding as Arbor is about creating innovative snowboards while reducing their impact on the environment. “I am excited to align myself with a brand making a difference in the snowboard community and positively influencing the world,” says Visconti. “The Arbor brand is extremely passionate about producing innovative snowboards with a conscious. Ultimately, I want to represent brands that I believe in…I believe in Arbor.”

Visconti’s emphasis for the season is on exploring his true potential as a snowboarder and a human. He is excited to be working on the Think Thank movie project again this season and exploiting creativity on a few editorial projects with the major snowboard magazines. He has also teamed up with his good friends, Josh Parker and Tim Bradley to lay what they believe is the foundation for the future of snowboard media. Tahoe Dangerzone is a series of online webisodes focused on creatively capturing fun, friends and their love for snowboarding. “We produce wild-style snowboard videos that will captivate and mold young minds all set to the beauty of Lake Tahoe,” says Visconti. “It began at a Kenny Loggins concert and has turned into an international online snowboard video phenomena with a quickly expanding fan base.”

Visconti’s Tahoe Dangerzone webisodes will soon be viewable at www.arborcollective.com and are currently available at www.tahoedangerzone.com in addition to several other snowboard media outlets. If you want to get stoked on snowboarding and have a good laugh…check them out.

HEIGHT: 6’0

WEIGHT: 155

BIRTHPLACE: The Bay, CA

CURRENTLY LIVING: Truckee, CA

HOME MOUNTAIN: Mountain High, CA

YEARS SNOWBOARDING: Hella

FAVORITE PLACE ON EARTH TO RIDE: The “egotistical male looking for positive reinforcement from my meathead friends” in me would say… Bed. But the honest answer is just where ever my friends are!

SETUP: Draft 50

OTHER SPONSORS: Arnette, Sessions, Pow, Windells, Mountain High

ARBOR PREFERRED QUIVER: Draft 50, Coda 61

FAVORITE ARBOR PIECE: Hesh Hat

TOP 5 SONGS ON YOUR iPOD: How about bands: The Animals, The Grass Roots, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, The Misfits

FAVORITE FOOD: Avocado

IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE AND RIDE WITH ANYONE WHERE WOULD YOU GO AND WHO WOULD YOURIDE WITH: This is a stupid question

FAVORITE TRICK: Method

WHO/WHAT MOTIVATES/INSPIRES YOU: Jesus.

WHEN I’M NOT RIDING I’M…: Saturated 19 units of University credits

SOMETHING ABOUT ONE OF YOUR TEAMMATES NO ONE KNOWS: Brent’s naked under all his clothes

SOMETHING ONLY YOUR MOM KNOWS ABOUT YOU: The amount of freckles I have on my back.

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HEIGHT: 5 9

WEIGHT: 145

BIRTHPLACE: Washington State

CURRENTLY LIVING: Leavenworth WA

HOME MOUNTAIN: Stevens Pass

YEARS SNOWBOARDING: 15

FAVORITE PLACE ON EARTH TO RIDE: Secret Spot in Montana and anywhere the snow is good.

SETUP: Relapse 159, Union Force, Del Rey 153, Union Force

OTHER SPONSORS: 686, Union Bindings, Pow Gloves, Stevens Pass, Stevens Pass snowboard shop, Hoven Vision.

ARBOR PREFERRED QUIVER: Relapse 159, Del Rey 153, Draft 150

FAVORITE ARBOR PIECE: Bamboo swim trunks

TOP 5 SONGS ON YOUR iPOD: Pandora Reggae station

FAVORITE FOOD: Anything but olives

IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE AND RIDE WITH ANYONE WHERE WOULD YOU GO AND WHO WHOULD YOU RIDE WITH: Stevens Pass pow day with all the homies

FAVORITE TRICK: Anything were you get to catch some air and land in pow that is a pretty good trick but if there was just one to pick switch back 5 is pretty fun.

WHO/WHAT MOTIVATES/INSPIRES YOU: My Friends

WHEN I’M NOT RIDING I’M…: Hangin with my lady and dog.

SOMETHING ABOUT ONE OF YOUR TEAMMATES NO ONE KNOWS: Leon rocked the same thermals the whole time he came to my crib. That was a whole week, hahahaha.

SOMETHING ONLY YOUR MOM KNOWS ABOUT YOU: Wow, that is a tough one… I talk a lot so most people that know me know most things. But if she knows one thing I guess it would be that I am a horrible drooler when I slept as a kid before I had braces.

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