http://coolermag.com/news/ en Copyright 2010 2010-03-12T08:07:00+00:00 http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/she-be-gold-jenny-jones-interview-by-lesley-mckenna.html http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/she-be-gold-jenny-jones-interview-by-lesley-mckenna.html#When:08:07:00Z Eagle-eyed readers will know we’ve had Jenny Jones on the cover before, but we couldn’t let the first British X Games Medal ever, of any sex, sail by unnoticed now could we? Nope. And this time we got another UK snowboard legend and Olympian Lesley McKenna to have, in her words, “a wee chat” with her 2010-03-1208:07:00 http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/interview-with-photographer-crista-leonard-the-new-campaign-face-for-want-e.html http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/interview-with-photographer-crista-leonard-the-new-campaign-face-for-want-e.html#When:10:06:00Z Photographer Crista Leonard is the new campaign face for Want-ette by Les Ettes. Crista is a snow blend of Swiss Alps and Pyrenees Mountains whose analog photography shuffles together elements of lifestyle both nostalgic and curious in form. Her creative storytelling is a narrative visual style, cleverly pairing inventive fantasy with a wistful realism 2010-03-1110:06:00 http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/sports/cooler-cover-girls-kjersti-buaas-torah-bright-in-x-games-pipe-finals-today.html http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/sports/cooler-cover-girls-kjersti-buaas-torah-bright-in-x-games-pipe-finals-today.html#When:09:03:00Z Kjersti Buaas and Olympic gold medalist Torah Bright are two of the hottest pipe shredders out there at the moment and guess what - both have already graced the cover of our magazine! 2010-03-1109:03:00 http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/chatting-to-aimee-fuller-at-the-x-games.html http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/chatting-to-aimee-fuller-at-the-x-games.html#When:16:44:00Z Although super busy with training for the first ever edition of the Euro X Games, UK shreddette Aimee Fuller found some time for a quick chat with us to give us the low down of what's going on in Tignes... 2010-03-0916:44:00 http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/sports/maverix-just-chicks-camps.html http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/sports/maverix-just-chicks-camps.html#When:10:17:00Z Maverix’s Just Chicks Camps are creating a buzz with female snowboarders in the UK. The camps are so good that once you sign up to one you are bound to come back for more. 2010-03-0910:17:00 http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/sports/nikitas-ana-rumiha-shares-some-insights.html http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/sports/nikitas-ana-rumiha-shares-some-insights.html#When:13:10:00Z She won the infamous Nikita Chickita amateur contest two years ago and has mixed up the snowboard scene like the true whirlwind, she really is. Injuries have prevented her from rummaging about the contest scene too much, but that for sure doesn't mean this shred lady has been sitting around, twirling her thumbs. And taking it easy doesn't equal boring for this one for sure... 2010-03-0213:10:00 http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/sports/skullcandy-sista-sessions-2010.html http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/sports/skullcandy-sista-sessions-2010.html#When:08:24:00Z Some of you may have already read the very enthusiastic blog of our German editor about the beginners coaching lessons at the Skullcandy Sista Sessions. But while it’s a crucial part of this event, it surely isn’t everything and so here comes the full low down. 2010-02-2308:24:00 http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/interview-with-hannah-teter.html http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/interview-with-hannah-teter.html#When:13:37:00Z Hannah Teter is snowboarding’s golden girl in more than one sense of the word. Most famous, perhaps, for her gold medal at the Winter Olympics half pipe contest in 2006, she is unarguably one of the top contest riders in women’s professional snowboarding. 2010-02-1813:37:00 http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/flavour-of-the-wiik.html http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/flavour-of-the-wiik.html#When:13:36:01Z The Norwegian pipe and park lover has been on the TTR World Snowboard Tour since the start. She scored her highest ever finish last winter as runner-up and we caught up with her to chat mental focus, wakeboarding and the joys of having an older brother with an adrenaline fetish 2010-02-1813:36:01 http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/china-digging-for-gold.html http://cooler.mpora.com/features/-/interviews/china-digging-for-gold.html#When:13:35:00Z At the last Olympics the Chinese women placed 28th and 31st in the half pipe. In Vancouver they are expected to podium. To make sense of this meteoric rise and what, if anything, it means for the soul of snowboarding, we asked Lesley McKenna, who has spent a lot of time with the Chinese riders at FIS events to shed some light 2010-02-1813:35:00