So today is our official opening day, the virtual covers of our magazine are off and we are publishing. It seems like A bit of an anti climax really because we have been publishing and developing the site as if we were open for some time now. Just another day at the office.

We have been bringing you content quietly for about two weeks now and we are seeing a growing following in the mountainboard community. In our first couple of weeks we have seen about 5000 unique visitors to our site, and this is growing day on day.

Thanks to everyone who has subscribed to our e-mail list and become friends with us at our facebook site. When you start a new on-line magazine, the lack of feedback can be quite off-putting.

So what should you expect in from us?

Reviews
We will be reviewing all the latest boards and associated kit so you can make informed purchasing decisions. Any manufacturers listening we are happy to accept freebies for review. We would then use these for prizes in our …

Competitions
We are planning to run competitions on the blog, please stay tuned.

How To’s
Ryan our excellent writer from the US has been doing an excellent job building up our how to back catalogue of articles, we recently pulled together a small plan of future posts and they look great. Please stay tuned for those.

Interviews

We are preparing our rapid fire ten question interviews for riders and prominent people in the community. These will begin to roll out soon.

Videos
All the best in mountainboard videos will be ruthlessly scraped from YouTube, drop us a note using the contact form if you come across any good vids.

What we would like from you

This site is a blog, and it allows you to leave feedback in the form of comments, you can do this by clicking into an article and at the bottom is a comment form, fill it in and give us your feedback so we know we are writing the kind of content you are interested in,

We will also be publishing weekly surveys, again this is to let us know what you are all about. The surprise from this weeks survey “What style are you” was that we have a lot of kiters reading. As a result we will start writing articles about kiteboarding as well (not that I know the slightest thing about it, anyone want to write us some stuff? We will pay for good articles).

That’s all for now, I hope you are enjoying the site, if you need to know any thing else then please feel free to contact us
Neil Matthews - Editor

We have launched our new facebook app to compliment our main site here. So if you are one of the growing army of Facebook devotees, this is for you.

What it does

It saves all you facebook-bound punters from having to leave the safety of your friends and venture into the big wide world of the untamed internet by scraping all of the stories off the site as they are published and presenting them as a headline with a quick summary of the story on your facebook profile.

If you like it click through and ready the rest, if not your can carry on with yoru poking and zombie biting.

You can install the app from the following link:
MountainBoard.net Magazine Facebook Application

I came across an excellent post about a father and son combo planning to do 25 extreme sports in 18 hours in California.  They are calling their activity PUSH.

Bob Krause and his 17 year old son Ryan are planning these activites over one day over number of terrains:

• Surf
• Wake
• Air
• Sand
• Downhill
• Snow

Read the original post here:

http://thepushgames.blogspot.com/2008/02/lets-get-it-started.html

As a thirty something rapidly heading towards my mid life crisis, I completely understand where Bob is coming from. We will keep an eye on Bob & Ryans progress and report back any updates.