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Just announced by Rome snowboards, for the coming 2009-2010 season, the Rome SDS is expanding the idea behind the Artifact SK (Shop Kid) snowboard that it has made for the last two years. It’s taking the one SK board and turning it into an entire SK Collection. And this time, the shop kids will be doing the graphic design.

In 2009, for the second annual Artifact SK, Rome collected base graphic ideas from riders who work in shops to replace the “Live Nude Girls” on the inline Artifact board. In the end, they were unable to decide on just one winner so they picked the two most “appropriate” inappropriate ideas that got emailed in.

For 2010, Rome is expanding the SK concept to create the SK Collection:

1. Rome is adding a snowboard boot (Libertine) and a glove (Movement) to go with the Artifact SK snowboard to create a collection of SK product.

2. Rome is giving shop kids more control over the collection and letting them create the art, colors and materials for the graphics of each of the models.

3. The winners of the board, boot and glove categories win $$ and two free models of the product they designed.

4. As in the past two years with the Artifact SK board, the SK Collection will be available only to riders who work in shops through Rome’s Operative Program.

If you work in a shop and want to design art for the SK Collection, go to www.romesnowboards.com/skcontest to download the design templates and entry forms, and learn about all the details of the contest.

All art needs to be submitted to Rome by March 31st, 2009. Once Rome receives the art, Rome riders and artists will pick one winning design for each of the products. The winners will work with Rome designers to finalize the art. So, what are you waiting for, get scribbling!

With snow flying and the resorts opening up in North America and Europe every day, the Rome SDS is introducing their 2008-09 Limited Edition Collection: two limited-edition new snowboard designs featuring two new camber lines to enhance your snow park and powder pleasures—the Postermania 1985 and Anthem Superlight Series (SS).

To slide in between the Artifact 1985 and the Notch 1985, Rome unveils the reverse-camber Postermania 1985 snowboard. While the Artifact 1985 snowboard is dialed in for late night rail sessions and the Notch 1985 prefers tree lines and pow-filled gullies, the Postermania for riders who like to shred jumps, powder lines, rails and ledges. With Rome’s Reverse-Free camber line tuned for a pure freestyle approach to the mountain and snow park, this profile also gives the snowboard a natural de-cambered shape when up on edge for better edge hold and control through a turn. It also lets the rider generate more edge pressure in the tip and tail for stronger turn initiation and completion.

Created for snowboards who value first chair on a pow day, who ride inbounds with power, and who are down to hike for untracked chutes, the other limited edition deck in the collection is the high-tech Anthem Superlight Series (SS). Loaded with innovations like the Airpop Core, the bamboo-driven PowerAmp Technology, and the CarbonBiax Alloy Laminate, the Anthem SS is a super-poppy, kill-it-all model that rivals the Rome Design for lightness. Rome’s new Hybrid camber profile combines the pop of camber for most of the body of the board, with the added float of reverse camber in the nose and tail.

All in all two sick looking snowboards! Available in selected snowboard shoes this winter, they should have you shredding at the peak of your game in no time!

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Is it snowing yet? Is your local mountain open yet to shred? Neither of these things matter because the Rome SDS is bringing some early-season jib fun to your local mountain for the 5th Annual running of the Premature Jibulation event series.

Premature Jibulation events go down all across North America and Europe through November and December. Featuring a jam-session format that is as much about having fun as it is about winning, each event will be littered with rails, boxes, barrels and any other junk we can find that looks fun to ride. For more info –> Rome SDS

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