Is the summer heat getting to you? Are you spending your days at the beach or in the skateparks, but would rather be heading to your local mountain for some fresh snow? Either way, take a break, grab a cool beverage and view the latest snow trailers to hit the web. Volcom has partnered up with the three best snowboard production companies this past winter. From snowmobiles to airplanes they have been high marking their way through mountain ranges around the globe. Here’s a sneak peak of what you can expect to see coming to a DVD near you.

Mack Dawg Productions:

Wille Yli-Luoma, Seth Huot, Eero Neimela and Bryan Iguchi joined Mack Dawg Productions for the “Double Decade” a 20-year anniversary project. A guaranteed educational and mind numbing experience! In another MDP release, “Down With People” the young and hungry pranksters Zac Marben and Curtis Ciszek shared soda pops and farts with Volcom Europe team rider Filipo Kratter. Antics, oddities and next level riding as the new generation proves their dominance.

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Ride Snowboards has been working hard deep in their labs to reveal yet another secret weapon in snowboard binding technology for the 2009 season. The New Ride Contraband Snowboard Binding is ridiculously light and fast all while incorporating a responsive comfortable chassis that you hardly feel connecting your feet to the board. If you’re anything like the guys on the Ride team you spend a lot of time getting in and out of your bindings while sessioning a street rail or a park jump. The Contraband binding combines Ride’s new revolutionary “V-strap” single ratchet design and new lightweight chassis to provide the performance you need with the quickness of a “one-touch” in and out. Spend more time lapping terrain and tighten up your game. The new toe strap design make look like it came from the stone age, but the theory binding instep pressure and reaction has been streamlined for ultimate heelside response all within a single closure system. These bindings are size specific to ensure the best possible boot to binding interface and board control. The Ride Contraband’s will be arriving soon. Get em while they’re hot!