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Dear Jake Burton,

POWDER magazine (ski) published a letter from a Hans Ludwig to Jake Burton in their most recent issue....

Dear Jake Burton Carpenter,

On behalf of all your upper class, white customers, I would like to thank you and your giant corporation for fighting the “fascist” depredations of four ski areas. Thanks for taking a break from making American Express ads to take on this massive source of human suffering and in justice.

...read on. (via agoodreed.com)

MY EYES ARE OPEN JAKE.

Give me a break.

We wouldn't have snowboarding without skiing? WTF? Skiing wouldn't have shit if it wasn't for Jake Burton and other snowboard revolutionaries research and development and out of the box thinking. Skiers would still be on their straight 220's and crappy skin tight outer wear hit'n bumps and thinking it was the end all be all. We gave your sport life you dusty old fart! We gave you a half pipe and terrain parks that we had to fight and bleed for during your fascist stranglehold. Recognize.

Maybe we should discuss the GIANT SKI conglomerates and how much they produce and destroy.

However I do recognize your environmental integrity but Jake is taking care of that in between his Heli, AMEX and HP dealings. Nicolas Mueller is heading up the sustainable business management at Burton step by step because Jake does care.

Jake is the man. I will give Jake 5g's if he brings me a video of him poaching the office (or most likely dark corner in his parents house) and bitch slapping Hans Ludwig or duct taping him to the ceiling.

THE ONE AND ONLY™

reactionary responses expose ignorance......

on both sides of the coin

I've been riding for 17 years and.....

SB construction tech did come from skiing, skiing geo then came from SBs, skiings resurgent was because of snowboarding. Period.

Jake's stunt was nothing more than marketing, if you think it was more than that, then you are being foolish.

Has burton done a ton, if not the most to progress the sport, yep.

Could Jake give back to humanity, as was his supposed intent, with greater return than this, without question... this was about ego(salvation for the rest of us), and a sophmore level marketing plan.

When it is no longer cool to be green, when it no longer produces the growth the the Burton CEO's want, Nicolas Mueller will be unemployed.
What happened to saving the rain forests- I can remember when every other product donated to the cause- and marketed about it, not anymore. Marketing a few token changes, and claiming to be green-conscious is simply pandering, as is most "green" marketing

The premise and wording for the contest was insulting to anyone with moderate intelligence, go break the law, and film it, but by no means break any laws while doing it...I guess a 2nd rate trial lawyer in VT needed a job.......

If you really want to stick it to the man, why would you use guerrilla tactics on the "enemy" to "force" said enemy the opportunity to charge you 75 dollars..you kids..so pissed off, and you don't even know why, or how to be.......that you got played....

I will speak with my dollars, and support the little guy like I once supported Burton, and I will never ever give the "last four" a single penny of my income- they need us, we don't need them.

yap yap yap yap yap

Some of these skiers just keep digging themselves bigger holes, whining and crying about their resorts that are on public land(Alta), like those whiny little yappy dogs that don't shut up. Jake stuck his neck out as the owner of a privately held company and more or less told a bunch of kids to go break the law in the name of freedom, and film it. That kicks ass. If Hans Ludwig even got the chance to be an intern on an AMEX or HP marketing campaign. ha. yap yap yap yap...

- oh, and by the way Hans, all of the halfpipes and rails around the world belong to snowboarders now, same thing goes for sidecut. They're "hallowed ground" and can never be near two planks again...

(.)(.)

i doubt they published this poorly written, badly worded nonsense. maybe in their letters section, but only to show how stupid it is.

figure out how to use spellcheck, dumbass.

they did

Poomag ran a few articles written by that crusty hans in its newest mag. He says Taos listened to dollars on one page, then bags on Jake the next. It says in the editorial page that Hans lives in mammoth if anyone wants to slash some tires, oops, I mean trails with him.

me likey

me likey the tattoo at the end.....

remember that douche merchant ????

remember that douche merchant alta something or other that came on there and claimed this and that and said he was mega rich and had a penis that was so riddled with std's it looked like a midieval weapon ? well maybe not that last part. anyhow that letter sounds exactly like that shit lips