Stickered up my Hero with Ride Qi die-cuts

Along with a few other custom-designed die-cuts. Any photos from you guys?

Quick shill! Thanks for the review Ray!

I was just browsing through my Tweetdeck earlier today and noticed a tweet that linked to the following review by Ray. A fellow Sierra Snowboard forum member, he first caught wind of our α masks in the thread Stefan (Forsnowboarding) started to mention the free mask contest he was running. Ray ended up purchasing six masks over three orders and wrote a great review for them, here's an excerpt below. For the full review please click here, Ride Qi Alpha Facemask Review.

I used the Ride Qi α Facemask during a two week snowboarding trip in Utah. I wore the mask in windy, 9 degree, weather as well as on 40 degree bluebird days. The mask performed well in any condition. It does let a fair amount of wind through the breathable material, but not enough to make it uncomfortable. The breathability actually keeps the material dry and is a welcome change to the suffocation you feel when wearing a balaclava or bandana.

Ride Qi Alpha Facemask Silent Film

Filmed and edited this video over the holidays (hence the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree). We Tweeted about it and mentioned it on Facebook. But just in case you didn't come across it, here it is below. And no, it's not Hitler. It's a silent film. Toothbrush mustache was inspired by Chaplin. Didn't do any video editing in years so it took a little longer than I expected. Thanks to everyone that helped out! So for those of you looking for more views of the mask or want to see how the elastic ear bands work, check the movie!

Ride Qi Alpha Facemask Silent Film from Jonlin Pei on Vimeo.

By the way, if you want to win some schwag, check the previous entry.

Happy 2010! Win some schwag!

Happy New Year everyone! So you are probably sitting at your computer right now hungover wishing you hadn't drank so much so you could go our riding right? No worries, let's make this little computing session productive. How about some free schwag from Hoon including an Alpha mask?

A few weeks ago Hoon and I talked briefly about Ride Qi and the Alpha mask. Also dropped some other tidbits such as the correct pronunciation of our name =T. Head on over to Sierra Snowboard's Media section to read the interview!

So how do you win the schwag? Easy just give a shoutout! From Hoon himself: "The best "promotion" or shout-out of Ride Qi will win a free Alpha facemask plus stickers and maybe some other stuff from the Hoon closet. Get out there and promote Ride Qi, then report back in the comments section of this article. We'll choose a winner on 1/31/10."

Easy! Get on FB, Twitter or your favorite forum!

Happy Holidays! Get your shred on!

First Ride Qi Advert

Credit: Elmo, 2° Events

Heads-Up Displays in Goggles

I want HUDs everywhere, in my glasses walking down the street, in my cycling eye wear and especially in my snowboarding goggles. While contact lenses with HUDs are still far off, it looks as though snowboarders will have access to HUDs as soon as next year via the Recon Instrument Goggle. It's not all that promising though. The mock-ups on the site look horrid but as long as the hardware is there, some enterprising interface designer will probably make it work.

It's been discussed in the past in various threads on the Sierra forums, wouldn't it be sick if we had radars showing where our buddies are, conditions, congestions and of course mountain maps as a HUD unit that you can attach to your goggles? Then in the future perhaps the goggles could analyze conditions warning of avalanche dangers, or even on an approach tell you how far back you need to be and how much speed you need on take-off.

A lot of riders are purists who don't really care for tech on the slopes (other than avalanche beacons and transceivers for the backcountry) but they could easily just ignore it if it was actually available. Sign me up!

Enter to win an α (Alpha) Mask!

10 seconds of your time to win a free mask. You get some sweet snowboard / design related content too! Sound good?

Just follow @Forsnowboarding, Tweet a message containing the following: I want the Ride Qi Alpha Mask. Via @Forsnowboarding. And... just do that before Thursday night at 10pm EST (12/3). SIMPLE! Make sure to check out the Forsnowboarding blog which focuses on the art and design subcultures within the snowboard industry. For the full contest details, check this post.

Oh and while you are at it, follow @RideQi to keep up to date on what's happening on our end.