Team Rider J.R. Berard | Father vs Son Game of SNOW

Snowboard Addiction team rider J.R. Berard doesn’t just talk year-round training. He lives it. At 49, with a stiff back and zero excuses, he strapped in next to his son Max for a rematch Max had been itching for since last season on snow: a full father/son game of SNOW.

Same rules as a game of SKATE. Snowboards. An 8" pipe over the backyard trampoline. In August. And the setup that made it possible: Snowboard Addiction Jib Board Pros with the real PTex base, locked into Training Bindings.

"Here's the thing about the trampoline pipe. It levels us. On snow I've got the switch advantage. On the tramp we're both goofy, both reading the same rail, and it comes down to who can stack it up under pressure. Pretzels, change-ups, hard ways, 3s and 4s. He's 15 and getting strong. I'm 49 with a stiff back and no excuses.

It went a lot longer than either of us expected.

Don't deny your age. Defy it."

– J.R. Berard

They slid the pipe across the tramp, tied it off to the cage poles, and locked into a pair of Jib Board Pros. That hard PTex bottom is built for exactly this: pipe and rail sessions where you want real board feel without chewing up a snow board. Paired with the Snowboard Addiction Training Bindings, you get a secure, repeatable setup so you can stack pretzels, change-ups, and hard ways the same way every try.

Rules were simple: no repeats, call your trick, and you have to land it in control. If you couldn’t ride away, it didn’t count. Rock paper scissors for who drops first.

What followed was a long battle of pretzels, change-ups, hard ways, and the 2s, 3s, and 4s coming out under pressure. The kind of session that only happens when you’re willing to keep stacking it up, summer or not, and when your training gear can take the hits.

This is what the Jib Board Pro and Training Bindings are for: real progression off-snow, father and son, same rail, same pressure. We’re stoked to have J.R. on the Snowboard Addiction team, and even more stoked to see him sharing the craft with Max on the same gear we build for exactly these sessions.

Watch the full game of SNOW on his channel, and follow @jrberard and @_maxberard for more.