Cruise by and peep some vids,photos, play a video game and buy some recycled plastic base layer

Artwork by SHANNA DUNCAN

ARTWORK BY SHANNA DUNCAN

LEVITATION PROJECT team riders AUSTEN GRANGER, CHRIS BREWSTER, PARKER DUKE and TED BORLAND were all diggers at HCSC this summer. They had one hell of a summer and hall have some good stories. Heres what we got out them when we asked  WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A DIGGER?

AUSTEN GRANGER

” Being a DIGGER  means that you have a dream job and you get to snowboard all summer. You get to build what ever you want and however you want in the park. You get to yell at a lot of people and kick poachers out of the park. You are the first ones on the hill and the last ones off. You get to hang out with the best people all day. You get to watch everything that goes on in the park. Being a digger is the BEST JOB IN THE WORLD….HANDS DOWN!!!!

AUSTEN and TED working on their step up Pole jam to drop.

AUSTEN enjoys the fruits of his labor….solid front 3 off the pole jam to drop….big drop.

TED BORLAND

” You gotta have a lot of passion for the BOARD to work long hours for shitty pay but I wouldn’t want to have it any other way or do anything else”

TED making use of his long hours and shitty pay.

CHRIS BREWSTER

” Being a digger means your a real snowboarder. You have passion and love for everything about it. You snowboard everyday and your snowboard life is complete”

Digging this summer was a good choice for BREWSTER. He is as hungry as they come and ready to get it done this winter. After a summer of digging you can expect big things from this kid.

PARKER DUKE

” It means your a rad individual who works hard with a rake and loves spending your time snowboarding. It means you get along with the rest of the crew because we are as tight as family”

Whether its blasting on a hip or sending massive front 10′s this kid is down and ready to send it. PARKER is making the move to Utah this winter and has some big plans for the season.

THANKS DUDES FOR HOLDING IT DOWN ALL SUMMER!!!!

 So a lot of people are always asking…. are we a clothing company? What do we make? Do we sale clothing? The answer to all of those questions is YES. We are currently manufacturing all of our products in Peru. We have spent the past year working with our factories and working in our factories. It was important right off the bat to inspect all factories and know exactly who we were working with and the quality of the operations that we were working with. We assure you that our factories are 100% legit and have a pleasant and safe work environment for all of their employees…This was one of the most important things for us to know that we were employing people that were on the up and up and not using “sweat shop” style factories that you always hear horror stories about. 

 One of the greatest aspects of our clothing line is being able to START GREEN as opposed to GOING GREEN. We are proud to offer a full base layer line made from RECYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES and Discarded COCONUT shells. The combination of the two is one of the most functional materials and most comfortable materials that you will find in any base layer line.

 The Levitation Project is a movement that has taken on a life of its own over the past 3 years and one of the most important factors in how closely we work with our team and staff and how closely our team works with our designers. We recently just got back from a trip to our factories in Peru in which team rider Bode Merrill and lead designer Shanna Duncan teamed up to pick out materials,fabrics,textiles and get the ball rolling on 2010′s new line. Here are few pics of the two of them working in our factory and seeing what exactly goes into transforming garbage from the streets into one of the best base layers around.

 A important thing to know is that when you purchase one of our base layer pieces is that each base layer top or bottom is made from 80-100 plastic bottles. So not only is our gear bad ass……. it is also cleaning up the earth.

This is a sneak peak of next years line….well at least what it starts off looking like.

The first step is to cut the bottles down into micro little squares

Shanna tests out some of Peru’s finest green.

This is close to 200 bottles that have been melted down and are then turned into thousands of little pieces that are then transformed into a fiber.

Here Bode and Shanna watch the polyester thread being spooled

Now the thread is woven into a fabric….Now the hard part is to guess what soda brands went into making this material possible?

Bode showing off the new base layer and where it came from. We are just trying to do our part in helping the earth and making a solid product.