Age: 22
Sponsors: Rossignol, Planet Earth, ThirtyTwo, Etnies, Grenade, TechNine, Dragon, Jack’s Garage
Years snowboarding: About twelve years
Roots: Crowley Lake, California
Home: Still in the C.L.
Height: 5’11″
Weight: 175 lbs.
Stance: Regs, 23-and three-quarters wide with 21-degrees angle on the front foot and negative-nine on the back.
Forward lean: I just shred it the way it comes in the mail, I don’t mess with it that much … so not a lot.
Board: The past couple years I’ve been riding all sorts of boards for all types of conditions-I’m versatile. I’m backin’ a board like the Rossignol Decoy 160 ($500)-sixties though, ’cause it charges.
Boots: ThirtyTwo Timbas ($250) or TM-Twos ($200), size 9.5.
Bindings: MFM Pro from TechNine ($199).
Personal settings: I’ll use some old-ass liners, and the heat molds are always nice. Sometimes I’ll customize my bindings with a wicket.
Tuning techniques: I run a file over it when it’s fresh out the packy and then mob. I don’t wax that much-never have time, but it is good once a week or so. I take my sticks to Wave Rave.
Outerwear: A poof on a cold day, for sure-but I usually ride with my shirt off.
Jacket: Planet Earth Jackson Pro jacket ($250)-all the colors are dope.
Pants: Planet Earth Jackson Pro pants ($190)-same as above.
Gloves: Grenade-the Doobie Brothers, Bob Gnarly, and of course the CC935 ($35), all the gloves are ill.
Goggles: Dragon DX ($70). Iridium’s tight-hide those eyes.
Riding style: Any type of backcountry or freeriding-ollieing
off cat tracks and cliffs. I’m always keepin’ an eye out for natty trannies and whatnot-tree jibs, windlips, all that. Whatever God creates, I’ll try and shred.
John Jackson crosses the line on one of those days in the Tahoe backcountry.
Photo: Cole Barash/Draw The Line
What The Pros Are Rockin: John Anthony Jackson
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