Most of you have probably heard of the Holy Grail. It seems like many ambitious fools throughout western history were looking for this piece of metal. Be it Indiana Jones, the Nazis, a guy called Percival and his medieval biker gang, everybody was hyped on it. Still nobody knew what the grail really looked like. Some imagined it to be a golden bucket from which you could drink lots of sangria with a straw. Others believed the Holy Grail to be an allegory for omnipotent power or eternal life. Since Method Mag is roughly 33% snowboard mag, 33% scientific journal, and 33% falafel history book and 1% porn, let us tell you the true tale of the Holy Grail, at least the one for snowboarders. It is a story about a binding that held the power to endless pop, unfathomable style, inexhaustible stomp, the eternal grab and the devine tweak of God in other words the best fucking bindings on the planet!
A long time ago, when people still believed in miracles, there was a humble artist/snowboarder called Sebastian Müller who was said to be a wizard with clairvoyant abilities. One night a shit-faced angel showed up in his dreams and talked jibberish about some holy grail, then mumbled "Live by the board, die by the board " then pleaded that he must help save the soul of snowboarding! The next day Sebi woke before the birds and started painting like he was possessed, working day and night to eventually realize that he just painted the blueprints of the god damn Holy Grail of snowboarding.
Soon people started to notice that Sebi knew something very powerful, something so GATful. Even the notorious Templar Knights became very jealous when aware of his divine secret. They became enraged with jealousy when they heard he was working on a revolutionary pair of bindings, especially since they were still using a step-in system binding that barely functioned. Thus they started what we refer to as the "Click-quisition". They were relentless in the search for these magical bindings, they set out clicking and destroying every binding they found. They would not rest because they knew once they got a hold of these Holy bindings, they could win every contest and eventually rule the snowboard world as we know it.
Sebi had to flee, leaving everything behind, being expelled from his home grounds, risking his life in order to save the world from the lame-ass Templars who would use these Holy bindings to make gymnasts turn into snowboarders and force them to only grab mute and train them so all their runs would look identical.
After a long and weary travel Sebi found shelter in the Kingdom of Gnarnia, a realm off the map where everyday was a powder day, street spots were bountiful and the terrain was stacked with windlips and natural hits. The King and Queen of Gnarnia were astonished by Muller's blueprints and realized the potential of his work to help hinder the Templars rule of uniformity. They decided to bring the prints to the remote furnaces of Union Bindings in order to materialize the holy trinity (pop, style & stomp) of snowboarding. The blueprints were meticulously followed and the Grail was forged from the most lavish and expensive material found in Gnarnia mixed with adrenaline extract of Bruce Lee and Terje Haakonsen and some extruded aluminum hand-crafted by the mad scientists at Union Bindings. Only a special limited edition of these bindings were ever produced and were giving only to riders they could be trusted to keep it real, be more awesome and keep kicking out methods for generations to come. In an attempt to capture these riders the Templars founded the FIT (Federation International du Templar) in the hopes to exploit snowboarding and annoy the fuck out of everybody else.
So this is the story of how the LIMITED EDITION METHOD MAG X UNION BINDINGS were created and there is ONE Holy Grail Binding left and we are giving you the chance to WIN it. But only the person who proves to be worthy can receive it. What you have to do to be in the running to win the Method Mag x Union x Gat Mvller Bindings is pretty easy. Decorate your old bindings, make them look as sacred as possible, give them a Sunday dress so to speak. Use glitter, dye, crayons, spray paint or your 3D printer to make them like no other. Take a photo of your pimped out bindings and send it to [email protected] by March 10th, 2014 with your mailing address. Be creative and make us laugh, but beware: snowboarding's fate depends on you!
Story by K-Lo
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