A snowboarder wearing a red jacket and black pants jumping in mid-air against a snowy mountain landscape and clear blue sky.

Shayne Sandblom

Tahoe, California

@shayneblu

Born out of the freestyle lanes and jump lines, this rider showed up to freeride and lit the fuse. After years stacking slopestyle reps with Aspen Valley Snowboard Club, he dropped into his rookie freeride season and punched a ticket straight to the Freeride World Tour, no slow burn, just go.

Now five seasons deep in Palisades Tahoe, he’s become a true all-terrain operator: park, jibs, street, splitboard missions, big-mountain lines, side hits, transition. if it’s sideways, he’s on it. A lifelong USASA competitor turned full-blown student of the craft, he brings that freestyle DNA into every face he rides.

His freeride approach is a mix of Tricks, steeze, flow, and commitment. style-heavy riding on exposed natural features, pushing the line of what modern freeriding looks like.