History

Forum snowboards was first started by Four Star Distribution and pro snowboarder Peter Line in the summer of 1996. It also owns outerwear companies Four Square and Special Blend. The Four Square team consists of Pat Moore, Peter Line and Andreas Wiig. The Special Blend team consists of Jake Welch, John Jackson, Stevie Bell, Nic Sauve, and the previously promoted Daniel Ek. All are on the Forum team.

Team

Peter Line attempted to create the greatest pro team ever, which resulted in "The Forum 8", arguably the most progressive group of riders ever. The Forum 8 were: JP Walker, Jeremy Jones (freestyler), Joni Malmi, Wille Yli-Luoma, Bjorn Leines, Devun Walsh, Chris Dufficy and Peter Line and were seen on Mack Dawg Productions' "The Resistance".

Since then, 7 of the original 8 have left Forum, with Peter Line the only original of the Forum 8 left. JP Walker left Forum Snowboards in June 2007, and Joni retired in late 2009.

Currently, the Forum team consists of: Peter Line, Pat Moore, Stevie Bell, Jake Welch, Nic Sauve, Nico Cioffi, Cameron Pierce, Daniel Ek, Austen Sweetin, Andreas Wiig and .

In september 2011 John Jackson left Forum Snowboards to join the Burton team.

Videos

Forum has been working with Mack Dawg Productions to produce a number of snowboard videos including The Resistance, True Life, Video Gangs. However, their most recent video, "Forever" was not made by Mack Dawg. Forum's videos all feature riders of the Forum team along with friends of the team. In 2006, team members Stevie Bell and JP Walker appeared in one of the most highly anticipated documentaries of the year in Sunset Film's "Montreal". In 2006-07 season the team released a new video entitled "That". The team has since made another movie entitled "Forum Or Against'Em" with focuses strongly on the team moving on past the age of the "Forum 8", it was released on September 15, 2008. In the fall of 2009 Forum released their latest video entitled "Forever". Also their new video entitled "F' It" has been released on DVD and iTunes

Boards

For the 2011 season, Forum has a brilliant line up with many boards featuring camber,pop camber,chillidog and doubledog. These include the The Destroyer, The Scallywag,The Contract,The Rat, Pat Moore Pro model, Holy Moly, The Youngblood, The Honeypot, The Manual, The Bully(2012), The Conflict, The Scheme, The Substance,

Bindings

The 2009 season produces some new and some improved bindings. They are the (mens) Arena, Republic, Faction, Lien, Recon, (women's) VSP, Moda, and Aura.