Forrest Shearer's Sneak Peak of DEEPER Film

"DEEPER" is the most progressive big mountain snowboarding film to date. Follow top freeriders including Sambazon Ambassador Forrest Shearer as they travel to the world's snowboarding meccas and venture past the boundaries of helicopters, snowmobiles, and lifts to explore an untouched realm - Night hikes, sleeping on peaks, camping 65 miles from civilization, 20 below temperatures, 10 day storms, and 20 mile days bring the adventure back into riding. "The Deeper crew put cameras in places and in conditions you could never imagine. It is the ultimate first-hand experience and the most insane riding I have ever seen." - TGR co-founder Steve Jones.

Coming Fall 2010

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"I like to earn my turns in the backcountry mountains around the world. This was a line filmed for Deeper. It was a first descent for a snowboarder, no one had ever done it before. The approach to get up there took me 5+ hours of hiking and splitboarding. Your going to have to wait and see the footage in Deeper, but meanwhile heres a couple first hand photos to keep you stoked. Enjoy!

Signature line - Photo by Zach Clanton

Halfway through The Firing Squad - Photo by Zach Clanton

This spring in Utah I was committed to checking out an area rumored to have some fun pillows. On a down day, I had Neil Provo meet me for a mellow mission to head up and explore. The pillows ended up being too low in elevation so we kept going not knowing what we would end up finding. We got to where the trail ended and had to turn back due to a late start. I did take a photo of this line that ran all the way from the top through a extremely spicy diagonal ramp that ended in an apron. I couldn’t get it out of my mind and I immediately put it to the top of my hit list (conditions permitting). Jump forward to a 5:30 am start – it was a solo mission, I was determined to complete the objective. With 2 ice axes and crampons I made my way up, tackling a scree field with loose rock near the top. Go time. Completely focused my mind turned off. It was me and the mountain. Coming into the diagonal ramp there was no room for error. Ice axe in hand I made it through the crux. Riding out the bottom, the stars aligned, I was thrilled that the line came together. When you’re splitboarding the connection to the mountains is like no other.

Its amazing the gratification you get from splitboarding and hiking. When your out there off the beaten path you become more in tune with the environment. It allows you to bring it back to the basics, there's a deeper connection to mountains. For me, health starts here with Sambazon açaí."

-Written by Forrest Shearer, Professional Snowboarder and Sambazon Ambassador

Q & A: Sambazon's Sustainable Business Practices

Q and A highlights standout inquiries from customers that we receive each month.

Q: What impact does your açaí harvest have on the Amazon Rainforest and what does it mean when you say your açaí is “sustainable”?

A: Click play below to find out!


If you have questions or comments, please email them to Sambazon Co-Founder Ed Nichols at info@sambazon.com, and he will be in touch!

Featured Recipe: Açaí Sangria

Açaí Sangria
1 bottle of table wine (choose an inexpensive, medium bodied red wine)
1-2 bottles Sambazon Antioxidant Elixir (our favorite flavor was blackberry)
2 Oranges
1 Lemon
1 Apple
Sparkling water

Slice one orange in thin half rounds, one lemon in thin full rounds, and one apple into thin strips. Place fruit into a pitcher, add wine and one bottle of Elixir, and then juice the remaining orange into the pitcher. Stir and taste. If you like a milder sangria add half to all of the second Elixir bottle. If you like a sweeter sangria, add some organic agave syrup.


It’s best to let Sangria sit in the fridge for a couple hours prior to serving as the flavors of the fruit will become more pronounced.



To serve, pour sangria into glasses, make sure to include some fruit in each glass, and top with a splash of sparkling water.


Açaí Sangria- The Virgin
6 bottles Sambazon Antioxidant Elixir (our favorite flavor was blackberry)
2 Oranges
1 Lemon
1 Apple
2 Cups sparkling water
Slice fruit, place in pitcher, add Elixir, sparkling water, and ice, and serve immediately.

Feature: A Competitor’s First Ironman

With six months of training under his belt and along with a lifetime long competitive streak, Scott Nemeth, one of Sambazon’s own, embarked on a path few of us will ever race down. But to Scotty, that ominous word, the Ironman (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and 26 mile marathon), has always been inspiring, ever since he saw the race on TV as a little boy.

A Sambazon employee since the very early days, Scott has traveled to Brazil many times for work and pleasure. He even found the love of his life in a small town called Florianopolis. So it was no surprise when Scott registered for Ironman Brazil with the goal of giving back to a community and a country that has given him so much.

Scott is entirely a self trained triathlete, and although he has surfed his whole life, he only started swimming in an actual pool late last year. Initially, Scott started training for triathlons as a rehab tool – in his highschool and college football career, Scott managed to have one surgery on each knee, one on his right shoulder, and not one… not two, but four on his left. But, at the end of the day, he admits, “I wanted to see if the Ironman was really possible.”

After the first few months of light training, Scott raced in his first Olympic distance triathlon, and then embarked on a ridged online based training program from Multisports.com customized by heart rate, and a diet of organic, whole food. Throughout the day, he ate sometimes simple, sometimes elaborate creations that his wife, a natural foodie, would tailor to his fitness goals. Working in the natural food industry, Scott already had a healthy head start on the not-so nutritious bar eating and sugary sports drink chugging population.

Physically prepared for what lie ahead, Scott left the office nearly two weeks prior to his Ironman to work with Professional Trials Mountain Biker and Sambazon Ambassador Hans Rey’s Wheels4Life – a non-profit charity that provides free bicycles for people in need of transportation in developing countries.



In Florianopolis, Scott connected with the local triathlon federation and the local newspaper to select the individuals most in need of a bike. Many people selected were students in local schools that volunteered in the Ironman preparations and the rest were nominated by the local community. Thanks to sponsors Power Balance, Manitoba Harvest, Sambazon, Houston Bikes, Dr. Bronner’s, Coco Hydro, and Sol Raiz, Scott was able to donate 25 bikes to the local community and tell the story throughout Brazil and the US.

Skip forward to race day. Starting before the sun rose, Scott jumped in the water as ambitious as the 1600 competitors beside him. While it was nearly impossible for him to train with fellow triathletes, Scott soon learned that the comraderie each competitor had towards each other on race day was unfathomable. “The guy that finished first had the same amount of respect for the guy that finished last as the guy that finished last had for the guy that finished first. It’s an incredible community and that’s why people keep doing it,” says Scott.

Not satisfied with one Ironman, Scott already has goals of qualifying for Kona. Kona is to the Triathlon community as the World Cup is to soccer. The best of the best in the world compete all year just to reach a qualifying time that keeps getting faster and faster. To qualify, Scott will have to drop his race time by at least 2 hours, something he hopes to do within the next year or two.

Scott’s not worried, nor is anyone else. He’s going to make it, his competitive spirit and his drive for the greater good won’t let it be any other way.

For more information about Scott’s journey and his work with Wheels4Life, visit his Ironman blog or www.Wheels4Life.org.