Wojtek Pawlusiak

The Polish rail master Wojtek Pawlusiak – who you’ll no doubt remember from his heavy urban jibbing in Pirates’ 2014 movie Perceptions – has had a long career full of rail jams and movie appearances in the aforementioned Pirates movie, as well as Isenseven. More recently he’s been keeping himself busy shredding both at home in Poland, at some of Europe’s glaciers, and even heading to Dubai to shred sand dunes.

Back in spring this year, though, he embarked on no doubt his most important trip as he and his partner welcomed their daughter into the world. We’re betting she’s gonna have a heavy back tail on her…

DCP

YES snowboards co-founder and keen surfer (see above), DCP has had a long and diverse career in snowboarding – and, no stranger to tackling new challenges, he seems to have happily incorporated family life into the the mix now too. And, as his part in the recent Wildcats Never Die movie shows, he’s more than capable of still sending it. As well as joining DCP in his sideways sliding endeavours, it isn’t uncommon to see little cameos from the clan in the more recent videos out of the YES camp – like at the end of his YES Influences vid below:

Terje

We could talk all day about the merits of Terje Haaksonsen – and the father figure he has become in the conscience of many snowboarders – but at the end of the day that photo probably says it all.

Oh and this:

Romain de Marchi

If you remember the YES Missions: The Pillow Search from a few years back you may well be aware that Romain De Marchi is another member of the YES crew that doesn’t mind getting the family involved in video cameos.

And while he might not be charging quite as hard as he did back in the days of his memorable parts in Vivid or Pop, Romain is still fond of going full send with his patented wild style as evidenced by his recent section in Wildcats Never Die.

Xavier De Le Rue

Xavier De Le Rue has the uncanny knack of getting away with many things few of us would consider – but when it comes to dads who send it there are few who go as all in as this Frenchman.

From dropping some of the steepest lines around, to shipping off a whole crew to Antarctica, there’s no doubt he’s got the chops when it comes to serious snowboarding, and these days he’s also passing on his knowledge to us more mortal riders through his Shred Hacks tip series. The straightline one, below, is a prime example, and if he’s giving away these nuggets to us kooks then imagine the knowledge he’ll impart on his kids…

Jake Blauvelt

Another recent recruit of the Rad Dad squad is longtime Ride and adidas ripper Jake Blauvelt. After bursting onto the scene as part of the ‘new’ Forum following the disbanding of the original team, Blauvelt made his name by taking his preternatural park skills increasingly onto natural terrain, before sacking off inbounds freestyle features entirely in his seminal part in Forum or Against ‘Em – as good a reason as any to post this barnstormer below.

Following that he was the focal point of Naturally, filmed with Videograss and dropped one of the best edits from Chile that we’ve ever seen a couple years back. Bouncing between a wintertime residence in the Pacific Northwest and summers on the east coast to be closer to the family, we can imagine this winter he’ll be choosing his snow-bound battles more discerningly, but you can be guaranteed that whenever Jake straps in it’s going to be memorable.