{"id":1779787,"date":"2026-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1779787"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:00:00","slug":"rome-snowboards-welcomes-cooper-whittier-to-the-global-pro-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1779787","title":{"rendered":"Rome Snowboards Welcomes Cooper Whittier To the Global Pro Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-article-copy\">\n<p class=\"c-article-body__dropcap\" data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"412\">For anyone who\u2019s somehow missed the memo, <strong data-start=\"204\" data-end=\"245\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Cooper Whittier<\/span><\/span><\/strong> is one of the most exciting personalities in modern snowboarding and a major force behind the renewed global obsession with street riding over the past few seasons.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"638\">Hailing from the East Coast, Cooper\u2019s love of the streets runs deep. It led him to co-found The Dustbox: a crew that channels snowboarding\u2019s original <em data-start=\"560\" data-end=\"591\">\u201cfuck you, I\u2019ll do it myself\u201d<\/em> ethos, reworked with a distinctly modern edge.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"843\">So when news broke that he\u2019d parted ways with his previous board sponsor, our Whitelines group chat immediately lit up with one question: \u201c<em data-start=\"778\" data-end=\"843\">Where\u2019s Cooper going next\u2026 surely it\u2019s Rome? It has to be Rome.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"845\" data-end=\"1166\">And sure enough, the move makes perfect sense. <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.romesnowboards.com\/\"><strong data-start=\"892\" data-end=\"933\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Rome Snowboards<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> launched with the same DIY attitude and has spent the years since pushing product progression while keeping snowboarding front and centre. East Coast roots, independent spirit, and a commitment to putting snowboarding first \u2013 it\u2019s a natural fit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1168\" data-end=\"1614\">The timing couldn\u2019t be better, either. This winter\u2019s strongest street snowboarding came from <strong>Rome\u2019s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CA5RPItqIJM\"><strong data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1334\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">SWARM<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3xIfBxKwDEQ\"><strong data-start=\"1339\" data-end=\"1380\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">ATLAS 2<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> by <strong data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1425\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">686<\/span><\/span><\/strong> \u2013 the latter opening with a ludicrously heavy part from Cooper himself. With Whittier now officially on Rome\u2019s global team, it\u2019s hard not to get excited about what next season might bring.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1616\" data-end=\"1772\">We reckon he\u2019ll slot straight into Rome\u2019s tight-knit crew of steel sommeliers and help keep the momentum rolling with more boundary-pushing street projects.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1774\" data-end=\"1877\" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node>Until then, hit play on his Welcome to Rome edit and rewatch SWARM below to keep the froth levels high.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who\u2019s somehow missed the memo, Cooper Whittier is one of the most exciting personalities in modern snowboarding and a major force behind the renewed global obsession with street riding over the past few seasons. Hailing from the East Coast, Cooper\u2019s love of the streets runs deep. It led him to co-found The Dustbox: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,280],"class_list":["post-1779787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-whitelines-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}