Phil Hansen Lands New, Surprising Board Sponsor

Phil will be joined on the ThirtyTwo team by Pat Fava, Patrick Hofmann and Brin Alexander. That’s a small, but mighty group known to excel across all the different disciplines of snowboarding. Alexander is fresh off of a Natural Selection Tour appearance. Hofmann won a silver medal in Knuckle Huck at the 2025 X Games. As for Fava, it might be quicker to name the things he hasn’t won. His trophy case includes an X Games Street Style gold in 2024, and hardware from the Bomb Hole Cup and Red Bull Heavy Metal.

“Everyone was supposed to be riding black (unbranded) boards still, and everyone's not,” he said in an interview in mid-October. “I was trying to go fully in the dark when I was out there in Switzerland. And then everyone started posting stuff…I wanted to keep the mystery going for a little longer.”

For Phil, the future with ThirtyTwo is super exciting. His signature gear for the winter was already in the works for this season. A black, red, and white signature model of his TM-2 boot is available now, along with signature TM-2 jacket and pant, shirt, and a team tech hoodie. And yes, now snowboards.

The limited edition 30-year anniversary boards will be released to shops soon, then there’s a chance that some are dropped later this winter. For 2026-2027, a full lineup that includes 12 custom shapes, 108 sizes and graphics from a number of artists with backgrounds ranging from tattooing, skateboarding, fashion, streetwear, and pop culture.

“I think the whole industry has gotten a little stagnant, and it needs something new to shake it up,” Hansen said. “I know who's on the Armada team and who's doing that, I'm excited to see what they do and what all their boards and product look like. And I’ve got some friends over there too that are working on everything, and it looks it should be awesome. Same thing over here. I think both of them together, it's just going to cause a little stir, and I'm excited for that, because I think the industry needs it right now. It’s gotten pretty bland.”

While at Lib Tech, Hansen got to work with the designers on some graphics. He pushed to break the norm, and worked for 9 months on his own personal pro model, which included a graphic done by himself, that ended up getting scrapped, due to the change in sponsorship. A lot of brands, it seems to him, have played it safe.

And while there’s nothing set in stone just yet, Phil would like to get the chance to work with the team at ThirtyTwo on his own graphics. The movement is still in its earliest stages, with Hansen and other team riders travelling to the Nidecker Group headquarters in Switzerland in mid-October. New creative director Brad Alband was brought back to ThirtyTwo earlier this fall.

“They have no palette to know what's going to work or what's not going to work,” he said. They're just like, ‘this is what we're hyped on. This is what we're going to make.’ And, you know, it's, it's all just kind of thrown at the wall. That’s how (Pat Fava’s signature boot from 2025) worked. It was just like, this could be really cool. This could not catch on at all. And people loved it.”

All of the boards will be built at Nidecker’s SWS factory. The  limited-edition 30-year anniversary boards will drop in December. Fava’s pro model graphic was made by Keenan Shurr, an airbrush artist who’s done work for skateboard decks for WKND, Creature, MOB Grip, as well as tour graphics for Green Day, Grateful Dead and ZZ Top.

Next up is the release of this year’s team movie Tr3 D32ce to the general public. Hansen filmed a bunch with Bode Merrill, Jack Coyne, and Shane Charlebois last winter, and that footage will come to light any day now.