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Skateboarding => Appreciation! => Topic started by: Snowboardingsbetter on March 18, 2019, 09:08:35 AM
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Alright Bro Brahs!
We are coming at you with the snowboard appreciation thread. We want to hear about your season, your gear, videos you liked, videos you didn’t like and anything else.
for the first post I’m giving thanks to Yawgoons. Yawgoons 20 was so sick! Yawgoons is like snowboardings Magenta if Magenta was actually enjoyable to watch or good or whatever.
http://youtu.be/xKmSv3rAOgI
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Great flick!
I know you’re following me around the boards cause you’re low key down for snowboarding. A lot of skateboarders like snowboarding they’re just afraid to talk about how fucking fun and sick it is.
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Yeah Seymour is essentially slaps gatekeeper, he wants to make sure only the best posters get encouragement and the trash gets discouraged onto the floor so that someone can sweep it up. You are on track dude to be really somebody. I can pretty much see you up there on the marble countertop, so keep posting cause there's kitty litter all over the floor and shit. It keeps sticking in my fur, I don't think you would enjoy being down here very much (we have really nice smiles down here though). Maybe one day you can snowboard down and exchange a friendly smile, then I can watch you hike back up into the distance. I can already tell how crushed I will be when I realize my paws don't dig into snow so I keep sliding back down the hill when I try to follow you. You don't even notice you just keep going until you dissapear. It's not your fault though you can't wait for something or someone that's simply not compatible to the way you live your life, always hiking up snowy hills, always climbing. I am always falling, sliding. You werent even waiting for me it was a one sided expectation I created out of nothing.
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Yeah Seymour is essentially slaps gatekeeper, he wants to make sure only the best posters get encouragement and the trash gets discouraged onto the floor so that someone can sweep it up. You are on track dude to be really somebody. I can pretty much see you up there on the marble countertop, so keep posting cause there's kitty litter all over the floor and shit. It keeps sticking in my fur, I don't think you would enjoy being down here very much (we have really nice smiles down here though). Maybe one day you can snowboard down and exchange a friendly smile, then I can watch you hike back up into the distance. I can already tell how crushed I will be when I realize my paws don't dig into snow so I keep sliding back down the hill when I try to follow you. You don't even notice you just keep going until you dissapear. It's not your fault though you can't wait for something or someone that's simply not compatible to the way you live your life, always hiking up snowy hills, always climbing. I am always falling, sliding. You werent even waiting for me it was a one sided expectation I created out of nothing.
hmm i wouldnt say im a gate keeper, and i wouldnt want to be. just joking with someone who clearly is joking. you on the other hand could use some jokes in your posts once in a while because you come off like someone mentally unstable and thats not funny unless youre tk.
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I'm not trying to come across any specific way, mentally unstable works if that's what you attach to it. Or if that's what you think it is that's cool I'm content with it, maybe its true. Anyways it was just a joke, I don't consider you a gatekeeper there isn't a gate, there's no kitty litter and no fucking way could SLAP afford marble countertops it would be laminate or maybe live edge reclaimed wood if someone artsy could hook it up and someone with taste could execute. I certainly hope you haven't begun to think about my posts as much as you are letting on dude I was banking on you brushing this one off so I could be back at masonic negative 33.
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Jake Kuzyk is such a sick filmer and he rips on both the snow and the board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSo-QgQlFqE
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Jake Kuzyk is such a sick filmer and he rips on both the snow and the board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSo-QgQlFqE
Jake and Vans snowboarding have legit been killing it this year. Together Forever was so sick
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Together forever was cool, Jake did a terrific job, the premiere in Montreal was sick although really emotional
RIP Dill
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If you pretend ur snowboarding on ur skateboard you will have more fun than if you actually went snowboarding and ripped your fingers apart trying to lace up stupid snowboard boots or tearing your house apart trying to find ur seasons pass. I used to go back country snowboarding in the rockies walking up on boot packs that people make up the peaks and i started just wearing sneakers. Sneakers are way nicer to hike in and work fine riding deep powder.
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I wonder if this dude is on snowboarding forums extolling the supremacy of skateboarding.
I tried it once: about 30 seconds into my first run, I ate shit and slammed face first so hard that my hat and gloves all shot off upon impact, haha. Never touched one since.
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went once so far this season thinking of going tomorrow...
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I wonder if this dude is on snowboarding forums extolling the supremacy of skateboarding.
I tried it once: about 30 seconds into my first run, I ate shit and slammed face first so hard that my hat and gloves all shot off upon impact, haha. Never touched one since.
There aren’t any snowboard forums which is why I am here trying to convert slap into a snowboard forum.
Also, you’re in my thread my man you don’t have to say this dude just call me your brochacho
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I wonder if this dude is on snowboarding forums extolling the supremacy of skateboarding.
I tried it once: about 30 seconds into my first run, I ate shit and slammed face first so hard that my hat and gloves all shot off upon impact, haha. Never touched one since.
There aren’t any snowboard forums which is why I am here trying to convert slap into a snowboard forum.
Also, you’re in my thread my man you don’t have to say this dude just call me your brochacho
Happy to have you. I apologize for my rudeness.
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yawgoons: wack
jake kuzyk: not wack
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yawgoons: wack
jake kuzyk: not wack
Ouch. But I can handle it.
What are your thoughts on Scott Stevens though?
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yawgoons: wack
jake kuzyk: not wack
Ouch. But I can handle it.
What are your thoughts on Scott Stevens though?
used to love him, especially when i first got deeper into snowboarding and found out he was semi-local, but his shtick grew old years ago. i grew up at yawgoo. dylan is the only one that's actually cool and does anything interesting. marcus and brian have bad style, do uninteresting tricks, and don't skate either.
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yawgoons: wack
jake kuzyk: not wack
Ouch. But I can handle it.
What are your thoughts on Scott Stevens though?
Gamache is sick.
Im from mass so Scott Stevens is god but I can agree some of his circus tricks have gone over the top lately
Also for my contribution:
Kevin backstrom part is so sick
http://youtu.be/kgzkH4n0EOo
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I went snowboarding once this winter to remind myself that ski resort culture is
utter
shit.
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I went snowboarding once this winter to remind myself that ski resort culture is
utter
shit.
Split board?
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It’s been something like 15 years since I set foot on a snowboard but I used to be decent. Since the farm I grew up on is in the middle of a ski hill that’s my family’s property (where our cattle graze in the summer) I’d always ride for free. Season passes are crazy expensive and snowboard gear isn’t cheap either, so after moving away that’s just not been a priority.
Snowboard videos are generally pretty boring compared to skate videos.
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As soon as I could I moved so I would never have to see snow again.
enjoy your fresh pow pow and crunchy tunes, I hope you burn your tongue on a $12 cup of hot cocoa
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As soon as I could I moved so I would never have to see snow again.
enjoy your fresh pow pow and crunchy tunes, I hope you burn your tongue on a $12 cup of hot cocoa
Tim Hideckers take on the Bill Murray phenom might interest you. I've enjoyed him in some movies too. What about Bob?
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everything but adidas, vans and videograss stuff is basically a ty evans/flat earth doodoo. maybe you can put me onto some cool stuff
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As soon as I could I moved so I would never have to see snow again.
enjoy your fresh pow pow and crunchy tunes, I hope you burn your tongue on a $12 cup of hot cocoa
Tim and Eric is trash, I could give a fuck about that dude's opinion.
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As soon as I could I moved so I would never have to see snow again.
enjoy your fresh pow pow and crunchy tunes, I hope you burn your tongue on a $12 cup of hot cocoa
Tim and Eric is trash, I could give a fuck about that dude's opinion.
Those 2 made Check it out with dr Steve Brule so theres that. And you sound triggered enough when i mentioned his name. He talks about it on YT and its funny af, deal with it.
The b murray thing that people push with the t shirts reminds me of the people who post bacon memes. Edit it was determined on a slap thread that it was tim and eric who started that Palace type edit that EVERYONE puts out now. I would go so far as to say Tim and erics stuff has had more affect on art and media today then Murray's has as considerable as his own affect has been.
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As soon as I could I moved so I would never have to see snow again.
enjoy your fresh pow pow and crunchy tunes, I hope you burn your tongue on a $12 cup of hot cocoa
Tim and Eric is trash, I could give a fuck about that dude's opinion.
Those 2 made Check it out with dr Steve Brule so theres that. 1. And you sound triggered enough when i mentioned his name. He talks about it on 2. YT and its funny af, deal with it.
3.The b murray thing that people push with the t shirts reminds me of the people who post bacon memes. Edit it was determined on a slap thread that it was tim and eric who started that Palace type edit that EVERYONE puts out now. I would go so far as to say Tim and erics stuff has had more affect on art and media today then Murray's has as considerable as his own affect has been.
Let me paint by numbers for you here so you can understand.
1. I'm almost positive you're a grown ass man using the word triggered unironically, you're most definetly a bitch.
2. Being a garbage person, you clearly have garbage taste so this is invalid
3. Way to be so unoriginal and desperate to sound smart you just plagiarized one of the top youtube comments
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You’re a huge fucking kook brah man, but I’ll watch the shit out of any Laurent Nicolas pacquin footage
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you can't even grind a marble ledge with your snowboard.
the feel it causes you never experience, the sound it makes
you never hear, the notch it causes on a truck you never
see, the damage you cause, you never responsible for it.
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As soon as I could I moved so I would never have to see snow again.
enjoy your fresh pow pow and crunchy tunes, I hope you burn your tongue on a $12 cup of hot cocoa
Tim and Eric is trash, I could give a fuck about that dude's opinion.
Those 2 made Check it out with dr Steve Brule so theres that. 1. And you sound triggered enough when i mentioned his name. He talks about it on 2. YT and its funny af, deal with it.
3.The b murray thing that people push with the t shirts reminds me of the people who post bacon memes. Edit it was determined on a slap thread that it was tim and eric who started that Palace type edit that EVERYONE puts out now. I would go so far as to say Tim and erics stuff has had more affect on art and media today then Murray's has as considerable as his own affect has been.
Let me paint by numbers for you here so you can understand.
1. I'm almost positive you're a grown ass man using the word triggered unironically, you're most definetly a bitch.
2. Being a garbage person, you clearly have garbage taste so this is invalid
3. Way to be so unoriginal and desperate to sound smart you just plagiarized one of the top youtube comments
Ha you watched it !
Edit i just want to add that normalising terms like "garbage human" is toxic and in the past has been instrumental to genocide. I'd say someone who thinks or says "garbage human" has issues. What would Bill Murray do?
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You’re a huge fucking kook brah man, but I’ll watch the shit out of any Laurent Nicolas pacquin footage
Calls me a huge look but secret snowboarding fan just itching to get in my thread to praise LNP.
I can accept that man whatever gets you hyped on the funnest board sport is A-Ok in my book.
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yawgoons: wack
jake kuzyk: not wack
Jake has the best style by far. 99% of modern "street" snowboarding looks like rollerblading... just jumping/flailing from obstacle to obstacle. Jake does it right.
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yawgoons: wack
jake kuzyk: not wack
Jake has the best style by far. 99% of "street" snowboarding looks like rollerblading... just jumping/flailing from obstacle to obstacle. Jake does it right.
You are going to want to watch more snowboarding man. There are tons of rippers with good style.
Exhibit A:
http://youtu.be/pMgH46J7hBc
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yawgoons: wack
jake kuzyk: not wack
Jake has the best style by far. 99% of modern "street" snowboarding looks like rollerblading... just jumping/flailing from obstacle to obstacle. Jake does it right.
Thats an insult to roller blading. Sno dogs are actually less cool. Bladin got disowned by the x games and the shits underground now.
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I've never even seen snow. That shit is wack.
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Had no idea people know what yawgoo is, it’s literally just a hill with a lift. Snowboarded a good bit in middle school because I lived in Vermont and there was nothing better to do when it snowed four feet. I got semi decent at it but after I moved I pretty much never touched a snowboard again. I fuck with snowboarding videos though.
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Had no idea people know what yawgoo is, it’s literally just a hill with a lift. Snowboarded a good bit in middle school because I lived in Vermont and there was nothing better to do when it snowed four feet. I got semi decent at it but after I moved I pretty much never touched a snowboard again. I fuck with snowboarding videos though.
Post a flick. What’s one of your favorite parts?
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What's the deal with Craig Beaulieu did he pile out or something? Just disappeared.
https://youtu.be/L1UUVEMTRHU
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Montreal has a sick urban scene.
This part is a good example.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tb7_IqYl4lE
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Bobsledding > Snowboarding
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Bobsledding > Snowboarding
Look at these fucking L A D S right here the Korean bobsled team is fucking lit holy shit.
(https://i.postimg.cc/ydLVL6sp/Dong-Hyun-Kim-Yunjong-Won-Bobsleigh-Winter-YFdl-NRr-JRsfl.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
https://youtu.be/gMuKK1jnBKc
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Bobsledding > Snowboarding
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https://youtu.be/gMuKK1jnBKc
Thank you I unironically enjoyed this video a lot. Shalom
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This is my first season in Colorado, so much better than snowboarding in Michigan. Ikon pass, copper ftw.
Still rocking a forum honey pot 157
Best tricks of the season - back boardslide pretzel 270 on a long rail and switch front 3 a kicker.
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To me it was all about Terje and Johan. I guess Terje has had major issues with c meth. Would hole himself up in Whistler half way up the mountain in a chalet and be gettin busy.
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I snowboarded from about 1988 - 2000. Then I sold my stuff in 2000 to move to California for the winter and never snowboarded again. I'd do anything to avoid being in the presence of snow. I don't miss it in the least.
Mogul Monster.
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Watched Decade, Simple Pleasures, n grew up 10 minutes away from Mt High. Haven’t done it in almost 20 years but that’s pretty much my extent of snowboarding.
After dislocating my shoulder tryin some moves early on I said fuck it, if I was gonna mess myself up it was only gonna be through skating. After that I just had fun smoking doobies on the chairlift n goin out of bounds any other time I went.
Mildly curious what rad snowboarding is nowadays, post some stuff por favor.
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never seen real snow but these dudes look like they have fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg8uZlHIazY
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never seen real snow but these dudes look like they have fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg8uZlHIazY
Typical resort cringe fest.
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never seen real snow but these dudes look like they have fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg8uZlHIazY
dudes definitely 100% look wack and act wack but the trick selection is sick
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I've never snowboarded and I'm not super interested, but I saw on YouTube that Jed Anderson has a new part for Adidas. It has some skate tricks, too!
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https://youtu.be/_C7HTrNTFI8
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I went snowboarding this past winter for the first time in like 10 years and honestly had a good time. Some kid in a MAGA hoodie called me a bitch, but as I kept watching him I realized he wasn't that good either even though he seems like somebody who snowboards regularly. I figure that's a safe assumption because he was an asshole, and in my experience snowboarders are kind of assholes.
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never seen real snow but these dudes look like they have fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg8uZlHIazY
dudes definitely 100% look wack and act wack but the trick selection is sick
Watched the whole thing and by the end i had to change my opinion. That guy is def doing sonthing thats 100% respectable. Very snowboardery in a good way.
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Ouch. But I can handle it.
What are your thoughts on Scott Stevens though?
Dylan Gamache - noice
Yung Doli - did not know this guy, could do without the monkey music and clothing act. Jib god, superb style, skater
There's many out there but Kevin Backstrom, Halldor Helgason and Sebbe de Buck are some faves
Scotty Stevens - Dude is the Richie Jackson of snowboarding. I can't think of something more expendable than putting one foot out of the binding and doing bonelesses or even airs with a snowboard. So wack. He could redeem himself by releasing a respectable part on one of these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZlwSGPVU0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZlwSGPVU0)
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Ouch. But I can handle it.
What are your thoughts on Scott Stevens though?
Dylan Gamache - noice
Yung Doli - did not know this guy, could do without the monkey music and clothing act. Jib god, superb style, skater
There's many out there but Kevin Backstrom, Halldor Helgason and Sebbe de Buck are some faves
Scotty Stevens - Dude is the Richie Jackson of snowboarding. I can't think of something more expendable than putting one foot out of the binding and doing bonelesses or even airs with a snowboard. So wack. He could redeem himself by releasing a respectable part on one of these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZlwSGPVU0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZlwSGPVU0)
"antiwaxxer" ;D
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Started skiing in 77, skating around 85, started snowboarding a few years later.
Snowboarding was ‘it’ for me, I never found anything as fun until I tried noboarding (bindingless snowboarding) years later.
I quit skating at 13 because none of my friends did it and the rest of the skaters vibes me out. Wasn’t fun.
But picked it back up 3 or 4 years later because I needed something to do when I couldn’t snowboard.
Now part of my income comes from snowboarding, and it’s been getting a bit stale, but the bindingless riding in powder (and shaping my own powsurfers) is pretty much the best thing ever.
Old soft snow boots, a piece of 5-ply shaped and laquered wood, and a leash are all you need for the best times ever. Cheaper than skating, actually.
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Started skiing in 77, skating around 85, started snowboarding a few years later.
Snowboarding was ‘it’ for me, I never found anything as fun until I tried noboarding (bindingless snowboarding) years later.
I quit skating at 13 because none of my friends did it and the rest of the skaters vibes me out. Wasn’t fun.
But picked it back up 3 or 4 years later because I needed something to do when I couldn’t snowboard.
Now part of my income comes from snowboarding, and it’s been getting a bit stale, but the bindingless riding in powder (and shaping my own powsurfers) is pretty much the best thing ever.
Old soft snow boots, a piece of 5-ply shaped and laquered wood, and a leash are all you need for the best times ever. Cheaper than skating, actually.
Snowboarding is super fun, been at it for getting close to 30 years at this point. There is nothing else like being out in the mountain, and riding pow is one of the best feelings in the world.
I also have been pow surfing or noboarding more and more in the last couple years. Mostly snowmobile access, so it is definitely not cheaper than skating, for me.
Check out @garywayneshapes. I’ve been working with them for the last couple years making noboards. More like a snowboard construction, with ptex, fiberglass, wood cores and top sheets. 3D contoured bases.
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Somebody breakdown snowboard culture to me
Who is the Gonz of the snow?
Which video is the Welcome To Hell? The Fully Flared?
What mountain is the Hollywood High? The Macba? The Leap of Faith?
Which teams are analogous to skateboarding? Does snowboarding have an Anti-Hero type team? A Numbers type team?
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Started skiing in 77, skating around 85, started snowboarding a few years later.
Snowboarding was ‘it’ for me, I never found anything as fun until I tried noboarding (bindingless snowboarding) years later.
I quit skating at 13 because none of my friends did it and the rest of the skaters vibes me out. Wasn’t fun.
But picked it back up 3 or 4 years later because I needed something to do when I couldn’t snowboard.
Now part of my income comes from snowboarding, and it’s been getting a bit stale, but the bindingless riding in powder (and shaping my own powsurfers) is pretty much the best thing ever.
Old soft snow boots, a piece of 5-ply shaped and laquered wood, and a leash are all you need for the best times ever. Cheaper than skating, actually.
Snowboarding is super fun, been at it for getting close to 30 years at this point. There is nothing else like being out in the mountain, and riding pow is one of the best feelings in the world.
I also have been pow surfing or noboarding more and more in the last couple years. Mostly snowmobile access, so it is definitely not cheaper than skating, for me.
Check out @garywayneshapes. I’ve been working with them for the last couple years making noboards. More like a snowboard construction, with ptex, fiberglass, wood cores and top sheets. 3D contoured bases.
We might have met...
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Somebody breakdown snowboard culture to me
Who is the Gonz of the snow?
Which video is the Welcome To Hell? The Fully Flared?
What mountain is the Hollywood High? The Macba? The Leap of Faith?
Which teams are analogous to skateboarding? Does snowboarding have an Anti-Hero type team? A Numbers type team?
The Gonz? For weirdo/goofy stuff but an amazing all-terrain rider Travis Parker comes close. Check out his Robot Food movie parts.
Welcome to Hell might be... Upping the Ante? Simple Pleasures maybe?
Fully Flared did nothing for me. Try ‘Pop’ by Absinthe. That draws a good line between the before/after of the crazy double-cork and big booster craze.
In snowboarding, Mt Baker is the Mecca, burnside if you will. Salt Lake City is Barcelona for street. And the original leap of faith would be the My Baker road gap back in the day. Nowadays it would be Chad’s Gap.
Companies have teams and at one time they tried to have ‘images’, but I’m not up on them anymore. Snowboarding has lost a lot of its gnarlier roots, one of the last brave riders of that time is a dude called Scottty Whittelake, look him up.
Actually, ‘The Rascals’ is a good glimpse into the Mt Baker scene.
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Somebody breakdown snowboard culture to me
Who is the Gonz of the snow?
Which video is the Welcome To Hell? The Fully Flared?
What mountain is the Hollywood High? The Macba? The Leap of Faith?
Which teams are analogous to skateboarding? Does snowboarding have an Anti-Hero type team? A Numbers type team?
The Gonz? For weirdo/goofy stuff but an amazing all-terrain rider Travis Parker comes close. Check out his Robot Food movie parts.
Welcome to Hell might be... Upping the Ante? Simple Pleasures maybe?
Fully Flared did nothing for me. Try ‘Pop’ by Absinthe. That draws a good line between the before/after of the crazy double-cork and big booster craze.
In snowboarding, Mt Baker is the Mecca, burnside if you will. Salt Lake City is Barcelona for street. And the original leap of faith would be the My Baker road gap back in the day. Nowadays it would be Chad’s Gap.
Companies have teams and at one time they tried to have ‘images’, but I’m not up on them anymore. Snowboarding has lost a lot of its gnarlier roots, one of the last brave riders of that time is a dude called Scottty Whittelake, look him up.
Actually, ‘The Rascals’ is a good glimpse into the Mt Baker scene.
I will look into these, appreciate it. It's funny, I grew up in Washington and knew Baker was a snowboarders mountain but I didn't know it was like the snowboarders mountain.
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Yeah, it’s had that reputation since the beginning. I’ve only been there once, but it was enough to see why.
It has so much gnarly terrain in a fairly compact area, with a scene that promotes hard-charming riding.
I grew up at a hill mostly famous for groomers, and got a chance to see pro-level riding when I moved to Lake Louise during the explosion of new-school riding, and had my eyes opened.
Now I live in Japan and am lucky to have a winter job that involves snowboarding.
I watch more skateboard media than snowboarding these days, but winter is still my favorite time of year.
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Started skiing in 77, skating around 85, started snowboarding a few years later.
Snowboarding was ‘it’ for me, I never found anything as fun until I tried noboarding (bindingless snowboarding) years later.
I quit skating at 13 because none of my friends did it and the rest of the skaters vibes me out. Wasn’t fun.
But picked it back up 3 or 4 years later because I needed something to do when I couldn’t snowboard.
Now part of my income comes from snowboarding, and it’s been getting a bit stale, but the bindingless riding in powder (and shaping my own powsurfers) is pretty much the best thing ever.
Old soft snow boots, a piece of 5-ply shaped and laquered wood, and a leash are all you need for the best times ever. Cheaper than skating, actually.
Snowboarding is super fun, been at it for getting close to 30 years at this point. There is nothing else like being out in the mountain, and riding pow is one of the best feelings in the world.
I also have been pow surfing or noboarding more and more in the last couple years. Mostly snowmobile access, so it is definitely not cheaper than skating, for me.
Check out @garywayneshapes. I’ve been working with them for the last couple years making noboards. More like a snowboard construction, with ptex, fiberglass, wood cores and top sheets. 3D contoured bases.
We might have met...
I was in Japan last winter for a bit, mostly Hakuba.
Spend most of my winters in Whistler
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-thXvaO51E
slept on
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It’s ok to bend the knees, Jeff.
Good rails tho.
edit-I just watched the whole thing, the fs 3 off the bridge 50 was good.
Getting lower and relaxing your lower joints (knees, ankles) will help you
1-lower your center of gravity and help you stay more stable on rails and landings
2- let the board relax flat on the rail, good especially for kinks.
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Just got all new outerwear and the northeast college pass.
I really don’t know what I’m going to do after I finish my masters these college passes are the only affordable season pass
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Just got all new outerwear and the northeast college pass.
I really don’t know what I’m going to do after I finish my masters these college passes are the only affordable season pass
Man, what do you end up paying for college passes? Around here it’s crazy and I’m pretty sure they dropped the college pass for one that was double the cost.
I’ll have to post my new pickup, grabbed a cool Capita pow board called the spring break. It has a super long effective edge so it rides much longer than its actual length, and it has a cropped tail and wide nose to float in powder. Hope I can get to Jay’s Peak or something this winter.
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Just got all new outerwear and the northeast college pass.
I really don’t know what I’m going to do after I finish my masters these college passes are the only affordable season pass
I’ll have to post my new pickup, grabbed a cool Capita pow board called the spring break. It has a super long effective edge so it rides much longer than its actual length, and it has a cropped tail and wide nose to float in powder. Hope I can get to Jay’s Peak or something this winter.
The northeast college pass was 399. I think the gold pass is a cheaper college pass for loon, Sunday river and sugarloaf which was the one I wanted but I ski a lot with family and no one wants to go that far.
That board sounds sick and I try to go to jay for a weekend once a winter. That place is too much fun
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Just got all new outerwear and the northeast college pass.
I really don’t know what I’m going to do after I finish my masters these college passes are the only affordable season pass
I’ll have to post my new pickup, grabbed a cool Capita pow board called the spring break. It has a super long effective edge so it rides much longer than its actual length, and it has a cropped tail and wide nose to float in powder. Hope I can get to Jay’s Peak or something this winter.
The northeast college pass was 399. I think the gold pass is a cheaper college pass for loon, Sunday river and sugarloaf which was the one I wanted but I ski a lot with family and no one wants to go that far.
That board sounds sick and I try to go to jay for a weekend once a winter. That place is too much fun
Now see, that’s not a bad deal at all considering that those are all pretty big mountains. I would get access to some mountains that are nicer (vail resorts or some shit... i live in fucking PA) than my local (big boulder/jack frost) w/ the season pass, but they’re all at least a 4 hour drive. That and I have nobody to go with, most of my friends have moved away.
Board is actually kind of ugly but it was for a great price and is pretty desirable so I could probably flip it after riding.
(https://i.imgur.com/PtLpia3.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3Xe9rQJ.jpg)
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sweet board, i feel like its pretty hard to get a good deal on those
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(https://i.ibb.co/DLzjF24/8-EFD9085-2112-49-EB-A8-C7-49-BD8522-B75-F.png) (https://ibb.co/8XNQwZM)
should i drop collision (https://carinsuranceguru.org/when-to-drop-collision-insurance)
Joey Sexton is still pretty insane
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Is anybody hitting up any of those TGR premiers for Roadless? Bryan Iguchi, Jeremy Jones, Travis Rice. Looks sick.
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I don't get out as much as used to since having a kid$$$$. But still got some love for it. Unless you got a nice spot somewhere and access to cheap gear its grear. But between gas and lodging and all the other costs associated with resorts and such i just couldnt justify it.
Snowboarding in the streets however is ridiculous. The shit some of these guys are doing is incomprehensible to me. Dudes hucking down black diamonds passes or backwoods drops from peaks are unreal but there is nothing more appealing than street snowboarding. the shit they can do out there is just wild.
I love street snow films.
I bought a used setup from a second hand sports store. We got that bungie and an old s10 and some snow shovels. As long as tour toasty warm it's a pretty fun time and nice way to stay in shape and itch the nitch if you live in a snowy winter climate. Plus I've never been kicked out of a spot for snowboarding. Most times the police or people are more intrigued than pissed off. Ecspically when you roll up with a truck bed full of snow and start making a spot.
But its never been better than the skatebird for me.
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I really do appreciate this thread. I go on slap because I only have 2 friends I can talk to about skateboarding and one of them posts here and I have 0 friends to talk about snowboarding with so it’s been nice to find people here to talk about both with even though I know a lot of skaters hate on snowboarding (especially on slap).
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Ever since I slammed and broke my collar bone snowboarding I can't appreciate that shit.
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http://www.instagram.com/p/B3dF5fuh-ho/
This makes me so happy
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http://www.instagram.com/p/B3dF5fuh-ho/
This makes me so happy
Love blasting snow at people. Nothing better than riding with friends and then you see one sit down for a second you just blast them with snow.
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Taking off next Tuesday for an early a-basin day. I got five days with the ikon pass so I will save most of them for late season. But im fucking itching, need to get some turns in.
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I think I'm gonna try to go snowboarding at least a few times this winter. I went once with my dad this past winter and honestly had a lot of fun. He's a skier, but it's cool to do something active with him.
I'm an idiot when it comes to gear, but is there anything I should know about boots? I've got a decent board but my boots are cheap and shitty. Was thinking of buying some Vans for some familiarity but I'm only basing that on looks lol.
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I think I'm gonna try to go snowboarding at least a few times this winter. I went once with my dad this past winter and honestly had a lot of fun. He's a skier, but it's cool to do something active with him.
I'm an idiot when it comes to gear, but is there anything I should know about boots? I've got a decent board but my boots are cheap and shitty. Was thinking of buying some Vans for some familiarity but I'm only basing that on looks lol.
Most companies make decent boots, Burton, 32, Vans being bigger ones.
Just look at the stiffness you want for the kind of riding you do.
Hard-charging/carving=stiffer, jibbing=softer.
A lot of companies make different speed-lacing systems. Ones where they tighten the whole boot at once (like a single Boa dial) can be uncomfortable, look for systems where you can tighten the top and bottom separately.
Or just use lace-ups, I still do.
Make sure the boots fit snug while wearing thin socks, but allow wiggle room for the toes. Check that your heel is snug and doesn’t lift when you rock onto your toes.
Good luck
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I think I'm gonna try to go snowboarding at least a few times this winter. I went once with my dad this past winter and honestly had a lot of fun. He's a skier, but it's cool to do something active with him.
I'm an idiot when it comes to gear, but is there anything I should know about boots? I've got a decent board but my boots are cheap and shitty. Was thinking of buying some Vans for some familiarity but I'm only basing that on looks lol.
Most companies make decent boots, Burton, 32, Vans being bigger ones.
Just look at the stiffness you want for the kind of riding you do.
Hard-charging/carving=stiffer, jibbing=softer.
A lot of companies make different speed-lacing systems. Ones where they tighten the whole boot at once (like a single Boa dial) can be uncomfortable, look for systems where you can tighten the top and bottom separately.
Or just use lace-ups, I still do.
Make sure the boots fit snug while wearing thin socks, but allow wiggle room for the toes. Check that your heel is snug and doesn’t lift when you rock onto your toes.
Good luck
Big fan of the 32 lashed, but you might want something a little bit stiffer as the lashed advertises as a medium flex but mine are a touch softer than medium I’d say. You could try the 32 edit: TM two, which is a good boot you could find marked down and is a little stiffer but won’t be terrible for park laps.
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I think I told this in another snowboarding thread, but I’ll leave this here. I was in 7th-8th grade when a place called Raging Buffalo snowboard park opened. It was a small hill with a tow rope and supposedly the first snowboard only park. This was 93 or 94 so it was fucking rad to have a hill with some jumps and rails. The first few years it was open were pretty insane when I look back on it. Lots of smoking in the parking lot, on the hill, and drinking. People would hang out from open to close. There was a small building that served as a lodge so it was a lot like being at a skatepark. Which is why I liked it so much. Good times just being a kid and fucking around in the snow all day. I had a pass till I was 16 and by then I was over getting absolutely worked on the midwestern ice we called snow. Snowboarding was fun as fuck as a kid, but I went for the first time in a decade last year and it sucked. Everything hurt and it was cold as fuck.
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I think I told this in another snowboarding thread, but I’ll leave this here. I was in 7th-8th grade when a place called Raging Buffalo snowboard park opened. It was a small hill with a tow rope and supposedly the first snowboard only park. This was 93 or 94 so it was fucking rad to have a hill with some jumps and rails. The first few years it was open were pretty insane when I look back on it. Lots of smoking in the parking lot, on the hill, and drinking. People would hang out from open to close. There was a small building that served as a lodge so it was a lot like being at a skatepark. Which is why I liked it so much. Good times just being a kid and fucking around in the snow all day. I had a pass till I was 16 and by then I was over getting absolutely worked on the midwestern ice we called snow. Snowboarding was fun as fuck as a kid, but I went for the first time in a decade last year and it sucked. Everything hurt and it was cold as fuck.
Raging Buffalo was wild. I went there a couple of times, but always went up to Wilmot instead. Something about snowboarding on an old icey trash pile. Now Vail owns them
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I'm finally buying my dream snowboard that I've wanted since I was a kid (GNU skidder) but don't know shit about snowboard gear these days... What bindings and boots should I look at?
I grew up snowboarding in the early 90s so I'm used to very soft jibby boards even on groomed runs and powder and backcountry they feel best to me. So I assume a softer binding would work for me, but I don't know. Also, don't know what the current "trend" is. I've never tried rear entry bindings, are they good? Anything else I should look for? I'm ordering the board online, but I maybe will go look at bindings in person and certainly boots I need to try on. I'm not rich, but rich enough to consider snowboarding as a hobby.
Any advice would be swell.
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I'm finally buying my dream snowboard that I've wanted since I was a kid (GNU skidder) but don't know shit about snowboard gear these days... What bindings and boots should I look at?
I grew up snowboarding in the early 90s so I'm used to very soft jibby boards even on groomed runs and powder and backcountry they feel best to me. So I assume a softer binding would work for me, but I don't know. Also, don't know what the current "trend" is. I've never tried rear entry bindings, are they good? Anything else I should look for? I'm ordering the board online, but I maybe will go look at bindings in person and certainly boots I need to try on. I'm not rich, but rich enough to consider snowboarding as a hobby.
Any advice would be swell.
Union contact pro is pretty good for what you like and probably a best bang for your buck binding.
I had rear entry bindings before and still did the straps instead if that means anything to you.
In other news... I really liked this part. It was a fun edit with a great smog song and I felt like they really gave you insight into how Gus operates. That corner wall ride was a tribute to Jason Adams too.
http://youtu.be/4kJPzVxWYBY
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I'm finally buying my dream snowboard that I've wanted since I was a kid (GNU skidder) but don't know shit about snowboard gear these days... What bindings and boots should I look at?
I grew up snowboarding in the early 90s so I'm used to very soft jibby boards even on groomed runs and powder and backcountry they feel best to me. So I assume a softer binding would work for me, but I don't know. Also, don't know what the current "trend" is. I've never tried rear entry bindings, are they good? Anything else I should look for? I'm ordering the board online, but I maybe will go look at bindings in person and certainly boots I need to try on. I'm not rich, but rich enough to consider snowboarding as a hobby.
Any advice would be swell.
Do not buy rear entry (Flow brand) bindings. They are too stiff when you land and pinch unless you have overly stiff boots which most skaters do not like.
I would go with Burton bindings and a Burton deck. My buddy has Burton toe strap bindings and he can ride all day w/o foot pinch.
Burton bindings only go with Burton boards so if you are set on GNU then go with another toe strap system.
I have Vans boots and they are great. I have the BOA system but it pops loose at times so go with lace up Vans.
Or, you could buy a snow skate
(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/b6/8d/96/b68d965a99e1f28df41039ef7f442c87--snowboards-skiing.jpg)
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If you are getting a snow skate get an ambition
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx0Un5voKu4
two planks are better than one
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Skiing = rollerblading
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I'm finally buying my dream snowboard that I've wanted since I was a kid (GNU skidder) but don't know shit about snowboard gear these days... What bindings and boots should I look at?
I grew up snowboarding in the early 90s so I'm used to very soft jibby boards even on groomed runs and powder and backcountry they feel best to me. So I assume a softer binding would work for me, but I don't know. Also, don't know what the current "trend" is. I've never tried rear entry bindings, are they good? Anything else I should look for? I'm ordering the board online, but I maybe will go look at bindings in person and certainly boots I need to try on. I'm not rich, but rich enough to consider snowboarding as a hobby.
Any advice would be swell.
Most manufacturers make decent bindings and boots these days. Even RIDE, haha ( they had the worst baseless bindings back in the day).
But everything will be stiffer than you remember. Even the soft stuff. But it’s better that way, you’ll have much better response.
Very solid go-tos for boots would be low-end Burtons or 32 lashed, whichever fit your feet better.
I use Rome bindings, but Burton make perfectly good ones in all ranges of stiffness. The ‘freestyle’ is still economical and functional. Missions are a step up.
Unions are OK, but I found you really have to crank on them to get a good fit.
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Boooooo
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Skiing = rollerblading
Not so much.
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http://youtu.be/wSHVIGvwH-Q
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Looks like K2 can’t afford lift tickets for their riders
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RIP Jake Burton
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYMDJSeSLNg
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RIP Jake Burton
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYMDJSeSLNg
Thanks for posting. Love anything warbington. Love Radiohead too but the song didn’t fit, but that was my only complaint.
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Heavy. RIP
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Heavy. RIP
Yeah big loss. Not sure where it would be without him being at the start of things. Given its 30 degrees (celsius) here it’ll be a skate for jake tomorrow instead of heading to the snow
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RIP Jake Burton
yea, first snowboard was a burton. this season i've got a full time job so my ski bumming days won't be as abundant. definitely can't wait to smash through some trees on at least 1 or 2 heavy storm powder days.
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I forgot about these two gems that get me wet for winter.
https://youtu.be/-p_Nu4AHM6Q
https://youtu.be/o4PkJab6Mj8
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https://youtu.be/Vrv2k813viE
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Skipping work tomorrow to hit up copper. Woodward terrain are so much better than anything else.
Any ikon pass holders here in CO? Might do epic next year just to switch it up but Woodward tho.
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Just got a Peak Pass.
Also just came across this newer vid of Cardiel earning turns
https://youtu.be/L4NYMoLi0ew
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I forgot about these two gems that get me wet for winter.
https://youtu.be/-p_Nu4AHM6Q
https://youtu.be/o4PkJab6Mj8
Those were sweet, looked super fun. Side hits are the best.
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https://youtu.be/Vrv2k813viE
Nice one, E-man and Brocklebank are the homies.
Known Brin and Don since they were kids, I skate with all these guys regularly.
Always stoked on the dope shit.
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What’s up with these fish boards people are riding?
Like the legit stubby, swallow tailed boards. Could you ride all mountain with them?
Like I ain’t goin backcountry and I don’t really go to the park, can I just get my surf on with those even if it’s not always fresh powder?
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What’s up with these fish boards people are riding?
Like the legit stubby, swallow tailed boards. Could you ride all mountain with them?
Like I ain’t goin backcountry and I don’t really go to the park, can I just get my surf on with those even if it’s not always fresh powder?
My opinion. I’ve ridden a couple.
They are amazing in pow for surfy turns, float super well and are easy to ride. You can stand straight up and don’t have lean back.
They are not good for jumping of any kind with the lack of tail you have no support when you land more on your back foot. Both landing in pow and on more packed snow. They worked on groomed runs but don’t preform and carve like a board with some tail.
They are sweet as a dedicated pow board that you only bring out when it snows but not as your everyday all around rider.
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What’s up with these fish boards people are riding?
Like the legit stubby, swallow tailed boards. Could you ride all mountain with them?
Like I ain’t goin backcountry and I don’t really go to the park, can I just get my surf on with those even if it’s not always fresh powder?
there seem to be two types of "pow surfer" boards, long and short. the Nitro Cannon seen here is rated well for all-mountain, poor for jibs
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzqofDPh6bS/
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What about something like this? I mean, I know what the manufacturer says, but let me put it this way: I can ride any run but I'm probably about one step away from poser as far as snowboarding is concerned and I just like the looks. So is this just dumb?
(https://nitrousa.com/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_tile_large/public/2019-07/product-views/boards/SQUASH-159-T.png.jpg?itok=8EuwyQNV)
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What about something like this? I mean, I know what the manufacturer says, but let me put it this way: I can ride any run but I'm probably about one step away from poser as far as snowboarding is concerned and I just like the looks. So is this just dumb?
(https://nitrousa.com/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_tile_large/public/2019-07/product-views/boards/SQUASH-159-T.png.jpg?itok=8EuwyQNV)
It will work for powder and hardpack.
It’s a camber board, it should be able to put down some good carves, and it’s longer, wider nose/shorter, narrower tail will let you float in pow.
Which is kind of the rage these days, lots of companies are making these
If you don’t mind not doing switch, and are not interested in spinning or jibbing, it should be fine.
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You don’t need a powder board to ride powder. I’ve been to mountains in VT with 2ft of fresh powder on a regular all mountain/ park board. It’s a workout on the rear leg but I wasn’t spending 20+ days riding fresh powder so it would be pointless to invest in a powder board. If you’re not doing 50% or more of your riding on fresh powder then don’t buy one, spend your money on other good equipment and don’t skimp on boots.
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we can play in the pro's, man
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went riding at a hill/ice sheet a few hours away from my house on Tuesday. so hard but so rewarding just getting down greens.
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hell yeah bros i love rippin turns on some fresh cord! nothin like goin totally nectar in some pow pow though! Hang loose out there snow bros and get pitted.
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hell yeah bros i love rippin turns on some fresh cord! nothin like goin totally nectar in some pow pow though! Hang loose out there snow bros and get pitted.
My man! Gotta love the perseverance. A rogue admin kooks him into oblivion but does that keep this epic pow surfer down? No way. Even after that public embarrassment my man gets back up on his Roxy Glow 138 takes the training wheels off and busts back in a thread about the best X treme sport.
I gotta give it to you man after that messy focus to come back in here and still act cooler than a group of people for the type of board sport they enjoy is a different type of confidence and I’m all over it.
On wednesdays we wear pink.
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hell yeah bros i love rippin turns on some fresh cord! nothin like goin totally nectar in some pow pow though! Hang loose out there snow bros and get pitted.
My man! Gotta love the perseverance. A rogue admin kooks him into oblivion but does that keep this epic pow surfer down? No way. Even after that public embarrassment my man gets back up on his Roxy Glow 138 takes the training wheels off and busts back in a thread about the best X treme sport.
I gotta give it to you man after that messy focus to come back in here and still act cooler than a group of people for the type of board sport they enjoy is a different type of confidence and I’m all over it.
On wednesdays we wear pink.
worked on a mountain in breckenridge colorado for a year shooting photos for vail. snowboarded 150 days in a season. ive heard people say that kinda shit daily, if you cant laugh at yourself then youre taking it too seriously.
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hell yeah bros i love rippin turns on some fresh cord! nothin like goin totally nectar in some pow pow though! Hang loose out there snow bros and get pitted.
My man! Gotta love the perseverance. A rogue admin kooks him into oblivion but does that keep this epic pow surfer down? No way. Even after that public embarrassment my man gets back up on his Roxy Glow 138 takes the training wheels off and busts back in a thread about the best X treme sport.
I gotta give it to you man after that messy focus to come back in here and still act cooler than a group of people for the type of board sport they enjoy is a different type of confidence and I’m all over it.
On wednesdays we wear pink.
worked on a mountain in breckenridge colorado for a year shooting photos for vail. snowboarded 150 days in a season. ive heard people say that kinda shit daily, if you cant laugh at yourself then youre taking it too seriously.
I’m just messing with you baby. I like our back and forth
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Just got a Peak Pass.
Also just came across this newer vid of Cardiel earning turns
https://youtu.be/L4NYMoLi0ew
That was great. Catching some methods... that's got to feel amazing to him at this point...
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https://youtu.be/msDK3XK0WDo (https://youtu.be/msDK3XK0WDo)
RIP Jaeger Bailey
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https://youtu.be/msDK3XK0WDo (https://youtu.be/msDK3XK0WDo)
RIP Jaeger Bailey
Bummer anyone know what happened?
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https://youtu.be/msDK3XK0WDo (https://youtu.be/msDK3XK0WDo)
RIP Jaeger Bailey
Bummer anyone know what happened?
committed suicide.
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https://youtu.be/msDK3XK0WDo (https://youtu.be/msDK3XK0WDo)
RIP Jaeger Bailey
Bummer anyone know what happened?
Just terrible
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got up to Silverstar. So much powder probably one of the best days I’ve had riding! Awful to hear about Jaeger :(
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my favorite lift accessed back country line in tahoe stayed fresh everyday during the holidays (snow shit is at the end of the clip)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6jqYutlR9B/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQurG_Yrjz4
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https://imgur.com/a/WoVsXV2 - following a buddy thru the trees in CO a few days ago .
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQurG_Yrjz4
Finally got around to watching this and it was such a fun watch. Fred Perry is a mad man
Lukabrazi that looked like such a fun run through the woods man
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQurG_Yrjz4
Somehow this was more exciting than most skatevids. That Phil Hansen dude casually hits fat rails on any board. Plus those border collies are mad cute.
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Thought this was a funny little homie video
http://youtu.be/W2MlBefwirw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7chDL-cVqU
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Pretty stoked on Austen’s new part.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzYaQwaFfJI
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https://imgur.com/MEBOATJ
https://imgur.com/06t8JEf
two more clips from yesterday . snowboarding is fun. but it fucking takes such a toll on your body
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Anybody here use a duck stance? I'm thinking about making the switch because I guess it helps your switch riding? I'm so regular that I can't toeside carve for shit so I heelside everything, and when I should go toeside I always have to go into switch and turn heelside. On the upside of this, I can bomb down a slope pretty fast going switch.
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Anybody here use a duck stance? I'm thinking about making the switch because I guess it helps your switch riding? I'm so regular that I can't toeside carve for shit so I heelside everything, and when I should go toeside I always have to go into switch and turn heelside. On the upside of this, I can bomb down a slope pretty fast going switch.
I’m 9, -6 or I might be 6,-6 I forget tbh. But I do it because I ride goofy on a skateboard and regular on a snowboard so I think that may be why switch on a snowboard is a bit easier for me so I like to have the option.
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Anybody here use a duck stance? I'm thinking about making the switch because I guess it helps your switch riding? I'm so regular that I can't toeside carve for shit so I heelside everything, and when I should go toeside I always have to go into switch and turn heelside. On the upside of this, I can bomb down a slope pretty fast going switch.
I ride +16, -16. Definitely, if you plan to be riding switch go duck. A good tip for going toeside is to look to the top of the hill as you engage your edge completely
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Anybody here use a duck stance? I'm thinking about making the switch because I guess it helps your switch riding? I'm so regular that I can't toeside carve for shit so I heelside everything, and when I should go toeside I always have to go into switch and turn heelside. On the upside of this, I can bomb down a slope pretty fast going switch.
I ride +16, -16. Definitely, if you plan to be riding switch go duck. A good tip for going toeside is to look to the top of the hill as you engage your edge completely
Damn! That’s pretty ducky lol
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Anybody here use a duck stance? I'm thinking about making the switch because I guess it helps your switch riding? I'm so regular that I can't toeside carve for shit so I heelside everything, and when I should go toeside I always have to go into switch and turn heelside. On the upside of this, I can bomb down a slope pretty fast going switch.
Im at 15 / -12. Its close enough to twin where switch isnt weird.
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Damn I never realized all the different combinations of angles people use. I was thinking about starting off with +15/-15, so I'll start from there and adjust based on feel. Any of you guys with bad knees have any recommendations?
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https://youtu.be/Q0tm_SWU4-s (https://youtu.be/Q0tm_SWU4-s)
Jeremy Jones is always doing the most interesting stuff.
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+24 +3 babyyyyy
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went snowboarding yesterday and learned switch 540 boardslides . im not sure what it’s actually called but your like spinning while sliding and it’s fun as fuck
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went snowboarding yesterday and learned switch 540 boardslides . im not sure what it’s actually called but your like spinning while sliding and it’s fun as fuck
like spinning on a box/flat feature? fuckin tight, forget the name but it looks mad fun
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Damn I never realized all the different combinations of angles people use. I was thinking about starting off with +15/-15, so I'll start from there and adjust based on feel. Any of you guys with bad knees have any recommendations?
I had something less than -15 for my backfoot and when I finally changed to -15 it was amazing relief on my knees.
I ride powder specific directional board most of the time, but I can still pop 180's , so I like -15 for my backfoot and keep my front around +18
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Damn I never realized all the different combinations of angles people use. I was thinking about starting off with +15/-15, so I'll start from there and adjust based on feel. Any of you guys with bad knees have any recommendations?
I’ve ridden 15/-15 for about 25 years, last year experimented with 18/-12. I’ll try full positives this year on my stiff board.
Just do what feels right for your knees. It may be less stance than how you are twisting your body.
As for toeside, you gotta learn that shit sooner or later. Make it sooner.
You might have had a bad experience with it that put you off, but if that’s the case, it gets easier.
As you snowboard, gently roll from your heels to your toes on the bottoms of your feet as you turn.
Do it gently at first, and as you go onto your toes, have the feeling of twisting your toes (in your boots) uphill.
When you start turning onto your heels, gently roll onto them and then twist your feet in your boots so that your toes point back downhill, and you do ‘C’ shaped turns.
Try to feel this more with the feet than with the upper body (although your head should be looking ahead through the turn)
Hope that helps.
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Damn I never realized all the different combinations of angles people use. I was thinking about starting off with +15/-15, so I'll start from there and adjust based on feel. Any of you guys with bad knees have any recommendations?
I’ve ridden 15/-15 for about 25 years, last year experimented with 18/-12. I’ll try full positives this year on my stiff board.
Just do what feels right for your knees. It may be less stance than how you are twisting your body.
As for toeside, you gotta learn that shit sooner or later. Make it sooner.
You might have had a bad experience with it that put you off, but if that’s the case, it gets easier.
As you snowboard, gently roll from your heels to your toes on the bottoms of your feet as you turn.
Do it gently at first, and as you go onto your toes, have the feeling of twisting your toes (in your boots) uphill.
When you start turning onto your heels, gently roll onto them and then twist your feet in your boots so that your toes point back downhill, and you do ‘C’ shaped turns.
Try to feel this more with the feet than with the upper body (although your head should be looking ahead through the turn)
Hope that helps.
Cheers for the tips. Currently at sugar bowl right now and this +15/-15 has felt super good so far, especially for my switch. My toeside has gotten totally better as well, but still having commitment issues on steeper terrain but I guess that comes with practice. Now my main problem is getting out of powder, I spend a good chunk of time getting stuck in powder and exert a lot of energy trying to get out
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I checked my setup is 9,-9. You guys convinced me to change my park board to 15,-15
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18, -5. I find if I duck my back foot out more it makes it harder to charge in powder. And my back knee starts to hurt.
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Anybody here use a duck stance? I'm thinking about making the switch because I guess it helps your switch riding? I'm so regular that I can't toeside carve for shit so I heelside everything, and when I should go toeside I always have to go into switch and turn heelside. On the upside of this, I can bomb down a slope pretty fast going switch.
I’m 9, -6 or I might be 6,-6 I forget tbh. But I do it because I ride goofy on a skateboard and regular on a snowboard so I think that may be why switch on a snowboard is a bit easier for me so I like to have the option.
Can you please explain this to me, how is this possible? They're both boards, how come you decide to ride them in different stances? I think this is the craziest thing but it turns out it's not as rare and crazy as I thought it was. There are quite a few people who do this.
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Damn I never realized all the different combinations of angles people use. I was thinking about starting off with +15/-15, so I'll start from there and adjust based on feel. Any of you guys with bad knees have any recommendations?
I’ve ridden 15/-15 for about 25 years, last year experimented with 18/-12. I’ll try full positives this year on my stiff board.
Just do what feels right for your knees. It may be less stance than how you are twisting your body.
As for toeside, you gotta learn that shit sooner or later. Make it sooner.
You might have had a bad experience with it that put you off, but if that’s the case, it gets easier.
As you snowboard, gently roll from your heels to your toes on the bottoms of your feet as you turn.
Do it gently at first, and as you go onto your toes, have the feeling of twisting your toes (in your boots) uphill.
When you start turning onto your heels, gently roll onto them and then twist your feet in your boots so that your toes point back downhill, and you do ‘C’ shaped turns.
Try to feel this more with the feet than with the upper body (although your head should be looking ahead through the turn)
Hope that helps.
Cheers for the tips. Currently at sugar bowl right now and this +15/-15 has felt super good so far, especially for my switch. My toeside has gotten totally better as well, but still having commitment issues on steeper terrain but I guess that comes with practice. Now my main problem is getting out of powder, I spend a good chunk of time getting stuck in powder and exert a lot of energy trying to get out
No problem. I’ve been instructing for about 18 seasons.
If you imagine your turn as a full “c” and break your turn up into quarters, people who are comfortable on one edge can change edges in the first quarter of the turn.
People on their uncomfortable side don’t usually change edges until the 2nd quarter. This leads to a bunch of problems: the turn can get bigger, you pick up speed, and you only really get on your new edge late in the turn.
Try doing turns where you go across the slope , do a full ‘c’, and end up coming back across. Try to change your edges as early as possible and ride the new edge thru the whole turn, esp on your weak (toe) side
As for powder, go fast and don’t stop
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Haven't seen in years but this video blew my mind back in the day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbxdjB03xr8
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Anybody here use a duck stance? I'm thinking about making the switch because I guess it helps your switch riding? I'm so regular that I can't toeside carve for shit so I heelside everything, and when I should go toeside I always have to go into switch and turn heelside. On the upside of this, I can bomb down a slope pretty fast going switch.
I’m 9, -6 or I might be 6,-6 I forget tbh. But I do it because I ride goofy on a skateboard and regular on a snowboard so I think that may be why switch on a snowboard is a bit easier for me so I like to have the option.
Can you please explain this to me, how is this possible? They're both boards, how come you decide to ride them in different stances? I think this is the craziest thing but it turns out it's not as rare and crazy as I thought it was. There are quite a few people who do this.
I don’t know lol. I always just chalked it up to my right foot being my dominant foot, so I want it carrying the most amount of work.
I don’t know if this contributed to it but I broke my left foot when I was 6 and then had problems with that ankle ever since. I used to deal with left ankle sprains constantly so my left ankle has less mobility. But to be honest when you first start snowboarding and you can only falling leaf i just felt more comfortable regular. I probably could’ve learned either way though because like I said I’m pretty good switch and I never really had to work at it.
It gets even weirder because I’m not really that good at backside tricks on a skateboard and do most stuff frontside, but on a snowboard I do most stuff backside regular and most stuff frontside goofy
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Anybody here use a duck stance? I'm thinking about making the switch because I guess it helps your switch riding? I'm so regular that I can't toeside carve for shit so I heelside everything, and when I should go toeside I always have to go into switch and turn heelside. On the upside of this, I can bomb down a slope pretty fast going switch.
I’m 9, -6 or I might be 6,-6 I forget tbh. But I do it because I ride goofy on a skateboard and regular on a snowboard so I think that may be why switch on a snowboard is a bit easier for me so I like to have the option.
Can you please explain this to me, how is this possible? They're both boards, how come you decide to ride them in different stances? I think this is the craziest thing but it turns out it's not as rare and crazy as I thought it was. There are quite a few people who do this.
I don’t know lol. I always just chalked it up to my right foot being my dominant foot, so I want it carrying the most amount of work.
I don’t know if this contributed to it but I broke my left foot when I was 6 and then had problems with that ankle ever since. I used to deal with left ankle sprains constantly so my left ankle has less mobility. But to be honest when you first start snowboarding and you can only falling leaf i just felt more comfortable regular. I probably could’ve learned either way though because like I said I’m pretty good switch and I never really had to work at it.
It gets even weirder because I’m not really that good at backside tricks on a skateboard and do most stuff frontside, but on a snowboard I do most stuff backside regular and most stuff frontside goofy
Yeah, maybe there's not that much difference for you which way you're going. I'm really set on regular and switch has always felt just that, "the wrong way" as we use to call it back in the day.
I find that super-fascinating that it works like that for some people. I remember Jussi Oksanen being the first person I saw do that. We'd skate the same spots back in early nineties and he skates goofy. Then I saw one of his snowboard videoparts and was blown away that he rides regular.
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I also fall into that category. I skateboard goofy and snowboard regular. No idea why, and I started both around the same age. I'm trying to think back if my friends older brother who taught be how to skateboard was goofy. Maybe I was just trying to replicate him?
Also that's cool you used to skate with Jussi. I've always been a fan of his. I know he had some flatground footage in one of the old Robot Food videos. Seems like he had a pretty decent bag of tricks.
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I still ride a Type A 152 danny way board
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I also fall into that category. I skateboard goofy and snowboard regular. No idea why, and I started both around the same age. I'm trying to think back if my friends older brother who taught be how to skateboard was goofy. Maybe I was just trying to replicate him?
Also that's cool you used to skate with Jussi. I've always been a fan of his. I know he had some flatground footage in one of the old Robot Food videos. Seems like he had a pretty decent bag of tricks.
you gotta have a nasty switch game whether its skate or snow
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I also fall into that category. I skateboard goofy and snowboard regular. No idea why, and I started both around the same age. I'm trying to think back if my friends older brother who taught be how to skateboard was goofy. Maybe I was just trying to replicate him?
Also that's cool you used to skate with Jussi. I've always been a fan of his. I know he had some flatground footage in one of the old Robot Food videos. Seems like he had a pretty decent bag of tricks.
Jed Anderson is also like this. "normal" stance for skating is regular, snowboards goofy.
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Jack Wack
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Fuck I bought a new arbor westmark and after 10 days it started to delaminate. Super bummed. Just ordered a niche knew on a heavy discount to ride while I wait for arbors warranty department to get back to me.
But that snowstorm last weekend was fucking crazy at copper Mountain. Never seen so much powder. I had to dig myself out of the trees a few times, it was past waist deep. Amazing.
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Sounds nice, we are having the worst year on record in Japan.
It sucks for riding and my instructing job, but will be worse for Tokyo this summer when there won’t be any snowpack to feed the city’s water supply.
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I like this
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Rumor is adidas snowboarding is coming to an end.
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Rumor is adidas snowboarding is coming to an end.
source? sucks if true, but after nike bailed i'm not surprised. jed really can't win with these corpo boot sponsors, eh?
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why did I not see this thread before?
seeing Cardiel back on a snowboard was epic. Incredible after what he's been through.
I barely skate anymore, except for some city cruising, but I still snowboard in the Alps every year. Not too often unfortunately cause I live far away. I keep it old school and ride with positive 21 / 3 angles, like Haakonsen back in the day. Duck stance seems to hurt my knees just looking at it.
Finally.....This series gets me so hyped! Side Hits Euphoria3!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRruzeLwB-o
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Rumor is adidas snowboarding is coming to an end.
Was listening to the snowboard project and mark sullivan made a joke about someone getting on adidas and then the other guy said that’s impossible now and mark said oh ya cause they’re supposedly done right and then they just moved on. I heard that rumor one other place but can’t remember.
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I’ve had a shit back since last February, and only now is it feeling good enough to actually rip a bit.
It felt so nice to let loose a bit again in some decent snow (it’s been the worst winter on record where i am) and spin a few 3s.
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This thread makes me want a new snowboard. I’m still rocking some mid 1990’s 165 Sims that must weigh 15 lbs. I broke out my early 90’s no-sidecut skis because they were less punishing on my knees on the lift.
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all resorts on mount hood are closed until further notice. thats no fun
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all resorts on mount hood are closed until further notice. thats no fun
hike em buddy
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This thread makes me want a new snowboard. I’m still rocking some mid 1990’s 165 Sims that must weigh 15 lbs. I broke out my early 90’s no-sidecut skis because they were less punishing on my knees on the lift.
Do it. Shit is much easier to ride, especially boots and bindings.
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Been thinking of treating myself to a new deck. Looking to get a short/wide thinking it will feel more like skateboarding. I ride in the Poconos and Catskills so not much powder to speak of. Have my eyes on this deck
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTypU6xyXxU0ZNU8aA8QwJWIVtmtKVr6Xx1OJepwT3zOLT3Y42t)
Should I pull the trigger?
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Been thinking of treating myself to a new deck. Looking to get a short/wide thinking it will feel more like skateboarding. I ride in the Poconos and Catskills so not much powder to speak of. Have my eyes on this deck
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTypU6xyXxU0ZNU8aA8QwJWIVtmtKVr6Xx1OJepwT3zOLT3Y42t)
Should I pull the trigger?
the ride warpig is very similar, i have one and its very fun.
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Been thinking of treating myself to a new deck. Looking to get a short/wide thinking it will feel more like skateboarding. I ride in the Poconos and Catskills so not much powder to speak of. Have my eyes on this deck
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTypU6xyXxU0ZNU8aA8QwJWIVtmtKVr6Xx1OJepwT3zOLT3Y42t)
Should I pull the trigger?
Dying to try the warpig heard it’s so much fun
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i have a k2 87 and its the most fun board i’ve ridden. i want to try more of the k2s, and the warpig too. go short, fat, and camber, so much fun in all conditions (https://images.evo.com/imgp/700/121051/489199/k2-eighty-seven-snowboard-2018-.jpg)
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This thread makes me want a new snowboard. I’m still rocking some mid 1990’s 165 Sims that must weigh 15 lbs. I broke out my early 90’s no-sidecut skis because they were less punishing on my knees on the lift.
Do it. Shit is much easier to ride, especially boots and bindings.
True. I used to have a freeride-orientated board, but 3 years ago I bought a Salomon Assassin and I've had so much fun on it. It's an all-mountain freestyle board and it made ollies and all switch/freestyle stuff so much more fun. and if you have a 165 Sims....man prepare to get your mind blown by the new gear. Even modern clothes I find to be so good compared to the 90's shit. We always used to get cold and wet, not anymore.
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTWXk1IT-SP4LSblNrLms5IJylC5SVcYgoYvClP3bAwAm6Mq8Ct)
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A snowboard podcast!!!! Bout time. Hosted by Grenier of all people! i hope more episodes continue to come.
first guess, none other than one of the oGs Justin Bennee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRxS8wszF30&t=254s
ENJOY
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A snowboard podcast!!!! Bout time. Hosted by Grenier of all people! i hope more episodes continue to come.
first guess, none other than one of the oGs Justin Bennee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRxS8wszF30&t=254s
ENJOY
This was pretty good. There are other decent ones too: AIRTIME is good and I like BOARD BAG STUDIO by Jesse Paul as well, although that's not very frequent and it deals a lot with recovering from injuries and health issues but I found that interest too.
I like podcasts that are hosted by current pros, them interviewing their peers makes it obviously more interesting.
I'm kind of new to snowboarding, this was my 2nd season and I've found it strange that snowboarding is so scattered, in a way. I'm actively following snowboarding and all the timeI'm discovering a bunch of stuff and people I've never heard of. There is no SLAP in snowboarding, I guess that's the reason. Or I just haven't found it.
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A snowboard podcast!!!! Bout time. Hosted by Grenier of all people! i hope more episodes continue to come.
first guess, none other than one of the oGs Justin Bennee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRxS8wszF30&t=254s
ENJOY
This was pretty good. There are other decent ones too: AIRTIME is good and I like BOARD BAG STUDIO by Jesse Paul as well, although that's not very frequent and it deals a lot with recovering from injuries and health issues but I found that interest too.
I like podcasts that are hosted by current pros, them interviewing their peers makes it obviously more interesting.
I'm kind of new to snowboarding, this was my 2nd season and I've found it strange that snowboarding is so scattered, in a way. I'm actively following snowboarding and all the timeI'm discovering a bunch of stuff and people I've never heard of. There is no SLAP in snowboarding, I guess that's the reason. Or I just haven't found it.
Best snowboard on insta is a 90’s pro called Cad Otterstrom. The dude is a workhorse getting clips daily and he still shreds harder than most.
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The not snowboarding podcast is pretty good.
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Not so many current snowboarders, but still a good listen from a North Van local.
FNRad podcast
https://www.buzzsprout.com/277361
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Not so many current snowboarders, but still a good listen from a North Van local.
FNRad podcast
https://www.buzzsprout.com/277361
I've listened to a few episodes with people I'd heard of before haha. Definitely some good stuff but there's also so much wack shit in snowboarding that I have no interest in. But I love learning more and finding the cool shit.
Have to check out Not Snowboarding.
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I've seen Shredjesus around a bunch, I heard his voice and totally knew it was the guy. He's buds with Alex Chalmers, I hope he finds his way onto the pod as some point.
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Thinking about buying some gear in the off season.
Do I need new boots and bindings? Currently have mid 90’s Vans boots and Vision(!) bindings. The boots aren’t uncomfortable or cold. In what way has that gear improved?
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Loosely related to above.. What are some board brands that warrant support over others? I'd like to get my next board from something rider-owned similar to how I would buy a skate deck. I don't follow the snowboard industry so open to any recommendations.
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Loosely related to above.. What are some board brands that warrant support over others? I'd like to get my next board from something rider-owned similar to how I would buy a skate deck. I don't follow the snowboard industry so open to any recommendations.
Plenty of choice. The big ones are nitro (they do a lot for snowboarding, the community and they have probably the best team) k2 snowboards another company that's been around for a long time also make skis ( take what you want with that) burton probably the biggest company more of a corporate company sort of like Element. Companies I'm stoked on are Korua a Swiss company fairly low key, give them a Google very nice videos. Dinosaurs will die started out in bc. Capita very economical company with a very 'green' factory in Austria they also make a fair few other brands boards there.
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Thinking about buying some gear in the off season.
Do I need new boots and bindings? Currently have mid 90’s Vans boots and Vision(!) bindings. The boots aren’t uncomfortable or cold. In what way has that gear improved?
Stiffer, better response. You can go faster and harder (but tweak less).
And same with the bindings. Definitely upgrade the bindings.
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Loosely related to above.. What are some board brands that warrant support over others? I'd like to get my next board from something rider-owned similar to how I would buy a skate deck. I don't follow the snowboard industry so open to any recommendations.
Snowboards that are made in factories with actual snowboarders making them would Mervin Manufacturing (Lib Tech, Gnu) and Smokin.
Smoking is a smaller company with a 3-year warranty and solid boards.
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You can go wrong with Lib-Tech and Gnu.
I would also support DWD and Capita.
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I've had food luck w burton bindings in that the parts are easily replaceable. Boards....I just learned what camber was two years ago....
If you're a 90's guy? Bindings are now way better....boots are crazy stiff....
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I might have already said this in this thread but if you need bindings I’d just go with union contact pros. It will save your bank account a bit and it’s just a good basic binding. And you can’t go wrong with the vans standard hi pro again it’s a cheaper boot that does more than get the job done.
As far as boards are concerned I’ll echo everyone else and say capita or gnu
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Thanks for the suggestion boys, I'll look at all of the above. Out of curiosity, what happened to TechNine? Everyone at the park I rode at (~11 years ago) used to hype up their shit, but the reviews I've read online make it seem like it's not the same brand.
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Them and their gangsta schtick ended a while ago. If they are still around, its by making cheap Chinese boards and gangsta wear for asian markets.
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I might have already said this in this thread but if you need bindings I’d just go with union contact pros. It will save your bank account a bit and it’s just a good basic binding. And you can’t go wrong with the vans standard hi pro again it’s a cheaper boot that does more than get the job done.
As far as boards are concerned I’ll echo everyone else and say capita or gnu
My boards are Capita and Spring Break (manufactured by Capita) with Union contact pros, very happy with those. I'd probably get Vans hi standards but I wanna support my friend's shop and he carries Thirty Two so that's my choice of boot. No complaints there either, can easily wear them all day.
I had a over 20 year break in snowboarding, my previous set up was from early 90's and I must say, getting new, proper gear, it makes a world of difference. Compared to old gear, current equipment is so comfortable, light, the boards are easy to ride, the riding experience is just so much better. Definitely upgrade your gear.
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Loosely related to above.. What are some board brands that warrant support over others? I'd like to get my next board from something rider-owned similar to how I would buy a skate deck. I don't follow the snowboard industry so open to any recommendations.
You have a lot of choice with rider owned brands. Brands already mentioned like Lib Tech/GNU and Capita are good choices. Big into Bataleon and Lobster (Helgason bros brand), they both feature Triple Base Technology which seems to have a lot of benefits for park rats/skaters on snow. Arbor also makes skateboards and they seem to have nice offerings, Westmark is pretty popular. DC Snowboards seem to have a cult following, the PBJ and House of Powder are cool. Rome SDS is generally considered good, I will note that not everyone likes the feel (seen many mixed reviews) YES, Signal, and Smokin also come to mind. All brands where the rep is good enough for me to buy a deck.
Although I gotta say, the "corporate"'/"ski" brands also make really good boards. Nobody will think you're less "core" for supporting an actual board shop that happens to carry the Ride Twinpig or Salomon Huck Knife (two highly rated park boards if that's your thing).
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Loosely related to above.. What are some board brands that warrant support over others? I'd like to get my next board from something rider-owned similar to how I would buy a skate deck. I don't follow the snowboard industry so open to any recommendations.
the angry snowboarder does live streams a few days a week where you can tell him your stats and what you are looking for and he will give some recommendations.
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Loosely related to above.. What are some board brands that warrant support over others? I'd like to get my next board from something rider-owned similar to how I would buy a skate deck. I don't follow the snowboard industry so open to any recommendations.
You have a lot of choice with rider owned brands. Brands already mentioned like Lib Tech/GNU and Capita are good choices. Big into Bataleon and Lobster (Helgason bros brand), they both feature Triple Base Technology which seems to have a lot of benefits for park rats/skaters on snow. Arbor also makes skateboards and they seem to have nice offerings, Westmark is pretty popular. DC Snowboards seem to have a cult following, the PBJ and House of Powder are cool. Rome SDS is generally considered good, I will note that not everyone likes the feel (seen many mixed reviews) YES, Signal, and Smokin also come to mind. All brands where the rep is good enough for me to buy a deck.
Although I gotta say, the "corporate"'/"ski" brands also make really good boards. Nobody will think you're less "core" for supporting an actual board shop that happens to carry the Ride Twinpig or Salomon Huck Knife (two highly rated park boards if that's your thing).
I rode the Ride Warpig for about a month this winter, borrowed it from a friend and that board is super fun. Wide, very easy to ride, apparently some say that's as close to skating as you can get. It's ugly as fuck but I loved that board.
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my wife and i are going 100% backcountry this year due to covid fucking shit up. just gotta pick up one more sled. hyped
(https://i.ibb.co/Qv0vQQk/05-FB37-FE-CC72-4-DCD-B019-06-E1-FFC6-D5-F5.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Qv0vQQk)
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After 10 years off a snowboard, I bought a season pass this year to our small local hill. The culture is kinda kooky, but I always had a ton of fun out doing it. I still have most of my shit from when I was younger, so it didn't cost me too much in the end.
Also, "Street" snowboarding is the weirdest fucking thing.
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I've been snowboarding about 15 years but semi retired at the start of this year after another concussion which took months to shake off.
Timing was about right as a 2 week trip to park city in March got shitcanned by CV19, they closed the resort the day I was due to fly out from the UK.
No Euro trips booked for this winter for the first time in 15 years, combination of CV19 and not being quite sure where I'm going with snowboarding now I'm transitioning out of riding park.
All of that was pretty instrumental in me getting back on a skateboard after 10 years off though, so silver linings and all that.
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my wife and i are going 100% backcountry this year due to covid fucking shit up. just gotta pick up one more sled. hyped
(https://i.ibb.co/Qv0vQQk/05-FB37-FE-CC72-4-DCD-B019-06-E1-FFC6-D5-F5.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Qv0vQQk)
if the arbor westmark rocker 154 mw looks good to you i have a 20/21 new in plastic for sale. PM if interested.
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I started snowboarding a couple of years after I started skating. I never really tried to do tricks on a snowboard, just cruising and fulfilling the need for speed. It's also a great way to keep yourself upbeat during the winter. I haven't been in a while, but that's gotta change. I pay almost no attention to pro snowboarding.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5TbSNbMXc&t=1s
GREAT VID
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5TbSNbMXc&t=1s
GREAT VID
this too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lCRyvCZnmY&ab_channel=GriffinSiebert
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5TbSNbMXc&t=1s
GREAT VID
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lCRyvCZnmY&ab_channel=GriffinSiebert
Cooper is my dude, those dudes always putting out quality material
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5TbSNbMXc&t=1s
GREAT VID
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lCRyvCZnmY&ab_channel=GriffinSiebert
Cooper is my dude, those dudes always putting out quality material
A Maine gentleman
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My expectations are super low this year due to COVID....the hills have gotten consistently busier every year and if skating has seen a huge influx of new skaters or skaters coming back, one can only imagine what snowboarding will be like....
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I'm not looking forward to post-covid flight prices...I would imagine lift passes will probably get more expensive in Europe too, shame as they are historically pretty cheap, especially compared to the US.
I've been debating offloading some of my quiver, but as nobody is riding, no one is buying gear either.
A few of my mates are heading to LAAX in December, I bowed out as I didn't want to risk another cancellation and more money gone... wondering if I should go anyway and just spend a week skating the indoor park at Rocks resort.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC3-XhsVMI&t=125s&ab_channel=STOP
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You want to feel like you’re skating on snow try the burton nug. Best of both worlds. Very stiff but short and rockered(some were v rocker, some were a different rocker profile). Even the flat ones are pretty fun(last two years). They don’t make it anymore but it is out there and fun as fuck. I have 8 or 9 so I’m good for awhile.
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I’ve heard good things about the yes 420 as well. Yes is made by nidecker and is the guys behind the burton uninc crew from the mid to late 2000’s.
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I got a interior plain project (local buddy's brand) for park and a lib box scratcher for street. Got a flight attendant for vacation resorts as well. I'm psyched for this winter!
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Yes to yes. I'm eyeing one of those PYL, look so good...
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After 3 substandard seasons in Japan, it’s nice to ride powder again.
Oh so nice. I’d better enjoy it, because with global warming substandard seasons will soon be the new standard.
Plus COVID has kept the aussies away so you don’t have to go gladiator-style to find some pow.
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I got a interior plain project (local buddy's brand) for park and a lib box scratcher for street. Got a flight attendant for vacation resorts as well. I'm psyched for this winter!
IPP fucking rules. Sad as hell they're done after this season.
I had bought an Odessa but had to return it. Just too narrow for my size 13s, even at its waist width.
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Snowboarding is my first love. I am a flatlander (SoCal) but I ride a fair amount. I have 10 days in this season and thats with skipping the insane crowds of the holiday period. My son is 11 and has gotten heavy into riding and is starting to get fast, powerful, and confident. He's my main riding buddy and its awesome.
I am estimating out 30 days this year. I am going to Colorado Saturday, Tahoe in February, Mammoth in February, Mammoth in March, China Peak in March, plus local riding. I've got one Mammoth trip done this year so far and another was canceled because of SAH order.
I am 44 now so most of my riding is All-Mountain freestyle esque and all-mountain charging.
I still love jibs and the park, but I am really into hips, sidehits, and stuff that I can do cool shit on that does not require spinning. It starts to suck at my advanced age and I am not Chad Otterstrom.
Quiver:
21 BSOD w/ 21 Atlas
21 Gremlin w/ 21 Force
20 Antigravity (Shares bindings w/ Gremlin now)
18 Slush Slasher w/ the old Rainier Custom House Force (if you cant tell, I am a Union fanboy)
20 Orca w/ 18 Falcors
20 Riders Choice w/ 21 Stratas
21 Cool Bean w/ 20 Contact Pros
I have pair of 20 Lassos that after 28 days are starting to delam.
I wear Airblaster outerwear and am a Crab Grab fanatic.
Been heavy (and expensively) into a full quiver upgrade in the last couple of years.
Favorite current riders are Arthur Longo, Blake Paul, Sam Taxwood (all Vans, wow, dork) Erik Leon, Austen Sweeten (his skating is rad too), Max Warbington. All-timers are Jamie, Blaise Rosenthal, Temple Cummins, Todd Richards.
Ok wow, sorry, really passionate about snow. lets talk more about it.
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No one is Chad Otterstrom, he is the equivelant of Chico and Grosso, and still kills it at his age.
I’m an instructor in Japan. Been riding since 87, instructing since 01.
Only have 3 or 4 boards in my quiver. One for instructing, one for free riding, a powder board and a half pipe board i use for carving on hard days. Most of my stuff is used, Japanese people aren’t hard on their gear so you can find some amazing stuff in the second-hand shops here.
After 2 or 3 bad seasons, this one has been good. We’re looking at 30 com tomorrow, and 40 the next day.
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No one is Chad Otterstrom, he is the equivelant of Chico and Grosso, and still kills it at his age.
God, its insane. He is still so fucking good.
I’m an instructor in Japan. Been riding since 87, instructing since 01.
Only have 3 or 4 boards in my quiver. One for instructing, one for free riding, a powder board and a half pipe board i use for carving on hard days. Most of my stuff is used, Japanese people aren’t hard on their gear so you can find some amazing stuff in the second-hand shops here.
After 2 or 3 bad seasons, this one has been good. We’re looking at 30 com tomorrow, and 40 the next day.
That is sick! I know it was tough in Japan in recent seasons, glad this year is much better!! We are going to Niseko in my son's 18th year, so 7 seasons from now. Itll be here before I know it (for better or worse). Glad youre getting dumped tomorrow. Looks like Sunday I will be riding steamboat in up to a foot of pow.
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There is no better series of videos than SHE. I dont mind Yawgoons. The music is fun, and they do a lot with such a small hill, and Gamache rips, but no series of edits right now holds a candle to SHE. Brainbowl is probably second.
https://youtu.be/-p_Nu4AHM6Q
https://youtu.be/o4PkJab6Mj8
https://youtu.be/DRruzeLwB-o
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Nice quiver bigdave. I thought I was doing too much with 5 setups. Although after a near 20-year hiatus I went covid crazy and basically got closeout deals on 5 decks. And you said sidehits so I was about to post the SHE trilogy but looks like you beat me to it. SHE is so good.
Street: '20 154 public therapy/old no back missions
Park: '20 IPP 152 Harrow/missions
Fuckaround/slush days: '20 156 Custom FV/cartels
Carver: '20 156 flight attendant/EST Genesis
Floater: '20 Salomon taka x wolle 155 HPS/cartels (guess I'm a burton binder fanboy)
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Nice quiver bigdave. I thought I was doing too much with 5 setups. Although after a near 20-year hiatus I went covid crazy and basically got closeout deals on 5 decks. And you said sidehits so I was about to post the SHE trilogy but looks like you beat me to it. SHE is so good.
Street: '20 154 public therapy/old no back missions
Park: '20 IPP 152 Harrow/missions
Fuckaround/slush days: '20 156 Custom FV/cartels
Carver: '20 156 flight attendant/EST Genesis
Floater: '20 Salomon taka x wolle 155 HPS/cartels (guess I'm a burton binder fanboy)
haha! that is a great quiver. We definitely all have our brands that' were into. stoked to see Public and IPP in there for sure. I cant wait for SHE4.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbFDbrHUG0
Cole Navin closes this out with one of the better street parts of our time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRhQHPlKTXo
My Buddy Seamus filmed/edited this. It's great. 6:07 Is some beautiful Craig Kelly esque turning
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Snowboarding is my first love. I am a flatlander (SoCal) but I ride a fair amount. I have 10 days in this season and thats with skipping the insane crowds of the holiday period. My son is 11 and has gotten heavy into riding and is starting to get fast, powerful, and confident. He's my main riding buddy and its awesome.
I am estimating out 30 days this year. I am going to Colorado Saturday, Tahoe in February, Mammoth in February, Mammoth in March, China Peak in March, plus local riding. I've got one Mammoth trip done this year so far and another was canceled because of SAH order.
I am 44 now so most of my riding is All-Mountain freestyle esque and all-mountain charging.
I still love jibs and the park, but I am really into hips, sidehits, and stuff that I can do cool shit on that does not require spinning. It starts to suck at my advanced age and I am not Chad Otterstrom.
Quiver:
21 BSOD w/ 21 Atlas
21 Gremlin w/ 21 Force
20 Antigravity (Shares bindings w/ Gremlin now)
18 Slush Slasher w/ the old Rainier Custom House Force (if you cant tell, I am a Union fanboy)
20 Orca w/ 18 Falcors
20 Riders Choice w/ 21 Stratas
21 Cool Bean w/ 20 Contact Pros
I have pair of 20 Lassos that after 28 days are starting to delam.
I wear Airblaster outerwear and am a Crab Grab fanatic.
Been heavy (and expensively) into a full quiver upgrade in the last couple of years.
Favorite current riders are Arthur Longo, Blake Paul, Sam Taxwood (all Vans, wow, dork) Erik Leon, Austen Sweeten (his skating is rad too), Max Warbington. All-timers are Jamie, Blaise Rosenthal, Temple Cummins, Todd Richards.
Ok wow, sorry, really passionate about snow. lets talk more about it.
Yeah man! That's a big-ass quiver, haha! I'm no expert on US geography, but socal ro Colorado is quite a drive right? Just leaves me one less excuse not to get more days in...
Got an Orca last year as well - holy shit do I love that thing.
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Snowboarding is my first love. I am a flatlander (SoCal) but I ride a fair amount. I have 10 days in this season and thats with skipping the insane crowds of the holiday period. My son is 11 and has gotten heavy into riding and is starting to get fast, powerful, and confident. He's my main riding buddy and its awesome.
I am estimating out 30 days this year. I am going to Colorado Saturday, Tahoe in February, Mammoth in February, Mammoth in March, China Peak in March, plus local riding. I've got one Mammoth trip done this year so far and another was canceled because of SAH order.
I am 44 now so most of my riding is All-Mountain freestyle esque and all-mountain charging.
I still love jibs and the park, but I am really into hips, sidehits, and stuff that I can do cool shit on that does not require spinning. It starts to suck at my advanced age and I am not Chad Otterstrom.
Quiver:
21 BSOD w/ 21 Atlas
21 Gremlin w/ 21 Force
20 Antigravity (Shares bindings w/ Gremlin now)
18 Slush Slasher w/ the old Rainier Custom House Force (if you cant tell, I am a Union fanboy)
20 Orca w/ 18 Falcors
20 Riders Choice w/ 21 Stratas
21 Cool Bean w/ 20 Contact Pros
I have pair of 20 Lassos that after 28 days are starting to delam.
I wear Airblaster outerwear and am a Crab Grab fanatic.
Been heavy (and expensively) into a full quiver upgrade in the last couple of years.
Favorite current riders are Arthur Longo, Blake Paul, Sam Taxwood (all Vans, wow, dork) Erik Leon, Austen Sweeten (his skating is rad too), Max Warbington. All-timers are Jamie, Blaise Rosenthal, Temple Cummins, Todd Richards.
Ok wow, sorry, really passionate about snow. lets talk more about it.
Yeah man! That's a big-ass quiver, haha! I'm no expert on US geography, but socal ro Colorado is quite a drive right? Just leaves me one less excuse not to get more days in...
Got an Orca last year as well - holy shit do I love that thing.
Im actually double masking and putting on a face shield and gloves and flying to Colorado this morning!
Orca is really fun! taking it today to CO. I think the only day for real pow is tomorrow but then Mon-Wed we will have some soft snow leftovers probably and trees to hit and stuff. Should be fun.
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I think this is my favorite edit from this year, with Evergreen and Tangle coming in behind them. Big Band was fun too.
https://youtu.be/D-6gAxs2byM
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This is a couple of years old, but I forgot to mention Lenny J. is one of my favorite riders too. I've watched this edit like 50 times probably.
https://youtu.be/F4yGP431-Fg
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I've been out twice this year, not sure how long the season will last, it's been unusually warm for this time of the year.
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My favorite thing, bindingless snow surfing. The Jones mountain surfer works OK, but not as well as the handmade ones.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJ3U0V7lSTI/?igshid=cho02yuhc6ev
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My quiver
2010 burton nug 146(glass pipe)
2011 burton nug 146(Dirty glass pipe)
2012 burton nug 146(George Washington)
2012 burton nug(back in black) 146
2013 burton nug 146(?)
2013 burton me nug 146(Babe on dinosaur; none sword bottom
2014 burton nug 146 le(zombies)
2014 burton nug 146(Trees)
Burton Malavita
Burton genesis
I’m not sure on the years but yeah, it’s a great board and I don’t know what I will do when they are all broken.
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I kinda want a nug, but I'm more in the market for a forum street dweller.
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Hello from Breckenridge!
I rode Steamboat on Sunday for the first time and holy shit, even in a low tide year it was SO FUN. we found powder stashes in the trees, my knee also found a tree, but thats a different story.
Rode Copper yesterday including Peace Park which tbh, as much fun as I have any time I ride, I found pretty underwhelming.
Back to Copper today to go fetch 20K vertical on my Cool Bean, just ripping turns, probably not much if any park, but we'll see. My first time on the board.
Do you guys watch Angry Snowboarder on YouTube? That's who I am out here visiting and riding with. Best no-nonsense, well-educated reviews in snowboarding, and despite his name, he gives back a lot. He's currently sitting on a stack of boards from Rossi and Spring Break to give away on upcoming LiveStreams. Great guy.
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yea angrysnowboarder is cool. he is good about answering my questions in his live streams.
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yea angrysnowboarder is cool. he is good about answering my questions in his live streams.
haha sick! who are you in the live stream?
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had a nice first ride of the season at sugarbowl today and snapped this picture on a blue
(https://i.imgur.com/cSnl1eK.jpg)
I really need a new setup badly...I'm running a fucking Burton Charger and bindings from 2001 :(
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yea angrysnowboarder is cool. he is good about answering my questions in his live streams.
haha sick! who are you in the live stream?
Mike g. Not a frequent chatter like bottledincork but you may have seen me.
I'm based in Denver and have the ikon. I'm down to go shred with any pals.
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yea angrysnowboarder is cool. he is good about answering my questions in his live streams.
haha sick! who are you in the live stream?
Mike g. Not a frequent chatter like bottledincork but you may have seen me.
I'm based in Denver and have the ikon. I'm down to go shred with any pals.
ahha that's me! I am the channel moderator. Were going to A-Basin this morning before my flight out.
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had a nice first ride of the season at sugarbowl today and snapped this picture on a blue
(https://i.imgur.com/cSnl1eK.jpg)
I really need a new setup badly...I'm running a fucking Burton Charger and bindings from 2001 :(
Damn! awesome pic and yes....snowboard tech and quality has improved significantly...time for an upgrade! Check Angry Snowboarder to get help picking new shit.
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Living in the mountains in Canada got me started on a snowboard from a super young age, but when I had gotten into skateboarding in my pre-teens I just ended up craving to skate while it snows most of the year. Now I just go through phases of being hyped to snowboard, then later being bummed that I can't skate.
Still love snowboarding to death though, I wouldn't have started skating without the background of snowboarding all the time.
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I usually poke fun at US snowboarding cause American resorts seem so lame with the snow patrols, the forbidden off-piste rules and all that....Plus French resorts are pretty fucking big. love the Alps!
But this year? French resorts have not opened at all because of covid. and we still don't know whether they will....and I'm pissed.
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I usually poke fun at US snowboarding cause American resorts seem so lame with the snow patrols, the forbidden off-piste rules and all that....Plus French resorts are pretty fucking big. love the Alps!
But this year? French resorts have not opened at all because of covid. and we still don't know whether they will....and I'm pissed.
US resorts are heavenly and way more free than Japan. Until recently, pretty much all trees everywhere were off limits.I got yelled at for riding I. powder right beside the piste, because it was under lifts.
It’s much less draconian now (some trees, under special conditions, are open), and we’ve been getting hit with good snowfalls after 3 bad years.
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I just spend the day snowboarding in Upper WI yesterday. Nobody said anything about going of the tracks, but I got yelled at 3 times for my mask falling below my nose. I could understand if I was in line for the lift, but geez, it’s a lot harder keeping it on while snowboarding than grocery shopping.
I remember in the 90’s most places wouldn’t allow snowboarding period. Now every hill has a snowboard park. Rules have relaxed a lot over the years.
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I just spend the day snowboarding in Upper WI yesterday. Nobody said anything about going of the tracks, but I got yelled at 3 times for my mask falling below my nose. I could understand if I was in line for the lift, but geez, it’s a lot harder keeping it on while snowboarding than grocery shopping.
I remember in the 90’s most places wouldn’t allow snowboarding period. Now every hill has a snowboard park. Rules have relaxed a lot over the years.
Granite peak? I’ve heard they are pretty strict with masks. To me northern wi is more the whitecap area(relative) and I have heard it’s pretty much no rules up there.
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This season whenever my friends or myself toss our carcasses off jumps hoping to hit a tiny tranny landing, I’ve taken to shouting ‘LONGOOOOOO’!’
But realistically, most of mine have been pretty ‘SHORTO’
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I usually poke fun at US snowboarding cause American resorts seem so lame with the snow patrols, the forbidden off-piste rules and all that....Plus French resorts are pretty fucking big. love the Alps!
But this year? French resorts have not opened at all because of covid. and we still don't know whether they will....and I'm pissed.
US resorts are heavenly and way more free than Japan. Until recently, pretty much all trees everywhere were off limits.I got yelled at for riding I. powder right beside the piste, because it was under lifts.
It’s much less draconian now (some trees, under special conditions, are open), and we’ve been getting hit with good snowfalls after 3 bad years.
yeah I just read on the whitelines site that Japanese resorts are pretty strict, I didn't know! My fave French resort is Avoriaz.... no cars in the winter there! :P it almost feels like skating through a city....
(https://coresites-cdn-adm.imgix.net/whitelines_new/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/morzine-avoriaz-piste-map.jpg?fit=crop&w=1440&h=755)
and in case any of you want to go wild, I have to mention La Grave: more than 2000 m of vertical terrain, entirely untracked, just one lift. It's been on my bucked list for years and years....
https://www.powderhounds.com/Europe/France/La-Grave.aspx (https://www.powderhounds.com/Europe/France/La-Grave.aspx)
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I usually poke fun at US snowboarding cause American resorts seem so lame with the snow patrols, the forbidden off-piste rules and all that....Plus French resorts are pretty fucking big. love the Alps!
But this year? French resorts have not opened at all because of covid. and we still don't know whether they will....and I'm pissed.
Have you ever actually ridden in America?
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I usually poke fun at US snowboarding cause American resorts seem so lame with the snow patrols, the forbidden off-piste rules and all that....Plus French resorts are pretty fucking big. love the Alps!
But this year? French resorts have not opened at all because of covid. and we still don't know whether they will....and I'm pissed.
Have you ever actually ridden in America?
yeah I did. and I had a good time....at Bear Mountain and some Nor Cal resort, I can't remember which.But I've read A LOT of horror stories about people getting their passes pulled for going off-piste or just riding too fast. Which is just unfathomable to a Euro.
have you ever actually ridden in Europe? out here off-piste is part of the culture....that's all we do when the snow is good
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and in case any of you want to go wild, I have to mention La Grave: more than 2000 m of vertical terrain, entirely untracked, just one lift. It's been on my bucked list for years and years....
https://www.powderhounds.com/Europe/France/La-Grave.aspx (https://www.powderhounds.com/Europe/France/La-Grave.aspx)
La Grave is sick! Get ready to be up real fucking early though, you're competing against the hungriest lot for those untracked turns. I kinda love that though, that feeling of anticipation us great. And then you have like the whole system of Les Deux Alpes just a couple of lifts away..
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.But I've read A LOT of horror stories about people getting their passes pulled for going off-piste or just riding too fast. Which is just unfathomable to a Euro.
So you're just relying on anecdotal shit you've heard/read, especially after riding just two resorts, both in California. Got it.
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have you ever actually ridden in Europe? out here off-piste is part of the culture....that's all we do when the snow is good
No, but I wasnt ridiculous enough to make assumptions/presumptions about places I've never been.
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sorry BigDave, my bad.
I understand now, the US is number 1!! at everything!!
No criticism whatsover is allowed!
Feel better now?
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and in case any of you want to go wild, I have to mention La Grave: more than 2000 m of vertical terrain, entirely untracked, just one lift. It's been on my bucked list for years and years....
https://www.powderhounds.com/Europe/France/La-Grave.aspx (https://www.powderhounds.com/Europe/France/La-Grave.aspx)
La Grave is sick! Get ready to be up real fucking early though, you're competing against the hungriest lot for those untracked turns. I kinda love that though, that feeling of anticipation us great. And then you have like the whole system of Les Deux Alpes just a couple of lifts away..
damn I'm so jealous if you've been there! Now that I live in Belgium, with kids and everything, the Alps are far and my time is limited...It's the type of place you have to hit when it's right and I wonder if I'll ever get to go there before my body gives up. :'(
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Isn’t it really just the resorts under Vail ownership that are lame as fuck and draconian? Independent resorts are pretty chill from my understanding.
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sorry BigDave, my bad.
I understand now, the US is number 1!! at everything!!
No criticism whatsover is allowed!
Feel better now?
Were definitely not #1 at everything. I also just spent a week in Colorado ducking ropes and riding where I wanted to.
I just dont like it when people talk out of their ass about things they dont know or havent experienced.
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Watch the Bomb Hole !!!
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I usually poke fun at US snowboarding cause American resorts seem so lame with the snow patrols, the forbidden off-piste rules and all that....Plus French resorts are pretty fucking big. love the Alps!
But this year? French resorts have not opened at all because of covid. and we still don't know whether they will....and I'm pissed.
Have you ever actually ridden in America?
yeah I did. and I had a good time....at Bear Mountain and some Nor Cal resort, I can't remember which.But I've read A LOT of horror stories about people getting their passes pulled for going off-piste or just riding too fast. Which is just unfathomable to a Euro.
have you ever actually ridden in Europe? out here off-piste is part of the culture....that's all we do when the snow is good
uhh every single american resort allows people off piste. I live in Colorado, we ski in the trees here at every resort. Yes there are places that are slow zones on groomers and you should respect the ski patrol who thought to designate that area a slow area. it's for a reason.
no one gets there pass pulled for going off piste unless its early season when terrain hasn't opened and someone is ducking a rope or riding in terrain that is considered closed.
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sorry BigDave, my bad.
I understand now, the US is number 1!! at everything!!
No criticism whatsover is allowed!
Feel better now?
Were definitely not #1 at everything. I also just spent a week in Colorado ducking ropes and riding where I wanted to.
I just dont like it when people talk out of their ass about things they dont know or havent experienced.
apparently your reading skills aren't so good, so I've highlighted one important word in my original statement. seriously can you guys take any criticism of the ALLMIGHTY US instead of acting all righteous and offended? Shit the original point I was trying to make is that you guys are lucky cause all our resorts are closed this year.
I usually poke fun at US snowboarding cause American resorts seem so lame with the snow patrols, the forbidden off-piste rules and all that....Plus French resorts are pretty fucking big. love the Alps!
But this year? French resorts have not opened at all because of covid. and we still don't know whether they will....and I'm pissed.
Finally for those who don't want to believe me, here's what international snowboard media has to say about the subject.
https://whitelines.com/snowboard-travel/tips/under_the_ropes.html (https://whitelines.com/snowboard-travel/tips/under_the_ropes.html)
shit apparently we don't even mean the same thing when we say 'off-piste'....maybe I should have said 'backcountry'. btw you guys realize English is not my native language? I'm editing this message right now to be less confrontational cause I don't like Internet drama....really never thought my post would start an argument.
https://www.snowsbest.com/off-piste-europe-north-america/ (https://www.snowsbest.com/off-piste-europe-north-america/)
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well seems I was not so wrong after all....I've never heard of a pass being pulled in France, ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9UVFlb39WQ
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Got a telling off a few times in Breckenridge for riding too fast, but never actually had my pass taken off me.
I like riding in the US, the parks are legit (Keystone particularly). Having done a ton of riding in Europe it's a nice change of pace and different vibe to head stateside.
Was supposed to head out to Park city for 2 weeks last March but Covid put paid to that, the resort closed the day we were due to fly out.
Haven't strapped in for over a year now, no trips booked this winter as Europe is basically a no-go unless you are a local.
Mate of mine had his pass pulled in France on the last day of a trip for acid dropping off the chairlift... so it does happen if you do something stupid enough lol.
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Got a telling off a few times in Breckenridge for riding too fast, but never actually had my pass taken off me.
I like riding in the US, the parks are legit (Keystone particularly). Having done a ton of riding in Europe it's a nice change of pace and different vibe to head stateside.
Was supposed to head out to Park city for 2 weeks last March but Covid put paid to that, the resort closed the day we were due to fly out.
Haven't strapped in for over a year now, no trips booked this winter as Europe is basically a no-go unless you are a local.
Mate of mine had his pass pulled in France on the last day of a trip for acid dropping off the chairlift... so it does happen if you do something stupid enough lol.
haha congrats to your mate! that's the first time I hear of something like that. and you're right, this winter seems fucked in Europe. My friends who live in the Alps go hiking but all French resorts are closed on government orders.
Although Swiss resorts are open apparently? But Switzerland is super expensive and Belgium is really cracking down on international travel at the moment. So probably no boarding for me this year..... :-\
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I have a couple of friends that made it out to Austria for the season, they basically have the whole of Mayrhofen to themselves from the pics i've seen. So yeah Austria could be an option, but actually getting there is another matter entirely.
A few of my mates are planning to do a cheap end of season trip to Joue Du Loup/Super Dev in April but I honestly can't see it happening...shame as that's usually a great week for getting drunk and riding slush in a mostly empty resort!
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I'm editing this message right now to be less confrontational cause I don't like Internet drama....really never thought my post would start an argument.
https://www.snowsbest.com/off-piste-europe-north-america/ (https://www.snowsbest.com/off-piste-europe-north-america/)
Again, I'll reiterate, it's annoying when people who havent experienced shit talk about shit as though it's fact. Do our resorts have rules? Yeah. Is it a monolith where every resort is run by brown shirts who boot you out at the first given opportunity based on your proclivity to go off-piste/backcountry/rope duck? Not hardly. It's a big country and every resort is different, even ones owned/operated by the larger companies (Alterra, Vail, etc)
I don't really feel obligated to be "less confrontational" (which you weren't, even after your post was edited). I mean, I think there's a good chance you're just fucking stupid. Nowhere in any post I did did I mention the US being good at anything or rah-rah or anything else...yet you've brought it up multiple times. No one is more critical of this shit bag, racist, right-wing fundamentalist, imperialist, capitalist shithole country than me.
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I'm editing this message right now to be less confrontational cause I don't like Internet drama....really never thought my post would start an argument.
https://www.snowsbest.com/off-piste-europe-north-america/ (https://www.snowsbest.com/off-piste-europe-north-america/)
Again, I'll reiterate, it's annoying when people who havent experienced shit talk about shit as though it's fact. Do our resorts have rules? Yeah. Is it a monolith where every resort is run by brown shirts who boot you out at the first given opportunity based on your proclivity to go off-piste/backcountry/rope duck? Not hardly. It's a big country and every resort is different, even ones owned/operated by the larger companies (Alterra, Vail, etc)
I don't really feel obligated to be "less confrontational" (which you weren't, even after your post was edited). I mean, I think there's a good chance you're just fucking stupid. Nowhere in any post I did did I mention the US being good at anything or rah-rah or anything else...yet you've brought it up multiple times. No one is more critical of this shit bag, racist, right-wing fundamentalist, imperialist, capitalist shithole country than me.
Yeah ok I'm stupid....again, work on your reading skills, learn the difference between "seem" and "are", maybe learn a foreign language or two to round things out and then get back to me. actually don't, I'll just use the ignore button for the first time on this forum. Bye asshole.
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Came up on a board & boots from my brother in law.
Dropped $300 on a helmet and snow pants.
Minus the expenses, snowboarding is great.
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I'm editing this message right now to be less confrontational cause I don't like Internet drama....really never thought my post would start an argument.
https://www.snowsbest.com/off-piste-europe-north-america/ (https://www.snowsbest.com/off-piste-europe-north-america/)
Again, I'll reiterate, it's annoying when people who havent experienced shit talk about shit as though it's fact. Do our resorts have rules? Yeah. Is it a monolith where every resort is run by brown shirts who boot you out at the first given opportunity based on your proclivity to go off-piste/backcountry/rope duck? Not hardly. It's a big country and every resort is different, even ones owned/operated by the larger companies (Alterra, Vail, etc)
I don't really feel obligated to be "less confrontational" (which you weren't, even after your post was edited). I mean, I think there's a good chance you're just fucking stupid. Nowhere in any post I did did I mention the US being good at anything or rah-rah or anything else...yet you've brought it up multiple times. No one is more critical of this shit bag, racist, right-wing fundamentalist, imperialist, capitalist shithole country than me.
Yeah ok I'm stupid....again, work on your reading skills, learn the difference between "seem" and "are", maybe learn a foreign language or two to round things out and then get back to me. actually don't, I'll just use the ignore button for the first time on this forum. Bye asshole.
cry more en faitmon francais est plutot satisfaisant
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Came up on a board & boots from my brother in law.
Dropped $300 on a helmet and snow pants.
Minus the expenses, snowboarding is great.
It's a real issue, the cost gatekeeping. That's why I like SHRED foundation and the Ojo Foundation and some of these other groups and what they're up to with creating better/more accessibility to the hill.
On another note, got an awesome hour of 10-12" pow tracks yesterday morning before it got blown out by insane lines and everything at the little resort was completely tracked out.
I probably picked the wrong resort to go to but wow was it ever good for that first hour.
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Came up on a board & boots from my brother in law.
Dropped $300 on a helmet and snow pants.
Minus the expenses, snowboarding is great.
It's a real issue, the cost gatekeeping. That's why I like SHRED foundation and the Ojo Foundation and some of these other groups and what they're up to with creating better/more accessibility to the hill.
On another note, got an awesome hour of 10-12" pow tracks yesterday morning before it got blown out by insane lines and everything at the little resort was completely tracked out.
I probably picked the wrong resort to go to but wow was it ever good for that first hour.
The right resort makes all the difference. Best day of my life(snowboarding) was at homewood resort. The resort formerly known as squaw valley and alpine meadows are super awesome, with meadows being much better(yeah, I said it), but homewood on a powder day is the fucking jam. We hit fresh powder runs from open until close whereas in an hour, or less, squaw et al are tracked out, chundered, and busy as fuck.
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headed to Jackson Hole tomorrow, 13"-26" in the forecast for the 2 days we will be there. Psyched!
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I really wish Candide Thovex and Arthur Longo did a vid together, it would be amazing.....(for those who have not seen it, the One of those Days series is kind of the skiing equivalent of Side Hits Euphoria....on steroids)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75uL12ZJTxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4PkJab6Mj8
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for reference....it's mental.
I don't know if you guys have ridden with real good skiers but these guys BLAST. pretty much impossible for a snowboarder to keep up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1NagZN2kjY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKP7jQknGjs
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SHE is the only post 2010 video part(s) I will rewatch. Super amazing.
For skiing, I like these:
https://vimeo.com/32863936
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-C5MRFnSJk
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Got some powder over here last week. Almost ready no one on the hill either, it’s was a pretty productive morning
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKkXs99lDdA/?igshid=1tb9hi4k930gx
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Got some powder over here last week. Almost ready no one on the hill either, it’s was a pretty productive morning
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKkXs99lDdA/?igshid=1tb9hi4k930gx
Looks amazing. Also I liked that 3, totally unexpected
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Got some powder over here last week. Almost ready no one on the hill either, it’s was a pretty productive morning
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKkXs99lDdA/?igshid=1tb9hi4k930gx
hey I remember that song from an old 411 Industry section! what was the brand again? I know Mike Manzoori was in there....
anyways that looked awesome! I gotta say I'm pretty jealous haha.....working as a snowboard instructor in Japan has to be a sweet gig. as a big anime/manga fan, I've been dreaming of visiting Japan for years....getting to a resort over there would probably be a bit difficult but I'd love to skate around in Tokyo. hopefully some time after the pandemic! My boys are grown now so traveling has become way easier.
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->Telly: those 2 were epic, in very different ways! can't believe they actually used "The Final countdown" hahaha.....
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Got some powder over here last week. Almost ready no one on the hill either, it’s was a pretty productive morning
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKkXs99lDdA/?igshid=1tb9hi4k930gx
hey I remember that song from an old 411 Industry section! what was the brand again? I know Mike Manzoori was in there....
anyways that looked awesome! I gotta say I'm pretty jealous haha.....working as a snowboard instructor in Japan has to be a sweet gig. as a big anime/manga fan, I've been dreaming of visiting Japan for years....getting to a resort over there would probably be a bit difficult but I'd love to skate around in Tokyo. hopefully some time after the pandemic! My boys are grown now so traveling has become way easier.
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->Telly: those 2 were epic, in very different ways! can't believe they actually used "The Final countdown" hahaha.....
Thanks Telly!
That area is usually moguls so I don’t often spin into there.
And Oldie,
Yeah, it’s pretty much the ideal job (unless you work for a Japanese ski school). I’ve been around a few places, and I’ve landed almost a straight job working for a friend just doing private lessons.
Japanese hills are different than anywhere else, both in good and bad ways. The hot springs however, are fantastic.
I’ve skated Tokyo a bit, and it’s fun. If you know where to go, there are little bowls and DIY projects scattered across the country.
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This just came out. That Mike Liddle guy has great style and he gets pretty crazy on the rails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bKjBZwW9Mc&feature=emb_title
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This just came out. That Mike Liddle guy has great style and he gets pretty crazy on the rails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bKjBZwW9Mc&feature=emb_title
fucking love Impaler. punk as fuck.
Liddle is great. His bit of stuff from the Arbor Folklore edit last year was rad as hell too.
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Found chin deep snow in jackson hole 36”+ in 3 days 🤯🤯🤯
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Who knew.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKukFI0jpHP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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How good was this today. Next level competition
https://www.redbull.com/nz-en/events/natural-selection-tour (https://www.redbull.com/nz-en/events/natural-selection-tour)
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^yeah just finished day 1 recap. So good.
Twin cities got a few inches of fluff, so I went up to the local hill Trollhaugen and had a blast on my flight attendant with the pow covered side hits.
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Also, that impaler vid has got a helluva lot of great local spots here.
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I don't really know anything about snowboarding but my coworker showed me this video today and goddamn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRfk90XHqyY
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I don't really know anything about snowboarding but my coworker showed me this video today and goddamn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRfk90XHqyY
Pretty good. Do you know Scott Stevens? He is a snowboarder/skateboarder from MA. He is the closest thing to a skateboard inspired skateboarder.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlj3068C9xM
Also, check out urban snowboarding in Montreal.
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/seb-toots-descent-mt-royal-montreal/
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I don't really know anything about snowboarding but my coworker showed me this video today and goddamn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRfk90XHqyY
Pretty good. Do you know Scott Stevens? He is a snowboarder/skateboarder from MA. He is the closest thing to a skateboard inspired skateboarder.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlj3068C9xM
That Scott Stevens video was really sick. Thanks for posting. All his tricks without being attached to his board were cool. I think I get what you mean in that he somehow moves like a skater while snowboarding - something about all those downhill cabs and quickfeets maybe?
My coworker showed me this video too (please ignore the intro skit and half the music):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5TbSNbMXc&t=40s
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Good mix of skating, snowboarding, and jackassery
http://youtu.be/LQurG_Yrjz4
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Good mix of skating, snowboarding, and jackassery
http://youtu.be/LQurG_Yrjz4
One of the best recent snowboard videos in recent years. It’s so dense with amazing tricks I can’t watch it all the way through, I need to do it in chunks to take it in.
Other rad movies I can think of
And the other Drink Water movie, ENERGY
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/energy-full-movie-drink-water-2/
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Good mix of skating, snowboarding, and jackassery
http://youtu.be/LQurG_Yrjz4
One of the best recent snowboard videos in recent years. It’s so dense with amazing tricks I can’t watch it all the way through, I need to do it in chunks to take it in.
Other rad movies I can think of
And the other Drink Water movie, ENERGY
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/energy-full-movie-drink-water-2/
Agreed, I’m old (about to be 45) this video gets me hyped to ride on the days that my knees ache (which is most days). Chris Grenier’s part is pure mayhem and I love it!
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Can't beat the old Robot Food films for stoke building. Afterlame is probably my favourite snowboard movie of all time. The soundtrack is also absolutely brilliant.
If you're new school and haven't seen it-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4A9rIFmS8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4A9rIFmS8)
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Afterlame is rad. Jake Price was the Bombhole guest last week and he talked a lot about that project and Robot Food in general. Pretty awesome to see him working with Tanner on the Vans stuff, and maybe even more rad is that we can count on a movie about Jamie Lynn coming up from Jake.
Natural Selection was incredible. So much fun to watch.
I was in Tahoe last weekend. I used my ikon to ride Squaw for the first time....definitely did not love it. It's the worst super resort I've been to.
Alpine Meadows was good though. we had a blast there, but drove home immediately after. We were going to ride Boreal on Sunday but...were old people. Old and tired.
Fortunately got to do two hours at Mammoth on the drive up. Mammoth is still the best to me. I get to go up next Friday for four days with a crew of friends and my son. Absolutely cannot wait.
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Can't beat the old Robot Food films for stoke building. Afterlame is probably my favourite snowboard movie of all time. The soundtrack is also absolutely brilliant.
If you're new school and haven't seen it-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4A9rIFmS8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4A9rIFmS8)
Lame and afterlame are two of the best if not the best. I was gutted I lost my afterlame DVD as there’s a whole bunch of secret footage on there I only watched once and haven’t been able to find again (granted I haven’t looked too hard). I’ve still got the lame DVD that came in a tin case
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I've still got the Afterlame DVD, i never saw the secret footage though, will have to check that out.
Vaguely remember the tin case Lame, think I sold that with a clutch of other snow dvds a few years back.
I think my biggest regret is selling December (airblaster), it came in this cool plywood "case" with a screen printed front cover...such a rad film too.
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The way you youngsters are talking about the iconic lame/afterlame series is similar to the way us fossils worship the Whiskey catalog lol.
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Don’t forget Mack dawg productions. Probably the forum movie gets the most love but this has always been my favorite snowboard video(yt file is slightly wonky)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NgG3Pr4lyUs
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ok this is the first guy I ever saw snowboarding....I was just getting into skating at the time and it blew. my. mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_8YFBPUi8
those movies are so 80's it hurts!! remember monoskis?? :-X :-X
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbdUEOyryeg
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The way you youngsters are talking about the iconic lame/afterlame series is similar to the way us fossils worship the Whiskey catalog lol.
Haha nah man, I’m still old enough to have had the opportunity to enjoy boozy the clown and the rest of the whiskey series. Probably shouldn’t have been watching those at 13 years old but the parents never caught on. I’ve got whiskey 3 i think it is on vhs somewhere.
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I've still got the Afterlame DVD, i never saw the secret footage though, will have to check that out.
Vaguely remember the tin case Lame, think I sold that with a clutch of other snow dvds a few years back.
I think my biggest regret is selling December (airblaster), it came in this cool plywood "case" with a screen printed front cover...such a rad film too.
Yeah the secret footage was seen by pressing the play button I think it was in a section when they’re riding pipe. Can’t seem to track anything down online about it but I’m sure it’s there. I just flicked a message to Pierre who edited it to see if he could confirm
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Went yesterday when it was below zero outside. Was all good till the sun went down.
I'm going to have to go through these snowboard videos. Rome - No correct way was the one I used to watch all the time when I was serious about snowboarding.
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Who knew.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKukFI0jpHP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Amazing.
Snowboarding needs Tom Penny more than Tom Penny needs snowboarding.
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^^^Looks exactly what you would imagine Tom Penny to look like on a snowboard. Long hold with nice tweak and a nice wide stance. That was a pretty good size kicker too!
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Has this been posted? http://youtu.be/oo-Jk2-w74Y
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(https://i.imgur.com/3NAMlLb.jpg?1)
my friend has one of these at the warehouse where we work at to train/practice. He let me try it on Wednesday and even though the bindings felt super uncomfortable because they're set up for goofy stance and I've got a fractured left ankle it was incredibly fun (and exhausting). Any of you mess around with something like this?
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oh yea. We used to just make something similar in my buddies back yard when it was to warm for us to blow snow (with a homemade snowmaker), and set up the drop in. Lots of fun steezin out some tricks you'd probably never thrown down on anything substantial, and it certainly helped get the form down on certain tricks you would be willing to bring to a rail
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Are snowboard companies comparable to skateboard companies?
For example, is Forum sort of like Shorty's?
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This question would be better if asked like 20 years ago
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(https://i.imgur.com/3NAMlLb.jpg?1)
my friend has one of these at the warehouse where we work at to train/practice. He let me try it on Wednesday and even though the bindings felt super uncomfortable because they're set up for goofy stance and I've got a fractured left ankle it was incredibly fun (and exhausting). Any of you mess around with something like this?
Pretty easy to DIY one... made this a few years back out of a block of wood and a foam Yoga tube thing. Good laugh in the summer.
(https://i.postimg.cc/yd3xQ1mf/IMG-1930.jpg)
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Thinking about getting new bindings.
My board isn’t great but it is fast enough if I hot wax and the edges are in good shape.
I bought rear entry bindings (flow) five years ago and they kill my ankles.
Anyone have good success with bindings not hurting?
I wear a middle of the road soft vans encore. Great boot comfort wise but my bindings dig in.
Don’t want to spend a lot.
Was thinking entry level union freestyle would work. According to their website they are the loose trucks of bindings.
I ride packed powder in the northeast. No jibbing.
Thanks
https://unionbindingcompany.com/products/flite-pro?variant=32609284915305
Or, this one looks like the ankle strap is really comfortable.
https://fixbindingco.com/collections/mens-bindings/products/yale-20-21?variant=32735653462070
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Union are not that great. Loose bindings are for ankle mobility, which is mainly for jibbing.
I’d recommend something a bit stiffer. Burton makes a good range of bindings, but my personal favorites are Rome’s.
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Union Force if you want something more all mountain oriented within that brand, responsive without being crazy twitchy... i've been riding Unions for years and have zero compaints on the durability side of things.
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These look like a good deal...
https://www.shredshop.com/salomon-alibi-pro-snowboard-bindings-2021-pr5a10378/p?skuId=8067322
Or these:
https://www.evo.com/snowboard-bindings/flux-pr#image=161289/659733/flux-pr-snowboard-bindings-2021-.jpg
Pickings are slim right now.
The Unions @Skatebeard has are $250 and the Rome’s that @cucktard seems to be referring to seem to be about the same.
If you vote one way or the other I would appreciate the advice.
Alternatively, if anyone has some 1-2 year old large bindings you want to sell we can chop it up.
Thanks, GS77
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These look like a good deal...
https://www.shredshop.com/salomon-alibi-pro-snowboard-bindings-2021-pr5a10378/p?skuId=8067322
Or these:
https://www.evo.com/snowboard-bindings/flux-pr#image=161289/659733/flux-pr-snowboard-bindings-2021-.jpg
Pickings are slim right now.
The Unions @Skatebeard has are $250 and the Rome’s that @cucktard seems to be referring to seem to be about the same.
If you vote one way or the other I would appreciate the advice.
Alternatively, if anyone has some 1-2 year old large bindings you want to sell we can chop it up.
Thanks, GS77
I say have a look at some of the ride bindings. Alternatively the Burton cartel are a solid pick. I’ve got two pairs of them and they seem indestructible. Evo is my go to for ordering online but occasionally backcountry
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Either of those bindings should be fine for regular riding.
The more important question might be what boots are you using
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https://www.vans.com/shop/mens-encore-snowboard-boot-black-gum
3 season back but they are boa.
Always liked vans for snowboarding.
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You should be fine.
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90% rider, 10% gear.
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Im in the process of unloading my unions and probably switching to bent metals. I will keep a pair or two (I really like how my Atlas pairs with my BSOD) but I keep having some of those common problems with loosening etc.
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90% rider, 10% gear.
What a silly comment. I’m just looking for a decent set of bindings that are comfortable.
Thanks for all the advice guys. I just ordered the Solomon bindings because they seem to be frequently reviewed and I save $80.00 cause apparently no one wants ‘champagne’ color way. Also, they seem to be comparable to the other bindings you guys use or recommend.
Appreciate the help guys.
And Telly...since gear isn’t important I’d be happy to sell you a pair of 5 year old Flow large bindings for $75.00 shipped (lower 48).
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Im in the process of unloading my unions and probably switching to bent metals. I will keep a pair or two (I really like how my Atlas pairs with my BSOD) but I keep having some of those common problems with loosening etc.
Care to sell? I could still cancel my order. My board is a hunk too. Got any extra?
I’m 6.1 with size 12 so I am sure we can swap gear.
If you want to consider I can cancel my order. No Biggie. I can always use my current bindings.
Let me know...
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I don’t know much about snowboard gear, shit is just fun for me, but the tooless adjuster on my heel popped right out my brand new Unions the first day, at the top of the mountain. Pretty pissed and hope they can hook me up with a new one.
Wish I came in here and consulted with Cucktard before scooping a set up, you seem to know your shit. I kinda do all terrain, from powder to ice, lil park here and there
Rome Stale Crewzer
Union Scotty’s
Nike Vapen
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Im in the process of unloading my unions and probably switching to bent metals. I will keep a pair or two (I really like how my Atlas pairs with my BSOD) but I keep having some of those common problems with loosening etc.
Care to sell? I could still cancel my order. My board is a hunk too. Got any extra?
I’m 6.1 with size 12 so I am sure we can swap gear.
If you want to consider I can cancel my order. No Biggie. I can always use my current bindings.
Let me know...
No extra boards, I probably wont sell any bindings until pre-season next year. Good luck though!
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Im in the process of unloading my unions and probably switching to bent metals. I will keep a pair or two (I really like how my Atlas pairs with my BSOD) but I keep having some of those common problems with loosening etc.
Care to sell? I could still cancel my order. My board is a hunk too. Got any extra?
I’m 6.1 with size 12 so I am sure we can swap gear.
If you want to consider I can cancel my order. No Biggie. I can always use my current bindings.
Let me know...
No extra boards, I probably wont sell any bindings until pre-season next year. Good luck though!
Thanks bro. My Binding order got cancelled. Ha. And Craig’s list ain’t as fruitful as it used to be.
Would love to buy a $600 set up but then I think—that’s 10 lift tickets.
Not this year though. Shits gotten so expensive.
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Im in the process of unloading my unions and probably switching to bent metals. I will keep a pair or two (I really like how my Atlas pairs with my BSOD) but I keep having some of those common problems with loosening etc.
Care to sell? I could still cancel my order. My board is a hunk too. Got any extra?
I’m 6.1 with size 12 so I am sure we can swap gear.
If you want to consider I can cancel my order. No Biggie. I can always use my current bindings.
Let me know...
No extra boards, I probably wont sell any bindings until pre-season next year. Good luck though!
Thanks bro. My Binding order got cancelled. Ha. And Craig’s list ain’t as fruitful as it used to be.
Would love to buy a $600 set up but then I think—that’s 10 lift tickets.
Not this year though. Shits gotten so expensive.
This is for me, made me feel personally attacked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFwrOPT6PIs
My shit is kinda wild. I am getting at least a set of bindings tomorrow, maybe a new board. Next season I want to add a Rome Ravine Select and DOD or Katana bindings and do a full Rome kit.
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Im in the process of unloading my unions and probably switching to bent metals. I will keep a pair or two (I really like how my Atlas pairs with my BSOD) but I keep having some of those common problems with loosening etc.
Care to sell? I could still cancel my order. My board is a hunk too. Got any extra?
I’m 6.1 with size 12 so I am sure we can swap gear.
If you want to consider I can cancel my order. No Biggie. I can always use my current bindings.
Let me know...
No extra boards, I probably wont sell any bindings until pre-season next year. Good luck though!
Thanks bro. My Binding order got cancelled. Ha. And Craig’s list ain’t as fruitful as it used to be.
Would love to buy a $600 set up but then I think—that’s 10 lift tickets.
Not this year though. Shits gotten so expensive.
This is for me, made me feel personally attacked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFwrOPT6PIs
My shit is kinda wild. I am getting at least a set of bindings tomorrow, maybe a new board. Next season I want to add a Rome Ravine Select and DOD or Katana bindings and do a full Rome kit.
Must suck to just be bigdave.
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I'm secretly a member of the snowboard industry. AMA.
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I'm secretly a member of the snowboard industry. AMA.
You’re not very good at secrets, eh.
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What a silly comment. I’m just looking for a decent set of bindings that are comfortable.
Thanks for all the advice guys. I just ordered the Solomon bindings because they seem to be frequently reviewed and I save $80.00 cause apparently no one wants ‘champagne’ color way. Also, they seem to be comparable to the other bindings you guys use or recommend.
Appreciate the help guys.
And Telly...since gear isn’t important I’d be happy to sell you a pair of 5 year old Flow large bindings for $75.00 shipped (lower 48).
I ride burtons. I currently rock the genesis but also have a pair of malavitas a couple years newer(which if you’re familiar with burtons trickle down technology type program, means they are about the same binding. So no, I don’t want your garbage flows.
The problem was your question. Asking for something that’s “comfortable” is ridiculous. For example, burton sells a shitload of cartels, but when I used them they hurt my feet so badly I thought something was messed up(stress fracture maybe). Then I went back to some missions and problem was gone. But I had never heard anything bad about the cartel, and it was probably the most popular binding at the time(2005-2008 sometime). So silly is expecting to get a good recommendation for you based on someone else’s anatomy.
Just buy any burton or union, they got shit nailed down.
In the interest Of olive branches: right now would be the time to start scouring cl and fb marketplace for good deals on snowboard purchased for covid purchases. Deals will be better next spring, but a wave of barely used equipment is coming.
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What a silly comment. I’m just looking for a decent set of bindings that are comfortable.
Thanks for all the advice guys. I just ordered the Solomon bindings because they seem to be frequently reviewed and I save $80.00 cause apparently no one wants ‘champagne’ color way. Also, they seem to be comparable to the other bindings you guys use or recommend.
Appreciate the help guys.
And Telly...since gear isn’t important I’d be happy to sell you a pair of 5 year old Flow large bindings for $75.00 shipped (lower 48).
I ride burtons. I currently rock the genesis but also have a pair of malavitas a couple years newer(which if you’re familiar with burtons trickle down technology type program, means they are about the same binding. So no, I don’t want your garbage flows.
The problem was your question. Asking for something that’s “comfortable” is ridiculous. For example, burton sells a shitload of cartels, but when I used them they hurt my feet so badly I thought something was messed up(stress fracture maybe). Then I went back to some missions and problem was gone. But I had never heard anything bad about the cartel, and it was probably the most popular binding at the time(2005-2008 sometime). So silly is expecting to get a good recommendation for you based on someone else’s anatomy.
Just buy any burton or union, they got shit nailed down.
In the interest Of olive branches: right now would be the time to start scouring cl and fb marketplace for good deals on snowboard purchased for covid purchases. Deals will be better next spring, but a wave of barely used equipment is coming.
It is a fair point that each foot is different but you also admit that flow bindings are garbage. I have never had bindings I like and that were comfortable on my feet. So, I am really interested in the bindings with the 3D molded straps.
I actually just spent the last 2 hours trying to fine tune my flow bindings cause we got 10 inches and there is an abandoned ski hill 30 min. From my house that I hike. Maybe I can squeeze one more season out of these shitty things and just buy a complete.
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I do believe the flow system is crap. But I also believe that it’s 90/10 rider/gear.
I’m a much better snowboarder than skateboarder. Let’s be real, it’s a lot easier and being a long time skateboarder allowed me to be comfortable standing sideways, so my learning curve was probably lesser.
Buuut, in my original response I didn’t say anything bad about flows because that was irrelevant. I know I could take beat to shit rental gear and rip as well as 90% percent of the snowboarders at my local area. So I guess my point was don’t worry too much about your gear. Yes, there are advantages to better stuff but you can ride anything, so don’t worry too much about it.
Also find a way to get a discount.
Also, sigh, check “the house.”
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Pro tip after 10+ years of riding Unions - on a brand new set, strip them down and loctite the bolts.
Once you do that they should pretty much never let you down, but the factory loctite they use is fairly rubbish, in the early days I lost a bolt or two on the hill on new pairs.
I don't buy snowboard gear with anything like the voracity I used to, my mountain stick is a 14/15 Capita Ultrafear which pretty much does it all to a reasonable degree...and that's got a pair of Union Forces on it which must be coming up 8 years old now.
Riding rails indoors tanks your gear a lot faster, when I was riding indoor snow every week I would get through a couple of boards a year no bother...
I'm actually a park shaper at my local indoor slope, but it's been closed since pretty much this time last year due to Covid. Haven't strapped in since I had a concussion Jan last year, this has been the longest i've not ridden in about 15 years.
Get friendly with the distros, always a good way to get discounted gear that's kicking around the warehouse. I've had more than a few cheap boards over the years from talking to the right people.
Flow bindings are dogshit... stick with Union, Rome or Burton.
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I don’t know much about snowboard gear, shit is just fun for me, but the tooless adjuster on my heel popped right out my brand new Unions the first day, at the top of the mountain. Pretty pissed and hope they can hook me up with a new one.
Wish I came in here and consulted with Cucktard before scooping a set up, you seem to know your shit. I kinda do all terrain, from powder to ice, lil park here and there
Rome Stale Crewzer
Union Scotty’s
Nike Vapen
Thanks. My winter gig is instructing. Been riding since ‘87. I try to keep up with what’s happening, although my own gear is all several years old, I just try to use it as long as possible.
As for the 90% rider, 10% gear, that only applies to fucking rulers that can shred anything.
The rest of us have to make it as easy and comfortable as we can. Good gear for the right conditions can change lives.
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As for the 90% rider, 10% gear, that only applies to fucking rulers that can shred anything.
I know I’m good, but I wouldn’t have classified myself as a “ruler.” I will now
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Ha didn’t know I was a “ruler” either.
90/10 rider/gear definitely makes sense. Lotta snowboarders are elitists about gear, shits pretty kooky. People on little east coast mountains will shun me once I mention I only rode rentals for 10+ years, while those same people would not be able to keep up with said rental at places like Jacksonhole and Snowbird. It is such a privileged activity though, bound to be some snobs.
That said once you have your own complete there’s no going back.
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Ha didn’t know I was a “ruler” either.
90/10 rider/gear definitely makes sense. Lotta snowboarders are elitists about gear, shits pretty kooky. People on little east coast mountains will shun me once I mention I only rode rentals for 10+ years, while those same people would not be able to keep up with said rental at places like Jacksonhole and Snowbird. It is such a privileged activity though, bound to be some snobs.
That said once you have your own complete there’s no going back.
Where were you at? Hunter? That place is a little to ritzy for my taste.
Check out Belleayre next time you go to the Catskills.
It was built by the locals before Whiteface/Gore purchased.
They used to have $30.00 Wednesday tickets and a great bar at the bottom of the hill.
https://www.belleayre.com/
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When I say ‘rule’, I don’t mean you can do 5’s on rental equipment.
I mean you can charge anything, if it’s a 145 or a 171, lay down trenches, rip an alpine board switch, throw down 7s on a split board with a full pack.
I really mean get on ANY board and kill it.
I’ve only seen a couple of people that can do this, with that kind of talent where the board really doesn’t matter. And while I don’t know any of you personally, I highly doubt you are included in the above.
If you don’t get the irony of complaining snowboarders do this too much while posting on the official skateboard site of gear snobbery, you’re lost.
And since most rippers skate too, it’s a moot point anyways to compare ‘snowboarders’ to ‘skaters’. It’s pretty much the same thing.
When I say equipment matters, I mean as an instructor, I see people struggle with improper equipment all the time. Not sized right, not the right camber for what they want to do, etc. I’m not talking about brands or models. I’m talking about having equipment that gives you the most help to achieve whatever you are trying to do, be it pow, park, or freeriding.
I use old equipment too. I get most of my stuff from the second-hand stores. It’s not about ‘gear snobbery’. It’s about having shit that fits you and helps you more than hinders you.
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When I say ‘rule’, I don’t mean you can do 5’s on rental equipment.
I mean you can charge anything, if it’s a 145 or a 171, lay down trenches, rip an alpine board switch, throw down 7s on a split board with a full pack.
I really mean get on ANY board and kill it.
I’ve only seen a couple of people that can do this, with that kind of talent where the board really doesn’t matter. And while I don’t know any of you personally, I highly doubt you are included in the above.
If you don’t get the irony of complaining snowboarders do this too much while posting on the official skateboard site of gear snobbery, you’re lost.
And since most rippers skate too, it’s a moot point anyways to compare ‘snowboarders’ to ‘skaters’. It’s pretty much the same thing.
When I say equipment matters, I mean as an instructor, I see people struggle with improper equipment all the time. Not sized right, not the right camber for what they want to do, etc. I’m not talking about brands or models. I’m talking about having equipment that gives you the most help to achieve whatever you are trying to do, be it pow, park, or freeriding.
I use old equipment too. I get most of my stuff from the second-hand stores. It’s not about ‘gear snobbery’. It’s about having shit that fits you and helps you more than hinders you.
Nobody is ripping an alpine board switch. Unless you’re talking about a “free riding” board(think burton supermodel or similar tapered, set back board). But if you’re taking about a hard booted, ski binding-esque alpine board, nobody is doing that. Travis rice would struggle with both feet pointed uphill trying to turn.
I do agree that fit is important. If your boots are too big and your heel lifts up inside your boot then yeah, you’re going to struggle. But millions of people learned to ski or snowboard before Shane McConkey mounted a pair of water skis and rode down an Alaskan mountain face. So it can be done. Maybe not as easily as reverse camber or early rise tips, but still very doable.
If you can do 5’s on rental equipment you’re still probably in the top 20% of riders, because that’s difficult.
But me personally, I will charge anything. 14” of powder at keystone and I ripped everything with a 146 nug because its 90% rider and 10% equipment. I could do it just as easily on a 170, but I like to turn more than twice and I don’t own a 170.
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Ha didn’t know I was a “ruler” either.
90/10 rider/gear definitely makes sense. Lotta snowboarders are elitists about gear, shits pretty kooky. People on little east coast mountains will shun me once I mention I only rode rentals for 10+ years, while those same people would not be able to keep up with said rental at places like Jacksonhole and Snowbird. It is such a privileged activity though, bound to be some snobs.
That said once you have your own complete there’s no going back.
Where were you at? Hunter? That place is a little to ritzy for my taste.
Check out Belleayre next time you go to the Catskills.
It was built by the locals before Whiteface/Gore purchased.
They used to have $30.00 Wednesday tickets and a great bar at the bottom of the hill.
https://www.belleayre.com/
I’ve actually never been to Belleayre, is it fun? I didn’t mind Hunter, feel like Windham has better stuff for a Catskill mountain but I’m not tryna pay Windham prices for a Catskill mountain haha.
When I say ‘rule’, I don’t mean you can do 5’s on rental equipment.
I mean you can charge anything, if it’s a 145 or a 171, lay down trenches, rip an alpine board switch, throw down 7s on a split board with a full pack.
I really mean get on ANY board and kill it.
I’ve only seen a couple of people that can do this, with that kind of talent where the board really doesn’t matter. And while I don’t know any of you personally, I highly doubt you are included in the above.
If you don’t get the irony of complaining snowboarders do this too much while posting on the official skateboard site of gear snobbery, you’re lost.
And since most rippers skate too, it’s a moot point anyways to compare ‘snowboarders’ to ‘skaters’. It’s pretty much the same thing.
When I say equipment matters, I mean as an instructor, I see people struggle with improper equipment all the time. Not sized right, not the right camber for what they want to do, etc. I’m not talking about brands or models. I’m talking about having equipment that gives you the most help to achieve whatever you are trying to do, be it pow, park, or freeriding.
I use old equipment too. I get most of my stuff from the second-hand stores. It’s not about ‘gear snobbery’. It’s about having shit that fits you and helps you more than hinders you.
Sheesh talk about a reactionary response. I wasn’t calling you a snob good sir, unless the shoe fits. All I said is that I’ve had multiple instances where people literally do not continue the conversation once I mention I’ve rented the past decade plus, which comes across as snobby.
Of course you want your shit to fit correctly..
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I’m out of olive branches, so...
What’s the difference between god and a snowboard instructor?
God doesn’t think s/he can teach people how to snowboard.
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@YungJugg
Belleayre is the best mountain south of VT.
It is 30 min. West of Kingston, NY so no one really knows about it.
It doesn’t have restaurants, just a bar with food.
It’s deep in the woods so the wind doesn’t cut through like at Hunter.
They have glades and the ski patrol never bothers you.
They also have border cross that they leave open.
It is the most relaxed least corporate mountain.
Kinda like Okemo vs. Killington even though I’ve never been to Killington.
Belleayre reminds me of a smaller Okemo.
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Nobody is ripping an alpine board switch. Unless you’re talking about a “free riding” board(think burton supermodel or similar tapered, set back board). But if you’re taking about a hard booted, ski binding-esque alpine board, nobody is doing that. Travis rice would struggle with both feet pointed uphill trying to turn.
You don’t know who I know.
But millions of people learned to ski or snowboard before Shane McConkey mounted a pair of water skis and rode down an Alaskan mountain face. So it can be done. Maybe not as easily as reverse camber
This is my exact point. Shane can do it because he’s a fucking monster. The rest of us need good equipment to do anything close. EQUIPMENT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
But me personally, I will charge anything. 14” of powder at keystone and I ripped everything with a 146 nug because its 90% rider and 10% equipment. I could do it just as easily on a 170, but I like to turn more than twice and I don’t own a 170.
Oh,, you ‘ripped’ shin-deep powder? So what?
This also demonstrates the point. You have obviously never ridden shitty equipment. Primitive stuff where basic riding is challenging. And to see someone truly talented be able to rip on it.
I’m a mediocre rider. I’ve managed to get good enough to instruct mostly from sheer time on the board, AS WELL AS ADVANCES IN TECH THAT ALLOW ME TO DO SHIT I COULDN'T DO OTHERWISE.
Goddamn right what you use can help or hinder you. You, deluding yourself into thinking you’re doing something special riding in powder on a short board. The is not special, especially when you are riding a high-end volume-shifted board with a rocker. No shit it can ride powder. Nugs are fine in powder. In this case the board is helping you. It’s designed to.
Not hindering you like a cambered 147 from the 90’s would have.
I’m not saying equipment is everything. Of course the rider is the most important thing.
But when you play down how much the right equipment can help you, it’s obvious you’ve never tried to shred on shit equipment.
To make it clear, the only people this ‘90% rider 10% equipment’ idea is relavant to us pros. They are so good that they can ride equipment that would hinder anyone else.
It’s specifically because equipment can hinder or help the majority of us is why I want to make this point.
If you hold onto the 90% rider idea, and advice you give to ‘normal’ people will be shit. You’re basically telling a normal rider that equipment doesn’t matter, when in fact it can make a huge difference.
That attitude is what I want to avoid in this thread, so people asking for advice will get good advice, not just ‘ride better. It’s all on you, bro’.
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I shit you not, this is the first ‘real’ snowboard I ever rode:
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0036/2852/files/Vintage-Burton-Performer-Elite-Snowboard-c-1985.jpg?104002)
Had the worst snowboarding night of my life with Sorel boots and a snowboard with fins not edges. I kept falling going up the rope toe. Kept getting thrown by the ski ruts.
No one could rip on that hunk.
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I’m out of olive branches, so...
What’s the difference between god and a snowboard instructor?
God doesn’t think s/he can teach people how to snowboard.
Instructors were the worst when I was working the lifts for a few years. They thought they were as privileged as patrol (they’re not) to try and get past the full lift line and would always think the owned the mountain. Was always good to see the park crew or lifties go straight after the instructors off a hit/rail/jump and one up them every time.
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Nobody is ripping an alpine board switch. Unless you’re talking about a “free riding” board(think burton supermodel or similar tapered, set back board). But if you’re taking about a hard booted, ski binding-esque alpine board, nobody is doing that. Travis rice would struggle with both feet pointed uphill trying to turn.
You don’t know who I know.
Calling straight bullshit on this.
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But millions of people learned to ski or snowboard before Shane McConkey mounted a pair of water skis and rode down an Alaskan mountain face. So it can be done. Maybe not as easily as reverse camber
This is my exact point. Shane can do it because he’s a fucking monster. The rest of us need good equipment to do anything close. EQUIPMENT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
My point was that pre Shane’s lines, everything was done on positive cambered equipment and a lot of people skied in the 80’s. A lot.
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But me personally, I will charge anything. 14” of powder at keystone and I ripped everything with a 146 nug because its 90% rider and 10% equipment. I could do it just as easily on a 170, but I like to turn more than twice and I don’t own a 170.
Oh,, you ‘ripped’ shin-deep powder? So what?
Well, a) powder is way more difficult to ride in and if I had a supermodel or Malalo or whatever today’s pow boards are called I would have ridden it but I didn’t so I ripped anyway on the board I have instead of renting something tapered and set back to facilitate float. 90/10. And b) Midwest born and raised and I kept up with anybody and passed almost everybody else. I am a good snowboarder, it’s one of the few things I am very confident doing. I’ve also ridden Sierra cement on a 158 custom(cambered) and did the same thing. In that case I moved my bindings back and didn’t ride switch but it worked well and I had a great time.
This also demonstrates the point. You have obviously never ridden shitty equipment. Primitive stuff where basic riding is challenging. And to see someone truly talented be able to rip on it.
I learned to snowboard in college while working at a crappy Midwest resort on rental equipment at a time when snowboards were expensive and used equipment wasn’t floating around Craigslist and fb marketplace. So I used free rentals for two seasons. Whatever you think that means and the first board I bought was an air walk for $80 and frankenbindings from various sources. The board had a foam core and would practically bend in half. Then it snapped in half when I caught an edge landing about 90 degrees shy of where I had meant be.
I’m a mediocre rider. I’ve managed to get good enough to instruct mostly from sheer time on the board, AS WELL AS ADVANCES IN TECH THAT ALLOW ME TO DO SHIT I COULDN'T DO OTHERWISE.
Goddamn right what you use can help or hinder you. You, deluding yourself into thinking you’re doing something special riding in powder on a short board. The is not special, especially when you are riding a high-end volume-shifted board with a rocker. No shit it can ride powder. Nugs are fine in powder. In this case the board is helping you. It’s designed to.
Nugs are great in powder. And groomers. Slush. Park. Everywhere.
Not hindering you like a cambered 147 from the 90’s would have.
I’m not saying equipment is everything. Of course the rider is the most important thing.
But when you play down how much the right equipment can help you, it’s obvious you’ve never tried to shred on shit equipment.
To make it clear, the only people this ‘90% rider 10% equipment’ idea is relavant to us pros. They are so good that they can ride equipment that would hinder anyone else.
It’s specifically because equipment can hinder or help the majority of us is why I want to make this point.
If you hold onto the 90% rider idea, and advice you give to ‘normal’ people will be shit. You’re basically telling a normal rider that equipment doesn’t matter, when in fact it can make a huge difference.
That attitude is what I want to avoid in this thread, so people asking for advice will get good advice, not just ‘ride better. It’s all on you, bro’.
So you just want to blame your budget for your lack of advancement? I don’t know what to say. Go for it.
Of course your equipment can help or hinder you, but it helps or hinders, not allows or disallows.
Personally I got a good deal on some burton genesis bindings so I bought them. Love em. Great bindings. Excellent straps. Then a couple years later I got a great deal on some malavitas. It’s a step down in “performance” but they are also very nice bindings so of course I bought them because 90/10.
When I slip out landing or skid a turn I make a mental note to correct what I did wrong next time, not wish I had equipment that would allow me to be better without being better.
Fuck man, how is this hard? Give me any skateboard and I will heelflip it. If I have unlimited tries.(fuck off if you mention penny boards) And it will never be any fault of the skateboard(in design, shape, grip tape brand) when I miss.
90/10 was never suggesting he should ride better, but not to worry too much about his gear and just ride.
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What’s funny is I’m living the sub-par product dream.
(https://i.imgur.com/tcAZg0U.jpg)
2007 Morrow $80 on Craig’s List
2012 Flow Trilogy bought in 2015 from Evo for $129
2015 Vans Encore on sale for $140 in 2015 (great boots though)
Advantages are I never have to lock my board up and I grind granite w/o hesitation.
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Fuck
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLjxw71HUSj/?igshid=vpkugow2z3z8
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If you’re thinking that might be about the ballsiest move ever done on a snowboard then we do agree on something
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Was it on purpose?
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yea that wallride was crazy,saw that the other day.
You requipment will definetly help the rider to a certain degree. If I ride a softer board, I get soo much chatter on groomers and whatnot goin fast - but not with my main board - custom x. Same for camber and whatnot. That Flying V rocker stuff sucks on grommers - good fo jibbing and stuff, but thats not my cup of tea.
Equipment isnt everything, but it will really help to a certain degree (and make your day allot more pleasureable).
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yea that wallride was crazy,saw that the other day.
You requipment will definetly help the rider to a certain degree. If I ride a softer board, I get soo much chatter on groomers and whatnot goin fast - but not with my main board - custom x. Same for camber and whatnot. That Flying V rocker stuff sucks on grommers - good fo jibbing and stuff, but thats not my cup of tea.
Equipment isnt everything, but it will really help to a certain degree (and make your day allot more pleasureable).
Blah blah blah blame the equipment.
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yea that wallride was crazy,saw that the other day.
You requipment will definetly help the rider to a certain degree. If I ride a softer board, I get soo much chatter on groomers and whatnot goin fast - but not with my main board - custom x. Same for camber and whatnot. That Flying V rocker stuff sucks on grommers - good fo jibbing and stuff, but thats not my cup of tea.
Equipment isnt everything, but it will really help to a certain degree (and make your day allot more pleasureable).
Blah blah blah blame the equipment.
You must be Gods gift to snowboarding then. Youre def better than I am.
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Went hiking and abandon ski hill with my 8 YO son this past Saturday. He was standing on my board in the bindings just cruising down the hill and bailing when he got going too fast. Found a board on craigslist and bought it for him last night. Boots, board and bindings for $125. He’s out on the local hill right now figuring it out with his mom. Hoping he’ll stick with it so I’ll have a wing man to go to the local resorts with.
I’m hopeful this is a gateway to skateboarding, which he is currently scared to do right now.
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Went hiking and abandon ski hill with my 8 YO son this past Saturday. He was standing on my board in the bindings just cruising down the hill and bailing when he got going too fast. Found a board on craigslist and bought it for him last night. Boots, board and bindings for $125. He’s out on the local hill right now figuring it out with his mom. Hoping he’ll stick with it so I’ll have a wing man to go to the local resorts with.
I’m hopeful this is a gateway to skateboarding, which he is currently scared to do right now.
If you can spare the cash, I recommend a lesson. If you don’t have the cash, find a beginner instructor and offer them some beer in exchange for a lesson.
There are definitely easier and harder ways to learn. I learned on my own, and what took me 3 weeks to figure out on my own (with lots of crashing) can be learned safely in an afternoon, with a good instructor.
You get turning and having fun faster, with less falls.
Of course most people eventually figure it out, but it takes longer, and they might pick up some habits like kicking the board around.
Either way, I hope he loves it and it works out for you.
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Forgive the redbull link. Kings and Queens of Corbet's is one of my favorite ski/snowboard contests of the year.
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/live/kings-and-queens-of-corbets
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Went hiking and abandon ski hill with my 8 YO son this past Saturday. He was standing on my board in the bindings just cruising down the hill and bailing when he got going too fast. Found a board on craigslist and bought it for him last night. Boots, board and bindings for $125. He’s out on the local hill right now figuring it out with his mom. Hoping he’ll stick with it so I’ll have a wing man to go to the local resorts with.
I’m hopeful this is a gateway to skateboarding, which he is currently scared to do right now.
If you can spare the cash, I recommend a lesson. If you don’t have the cash, find a beginner instructor and offer them some beer in exchange for a lesson.
There are definitely easier and harder ways to learn. I learned on my own, and what took me 3 weeks to figure out on my own (with lots of crashing) can be learned safely in an afternoon, with a good instructor.
You get turning and having fun faster, with less falls.
Of course most people eventually figure it out, but it takes longer, and they might pick up some habits like kicking the board around.
Either way, I hope he loves it and it works out for you.
Thanks bro.
I believe your kids are younger right?
With my daughter I bought a teach and ride. It was good. They had a mini half pipe on a slight incline so they could carve and pump.
She wasn’t that interested but my son has a perfect stance.
I’ll probably do the same with him.
Kids nowadays want instant gratification so I doubt my son would tolerate the abuse I put myself through learning to snowboard. Being lapped and teased until I was able to keep up.
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I have a 2-year old.
Was going to start her on skis, but got a Burton ringlet from a friend and am surprised how well it works.
At this point it’s still 90% playing in the snow to 10% strapped in, but she likes it, and is starting to use her edges.
A point will come when she’ll stop listening to me, and it will be better for someone else to teach her. At that point I’ll put her in lessons.
But learning sideslipping on toes and heels first (basic speed control) before just letting them go straight and crash helps them get confidence.
Unless you got the kind of kid who likes eating shit. In that case, let ‘em learn some on their own.
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Snoboarding didnt work for my 3 YO at all. I also bought a ringlet. Hed stand on it, and slide donw abit. Even got him a few lessons as they tend to listen to a teacher a little more. Didnt really work out either.
We decided to put him on skis, in a group lesson type of thing the following year. After his 2nd lesson we hit the chair! Skiing was quite a bit easier for my son to learn and its kinda win win all around as we can actually hit some trails together. My youngest son went right to skis as well - started at 3, did ok, but allot better this year. We hit the family style glades last sat. He got stuck in the snow, was funny. He didnt think it was that funny though...
Its a great family activity, so good luck with your son, I hope he picks it up. Like someone above mentioned, splurge for a lesson if you can, it can really help!
Good luck!
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Forgive the redbull link. Kings and Queens of Corbet's is one of my favorite ski/snowboard contests of the year.
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/live/kings-and-queens-of-corbets
thanks for that. I’ll check it out later on today.
And if you don’t know about Chad Otterstrom’s insta, you are missing out. This man is a goddamn National treasure. Easily the best snowboard insta I know of
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLp_OlPjfV7/?igshid=28b72gea91nk
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Ill give him a follow for sure.
Check @beau_bishop I enjoy his page.
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Just a follow-up...
Decided to buy a complete. Figure this board will last until I have to change my riding style from all mountain freestyle to just all mountain.
For bindings I ordered K2 Formulas cause I got a deal on last year’s bindings for $154. Seems like they are a solid middle of the road binding.
For a board I was thinking of getting the Gnu Antigravity but I don’t think I would like Magne Traction. I need a wide deck so I was thinking of getting a volume shift deck. Since I rarely see anything more than artificial snow I was thinking a shorter deck would be more like a skateboard.
I’ve had the K2 Party Platter 152 in my cart but I am in no rush because a bunch of different sellers are offering 20% discount right now.
Anyone got any suggestions? Also, how do you guys feel about Magne Traction? Too catchy?
Any board brands you guys like? Thanks.
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Just a follow-up...
Decided to buy a complete. Figure this board will last until I have to change my riding style from all mountain freestyle to just all mountain.
For bindings I ordered K2 Formulas cause I got a deal on last year’s bindings for $154. Seems like they are a solid middle of the road binding.
For a board I was thinking of getting the Gnu Antigravity but I don’t think I would like Magne Traction. I need a wide deck so I was thinking of getting a volume shift deck. Since I rarely see anything more than artificial snow I was thinking a shorter deck would be more like a skateboard.
I’ve had the K2 Party Platter 152 in my cart but I am in no rush because a bunch of different sellers are offering 20% discount right now.
Anyone got any suggestions? Also, how do you guys feel about Magne Traction? Too catchy?
Any board brands you guys like? Thanks.
Just some thoughts
Short boards are fun if you like to jib and spin. But because they’re so short, they won’t give you much edge grip if your local is usually icy.
A longer board will help with that.
Same goes for the camber profile. Rocker boards are deigned to be playful, which means less surface in contact with the snow. In something like powder, this works well. But on hard pack, it can squirrely.
Like someone will likely chime in, it’s not the board, it’s all on you. Yes, you can use short, rockered boards on ice. But it just makes things harder.
So I recommend something average or a bit longer rather than shorter, and with traditional camber.
And even if you want to spin and do tricks, as long as the board isn’t too stiff, it should be fine.
Magnetraction kind of helps on ice actually. It’s there to offset the problems created by the rockers all Lib Tech boards have. And actually a lot of board companies, like Burton actually use a very subtle type of magnetraction under the feet to help with grip. Lin Tech’s is just more extreme.
Most board companies make decent stuff, it’s just finding out what you mainly want to ride and how you want to ride and narrow down from there.
Want to do a lot of switch? Get a twin. Not much switch? A directional will be better. Looks like you already know that last part with picking an antigravity.
I use a cambered twin, a Rome MOD that works well for what I want to do. But I’ve heard the new ones are garbage, so I can’t recommend anything from this year.
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i feel obligated to give snowboarding another shot given that i have moved to Vancouver since i last tried it. probably a slightly better time when you're not driving 4 hours to a hill made out of garbage
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Anybody catch roller surfer Ben snowboarding on IG? I don't know if it's possible to repost, but check his stories. He rips, of course.
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What the insta handle?
2th, I envy you. 2 hr drive to whistler from Van right? what about Grouse and mT Seymour. Are they closer to Van?
And Camber all the way. Like Cucktard said, rockers are for jibs and stuff - they suck balls on groomers.
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yee 2 hours to whistler and the other two are super close. i dont know how close cause i havent gone myself but i work with people who go before a late shift so must be pretty easy to get to. i think you can take transit at lest most of the way there cause i always see people coming from north van with skis
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yee 2 hours to whistler and the other two are super close. i dont know how close cause i havent gone myself but i work with people who go before a late shift so must be pretty easy to get to. i think you can take transit at lest most of the way there cause i always see people coming from north van with skis
Really easy to get to. 30-40 minutes from downtown by car if the traffic is good.
And 3 really good hills. I worked Cypress for a season, you have night skiing too.
The only thing that sucks is sometimes the rain.
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yeah i gotta go up there. no excuses once i get my shot lol
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Just a follow-up...
Decided to buy a complete. Figure this board will last until I have to change my riding style from all mountain freestyle to just all mountain.
For bindings I ordered K2 Formulas cause I got a deal on last year’s bindings for $154. Seems like they are a solid middle of the road binding.
For a board I was thinking of getting the Gnu Antigravity but I don’t think I would like Magne Traction. I need a wide deck so I was thinking of getting a volume shift deck. Since I rarely see anything more than artificial snow I was thinking a shorter deck would be more like a skateboard.
I’ve had the K2 Party Platter 152 in my cart but I am in no rush because a bunch of different sellers are offering 20% discount right now.
Anyone got any suggestions? Also, how do you guys feel about Magne Traction? Too catchy?
Any board brands you guys like? Thanks.
Magne traction is a godsend in icy conditions and in fluffy conditions you wont feel a difference. No reason to worry about it.
I like my niche deck and i liked my capita before that.
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Anyone else ride the opposite stance they skate? Skate goofy and snowboard regular. Never surfed, wonder what stance I’d identify as.
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Anybody catch roller surfer Ben snowboarding on IG? I don't know if it's possible to repost, but check his stories. He rips, of course.
Ben destroys, man. His style in either skate or snow is so damn good.
New Slush Video Mag is out....being a former employee of 411 I cant help but notice the format and stuff being so similar.
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yeah i gotta go up there. no excuses once i get my shot lol
I used to hit grouse after work when I lived there. Was working on west 4th at a snowboard shop so we had some shop passes for there along with Cyprus. Grouse is fun at night looking out over the city, plus we’d take a few beers up. There were times I’d get the bus, then ferry then bus to there which was a bit annoying but free riding made up for that
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Van sounds like the place to be!!
I hit up Kicking horse this winter - Shit was fun!! You guys are soo lucky put west compared to the east coast. Awesome hills!
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Anyone else ride the opposite stance they skate? Skate goofy and snowboard regular. Never surfed, wonder what stance I’d identify as.
I do, and have the same stances as you. No idea why that is. I started snowboarding a couple years before I started skating. I don't remember if I ever tried switching stances when I learned to skate or not. Either way, my switch game on a snowboard is heaps better than on a skateboard.
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Anyone else ride the opposite stance they skate? Skate goofy and snowboard regular. Never surfed, wonder what stance I’d identify as.
I do, and have the same stances as you. No idea why that is. I started snowboarding a couple years before I started skating. I don't remember if I ever tried switching stances when I learned to skate or not. Either way, my switch game on a snowboard is heaps better than on a skateboard.
That's the most insane thing ever. Makes no sense to me at all. A board is a board, why would you decide to stand the other way on a different board is beyond me :-D
There are surprisingly many people who do that and who are really good at both.
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I had an ex that was like that. Learned how to snowboard one way before she knew her proper stance. Then learned how to skate a bit after and found out her real stance. She eventually switched her snowboard stance, but still got on and off the lift switch out of habit.
Lots of people get their stance misdiagnosed as beginner snowboarders. In Japan, where conformity reigns supreme, there was a time in the 90s when it was about 90% regular-foot riders, despite natural variation (I estimate it to be around 55-60% regular)
Someone (like a rental shop or a friend) will give someone shitty advice, like ‘you’re kicking leg goes in the back, so you can kick your board around’ and stuff, when it’s not really true.
Or they will borrow a board with the opposite stance set up and learn that way.
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My wife and my daughter are taking their first ever lessons this weekend at Mammoth. Pretty psyched for that.
I took them out on my Ditch Witch, set up to be a cruiser right now, so they could learn which way they stand and get comfortable shifting their body weight and stuff. The stance stuff is weird. no idea why someone would skate one way and snowboard the other as their natural primary stance, but ok. I surf/skate/snowboard all regular foot. Granted I can snowboard switch way better than I can the other two.
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Anyone else ride the opposite stance they skate? Skate goofy and snowboard regular. Never surfed, wonder what stance I’d identify as.
I do, and have the same stances as you. No idea why that is. I started snowboarding a couple years before I started skating. I don't remember if I ever tried switching stances when I learned to skate or not. Either way, my switch game on a snowboard is heaps better than on a skateboard.
That's the most insane thing ever. Makes no sense to me at all. A board is a board, why would you decide to stand the other way on a different board is beyond me :-D
There are surprisingly many people who do that and who are really good at both.
Yeah it’s super weird. But I think it’s somewhat common. I’ve seen skate footage from snowboarders and some of them follow suit.
I really wanna try surfing and see what happens there. I need to settle this once and for all.
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I had an ex that was like that. Learned how to snowboard one way before she knew her proper stance. Then learned how to skate a bit after and found out her real stance. She eventually switched her snowboard stance, but still got on and off the lift switch out of habit.
Lots of people get their stance misdiagnosed as beginner snowboarders. In Japan, where conformity reigns supreme, there was a time in the 90s when it was about 90% regular-foot riders, despite natural variation (I estimate it to be around 55-60% regular)
Someone (like a rental shop or a friend) will give someone shitty advice, like ‘you’re kicking leg goes in the back, so you can kick your board around’ and stuff, when it’s not really true.
Or they will borrow a board with the opposite stance set up and learn that way.
That's exactly what happened with my generation in Finland when we started skating in the late 80's. Most people my age here skate regular because that's just how you saw it done.
I might go out on limb here but I would guess that people who skate first will automatically end up riding the same stance, especially if you skate for a longer period of time before getting into snowboarding. I feel like stance is more of an important factor in skating, as it's way harder to get started. Just a thought.
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Big Dave - Surfing switch - do you just switch the stance and ride the surf board regular, or can you actually surf switch, meaning the boards tail is going forward?
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Big Dave - Surfing switch - do you just switch the stance and ride the surf board regular, or can you actually surf switch, meaning the boards tail is going forward?
Surfing switch for me is mostly a stupid accident in which I wipe almost immediately.
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I went snowboarding for the first time of the COVID season over the weekend. Two days at Big Bear. Besides the normal SoCal kook show of gawkers and flockers, conditions were good and I had a good time. Every time I go a year or more without snowboarding and come back to it, it's like falling in love all over again.
Now I just need to get new boots a half size up because the sample size boots I scored from a friend are smashing my feet...
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I went snowboarding for the first time of the COVID season over the weekend. Two days at Big Bear. Besides the normal SoCal kook show of gawkers and flockers, conditions were good and I had a good time. Every time I go a year or more without snowboarding and come back to it, it's like falling in love all over again.
Now I just need to get new boots a half size up because the sample size boots I scored from a friend are smashing my feet...
Nice man, but yeah...that is Bear...been at Summit mostly when I've ridden local this year, or valley. The majority of my days have been travel: Colorado, Tahoe, Mammoth...headed back there Thursday. One more trip in May for their spring stuff. Really fun but I am ready to focus on skating and surfing for the summer.
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Id love to hit up some of the hills you mentioned Dave.
Mammoth seems pretty cool, and man does it dump there at times!! It boggles my mid that there can be such a nice hill with sooo much snow in California. Doesnt make sense - you guys really have it all!
Colorado and Utah one day.
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Id love to hit up some of the hills you mentioned Dave.
Mammoth seems pretty cool, and man does it dump there at times!! It boggles my mid that there can be such a nice hill with sooo much snow in California. Doesnt make sense - you guys really have it all!
Colorado and Utah one day.
Where are you from?
CA is great. I mean, let's face it...surf/skate/snow in one day can be a regular occurrence...
We are, like everyone, getting smacked with climate change. I am not sure the resorts in SoCal (Bear, Summit, Valley, Baldy, Mtn High, Waterman) may not exist in 25-40 years...
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Id love to hit up some of the hills you mentioned Dave.
Mammoth seems pretty cool, and man does it dump there at times!! It boggles my mid that there can be such a nice hill with sooo much snow in California. Doesnt make sense - you guys really have it all!
Colorado and Utah one day.
Where are you from?
CA is great. I mean, let's face it...surf/skate/snow in one day can be a regular occurrence...
We are, like everyone, getting smacked with climate change. I am not sure the resorts in SoCal (Bear, Summit, Valley, Baldy, Mtn High, Waterman) may not exist in 25-40 years...
East Coast Canada - Montreal Quebec
Hills get a we bit icey at times in the winter, but better than nothing, We still get a good few dumps a year, but the best bet for bigger hills and allot of snow is to fly west to British Columbia. Lottta good hills there and great snow as well. Just sucks that it a plane ride away - cant really drive, unless your up for a 20 hr drive.
Ill hit up the hill hopefuly for the last go of the season on Sat, and then might be able to squeeze in a skate on Sunday - warming up and some people have shoveled and swept up the spots.
Should be good!
Ill take a pic of the local hill next time I go - its a small one, but perfect for the kids.
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Id love to hit up some of the hills you mentioned Dave.
Mammoth seems pretty cool, and man does it dump there at times!! It boggles my mid that there can be such a nice hill with sooo much snow in California. Doesnt make sense - you guys really have it all!
Colorado and Utah one day.
Where are you from?
CA is great. I mean, let's face it...surf/skate/snow in one day can be a regular occurrence...
We are, like everyone, getting smacked with climate change. I am not sure the resorts in SoCal (Bear, Summit, Valley, Baldy, Mtn High, Waterman) may not exist in 25-40 years...
East Coast Canada - Montreal Quebec
Hills get a we bit icey at times in the winter, but better than nothing, We still get a good few dumps a year, but the best bet for bigger hills and allot of snow is to fly west to British Columbia. Lottta good hills there and great snow as well. Just sucks that it a plane ride away - cant really drive, unless your up for a 20 hr drive.
Ill hit up the hill hopefuly for the last go of the season on Sat, and then might be able to squeeze in a skate on Sunday - warming up and some people have shoveled and swept up the spots.
Should be good!
Ill take a pic of the local hill next time I go - its a small one, but perfect for the kids.
Don’t you have Mt. Tremblant just outside the city? Always wanted to check it out since it gets a lot of good reviews. Also, Jay Peak is a hill that my buddy tells me a lot of Canadians ride at cause it’s close to the border. I’ve never been but I understand they get a huge amount of snow fall there for whatever reason.
I hear you though, I wouldn’t even think of riding w/o a helmet and I don’t where a helmet unless required skateboarding. My one buddy still does not wear one and we’re drinking beers and hitting jumps. He’s nuts. I’ve hit my head so hard on icy hard pack that w/o my helmet I would have been knocked out cold. Shits hard in the East...
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Yea, hard pack is the word. I ride with a helmet as well, so used to it now, and its quite comfy and warm!
Tremblant is a solid 2 hour drive. Really expensive and overrated IMO. Id rather drive 3 hours toward Quebec city for other hills (Massif / Ste Anne)
Used to go to Jay a bunch when I was younger - Was 'closer' than it is now. They do get some nice dumps, its a fun hill. Th border is a real pain though. Its quite unpredictable time wise, and can easily through off your days. Some of my friends also have a record (DUI and other crap) and that always makes things complicated so long story short kinda avoid Vermont for now. Once my kids get older, well hit that up - Smugglers / Jay / Sugarbush and Id like to try Stowe, but damn that place is pricey!!
I ski at Owls Head from time to time, which is right across the border from Jay. I can see Jay from the top of Owls Head on a clear day.(Mansonville Quebec).
Where do you snowboard at Garden Skater77?
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Yea, hard pack is the word. I ride with a helmet as well, so used to it now, and its quite comfy and warm!
Tremblant is a solid 2 hour drive. Really expensive and overrated IMO. Id rather drive 3 hours toward Quebec city for other hills (Massif / Ste Anne)
Used to go to Jay a bunch when I was younger - Was 'closer' than it is now. They do get some nice dumps, its a fun hill. Th border is a real pain though. Its quite unpredictable time wise, and can easily through off your days. Some of my friends also have a record (DUI and other crap) and that always makes things complicated so long story short kinda avoid Vermont for now. Once my kids get older, well hit that up - Smugglers / Jay / Sugarbush and Id like to try Stowe, but damn that place is pricey!!
I ski at Owls Head from time to time, which is right across the border from Jay. I can see Jay from the top of Owls Head on a clear day.(Mansonville Quebec).
Where do you snowboard at Garden Skater77?
NJ/PA/NY
I used to visit friends in VT. Okemo was the mountain where my friends worked at.
My work friend has a season pass at Smuggs. He loves it there cause Stowe is like Tremblant in that it is more Apres ski than small my vibes.
My favorite mountain is Belleayre in the Catskills. It’s a honky tonk mountain. Bar in the middle of the trail. No real ski patrol presence. It’s as close to a diy mountain as I have seen. It’s a real local mountain but it’s part of White Face/Gore so they have seen a decent amount of improvements over the years.
I love snowboarding in the northeast when we get snow. When it’s icy it hurts so bad falling.
BTW—the clips of the snowboarding in downtown Montreal is so awesome. Montreal is a rad city it’s just freaking windy and cold and I’ve never seen concrete look worse than on the overpass heading in to your city. Still, poutine and smoked meat sounds really good right now.
P.S. Owls Head is sick looking
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I had an old freind that used to hit up Ochemo - talked about it all the time.
We had a hard time at the border going to Jay cause of this guy...hehehe He had quite the past. Good stories though!!
Id love to try some of the hills up there in the Catskills - IVe heard of a few, and think I saw a few signs drving up towrds NY/NJ on the 87 i think?
Whiteface (Iceface) seems neat - Id love to try that bobsled run too. I keeo telling myself well go once the kids get a little older and hack a full day of skiing (aint payin for no half day!!)
Have you tried that other Coop mtn in Vt - Mad River GLen? Apparently no snowboarders allowed - not sure if this has changed.
Yea the downtown foot of one of those snowboard pros was pretty cool - from a few years back right? Those overpasses are such an eye sore - Theyre trying to clean it all up, just takes time. Come don in the summer, allot warmer and the wind aint too bad!.
Owls Head is a good time. Awesome views of the lake (as pictured below) and Tuesday / Wed are the cheapy day - 30$ lift tickets. And hardly any wait at the lift.
Ill see if I can find some other pics.
If you ever wanna ride in QC, hit me up!!
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Kicking Horse this winter.
Drop in boys!!
(https://i.postimg.cc/HrQXCs3R/BFFEFDA0-6-EBF-45-AF-A708-F26-F198-BF486.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/HrQXCs3R)
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Kicking Horse this winter.
Drop in boys!!
(https://i.postimg.cc/HrQXCs3R/BFFEFDA0-6-EBF-45-AF-A708-F26-F198-BF486.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/HrQXCs3R)
Holy shit. I checked out their trail map and it’s a black diamond fest. I don’t know if I would have the stones to go up in the bowls. I think I would but being up on the top of the world is scary. I went to the highest point in Rocky Mt. State Park in the summer and my face puffed up like a blow fish. And that was when I was 22 and fit. Props to you...
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Kicking Horse this winter.
Drop in boys!!
(https://i.postimg.cc/HrQXCs3R/BFFEFDA0-6-EBF-45-AF-A708-F26-F198-BF486.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/HrQXCs3R)
Bastard! Love the horse. Golden is one damn cool town also. Been a few years since I was there last but hoping to get back over once travel is back on
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Heres a few more..
Some local girl showed us this spot after I asked her a question about getting to a trail. She brought me and this guy that I met slightly outta bounds so I was a little nervous, but it all worked out. Went through some tight glades and got to this opening. The locals rip, no joke!
(https://i.postimg.cc/tC0jjXN4/Kh-pow.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/yWT5hCGM)
This is the bottom of a bowl we just got into. We got in right below those rocks on the left (and beat the crowd way up top). Ski patrol just opened it up! You can see them on the left - the 2 little dots. And people are waiting to drop in way up top as well. That shit was fun!!
(https://i.postimg.cc/PJ58fWj1/FA562-CA7-3-BB2-4-E7-B-A2-CF-39-A33-B5-BD570.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/yg2NvSWN)
Views
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Garden77 - check the above photo and look on the right - see that dark line? Thats the cat track / groomer all the way down. So you can hit a bit of a bowl and jump back on the groomer to take it easy for abit. The powder's quite enjoyable to ride though, and its kinda forgiving - the snow at these resorts is soo fluffy you just float. That groomer could take you a good 45 minutes to go down as well, never ends!!
Dad Brains - KH is awesome, and Goldens a cool little town. Id love to spend a season there but that aint gonna happen any time soon hehe. They have a neat little DIY skatepark too. Saw it on the 'Gram.
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Fernie, BC - Jan 2020
Was there for 3 days and it dumped a good 30 on my second and third day. Tons of snow!!
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Steep and Deep - The 1-2-3's. A skier showed me this one. Mike from Calgary - 55 yo. Ski like a mad man. Saw that I could kinda keep up with him and showed me a bunch of gems. Good times!
(https://i.postimg.cc/28fnBZxR/F7152-CF7-235-B-41-B6-9-B82-8-FDBFF9-DEAB8.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/PN2CgNc2)
Big White - Kelowna BC area. Wife had to go there for a marketing gig and I got to tag along - she scored free lift tickets for me as well!
Dec 2019
Was quite overcast and flat light for most of the day, but then opened up for a few hours. And this is mid December!!
(https://i.postimg.cc/50Qb1jHn/14-ACCD1-D-F747-4-D3-A-8-E32-14-A0-C7-AED2-E1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/wyzSQqQm)
Big White is known for their snow ghosts.
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This was awesome to shred through!
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Ive had access to real cheap airline tickets for the past 2-3 years which has allowed me to hit up allot of these hills. But the days of cheap airfare have come to an end. >:( Im trying to rack up a bunch of credit card airline loyalty points to get me to the hills next winter!
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and back to reality - Heres the local - Ski Chantecler
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Small little hill, but when it snows its still kinda fun.
This is about 1/3 of the hill...
https://vimeo.com/526738366
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Fernie, BC - Jan 2020
Was there for 3 days and it dumped a good 30 on my second and third day. Tons of snow!!
(https://i.postimg.cc/rFCxGwhd/5-F51-FF65-5-F9-F-450-C-9994-FEA57-CFE3488.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/hfvXccRg)
Steep and Deep - The 1-2-3's. A skier showed me this one. Mike from Calgary - 55 yo. Ski like a mad man. Saw that I could kinda keep up with him and showed me a bunch of gems. Good times!
(https://i.postimg.cc/28fnBZxR/F7152-CF7-235-B-41-B6-9-B82-8-FDBFF9-DEAB8.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/PN2CgNc2)
Ah fernie, my favourite place to have lived in Canada. Was there for a season back in 06/07 and it was epic. Having done seasons at the likes of whistler, Kirkwood, heavenly and Queenstown, the big mountains of fernie just kill it over anything else. Snake ridge open for hiking? Just some real good people in fernie in general. Keep trying to convince my partner we should move back there but New Zealand is doing all right these days so don’t see that happening anytime soon
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Fernie, BC - Jan 2020
Was there for 3 days and it dumped a good 30 on my second and third day. Tons of snow!!
(https://i.postimg.cc/rFCxGwhd/5-F51-FF65-5-F9-F-450-C-9994-FEA57-CFE3488.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/hfvXccRg)
Steep and Deep - The 1-2-3's. A skier showed me this one. Mike from Calgary - 55 yo. Ski like a mad man. Saw that I could kinda keep up with him and showed me a bunch of gems. Good times!
(https://i.postimg.cc/28fnBZxR/F7152-CF7-235-B-41-B6-9-B82-8-FDBFF9-DEAB8.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/PN2CgNc2)
Ah fernie, my favourite place to have lived in Canada. Was there for a season back in 06/07 and it was epic. Having done seasons at the likes of whistler, Kirkwood, heavenly and Queenstown, the big mountains of fernie just kill it over anything else. Snake ridge open for hiking? Just some real good people in fernie in general. Keep trying to convince my partner we should move back there but New Zealand is doing all right these days so don’t see that happening anytime soon
When were you at Kirkwood? My good friend from HS is a local there and is on their amateur team. My other friend died in a prop plane crash in 2009 in the area while taking part in a joy ride with an experienced pilot from the area.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-vcSkRReckY
Any of this ring a bell?
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Fermin is a great hill, especially pre-RCR. I grew up kinda near there. First place I learned how to stand up on a snowboard.
Part of the Canadian gems that include Red Mountain and Whitewater.
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and back to reality - Heres the local - Ski Chantecler
(https://i.postimg.cc/NMRGm5gL/2-EC621-D1-6-F56-49-FE-89-DF-3-FB6-F5529-B8-F.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/ZBKhhYvh)
Small little hill, but when it snows its still kinda fun.
This is about 1/3 of the hill...
https://vimeo.com/526738366
(https://i.imgur.com/QJ5ZY5B.mp4)
This is my first descent at an abandoned ski hill by my home. My son is running down the hill in back of me and my wife shot the video.
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Looking good!! Kinda handy to have that close by.
Lucky you Dad brains. A season there must be Soo good. Was my second time there in 2020. First time was kinda of a bust. Went with the wife and there just wasn’t any fresh snow and it was hella Icy. Lucked out last year!! Snake ridge might have been open not sure but a local ( another girls on Mat leave) too me to the Fingers? Wow. That was the best run of my life. Steep. Properly spaced tress and 2 ft of pow. Soo much fun. I tend to travel alone so I chat people up On The chair And most will show you around.
I envy you Cucktard. WhAt a hill to learn at. Was the new side open when you skied there? ( white pass chair). The whole RCR thing actually saved my asss this year. I tend to fly to Calgary and then book my hotel. I’ll wait for the most recent snow report. So this year was on the fence between KH and Fernie. Snow report seemed better at Fernie so I booked. Get there and it starts to rain. Hopefully snow up top. But it poured all night. Like a freaking hurricane. Had you told me we were in Nova Scotia I’d believe y’a. It was horrible. So anyhow since I booked via RCR managed to swap my ticket and hotel to KH where it snowed tons. Lucked out big time!!
Worst part about these trips is the weather. So unpredictable it can go both ways. I literally book my trips a day or 2 before going and try to time it with a storm. Usually go second week of January so the hotels tend Tks have room.
You still live out in that part of BC?
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Looking good!! Kinda handy to have that close by.
I envy you Cucktard. WhAt a hill to learn at. Was the new side open when you skied there? ( white pass chair). The whole RCR thing actually saved my asss this year. I tend to fly to Calgary and then book my hotel. I’ll wait for the most recent snow report. So this year was on the fence between KH and Fernie. Snow report seemed better at Fernie so I booked. Get there and it starts to rain. Hopefully snow up top. But it poured all night. Like a freaking hurricane. Had you told me we were in Nova Scotia I’d believe y’a. It was horrible. So anyhow since I booked via RCR managed to swap my ticket and hotel to KH where it snowed tons. Lucked out big time!!
Worst part about these trips is the weather. So unpredictable it can go both ways. I literally book my trips a day or 2 before going and try to time it with a storm. Usually go second week of January so the hotels tend Tks have room.
You still live out in that part of BC?
It was a great place to grow up and learn. Although my home hill was Kimberly.
Last time I rode there was 2015, and I can’t remember if I went on White Pass or not.
I worked for RCR though Kimberly, and I hated it. They totally destroyed the local atmosphere and tore down some historic ski hill buildings, all to create a faux-Whistler style base area that required an idiotic bottleneck to get through. Plus they banned all jumps. And paid instructors half of what they got in the 80’s, without adjusting for inflation.
Global Warming is fucking all of us, but Fernie in particular. All of the places have seen reduced seasons, Fernie used to open Labor Day weekend every year.
Now I get to experience Global Warming in Hakuba, Japan, we’re we’ve been getting May temps since the beginning of the month.
But we had a good December and January for the first time in 4 years. This is what it looked like.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKkXs99lDdA/?igshid=oeop4jj7f7tk
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Yea global warming is not helping any hills whatsoever. Same out in east in Quebec we’re quite a few hills have simply closed up shop. 15 Celsius today. Shits melting fast.
I’d love to make it to Japan to ski not sure it will ever happen - who knows. Your videos awesome. Thanks for sharing. Those tree runs look like sooo much fun. Love that type of stuff. Snow looks really nice as well. Nice 360!!
I hear y’a on Ski hill expansions. Happened at a hill I frequent a bit. The hills are small out here and they actually shortened a chair by couple hundred feet to make room for ski in out condos. What can you do.
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Was just in Mammoth area over the weekend, but really mostly rode June and powder on both Friday and Saturday. Friday was so uncrowded and perfect I was able to basically tire myself out from lapping J7 in just three hours.
Saturday was an insane shitshow (by June standards) with Spring Break starting and Elevation (LGBTQ pride) week going on. Mammoth was a true madhouse. I rode there for a bit Friday afternoon.
After yesterday's pow sesh at June we packed up and went home a day early.
My wife and daughter are learning to ride now. They did a private lesson at Mammoth on Saturday. It was a good jumping off point for them, but now I am going to ride local with them in the closing weeks on the bunny slopes, just work on my butters and switch in the slush while they build some muscle memory.
Mammoth again in May. Main lodge should still have some decent action going.
Honestly, I am ready for the season to end. I had some great adventures this year, but I want to focus on getting in better shape, losing 20lbs, and skating my mini ramp and getting some tricks down. Oh, and surfing.
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Fernie, BC - Jan 2020
Was there for 3 days and it dumped a good 30 on my second and third day. Tons of snow!!
Ah fernie, my favourite place to have lived in Canada. Was there for a season back in 06/07 and it was epic. Having done seasons at the likes of whistler, Kirkwood, heavenly and Queenstown, the big mountains of fernie just kill it over anything else. Snake ridge open for hiking? Just some real good people in fernie in general. Keep trying to convince my partner we should move back there but New Zealand is doing all right these days so don’t see that happening anytime soon
When were you at Kirkwood? My good friend from HS is a local there and is on their amateur team. My other friend died in a prop plane crash in 2009 in the area while taking part in a joy ride with an experienced pilot from the area.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-vcSkRReckY
Any of this ring a bell?
First season at Kirkwood was 03/04 and was living in a gated community with 12 others in a 2 room house just near McDonald’s. Snowbanks on the side of the road were 3 feet high so you can imagine how good it was up in the hills. Went back for a season in 10/11 and it was the hottest winter they’ve had in Tahoe. Barely anything open and a long way to come from nz for a shit season. Recognise a fair few of those locations in that video though
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Didnt it just dump a bunch in the Mammoth area - Think I saw it on the 'Gram.
Thats insane that you can still ski in the month of May in California. Im baffled!
Good on you getting the kids in a snowbaord lesson. I tried snowboarding with my oldest - he was 3-4 at the time. Bought the Burton Riglet (used) and it had that little leash - I tried to show him, then we got a few private lessons - Wasnt really sticking. So we threw him on skis and that worked!! Straight to skis for my youngest as well. They can graduate to a snowboard, if they are into, down the line. We can all 'ski together' as a family as of this year, so thats a huge accomplishment in my books. Ski classes is money well spent.
Went for a skate yeterday - biked to the spot and back. Im more sore from the 2 hour sesh and bike ride than 2 days of snowboarding...lol. Using a bunch of different muscles I guess.
We hit the local hill on Saturday - hopefully we can go again next week - well have to see how much snow will melt this week - really warming up.
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This is pretty heavy.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNUZV2rHIgn/?igshid=13cstrs6qkucc
I thought it was crazy how much he traveled down the pipe, but then I remembered that a super pipe is only 21 feet, and he’s boosting 24, so he has to hit it at a low angle to increase the amount of tranny he has for take off and landing.
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This is pretty heavy.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNUZV2rHIgn/?igshid=13cstrs6qkucc
I thought it was crazy how much he traveled down the pipe, but then I remembered that a super pipe is only 21 feet, and he’s boosting 24, so he has to hit it at a low angle to increase the amount of tranny he has for take off and landing.
he lands so smooth
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smooth indeed. Id love to try a pipe some day.
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Rode Snow Summit for about three hours on Monday with one of my good friends, each of us on Slush Slashers. It was indeed slushy mostly, but some icy crusty stuff too, which took me out a couple of times. I fell more free riding and hitting side hits on Monday than I did my other 26 days combined.
It is so warm in SoCal already. I know it's April and everything but it seems like the season is closing out fast. At 27 days and with a goal of 30, its gonna be hard to do. This Saturday Im going to ride Summit again with my whole family, both BBMR spots close on Sunday, but Snow Valley is open the following weekend, so I am gonna head there for closing day. That will put me at 29. Next month I am going up to Mammoth for one last go (theyre gonna be open for riding until Memorial Day at minimum), so that will be good and probably put me at 32.
It's been a good season. I've gotten to travel a lot and ride a few resorts Ive never been to. That seems weird under COVID but most of it was in the car and I always took max safety precautions.
Looking forward to next season a bit, with another colorado trip already booked and Utah seeming likely, as well as checking out Lee's Canyon outside vegas. Right now though, I just want to surf and skate my ramp everyday.
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Yo. Bought a new used snowboard. Got it on EBay from a skateboarder. He may even post here. It’s a 2016 Marhar Lumberjack 155. Said to be in A+ condition. Looking forward to skateboarding the mountain next season.
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Season is winding up here in Japan. They try to keep the highest mountains open until the beginning of May for a week-long holiday here.
We had a pretty unspectacular snowpack, zero snow through March, so things are getting thin, but had a good classic slushy park day with a friend.
Trying to get my middle-aged body to overcome my fear of down rails, had some fun trying fs 3 nosegrabs with a flat spin, and trying to nollie bs 3 over low ropes.
If I don’t make it up again, today was a good one to end on.
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props to you Cucktard and the rails - terrified of those and stay far far away.
30+ days is something else there Big Dave.
Dont you get worried about pre booking so early - what happens if its a crappy snow year? Kinda sucks going to resort with sub optimal conditons.
Good luck!!
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props to you Cucktard and the rails - terrified of those and stay far far away.
30+ days is something else there Big Dave.
Dont you get worried about pre booking so early - what happens if its a crappy snow year? Kinda sucks going to resort with sub optimal conditons.
Good luck!!
Thanks dude. I am going back to Mammoth next month for three days, so yeah I expect to get to 30 after all (I am still stuck on 27- I got real lazy towards the end here).
I dont really worry about booking this far out. The resort will be open. Conditions might suck, but Copper Mountain, Steamboat, and A-Basin will be open in the middle of January in 2022, just like Mammoth will be open before Thanksgiving. Any riding is good riding at resorts of that caliber.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTWqcDHfx3I&t=326s
These guys get buck, Sami Luhtanen is awesome. Great spots.
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Looks like today was the last day off the season for me. Had a decent run this year. Finally got some good powder (after 2 dry years), rode with friends, got in the park a bit, and won a snowskate comp and won a new Hovland deck.
But sad at how much my park skills have deteriorated! Haha. Only gets worse next year, I have to hold on to methods as long as I can!
Edit- here’s a small recap of the season here in Hakuba, Japan
https://www.instagram.com/tv/COUBZM8lHLa/?igshid=1u6jg6y6b2vgo
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This is so unbelievably good and its making me miss snow season so much and rue the fact that I missed Holy Bowly....again.
https://youtu.be/j6YmUBgUxDg
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Looks like today was the last day off the season for me. Had a decent run this year. Finally got some good powder (after 2 dry years), rode with friends, got in the park a bit, and won a snowskate comp and won a new Hovland deck.
But sad at how much my park skills have deteriorated! Haha. Only gets worse next year, I have to hold on to methods as long as I can!
Edit- here’s a small recap of the season here in Hakuba, Japan
https://www.instagram.com/tv/COUBZM8lHLa/?igshid=1u6jg6y6b2vgo
Rad edit man, thanks for sharing it! Your skills are still pretty damn legit.
Looking forward to getting to Japan. It's the plan for when my son turns 18 in 6 years. Hope the snow is still good then...
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This is so unbelievably good and its making me miss snow season so much and rue the fact that I missed Holy Bowly....again.
https://youtu.be/j6YmUBgUxDg
The very first one was here in Hakuba, i believe. And then they moved it to North America where its taken off. That looks so fun. They kept up a modified version of it here for years, but the designer made it mellower and lamer ever year, until it was just a place for people with overpriced Gentems and step-in bindings to practice their joyless slashes.
And thanks for the kind words. I hope to relearn some of what I’ve lost.
I hope Japan still has snow when you visit, Hokkaido is usually the safest bet for that.
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That video was great. @bigdave I was really enjoying it then I saw they skated one of my regular parks and then they surfed my winter spot... guess I do live in a good zone....
I didn't ride this year. I typically like to get a few days in year. I'm not a huge snowboarder, its more a way to pay my respects to the local hill that's only one hour away.
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As far as I can see, you are all doing quite well in this sport. Can anyone give me advice in this area? Not so long ago I started practicing, but I'm not sure if I am doing right and I'd like to know some tips and tricks. I even read and watched a few courses on https://bluehouseskis.com/ (https://bluehouseskis.com/). They describe everything very well and everything is very interesting, but I still want to know other opinions of those people who specialize in this field. Anyway, thanks in advance for giving me some advices. I'm really curious and it's important for me to find out new things.
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As far as I can see, you are all doing quite well in this sport. Can anyone give me advice in this area? Not so long ago I started practicing, but I'm not sure if I am doing right and I'd like to know some tips and tricks.
The best thing is to take a lesson from an experienced instructor. That will save you time and money in the long run of figuring stuff out in your own, especially if you don’t have a lot of chances to get out to the mountains.
The next is just ride with people that are a bit better than you.
I can’t give you any specific tips without seeing video of you actually riding.
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I absolutely loathe winter, but I'm getting excited for snowboard season this year. Already got my season pass.
I watched this the other night and would love recommendations for other snowboard videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4A9rIFmS8&t=328s
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I absolutely loathe winter, but I'm getting excited for snowboard season this year. Already got my season pass.
I watched this the other night and would love recommendations for other snowboard videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4A9rIFmS8&t=328s
That is a fucking classic.
The whole trilogy, with the other two prior movies, Lame and Afterbang are a good watch too.
There are the other classics, like the Mack Dawg movies and TB series, but outside of those I love this
https://vimeo.com/33034108
https://youtu.be/pOozBUlT8Vc
https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/energy-full-movie-drink-water-2/
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Snowskates are on the come up now
Fucking rad
https://youtu.be/71RZAk-WiFY (https://youtu.be/71RZAk-WiFY)
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Was not expecting the ender to be that heavy.
Good watch, especially the POV.
Stay safe guys
https://youtu.be/_2hyw79e3wk
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Was not expecting the ender to be that heavy.
Good watch, especially the POV.
Stay safe guys
https://youtu.be/_2hyw79e3wk
I was sweating
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Was not expecting the ender to be that heavy.
Good watch, especially the POV.
Stay safe guys
https://youtu.be/_2hyw79e3wk
I was sweating
ender was absolutely insane. i was also really into the front 3 to back 3 immediately upon landing
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Was not expecting the ender to be that heavy.
Good watch, especially the POV.
Stay safe guys
https://youtu.be/_2hyw79e3wk
I was sweating
Yeah, floaty as hell.
Austins whole thing is so much fun to watch, love that channel. Just noticed I'd missed an edit from Japan trip they did just before the pandemic, loved it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOIf6WG2s04
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Was not expecting the ender to be that heavy.
Good watch, especially the POV.
Stay safe guys
https://youtu.be/_2hyw79e3wk
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That last line was insane. He got super lucky there at the end. If he hadn't somehow managed to stay upright it would have been curtains. Didn't look like there was anybody at the bottom to potentially dig him out either.
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Today was the first day of boarding for me this winter.
Snow's coming pretty late this year in Hokkaido so there was only just enough to scrape together for a PVC tube sesh but it was super fun.
Always a little bittersweet though to say goodbye to skating for 5ish months (no really good indoor options in my hood) and start snowboarding.
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Today was the first day of boarding for me this winter.
Snow's coming pretty late this year in Hokkaido so there was only just enough to scrape together for a PVC tube sesh but it was super fun.
Always a little bittersweet though to say goodbye to skating for 5ish months (no really good indoor options in my hood) and start snowboarding.
Where in Hokkaido are you at?
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Today was the first day of boarding for me this winter.
Snow's coming pretty late this year in Hokkaido so there was only just enough to scrape together for a PVC tube sesh but it was super fun.
Always a little bittersweet though to say goodbye to skating for 5ish months (no really good indoor options in my hood) and start snowboarding.
Where in Hokkaido are you at?
Niseko, and I am Australian but please don't hold it against me.
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Today was the first day of boarding for me this winter.
Snow's coming pretty late this year in Hokkaido so there was only just enough to scrape together for a PVC tube sesh but it was super fun.
Always a little bittersweet though to say goodbye to skating for 5ish months (no really good indoor options in my hood) and start snowboarding.
Where in Hokkaido are you at?
Niseko, and I am Australian but please don't hold it against me.
Haha. That’s fine. Have a good season. I live a little outside Hakuba and work there in the winter.
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Today was the first day of boarding for me this winter.
Snow's coming pretty late this year in Hokkaido so there was only just enough to scrape together for a PVC tube sesh but it was super fun.
Always a little bittersweet though to say goodbye to skating for 5ish months (no really good indoor options in my hood) and start snowboarding.
Where in Hokkaido are you at?
Niseko, and I am Australian but please don't hold it against me.
Haha. That’s fine. Have a good season. I live a little outside Hakuba and work there in the winter.
You too dude.
Fingers crossed the boarders stay closed and we get one more winter with nonexistent lift lines and snow that's not tracked out days after a storm.
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Kinda. But at the same time the locals and hills are hurting without that. I’m not sure the hills here can go two seasons in row with low numbers without seeing lots of stuff shut down.
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I feel bad for guys like my homie who runs a sandwich van, genuine small businesses run by locals, but most of the businesses up here have been making crazy money for a long time while never giving shit back to the local community and they can fucking suck it. Same with Niseko United and all the resort's individually. Shitty, price gouging sons of bitches and they can fucking take this shit on the chin.
Unfortunately it's the really big guys who can afford to weather the storm.
I get what you are saying but it's hard to root for the doors to be flung open to share the good stuff with some of the worst tourists on earth when I don't give much of a damn about most of the people who will profit from it. God knows a name tag nobody like me won't be any better off for it, just more lift lines and more aggravation at work, at the conbini etc etc..
So fingers crossed for good snow and healthy knees either way I guess.
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Gotcha, I see where you’re coming from.
Hakuba’s wave came later than Niseko, it’s only been the past 7,8 seasons or so that things really picked up, plus we’ve been hammered with 3 shit seasons out of the last 6, so it’s been a mixed bag, and while there’s been douchery for sure, it doesn’t seem to be as bad as Niseko.
Lift tickets, food, and accom is still pretty affordable here. The old-school pre-foreign tourist businesses will still have their Japanese clientele, but we’re still not in a great place. One of the smaller hills will close for sure this season, with probably some other businesses doing the same.
It was nice to have powder laps in the after, I agree.
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This Nitro flick had me frothing for some storms... none in sight at the moment for California, resorts are pushing back opening dates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czbBaGacn58
I'm hoping to get out and ride Japan next season
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Today was the first day of boarding for me this winter.
Snow's coming pretty late this year in Hokkaido so there was only just enough to scrape together for a PVC tube sesh but it was super fun.
Always a little bittersweet though to say goodbye to skating for 5ish months (no really good indoor options in my hood) and start snowboarding.
Where in Hokkaido are you at?
Niseko, and I am Australian but please don't hold it against me.
Haha. That’s fine. Have a good season. I live a little outside Hakuba and work there in the winter.
Fingers crossed the boarders stay closed and we get one more winter with nonexistent lift lines and snow that's not tracked out days after a storm.
This comment makes me pissed, but I 100% understand it haha.
Lucky bastards living so close to the mekka. How did you end up there?
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this guy still baffles me.....
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWjBgghNnWJ/
also happy to say I booked a week at La Plagne resort in January with the family! Hyped to get some snow boarding in finally after that lost covid year. Only down side is that I'm not gonna skate before that trip, too scared of any little injury happening before getting to the mountain.
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Today was the first day of boarding for me this winter.
Snow's coming pretty late this year in Hokkaido so there was only just enough to scrape together for a PVC tube sesh but it was super fun.
Always a little bittersweet though to say goodbye to skating for 5ish months (no really good indoor options in my hood) and start snowboarding.
Where in Hokkaido are you at?
Niseko, and I am Australian but please don't hold it against me.
Haha. That’s fine. Have a good season. I live a little outside Hakuba and work there in the winter.
Fingers crossed the boarders stay closed and we get one more winter with nonexistent lift lines and snow that's not tracked out days after a storm.
This comment makes me pissed, but I 100% understand it haha.
Lucky bastards living so close to the mekka. How did you end up there?
Where are you from? I guess to an Auzzie, Japan could be kind of a Mecca. But to a Canadian, it definitely has it’s nice points, and some of the best tree riding, but in some ways it’s lacking. Like most places, I guess.
I ended up here because I’ve always been interested in Japan since I was young, and studied the language in uni. I had a snowboard instructing license, and thought it would be a cheap way to get a season’s pass. Turns out I really enjoy instructing, and have been doing it for about 20 years now.
Japan is just where I happen to fit at this point in my life.
this guy still baffles me.....
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWjBgghNnWJ/
also happy to say I booked a week at La Plagne resort in January with the family! Hyped to get some snow boarding in finally after that lost covid year. Only down side is that I'm not gonna skate before that trip, too scared of any little injury happening before getting to the mountain.
I don’t get Longo either. I’ve talked to someone who’s ridden with him, and said Longo was the most light-footed rider they’ve ever seen
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I came to Niseko for to do a winter season and ride blower powder.
Met a nice girl working at the convenience store across the street, married her and bought a house. This is obviously a heavily condensed version of the story but that's the long and the short of it. I've been here almost 10 years now and to be honest I don't really like Japan all that much, I just like that I could buy a really affordable house 10 minutes drive from an great resort.
Longo is amazing, my missus loves him so his stuff is on a lot in our house. Right now I'm mostly bumping Cole Navin's living room and the new dustbox movie over and over and over again....
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I came to Niseko for to do a winter season and ride blower powder.
Met a nice girl working at the convenience store across the street, married her and bought a house. This is obviously a heavily condensed version of the story but that's the long and the short of it. I've been here almost 10 years now and to be honest I don't really like Japan all that much, I just like that I could buy a really affordable house 10 minutes drive from an great resort.
Longo is amazing, my missus loves him so his stuff is on a lot in our house. Right now I'm mostly bumping Cole Navin's living room and the new dustbox movie over and over and over again....
(https://i.ibb.co/pb8pyNm/output-onlinegiftools.gif)
(https://ibb.co/Jm4PQ8h)
The line with all the banks in the new Dustbox has been on repeat in my head all day
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Today was the first day of boarding for me this winter.
Snow's coming pretty late this year in Hokkaido so there was only just enough to scrape together for a PVC tube sesh but it was super fun.
Always a little bittersweet though to say goodbye to skating for 5ish months (no really good indoor options in my hood) and start snowboarding.
Where in Hokkaido are you at?
Niseko, and I am Australian but please don't hold it against me.
Haha. That’s fine. Have a good season. I live a little outside Hakuba and work there in the winter.
Fingers crossed the boarders stay closed and we get one more winter with nonexistent lift lines and snow that's not tracked out days after a storm.
This comment makes me pissed, but I 100% understand it haha.
Lucky bastards living so close to the mekka. How did you end up there?
Where are you from? I guess to an Auzzie, Japan could be kind of a Mecca. But to a Canadian, it definitely has it’s nice points, and some of the best tree riding, but in some ways it’s lacking. Like most places, I guess.
I ended up here because I’ve always been interested in Japan since I was young, and studied the language in uni. I had a snowboard instructing license, and thought it would be a cheap way to get a season’s pass. Turns out I really enjoy instructing, and have been doing it for about 20 years now.
Japan is just where I happen to fit at this point in my life.
I came to Niseko for to do a winter season and ride blower powder.
Met a nice girl working at the convenience store across the street, married her and bought a house. This is obviously a heavily condensed version of the story but that's the long and the short of it. I've been here almost 10 years now and to be honest I don't really like Japan all that much, I just like that I could buy a really affordable house 10 minutes drive from an great resort.
Cool! I was just curious, really. I'm in southern Sweden, so Japan is faaaaaar away - seems almost like a fictional place. And although Sweden is a northern country, I'm at least an 8 hour drive from some OK snow. Best bet is to aim for Norway...
You might not wanna hear this, but I have been scheming on a Japan-trip next season... Any tips on what to visit/try to avoid? I have no idea how the snow culture is over there...
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also happy to say I booked a week at La Plagne resort in January with the family! Hyped to get some snow boarding in finally after that lost covid year. Only down side is that I'm not gonna skate before that trip, too scared of any little injury happening before getting to the mountain.
I went to La Plagne just as Covid was hitting – Italy was already being shut down and we barely got out of there. But was heaps of fun riding there, some really fun and uncrowded forests!
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RIP Grilo, not the news I wanted to hear today (or ever).
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damn super jealous of you japan living pals. I did niseko in 2017 february and it was a pretty shit year I'm pretty sure. We got some good days in my 12 days there, but we were supposed to hit tenjin and hakuba but they were gettting warmth and rain so we stayed up in Niseko for the whole trip
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also happy to say I booked a week at La Plagne resort in January with the family! Hyped to get some snow boarding in finally after that lost covid year. Only down side is that I'm not gonna skate before that trip, too scared of any little injury happening before getting to the mountain.
I went to La Plagne just as Covid was hitting – Italy was already being shut down and we barely got out of there. But was heaps of fun riding there, some really fun and uncrowded forests!
yup fun resort for sure! actually I just found out it's in the top 3 of the world's biggest. I've been there only once and I did not even realize it's linked to Les Arcs!
https://www.skimag.com/ski-resort-life/10-biggest-ski-resorts-on-earth/ (https://www.skimag.com/ski-resort-life/10-biggest-ski-resorts-on-earth/)
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Fuck, the local resorts here in Hakuba are getting hammered, and the first opened up the top at noon today. I hadn’t even pulled shit out of the closet, just set up two boards today and will get out Saturday morning.
Hopefully good coverage and no rocks!
And that my pass is ready!
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Finally got some snow in Scotland, wee bit to go until we can build our course on the local farmers hill but suuuuper stoked. Just got new bindings, boots, and loads of gear.
Cheers
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Finally got some snow in Scotland, wee bit to go until we can build our course on the local farmers hill but suuuuper stoked. Just got new bindings, boots, and loads of gear.
Cheers
Ha! I learned to ride at the Lecht and Glenshee. I'm jealous here in the PNW we are having big rain issues and the resort openings are being pushed back - even at Mt. Baker.
Talking about Mt Baker, Austen Sweetin's ender in WindSlab is essentially within the ski area (you have to check in at ski patrol before you hike up and across the ridge to access it from the top of the lift) it slid with a whole bunch of people watching from the lift. Gnarly.
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Got first day on snow yesterday, and we had knee deep pow at the top of the mountain.
Got loose and went for the front flip off the cat track, haha. Almost got it.
Could only ride till 2, classic first day Bambi legs. Rolling them in the foam roller today.
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Amazing skating/snowboarding in this one. Phil rips
https://youtu.be/AxDrITlgnds
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Who else is trying to clean up their shit?
I’m 32 years in, and still working on my heelside turns. They are gross, I ride way too front-foot heavy and it makes the second half of my turn suck.
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Just got back from 2 days at Whistler since there isn’t any snow here in the PNW. I’m tired and sore. It it was fun.
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for the Longo fans!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fdiyluIM8I
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Yeah, that dude is fucking Jaws and Jimmy Wilks rolled into one
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for some reason he reminds me of Penny. The way he floats or something. Different eras and different boardsport of course, but I don't know, once the link was made in my mind....it stuck.
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Back to this thread! I've got two days on snow so far - both at Mammoth in mid-November, a week after opening. They were both pretty rough. The snow was not great, the weather was not cooperating and the crowds were bad. Ikon resorts have not seen the same problems as Epic resorts this year but it was really rough, especially with so little of the mountain open. We got a lot of snow in October but November was wretched. There is a dusting today and more storms on the way, thankfully. Bear is open but not worth the time and effort right now to me, but I might go up Sunday since my wife and daughter are learning to ride.
Content wise, "How Dark Blue Feels" was absolutely awesome. Also the Quik commercial with Austen Sweetin and Miles Fallon was actually really rad. That Snowboarders Journal piece on the two women who work in commercial fishing was great. Dustbox vid was good. I haven't watched Uninvited 3 yet but heard its awesome.
Was sort of disappointed in Elles. I get the point. It's a relaxing look at Longo's year, not the gnarliest stuff, but going a season without an episode of SHE was already a real bummer, its pretty disjointed (I kinda wish they'd marketed it as a video journal or tour video or something so I'd tempered my expectations) and the music....the music was almost unbearable. Pains me to say all that because he's literally my favorite modern times rider, and his boots this year are incredible.
Anyway, upcoming riding will be limited through December. January 7th weekend I am gonna head over to Lee's Canyon outside of Vegas and check it out.
Summit County (riding Copper mostly) Jan 17th-21st
Seattle (Mt Baker) Friday 2/4-2/7
Tahoe Monday 2/14 and Tuesday 2/15
Mammoth 2/25-3/1
Mammoth 3/26-3/30
Boards I added to the quiver this year are a 160 StumpApe and I bought the 157 Tony Hawk Party Platter from K2, but it hasnt shipped yet. I swapped all my bindings over from Union to Bent Metal except for one pair of last year's Atlas which I ride with my BSOD.
If anyone is around any of those joints at the same time and wanna catch some side hits and all-mountain laps lets do it.
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Longo is amazing, and when they switched over to USA I was just waiting to get back to Europe. Mike rav playing guitar on a snowboard is so embarrassing.
If you're patient, stoned, and/or artsy Chroma is very cool. Sevi is really sick, but this movie is 97% weird snow photo composites.
https://vimeo.com/646438431?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=374582
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Mike rav playing guitar on a snowboard is so embarrassing.
Dude, yes. that shit was kooky as hell.
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Mike rav playing guitar on a snowboard is so embarrassing.
Dude, yes. that shit was kooky as hell.
I kinda find Rav in general kooky, like a poor man’s Scott Stevens.
for some reason he reminds me of Penny. The way he floats or something. Different eras and different boardsport of course, but I don't know, once the link was made in my mind....it stuck.
This kid reminds me of Penny the most
https://www.instagram.com/dustyhenricksen/reel/COwVt50n3wp/?utm_medium=copy_link
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Mike rav playing guitar on a snowboard is so embarrassing.
Dude, yes. that shit was kooky as hell.
i loved rav during the keep the change era, thought he got kooky, and now that he's fully embraced the kookiness i sort of like him again for it.
also since it hasn't been posted i think this is my favorite video of the year so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk0zDsz8EMk&t=508s&ab_channel=TormentMag
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for some reason he reminds me of Penny. The way he floats or something. Different eras and different boardsport of course, but I don't know, once the link was made in my mind....it stuck.
This kid reminds me of Penny the most
https://www.instagram.com/dustyhenricksen/reel/COwVt50n3wp/?utm_medium=copy_link
damn I can see why....kid looks practically asleep! did not know him at all.
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for the Longo fans!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fdiyluIM8I
Wow, that was such a fun watch! Damn...
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CImxEJaFzPF/?utm_medium=copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWu5jQoloXu/?utm_medium=copy_link
Getting hyped for my first day of the season this week
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I’m an instructor, and my heelsides are so shit it’s embarrassing, so right out the gate my goal is to improve them.
Actually lots of improvement in the first couple days, carved multiple heelside 360s (on flat) which I’ve never been able to do before.
Thank you to my friends for shaming me into getting better.
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I’m an instructor, and my heelsides are so shit it’s embarrassing, so right out the gate my goal is to improve them.
Actually lots of improvement in the first couple days, carved multiple heelside 360s (on flat) which I’ve never been able to do before.
Thank you to my friends for shaming me into getting better.
Do you have any forward lean on your highbacks?
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I’m an instructor, and my heelsides are so shit it’s embarrassing, so right out the gate my goal is to improve them.
Actually lots of improvement in the first couple days, carved multiple heelside 360s (on flat) which I’ve never been able to do before.
Thank you to my friends for shaming me into getting better.
Yeah, a lot.
It’s not that. I was given some advice long ago on my riding (about keeping the upper body fairly in line with the board) and I focused on it so much that now I’m having a hard time breaking out of that habit, and opening up on the heelside.
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It may seem counterintuitive, but I started riding soft boots and zero forward lean years back, and can get way lower on my heel edge that way. Less power, but my whole body can shift around in a much more natural way and get my center of gravity lower.
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I’m an instructor, and my heelsides are so shit it’s embarrassing, so right out the gate my goal is to improve them.
Actually lots of improvement in the first couple days, carved multiple heelside 360s (on flat) which I’ve never been able to do before.
Thank you to my friends for shaming me into getting better.
It’s not that. I was given some advice long ago on my riding (about keeping the upper body fairly in line with the board) and I focused on it so much that now I’m having a hard time breaking out of that habit, and opening up on the heelside.
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Inatural way and get my center of gravity lower.
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I’m an instructor, and my heelsides are so shit it’s embarrassing, so right out the gate my goal is to improve them.
Actually lots of improvement in the first couple days, carved multiple heelside 360s (on flat) which I’ve never been able to do before.
Thank you to my friends for shaming me into getting better.
It’s not that. I was given some advice long ago on my riding (about keeping the upper body fairly in line with the board) and I focused on it so much that now I’m having a hard time breaking out of that habit, and opening up on the heelside.
t may seem counterintuitive, but I started riding soft boots and zero forward lean years back, and can get way lower on my heel edge that way. Less power, but my whole body can shift around in a much more
I’ve seen a bunch of guys do that, especially guys really into banked slalom. I think Josh Dirksen doesn’t even run a high back on his front binding.
I’ve ridden highbackless before, and it’s ok, but my boots break down really quickly. It was on a powder board, so didn’t rail many carves.
Can I ask what angles you run?
I’m duck at 18/-12, with high backs rotated to be parallel to the heel edge.
I’ll give your advice a go, I’ve got some softer boots I’m going to get rid of.
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anybody else not into the duck stance thing? Never could get used to it. Plus it makes me feel like my knees are gonna cave in.
I'm still running a Haakonsen stance like 21 / 9 or something.
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I haven't run no highbacks since the 90's, and aren't really tempted to other than maybe some dreamy pow scenario. I run around 15 front, zero or neg 3 on the back. I'm kind of duck footed, so just having it near zero almost feels posi to me. My pro homie runs the full euro stance and completely rips, so really whatever works for you go for it. I used to run that kind of stance, but even a little forward lean on my highback just makes me feel unbalanced. I do rotate highbacks too, otherwise tweaking a grab gets too weird on the front foot at least.
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I’m an instructor, and my heelsides are so shit it’s embarrassing, so right out the gate my goal is to improve them.
Actually lots of improvement in the first couple days, carved multiple heelside 360s (on flat) which I’ve never been able to do before.
Thank you to my friends for shaming me into getting better.
It’s not that. I was given some advice long ago on my riding (about keeping the upper body fairly in line with the board) and I focused on it so much that now I’m having a hard time breaking out of that habit, and opening up on the heelside.
t may seem counterintuitive, but I started riding soft boots and zero forward lean years back, and can get way lower on my heel edge that way. Less power, but my whole body can shift around in a much more
I’ve seen a bunch of guys do that, especially guys really into banked slalom. I think Josh Dirksen doesn’t even run a high back on his front binding.
I’ve ridden highbackless before, and it’s ok, but my boots break down really quickly. It was on a powder board, so didn’t rail many carves.
Can I ask what angles you run?
I’m duck at 18/-12, with high backs rotated to be parallel to the heel edge.
I’ll give your advice a go, I’ve got some softer boots I’m going to get rid of.
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anybody else not into the duck stance thing? Never could get used to it. Plus it makes me feel like my knees are gonna cave in.
I'm still running a Haakonsen stance like 21 / 9 or something.
I’m usually at 18/-3 but change it often. Snow madness gets me some days. I notice I go kinda duck when I skate.
The whole Jones team is mostly neutral to positive on the rear.
https://www.jonessnowboards.com/content/313-how-to-set-up-your-snowboard-stance-like-the-jones-team-and-ambassador
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anybody else not into the duck stance thing? Never could get used to it. Plus it makes me feel like my knees are gonna cave in.
I'm still running a Haakonsen stance like 21 / 9 or something.
The whole Jones team is mostly neutral to positive on the rear.
https://www.jonessnowboards.com/content/313-how-to-set-up-your-snowboard-stance-like-the-jones-team-and-ambassador
interesting link thanks! especially this about Jeremy Jones:
"He changes his stance by the feel of the day on every board he rides. By changing his stance he looks to accentuate the performance of that model/size board and avoid creating the same wear points in his joints."
I've had meniscus surgery 4 times, on both knees, so wear points that's a big topic for me. Gonna try to experiment more this season! I also like a narrower stance, it's also less pressure on the knees.....
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anybody else not into the duck stance thing? Never could get used to it. Plus it makes me feel like my knees are gonna cave in.
I'm still running a Haakonsen stance like 21 / 9 or something.
The whole Jones team is mostly neutral to positive on the rear.
https://www.jonessnowboards.com/content/313-how-to-set-up-your-snowboard-stance-like-the-jones-team-and-ambassador
interesting link thanks! especially this about Jeremy Jones:
"He changes his stance by the feel of the day on every board he rides. By changing his stance he looks to accentuate the performance of that model/size board and avoid creating the same wear points in his joints."
I've had meniscus surgery 4 times, on both knees, so wear points that's a big topic for me. Gonna try to experiment more this season! I also like a narrower stance, it's also less pressure on the knees.....
Ouch. Changing things up seems like it could help. Also see if your bindings are canted (inside edge of boots tilted upwards), maybe you want everything closer to neutral
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anybody else not into the duck stance thing? Never could get used to it. Plus it makes me feel like my knees are gonna cave in.
I'm still running a Haakonsen stance like 21 / 9 or something.
The whole Jones team is mostly neutral to positive on the rear.
https://www.jonessnowboards.com/content/313-how-to-set-up-your-snowboard-stance-like-the-jones-team-and-ambassador
interesting link thanks! especially this about Jeremy Jones:
"He changes his stance by the feel of the day on every board he rides. By changing his stance he looks to accentuate the performance of that model/size board and avoid creating the same wear points in his joints."
I've had meniscus surgery 4 times, on both knees, so wear points that's a big topic for me. Gonna try to experiment more this season! I also like a narrower stance, it's also less pressure on the knees.....
Canting is good, I think especially wider stances where you can’t normally ride with your knees over your feet.
Knee wear might be an issue for someone who spends as much time on a board as JJ, and with a big quiver (I slightly modify my stance to the boards as well) but I think if you are only getting out a few times a week for only a few months of the year, concentrating on a stance that works for your style of riding might be the best option.
I try to ride a fair bit of switch, so twin boards and duck is where I want to be. And it’s possible to carve hard like that a la Ryan Knapton, so I’m still experimenting.
I’ve noticed that I used to skate with both feet forward a lot, but now skating a bit more duck is helping me a lot.
If I want to get free and have full movement, I get on a powsurfer or bideck snowskate. The ones with a longer ski feel good to carve on.
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Everyone is cancelling their hotel reservations it seems... I was able to find a room this weekend for rock-bottom.
PRAISE COVID-19.
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for the Longo fans!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fdiyluIM8I
Wow, that was such a fun watch! Damn...
One of the best videos I’ve seen. Got me excited to ride. But then I remember my hills are expensive, short, icy and busy with maybe one or two side hits.
I think I was avoiding watching this because so hot him confused with Scotty Lago or whoever that guy that rode for flow was.
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Riding at Asessippi a tiny hill 4 hours from my place. Only 1 chair open :( Haven’t ridden since Jan 1st 2020 and I’m having a great time
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Finally seems like no Cal got some snow....probably will cruz up on sunday
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sup y'all, i have a question: is there a market for early-2000s 'vintage' boards? and if so, whats the best way to tap into it? i recently found my old 2005-era Nitro MFM signature board and it's still in decent shape, curious what i should do with it. i don't live somewhere snowy anymore so i definitely don't need more than one setup.
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Nothing after 2000 is really considered ‘vintage’.
I’m not sure there’s much you can do with it except use it as a rock board.
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sup y'all, i have a question: is there a market for early-2000s 'vintage' boards? and if so, whats the best way to tap into it? i recently found my old 2005-era Nitro MFM signature board and it's still in decent shape, curious what i should do with it. i don't live somewhere snowy anymore so i definitely don't need more than one setup.
thriftboards.com
Sort of an idea on value. I know this dude mentioned that he rides a MFM World board daily so maybe DM him on insta (like a man)
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Anyone in Hakuba? Curious on how the snow storms over central Japan has treated the resorts. I wanna see some pics, make me real jealous please!
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Anyone in Hakuba? Curious on how the snow storms over central Japan has treated the resorts. I wanna see some pics, make me real jealous please!
I live near Hakuba and was working there today. Cold and packed pow, a bit warmer tomorrow but a big, cold storm coming for New Years that should give us 50 cm or so. Hopefully that covers some of the bushes and upend up some of the trees.
Check out Japan Grabs on Instagram, they usually have some good Hakuba footage
https://www.instagram.com/p/CX5nyuloSoy/?utm_medium=copy_link
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Gave this a watch through tonight. Going to give their new video a watch tomorrow night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5TbSNbMXc
Hoping to get out on the hill Thursday.
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scott stevens capita x zero colab for next year
love scott stevens, and he gets stacks of zero decks from jt i guess. weird looking collab to me though.
(https://i.ibb.co/sFStTk8/2t-DSZy-UU-1.png)
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That’s not just a collab, it’s a tribute to Hertzel and Salaznek.
What I want to know is
What trucks is he running?
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That’s not just a collab, it’s a tribute to Hertzel and Salaznek.
What I want to know is
What trucks is he running?
Those are most definitely hollow independents
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Don't they know about the forbidden 14? What is this poseur shit?
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Yikes on that Capita. I'm a fan of Scott, JT, Salas, but this is gross. Will look good on the wall at Zumiez I guess.
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scott stevens capita x zero colab for next year
love scott stevens, and he gets stacks of zero decks from jt i guess. weird looking collab to me though.
(https://i.ibb.co/sFStTk8/2t-DSZy-UU-1.png)
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Sheesh, someone really phoned that one in
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So I’ve been stuck teaching skiing for 90% of the time since the Dec 24th, and on my first day off tomorrow, my little 3-year old says “I want to go skiing!”.
Fuck.
Tell me about your seasons so far.
Make me proud and jealous.
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So I’ve been stuck teaching skiing for 90% of the time since the Dec 24th, and on my first day off tomorrow, my little 3-year old says “I want to go skiing!”.
Fuck.
Tell me about your seasons so far.
Make me proud and jealous.
Would if I could! Going riding tomorrow though, at a pretty small hill an hour and a half away. We're gonna be four guys cramped into a Panda 4x4.
Not really the stuff to make someone jealous haha, but I'm stoked!
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So I’ve been stuck teaching skiing for 90% of the time since the Dec 24th, and on my first day off tomorrow, my little 3-year old says “I want to go skiing!”.
Fuck.
Tell me about your seasons so far.
Make me proud and jealous.
I got an AirBnB to go on my first out-of-area snow trip! Aaaand it’s gonna be 40 degrees and raining. La Nina be a cruel mistress
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So I’ve been stuck teaching skiing for 90% of the time since the Dec 24th, and on my first day off tomorrow, my little 3-year old says “I want to go skiing!”.
Fuck.
Tell me about your seasons so far.
Make me proud and jealous.
Would if I could! Going riding tomorrow though, at a pretty small hill an hour and a half away. We're gonna be four guys cramped into a Panda 4x4.
Not really the stuff to make someone jealous haha, but I'm stoked!
Panda 4x4! I’m jealous of that.
Heading up to the mountain tomorrow myself.
Hopefully it won’t be too icy.
It’s supposed to snow on Sunday but I’ll be leaving that day… it might be nice if the snow starts in the afternoon and I can get a bit of real winter weather before I leave.
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Mountain was a beaut today.
Can't wait to go back out tomorrow.
Hope everyone else is finding some snow.
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Blown knee is still on the mend. Somebody lay down some smooth carves for me please 😢
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Noah Salasnek! now that's a name I hadn't heard in a long time...
I think there was a feature on him in that Powder and Rails series.
Anyways I just got back from a good week at La Plagne! 8)
I was mostly just cruising slow, taking care of with my 9 year old skiing and 13 year-old learning to snowboard, but also got some cool runs solo, and with a friend. We had 20 to 30 cm of fresh snow twice, so I was stoked. especially after all French resorts being closed last year! I even managed to fall straight to my face riding off-piste and scratched my nose against a bump/my goggles. Got a little too enthusiastic about the fresh snow I guess, and with the low visibility I did not see the dip/bump in the terrain.
the frustrating thing is that just when I was finding my snowboard legs again....we had to leave and now I'm back at work. I plan to go back for a 3 or 4 day weekend with friends, but that should be in march and I'm already itching! :P
the view was nice from Roche de Mio......(2700 m)
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I’m really glad to hear people are getting back out.
I had an afternoon off yesterday and hooked up with my favorite snowboard partner, and we were looking to fuck around the resort, maybe brush up in the early season park with a couple small hits and a few rails installed.
It was the middle day in a 3-day weekend, snd there was a 20-person line-up for the jumps. But the way things worked out, a non-park jump jump I’ve been looking at for years looked good to go.
It’s the left side of a half-dug permanent halfpipe. When there’s more snow, it gets built up into a proper vert wall, but as it is, it’s basically just long berm with a 3 or 4 meter platform on top, and a shadowy bank on the opposite side covered in chopped pow.
So after a couple carved into it and checking how much speed is needed to clear it, my friend and I just kept hucking 3s over the platform into chop and trying to ride out. It was soft, ate shit so many times, and was the funnest time I’ve had hitting a jump in years.
If it’s still hittable after the next dump, I want to try a bs 7, which I’ve never landed.
But the next storm starting tomorrow is looking to kind of fuck us hard. 2m of snow over 4 days. Should be gnarly. We sometimes have people die over here in Japan after dumps like these. They fall in headfirst, can’t dig out, and suffocate.
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these two vids have nothing in common except snow, and the fact they both freaked me out.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPsd9Cwd1Yo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdc0PRxZnx4
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I finally have a morning off, at the tail end of this storm that is dumping amounts of snow not seen since the days of yore.
I ride an almost centered Lib Double Dip, and it’s gotten me through deep stuff, but I don’t know if it will be enough board for tomorrow.
Assuming I can actually drive into Hakuba in the morning.
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So jealous. You're crazy to be riding a Lib in Japan, there are so many cool brands there, especially for pow boards. With the caveat that sometimes they're super small, and have narrow waists. https://www.japangrabs.com/tj-brand-napoleon-fish-review/ this is the most fun powder/trees board I've ever ridden.
I finally have a morning off, at the tail end of this storm that is dumping amounts of snow not seen since the days of yore.
I ride an almost centered Lib Double Dip, and it’s gotten me through deep stuff, but I don’t know if it will be enough board for tomorrow.
Assuming I can actually drive into Hakuba in the morning.
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I finally have a morning off, at the tail end of this storm that is dumping amounts of snow not seen since the days of yore.
I ride an almost centered Lib Double Dip, and it’s gotten me through deep stuff, but I don’t know if it will be enough board for tomorrow.
Assuming I can actually drive into Hakuba in the morning.
Fuck, that sounds like a total dream.
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I finally have a morning off, at the tail end of this storm that is dumping amounts of snow not seen since the days of yore.
I ride an almost centered Lib Double Dip, and it’s gotten me through deep stuff, but I don’t know if it will be enough board for tomorrow.
Assuming I can actually drive into Hakuba in the morning.
Fuck, that sounds like a total dream.
60 cm dumps like this used to fairly frequent when I first came to Hakuba 20 years ago. Now I can’t remember the last time we had one.
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But the next storm starting tomorrow is looking to kind of fuck us hard. 2m of snow over 4 days. Should be gnarly. We sometimes have people die over here in Japan after dumps like these. They fall in headfirst, can’t dig out, and suffocate.
Kinda like a tree well.
I gott apractice my back 3's, front sides ok, but backsides not soo pretty.
Just got back from out west Canada (im east coast). Hit up Fernie for 3 days and spolied fmy self for my 45th and went cat sking for 2 or the 3 days. WHAT A TREAT!! Quality of qty and man was it nice!!. Epic conditions. Every run was a freshie. Maybe 7 runs in a day, little less than 3000 meters.
Hit up the resort on my last day and lucked out as it dumped around 25. Was a wee bit warm so the snow wasnt as fluffy, but good regardless. Caught the cord drop on the Currie Bowl and shredded fresh pow all the eway down. Was epic. Soo much fun.
Luggae got delayed on the way back and airline gave me a 250 cash back (cash) and 20% off next flight. Cant wait for next trip!!
That Japanpow insta spadge is awesome Cucktard, thanks for the link!!
1st two phots from Cat skiing, last 2 from the resort. The last one is the currie bowl cord drop and my first tracks. Sooo much fun.
Burton Custom x Camber 164w.
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recently spent some time in the tahoe backcountry
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But the next storm starting tomorrow is looking to kind of fuck us hard. 2m of snow over 4 days. Should be gnarly. We sometimes have people die over here in Japan after dumps like these. They fall in headfirst, can’t dig out, and suffocate.
Kinda like a tree well.
I gott apractice my back 3's, front sides ok, but backsides not soo pretty.
Just got back from out west Canada (im east coast). Hit up Fernie for 3 days and spolied fmy self for my 45th and went cat sking for 2 or the 3 days. WHAT A TREAT!! Quality of qty and man was it nice!!. Epic conditions. Every run was a freshie. Maybe 7 runs in a day, little less than 3000 meters.
Hit up the resort on my last day and lucked out as it dumped around 25. Was a wee bit warm so the snow wasnt as fluffy, but good regardless. Caught the cord drop on the Currie Bowl and shredded fresh pow all the eway down. Was epic. Soo much fun.
Luggae got delayed on the way back and airline gave me a 250 cash back (cash) and 20% off next flight. Cant wait for next trip!!
That Japanpow insta spadge is awesome Cucktard, thanks for the link!!
1st two phots from Cat skiing, last 2 from the resort. The last one is the currie bowl cord drop and my first tracks. Sooo much fun.
Burton Custom x Camber 164w.
Where was the cat skiing? Island Lake Lodge? I grew up skiing Kimberly, but went to Fernie fairly often. It was there I converted to snowboarding in probably 87. I love that hill too. Glad you hit the timing right! It’s magic when that happens.
So jealous. You're crazy to be riding a Lib in Japan, there are so many cool brands there, especially for pow boards. With the caveat that sometimes they're super small, and have narrow waists. https://www.japangrabs.com/tj-brand-napoleon-fish-review/ this is the most fun powder/trees board I've ever ridden.
OK, this is a bit of a can of worms.
I’ve snowboarding in Japan on and off since 98, and I have some mixed feelings about Japan and the scene here.
There are some great things about it, and some things I can’t get with.
But before I go off topic, keeping the board situation, while I’ve ridden directional pow boards, I’m not a huge fan. I like riding switch and buttering too much. I can ride pretty much everything that a directional board can on the Lib, but have more options for tricks.
The only advantage I see is in say, chest-deep powder, but those days are too rare to justify a board just for that. I made it through this last storm on the Double Dip just fine.
Besides, a lot of that Gentem stick stuff is a bit gimmicky, charging ¥1000 for a China-made board. They partially are made like that because the mountains are so mellow in Hokkaido, that’s how they stay afloat.
Although I have to admit, I did like TJ shapes back in the day. It’s funny, the Japan Grab guys are my friends, and I don’t ever remember them reviewing a TJ. Good find!
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I totally hear you on the critique of some of those Japanese brands. TJ is made in China as well, though their constructions and finishing are top notch. Almost all of those Japanese brands are made in China with varying results. Moss boards look beautiful from a distance, but their printing and finish quality is terrible. After riding twins in powder in the 90's, super pow specific boards were a revelation to ride, but they're definitely niche. I ride tapered directional boards in the park, etc. now but rarely something like the TJ that you can't ride backwards.
Why is the only place on the internet I want to talk about snowboarding on the Slap forum??
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But the next storm starting tomorrow is looking to kind of fuck us hard. 2m of snow over 4 days. Should be gnarly. We sometimes have people die over here in Japan after dumps like these. They fall in headfirst, can’t dig out, and suffocate.
Kinda like a tree well.
I gott apractice my back 3's, front sides ok, but backsides not soo pretty.
Just got back from out west Canada (im east coast). Hit up Fernie for 3 days and spolied fmy self for my 45th and went cat sking for 2 or the 3 days. WHAT A TREAT!! Quality of qty and man was it nice!!. Epic conditions. Every run was a freshie. Maybe 7 runs in a day, little less than 3000 meters.
Hit up the resort on my last day and lucked out as it dumped around 25. Was a wee bit warm so the snow wasnt as fluffy, but good regardless. Caught the cord drop on the Currie Bowl and shredded fresh pow all the eway down. Was epic. Soo much fun.
Luggae got delayed on the way back and airline gave me a 250 cash back (cash) and 20% off next flight. Cant wait for next trip!!
That Japanpow insta spadge is awesome Cucktard, thanks for the link!!
1st two phots from Cat skiing, last 2 from the resort. The last one is the currie bowl cord drop and my first tracks. Sooo much fun.
Burton Custom x Camber 164w.
Where was the cat skiing? Island Lake Lodge? I grew up skiing Kimberly, but went to Fernie fairly often. It was there I converted to snowboarding in probably 87. I love that hill too. Glad you hit the timing right! It’s magic when that happens.
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So jealous. You're crazy to be riding a Lib in Japan, there are so many cool brands there, especially for pow boards. With the caveat that sometimes they're super small, and have narrow waists. https://www.japangrabs.com/tj-brand-napoleon-fish-review/ this is the most fun powder/trees board I've ever ridden.
OK, this is a bit of a can of worms.
I’ve snowboarding in Japan on and off since 98, and I have some mixed feelings about Japan and the scene here.
There are some great things about it, and some things I can’t get with.
But before I go off topic, keeping the board situation, while I’ve ridden directional pow boards, I’m not a huge fan. I like riding switch and buttering too much. I can ride pretty much everything that a directional board can on the Lib, but have more options for tricks.
The only advantage I see is in say, chest-deep powder, but those days are too rare to justify a board just for that. I made it through this last storm on the Double Dip just fine.
Besides, a lot of that Gentem stick stuff is a bit gimmicky, charging ¥1000 for a China-made board. They partially are made like that because the mountains are so mellow in Hokkaido, that’s how they stay afloat.
Although I have to admit, I did like TJ shapes back in the day. It’s funny, the Japan Grab guys are my friends, and I don’t ever remember them reviewing a TJ. Good find!
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@cucktard - Fernie Wilderness Adventures? Right of Morrisey Road, around 10 km outside of town. They have a deal with a logging company and the terrain was lots of fun.
Have any of you guys ever tried step in bindings? Met some guy on my trip and he raved about em....Thoughts?
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I know a couple guys who rave about the new Burton step ins, but they're both toting enough extra weight around the mid-section that I suspect they are just too fat to comfortably buckle their bindings.
@cucktard - Fernie Wilderness Adventures? Right of Morrisey Road, around 10 km outside of town. They have a deal with a logging company and the terrain was lots of fun.
Have any of you guys ever tried step in bindings? Met some guy on my trip and he raved about em....Thoughts?
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@cucktard - Fernie Wilderness Adventures? Right of Morrisey Road, around 10 km outside of town. They have a deal with a logging company and the terrain was lots of fun.
Have any of you guys ever tried step in bindings? Met some guy on my trip and he raved about em....Thoughts?
I don’t know that outfit. But really glad it worked out for you. I dream of the day I can go powsurfing by cat.
As for the Step Ons, sorry. I don’t know anyone that uses them.
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I'm not trying to buy a pair, but I'm interested in the technology. My local hill is tiny, so strapping in every run can get kind of old. If I got a pair, I'd wait a few years till they go down in price and work out any kinks.
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I have step ons. I have em on a custom flying v, so it's my perfect pairing when I go out with my daughter and GF on our family outings. They're decent enough for local resort riding where I'm not hucking myself or concerned about super dialed in edge to edge responsiveness. Being old, it's also nice to literally not have to hunch over that much anymore...
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Thanks for the feedback guys. Not ready to pull the step in trigger yet....
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Hope there's another chapter in the Side Hits Euphoria series this year. Longo is one of the only dudes I like to watch. I love to snowboard, but it's just not skating, and I don't pay attention to the top pros very much at all. Longo has such a nice flow and rhythm to how he rides and makes me want to go out when I watch him. I like how the SHE vids aren't just filled with twisty mcpretzel 720 shit. A bunch of really smooth lines with some stylish airs and simple 180s and switch riding that still looks really impressive and fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRruzeLwB-o&ab_channel=ArthurLongo
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recently spent some time in the tahoe backcountry
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So sick. Did you hike up?
Edit: @sbmfj That cat-trip sounds so fucking good! Need to try that sometime.
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I am pretty sure I went on a Cat trip with that outfit winter 04/05 was a bad winter, but still a lot of fund even the the conditions are the worst snow I have ridden to date. Well run outfit and made the back country easy and very accessible.
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I am pretty sure I went on a Cat trip with that outfit winter 04/05 was a bad winter, but still a lot of fund even the the conditions are the worst snow I have ridden to date. Well run outfit and made the back country easy and very accessible.
I lucked out conditions wise. First day was light n fluffy, then it warmed up a tad and aloot of wind too, really changed thigs for the 2nd day. Tons of fun regardless.
Do it @skibb, lotta fun!!
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl94WpO4nPI
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cat trips sound really fun, you guys made me interested....Unfortunately, it seems pretty rare in Europe. apparently it does not exist at all in France. But some small companies do it in Italy, I hope to try it at some point.
currently I'm trying to squeeze in 3 days of snowboarding next week.....and I need new boots! Was hoping to get in on the sales but it's too early in the season still, apparently.
also, I don't know if any of you guys watch the Angry snowboarder channel on Youtube, but he's pretty funny. And very set against step-ins!
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl94WpO4nPI
Thank you! That was a great watch.
It’s been a heavy winter here so far. There not much comparable terrain inbounds where I am, but I had tiny tastes of stuff like that today.
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I went cat boarding a few years ago outside of Park City UT. It was super luxurious to ride backcountry without having to split out, or snowmobile. I get so tired and cold getting out there sometimes I have no juice left for the actual snowboarding. I think we got some kind of deal, it was maybe $300 or so. Expensive, but then again a lift ticket at Snowbird is $200.
It can easily get weird if you can't fill the whole cat. We were a mix of pro snowboarders, friends, and some corporate types. Had to push the guides to actually take us to the good stuff.
*Edit- just saw that the current day rate for the PC place is $750. Definitely wouldn't spend that unless it was guaranteed to be all-time.
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cat trips sound really fun, you guys made me interested....Unfortunately, it seems pretty rare in Europe. apparently it does not exist at all in France. But some small companies do it in Italy, I hope to try it at some point.
currently I'm trying to squeeze in 3 days of snowboarding next week.....and I need new boots! Was hoping to get in on the sales but it's too early in the season still, apparently.
also, I don't know if any of you guys watch the Angry snowboarder channel on Youtube, but he's pretty funny. And very set against step-ins!
Give it a go if ya can. Ive alredy started saving for my next trip!!
Have you ever been to Laax? Just heard about the place a few weeks ago and it seems soo cool, too bad Europe is sooo far away. one day hopefully.
Im kinda proud of myself, third annual solo trip this year. Was really reluctant to go alone, but litterlally have no one to go with....Lucked out wiht most trips in the sense that Ill meet someone on the chair and kinda ski with them all day. Those BC locals are pretty nice and will show ya some nice runs from time to time. When I do ride solo, I try to stay visible and higher traffic areas - in case somethign were to happen...Cat skiing was kinda nice in that aspect, youll ride with the group, and they partner you up with a buddy for your runs down. Got partnered up with a early 50's Aussie - Petra. Man could she ski!! And We actully met up on the last day at the resort for a feew runs together. Really nice to meet new people. She seemed fairly well off as well, she was telling me about her 4 bedroom house being built in Japan by the ski hills - must be nice... :)
Now for this summer, most likely a solo skate trip. Pier 7 or maybe Pulaski. Who knows. 45 this year, not getting any younger, now or never type of mentality.
Was gonna take the day off and hit the local with the wife today, but feels like -28 celcius with the wind, so wifey backed out. Ill be going tomorrow regardless, ski lessons for the kids.
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I'm headed to park city tomorrow for a few days. gonna try to get 2 or 3 days in at Canyons and Park city mt while i'm there. can't wait.
there's some live streams of park city mountain and it looks a little dry on some runs but should still be good overall
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cat trips sound really fun, you guys made me interested....Unfortunately, it seems pretty rare in Europe. apparently it does not exist at all in France. But some small companies do it in Italy, I hope to try it at some point.
currently I'm trying to squeeze in 3 days of snowboarding next week.....and I need new boots! Was hoping to get in on the sales but it's too early in the season still, apparently.
also, I don't know if any of you guys watch the Angry snowboarder channel on Youtube, but he's pretty funny. And very set against step-ins!
Give it a go if ya can. Ive alredy started saving for my next trip!!
Have you ever been to Laax? Just heard about the place a few weeks ago and it seems soo cool, too bad Europe is sooo far away. one day hopefully.
Im kinda proud of myself, third annual solo trip this year. Was really reluctant to go alone, but litterlally have no one to go with....Lucked out wiht most trips in the sense that Ill meet someone on the chair and kinda ski with them all day. Those BC locals are pretty nice and will show ya some nice runs from time to time. When I do ride solo, I try to stay visible and higher traffic areas - in case somethign were to happen...Cat skiing was kinda nice in that aspect, youll ride with the group, and they partner you up with a buddy for your runs down. Got partnered up with a early 50's Aussie - Petra. Man could she ski!! And We actully met up on the last day at the resort for a feew runs together. Really nice to meet new people. She seemed fairly well off as well, she was telling me about her 4 bedroom house being built in Japan by the ski hills - must be nice... :)
Now for this summer, most likely a solo skate trip. Pier 7 or maybe Pulaski. Who knows. 45 this year, not getting any younger, now or never type of mentality.
Was gonna take the day off and hit the local with the wife today, but feels like -28 celcius with the wind, so wifey backed out. Ill be going tomorrow regardless, ski lessons for the kids.
Solo trips are sick. Where I go I can usually find a single room for less than €100 (the last 2 times I went I paid less than €60!) and you don’t need to wait for anyone at the bottom and there’s no deciding which run to take next. Just go go go all day. Cheap dinner, go to bed early and ride all day. Love it.
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cat trips sound really fun, you guys made me interested....Unfortunately, it seems pretty rare in Europe. apparently it does not exist at all in France. But some small companies do it in Italy, I hope to try it at some point.
currently I'm trying to squeeze in 3 days of snowboarding next week.....and I need new boots! Was hoping to get in on the sales but it's too early in the season still, apparently.
also, I don't know if any of you guys watch the Angry snowboarder channel on Youtube, but he's pretty funny. And very set against step-ins!
Give it a go if ya can. Ive alredy started saving for my next trip!!
Have you ever been to Laax? Just heard about the place a few weeks ago and it seems soo cool, too bad Europe is sooo far away. one day hopefully.
Im kinda proud of myself, third annual solo trip this year. Was really reluctant to go alone, but litterlally have no one to go with....Lucked out wiht most trips in the sense that Ill meet someone on the chair and kinda ski with them all day. Those BC locals are pretty nice and will show ya some nice runs from time to time. When I do ride solo, I try to stay visible and higher traffic areas - in case somethign were to happen...Cat skiing was kinda nice in that aspect, youll ride with the group, and they partner you up with a buddy for your runs down. Got partnered up with a early 50's Aussie - Petra. Man could she ski!! And We actully met up on the last day at the resort for a feew runs together. Really nice to meet new people. She seemed fairly well off as well, she was telling me about her 4 bedroom house being built in Japan by the ski hills - must be nice... :)
Now for this summer, most likely a solo skate trip. Pier 7 or maybe Pulaski. Who knows. 45 this year, not getting any younger, now or never type of mentality.
Was gonna take the day off and hit the local with the wife today, but feels like -28 celcius with the wind, so wifey backed out. Ill be going tomorrow regardless, ski lessons for the kids.
Solo trips are sick. Where I go I can usually find a single room for less than €100 (the last 2 times I went I paid less than €60!) and you don’t need to wait for anyone at the bottom and there’s no deciding which run to take next. Just go go go all day. Cheap dinner, go to bed early and ride all day. Love it.
Y'all are really selling me on this whole riding-solo biz , sounds therapeutic
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cat trips sound really fun, you guys made me interested....Unfortunately, it seems pretty rare in Europe. apparently it does not exist at all in France. But some small companies do it in Italy, I hope to try it at some point.
currently I'm trying to squeeze in 3 days of snowboarding next week.....and I need new boots! Was hoping to get in on the sales but it's too early in the season still, apparently.
also, I don't know if any of you guys watch the Angry snowboarder channel on Youtube, but he's pretty funny. And very set against step-ins!
Give it a go if ya can. Ive alredy started saving for my next trip!!
Have you ever been to Laax? Just heard about the place a few weeks ago and it seems soo cool, too bad Europe is sooo far away. one day hopefully.
Im kinda proud of myself, third annual solo trip this year. Was really reluctant to go alone, but litterlally have no one to go with....Lucked out wiht most trips in the sense that Ill meet someone on the chair and kinda ski with them all day. Those BC locals are pretty nice and will show ya some nice runs from time to time. When I do ride solo, I try to stay visible and higher traffic areas - in case somethign were to happen...Cat skiing was kinda nice in that aspect, youll ride with the group, and they partner you up with a buddy for your runs down. Got partnered up with a early 50's Aussie - Petra. Man could she ski!! And We actully met up on the last day at the resort for a feew runs together. Really nice to meet new people. She seemed fairly well off as well, she was telling me about her 4 bedroom house being built in Japan by the ski hills - must be nice... :)
Now for this summer, most likely a solo skate trip. Pier 7 or maybe Pulaski. Who knows. 45 this year, not getting any younger, now or never type of mentality.
Was gonna take the day off and hit the local with the wife today, but feels like -28 celcius with the wind, so wifey backed out. Ill be going tomorrow regardless, ski lessons for the kids.
nope, never been to Laax! Actually never ridden in Switzerland, it's way too expensive. I sometimes land in Geneva but immediately hightail it to the French border ha.... Basically the moutains are the same (some resorts you can even cross the border skiing) but Switzerland is the most expensive country I've ever been to in Europe. Apart from Iceland maybe. To give you an idea, minimum wage in Geneva is 3800 euros. In France? 1500 euros. The difference is crazy. Even eating at McDonalds or something is like 3 times the price in Switzerland. I don't understand how their economy works, those banks must really be pulling a lot of shady money....
anyways I guess solo trips can be fun, but my next trip should be with an old skate buddy I don't see often now, cause we live in different cities. And I just love snowboarding with him, it's exactly the same feeling as having a skate sesh!
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I've done about 5 or 6 trips to LAAX. It's my favourite euro resort by a long way, and an absolute must if you are into park riding. I've spent entire weeks just riding and lapping the parks. There's a 1km ish run which has features from top to bottom; and 3 or 4 other parks.
Its fairly expensive on the mountain even by European resort standards, but well worth it.
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I’ve been working at the ski area and my job for almost a month straight. I’ve has 2 down days where I didn’t work either job and I’m getting a bit worn down.
I wanted to get in the park a bit and relearn stuff earlier this season, as the past 5 or 6 years I don’t do much there until the sunny spring days roll around, and by then I’m trying to remember how to balance on a rail and not huck my shitty 3s.
But I was feeling blah this morning. But I stretched and made myself go anyways. The hills here are quiet, a big COVID spike in Hakuba over the holidays has been keeping people away.
So the park was firm, flat light, and generally unwelcoming to middle-aged men. But made a go of it anyways with my friend, and ended up having a great time and getting a back 5 on a small kicker.
My dad always used to say that it didn’t matter how much he used to sometimes wanted to stay in and not make the trek to the hill (especially with kids in tow), he never regretted a day of skiing.
He was right.
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I’ve been working at the ski area and my job for almost a month straight. I’ve has 2 down days where I didn’t work either job and I’m getting a bit worn down.
I wanted to get in the park a bit and relearn stuff earlier this season, as the past 5 or 6 years I don’t do much there until the sunny spring days roll around, and by then I’m trying to remember how to balance on a rail and not huck my shitty 3s.
But I was feeling blah this morning. But I stretched and made myself go anyways. The hills here are quiet, a big COVID spike in Hakuba over the holidays has been keeping people away.
So the park was firm, flat light, and generally unwelcoming to middle-aged men. But made a go of it anyways with my friend, and ended up having a great time and getting a back 5 on a small kicker.
My dad always used to say that it didn’t matter how much he used to sometimes wanted to stay in and not make the trek to the hill (especially with kids in tow), he never regretted a day of skiing.
He was right.
My worst days on the mountain were always better than not being up there at all. I try to take a similar mindset into skating.
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But made a go of it anyways with my friend, and ended up having a great time and getting a back 5 on a small kicker.
My dad always used to say that it didn’t matter how much he used to sometimes wanted to stay in and not make the trek to the hill (especially with kids in tow), he never regretted a day of skiing.
He was right.
Hell yea on the back 5
And shitty day of skiing WAY better than an awesome day at the office!! #wordstoliveby
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Was supposed to go to Norway for a week today, but ended up testing positive for covid yesterday. Gutted be stuck home instead. Granted, the conditions didn't look like they're gonna be dreamy, but still: gutted.
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Was supposed to go to Norway for a week today, but ended up testing positive for covid yesterday. Gutted be stuck home instead. Granted, the conditions didn't look like they're gonna be dreamy, but still: gutted.
That sucks balls. Get well soon!
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Was supposed to go to Norway for a week today, but ended up testing positive for covid yesterday. Gutted be stuck home instead. Granted, the conditions didn't look like they're gonna be dreamy, but still: gutted.
That’s a fucking bummer. Sorry to hear it.
Do you have symptoms or did you only do your test for travel requirements?
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a personal fav
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-nuH1Wdl-4&feature=emb_logo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-nuH1Wdl-4&feature=emb_logo)
all-time fav
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPh9yaWlbRs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPh9yaWlbRs)
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Was supposed to go to Norway for a week today, but ended up testing positive for covid yesterday. Gutted be stuck home instead. Granted, the conditions didn't look like they're gonna be dreamy, but still: gutted.
That’s a fucking bummer. Sorry to hear it.
Do you have symptoms or did you only do your test for travel requirements?
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Was supposed to go to Norway for a week today, but ended up testing positive for covid yesterday. Gutted be stuck home instead. Granted, the conditions didn't look like they're gonna be dreamy, but still: gutted.
Thanks guys. Yeah I did the test for travel requirements (and to be cool to the rest of people in the car up). I had cold-like symptoms, like runny nose and the occaisonal sneeze. But no fever or anything serious – nothing I'd even pay attention to had it not been a pandemic, haha.
Looks like I'll be able to get the money back for the lift ticket and stuff though, so that's something at least. :)
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You should always go up the hill, always.
If the lifts are running I go up the hill every day no matter what. Doesn't matter how bad the weather is or how off it I am, I go up.
If it's so disgusting up there that it's truly not enjoyable I just go home but its surprising how rarely that happens, I almost always end up having fun and staying for at least a few laps.
I live 10 minutes drive from the mountain and feel lucky to spend my winter this way.
Super envious of park laps at Laxx, Hokkaido is bad for parks in general and the Niseko area is particularly shit.
I really regret not doing a season in Europe when I was young, I'm about to turn 40 and that ship has sailed. Spent 15 years snowboarding in Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand and every place was so amazing in it's own way. Bummed I never checked out what those euro mountains have going on for myself, they look sick....
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Was supposed to go to Norway for a week today, but ended up testing positive for covid yesterday. Gutted be stuck home instead. Granted, the conditions didn't look like they're gonna be dreamy, but still: gutted.
That’s a fucking bummer. Sorry to hear it.
Do you have symptoms or did you only do your test for travel requirements?
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Was supposed to go to Norway for a week today, but ended up testing positive for covid yesterday. Gutted be stuck home instead. Granted, the conditions didn't look like they're gonna be dreamy, but still: gutted.
Thanks guys. Yeah I did the test for travel requirements (and to be cool to the rest of people in the car up). I had cold-like symptoms, like runny nose and the occaisonal sneeze. But no fever or anything serious – nothing I'd even pay attention to had it not been a pandemic, haha.
Looks like I'll be able to get the money back for the lift ticket and stuff though, so that's something at least. :)
Damn. Commiserations to you. That's exactly what I was afraid of friday, when I did an autotest before leaving for a weekend snowboard trip with old skate buddies. Thankfully I was luckier than you and trip was awesome. Conditions were pretty bad on the last day (snow + wind), but as everyone said, it's always worth it going up. at one point the weather cleared up a bit and we even found some untracked snow out of bounds, it was pretty cool.
Doom Patrol: as I've said before...the Alps are awesome! Super jealous you live 10 minutes from a resort though. for me it's a 9 hour drive to get the Alps! sometimes I go to the Vosges, it's closer (5 hours), but the mountains/resorts are tiny compared to the Alps. This weekend we were at the Portes du Soleil ski area, which is made up of around 6 French and Swiss resorts, it's huge. 165 lifts total! I wanted to go the Burton "Stash" area at Avoriaz, but this time we stayed around Chatel. I really wanna go back there though, it's real fun. hopefully march!
the stash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZqkX-57wns
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I spent a week in Chamonix in the late 90s, scoring powder like a fiend. No snowboarding experience has ever topped that. I live about one hour from Mt Hood but its so busy and expensive these days, I almost alway opt to go West to surf instead.
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Here's a homie video from Tampere Finland, with a Jaakko Ojanen street part, starting at 11:30. Of course that fucking guy kills it on a snowboard as well. The video is made by his brother Lauri. These dudes are skaters, thus a very skate-style vid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aURa7l5h-aQ
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So I got my redemption for missing out last week... Saw a crazy forecast for Roldal, a renowned powder pit a 9 hour drive away in Norway... Like a 130cm of fresh snow being expected in three days. Packed my bags on Tuesday and drove up Wednesday, and it's been four days of the absolutely deepest snow I've ridden. Been snowing constantly, so visibility was tricky, but there's some really nice forest runs that we've lapped all day, and then we hit the pow just next to the piste on the evenings when the lights came on... completely untracked every morning, hell, every other run almost... shit was wild. Lucky strike.
Check the place out on Google Maps, the nature is incredible: https://goo.gl/maps/z6ghefqeMxFmfaKd7
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That sounds like a perfect trip, sick!
The first time I went to the rockies it snowed 12-18 inches every single night. It was so insane. By the end of the week when we left there was ~10ft drifts on the side of the roads. It was like driving through a snow tunnel. I'll never forget that trip. I was still on skis those days.
I went up to my "local" mountain (2 hour drive) this weekend and while the conditions were quite awful (ice sheets with man-made snow lumps on top with some shady sections just having a layer of death cookies) I rode from 9-4 each day and had a blast just the same. The last 2 hours of Sunday I just focused on practicing riding switch (even taking the chair switch) which was a good rest for my legs and it made me feel like it was "worth it".
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@metsuri
Nice video. Reminds me of when my friends and I would hike hills and set up jumps.
I’ve been following this guy on Gnu Max Warbington. Him and his friends have skate style but they kinda stick to the woods. It’s pretty rad.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BOFz3jpCMgU
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thought you guys might get a kick out of this....I found some old footy my dad shot of me and a friend in 93. I still had a ski onesie! ;D
https://www.instagram.com/p/CZygPJJgEUK/
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That was so awesome. I wish I had video of me snowboarding back then. I wanted that board so bad!
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That was so awesome. I wish I had video of me snowboarding back then. I wanted that board so bad!
thanks....if I remember right I bought that board off a rental shop that was switching to all hard boots, which was the norm in Europe back then. Stoked! :P anyways, yeah super glad to have that footy, thanks dad haha....I just wish I had some skate footage from that time too!
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Weird season here, owing to La Nina and Climate Change coming together in unholy matrimony. We had amazing early season run of snow in October, allowing Mammoth and Palisades to open early. Mammoth was able to stay open through a very meh and very dry November and Palisades had to close. Local resorts in SoCal werent really able to get going until December.
Then, at the end of the month, we had Deep-cember which was record setting and insane and was enough to even keep the local resorts fully open for the last 45 days when we've.....had zero snow. I guess this is the way now.
Took the day off and headed up to Bear Mtn this morning. I got the new Tony Hawk/K2 Party Platter. Fun ride. Were supposed to get 3-6 inches local today and the OpenSnow forecast says for the West Coast and NorCal more broadly a trough is finally moving in to break up this damn heat dome thing. It was 90 here for four straight days last week.
Headed to Mammoth on 2/25 for a few days with my dude crew, right now slight chance of minor snow. On 3/10 I am headed up to Blaise Rosenthal's bootcamp thing he's doing in Bear Valley. Three days of shredding with him, Corey Smith, Pat Bridges, and a few other special guests. Should be really neat.
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Weird season here, owing to La Nina and Climate Change coming together in unholy matrimony. We had amazing early season run of snow in October, allowing Mammoth and Palisades to open early. Mammoth was able to stay open through a very meh and very dry November and Palisades had to close. Local resorts in SoCal werent really able to get going until December.
Then, at the end of the month, we had Deep-cember which was record setting and insane and was enough to even keep the local resorts fully open for the last 45 days when we've.....had zero snow. I guess this is the way now.
Took the day off and headed up to Bear Mtn this morning. I got the new Tony Hawk/K2 Party Platter. Fun ride. Were supposed to get 3-6 inches local today and the OpenSnow forecast says for the West Coast and NorCal more broadly a trough is finally moving in to break up this damn heat dome thing. It was 90 here for four straight days last week.
Headed to Mammoth on 2/25 for a few days with my dude crew, right now slight chance of minor snow. On 3/10 I am headed up to Blaise Rosenthal's bootcamp thing he's doing in Bear Valley. Three days of shredding with him, Corey Smith, Pat Bridges, and a few other special guests. Should be really neat.
What size party platter? How you like it?
I was gonna buy a 152 PP but went with a 155 Marhar Lumber Jack. Volume shift is so great. Definitely feels more like skateboarding.
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Love my Party Platter (148cm, 180 lbs), yep rides like a skateboard. Any short fat volume shifted is the jam
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Weird season here, owing to La Nina and Climate Change coming together in unholy matrimony. We had amazing early season run of snow in October, allowing Mammoth and Palisades to open early. Mammoth was able to stay open through a very meh and very dry November and Palisades had to close. Local resorts in SoCal werent really able to get going until December.
Then, at the end of the month, we had Deep-cember which was record setting and insane and was enough to even keep the local resorts fully open for the last 45 days when we've.....had zero snow. I guess this is the way now.
Took the day off and headed up to Bear Mtn this morning. I got the new Tony Hawk/K2 Party Platter. Fun ride. Were supposed to get 3-6 inches local today and the OpenSnow forecast says for the West Coast and NorCal more broadly a trough is finally moving in to break up this damn heat dome thing. It was 90 here for four straight days last week.
Headed to Mammoth on 2/25 for a few days with my dude crew, right now slight chance of minor snow. On 3/10 I am headed up to Blaise Rosenthal's bootcamp thing he's doing in Bear Valley. Three days of shredding with him, Corey Smith, Pat Bridges, and a few other special guests. Should be really neat.
What size party platter? How you like it?
I was gonna buy a 152 PP but went with a 155 Marhar Lumber Jack. Volume shift is so great. Definitely feels more like skateboarding.
157. I love it, but I will say as volume shifted goes, it is not a free ride ripper like my Gremlin can be or like the Telos Backslash apparently is. Not stiff enough. I run it at reference stance for freestyle and just jam it around the park. It is definitely a really fun board just not a charger. I am LumberJack curious as my friend Avran helped design it.
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Weird season here, owing to La Nina and Climate Change coming together in unholy matrimony. We had amazing early season run of snow in October, allowing Mammoth and Palisades to open early. Mammoth was able to stay open through a very meh and very dry November and Palisades had to close. Local resorts in SoCal werent really able to get going until December.
Then, at the end of the month, we had Deep-cember which was record setting and insane and was enough to even keep the local resorts fully open for the last 45 days when we've.....had zero snow. I guess this is the way now.
Took the day off and headed up to Bear Mtn this morning. I got the new Tony Hawk/K2 Party Platter. Fun ride. Were supposed to get 3-6 inches local today and the OpenSnow forecast says for the West Coast and NorCal more broadly a trough is finally moving in to break up this damn heat dome thing. It was 90 here for four straight days last week.
Headed to Mammoth on 2/25 for a few days with my dude crew, right now slight chance of minor snow. On 3/10 I am headed up to Blaise Rosenthal's bootcamp thing he's doing in Bear Valley. Three days of shredding with him, Corey Smith, Pat Bridges, and a few other special guests. Should be really neat.
What size party platter? How you like it?
I was gonna buy a 152 PP but went with a 155 Marhar Lumber Jack. Volume shift is so great. Definitely feels more like skateboarding.
157. I love it, but I will say as volume shifted goes, it is not a free ride ripper like my Gremlin can be or like the Telos Backslash apparently is. Not stiff enough. I run it at reference stance for freestyle and just jam it around the park. It is definitely a really fun board just not a charger. I am LumberJack curious as my friend Avran helped design it.
It’s funny you say that cause I paid him $15 to help me select that deck based on a survey I filled out.
I found one on EBay for $300 and sent him the picks and he told me it was a good deal so I bought it.
Really good service.
The board it stiff in the middle but has flex in the tips. It’s probably not for deep powder but is forgiving when cutting through uneven terrain.
I think for snowboarding on northeast slopes it’s great.
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https://youtu.be/fpEcK-UK3bs
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Weird season here, owing to La Nina and Climate Change coming together in unholy matrimony. We had amazing early season run of snow in October, allowing Mammoth and Palisades to open early. Mammoth was able to stay open through a very meh and very dry November and Palisades had to close. Local resorts in SoCal werent really able to get going until December.
Then, at the end of the month, we had Deep-cember which was record setting and insane and was enough to even keep the local resorts fully open for the last 45 days when we've.....had zero snow. I guess this is the way now.
Took the day off and headed up to Bear Mtn this morning. I got the new Tony Hawk/K2 Party Platter. Fun ride. Were supposed to get 3-6 inches local today and the OpenSnow forecast says for the West Coast and NorCal more broadly a trough is finally moving in to break up this damn heat dome thing. It was 90 here for four straight days last week.
Headed to Mammoth on 2/25 for a few days with my dude crew, right now slight chance of minor snow. On 3/10 I am headed up to Blaise Rosenthal's bootcamp thing he's doing in Bear Valley. Three days of shredding with him, Corey Smith, Pat Bridges, and a few other special guests. Should be really neat.
What size party platter? How you like it?
I was gonna buy a 152 PP but went with a 155 Marhar Lumber Jack. Volume shift is so great. Definitely feels more like skateboarding.
157. I love it, but I will say as volume shifted goes, it is not a free ride ripper like my Gremlin can be or like the Telos Backslash apparently is. Not stiff enough. I run it at reference stance for freestyle and just jam it around the park. It is definitely a really fun board just not a charger. I am LumberJack curious as my friend Avran helped design it.
It’s funny you say that cause I paid him $15 to help me select that deck based on a survey I filled out.
I found one on EBay for $300 and sent him the picks and he told me it was a good deal so I bought it.
Really good service.
The board it stiff in the middle but has flex in the tips. It’s probably not for deep powder but is forgiving when cutting through uneven terrain.
I think for snowboarding on northeast slopes it’s great.
Avran is awesome and the good homie. Just spent a week with him in Colorado. I am the moderator during the live streams and stuff when I can get to them. Usually not hard since I work at home on Thursdays. I agree with your assessment. The tips flap, and I am a big guy and can usually overpower boards not specifically made to handle the rough stuff and the steeps, but the PP is fine for local version of black diamonds. I just wouldnt go bomb Cornice at Mammoth on it. Glad you're enjoying it. The Personal Shopper program is a great value and I'm glad people are getting a lot out of it. My regular riding partner just used it to pick a Korua out.
Edit: just realized you're talking about the Lumberjack. I'd say its pretty fair assessment of the Party Platter, but I dont think it is stiff enough through the middle torsionally for me to charge.
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A recent favorite
https://youtu.be/fpEcK-UK3bs
That's the edit of the year, in my mind. Nothing has been able to stand up to it. Lots of good stuff this year, but...
Dylan. Fucking. Oaktree.
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Just realizing I have sort of a stupid quiver of volume shifted boards now
K2 Party Platter 157
K2 Cool Bean 150
Gnu Gremlin 158
Spring Break Slush Slasher 151
Still sorta volume shifted:
Stump Ape (I mean, its still a 160)
Orca (159)
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Never heard of a Volume Shift snowboard - just googled it.
Are they mainly directional shaped, ie not twin? I wouldnt mind a shorter board at time - 164W is my current go to.
Oldie But Fenchie, awesome footie. That was a good pow day, that bowl looks like fun!!
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I went up to the mountains on back to back weekends, first time I saw an anti hero sticker on a board (big eagle logo) and the next I saw a big Quasi sticker on one. Does that seem wrong to y’all or is it just me? Mostly the anti hero, but idk I just don’t like the idea of that.
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Never heard of a Volume Shift snowboard - just googled it.
Are they mainly directional shaped, ie not twin? I wouldnt mind a shorter board at time - 164W is my current go to.
Oldie But Fenchie, awesome footie. That was a good pow day, that bowl looks like fun!!
You are correct but there are two that I know of. I have the lumber jack and that is a twin. Also there is the twin pig.
https://www.marharsnowboards.com/products/lumberjack-snowboard
https://ridesnowboards.com/en-us/p/twinpig-snowboard?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuend0cqF9gIVAf7jBx0wbQA0EAAYASAAEgJ-XfD_BwE
Ultimately, I went with the Lumberjack cause I got a good deal but the twin pig looks good too.
The idea of volume shift is to widen the deck to maintain the same float for body weight. The idea of having a deck that reaches your chin is out the window. You’re in Quebec? I’m in Jersey so we will have similar conditions. I don’t go out west so I can’t speak to how it handles in POW. But you have a deck for that already…
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I went up to the mountains on back to back weekends, first time I saw an anti hero sticker on a board (big eagle logo) and the next I saw a big Quasi sticker on one. Does that seem wrong to y’all or is it just me? Mostly the anti hero, but idk I just don’t like the idea of that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1RNcIMaTiA&t=221s
Cardiel approves.
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I went up to the mountains on back to back weekends, first time I saw an anti hero sticker on a board (big eagle logo) and the next I saw a big Quasi sticker on one. Does that seem wrong to y’all or is it just me? Mostly the anti hero, but idk I just don’t like the idea of that.
Antihero did a collaboration with Nike. Don’t take its ‘core, anti-corporate’ branding too seriously. Or any branding, for that matter.
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I know Cardiel used to rip on a snowboard, and I'm not saying it's because Antihero is "core" or whatever. Just felt weird to me. Like I wouldn't slap a Baker sticker on my tennis racket, or conversely a Gnu sticker on my skateboard would feel weird.
Anyways, most of the days I've gotten out this year the snow hasn't been that great and I'm with my gf who is kinda learning so I can't just go really fast and I feel frustrated haha.
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I know Cardiel used to rip on a snowboard, and I'm not saying it's because Antihero is "core" or whatever. Just felt weird to me. Like I wouldn't slap a Baker sticker on my tennis racket, or conversely a Gnu sticker on my skateboard would feel weird.
Anyways, most of the days I've gotten out this year the snow hasn't been that great and I'm with my gf who is kinda learning so I can't just go really fast and I feel frustrated haha.
Get her a lesson, pronto.
That is absolutely the best way for you to get riding in and not be frustrated, and her not to feel stressed about making you frustrated. It makes both of you happier, and if she gets a good instructor she’ll learn a lot of good habits.
From a financial standpoint, she’ll learn more in a shorter amount of time with lessons, and be riding faster in less time.
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Watching the noah salasnek powder and rails, they are talking about him having pro models on Life and H stree. I cant find any trace on google, art of skateboarding, or the disposable skateboard bible. Anyone have info on a pro model?
R.I.P. Noah
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I know Cardiel used to rip on a snowboard, and I'm not saying it's because Antihero is "core" or whatever. Just felt weird to me. Like I wouldn't slap a Baker sticker on my tennis racket, or conversely a Gnu sticker on my skateboard would feel weird.
Anyways, most of the days I've gotten out this year the snow hasn't been that great and I'm with my gf who is kinda learning so I can't just go really fast and I feel frustrated haha.
Get her a lesson, pronto.
That is absolutely the best way for you to get riding in and not be frustrated, and her not to feel stressed about making you frustrated. It makes both of you happier, and if she gets a good instructor she’ll learn a lot of good habits.
From a financial standpoint, she’ll learn more in a shorter amount of time with lessons, and be riding faster in less time.
She took lessons when she was first learning, she just goes slow on runs and usually when I go up I do back country or trees so it’s just mismatched at this point. She looks comfortable enough going down blues, but she went with some other friends closer to her skill set and had more fun it sounds like.
Idk, supposed to hit vail on Monday with a friend so that’ll be fun.
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I know Cardiel used to rip on a snowboard, and I'm not saying it's because Antihero is "core" or whatever. Just felt weird to me. Like I wouldn't slap a Baker sticker on my tennis racket, or conversely a Gnu sticker on my skateboard would feel weird.
Anyways, most of the days I've gotten out this year the snow hasn't been that great and I'm with my gf who is kinda learning so I can't just go really fast and I feel frustrated haha.
Get her a lesson, pronto.
That is absolutely the best way for you to get riding in and not be frustrated, and her not to feel stressed about making you frustrated. It makes both of you happier, and if she gets a good instructor she’ll learn a lot of good habits.
From a financial standpoint, she’ll learn more in a shorter amount of time with lessons, and be riding faster in less time.
She took lessons when she was first learning, she just goes slow on runs and usually when I go up I do back country or trees so it’s just mismatched at this point. She looks comfortable enough going down blues, but she went with some other friends closer to her skill set and had more fun it sounds like.
Idk, supposed to hit vail on Monday with a friend so that’ll be fun.
Mismatched is hard. Most of my friends and their wives are mismatched, and hearing from both sides it’s stress all round.
Mostly the women, who might have gotten into it because of their partners and don’t have much desire to get fast/awesome, but get more enjoyment out of cruising and socializing. Which is totally legitimate, but when riding with their partner they feel pressure to ‘perform’ or get too far outside their comfort zone, and they end up not enjoying riding with their husbands.
And the husbands are like ‘Why don’t you wanna learn more?” and are all disappointed.
The only couples that on know that ride together are both really into it, and we’re doing it before they met.
Sounds like yeah, riding apart for a while longer might be best. Let her develop a passion for it. And if you do ride together, just ride switch or snowskate something and slow yourself down to her level so she doesn’t feel like she has to keep up.
At least that’s what I’ve learned in 20 years instructing and dealing with couples. Including my wife (who luckily shreds, and we generally enjoy riding together)
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Another one from the archives here, got back into my old Vimeo account and found this little indoor clip from the slope I used to work at.
Had a lot of fun at those park/jib sessions, rode there for free for a good 6 or 7 years.. but can't take the slams anymore, so gradually moved away from park riding.
(I know, my switch game is gross)
https://vimeo.com/158004962 (https://vimeo.com/158004962)
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I just want to give some appreciation for home much snow we’ve been getting here.
Especially considering it’s been dry in a lot of North America.
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Re: Noah Salasnek, he had a lifesaver candy graphic. He was a good skater, but I don’t remember being too juiced on him. He was an Ollie grab guy when skating had Mike Carroll…..
Re: couples snowboarding: can’t you usually just wait for here at the bottom of the run?
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https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/r-i-p-noah-salasnek/
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Looks like the big storm cycles have passed here in Hakuba, leaving a fuckton to snow for the park builders to play with.
The Hakuba 47 park crew built the best halfpipe here in years, and with halfpipe building and riding in decline, it’s so nice to have a slightly soft 14-foot pipe to relearn how to air in.
I’ll never get to go it on a skateboard, so it’s nice to kind of approximate an experience of what I watched pros do in the 80’s.
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I question if I could physically ride one but for sure…the few times I rode a pipe it was sick…just a bunch of back to back airs is so much fun.
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recently spent some time in the tahoe backcountry
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So sick. Did you hike up?
only a couple hundred feet. there are some lifts that give access to the backcountry gates.
recently did a drive from sf to whistler. unfortunately the storm fizzled out that was predicted while i was in canada, but it was cold enough to keep the snow that had fallen the previous week nice and light. stayed riding blackcomb everyday since that's what the sun was hitting later on in the afternoon. those runs are so rad and fast.
did take a day and head north to pemberton. some locals had dug out the park.
(https://i.imgur.com/V64vCBj.png)
did manage to luck out on the drive back down and catch a session at steven's pass. i hadn't ridden at night since my first time snowboarding back in the 90s. it was also the my time riding at night during a storm. that place keeps lifts spinning till 10pm, such a good vibe.
(https://i.imgur.com/BUKZH4V.jpg)
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Went from full-on winter to mid-May conditions within a week. Sunny, +10°C and the park turned to slush.
Grabbed the snowskate and went to town. My wife tried it out again for the first time in years and had a blast, wanna give a shout-out to bidecks!
Especially Landyachtz and Hovland
Went up for a half day and could get to the lip in the 12-foot slush taco. So much fun!
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Headed up this weekend... this season has been quite dry near me. I don't care if there's snow or not, I'm going to have fun regardless. But is supposed to snow a whole 2cm! WOW!
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Just did week one of the Blaise Rosenthal Boot Camp at Bear Valley. What a fucking experience. Wow.
Headed to Tahoe on Saturday. Gonna go check out the Brainbowl session the Gnu guys are scouting and digging this week, then ride Diamond Peak, Alpine, Diamond Peak again, then go down to June and then to Mammoth. Wife and son's birthdays, and last hurrah of this pathetic-snow-yet-fun season.
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Woaaahhhhh!! Javi Mendizabal is definitely one of my favorite skaters of all time, and he did the art for the new BRD board for Lib! I was already planning on getting a 167W now I am super excited for it.
https://www.advance-j.com/downloads/22-23/LIB.pdf
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I went up to the mountains on back to back weekends, first time I saw an anti hero sticker on a board (big eagle logo) and the next I saw a big Quasi sticker on one. Does that seem wrong to y’all or is it just me? Mostly the anti hero, but idk I just don’t like the idea of that.
I have an AH AND a quasi sticker on mine, so there ya go.
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Leaving for the french Alpes next week – first Val d'Isere then Chamonix. Anyone been? Would love some tips on spots and/or pubs. 😁
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I've never snowboarded before. Is there anything wrong with renting the boards they have at the mountain? Seems like buying boards is super expensive.
Any other tips for a newbie?
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I've never snowboarded before. Is there anything wrong with renting the boards they have at the mountain? Seems like buying boards is super expensive.
Any other tips for a newbie?
As long as you have all the other gear like jacket/pants/gloves/etc then renting a board is pretty normal and not too expensive usually. But if you plan to go many times, you can usually get a used board for pretty cheap if you're not too picky, which, as a newbie, you shouldn't be.
The #1 tip is to take a lesson. And take them until you feel like you're having fun. Trying to learn on your own to snowboard is a sure way to never want to do it again.
Take it easy and get some good waterproof pants, you'll be on your ass a lot at the beginning.
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Leaving for the french Alpes next week – first Val d'Isere then Chamonix. Anyone been? Would love some tips on spots and/or pubs. 😁
never been to Val d'Isere but my advice for Chamonix would be to ride at Les Houches. Chamonix has several separate resorts linked by bus and Les Houches was my fave by far. The others were all real steep and not too adapted for snowboarding. Except if the conditions are good and you can ride powder off-piste!
Going up to l'Aiguille du Midi is a must too. 3800 m altitude! One of the highest ski lifts in the French alps I think...enjoy!
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I've never snowboarded before. Is there anything wrong with renting the boards they have at the mountain? Seems like buying boards is super expensive.
Any other tips for a newbie?
As long as you have all the other gear like jacket/pants/gloves/etc then renting a board is pretty normal and not too expensive usually. But if you plan to go many times, you can usually get a used board for pretty cheap if you're not too picky, which, as a newbie, you shouldn't be.
The #1 tip is to take a lesson. And take them until you feel like you're having fun. Trying to learn on your own to snowboard is a sure way to never want to do it again.
Take it easy and get some good waterproof pants, you'll be on your ass a lot at the beginning.
I've snowboarded down some hills on toy snowboards, and on snowskates... would that give me some baseline experience or would you still suggest a lesson?
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I've never snowboarded before. Is there anything wrong with renting the boards they have at the mountain? Seems like buying boards is super expensive.
Any other tips for a newbie?
Take. A. Lesson.
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I've never snowboarded before. Is there anything wrong with renting the boards they have at the mountain? Seems like buying boards is super expensive.
Any other tips for a newbie?
As long as you have all the other gear like jacket/pants/gloves/etc then renting a board is pretty normal and not too expensive usually. But if you plan to go many times, you can usually get a used board for pretty cheap if you're not too picky, which, as a newbie, you shouldn't be.
The #1 tip is to take a lesson. And take them until you feel like you're having fun. Trying to learn on your own to snowboard is a sure way to never want to do it again.
Take it easy and get some good waterproof pants, you'll be on your ass a lot at the beginning.
I've snowboarded down some hills on toy snowboards, and on snowskates... would that give me some baseline experience or would you still suggest a lesson?
Instructor chiming in.
If it was a bideck snowskate, and you were turning, you could get away without a lesson, kinda.
But to turn on a snowskate you gotta have a really forward-facing stance, which isn’t great if you want to learn tricks or jumps.
A lesson will show you some fundamentals right away that could take you many trips, if not seasons you learn on your own. So there’s that.
But rental gear is fine at first.
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I've never snowboarded before. Is there anything wrong with renting the boards they have at the mountain? Seems like buying boards is super expensive.
Any other tips for a newbie?
Way cheaper to rent off the mountain. Get boots that fit, too tight will ruin your day. Take a lesson or watch a lot of youtube.
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Leaving for the french Alpes next week – first Val d'Isere then Chamonix. Anyone been? Would love some tips on spots and/or pubs. 😁
never been to Val d'Isere but my advice for Chamonix would be to ride at Les Houches. Chamonix has several separate resorts linked by bus and Les Houches was my fave by far. The others were all real steep and not too adapted for snowboarding. Except if the conditions are good and you can ride powder off-piste!
Going up to l'Aiguille du Midi is a must too. 3800 m altitude! One of the highest ski lifts in the French alps I think...enjoy!
Duuude, just to make it clear: Cham. can be quite extreme. Don't go down the Midi on your own! It's not a ski lift. It spits you out in a high alpine death zone. Shit's serious up there. Get a guide.
Anyway, don't go off piste without the common safety gear and know how to use it. Don't ride alone. And don't just follow tracks. You likely get in a situation where ropes, crampons, iceaxes, etc. are needed, that's a normal thing in Cham. Or you might follow a paraglide-skier down a cliff...
ok, this came out quite presumptuous. Sorry. Just hope you know what you are doing and stay save.
(snowconditions are not too good right now, though)
There is a concrete park right behind the "sports area" that looked decent btw.
And lots of nice bars and restaurants all over town; Elevation1904, right at the train station, for example.
You sure will have a good time!
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Leaving for the french Alpes next week – first Val d'Isere then Chamonix. Anyone been? Would love some tips on spots and/or pubs. 😁
never been to Val d'Isere but my advice for Chamonix would be to ride at Les Houches. Chamonix has several separate resorts linked by bus and Les Houches was my fave by far. The others were all real steep and not too adapted for snowboarding. Except if the conditions are good and you can ride powder off-piste!
Going up to l'Aiguille du Midi is a must too. 3800 m altitude! One of the highest ski lifts in the French alps I think...enjoy!
Anyway, don't go off piste without the common safety gear and know how to use it. Don't ride alone. And don't just follow tracks. You likely get in a situation where ropes, crampons, iceaxes, etc. are needed, that's a normal thing in Cham. Or you might follow a paraglide-skier down a cliff...
ok, this came out quite presumptuous. Sorry. Just hope you know what you are doing and stay save.
(snowconditions are not too good right now, though)
There is a concrete park right behind the "sports area" that looked decent btw.
And lots of nice bars and restaurants all over town; Elevation1904, right at the train station, for example.
You sure will have a good time!
oh damn you are totally right! I thought there were regular pistes to go down from l'Aiguille du Midi, but the only possibility is doing la Vallée blanche! which takes you through a glacier and I would not do whithout a guide, no way.... now that I remember I realize we got off at Plan de l'Aiguille and did not go all the way up! Good thing you corrected me man :-X ;)
Totally agree about this too:
ropes, crampons, iceaxes, etc. are needed, that's a normal thing in Cham.
It's kind of the freeriding capital of Europe. I tripped out watching the crowds cause it seems like everybordy has the best/most recent gear and average level on the pistes is probably the best I've ever seen in any resort. Very very few beginners in Cham.... and again I much prefer resorts that are more freestyle oriented, like Avoriaz.
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....had a blast riding with homies and filming a bit with my new GoPro in Avoriaz and Chatel last weekend btw!
conditions were indeed not too good. Too warm. the season will probably end early and now it's back to skating mode for springtime 8) 8)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CbiSfTigPKd/
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....had a blast riding with homies and filming a bit with my new GoPro in Avoriaz and Chatel last weekend btw!
conditions were indeed not too good. Too warm. the season will probably end early and now it's back to skating mode for springtime 8) 8)
Those are perfect conditions for goofing around the mountain and the park!
The ruts on those jumps are kinda gnarly tho.
Great filming on the vid!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CbiSfTigPKd/
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Those are perfect conditions for goofing around the mountain and the park!
The ruts on those jumps are kinda gnarly tho.
Great filming on the vid!
thanks! I'm still learning to film this snowboard stuff, but it's fun....also I agree, I love slush to mess around in, but this time it was so slushy, in some places the snow would stick so much and slow you down! you never really knew how much speed to take and that made it kinda tricky to clear the jumps! btw ruts = knuckle I presume ??
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I find it’s easier to catch an edge with ruts. Also makes it way harder to spin.
And if there are ruts in the take-off, chances are that the landing looks like an asteroid impact zone
I’m spoilt from the fact that the local park gets raked 2 or 3 times a day in the spring
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I've never snowboarded before. Is there anything wrong with renting the boards they have at the mountain? Seems like buying boards is super expensive.
Any other tips for a newbie?
Take. A. Lesson.
Thanks both of you. I've taken it to heart. Next year I'm going and getting an instructor lesson.
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Thanks for all the info about Cham, guys. Sitting on a bus towards Chamonix now, after spending some days in Val D’Isere… Apparently it’s been one of the worst seasons in a hot minute, but we got a 40cm dump the night before yesterday, so did get some nice fluffy runs just outside the pistes. Was a nice change after a couple of days of foggy, soggy and crowded mess.
Speaking of foggy messes: I’m struggling with my goggles fogging up. Might be that I’m running hot or being covered in snow or just that my goggles are shit - anyone who managed to beat the fog? Is there some secret trick to it, or should I just suck it up? 😐
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Thanks for all the info about Cham, guys. Sitting on a bus towards Chamonix now, after spending some days in Val D’Isere… Apparently it’s been one of the worst seasons in a hot minute, but we got a 40cm dump the night before yesterday, so did get some nice fluffy runs just outside the pistes. Was a nice change after a couple of days of foggy, soggy and crowded mess.
Speaking of foggy messes: I’m struggling with my goggles fogging up. Might be that I’m running hot or being covered in snow or just that my goggles are shit - anyone who managed to beat the fog? Is there some secret trick to it, or should I just suck it up? 😐
Make sure they are completely dry before going out, even if that means sticking them in the hand dryer in the bathroom for half a minute. Make sure there isn’t any residual moisture.
Next, make sure and helmet or hood you have on isn’t blocking the top vents.
If you have your face down while riding the lift, or wearing a mask over your nose and under the goggles, that will trap your warm breath inside and fog them.
They are made to unfog themselves by wind forcing itself in while you ride, but if you are say hiking, and not moving very fast but heating up, you can fog them up that way too.
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Anyone anywhere with the season still going?
It was fucking 20 degrees in the valley, 12 degrees at the park, and the snow was pretty slow.
The park crew has been good at reforming and salting the jumps 2-3 times a day, but the snow is so soft the areas between the jumps is crazy bumpy and rutted.
But I went out specifically because I’ve had a dream for about 26 years now. Which is to land a bs 7. I gave up on this dream maybe 10 years ago, thinking it wouldn’t happen (I landed a cab 7 once, and thought ‘good enough).
But a week ago I rented some park skis, and decided I was going to learn 3s I the park, like the other instructors I worked with. I always wanted to do ‘a helicopter’ as a kid in the 80’s, but was too chickenshit. So at the ripe age of 46, I tried.
And what do you know, it wasn’t that hard! Got it second try. And continued landing them the rest of the sesh.
So after fulfilling that dream rather easily, I’m now I’m thinking ’maybe I can do a bs 7’. But I’ve had a huge mental block from spinning over 5. Just thinking about it in bed used to get me a little panicky.
But I tried one last Friday, while the park jumps are still doable. I didn’t die, so I came back today, and got 5 or 6 more kicks at the can.
I’m getting within the last 90 degrees, but I’m not aware enough of where I am to spot the landing and put it down.
But I’m really happy I got over the fear and walked away after 6 failed attempts.
If anyone has some good advice for spotting the last 90, I’d love to hear it.
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Just came back from a quick hi8tus in laax just there, was a Salomon trip going on at the time got to see dusty and Tommy gesme ride which was a treat crazy the pipe is still in as good condition as it is on a side note dusty n luke wink are very bad darts players
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Dusty is the Tom Penny of snowboarding.
I’m still recovering from a bs 7 attempt. Might get one more day in before seasons end
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Just came back from a quick hi8tus in laax just there, was a Salomon trip going on at the time got to see dusty and Tommy gesme ride which was a treat crazy the pipe is still in as good condition as it is on a side note dusty n luke wink are very bad darts players
Can't beat LAAX, done 4 or 5 trips there... chatted to Gigi Ruf once which was cool, it's pro-ho heaven in the spring. P60 laps for days.
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Anyone anywhere with the season still going?
scored a spring storm last week in kirkwood, california. first time actually getting a spot at the mountain (outside of car camping in the parking lot) versus staying in south lake tahoe and commuting. definitely had a blast riding with my partner in the storm and the blue bird day the next.
(https://i.imgur.com/nZpkCsd.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/y4uo6a3.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/rSqYtTa.png)
waxed the boards and put them away for next season, but i may have to do some summer hiking up at mt. rose if the snow holds.
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So, winter season is still faaar away... But I'm toying with the idea of doing a pow-trip to Japan the coming winter. But I have no idea where to even begin. Planning on going with a couple of friends, maybe renting a car and visiting a *couple* of spots during ~2 weeks.
Pals located in Japan – when's the best time to go there? And are the resorts on Hokkaido the place to be? What are some cheap and simple places to stay? Love
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So, winter season is still faaar away... But I'm toying with the idea of doing a pow-trip to Japan the coming winter. But I have no idea where to even begin. Planning on going with a couple of friends, maybe renting a car and visiting a *couple* of spots during ~2 weeks.
Pals located in Japan – when's the best time to go there? And are the resorts on Hokkaido the place to be? What are some cheap and simple places to stay? Love
Sounds like a dream come true. Also, RIP Ryan Davis.
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So, winter season is still faaar away... But I'm toying with the idea of doing a pow-trip to Japan the coming winter. But I have no idea where to even begin. Planning on going with a couple of friends, maybe renting a car and visiting a *couple* of spots during ~2 weeks.
Pals located in Japan – when's the best time to go there? And are the resorts on Hokkaido the place to be? What are some cheap and simple places to stay? Love
I don’t live in Hokkaido, just on the main island so I can’t answer specifically about Niseko.
While Hokkaido usually has fairly consistent snow, it’s still gamble with global warming fucking up seasons.
I’ve been on snow for 40+ years, and I’m not confident in encouraging anyone to spend a fuckwad of cash in advance to go anywhere, because snowfall is now becoming completely hit or miss.
We had 2 amazing seasons during Covid. But just before Covid hit, we had the worst season in record. And in the year before that was terrible too. It’s just too up and down now.
It’s also an extra kick to the nuts, because if the snowfall is low in Japan, it’s usually firing in North America and vice versa.
I suggest just waiting to see what the season does in your neck of the woods and then going somewhere where it snows within a reasonable distance with a better chance of getting decent snow. Try cat skiing if you haven’t already.
And contributing less to Global Warming by flying halfway around the world for a decreasing snowpack.
I know this isn’t what you want to hear, but travel agents and tourism boards only want to sell you shit with big talk about the snow, but with no guarantee. You won’t hear this from them.
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I was in Hakuba for that 2020 season, it was really sad to see how little snow there was in Feb - other times the snowfall was just endless at that time.
I’d recommend looking initiate Hakuba/Nagano, maybe 5/6 mountains all on the same pass, not far from accom by free PT (although the public bus was a bit lacking in 2020 but other seasons its been mint)
Also it’s on Honshu, the main island so easily accessible from Tokyo/Kyoto means so can get some city time on the same trip.
I feel like it would be pretty reasonable on money if you’re on the USD too.
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So, winter season is still faaar away... But I'm toying with the idea of doing a pow-trip to Japan the coming winter. But I have no idea where to even begin. Planning on going with a couple of friends, maybe renting a car and visiting a *couple* of spots during ~2 weeks.
Pals located in Japan – when's the best time to go there? And are the resorts on Hokkaido the place to be? What are some cheap and simple places to stay? Love
I don’t live in Hokkaido, just on the main island so I can’t answer specifically about Niseko.
While Hokkaido usually has fairly consistent snow, it’s still gamble with global warming fucking up seasons.
I’ve been on snow for 40+ years, and I’m not confident in encouraging anyone to spend a fuckwad of cash in advance to go anywhere, because snowfall is now becoming completely hit or miss.
We had 2 amazing seasons during Covid. But just before Covid hit, we had the worst season in record. And in the year before that was terrible too. It’s just too up and down now.
It’s also an extra kick to the nuts, because if the snowfall is low in Japan, it’s usually firing in North America and vice versa.
I suggest just waiting to see what the season does in your neck of the woods and then going somewhere where it snows within a reasonable distance with a better chance of getting decent snow. Try cat skiing if you haven’t already.
And contributing less to Global Warming by flying halfway around the world for a decreasing snowpack.
I know this isn’t what you want to hear, but travel agents and tourism boards only want to sell you shit with big talk about the snow, but with no guarantee. You won’t hear this from them.
I mean – it's obviously not only the snow that's luring me halfway across the globe. We get a lot of snow over in Norway, a 10 hour drive away. But it's a place I've always wanted to visit, and a snow trip seems as good a reason as any. And sure, the snow is always a gamble when going on trips like this, of course. Re: global warming – yeah, what can I say. I hear you.
I was in Hakuba for that 2020 season, it was really sad to see how little snow there was in Feb - other times the snowfall was just endless at that time.
I’d recommend looking initiate Hakuba/Nagano, maybe 5/6 mountains all on the same pass, not far from accom by free PT (although the public bus was a bit lacking in 2020 but other seasons its been mint)
Also it’s on Honshu, the main island so easily accessible from Tokyo/Kyoto means so can get some city time on the same trip.
I feel like it would be pretty reasonable on money if you’re on the USD too.
I've heard the crowds can be hella bad in Hakuba, is this true?
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So, winter season is still faaar away... But I'm toying with the idea of doing a pow-trip to Japan the coming winter. But I have no idea where to even begin. Planning on going with a couple of friends, maybe renting a car and visiting a *couple* of spots during ~2 weeks.
Pals located in Japan – when's the best time to go there? And are the resorts on Hokkaido the place to be? What are some cheap and simple places to stay? Love
Sounds like a dream come true. Also, RIP Ryan Davis.
RIP indeed.
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Hakuba can be rammed, depending on a variety of factors.
- low snowfall early season
Everyone in Honshu crowds onto the tops of 3 mountains. Not much terrain, maybe 2 or 3 lifts each, and mandatory gondola upload and downloading. Lift lines are nuts.
- Wind stoppage. Some days are gnarly, and almost the whole valley shuts down.
- Weekends and holidays. Everyone and their dog come out.
Some hills like Cortina will be rammed the day after a snowfall where every gentem-stick jockey wants GoPro footage.
With COVID, except for weekends it’s been amazing. I’ve had tree runs just to myself for a whole morning. That will end as soon as travel restrictions are lifted.
Everything else, good restaurants, hotels, etc are crazy or quiet depending on the Japanese, Auzzie, and Chinese holidays.
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Still hot here in the Japanese alps, +30°C most days. Thought I’d put together an edit from last season to get me through this warmth until winter.
And a little Violent Femmes and the Frightnrs to get it going.
(No, I didn’t land any 7s or McTwists, maybe this season)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CikCLhrDHAb/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Still hot here in the Japanese alps, +30°C most days. Thought I’d put together an edit from last season to get me through this warmth until winter.
And a little Violent Femmes and the Frightnrs to get it going.
(No, I didn’t land any 7s or McTwists, maybe this season)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CikCLhrDHAb/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. Hopefully I can snowboard a mountain for the first time this winter! This has got me hyped to make it happen!
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The weather is cooling off a little and I’m getting hyped. Haven’t snowboarded one 2 years due to various life circumstances, but now I’m back in the northeast and ready to shred some ice
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A friend of mine turned me on to this.
Gives the vibe of a bunch of guys in their 40’s making a 90’s-inspired snowboard movie, but with better cinematography.
Some small Easter eggs in there, like the Neil Young-sampled teach for the Mt Baker part.
https://youtu.be/_Zx8bwBPrIA
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https://youtu.be/xEbjOV6N2gI
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this one time i bought this one snowboard dvd called happy day on ebay not knowing what it was it was a pretty dope watch when it got here
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Ordered plaintickets from Norway to Sapporo yesterday february 17th until 26th. Fucking stoked!
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I love hitting the snow
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I love hitting the snow
Same bro, same.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QSRkaHl1o0&t=1099s
Some of the clips are absolutely insane in this. Dust Box with another banger
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Are there any companies that make some decent but really cheap snowboards or smaller snowboards? I have an old snowskate but its pretty awful tbh.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QSRkaHl1o0&t=1099s
Some of the clips are absolutely insane in this. Dust Box with another banger
the best crew in the game
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This shape is crazy, but Koruas edits always stoke me out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjLTkGZR1mY
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This shape is crazy, but Koruas edits always stoke me out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjLTkGZR1mY
This thing looks crazy, surfy, and fun. The most surprising thing is that it actually looks kinda fun on groomers, like it as a weird sort of float to it
As I start to get hyped for the upcoming season I’m thinking about gear. Do you all have quivers? For the first time in my life I make enough money that having multiple boards is a feasible option, and I’m considering getting a jib beater for crappy days in the terrain parks when everything else sucks.
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Are there any companies that make some decent but really cheap snowboards or smaller snowboards? I have an old snowskate but its pretty awful tbh.
Depending on where you live, you might be able to find a decent used one cheap. I picked up an entry level K2 snowboard with bindings for $35 at a thrift store, and this is pretty common. I had the option for a few higher end ones in the $75-150 range, but they were all too long for me and also I'm not really a snowboarder so I don't know that I'll appreciate the difference right away.
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Anyone have experience at Dolomite Superski? I'm going there in Feb for a week but not sure where to start. I'm a fairly advanced all mountain rider, ill go anywhere in bounds at copper and winter park.
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This shape is crazy, but Koruas edits always stoke me out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjLTkGZR1mY
As I start to get hyped for the upcoming season I’m thinking about gear. Do you all have quivers? For the first time in my life I make enough money that having multiple boards is a feasible option, and I’m considering getting a jib beater for crappy days in the terrain parks when everything else sucks.
thriftboards.com dude sells a bunch of older boards for a pretty fair price given the condition of them,, my quiver is
2 beaters and a nice powder board, and a hovland snow skate.
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This is going to be my first season riding. Bought most of my gear already, just need to get fitted for boots in the shop.
I live/work in Aspen during the winter. Work gives us a 4 mountain pass. Super excited but also a bit nervous.
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Are there any companies that make some decent but really cheap snowboards or smaller snowboards? I have an old snowskate but its pretty awful tbh.
Look at used gear. I force myself to buy snowboard decks used because I have the madness. It's still going to cost a lot more than a skateboard.
When you buy boots, make sure they fit perfectly or you're gonna have a bad time.
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Another vote for used board and bindings, but new boots (unless you can score a pair of almost new ones).
As for quivers, I have about 4 boards I use regularly (I also instruct), but 2 of them are used.
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This is going to be my first season riding. Bought most of my gear already, just need to get fitted for boots in the shop.
I live/work in Aspen during the winter. Work gives us a 4 mountain pass. Super excited but also a bit nervous.
How is the snow pack? We need 50ft in Tahoe, I think we got about 5' this week
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This is going to be my first season riding. Bought most of my gear already, just need to get fitted for boots in the shop.
I live/work in Aspen during the winter. Work gives us a 4 mountain pass. Super excited but also a bit nervous.
How is the snow pack? We need 50ft in Tahoe, I think we got about 5' this week
50 feet snowpack? The fuck?
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I miss snowboarding so much, I set up my skateboard with ricta clouds and I go carving around pretending I'm snowboarding on sweet powder.
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Comes out on November 16th. Looks sick!
https://youtu.be/cj2yMYAkKXg
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This is going to be my first season riding. Bought most of my gear already, just need to get fitted for boots in the shop.
I live/work in Aspen during the winter. Work gives us a 4 mountain pass. Super excited but also a bit nervous.
How is the snow pack? We need 50ft in Tahoe, I think we got about 5' this week
Enough that Aspen/Snowmass is opening early. Still way too early to say how the season will be though.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysjv-zfczjo
Austen Sweetin and Lucey never fail. This got me stoked for some earth surfin
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysjv-zfczjo
Austen Sweetin and Lucey never fail. This got me stoked for some earth surfin
Oh wow. What is this type of snowboarding called? (In the first half where they're sorta riding those little bumps like they're surfing)
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freeriding.
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Excellent video!
https://youtu.be/h4-FOikIzis
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So, winter season is still faaar away... But I'm toying with the idea of doing a pow-trip to Japan the coming winter. But I have no idea where to even begin. Planning on going with a couple of friends, maybe renting a car and visiting a *couple* of spots during ~2 weeks.
Pals located in Japan – when's the best time to go there? And are the resorts on Hokkaido the place to be? What are some cheap and simple places to stay? Love
FYI if ya got a veil pass you get a free week at hakuba or rutustu.
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So, winter season is still faaar away... But I'm toying with the idea of doing a pow-trip to Japan the coming winter. But I have no idea where to even begin. Planning on going with a couple of friends, maybe renting a car and visiting a *couple* of spots during ~2 weeks.
Pals located in Japan – when's the best time to go there? And are the resorts on Hokkaido the place to be? What are some cheap and simple places to stay? Love
FYI if ya got a veil pass you get a free week at hakuba or rutustu.
the ikon gives you 7 days at Niseko as well if you are not on the Epic Pass.
I went to Niseko in 2017 from Feb 10th-22nd. It obviously depends on the year, but I'd say anytime in late January until end of February is probably the best time to go. We were supposed to do Hakuba and some other lodge/backcountry thing on the main island, but it was too warm down there so we just stayed in Niseko for the duration of our trip. We used Ecolodge hostel right outside Niseko and it was around $75 per night per person, which was really good. They had a dank restaurant in the hostel that served really good food. close to the resort etc.
It was also pretty cheap to ride there without a pass at the time , I think it was 40-65 a day depending on how many sections of Niseko you wanted to ride (4 zones on the mtn) If i went back I'd focus on each zone for a day instead of trying to get an entire mountain pass which was more expensive .
if anybody in Colorado this winter and makes it up to Steamboat, hit me up and I can show ya some good stuff.
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This made me really happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQPY4Fi0Kjo
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Excellent video!
https://youtu.be/h4-FOikIzis
This video is sick. My buddy has a few clips in it.
It's actually been kinda a cold and snowy start to the winter. Hoping our ski hill opens soon. Global warming has pushed that until late Dec/Early january most years, but I think they are close.
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Just washed, nikwaxed , and dried my gear today. Gotta wax the gloves and I’ll be good for when the hills open next week
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Excellent video!
https://youtu.be/h4-FOikIzis
Thanks for sharing... Cool soundtrack and editing.
@Skibb RIP Ryan Davis
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysjv-zfczjo
Austen Sweetin and Lucey never fail. This got me stoked for some earth surfin
I think him and Iika pulled up to my local park a few years back, they are both pretty competent skaters too which I’m finding is pretty common.
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Just purchased my Ikon pass today. Gotta use these 10 days carefully
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anyone every try Pow surfing , or snow-skating on the boards that have the one skinny ski ? both are humbling ! Pow surfing id say is easier especially if good snow. but the snow-skate really thru me , was way harder than I thought it'd be .
got an awesome Aesmo powsurf this season though, and it is so damn fun on untouched snow. Got a friend with a snowmobile so taking some laps isn't too hard.
great start to the season here though, we've already crossed 100"
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if anybody in Colorado this winter and makes it up to Steamboat, hit me up and I can show ya some good stuff.
I’d hit you up but I did Epic pass this year, goin to Whistler in the spring and have some friends with a house at beaver creek. Haven’t been to Steambutt in years….
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Just went for the first time ever today. Holy shit that was so fun!!!
I was originally going up with 2 friends, one of which is really good and with the other it’s been about 10 years. Last minute the friend that’s really good and helped me choose my gear got injured, so my other friend and I just went anyway. So glad i did tho, it was hard but so fun! Pretty much just learned how to heelside carve and stop without falling. Toe side carving seems so hard but I’ll get there eventually. For now, just so stoked to have somewhat of a foundation so i can start going up a bunch this season.
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Just went for the first time ever today. Holy shit that was so fun!!!
I was originally going up with 2 friends, one of which is really good and with the other it’s been about 10 years. Last minute the friend that’s really good and helped me choose my gear got injured, so my other friend and I just went anyway. So glad i did tho, it was hard but so fun! Pretty much just learned how to heelside carve and stop without falling. Toe side carving seems so hard but I’ll get there eventually. For now, just so stoked to have somewhat of a foundation so i can start going up a bunch this season.
You'll probably figure it out fully your next time out. The first time or two are notoriously hard for beginners, then after that it's like riding a bike and is super easy.
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Leaving for Norway today, stoked to finally start the season. No idea what this is in Fahrenheit, but it’s gonna be sub -20C, so shits gonna be crispy.
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Just went for the first time ever today. Holy shit that was so fun!!!
I was originally going up with 2 friends, one of which is really good and with the other it’s been about 10 years. Last minute the friend that’s really good and helped me choose my gear got injured, so my other friend and I just went anyway. So glad i did tho, it was hard but so fun! Pretty much just learned how to heelside carve and stop without falling. Toe side carving seems so hard but I’ll get there eventually. For now, just so stoked to have somewhat of a foundation so i can start going up a bunch this season.
You'll probably figure it out fully your next time out. The first time or two are notoriously hard for beginners, then after that it's like riding a bike and is super easy.
Yeah that’s what everyone told me. Looking forward to start going up with friends and getting better. Yesterday I pretty much taught myself after a few tips from my friend. I’m pretty lucky that the mountains are only an hour drive from me so getting up there is super easy
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Just went for the first time ever today. Holy shit that was so fun!!!
I popped my snowboarding cherry too. The amount of money needed for gear plus accessing slopes always put me off. After trying it, I think I’ll get a weekly pass for wintertime. It’s a lot more affordable than I thought, and comes with gear rental.
Does anyone know where to get good/cheap boots? I’m okay with renting board/bindings but felt disgusted after using rental boots.
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Just went for the first time ever today. Holy shit that was so fun!!!
Does anyone know where to get good/cheap boots? I’m okay with renting board/bindings but felt disgusted after using rental boots.
Boots are something you're going to want to try on first. It's probably the one part of your setup you don't want to cheap out on. Nice fitting quality boots make your day so much more comfortable.
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Just went for the first time ever today. Holy shit that was so fun!!!
Does anyone know where to get good/cheap boots? I’m okay with renting board/bindings but felt disgusted after using rental boots.
Good and cheap don't go together with snow gear. 32 Lashed or Vans Hi Standard or decent for full lace boots. Both run in the $200 range, anything with Boa is gonna be a bit more. Mid range boots this season are $300-ish.
I run a snowboard shop, DM me if you have any questions on gear, I can help you find stuff
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Pretty stoked on the season opener in Norway... No new snow the last week, but it was cold as fuck (-22C/-7F) so there was still a lot of fluff left in the woods. A buddy of mine managed to keep his fingers functioning long enough to snap a pic of me tunneling through some real black metal looking scenery:
(https://i.ibb.co/9NZvHFZ/318976369-175397085179482-2605120118132024233-n.jpg)
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Just went for the first time ever today. Holy shit that was so fun!!!
Does anyone know where to get good/cheap boots? I’m okay with renting board/bindings but felt disgusted after using rental boots.
I bought some 32s which after an hour or so of riding felt horrible on my right toes. I sold them and tried on a ton of boots (really wanted the new Ojo vans but all the vans I tried hurt my feet. Ended up settling on boa DCs. Moral of the story go to a local shop and try on every boot that you might be interested in
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Just went for the first time ever today. Holy shit that was so fun!!!
Does anyone know where to get good/cheap boots? I’m okay with renting board/bindings but felt disgusted after using rental boots.
Boots are something you're going to want to try on first. It's probably the one part of your setup you don't want to cheap out on. Nice fitting quality boots make your day so much more comfortable.
I concur that you should most definitely try on boots. I’m super lucky in that i have a friend who works at the shop I bought my gear at so he gave me some good guidance. First day my feet were hurtin tho, so I can’t imagine non broken in boots that don’t fit right
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Just went for the first time ever today. Holy shit that was so fun!!!
Does anyone know where to get good/cheap boots? I’m okay with renting board/bindings but felt disgusted after using rental boots.
Boots are something you're going to want to try on first. It's probably the one part of your setup you don't want to cheap out on. Nice fitting quality boots make your day so much more comfortable.
I concur that you should most definitely try on boots. I’m super lucky in that i have a friend who works at the shop I bought my gear at so he gave me some good guidance. First day my feet were hurtin tho, so I can’t imagine non broken in boots that don’t fit right
also remember that boots tend to "pack out"....I bought new Vans last year and they felt really tight and uncomfortable on the first day, so I was worried. But afterwards they felt fine! Had I bought a bigger size, they would have ended up too big....
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Boots is a tough one because they do loosen up and fit your foot better over time, and you want the, to be snug and not swimming around. But for sure, if they aren’t giving and your feet hurt it sucks…..
Trying them on is the best way to go and getting advice from a shop that cares vs. Someone just trying to move something…..
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I'll be up at copper Dec 16 and 19, anyone want to meet up? Ikon here so I'm down all season
Also doing dolomite superski in February, any euro pals got the scoop on what's good there? I'm worried I'll be stuck on blue groomers the whole trip, wanna do more advanced stuff.
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New D.O.P.E Industries video
https://youtu.be/TyIpueWjFsk
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Also doing dolomite superski in February, any euro pals got the scoop on what's good there? I'm worried I'll be stuck on blue groomers the whole trip, wanna do more advanced stuff.
I guess it depends where you'll be staying.
I live close to Cortina, so I've been going up there mostly. Any run that's more advanced in that area is 100% weather dependent.
There are some runs coming down from Faloria that are great but if it's not a sunny day or if there is no fresh snow, it's a cold icy nightmare. I tend to avoid going up there honestly, because if it sucks, it really sucks, like no fun, and I prefer to take things easy during my snow days. Tofana is slightly less weather dependent, but the runs aren't as advanced. All of Cortina is pretty mellow honestly unless you seek out the really difficult stuff.
For me, the best area is the one up by Cinque Torri. There's a parking lot near Pocol past Socrepes (Socrepes is a fucking shitshow hell, do not park there unless you need to, you will be boxed in by angry men in fur coats dropping their brats off at ski school in their Lamborghini Urus all day long and wish you were dead) where they put in a new gondola last year that goes directly from the parking lot to the Cinque Torri area. From the base there you can keep going up to the top. There's a run that goes down the backside up there that's super fun (although pretty mellow). You can keep going up to the bowl from there which is fun and very beautiful, but it's not 100% snowboard friendly. There are some older lifts that spit you directly into a downhill area (there's nowhere to strap in) so you need to keep on your toes. Then to get back there's a long flat section where if the conditions are anything less than perfect or your board needs some wax, you'll be sweating trying to get back to 'civilization'.
I don't know anything about the backcountry up there because I've never had ideal weather when I was with people and when it was open the few times I was there alone, so I didn't feel like it was smart to go out there.
You can end up very far from your car if you're not smart. I had someone in our group who decided to have 'a few more runs' at the end of the day and they ended up on the complete other side of the mountain and finally found a taxi which cost them €150 to get back to the parking lot.
Or you can just take the gondola that goes from the Cortina center parking lot (where you buy the ski passes) and figure it out on your own. You can get pretty much everywhere in the area by planning a route except Faloria and Missurina, so if you decide to go up on that side, you're pretty much there for the day.
But Dolomiti Superski is several mountains so if you're not going to Cortina this will not be useful at all, haha.
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We've had the most epic early season so far, last week had 45"+ accrue in 4 days. Some of the deepest snow I've ever ridden in my life. I'll try and upload a gopro video my roommate took. but just a wild start up here. Chest deep blower is something I've never felt before and it was a wild wild feeling. The combination of it being early season last week with no tourists, no lines, and just 1ft plus each day created some of the best conditions I've ever seen
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We've had the most epic early season so far, last week had 45"+ accrue in 4 days. Some of the deepest snow I've ever ridden in my life. I'll try and upload a gopro video my roommate took. but just a wild start up here. Chest deep blower is something I've never felt before and it was a wild wild feeling. The combination of it being early season last week with no tourists, no lines, and just 1ft plus each day created some of the best conditions I've ever seen
Damn, that sounds amazing! Assuming this is around PNW?
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We've had the most epic early season so far, last week had 45"+ accrue in 4 days. Some of the deepest snow I've ever ridden in my life. I'll try and upload a gopro video my roommate took. but just a wild start up here. Chest deep blower is something I've never felt before and it was a wild wild feeling. The combination of it being early season last week with no tourists, no lines, and just 1ft plus each day created some of the best conditions I've ever seen
Damn, that sounds amazing! Assuming this is around PNW?
steamboat CO
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmfBgNajc_l/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
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There is f-all snow here in the Vecors and Chamrousse...sucks as I'm off work till the fourth but can't go overnight anywhere.
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Can't use my pass for the next few days, so I'm just watching these storms roll through Tahoe and hoping the base down to the lake stays in tact.
If anyone spends time riding on the west coast of the USA, the Open Snow forecasters are pretty good: https://opensnow.com/dailysnow . Looks like they also report on more of the world now.
The Mean SLP/Pcpn models here are also useful for keeping an eye on future storm systems: https://cnrfc.noaa.gov/weather_models.php
This season has been pretty solid. A few weeks ago was the earliest I've been able to get out on one of my favorite slack / back country runs. You can start up around 10,000 ft / 3048 m and end up around 6300 ft / 1920 m. Didn't hit any rocks the whole way down, which is always nice.
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I've been using the same gear since high school. Since I'm taking a small trip to northern MN to snowboard this year I figured I'll try to replace the bindings. I lowballed someone on some used Union Stratas on ebay. If they don't take the offer, I'm going buy a set of Union Forces.
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Nice!!!
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Bought a new set of Union Strata bindings. I had some anxiety about using 15 year old bindings, and having them snap or some shit while I'm flying down the hill. I'll probably try to swap out a new piece of gear every year until I have a relatively new setup. I'll probably get new boots next year.
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Heading to southwestern Norway again to chase some pow. This was the forecast last week, still got 60-70cm to go before the weekend.
(https://i.ibb.co/238MRDS/322678710-638120324778897-5043565835524765552-n.jpg) (https://ibb.co/pjWKNtQ)
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East coast this season has been brutal. I haven't even gone yet. Rainy, warm, with a below freezing day a couple times a week to make sure it's a real shitshow. So much of the country is having an epic winter, but I just looked at what it would cost to take a trip out west and it just isn't worth it to me right now.
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Just started this season. I feel like i hit a plateau of what I could learn on my own, so i just signed up for a lesson. Heel side turns/ carves are pretty easy but toe side carves are still pretty elusive. I watched a couple YouTube videos but didn’t really get anything from that because it’s hard to take that knowledge and actually apply it. I figured a lesson would help me out a lot and will help me improve way faster
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East coast this season has been brutal. I haven't even gone yet. Rainy, warm, with a below freezing day a couple times a week to make sure it's a real shitshow. So much of the country is having an epic winter, but I just looked at what it would cost to take a trip out west and it just isn't worth it to me right now.
I went 3 times last week, with only 5 trails open I am genuinely bored outside of the park. It's cooling down starting today but I don't really want to ride until snowmaking is back on.
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Just started this season. I feel like i hit a plateau of what I could learn on my own, so i just signed up for a lesson. Heel side turns/ carves are pretty easy but toe side carves are still pretty elusive. I watched a couple YouTube videos but didn’t really get anything from that because it’s hard to take that knowledge and actually apply it. I figured a lesson would help me out a lot and will help me improve way faster
I want to hear how this goes.
A lot of people find turning on the heels easier than the toes, but once you get better, it switches, and nice heelside turns and carves are harder to do.
Finally had my first time out riding for myself after teaching for 2 weeks straight Ride with some friends and the wife, and enjoyed hucking some be 3s off cattracks into choppy snow.
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from what I remember, I would heel side, then flat base it, but still try and maintain some control of my back foot, then initiate the toe side, ie. instead of linking, toe/heel/toe/heel, I'd heel/flat/toe/flat...
Flat basing is obvious dangerous if you aren't in control of your edges but those steps gave me a bit more time. I'd take a lesson just because it forces you not to just throw yourself at it. Pick your days too, icy days are not worth it. You're literally hours to minutes away from it.....
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Just got back from a week at La Plagne (huge French resort, goes up to 3400 m/11 000 feet, 75 lifts) with the family....snow was pretty shitty/icy (it's been way too hot in december and snow has been melting/freezing again) and my knee is giving me trouble lately, so at first I almost regretted spending the money on coming....First 2 or 3 days were not really fun. and one week pass is super expensive. But then conditions got better (still no fresh snow though) and I found my snowboarding legs again....basically got super amped on snowboarding all over again ha!
Can't wait to go back. Also my oldest son is getting to the point where he is starting to do small ollies off jumps and shit, so it's just awesome to be able to snowboard together! 8)
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Norway delivered!! This is my lil Fiat Panda after being parked overnight - three days of just doing laps in the deep, fucking so much fun!!
(https://i.ibb.co/qpttvms/673-B10-BA-21-E8-4-AA0-985-A-BD71-BD418-C65.jpg) (https://ibb.co/BBXX9TZ)
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I fucking love snowboarding. I grew up in a ski town and have been riding for over 20years. My wife snowboards as well, and we just put our 4 year old in ski lessons this winter.
If anyone needs any trick tips or whatever, lemme know!
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hucking some be 3s off cattracks into choppy snow.
If heaven exists, this is what everyone does all day everyday there.
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I fucking love snowboarding. I grew up in a ski town and have been riding for over 20years. My wife snowboards as well, and we just put our 4 year old in ski lessons this winter.
If anyone needs any trick tips or whatever, lemme know!
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Back 7!
I can only get to 630, having trouble getting the last 90 degrees
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I fucking love snowboarding. I grew up in a ski town and have been riding for over 20years. My wife snowboards as well, and we just put our 4 year old in ski lessons this winter.
If anyone needs any trick tips or whatever, lemme know!
(https://i.ibb.co/Jq4FmF4/IMG-20170121-143621475-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Jq4FmF4)
Back 7!
I can only get to 630, having trouble getting the last 90 degrees
Are you grabbing mute while you're spinning backside? Mute helps keep your legs and shoulders in line during the rotation. So if you're spotting the landing, but your feet haven't come around to the rotation yet on that final 90° the grab will help.
Also try sucking your legs way way up during the spin and then you can kind of lower them for the landing during that last 90° cause you can spot your landing like on a bs360.
And then also trying doing a nice big windup during the initial compression of the take if transition before you launch off the jump, cause for 720° you gotta huck!
I bet it's a mental block though for that last 90°.
You got this!
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CnPgYjdocXj/
20 seconds of me following my kid....it's only his second week of snowboarding so he's doing pretty good! proud af actually haha.... ;D
Wonder how long it takes before I'm the one that has trouble keeping up!
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I fucking love snowboarding. I grew up in a ski town and have been riding for over 20years. My wife snowboards as well, and we just put our 4 year old in ski lessons this winter.
If anyone needs any trick tips or whatever, lemme know!
(https://i.ibb.co/Jq4FmF4/IMG-20170121-143621475-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Jq4FmF4)
Back 7!
I can only get to 630, having trouble getting the last 90 degrees
Are you grabbing mute while you're spinning backside? Mute helps keep your legs and shoulders in line during the rotation. So if you're spotting the landing, but your feet haven't come around to the rotation yet on that final 90° the grab will help.
Also try sucking your legs way way up during the spin and then you can kind of lower them for the landing during that last 90° cause you can spot your landing like on a bs360.
And then also trying doing a nice big windup during the initial compression of the take if transition before you launch off the jump, cause for 720° you gotta huck!
I bet it's a mental block though for that last 90°.
You got this!
Thank you, mental block is exactly it.
I spent too many years doing bs 5s where you don’t need to keep looking around, and going past five is hard.
I’ll try it again this year if I find the right day and jump
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I fucking love snowboarding. I grew up in a ski town and have been riding for over 20years. My wife snowboards as well, and we just put our 4 year old in ski lessons this winter.
If anyone needs any trick tips or whatever, lemme know!
(https://i.ibb.co/Jq4FmF4/IMG-20170121-143621475-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Jq4FmF4)
explain backside boardslide body positioning once you're on the feature, on a skateboard and a flat rail it's not hard but god damn I hate being trash once strapped in
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explain backside boardslide body positioning once you're on the feature, on a skateboard and a flat rail it's not hard but god damn I hate being trash once strapped in
Are you slipping out on the rail?
If you can do boardslide on a skate you can for sure do it on a snowboard. You probably have a mental block about doing it just because you're strapped in and can't jump off if your body weight is off center.
Keep your arms parallel with the rail the whole time, with your front arm pointing towards the end of the rail. This is key because your arms and shoulders are what keeps your weight balanced so you don't slip out.
When you air on, rotate your lower body, almost like a shifty, so you lock into boardslide, so turn your legs 90°. Keep it nice and low and tucked, no straight legs, you'll bail. Keep you head low and pointed forwards looking to where you front hand is pointing
Once on the rail, keep your weight even over your bindings and your knees bent. It's kind of hard to explain, but try and keep your weight "flat" on the board, as in the board flat on the rail, without shifting your weight to either toe or heel edge.
I find frontside lipslides easier than backside boards. It's the same trick positioning, except you have more time to feel out your balance and find the balance point to lock in on the rail when you air on to it as you rotate your legs into boardslide position.
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Again, just started this season. Until recently I’ve been going with this dude who’s nothing but a negative prick, as I’ve learned over the past month or so. I was chilling with some skate homies who are also big snowboarders and man they were so nice it was refreshing. They basically told me don’t trip about not being good and to hit them up whenever i want to go. Just hearing that was so sick, I’m really stoked to go with someone who doesn’t talk shit on beginners. Just hearing that kind of negativity was really bumming me out
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I didn't read all the thread and I never been snowboarding but someone had this DVD back in the day and I always liked it, it's called thanks brain
https://youtu.be/nhMDnWfjLdI
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Just started this season. I feel like i hit a plateau of what I could learn on my own, so i just signed up for a lesson. Heel side turns/ carves are pretty easy but toe side carves are still pretty elusive. I watched a couple YouTube videos but didn’t really get anything from that because it’s hard to take that knowledge and actually apply it. I figured a lesson would help me out a lot and will help me improve way faster
I want to hear how this goes.
A lot of people find turning on the heels easier than the toes, but once you get better, it switches, and nice heelside turns and carves are harder to do.
Finally had my first time out riding for myself after teaching for 2 weeks straight Ride with some friends and the wife, and enjoyed hucking some be 3s off cattracks into choppy snow.
Took a lesson yesterday. Overall it was very mediocre. they put way too many super beginners in the class, like 4 people who could barely stand on the board even tho it was for people who should have the basics. All that said tho the instructor gave me pointers for toe side turns and by the time i left i was feeling way more comfortable and even did some proper toe side stops without eating shit.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkfNy2ZXFTg
youtube recommended this to me yesterday....the prices of ski passes in the US freaked me out! I had no idea, I thought 60 euros for a day pass at La Plagne was expensive....some of the info in the vid is not accurate (for instance every resort I've been to in Europe gives names to their runs) but it's still interesting.
Also kinda weird for a French guy like me to think of a mountain as privately owned. In France basically all resorts are publicly-owned, by the state.
Finally I don't understand why people don't close the bar on chairlifts in the US! That would freak me out ha.
Anyways I'm really hoping it snows soon, cause I want to go to Les Vosges for a weekend snowboard trip. It's a 5 hour drive from my place, much more manageable than the 9 or 10 hour trek to the Alps!
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explain backside boardslide body positioning once you're on the feature, on a skateboard and a flat rail it's not hard but god damn I hate being trash once strapped in
Are you slipping out on the rail?
If you can do boardslide on a skate you can for sure do it on a snowboard. You probably have a mental block about doing it just because you're strapped in and can't jump off if your body weight is off center.
Keep your arms parallel with the rail the whole time, with your front arm pointing towards the end of the rail. This is key because your arms and shoulders are what keeps your weight balanced so you don't slip out.
When you air on, rotate your lower body, almost like a shifty, so you lock into boardslide, so turn your legs 90°. Keep it nice and low and tucked, no straight legs, you'll bail. Keep you head low and pointed forwards looking to where you front hand is pointing
Once on the rail, keep your weight even over your bindings and your knees bent. It's kind of hard to explain, but try and keep your weight "flat" on the board, as in the board flat on the rail, without shifting your weight to either toe or heel edge.
I find frontside lipslides easier than backside boards. It's the same trick positioning, except you have more time to feel out your balance and find the balance point to lock in on the rail when you air on to it as you rotate your legs into boardslide position.
thanks to you and some other friends helping me lock in my body positioning, I landed a few on a rainbow box the other day. trying to clean it up and go for more speed today. much love bro
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The one thing I messed up on was staying flat……went heel side on a front board and that was the end of rails for me….
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explain backside boardslide body positioning once you're on the feature, on a skateboard and a flat rail it's not hard but god damn I hate being trash once strapped in
Are you slipping out on the rail?
If you can do boardslide on a skate you can for sure do it on a snowboard. You probably have a mental block about doing it just because you're strapped in and can't jump off if your body weight is off center.
Keep your arms parallel with the rail the whole time, with your front arm pointing towards the end of the rail. This is key because your arms and shoulders are what keeps your weight balanced so you don't slip out.
When you air on, rotate your lower body, almost like a shifty, so you lock into boardslide, so turn your legs 90°. Keep it nice and low and tucked, no straight legs, you'll bail. Keep you head low and pointed forwards looking to where you front hand is pointing
Once on the rail, keep your weight even over your bindings and your knees bent. It's kind of hard to explain, but try and keep your weight "flat" on the board, as in the board flat on the rail, without shifting your weight to either toe or heel edge.
I find frontside lipslides easier than backside boards. It's the same trick positioning, except you have more time to feel out your balance and find the balance point to lock in on the rail when you air on to it as you rotate your legs into boardslide position.
thanks to you and some other friends helping me lock in my body positioning, I landed a few on a rainbow box the other day. trying to clean it up and go for more speed today. much love bro
Hell yeah! Next, take it to a flat-down rail. These are great to practice on because you can just ride on 5050 on the flat, and then when the rail goes to down, you just pivot to boardslide and your momentum carries you, so you can really get the feel of a proper locked in boardslide. You just have to remember to lean way forwards on the down, and your arms should match the angle of the rail.
Stoked for you my dude!
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explain backside boardslide body positioning once you're on the feature, on a skateboard and a flat rail it's not hard but god damn I hate being trash once strapped in
Are you slipping out on the rail?
If you can do boardslide on a skate you can for sure do it on a snowboard. You probably have a mental block about doing it just because you're strapped in and can't jump off if your body weight is off center.
Keep your arms parallel with the rail the whole time, with your front arm pointing towards the end of the rail. This is key because your arms and shoulders are what keeps your weight balanced so you don't slip out.
When you air on, rotate your lower body, almost like a shifty, so you lock into boardslide, so turn your legs 90°. Keep it nice and low and tucked, no straight legs, you'll bail. Keep you head low and pointed forwards looking to where you front hand is pointing
Once on the rail, keep your weight even over your bindings and your knees bent. It's kind of hard to explain, but try and keep your weight "flat" on the board, as in the board flat on the rail, without shifting your weight to either toe or heel edge.
I find frontside lipslides easier than backside boards. It's the same trick positioning, except you have more time to feel out your balance and find the balance point to lock in on the rail when you air on to it as you rotate your legs into boardslide position.
thanks to you and some other friends helping me lock in my body positioning, I landed a few on a rainbow box the other day. trying to clean it up and go for more speed today. much love bro
Hell yeah! Next, take it to a flat-down rail. These are great to practice on because you can just ride on 5050 on the flat, and then when the rail goes to down, you just pivot to boardslide and your momentum carries you, so you can really get the feel of a proper locked in boardslide. You just have to remember to lean way forwards on the down, and your arms should match the angle of the rail.
Stoked for you my dude!
I love flat to down rails, especially when you can gap the flat. Can't do down to flat anymore, threw my back out twice on em and that was that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRl2RjLGvHc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRl2RjLGvHc)
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Post some of your riding pics everyone. I want to see the crew flowing!
Or post some pics of your set ups, or fits!
Whats everyone riding? What kind of camber do you prefer?
Anyone tried those new Burton step on bindings, or those new Nidecker click ins?
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Post some of your riding pics everyone. I want to see the crew flowing!
Or post some pics of your set ups, or fits!
Whats everyone riding? What kind of camber do you prefer?
Anyone tried those new Burton step on bindings, or those new Nidecker click ins?
I've got a 2007 Rome Agent that I bought used in high school. I bought new Union Strata bindings and an old pair of Burton Boots. My snowpants are from high school as well. I'll probably swap the boots out next year.
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Post some of your riding pics everyone. I want to see the crew flowing!
Or post some pics of your set ups, or fits!
Whats everyone riding? What kind of camber do you prefer?
Anyone tried those new Burton step on bindings, or those new Nidecker click ins?
I’ve been running the Burton step on with a pair of DC judge boots. Took a bit of getting used to the interface but now it’s all good. I’m no longer charging in my old age so it’s a good setup for me.
Waxed 9 sets of skis today in the workshop. Didn’t want the business as I’m stuck here in summer and they’re all heading to Japan and Canada but figured it’s easy money
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My favorite are the pre-UAE-made camber Rome MODs, I have a few.
Rome bindings. TM2 32s.
Also have a Trapper Poacher that I like.
As for riding…. From last year
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cij-jZoJNNe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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I'll probably swap the boots out next year.
Don't overlook checking Facebook marketplace or craigslist or whatever for new boots. There's a lot of people out there that try snowboarding a few times and just don't like it and end up selling their gear cheap online.
I’ve been running the Burton step on with a pair of DC judge boots. Took a bit of getting used to the interface but now it’s all good. I’m no longer charging in my old age so it’s a good setup for me.
Waxed 9 sets of skis today in the workshop. Didn’t want the business as I’m stuck here in summer and they’re all heading to Japan and Canada but figured it’s easy money
I didn't think you could use anything other than Burton step on boots with those new bindings?
How do you like them? Any issues locking in while in powder?
I want to eventually try a pair of Flow bindings.
What's the business your running? Boardshop?
I feel you on the age thing. I went up today without my wife, and it was a powder day. I love riding with her, but she's not the fastest rider, so I rode rode alone and ride fast and hard, and I am sore.
My favorite are the pre-UAE-made camber Rome MODs, I have a few.
Rome bindings. TM2 32s.
Also have a Trapper Poacher that I like.
As for riding…. From last year
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cij-jZoJNNe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Nice vid! Looks nice where you ride, lots of hips and shit! Have you ridden any of the boards since they moved production to UAE? Decline in quality?
Trapper snowboards are legit. Support the little guys!!
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I'll probably swap the boots out next year.
Don't overlook checking Facebook marketplace or craigslist or whatever for new boots. There's a lot of people out there that try snowboarding a few times and just don't like it and end up selling their gear cheap online.
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I’ve been running the Burton step on with a pair of DC judge boots. Took a bit of getting used to the interface but now it’s all good. I’m no longer charging in my old age so it’s a good setup for me.
Waxed 9 sets of skis today in the workshop. Didn’t want the business as I’m stuck here in summer and they’re all heading to Japan and Canada but figured it’s easy money
I didn't think you could use anything other than Burton step on boots with those new bindings?
How do you like them? Any issues locking in while in powder?
I want to eventually try a pair of Flow bindings.
What's the business your running? Boardshop?
I feel you on the age thing. I went up today without my wife, and it was a powder day. I love riding with her, but she's not the fastest rider, so I rode rode alone and ride fast and hard, and I am sore.
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My favorite are the pre-UAE-made camber Rome MODs, I have a few.
Rome bindings. TM2 32s.
Also have a Trapper Poacher that I like.
As for riding…. From last year
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cij-jZoJNNe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Nice vid! Looks nice where you ride, lots of hips and shit! Have you ridden any of the boards since they moved production to UAE? Decline in quality?
Trapper snowboards are legit. Support the little guys!!
Yeah DC bought into the patent I believe and are the only other company that can make boots using the system. I got the top of the range boots that are the stiffest just in case the system was a bit loose but they’re dialled in solid. Haven’t used them in any significant pow yet but just like a regular setup, you still gotta make sure the bottom of the boot and the footbed are clear. I’d say stay clear of flow, they’ll kill your feet. The new nidecker looks interesting and it would’ve been a hard choice between that and the step on if it was out when I got them
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My favorite are the pre-UAE-made camber Rome MODs, I have a few.
Rome bindings. TM2 32s.
Also have a Trapper Poacher that I like.
As for riding…. From last year
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cij-jZoJNNe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Nice vid! Looks nice where you ride, lots of hips and shit! Have you ridden any of the boards since they moved production to UAE? Decline in quality?
Trapper snowboards are legit. Support the little guys!!
I ride in Hakuba, Japan.
As for the new MODs, no. Many of my friends have, and consistently tell me that the boards are completely different now. They used to be an amazing blend of poppy and carvy, but now feel like ‘rental boards’ (with a LOT more warranty problems)
And yeah, I like what Trapper is doing.
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoAgffpDfop/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
Happy to see this X Games clown shit getting called out by lots of legends and current riders. Give me Selema, Craig Mcmorris and have some legends who love snowboarding talk about it instead of Snowboard_Jesus and Stoney McBlazed
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Snowfall here on the US east coast is like the worst it’s been in years :(
I haven’t gotten on the hill once yet
But I just got invited to visit a friend at his parents house near Powder Mountain (Utah). Anyone been there? What should I expect? It looks like they have a huge amount of backcountry/sidecountry and Cat tours and shit. I have never experienced anything like that being from the east coast. Is it foolish to think I could step to any of that shit?
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Snowfall here on the US east coast is like the worst it’s been in years :(
I haven’t gotten on the hill once yet
But I just got invited to visit a friend at his parents house near Powder Mountain (Utah). Anyone been there? What should I expect? It looks like they have a huge amount of backcountry/sidecountry and Cat tours and shit. I have never experienced anything like that being from the east coast. Is it foolish to think I could step to any of that shit?
If you've never ridden deep pow before, it would be kind of a waste of money to rent a car tour.
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Snowfall here on the US east coast is like the worst it’s been in years :(
I haven’t gotten on the hill once yet
But I just got invited to visit a friend at his parents house near Powder Mountain (Utah). Anyone been there? What should I expect? It looks like they have a huge amount of backcountry/sidecountry and Cat tours and shit. I have never experienced anything like that being from the east coast. Is it foolish to think I could step to any of that shit?
It could also turn out to be the trip of a lifetime.
POW IS THE REASON.
If you are competent at ice and hard stuff, pow is not nearly as intimidating. But it’s tricky. If you fall, it can be a 10-minute struggle to get back up on your feet.
You can make it easy by renting or buying a pow-specific board. It will make the learning curve much, much easier. And won’t tire you out as much as s regular board will.
And if your friends really are friends, they won’t just throw you into a super-steep section.
Cat operations have beginner terrain that will help you get used to it, because seriously, 90% of snowboarding is what you do when you are waiting for pow.
I say go for it. Take it easy at first, learn how to float and keep your speed. Then explore.
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Snowfall here on the US east coast is like the worst it’s been in years :(
I haven’t gotten on the hill once yet
But I just got invited to visit a friend at his parents house near Powder Mountain (Utah). Anyone been there? What should I expect? It looks like they have a huge amount of backcountry/sidecountry and Cat tours and shit. I have never experienced anything like that being from the east coast. Is it foolish to think I could step to any of that shit?
It could also turn out to be the trip of a lifetime.
POW IS THE REASON.
If you are competent at ice and hard stuff, pow is not nearly as intimidating. But it’s tricky. If you fall, it can be a 10-minute struggle to get back up on your feet.
You can make it easy by renting or buying a pow-specific board. It will make the learning curve much, much easier. And won’t tire you out as much as s regular board will.
And if your friends really are friends, they won’t just throw you into a super-steep section.
Cat operations have beginner terrain that will help you get used to it, because seriously, 90% of snowboarding is what you do when you are waiting for pow.
I say go for it. Take it easy at first, learn how to float and keep your speed. Then explore.
Check out powderhounds instagram for how good powder mountain is looking right now
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoDirUhB8Af/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY= (https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoDirUhB8Af/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=)
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holy shit that looks crazy
i've only ridden deep powder a few times in my life, usually on trips to lake placid or killington. i was riding a full camber freestyle board with centered stance and 0° binding angles at the time, getting stuck like a motherfucker (i was a kid and didn't know any better)
now i'm on a gnu rider's choice with a hybrid rocker shape; if i set my stance back a bit will something like that work for pow days? i'm definitely interested in making my life as easy as possible and i might be just insane enough to buy a pow board if it would make a serious difference. getting stuck in deep stuff when you want to be cruising thru it is a horrible experience lol
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holy shit that looks crazy
i've only ridden deep powder a few times in my life, usually on trips to lake placid or killington. i was riding a full camber freestyle board with centered stance and 0° binding angles at the time, getting stuck like a motherfucker (i was a kid and didn't know any better)
now i'm on a gnu rider's choice with a hybrid rocker shape; if i set my stance back a bit will something like that work for pow days? i'm definitely interested in making my life as easy as possible and i might be just insane enough to buy a pow board if it would make a serious difference. getting stuck in deep stuff when you want to be cruising thru it is a horrible experience lol
If it’s a full-on powder day just do yourself a favor and rent a full-on powder cannon. It will let you ride more easily, for a longer time, and max out your experience.
Unless you are experienced and are only doing really steep fall-line stuff (where you go fast enough to plane off and don’t necessarily need a special board), a pow board will make a huge difference to the quality of your day
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Went snowboarding for the first time, had tons of fun. Guess I need to buy a snowboard now.
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We hit 300" before February 1st. Definitely a big milestone, especially when last season we didn't even hit 275" total (ending april 10th) Ive rode 40 days so far this season on the resort, and about 10 in the backcountry .
We have a 115" base at the summit, the deepest in resort history. Just had 56" over the last 7 days at the summit, so I was riding everyday from Jan 25th - 30th and it got deeper everyday .
Really hoping the storm train continues and we can get a 400" + season in the books, The summit is close at 359" total and Mid Mtn at 312" , We haven't had a 400" season since 2010/11, but if we continue at this rate, its possible we beat our record season of 07/08 at 489"
It's wild around town though, snow removal is becoming really tough for everyone , the snow berms are almost 7-8ft high on the sides of the roads, in parking lots they are pushing 15-20ft , its hard to see around the snow pulling out onto streets, or on roundabouts. You can't see the building where I work anymore from the road, so probably not the best for business.
clip from Jan 19th , nice and deep out there!
(https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-01-2023/lkI_qx.gif) (https://www.slapmagazine.com/gif/pow-lkI_qx)
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FUCK
Meanwhile NYC has the lowest annual snowfall since the 1880s this year
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I try to stick up for the East Coast, but it's been a miserable season lol. Only good thing is I'm pushing myself in the park, because that's the only thing to ride that doesn't bore me...I've exhausted the backside of my local mountain lol
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Fuck, that sounds amazing, snow chaos and all @lukabrazi
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Fuck, that sounds amazing, snow chaos and all @Lukabrazi
yup looks incredible. jealous here. :-X
speaking of powder.........new Travis Rice vid is amazing. the riding and cinematography. helmet cam view straight terrifiying at times....flying down the mountain with so much speed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Ue4MDtez8
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I try to stick up for the East Coast, but it's been a miserable season lol. Only good thing is I'm pushing myself in the park, because that's the only thing to ride that doesn't bore me...I've exhausted the backside of my local mountain lol
Working on anything in the park?
I want to try bs180 air on to 5050 in to a rail, but besides being scared to try, there is absolutely no way I'm trying on anything other than a nice long flat rail or a box first. Like there is no way I'm going try on a single barrel first, and the majority of the park here is these weird big single barrels. They suck. I can't lock into them and none of the boxes are higher than ground level so it's hard to get the bs180 pop right.
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Off topic/on topic: Skiing…
My local skatepark is on a university campus and I talk to a lot of students….a lot of kids now ski and skate….they don’t snowboard….I think that’s kinda weird but don’t judge, they are good kids…..I saw that Una skis and think it’s rad she grew up on it too…but….maybe it was one too many gondola rides in Whistler but I was listening to an interview with Suciu and he was asked what he did the year after winning SOTY……
‘I skied a lot…..’
I knew it…..the education….the nauseating perfection….that smug face……of course he skis…..
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I’m not proud of it, but due to my instructing job having less snowboard clients than skiers, I got my ski instructor’s L1 license a few years back and I just dropped a fuckwad of cash on new skis this season.
I grew up skiing from 2 years old, but quit at 13 when I discovered snowboarding. I stayed away from it for about 30 years, only to strap skis on once every couple years to remind myself why I quit.
But last season I wanted to piss my ski instructor boss off (she’s a bit competitive) and she just learned to do 360s. So I rented freestyle skis at the end of last season, marched to the park, and learned them 2nd try on a tiny kicker, thus showing my boss skiing is easy (haha) , as well as fulfilling my childhood dream of doing a ‘helicopter’.
And I actually had fun that day. So I decided that if I have to ski, I’ll get skis that make it as unlame as possible.
So I got some carvy twin-tips and now when I teach my daughter or have some free time after a lesson I learn how to ski backwards and get sideways on a box.
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Recently spent a night car camping in Tahoe (because who wants to pay $200+ for 8 hours of sleep) in a heavy storm and woke up to the sound of a plow clearing the parking lot I was posted up in. Got to the resort at 5:30am, just after the first plow put one drive-able path through the parking lot. There was about 15-18" / 38-45 cm of new snow on the ground and nowhere to park, so I had to drive around the block and catch more sleep in front of an apartment complex.
I got back to the resort around 7 and rode inbounds all day in and out of storm bands. By the end of the day I was exhausted and tiger balm for back pain was in full effect.
(https://i.imgur.com/5bb5bne.jpg)
Note: If it's a weekend, look for lifts with limited parking, and access that requires a big traverse from other parts of the mountain. Gotta avoid those lines somehow.
Avalanche risk that particular day was a 4 (high), so the slack / back country was off limits to me. Some people recently got caught in an avalanche on a 3 (moderate) risk day at this mountain in a back country zone I have heard tales of for years. They had to get helicoptered out. Scary shit.
Not the zone I'm talking about above, but nearby where Caltrans sets off bombs:
(https://i.imgur.com/tSb68YP.jpg)
The next day, early in the morning I could see some snow covered tracks in the backcountry zone I would be riding and realized people went for it on the high risk day. Glad they made it out. The risk had dropped to a 3 and this particular zone is well known for being stable.
I ended up riding it all day and got greedy on the final run. Skipped the known easy exit, chased untouched powder, and ended up in a flat area that I hadn't been to in years. Normally it's a 10-20 minute hike out when the snow is ankle deep, but this time it was a 45 minute slog through knee to occasional wind blown waist deep patches. I incorrectly assumed the lower elevation snow would have been stiffer after settling. Nope, temps stayed below freezing. Whoops.
My risk awareness for that day was too focused on avalanches and tree wells when it should have been on energy conservation. Taking a chance on a new line on the final leg of the final run of the day, when I knew I was tired was a bad idea.
I ride with emergency sleeping bag and tent, but I don't ever want to have to use them. The thought of "if any animal decides to attack me right now, it'd be tough to put up a good fight" definitely ran through my head.
(https://i.imgur.com/ueFYm6M.jpg)
Years ago, some experienced backcountry riders hit this particular zone after a 3 foot dump and they seemed pretty shook when they talked about getting caught in a deep flat area. They told me if they didn't have their split boards that day, they would have struggled for hours to boot pack out.
Anyways, happy shredding. Ride with extra food and water. Ya never know when ya might need it.
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Post some of your riding pics everyone. I want to see the crew flowing!
Or post some pics of your set ups, or fits!
Whats everyone riding? What kind of camber do you prefer?
Anyone tried those new Burton step on bindings, or those new Nidecker click ins?
I was super lucky to get this board for free from a homie that works at ride.
(https://i.postimg.cc/9rSSWGvz/DBAA3428-1-C4-B-4764-94-ED-541-E0689-D766.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/9rSSWGvz)
I really like the foam “rails” as a stomp pad too
(https://i.postimg.cc/GTt7R2Kk/462-CF56-F-A197-4-E26-A8-F3-1-CE57-E3-A628-B.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/GTt7R2Kk)
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(https://i.imgur.com/qJkD27N.jpg)
Recently spent a night car camping in Tahoe (because who wants to pay $200+ for 8 hours of sleep) in a heavy storm and woke up to the sound of a plow clearing the parking lot I was posted up in. Got to the resort at 5:30am, just after the first plow put one drive-able path through the parking lot. There was about 15-18" / 38-45 cm of new snow on the ground and nowhere to park, so I had to drive around the block and catch more sleep in front of an apartment complex.
I got back to the resort around 7 and rode inbounds all day in and out of storm bands. By the end of the day I was exhausted and tiger balm for back pain was in full effect.
(https://i.imgur.com/5bb5bne.jpg)
Note: If it's a weekend, look for lifts with limited parking, and access that requires a big traverse from other parts of the mountain. Gotta avoid those lines somehow.
Avalanche risk that particular day was a 4 (high), so the slack / back country was off limits to me. Some people recently got caught in an avalanche on a 3 (moderate) risk day at this mountain in a back country zone I have heard tales of for years. They had to get helicoptered out. Scary shit.
Not the zone I'm talking about above, but nearby where Caltrans sets off bombs:
(https://i.imgur.com/tSb68YP.jpg)
The next day, early in the morning I could see some snow covered tracks in the backcountry zone I would be riding and realized people went for it on the high risk day. Glad they made it out. The risk had dropped to a 3 and this particular zone is well known for being stable.
I ended up riding it all day and got greedy on the final run. Skipped the known easy exit, chased untouched powder, and ended up in a flat area that I hadn't been to in years. Normally it's a 10-20 minute hike out when the snow is ankle deep, but this time it was a 45 minute slog through knee to occasional wind blown waist deep patches. I incorrectly assumed the lower elevation snow would have been stiffer after settling. Nope, temps stayed below freezing. Whoops.
My risk awareness for that day was too focused on avalanches and tree wells when it should have been on energy conservation. Taking a chance on a new line on the final leg of the final run of the day, when I knew I was tired was a bad idea.
I ride with emergency sleeping bag and tent, but I don't ever want to have to use them. The thought of "if any animal decides to attack me right now, it'd be tough to put up a good fight" definitely ran through my head.
(https://i.imgur.com/ueFYm6M.jpg)
Years ago, some experienced backcountry riders hit this particular zone after a 3 foot dump and they seemed pretty shook when they talked about getting caught in a deep flat area. They told me if they didn't have their split boards that day, they would have struggled for hours to boot pack out.
Anyways, happy shredding. Ride with extra food and water. Ya never know when ya might need it.
10/10!
That last photo... What happened if they got caught in flat like they did? 3 feet is a helluva lot of snow, but in that case you'd think they'd be keeping their speed up the entire time anyway?
Lapse in judgement not reading the terrain chasing turns, or not scoping the lines out before hand? Misjudgded a muster point location?
Shit happens, getting stuck in flat is the worst.
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(https://i.imgur.com/qJkD27N.jpg)
Recently spent a night car camping in Tahoe (because who wants to pay $200+ for 8 hours of sleep) in a heavy storm and woke up to the sound of a plow clearing the parking lot I was posted up in. Got to the resort at 5:30am, just after the first plow put one drive-able path through the parking lot. There was about 15-18" / 38-45 cm of new snow on the ground and nowhere to park, so I had to drive around the block and catch more sleep in front of an apartment complex.
I got back to the resort around 7 and rode inbounds all day in and out of storm bands. By the end of the day I was exhausted and tiger balm for back pain was in full effect.
(https://i.imgur.com/5bb5bne.jpg)
Note: If it's a weekend, look for lifts with limited parking, and access that requires a big traverse from other parts of the mountain. Gotta avoid those lines somehow.
Avalanche risk that particular day was a 4 (high), so the slack / back country was off limits to me. Some people recently got caught in an avalanche on a 3 (moderate) risk day at this mountain in a back country zone I have heard tales of for years. They had to get helicoptered out. Scary shit.
Not the zone I'm talking about above, but nearby where Caltrans sets off bombs:
(https://i.imgur.com/tSb68YP.jpg)
The next day, early in the morning I could see some snow covered tracks in the backcountry zone I would be riding and realized people went for it on the high risk day. Glad they made it out. The risk had dropped to a 3 and this particular zone is well known for being stable.
I ended up riding it all day and got greedy on the final run. Skipped the known easy exit, chased untouched powder, and ended up in a flat area that I hadn't been to in years. Normally it's a 10-20 minute hike out when the snow is ankle deep, but this time it was a 45 minute slog through knee to occasional wind blown waist deep patches. I incorrectly assumed the lower elevation snow would have been stiffer after settling. Nope, temps stayed below freezing. Whoops.
My risk awareness for that day was too focused on avalanches and tree wells when it should have been on energy conservation. Taking a chance on a new line on the final leg of the final run of the day, when I knew I was tired was a bad idea.
I ride with emergency sleeping bag and tent, but I don't ever want to have to use them. The thought of "if any animal decides to attack me right now, it'd be tough to put up a good fight" definitely ran through my head.
(https://i.imgur.com/ueFYm6M.jpg)
Years ago, some experienced backcountry riders hit this particular zone after a 3 foot dump and they seemed pretty shook when they talked about getting caught in a deep flat area. They told me if they didn't have their split boards that day, they would have struggled for hours to boot pack out.
Anyways, happy shredding. Ride with extra food and water. Ya never know when ya might need it.
10/10!
That last photo... What happened if they got caught in flat like they did? 3 feet is a helluva lot of snow, but in that case you'd think they'd be keeping their speed up the entire time anyway?
Lapse in judgement not reading the terrain chasing turns, or not scoping the lines out before hand? Misjudgded a muster point location?
Shit happens, getting stuck in flat is the worst.
They rode into a zone where due to lack of steepness, the hike out was around 1.3miles / 2.1km. I'm assuming visibility was poor and they didn't scope out the line prior.
It's the unfortunate case with lift accessed back country, you can easily get up real high, which doesn't always give you the opportunity to scope out what you will end up riding on the way back down.
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I went to Whistler….hit the kiddy park while my wife ski’d….
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I highly suggest downloading FATMAP app for anyone traveling in side country, backcountry or any avalanche terrain . You can see flat sections, slope aspect / angle , and there is some pretty high def imagery for popular areas that show trees , cliffs , rocks etc . You can download the maps onto your phone prior to going so you can see your location on GPS in real time .
This can make or break you getting cliffed out, in an avalanche or being in a zone you don’t know and want to see the best egress route back to a resort or area .
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A few slashes in some legit cold smoke pow from yesterday .
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https://youtu.be/YNqVexZd9TQ (https://youtu.be/YNqVexZd9TQ)
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Went Brewcing up Hood for the first time in 3 years. Just spent the day carving up the groomers. I always forget how fast you can get cooking on a snowboard. My thighs are wrecked.
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I’ve been up at the hill almost every day, but it’s been 90% teaching, and another 7% teaching my daughter.
I have 3 hours in the morning tomorrow to myself. Looking forward to it, assuming I remember what snowboarding is like off the bunny hill.
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I taught my brother the other day, that was special. He struggled a little bit but he was getting down the bunny hill without falling by the end of the day and he had fun. I bought him everything but boots, bindings and a board for Christmas so we can go again soon
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Just got my first snowboard and all necessary gear. Excited to finally start. Had one day on the bunny hill few weeks ago with rented board and was super fun. Better late than never
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I finally backup my old hard drive. I found this old photo on it. This is I think from 2011. FS shifty mute.
(https://i.ibb.co/Vj20kJC/shredding12.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Vj20kJC)
I like framing of it.
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tried to 5050 a flat down last night 50'd the first part and then accidentally rotated frontside into lipslide. didn't zeach, somehow came out fakie and rode away clean and that is by far the greatest accidental thing ive ever done. I can barely back board ollie on rails without 30mins of me psyching myself up....
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tried to 5050 a flat down last night 50'd the first part and then accidentally rotated frontside into lipslide. didn't zeach, somehow came out fakie and rode away clean and that is by far the greatest accidental thing ive ever done. I can barely back board ollie on rails without 30mins of me psyching myself up....
Haha I did the exact same thing precisely once in my life, it was an incredible feeling and I’ll probdbly never do it again
In other news, I’ll be at Pow Mow in 15 days and they’re currently getting snow like every damn day
I went full maniac mode and bought a pow board— spring break powder racer 154, a 2020 model on sale for like 50% off
One of the dumbest things I’ve done in a while potentially but fuck it, i finally have a “real” job after years of being a dirtbag
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I'm at dolomite superski through saturday, if anyone wants to link up lmk. I am in st ulrich today but idk what's good here, any tips?
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tried to 5050 a flat down last night 50'd the first part and then accidentally rotated frontside into lipslide. didn't zeach, somehow came out fakie and rode away clean and that is by far the greatest accidental thing ive ever done. I can barely back board ollie on rails without 30mins of me psyching myself up....
In other news, I’ll be at Pow Mow in 15 days and they’re currently getting snow like every damn day
I went full maniac mode and bought a pow board— spring break powder racer 154, a 2020 model on sale for like 50% off
One of the dumbest things I’ve done in a while potentially but fuck it, i finally have a “real” job after years of being a dirtbag
Fuck that dude, the board looks sick. Floating and carving is the shit, and that thing looks like it's gonna excel in both of those.
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Took the family to Bromley last week. Great stuff. Back killing me now, but was worth it. Definitely refreshing for the kids. Staying for a week in Manchester, VT. Also skated the park there which is under construction but going to be awesome (Already was really fun).
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Did a heli day up in Alaska on 2/9 with Chugach Powder Guides. Blue bird, knee deep pow, 2 homies. It was something I'll never forget.
12-18" snow coming our way this week in the midwest, Afton Alps is going to get some!
(https://i.ibb.co/QYzL6Lz/image000007.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QYzL6Lz)
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Did a heli day up in Alaska on 2/9 with Chugach Powder Guides. Blue bird, knee deep pow, 2 homies. It was something I'll never forget.
12-18" snow coming our way this week in the midwest, Afton Alps is going to get some!
(https://i.ibb.co/QYzL6Lz/image000007.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QYzL6Lz)
That is gnarly!
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I’d be too scared to do that…..I’m sure it was something you’ll never forget…
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Will be heading to the north of Sweden in a month, and there is possibility for heli if the conditions allow it. Pretty damn pumped.
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I went to Whistler….hit the kiddy park while my wife ski’d….
Nice! I’m going at the end of March and looking forward to it, I went like 17 years ago and remember what a beautiful drive it was from Vancouver.
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I did my yearly trip to the local hill yesterday, and I’ve got questions: what is the snowboard push called? Fakie piss? Jazz swongo? Does anyone else feel like having their heels locked down puts stress where you never feel it skating?
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Whatever it's called, I hate it. I usually unstrap and just walk.
I run loose boots, and have found myself not "wrenching" down my bindings as hard either. It's not supposed to hurt, if it does, you're doing it wrong, or have the wrong gear.
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Whatever it's called, I hate it. I usually unstrap and just walk.
I run loose boots, and have found myself not "wrenching" down my bindings as hard either. It's not supposed to hurt, if it does, you're doing it wrong, or have the wrong gear.
Probably the wrong gear. I’m was renting, and I feel like I got an 8.5 with tight venture lows on 52mm when I want a shaped 10 with loose Indy’s or Ace’s & 60s.
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I did my yearly trip to the local hill yesterday, and I’ve got questions: what is the snowboard push called? Fakie piss? Jazz swongo? Does anyone else feel like having their heels locked down puts stress where you never feel it skating?
It hurts because you have to push super pigeon-toed, if you’re pushing on your toe edge.
Pushing behind you, on the heel edge is much more comfortable
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Yeah, always push behind the heel side edge.
I’m gonna get on the slopes for the first time this season tomorrow. A little warmup before I head to Utah. It’s finally cold, at least for the moment. There should be at least a dusting of new snow.
Edit to add a question: how do you all like to set your stance? I did 0° / 0° centered throughout my teens and 20s, because I thought I needed to ride switch and do a lot of 180s. A few seasons ago I started doing like 15° front / 0° back, still centered. I haven’t really played with it very much.
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Yeah, always push behind the heel side edge.
I’m gonna get on the slopes for the first time this season tomorrow. A little warmup before I head to Utah. It’s finally cold, at least for the moment. There should be at least a dusting of new snow.
Edit to add a question: how do you all like to set your stance? I did 0° / 0° centered throughout my teens and 20s, because I thought I needed to ride switch and do a lot of 180s. A few seasons ago I started doing like 15° front / 0° back, still centered. I haven’t really played with it very much.
I only ride twin boards, so centered stance, as wide as possible. 18° front foot, -27° back foot.
I used to ride 0°/0° as well when I was a teenager, but that was just because that's just how the first board I got was set up and I didn't know you could change it.
Do you ever get leg pain in your back leg on other either side of your shin while you're riding from the 0° angle?
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Stance angles have been changing over the ages. And as we age.
Lots of younger kids are riding fairly low stance angles, like +12/0.
I used to roll with +15/-15 for most of my years, but recently I’ve been experimenting with +18/-9 as I’m trying to clean up my heelside turns and want to be a touch more directional.
I’ve never dreamed of 0/0, or more angle on my rear binding than my front, both seem a bit extreme to me
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Stance angles have been changing over the ages. And as we age.
Lots of younger kids are riding fairly low stance angles, like +12/0.
I used to roll with +15/-15 for most of my years, but recently I’ve been experimenting with +18/-9 as I’m trying to clean up my heelside turns and want to be a touch more directional.
I’ve never dreamed of 0/0, or more angle on my rear binding than my front, both seem a bit extreme to me
+12/-12 has served me well for all mountain, park, and switch
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Big system hit all of BC last night. Powder day today boys! Yeeewwww!
(https://i.ibb.co/NZVL6MJ/IMG-20230226-070700897.jpg) (https://ibb.co/NZVL6MJ)
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Yeah, always push behind the heel side edge.
I’m gonna get on the slopes for the first time this season tomorrow. A little warmup before I head to Utah. It’s finally cold, at least for the moment. There should be at least a dusting of new snow.
Edit to add a question: how do you all like to set your stance? I did 0° / 0° centered throughout my teens and 20s, because I thought I needed to ride switch and do a lot of 180s. A few seasons ago I started doing like 15° front / 0° back, still centered. I haven’t really played with it very much.
I only ride twin boards, so centered stance, as wide as possible. 18° front foot, -27° back foot.
I used to ride 0°/0° as well when I was a teenager, but that was just because that's just how the first board I got was set up and I didn't know you could change it.
Do you ever get leg pain in your back leg on other either side of your shin while you're riding from the 0° angle?
No, I haven’t really had any issues with leg pain in the rear leg. Today after my first session of the year I have some muscle soreness in both of my shins, but it isn’t anything abnormal for a season-opening day
If I have any complaints it would be that I get some neck/shoulder pain from being locked in and turned forward… but I’m not sure how to do anything about that besides stretching and strengthening. It’s something that has only become an issue that I notice in my 30s.
I guess because I rode snow less often than I surf or skate, I have not thought quite as deeply about optimizing my snowboard setup as I have with other activities.
But yesterday I was kinda tripping out thinking about how to approximate the short wheelbase/wide board/loose truck feeling that I enjoy on a skateboard. It kinda carries over into my surfing as well: I like to ride wide stubby boards. Something about having relatively short legs in relation to my overall height maybe.
I’m wondering if a narrower stance and a wider board would be functional for my snowboarding as well. But the importance of edge-to-edge transition is a bit different on snow.
Is there a good forum where people geek out over this shit for snowboards?
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Rode fresh powder for the first time today, man that was sick. I also feel like i hit my stride and felt really comfortable on the board today. the side hits are really fun, there was some fun transition leading out of some pump track type shit, that was wild.
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Rode fresh powder for the first time today, man that was sick. I also feel like i hit my stride and felt really comfortable on the board today. the side hits are really fun, there was some fun transition leading out of some pump track type shit, that was wild.
Powder is the reason.
Glad you got to experience it
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Yeah, always push behind the heel side edge.
I’m gonna get on the slopes for the first time this season tomorrow. A little warmup before I head to Utah. It’s finally cold, at least for the moment. There should be at least a dusting of new snow.
Edit to add a question: how do you all like to set your stance? I did 0° / 0° centered throughout my teens and 20s, because I thought I needed to ride switch and do a lot of 180s. A few seasons ago I started doing like 15° front / 0° back, still centered. I haven’t really played with it very much.
I only ride twin boards, so centered stance, as wide as possible. 18° front foot, -27° back foot.
I used to ride 0°/0° as well when I was a teenager, but that was just because that's just how the first board I got was set up and I didn't know you could change it.
Do you ever get leg pain in your back leg on other either side of your shin while you're riding from the 0° angle?
If I have any complaints it would be that I get some neck/shoulder pain from being locked in and turned forward… but I’m not sure how to do anything about that besides stretching and strengthening. It’s something that has only become an issue that I notice in my 30s.
I guess because I rode snow less often than I surf or skate, I have not thought quite as deeply about optimizing my snowboard setup as I have with other activities.
But yesterday I was kinda tripping out thinking about how to approximate the short wheelbase/wide board/loose truck feeling that I enjoy on a skateboard. It kinda carries over into my surfing as well: I like to ride wide stubby boards. Something about having relatively short legs in relation to my overall height maybe.
I’m wondering if a narrower stance and a wider board would be functional for my snowboarding as well. But the importance of edge-to-edge transition is a bit different on snow.[b/]
Is there a good forum where people geek out over this shit for snowboards?
If you're looking for a more surfy feel, buy a new board with a hybrid rocker, which is rocker between the feet, and camber under the feet.
This is kind of new like past 10 years maybe, and gives you hella surfy and loose feeling with this type of camber, but it is still steady at high speeds. With this hybrid rocker, you can ride a shorter board than you normally think you could. The board feels way lighter and more like a loose truck skate then any other type of rocker I've tried, but I have also never tried the full rocker "banana rocker" that Lib Tech is somewhat famous for.
Also, NOW binding brand developed a binding with a kingpin in them, kind of like in the base of the binding at the bottom of your foot, so it rocks back and forth as you turn from toe to heel. It's hard to explain but you could check out their website.
I've never tried them but I really want to. I'll bet those have a good surfy feel to them.
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I'm on some authority the 'cool' park kids are basically riding neutral zero both feet for stances these days. I'm 24 and I feel old with these kids tho...
I picked up a Salomon Dancehaul last summer for cheap, and now I've basically ridden it in all conditions. Super in love with it. Playful enough in the park for what I do, and carves/handles deeper stuff for when I get the chance to ride it. Next year when the honeymoon period is officially over I'll report back
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Yeah, always push behind the heel side edge.
I’m gonna get on the slopes for the first time this season tomorrow. A little warmup before I head to Utah. It’s finally cold, at least for the moment. There should be at least a dusting of new snow.
Edit to add a question: how do you all like to set your stance? I did 0° / 0° centered throughout my teens and 20s, because I thought I needed to ride switch and do a lot of 180s. A few seasons ago I started doing like 15° front / 0° back, still centered. I haven’t really played with it very much.
I only ride twin boards, so centered stance, as wide as possible. 18° front foot, -27° back foot.
I used to ride 0°/0° as well when I was a teenager, but that was just because that's just how the first board I got was set up and I didn't know you could change it.
Do you ever get leg pain in your back leg on other either side of your shin while you're riding from the 0° angle?
If I have any complaints it would be that I get some neck/shoulder pain from being locked in and turned forward… but I’m not sure how to do anything about that besides stretching and strengthening. It’s something that has only become an issue that I notice in my 30s.
I guess because I rode snow less often than I surf or skate, I have not thought quite as deeply about optimizing my snowboard setup as I have with other activities.
But yesterday I was kinda tripping out thinking about how to approximate the short wheelbase/wide board/loose truck feeling that I enjoy on a skateboard. It kinda carries over into my surfing as well: I like to ride wide stubby boards. Something about having relatively short legs in relation to my overall height maybe.
I’m wondering if a narrower stance and a wider board would be functional for my snowboarding as well. But the importance of edge-to-edge transition is a bit different on snow.
Is there a good forum where people geek out over this shit for snowboards?
Yeah there is and it’s a bit cleaner than around here…
https://www.snowboardingforum.com/ (https://www.snowboardingforum.com/)
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Anyone out here still shredding after an acl tear or similar? I’ve seen a lot of friends completely quit all sports after similar knee injuries, but deep down inside I kind of just know the skills are still there. Thoughts of reinjury are on my mind, and I now carry the burden of knowing what the results of injury are.
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Did a heli day up in Alaska on 2/9 with Chugach Powder Guides. Blue bird, knee deep pow, 2 homies. It was something I'll never forget.
12-18" snow coming our way this week in the midwest, Afton Alps is going to get some!
(https://i.ibb.co/QYzL6Lz/image000007.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QYzL6Lz)
that's some bucket list shit! I've been dreaming of doing some heliskiing for years, but it's illegal in France...resorts close to the swiss and italian borders offer it though, so maybe some day!
for those who wonder about stance:
https://whitelines.com/snowboard-gear/set-up-maintenance/pro-snowboarder-stances-binding-angles.html (https://whitelines.com/snowboard-gear/set-up-maintenance/pro-snowboarder-stances-binding-angles.html)
I rock the "Terje" stance.....Like +18 on the front and +3 on the back 8)
Also I back the hybrid rocker/camber thing fully! I have a Salomon Assassin and that thing is so playful, I love it. It's already 6 years old though so I'm thinking of maybe replacing it next year....with the exact same model!
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Did a heli day up in Alaska on 2/9 with Chugach Powder Guides. Blue bird, knee deep pow, 2 homies. It was something I'll never forget.
12-18" snow coming our way this week in the midwest, Afton Alps is going to get some!
(https://i.ibb.co/QYzL6Lz/image000007.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QYzL6Lz)
that's some bucket list shit! I've been dreaming of doing some heliskiing for years, but it's illegal in France...resorts close to the swiss and italian borders offer it though, so maybe some day!
for those who wonder about stance:
https://whitelines.com/snowboard-gear/set-up-maintenance/pro-snowboarder-stances-binding-angles.html (https://whitelines.com/snowboard-gear/set-up-maintenance/pro-snowboarder-stances-binding-angles.html)
I rock the "Terje" stance.....Like +18 on the front and +3 on the back 8)
Also I back the hybrid rocker/camber thing fully! I have a Salomon Assassin and that thing is so playful, I love it. It's already 6 years old though so I'm thinking of maybe replacing it next year....with the exact same model!
They should throw a column in there on the main type of riding they do. I know the majority of them so can pick where they ride the most. Certainly shows a consistent approach for different types of riding eg. big mountain riders rocking positive angles on both feet.
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Yeah, always push behind the heel side edge.
I’m gonna get on the slopes for the first time this season tomorrow. A little warmup before I head to Utah. It’s finally cold, at least for the moment. There should be at least a dusting of new snow.
Edit to add a question: how do you all like to set your stance? I did 0° / 0° centered throughout my teens and 20s, because I thought I needed to ride switch and do a lot of 180s. A few seasons ago I started doing like 15° front / 0° back, still centered. I haven’t really played with it very much.
I only ride twin boards, so centered stance, as wide as possible. 18° front foot, -27° back foot.
I used to ride 0°/0° as well when I was a teenager, but that was just because that's just how the first board I got was set up and I didn't know you could change it.
Do you ever get leg pain in your back leg on other either side of your shin while you're riding from the 0° angle?
If I have any complaints it would be that I get some neck/shoulder pain from being locked in and turned forward… but I’m not sure how to do anything about that besides stretching and strengthening. It’s something that has only become an issue that I notice in my 30s.
I guess because I rode snow less often than I surf or skate, I have not thought quite as deeply about optimizing my snowboard setup as I have with other activities.
But yesterday I was kinda tripping out thinking about how to approximate the short wheelbase/wide board/loose truck feeling that I enjoy on a skateboard. It kinda carries over into my surfing as well: I like to ride wide stubby boards. Something about having relatively short legs in relation to my overall height maybe.
I’m wondering if a narrower stance and a wider board would be functional for my snowboarding as well. But the importance of edge-to-edge transition is a bit different on snow.[b/]
Is there a good forum where people geek out over this shit for snowboards?
If you're looking for a more surfy feel, buy a new board with a hybrid rocker, which is rocker between the feet, and camber under the feet.
This is kind of new like past 10 years maybe, and gives you hella surfy and loose feeling with this type of camber, but it is still steady at high speeds. With this hybrid rocker, you can ride a shorter board than you normally think you could. The board feels way lighter and more like a loose truck skate then any other type of rocker I've tried, but I have also never tried the full rocker "banana rocker" that Lib Tech is somewhat famous for.
Also, NOW binding brand developed a binding with a kingpin in them, kind of like in the base of the binding at the bottom of your foot, so it rocks back and forth as you turn from toe to heel. It's hard to explain but you could check out their website.
I've never tried them but I really want to. I'll bet those have a good surfy feel to them.
My main board is a gnu riders choice from 2016 or so, it has rocker between the feet and a very subtle flip of camber just outside the bindings; it definitely felt more forgiving and playful than my previous full-camber board (a Nitro MFM from like 2003). Lost some pop, but that’s ok, the old deck would honestly boost me higher than I wanted to go by accident half the time.
The gnu also has “magne-traction” (slight bump/serration along the edges) that helps grip in icy conditions. If anyone else is shopping for an east coast board I would definitely recommend something with similar features, any help at all is good on our death trap ice hills. I’d say it gives like 15% more grip on ice or so.
Pow Mow UT is getting 6” today and a dusting every day through my trip at the end of the week. Hope I can find some stashes that aren’t tracked out even a day or two after the main dump… planning to bring both the riders choice and the powder racer. Hopefully the powder racer is fun and functional in the mix of soft groomer/tracked out chunder/occasional pow that I am anticipating. Some reviews say it sucks in rutted out terrain but others say it’s surprisingly fun in all kinds of stuff. Can’t wait to find out
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After years of trying out all sorts of camber variations, I’m 90% back on regular ol’ camber. Nothing feels as good carving or as predictable in chop.
I have a Lib double dip that I use only on pow days. But all my other boards are camber to varying degrees.
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I'm on some authority the 'cool' park kids are basically riding neutral zero both feet for stances these days. I'm 24 and I feel old with these kids tho...
Seriously am thinking of setting my board up this way this weekend. Kinda dont like the cambered stance even though it helps with carving
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Hit the mid-season burn-out, worked too much and rode too little this season, and the season here in Japan has been wonky even for Global Warming era standards.
Lots of precip, but too much of it rain, and now it’s almost fucking 18 degrees Celsius at the beginning of March. That is May temperature.
So to rekindle some stoke I broke out the snowskates and have been having a blast on them in the slushy snow. They turn a boring green run into a fun and exciting blue or black. And basic park features become scary again.
They don’t have s long enough edge to make them practical on hard snow or ice, but in 10 cm of great or slush they are super fun. Highly recommend a bideck, especially if you’re local is kinda basic.
Terje rides them at his local in Norway to keep the difficulty up even when the mountain isn’t that challenging.
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just got back from my weekend in utah... scored on the first day with knee-to-thigh deep pow accumulated over the course of the week and 4-5" falling over the course of the day. the powder racer floated like nobody's business and it was the most fun i've ever had in pow for sure. one of my buddies was on a crappy all-mountain rental that kept getting stuck in flat sections and sinking in pow; made me glad i had put the funds into getting proper equipment. nothing worse than going thru all the trouble to score and then having your gear hold you back.
there were still some fresh lines to be had the second day but we had to work a bit harder to hunt them down in tree runs and sidecountry. the ungroomed trails were pretty rutted out and the groomers were getting icy. in those conditions the powder racer was a bit too soft and rockered out to hold an edge effectively and i found myself getting bucked around or sliding out a bit.
now there are a few more storms on the horizon here on the east coast, finally, so hopefully i'll get a chance to redeem this season before it's all too late
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just got back from my weekend in utah... scored on the first day with knee-to-thigh deep pow accumulated over the course of the week and 4-5" falling over the course of the day. the powder racer floated like nobody's business and it was the most fun i've ever had in pow for sure. one of my buddies was on a crappy all-mountain rental that kept getting stuck in flat sections and sinking in pow; made me glad i had put the funds into getting proper equipment. nothing worse than going thru all the trouble to score and then having your gear hold you back.
there were still some fresh lines to be had the second day but we had to work a bit harder to hunt them down in tree runs and sidecountry. the ungroomed trails were pretty rutted out and the groomers were getting icy. in those conditions the powder racer was a bit too soft and rockered out to hold an edge effectively and i found myself getting bucked around or sliding out a bit.
now there are a few more storms on the horizon here on the east coast, finally, so hopefully i'll get a chance to redeem this season before it's all too late
Hell yeah dude! It's amazing what a powder board will do in the right conditions.
What resort did you hit, and how were lift lines?
I've got Brighton on my short list of places to ride
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Two-ish snowdays, a demo'd Ride Peace Seeker, and a couple lift tickets to Brighton have my spirits high right now. Fingers crossed
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The whole season on the main island of Japan has been at least a month ahead of schedule since January when we had our first rain (NEVER had rain before in January, usually the earliest is mid-February!) and now we have May temperatures. The tops of the highest hills have always manages to stay open until the first week in May, but this year looks iffy.
So yesterday was a bit cooler (only +8 C mid-mountain) so I headed to the park before it starts to cook later this week and it’s too hot and sloppy to keep your speed.
Was super rusty, but hit the big line for the first time in a couple years. The lack of snow means it’s not as big as normal, so more fun than scary.
But that might be it, might just be snowskating from here on out.
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i got up to the catskills last week the day after 18" or so came down, it was the deepest day i caught out east in several years, and boy was it heavy compared to the utah pow a few weeks ago. i actually rode my freestyle board (gnu riders choice) thinking it would be super tracked out and icy but i got bogged down in a couple deep spots. the magnetraction really sticks in deep stuff, which is funny because i barely notice it at all normally, even in 6" or so of fresh.
now got my eyes on squeezing 2 or 3 more days in over the next week or two. i'm kinda racing to get my moneys worth out of the epic pass before the end of the season. i'm gonna be pissed if i don't make it worthwhile. don't want those fucks at vail resorts to make any more money on me than absolutely necessary.
along those lines, is anyone buying next year's passes right now? i'm thinking i might switch to Indy Pass. A lot of smaller mountains, but still some really good ones sprinkled around, and I think I'm ready to beat the crowds even if it means smaller hills. It's certainly cheaper.
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Rode fresh powder for the first time today, man that was sick. I also feel like i hit my stride and felt really comfortable on the board today. the side hits are really fun, there was some fun transition leading out of some pump track type shit, that was wild.
Powder is the reason.
Glad you got to experience it
Supposedly since snow is 90-95 percent air, riding on powder is like flying or floating. Kinda helps explain why it's addicting.
along those lines, is anyone buying next year's passes right now? i'm thinking i might switch to Indy Pass. A lot of smaller mountains, but still some really good ones sprinkled around, and I think I'm ready to beat the crowds even if it means smaller hills. It's certainly cheaper.
That's a cool looking pass. Small resorts usually equal small towns, which can also lead to some rad empty skateparks.
The Natural Selection Tour this year was at Revelstoke. I couldn't believe the way people were handling the terrain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pikqub_4laQ
I recently ended up at Kirkwood for a small storm where I assumed avalanche risk would be minimal. The forecasters had it marked as "moderate", which is a 2 out of 5, with 5 being extreme danger. There were a few days of sunshine prior to the storm, which caused the base pack to harden. The storm system that came through dropped 8-10" (20-25cm) of heavier moist snow (still fluffy enough for face shots) which created the perfect setup for long slides, even on low angle terrain less than 30 degrees.
Inbounds terrain:
(https://i.imgur.com/QvOEdVm.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hXK87I8.jpg)
Ski patrol ended up setting off the most bombs I've ever heard. At times it sounded like a warzone as the explosions ricocheted across the valley. Watching the slides happen in real time first thing in the morning was humbling. They looked like slow motion waterfalls of terror. Shout outs to ski patrollers. I crossed paths with a crew of them as they were headed up the mountain in the dark at 6:30am. That's an intense job.
It was my first bluebird day in a long time, the storm systems have been tricky to navigate around.
(https://imgur.com/oyxsxIp.jpg)
I noticed a gear failure as I was clipping into my bindings at the top of the mountain after doing a pretty big traverse / hike. I was still inbounds, but it would have been a 20-30 minute journey back to the lift to download on it. My toe strap was dangling on by a thread of plastic, so it was useless. I must have stepped on it at some point.
Riding with just an ankle strap would have been doable with caution. This season I started riding with two voile straps ( https://www.voile.com/nylon-buckle-straps.html ) in my backpack. The 20" (50.8 cm) one saved the day. I was able to loop it through the binding and create a somewhat toe strap replacement. I highly recommend riding with one or two. The 25" (63.5 cm) would work around the ankle as well. If the ankle strap would have gone out and I didn't have a voile strap, getting down would not be fun. Maybe a boot lace could have been used in a pinch.
(https://imgur.com/uAKiyHj.jpg)
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Been curious about the specs on my board. Super new to snowboarding so all the terms are very foreign to me and I don’t know wtf I’m riding.
Homie who works at ride gave me this for free: https://ridesnowboards.com/en-us/ojo
Wondering what folks might know about the shape, or whatever? A couple friends have commented that it’s a good board to learn on, but this shape doesn’t really sell and they don’t make this frequently
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Rode fresh powder for the first time today, man that was sick. I also feel like i hit my stride and felt really comfortable on the board today. the side hits are really fun, there was some fun transition leading out of some pump track type shit, that was wild.
Powder is the reason.
Glad you got to experience it
Supposedly since snow is 90-95 percent air, riding on powder is like flying or floating. Kinda helps explain why it's addicting.
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along those lines, is anyone buying next year's passes right now? i'm thinking i might switch to Indy Pass. A lot of smaller mountains, but still some really good ones sprinkled around, and I think I'm ready to beat the crowds even if it means smaller hills. It's certainly cheaper.
That's a cool looking pass. Small resorts usually equal small towns, which can also lead to some rad empty skateparks.
The Natural Selection Tour this year was at Revelstoke. I couldn't believe the way people were handling the terrain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pikqub_4laQ
I recently ended up at Kirkwood for a small storm where I assumed avalanche risk would be minimal. The forecasters had it marked as "moderate", which is a 2 out of 5, with 5 being extreme danger. There were a few days of sunshine prior to the storm, which caused the base pack to harden. The storm system that came through dropped 8-10" (20-25cm) of heavier moist snow (still fluffy enough for face shots) which created the perfect setup for long slides, even on low angle terrain less than 30 degrees.
Inbounds terrain:
(https://i.imgur.com/QvOEdVm.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hXK87I8.jpg)
Ski patrol ended up setting off the most bombs I've ever heard. At times it sounded like a warzone as the explosions ricocheted across the valley. Watching the slides happen in real time first thing in the morning was humbling. They looked like slow motion waterfalls of terror. Shout outs to ski patrollers. I crossed paths with a crew of them as they were headed up the mountain in the dark at 6:30am. That's an intense job.
It was my first bluebird day in a long time, the storm systems have been tricky to navigate around.
(https://imgur.com/oyxsxIp.jpg)
I noticed a gear failure as I was clipping into my bindings at the top of the mountain after doing a pretty big traverse / hike. I was still inbounds, but it would have been a 20-30 minute journey back to the lift to download on it. My toe strap was dangling on by a thread of plastic, so it was useless. I must have stepped on it at some point.
Riding with just an ankle strap would have been doable with caution. This season I started riding with two voile straps ( https://www.voile.com/nylon-buckle-straps.html ) in my backpack. The 20" (50.8 cm) one saved the day. I was able to loop it through the binding and create a somewhat toe strap replacement. I highly recommend riding with one or two. The 25" (63.5 cm) would work around the ankle as well. If the ankle strap would have gone out and I didn't have a voile strap, getting down would not be fun. Maybe a boot lace could have been used in a pinch.
(https://imgur.com/uAKiyHj.jpg)
I hear Tahoe is dope right now, and that they might extend the season out late this year...
Thinking about heading up to Boreal
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Been curious about the specs on my board. Super new to snowboarding so all the terms are very foreign to me and I don’t know wtf I’m riding.
Homie who works at ride gave me this for free: https://ridesnowboards.com/en-us/ojo
Wondering what folks might know about the shape, or whatever? A couple friends have commented that it’s a good board to learn on, but this shape doesn’t really sell and they don’t make this frequently
The link didn't take me to an exact board, but I'm sure what you're riding is fully capable of your beginner status. Biggest issues I've seen are boards way too big or small for someone being an issue.
Dillon did pass away in 2018, so maybe thats the reason they aren't making it anymore. If its a twin board that is your size, keep practicing!
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Rode fresh powder for the first time today, man that was sick. I also feel like i hit my stride and felt really comfortable on the board today. the side hits are really fun, there was some fun transition leading out of some pump track type shit, that was wild.
Powder is the reason.
Glad you got to experience it
Supposedly since snow is 90-95 percent air, riding on powder is like flying or floating. Kinda helps explain why it's addicting.
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along those lines, is anyone buying next year's passes right now? i'm thinking i might switch to Indy Pass. A lot of smaller mountains, but still some really good ones sprinkled around, and I think I'm ready to beat the crowds even if it means smaller hills. It's certainly cheaper.
That's a cool looking pass. Small resorts usually equal small towns, which can also lead to some rad empty skateparks.
The Natural Selection Tour this year was at Revelstoke. I couldn't believe the way people were handling the terrain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pikqub_4laQ
I recently ended up at Kirkwood for a small storm where I assumed avalanche risk would be minimal. The forecasters had it marked as "moderate", which is a 2 out of 5, with 5 being extreme danger. There were a few days of sunshine prior to the storm, which caused the base pack to harden. The storm system that came through dropped 8-10" (20-25cm) of heavier moist snow (still fluffy enough for face shots) which created the perfect setup for long slides, even on low angle terrain less than 30 degrees.
Inbounds terrain:
(https://i.imgur.com/QvOEdVm.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hXK87I8.jpg)
Ski patrol ended up setting off the most bombs I've ever heard. At times it sounded like a warzone as the explosions ricocheted across the valley. Watching the slides happen in real time first thing in the morning was humbling. They looked like slow motion waterfalls of terror. Shout outs to ski patrollers. I crossed paths with a crew of them as they were headed up the mountain in the dark at 6:30am. That's an intense job.
It was my first bluebird day in a long time, the storm systems have been tricky to navigate around.
(https://imgur.com/oyxsxIp.jpg)
I noticed a gear failure as I was clipping into my bindings at the top of the mountain after doing a pretty big traverse / hike. I was still inbounds, but it would have been a 20-30 minute journey back to the lift to download on it. My toe strap was dangling on by a thread of plastic, so it was useless. I must have stepped on it at some point.
Riding with just an ankle strap would have been doable with caution. This season I started riding with two voile straps ( https://www.voile.com/nylon-buckle-straps.html ) in my backpack. The 20" (50.8 cm) one saved the day. I was able to loop it through the binding and create a somewhat toe strap replacement. I highly recommend riding with one or two. The 25" (63.5 cm) would work around the ankle as well. If the ankle strap would have gone out and I didn't have a voile strap, getting down would not be fun. Maybe a boot lace could have been used in a pinch.
(https://imgur.com/uAKiyHj.jpg)
How cold were those sunny days before the storm?
A sun crust could make it hard for the new snow to bond to it.
But if it was really cold, hoar frost could create a really weak layer that slides super easily.
Glad you had the straps in you.
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Hopping on a bus in a couple of hours, heading around 1000 miles north through Sweden to mountain called Kittelfjäll. Kind of a freeriding-Mekka, a lot of ravines and forests. Hovering around -15C right now though, so it might get crispy.
@tkp Good riddance bringing with extra straps. Packed some in my bag after reading your post.
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Been curious about the specs on my board. Super new to snowboarding so all the terms are very foreign to me and I don’t know wtf I’m riding.
Homie who works at ride gave me this for free: https://ridesnowboards.com/en-us/ojo
Wondering what folks might know about the shape, or whatever? A couple friends have commented that it’s a good board to learn on, but this shape doesn’t really sell and they don’t make this frequently
Shape is fine, I am a fan of the more blunted tips gives it an old school look. it has pretty traditional camber which is what I would suggest for beginners. Have fun with it
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can i have it?
I think it looks sick and I'm jealous.....
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How cold were those sunny days before the storm?
A sun crust could make it hard for the new snow to bond to it.
But if it was really cold, hoar frost could create a really weak layer that slides super easily.
Glad you had the straps in you.
For 4 days prior to the storm, the daily high was between 40-43 °F (4.4 - 6.1 °C) with a low of 13-18 °F (-10.5 - -7.7 °C). Freeze thaw conditions on tap.
I hear Tahoe is dope right now, and that they might extend the season out late this year...
Thinking about heading up to Boreal
It's been a wild season. My body is definitely feeling the affects of it.
A Boreal night session during a storm is on my bucket list. I've never ridden there..
Some mountains have extended their seasons:
Heavenly = May 7
Palisades / Alpine Meadows = July 4
Mammoth = "AT LEAST July"
It's usually possible to hike off Mt. Rose Highway in August and get some turns in on a decent snow year. Unless an insane heat wave hits the west coast, it seems like more than just some turns will be possible for a while.
A few years ago, while hiking the Mt. Rose trailhead in the middle of July, I ran into a crew of older skiers who had been skiing for nearly 200 consecutive months. Looks like they are still going: https://patchskiing.net/
I ended up documenting a bit of the environment / scenery on my last trip and put together a long form style video. It's slow paced and boring, but there's a skate clip here and there. It will be interesting to compare next year's conditions to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XSkozXgTNc
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At copper today. Got a decent top speed run in (52 mph) while there was still some corduroy on rosis run but there were already enough people where I had to slow down for them.
(https://i.ibb.co/DY3x7KY/Screenshot-20230326-095012-Ikon-Pass.jpg) (https://ibb.co/DY3x7KY)
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Vermont heads or those that are familiar-- how late in the spring is snowboarding possible near Woodstock VT? I am likely going there for work and trying to figure out how late is possible. I've never been that far up (went to Bromley in VT earlier the season and stayed in manchester-- that was my first time to Vermont though so curious how long the season goes (even for crappy ice/snow).
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Vermont heads or those that are familiar-- how late in the spring is snowboarding possible near Woodstock VT? I am likely going there for work and trying to figure out how late is possible. I've never been that far up (went to Bromley in VT earlier the season and stayed in manchester-- that was my first time to Vermont though so curious how long the season goes (even for crappy ice/snow).
i can't say for sure but onthesnow.com tracks historical open/close dates and usually has projected closing dates as well. southern VT seasons might not go that much longer but if you're willing to drive up north to killington or jay peak i think they will be able to go into mid may or so. anyone who actually lives up there can tell me i'm wrong
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Slushy day at the local hill. This board is fuun
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Vermont heads or those that are familiar-- how late in the spring is snowboarding possible near Woodstock VT? I am likely going there for work and trying to figure out how late is possible. I've never been that far up (went to Bromley in VT earlier the season and stayed in manchester-- that was my first time to Vermont though so curious how long the season goes (even for crappy ice/snow).
i can't say for sure but onthesnow.com tracks historical open/close dates and usually has projected closing dates as well. southern VT seasons might not go that much longer but if you're willing to drive up north to killington or jay peak i think they will be able to go into mid may or so. anyone who actually lives up there can tell me i'm wrong
It all depends on what the weather is doing and if you're trying to skin or ride lifts.
Woodstock isn't too far from Killington, and right now, they're blasting snow on the Superstar trail. Last year their closing day was June 2. It's just one run serviced by a quad. I don't think they groom it when it really starts to warm up/turn to spring. So the later it gets into the year, it's just an enormous mogul field from top to bottom. Google 'Killington Superstar Glacier' and see what's up. Killington is the last to close in the northeast with lift service, I think.
I live in the Burlington area, and I know lots of people who skin Stowe, Smuggs, Sugarbush, Bolton, and Jay when the lifts close, which is usually in late April-early May.
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Went snowboarding last week for the first time since 2018. Took my family to Gore Mountain in the Adirondacks. Got my kids to ride as well. My youngest just goes straight, hands in pockets like a fool. Fortunately for him only bunny slopes. Middle kid got himself down some intermediate trails. I was riding my old Salomon that I got in 1997-1998. We planned to snowboard every year, but I can't remember why we didn't in 2019, but the other years are a result of the pandemic. I decided to pick up a new board since the old board was feeling like I could snap it, so I found a Nitro Dropout 156 on sale and ordered that. Hopefully we can keep getting a week a year in moving forward.
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I just got a few days in at Mt Sunapee in New Hampshire. Sleepy midweek slush sessions, definitely a cool local vibe, and finally *just barely* got my money’s worth out of this year’s Epic pass.
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/5NjitjW9hH42zoHN6
https://photos.app.goo.gl/KsT4xRucs5SRUzGf8
Left the wife and kid behind and went on a little road trip, and stayed with an old friend in a different city back in early March. Hit the weather system perfectly, thigh deep pow for two days. Haven't ridden anything that deep in a long time, and with my old riding buddy, haven't ridden that hard in a long while either.
He has one of those plug and play hot tubs, so that helped with the after riding sores.
Yyyeeewww!!!
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New deck
$260 + free shipping from Pure boardshop
Got the stomp pads from ebay
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqiwfXkp6Bw/?igshid=OGRjNzg3M2Y= (https://www.instagram.com/p/CqiwfXkp6Bw/?igshid=OGRjNzg3M2Y=)
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New deck
$260 + free shipping from Pure boardshop
Got the stomp pads from ebay
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqiwfXkp6Bw/?igshid=OGRjNzg3M2Y= (https://www.instagram.com/p/CqiwfXkp6Bw/?igshid=OGRjNzg3M2Y=)
Been eyeing a public board for a while. Where are these pressed/country of origin? Notice they only have a 1 year warranty. Great deal though!
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New deck
$260 + free shipping from Pure boardshop
Got the stomp pads from ebay
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqiwfXkp6Bw/?igshid=OGRjNzg3M2Y= (https://www.instagram.com/p/CqiwfXkp6Bw/?igshid=OGRjNzg3M2Y=)
sick setup
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It’s been a brutal spring here on the main island of Japan. Pretty much zero snow since Mid-February, its the polar opposite of what’s been happening in California. It’s mostly been rain and unusually high temps, so if its snowing where you are, remember that it probably isn’t somewhere else.
Anyways making the most of a super-long spring, been snowskating a bit, and that has rekindled some of the stoke. Met up with a friend yesterday and he was kind enough to take some video of me eating shit. Enjoy!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cq4wsukOFwY/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Been eyeing a public board for a while. Where are these pressed/country of origin? Notice they only have a 1 year warranty. Great deal though!
China
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Well the season is officially over. Last weekend was the last weekend. I ended up going up Saturday and Sunday to the hill. Saturday with my wife and daughter, we only did three runs then got lunch, since she's five. Still fun, and we have to make it fun so she doesn't flip the fuck out everytime she falls.
Sunday I went up solo and ripped. It was nice and warm, and I just did park laps with music on.
I ended up bailing incredibly hard on a front board, and tweaked my wrist, bashed my head, and bit my tongue and lip from falling backwards off the rail and slamming. It was awesome, until that point.
The little scanner thingy the lifties use says I got up there 28 times. Not bad for a full time working dad guy.
One day I'll win the lottery, and just do endless winters and ride the rest of my life all day, everyday.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83PExTKn6s4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83PExTKn6s4)
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was thinking about trying it for the first time ever this winter.
any tips on how to go at it? i've been sking for like 26 winters. skating for maybe 17 years.
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You could be a rare example of someone I’d say ‘try it with a friend that can ride’ instead of ‘take a lesson’.
If you could get a cheap lesson with an instructor just one-on-one, do that.
But if you take a group lesson, you’d probably be learning way faster than everyone else, and it would hold you back.
So I recommend going with a friend with enough compassion to do little things like show you how to get off a lift before you actually get on, how tight the boots should be, and how to use your edges before throwing you down a regular run.
But go for it, I am an ex-skier myself
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aight.
so 1 or 2 times a little slalom and then go for the backlip and big air. got it.
but forreal, thans for your input.
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I’ve been instructing for a bit over 20 seasons.
Lesson’s totally help you skip the painful parts of learning by yourself, or from a well-meaning friend who takes you to the wrong run.
But if you have the balance and know what riding on snow is like, a group lesson with a bunch of newbies won’t help much.
Ideally, find an instructor, and pay them in beer to take you out for a morning.
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I’ve been instructing for a bit over 20 seasons.
Lesson’s totally help you skip the painful parts of learning by yourself, or from a well-meaning friend who takes you to the wrong run.
But if you have the balance and know what riding on snow is like, a group lesson with a bunch of newbies won’t help much.
Ideally, find an instructor, and pay them in beer to take you out for a morning.
appreciate it g.
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Just had my last weekend of the season down here in NZ. Been a real good year in the North Island with plenty of midweek days and no one around. Here’s hoping they can sort their shit out and open again next season
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Just had my last weekend of the season down here in NZ. Been a real good year in the North Island with plenty of midweek days and no one around. Here’s hoping they can sort their shit out and open again next season
Fuck I miss NZ. I lived in Wanaka the winter of 2007. Lots of snowboarding fueled by Tim Tams and Jimmy's Pies. You ride Whakapapa or Turoa?
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We got a bit of snow on the North Alps here in Japan. I’m getting a bit excited.
Japan is usually great for finding used gear, and I’ve been doing that for years, both boards and clothing, but i want a new jacket and I can’t find anything I like.
Most of the the new styles are kinda lame, I don’t want to get stuck with a washed out pastel jacket for 5+ seasons. Or an anorak with a huge fucking logo on it.
The least offensive I can find is a black Burton gore-Tex anorak , but everything is getting pricy. Plus, black is kind boring.
Is there anyone who makes a nice, classic, slightly loose 2-color anorak with a decent color way and no fucking huge logos?
I might have to look at the ski companies.
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Just had my last weekend of the season down here in NZ. Been a real good year in the North Island with plenty of midweek days and no one around. Here’s hoping they can sort their shit out and open again next season
Fuck I miss NZ. I lived in Wanaka the winter of 2007. Lots of snowboarding fueled by Tim Tams and Jimmy's Pies. You ride Whakapapa or Turoa?
I got a place in ohakune so mostly Turoa. However I have been taking the kids around to whakapapa as they’re off the learners slopes so the next level chair is way batter over there. Far west has been open there so that’s been going off!
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We got a bit of snow on the North Alps here in Japan. I’m getting a bit excited.
Japan is usually great for finding used gear, and I’ve been doing that for years, both boards and clothing, but i want a new jacket and I can’t find anything I like.
Most of the the new styles are kinda lame, I don’t want to get stuck with a washed out pastel jacket for 5+ seasons. Or an anorak with a huge fucking logo on it.
The least offensive I can find is a black Burton gore-Tex anorak , but everything is getting pricy. Plus, black is kind boring.
Is there anyone who makes a nice, classic, slightly loose 2-color anorak with a decent color way and no fucking huge logos?
I might have to look at the ski companies.
Yeah there’s been a few companies doing anoraks this season.
https://www.horsefeathers.eu/mens/snowwear/ (https://www.horsefeathers.eu/mens/snowwear/)
Might be a bit pricey being euro, but you know it’s gonna be good.
https://www.dcshoes-newzealand.co.nz/echelon-45k-technical-anorak-snow-jacket-3613378832653.html (https://www.dcshoes-newzealand.co.nz/echelon-45k-technical-anorak-snow-jacket-3613378832653.html)
This dc one is pretty damn tech and a mellow colour/logo scheme.
https://www.boardertown.co.nz/volcom-brighton-pullover-volcom-g0652315-sky (https://www.boardertown.co.nz/volcom-brighton-pullover-volcom-g0652315-sky)
Nice lookin volcom one also
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Anoraks are decent but ive always prefered full zips so i dont have to completely pull them off when i walk inside. That said, i have a krooked one and get frequent compliments when im in the terrain park with it.
I got a palace goretex jacket on depop for a good price.
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We got a bit of snow on the North Alps here in Japan. I’m getting a bit excited.
Japan is usually great for finding used gear, and I’ve been doing that for years, both boards and clothing, but i want a new jacket and I can’t find anything I like.
Most of the the new styles are kinda lame, I don’t want to get stuck with a washed out pastel jacket for 5+ seasons. Or an anorak with a huge fucking logo on it.
The least offensive I can find is a black Burton gore-Tex anorak , but everything is getting pricy. Plus, black is kind boring.
Is there anyone who makes a nice, classic, slightly loose 2-color anorak with a decent color way and no fucking huge logos?
I might have to look at the ski companies.
I just discovered this brand
https://beringia.co.nz/
Look like good technical outwear
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Just went to the Seattle premiere of the new ride snowboards video. Wow, that shit was wild. The scale of these street spots is so crazy. I can’t appreciate it like I do skateboarding but it’s still so impressive. Jacob Krugmire is fucked up good. Also, savannah shinske is so fucking dope. S/o ride for providing free beer all night
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We got a bit of snow on the North Alps here in Japan. I’m getting a bit excited.
Japan is usually great for finding used gear, and I’ve been doing that for years, both boards and clothing, but i want a new jacket and I can’t find anything I like.
Most of the the new styles are kinda lame, I don’t want to get stuck with a washed out pastel jacket for 5+ seasons. Or an anorak with a huge fucking logo on it.
The least offensive I can find is a black Burton gore-Tex anorak , but everything is getting pricy. Plus, black is kind boring.
Is there anyone who makes a nice, classic, slightly loose 2-color anorak with a decent color way and no fucking huge logos?
I might have to look at the ski companies.
Beyond Medals maybe?
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Thank all of you for the anorak replies.
The horse feathers was close, but no colors I’m into. The NZ brand initially looked good, but it’s a crazy minimalist shell, no powderskirt or anything.
I guess I’m just using my instructor discount and getting Burton this year.
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Just had my last weekend of the season down here in NZ. Been a real good year in the North Island with plenty of midweek days and no one around. Here’s hoping they can sort their shit out and open again next season
Fuck I miss NZ. I lived in Wanaka the winter of 2007. Lots of snowboarding fueled by Tim Tams and Jimmy's Pies. You ride Whakapapa or Turoa?
I got a place in ohakune so mostly Turoa. However I have been taking the kids around to whakapapa as they’re off the learners slopes so the next level chair is way batter over there. Far west has been open there so that’s been going off!
Hell yeah. I was only around that area in the summer. I was tripping when I found out there are volcano evacuation routes at those resorts in case of an eruption. I rode at Snow Park and Cardrona. Ohau a couple of times.
Awesome place, people, and amazing meat pies.
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Just had my last weekend of the season down here in NZ. Been a real good year in the North Island with plenty of midweek days and no one around. Here’s hoping they can sort their shit out and open again next season
Fuck I miss NZ. I lived in Wanaka the winter of 2007. Lots of snowboarding fueled by Tim Tams and Jimmy's Pies. You ride Whakapapa or Turoa?
I got a place in ohakune so mostly Turoa. However I have been taking the kids around to whakapapa as they’re off the learners slopes so the next level chair is way batter over there. Far west has been open there so that’s been going off!
Hell yeah. I was only around that area in the summer. I was tripping when I found out there are volcano evacuation routes at those resorts in case of an eruption. I rode at Snow Park and Cardrona. Ohau a couple of times.
Awesome place, people, and amazing meat pies.
Ha, yeah it hasn’t erupted in a while but you never know when it will…
Scored a few days at cardies earlier this season. So much bigger now with a new lift over the backside. Rode at snow park back in the day also. Rode the lift with Shaun white when he was filming the white album and was there when the dc team were there doing the rally car over the jumps. Such a shame that place closed but I suspect Sam made big money on the sale as it’s now used for expensive snow car testing
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Just had my last weekend of the season down here in NZ. Been a real good year in the North Island with plenty of midweek days and no one around. Here’s hoping they can sort their shit out and open again next season
Fuck I miss NZ. I lived in Wanaka the winter of 2007. Lots of snowboarding fueled by Tim Tams and Jimmy's Pies. You ride Whakapapa or Turoa?
I got a place in ohakune so mostly Turoa. However I have been taking the kids around to whakapapa as they’re off the learners slopes so the next level chair is way batter over there. Far west has been open there so that’s been going off!
Hell yeah. I was only around that area in the summer. I was tripping when I found out there are volcano evacuation routes at those resorts in case of an eruption. I rode at Snow Park and Cardrona. Ohau a couple of times.
Awesome place, people, and amazing meat pies.
Ha, yeah it hasn’t erupted in a while but you never know when it will…
Scored a few days at cardies earlier this season. So much bigger now with a new lift over the backside. Rode at snow park back in the day also. Rode the lift with Shaun white when he was filming the white album and was there when the dc team were there doing the rally car over the jumps. Such a shame that place closed but I suspect Sam made big money on the sale as it’s now used for expensive snow car testing
Oh shit I was there the same season. Saw Ken Block launching that rally car too. The 1/4 pipe they had at the end of the halfpipe was so fun.
I bartended at &Bar in Wanaka. I met a driver testing for Ford one night who kept getting shots of 151. Told me a story about picking up some snowboarders at the bottom of the Snow Park access road and giving them the ride of their life up to the base in some crazy supped-up Mustang.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjuGLgo4f8Q
what the fuck is going on. god damn.
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Melter 3 is definitely the best thing to come out so far this season.
No B-roll, no filler, just great tricks at wild spots. Last two melter movies were great too but this one's my favourite.Those Finish dudes are the best.
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Any Pals up in the mid-atlantic or northeast that can recommend the best/funnest hills in that area?
Will be in DC late December/Jan and a mate and have loose plans to visit PA or VT if anyone is local or has experience?
I'm over from Oz, so used to very shit snow and keen to ride smaller resorts that I wouldn't get a chance to otherwise. Thanks!
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Any ikons in colorado? Copper is my jam.
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Any Pals up in the mid-atlantic or northeast that can recommend the best/funnest hills in that area?
Will be in DC late December/Jan and a mate and have loose plans to visit PA or VT if anyone is local or has experience?
I'm over from Oz, so used to very shit snow and keen to ride smaller resorts that I wouldn't get a chance to otherwise. Thanks!
All the big/main resorts in VT will be fucking insanely busy on the weekends around then, especially with the holidays. You'll have a much more fun, and probably cheaper experience, if you can stick to weekdays.
I live in Northern VT. A good small hill up here is Bolton Valley. Family owned. Chill local vibe. Decent runs, and you might get offered whisky on the lift. Also has night skiing. At the top of the state is Jay Peak, which is medium-sized, has great terrain, fewer people, and is more affordable than somewhere like Stowe or Sugarbush. But it's right near the Canadian border.
Lots of little hills and other resorts in southern / central VT too. I just have less experience with those ones.
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Any Pals up in the mid-atlantic or northeast that can recommend the best/funnest hills in that area?
Will be in DC late December/Jan and a mate and have loose plans to visit PA or VT if anyone is local or has experience?
I'm over from Oz, so used to very shit snow and keen to ride smaller resorts that I wouldn't get a chance to otherwise. Thanks!
i live and snowboard in the northeast. we went to the PA hills a lot as a kid and i really don't bother going back anymore. they barely get any snow, and aside from that they also have really tiny vertical drops. even just going to the catskills in NY is considerably better. you can find mountains with at least 1000' ft rideable vertical drop, many even a decent bit taller than that. to me the PA pocono hills are totally fine if you live in the area but absolutely not worth any special effort. but of course if youre planning to drive from the DC area you may not want to go much further north. VT mountains are generally better than PA or NY, but of course then it is even further from DC. they're all a lot of fun. killington is quite large. mount snow has great terrain parks. jay peak gets a ton of snow every year, like as much as some of the big utah/colorado resorts. and then there are tons of less expensive and blown-out options as well.
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Any ikons in colorado? Copper is my jam.
I'm up in Steamboat, send me a DM if you ever come up this way and need someone to show ya around
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First day of the season in Hakuba, Nagano, Japan.
From the forecasts thought there would be marginal cover, but had really decent calf-deep powder, and a lot more opened than I expected
Found a new early-season small gap hit, and tomahawked a few times goofing off trying other stuff.
Nice way to start the season before it gets crazy here
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First day of the season in Hakuba, Nagano, Japan.
From the forecasts thought there would be marginal cover, but had really decent calf-deep powder, and a lot more opened than I expected
Found a new early-season small gap hit, and tomahawked a few times goofing off trying other stuff.
Nice way to start the season before it gets crazy here
jelly Cucktard! I've been tracking flights for the last few years trying to come back out there but just haven't been able to pull the trigger .
We've started the season pretty terribly up here in NW CO . I think we are at 40% of average now after a small storm yesterday into today . Big totals apparently tonight into Monday. hoping we surpass 2ft because we have no base at all yet on anything under 9500ft.
took one lap today and it was a shit show. hopefully more terrain opens quick after this storm .
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First day of the season in Hakuba, Nagano, Japan.
From the forecasts thought there would be marginal cover, but had really decent calf-deep powder, and a lot more opened than I expected
Found a new early-season small gap hit, and tomahawked a few times goofing off trying other stuff.
Nice way to start the season before it gets crazy here
jelly Cucktard! I've been tracking flights for the last few years trying to come back out there but just haven't been able to pull the trigger .
We've started the season pretty terribly up here in NW CO . I think we are at 40% of average now after a small storm yesterday into today . Big totals apparently tonight into Monday. hoping we surpass 2ft because we have no base at all yet on anything under 9500ft.
took one lap today and it was a shit show. hopefully more terrain opens quick after this storm .
Japan and the western US seem to get affected in opposite ways with Pacific weather currents. US had a massive season last year, in Japan spring started in February.
It was the late 90s when I saw climate change really start to fuck with seasons and I gave up expecting anything ‘normal’.
Normal is gone, in Japan as well. We’ve had some extremely fucked seasons, including the worst snowfall on record 3 seasons ago. I’m not sure it’s worth an expensive trip just for the snow. Maybe if you plan to see the sights, and if the snow happens to be good, go riding, but even though my winter job depends on winter tourism, I can’t bullshit anyone and say “Japow” a sure thing.
In fact, I forsee a time in the future when the snowfall becomes so marginal that I will just have to say goodbye to a sport and lifestyle I’ve enjoyed since I was 2.
After growing up in cold winters with lots of natural snow and powder, seeing these increasingly erratic seasons is like watching a parent slowly die.
I’m just going to enjoy the time I have with her while she’s still around.
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tempted to go ride more this season. been a long time since i put in on snowboarding.
used to film with the homies but it got more expensive and days off became fewer and fewer.
some 13+ year old footy
http://vimeo.com/11129181 (http://vimeo.com/11129181)
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tempted to go ride more this season. been a long time since i put in on snowboarding.
used to film with the homies but it got more expensive and days off became fewer and fewer.
some 13+ year old footy
http://vimeo.com/11129181 (http://vimeo.com/11129181)
Skills! And Sunshine! Nice edit, i has hoping to spy a Rude Boys sticker somewhere.
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First day of the season in Hakuba, Nagano, Japan.
From the forecasts thought there would be marginal cover, but had really decent calf-deep powder, and a lot more opened than I expected
Found a new early-season small gap hit, and tomahawked a few times goofing off trying other stuff.
Nice way to start the season before it gets crazy here
jelly Cucktard! I've been tracking flights for the last few years trying to come back out there but just haven't been able to pull the trigger .
We've started the season pretty terribly up here in NW CO . I think we are at 40% of average now after a small storm yesterday into today . Big totals apparently tonight into Monday. hoping we surpass 2ft because we have no base at all yet on anything under 9500ft.
took one lap today and it was a shit show. hopefully more terrain opens quick after this storm .
Japan and the western US seem to get affected in opposite ways with Pacific weather currents. US had a massive season last year, in Japan spring started in February.
It was the late 90s when I saw climate change really start to fuck with seasons and I gave up expecting anything ‘normal’.
Normal is gone, in Japan as well. We’ve had some extremely fucked seasons, including the worst snowfall on record 3 seasons ago. I’m not sure it’s worth an expensive trip just for the snow. Maybe if you plan to see the sights, and if the snow happens to be good, go riding, but even though my winter job depends on winter tourism, I can’t bullshit anyone and say “Japow” a sure thing.
In fact, I forsee a time in the future when the snowfall becomes so marginal that I will just have to say goodbye to a sport and lifestyle I’ve enjoyed since I was 2.
After growing up in cold winters with lots of natural snow and powder, seeing these increasingly erratic seasons is like watching a parent slowly die.
I’m just going to enjoy the time I have with her while she’s still around.
Hey cucktard, is there a way to get to Hakuba if I land at 7.30pm? Or is it waiting for the next morning? What’s the best way these days to get there? I saw Nagano snow shuttle seems like a good deal.
I’ve just seen some return flights from NZ come up for a cool $990 but the days/times are obviously not great due to being cheap (well the 21 hour overnight stopover in Fiji ain’t a bad thing…). So might have to lock that in early February next year
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First day of the season in Hakuba, Nagano, Japan.
From the forecasts thought there would be marginal cover, but had really decent calf-deep powder, and a lot more opened than I expected
Found a new early-season small gap hit, and tomahawked a few times goofing off trying other stuff.
Nice way to start the season before it gets crazy here
jelly Cucktard! I've been tracking flights for the last few years trying to come back out there but just haven't been able to pull the trigger .
We've started the season pretty terribly up here in NW CO . I think we are at 40% of average now after a small storm yesterday into today . Big totals apparently tonight into Monday. hoping we surpass 2ft because we have no base at all yet on anything under 9500ft.
took one lap today and it was a shit show. hopefully more terrain opens quick after this storm .
Japan and the western US seem to get affected in opposite ways with Pacific weather currents. US had a massive season last year, in Japan spring started in February.
It was the late 90s when I saw climate change really start to fuck with seasons and I gave up expecting anything ‘normal’.
Normal is gone, in Japan as well. We’ve had some extremely fucked seasons, including the worst snowfall on record 3 seasons ago. I’m not sure it’s worth an expensive trip just for the snow. Maybe if you plan to see the sights, and if the snow happens to be good, go riding, but even though my winter job depends on winter tourism, I can’t bullshit anyone and say “Japow” a sure thing.
In fact, I forsee a time in the future when the snowfall becomes so marginal that I will just have to say goodbye to a sport and lifestyle I’ve enjoyed since I was 2.
After growing up in cold winters with lots of natural snow and powder, seeing these increasingly erratic seasons is like watching a parent slowly die.
I’m just going to enjoy the time I have with her while she’s still around.
Hey cucktard, is there a way to get to Hakuba if I land at 7.30pm? Or is it waiting for the next morning? What’s the best way these days to get there? I saw Nagano snow shuttle seems like a good deal.
I’ve just seen some return flights from NZ come up for a cool $990 but the days/times are obviously not great due to being cheap (well the 21 hour overnight stopover in Fiji ain’t a bad thing…). So might have to lock that in early February next year
Sorry, no idea. I live here, I have never had to get from the airport to Hakuba. Best look at the Hakuba travel groups on Facebook or just google it.
There are direct buses running in the winter, but not sure how late. You can also hire a private or share taxi to take you right to your hotel.
https://chuotaxi.co.jp/english/
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first day on the mountain yesterday in tahoe. a couple nights of car camping and some fast groomer runs. not the same as smashing through deep pow, but it did the job for the time being.
the difference in snow pack this year compared to last is night and day, but at least it's been cold enough for the resort to get enough runs open to get going fast.
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Had 4 days on snow, top of the highest Hakuba resorts open.
Been doing this for years, and thought I had all the decent jumps figured out but then at the end of the first day spied a ok-sized gap I never noticed before.
It’s not really doable later on in the year for a bunch of reasons, and figured out the speed and did it. Powder landing and perfect transition.
Had a photo shoot for the company I work with a couple days later and went back, did it again, super nice but the landing was getting chopped.
Second go at it, brought the other instructors there to try it, my boss shows up as well as the manager of the hill, and I fucking blow it, haha.
Popped a bit too hard, went forward, and did a full double tomahawk.
At 48, I was worrried mid-rag doll the this would be a season ended, but fuck me, the mediocre work I did at the gym paid off and I walked away without even a sore neck.
Exercise and stretching works.
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PNW here, patiently waiting for Crystal and Snoqualmie to get more snow before using one of the days on my Ikon pass
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Yo snowboard pals,
I'm planning a snowboard trip in January and it'll be the first time I've gone snowboarding in like 16+ years. A friend is going to hook me up with a bunch of gear, but what are some hot tips I should keep in mind for staying warm, general stamina/endurance or other things to keep in mind?
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Yo snowboard pals,
I'm planning a snowboard trip in January and it'll be the first time I've gone snowboarding in like 16+ years. A friend is going to hook me up with a bunch of gear, but what are some hot tips I should keep in mind for staying warm, general stamina/endurance or other things to keep in mind?
Get boots that actually fit you. You can ride a shitty board with good boots and still have a good day, but shifty boots ruin your day from the start
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https://www.instagram.com/p/C016lHAR1Me/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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Just booked a week in Avoriaz with my oldest son, hyped! He's really into snowboarding and avoriaz is THE most snowboarding oriented resort I've ever seen, so should be awesome. Strangely enough his brother has decided he does not want to ski anymore, so it'll be just the 2 of us as my SO does not like skiing either....
The only downside is I'm not going to skate till those holidays in February, just to be sure I don't get hurt. Last week I sprained my thumb pretty good skating a mini and it reminded me how fast shit can go wrong! (missed a bs disaster and somehow managed to send the board into my hand. a week later I'm just regaining usage of my thumb and hand...)
->Siota: that was sick! I think my Salomon Assassin board was designed by that wolle nivelt dude and everything I've seen of him was real cool.
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Had my first day back on the mound of dirt that is barely passed off as a ski hill on Friday. They had a small park setup and it was a good time to shake off the cobwebs. They had a big tube kinda half buried and me and homie were "slappying" it all day long haha.
In other news, been watching this to get hyped to ride park, maybe even street this year. Still my favorite video in the last couple years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUVfp3VR6l4&t=118s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUVfp3VR6l4&t=118s)
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Got my first day yesterday at Snoqualmie. Snow conditions aren't great but hike park was a lot of fun.
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Hit the local in early Dec - We got a surprise dumps (around 12 inches / 30 cm) and the local was lit!! Powder runs all day!
And then it warmed up and rained and its all gone!! Viva the east coast!! Headed to Colorado (Steamboat) in a few weeks. Fingers crossed for good snow.
All the best ofr 2024 guys. Shred that pow!
@oldmanfrenchie - sounds like an epic trip - have funs and share a few pics if ya can!
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thanks man!
this is a ski video but it's pretty epic....Wolle Nyvelt should come to Avoriaz do that shit on a snowboard.... btw Avoriaz is the only resort I know with no cars. Riding through town on a board is sick, feels like streetskating!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtZVFUvn3_U&t=107s
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I'm going to show you my neglected snowbloard
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I was naturally good but I hate snow
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Gnarliest snowboarder I knew in person rode for Atomic.
Apparently they made some good boards before they folded
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Blumchen snowboarding.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1ua-l7sOgW/?img_index=1
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Did the season opener last weekend, and scored some powder. -25C but it was sunny and absolutely no wind, so it was awesome. Did some touring as well, and now I’m starting to think I should get a split…
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heavy storm riding today. nothing like going up a lift right before they decide to shut it down due to 100mph wind gusts. at times visibility didn't exist unless you were in the trees. being on a run and every where you look is just pure white, my mind ain't used to that.
over at palisades an inbounds avalanche caught 4 people and killed one. happened under one of the most infamous ski lifts in the world, kt-22.
https://unofficialnetworks.com/2024/01/10/inbounds-avalanche-burials-palisades-tahoe/
https://old.reddit.com/r/tahoe/comments/193f8re/palisades_ski_area_closed_avalanche_kt22_opening/
avalanche danger was a 3 out of 5 today.
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Gnarliest snowboarder I knew in person rode for Atomic.
Apparently they made some good boards before they folded
Yeah it's pretty good.
My brother sold me it . He rides Rome stuff now
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just got two days in last week. coming off a surgery and some covid issues i am definitely not at the performance level i was last season, but i feel pretty lucky just to be back on snow at all.
checked out a few smaller/independently-owned resorts and really enjoyed the experience. the epic/ikon resorts around here definitely have more exciting terrain, but i'm kinda happy to trade it for better crowds, shorter lines, better conditions, etc. slow lifts make pow last longer anyway ;D
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Can someone send a li k to a recent edit with Wichita Lineman? thx Pals
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Got a place in silverthorne for a couple days to just chill and snowboard at copper. So excited. Im sick of weekend traffic, its always so nice to get the weekdays in.
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family fun in the Alps!
my only problem with snowboarding is that just when I feel comfortable on the board, after a week of riding....well it's time to go home.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3kViE-Nqs-/
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Incomplete list of snowboarders with skate connections (videos not embedding):
Scott Stevens, Etnies (flow?) and Skateline mention:
Snowboard Part:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDP6eGGYqYA&pp=ygUNc2NvdHQgc3RldmVucw%3D%3D (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDP6eGGYqYA&pp=ygUNc2NvdHQgc3RldmVucw%3D%3D)
Skate part:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAIVMBFTB-I (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAIVMBFTB-I)
Skateline mention:
https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/skateline-09302014/ (https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/skateline-09302014/)
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Jussi Oksanen, “retired” environmentalist entrepreneur with a mention in Anti-Hero’s “The Body Corporate”:
Part @4:27
https://vimeo.com/12949172 (https://vimeo.com/12949172)
“Body Corporate” credit in lower half of first column:
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Jed Anderson, skates for Blue Tile Skateshop and shouted out in Quasi’s Grand Prairie:
Snowboard part: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gkWsBMqKUGs&pp=ygUOYm9uIHZveWFnZSBqZWQ%3D (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gkWsBMqKUGs&pp=ygUOYm9uIHZveWFnZSBqZWQ%3D)
Skate part @2:50: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n5WPeXhAFtM&t=1350s&pp=ygUWamVkIGFuZGVyc29uIGJsdWUgdGlsZQ%3D%3D (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n5WPeXhAFtM&t=1350s&pp=ygUWamVkIGFuZGVyc29uIGJsdWUgdGlsZQ%3D%3D)
Grand Prairie credit:
(https://i.ibb.co/fkx5cLf/0-C286-A39-9-EED-4-C06-9-B59-C5-C484-A1351-D.jpg)
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got a question...I have this old burton twin 49 from the 90's and I was planning to let my son use it in March. The bindings are no good/dry-rotted straps so I had to replace the bindings. I found some on sale, however the bolt patter from the old burtons is 3 bolts, and the bindings I found are 4 bolt though they also note universal fit. Are the binding mount plates generally interchangeable or do they vary company to company? I figured they'd be usually the same size across for the most part, but since I've never frankensteined any bindings, i don't know.
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No, Burton has always had its own insert pattern since the 90s. And there’s no way to mount bindings on it without an older disc with that mounting pattern
What you could do is keep the discs from the old, worn-out bindings and see if they fit newer ones
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Jed Anderson has been in a bunch of Bronze Vid's as well. He kills it on a skateboard.
Forest Bailey might be the sickest pro snowboarder who can skate. He is legit on a skateboard. Blake Paul as well.
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Sluggo, Cardinal, Danny Way, and probably a couple others are some skaters who had their own pro model snowboards.
Probably the majority of snowboard pros rip on a skateboard.
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No, Burton has always had its own insert pattern since the 90s. And there’s no way to mount bindings on it without an older disc with that mounting pattern
What you could do is keep the discs from the old, worn-out bindings and see if they fit newer ones
Sorry the way I worded my question wasn’t clear, but you answered anyway. What I meant to ask was can I use the old binding mounting plates with the new bindings. I was wondering if the central part of bindings were a universal size
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No, Burton has always had its own insert pattern since the 90s. And there’s no way to mount bindings on it without an older disc with that mounting pattern
What you could do is keep the discs from the old, worn-out bindings and see if they fit newer ones
Sorry the way I worded my question wasn’t clear, but you answered anyway. What I meant to ask was can I use the old binding mounting plates with the new bindings. I was wondering if the central part of bindings were a universal size
I may have misunderstood.
I think nowadays they are generally interchangeable, but I don’t Jobe about from that period.
Best bet would be to take the discs to a snowboard shop and check
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Jake Kuzyk is pro for K2 and a filmer/editor/skater
https://youtu.be/NECwo1WMVw4?si
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Haven't been on a board in a couple weeks due to an ankle injury, so hopefully it's healed up by the time this monster of a storm has passed through.
This is the forecast for Kirkwood, CA at 8800ft / 2682m for the next 6 days.
(https://i.imgur.com/7Mlr772.png)
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Jed Anderson is like snowboarding’s Guy Mariano or something.
He’s considered of the most stylish/talented rail/street snowboarders ever - when he was skating in those 917 edits etc, he was basically sponsorless and MIA from snowboarding - now he’s filming parts again his stuff is blowing minds.
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Haven't been on a board in a couple weeks due to an ankle injury, so hopefully it's healed up by the time this monster of a storm has passed through.
This is the forecast for Kirkwood, CA at 8800ft / 2682m for the next 6 days.
(https://i.imgur.com/7Mlr772.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/4LEyHrr.png)
hope you're all mended up soon. that forecast looks insane. here on the east coast we had a good few weeks but now we're in a period of 50F and up for at least week, maybe longer. northern new england is still getting snow but the rest of our resorts are gonna be slush city. i might actually go this weekend and ride some slop just to squeeze some value out of my indy pass
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Haven't been on a board in a couple weeks due to an ankle injury, so hopefully it's healed up by the time this monster of a storm has passed through.
This is the forecast for Kirkwood, CA at 8800ft / 2682m for the next 6 days.
(https://i.imgur.com/7Mlr772.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/4LEyHrr.png)
Kirkwood patrol are preparing for 12 feet of fresh! Will be interesting to see how long the roads are closed for that.
Just spent a couple weeks in Hakuba in Japan. Even a shit season there manages to beat the best seasons in NZ
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Haven't been on a board in a couple weeks due to an ankle injury, so hopefully it's healed up by the time this monster of a storm has passed through.
This is the forecast for Kirkwood, CA at 8800ft / 2682m for the next 6 days.
(https://i.imgur.com/7Mlr772.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/4LEyHrr.png)
That’s fucking wild. How is this kinda weather handled in the US? I reckon 55mph winds means every lift will be closed, no?
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Haven't been on a board in a couple weeks due to an ankle injury, so hopefully it's healed up by the time this monster of a storm has passed through.
This is the forecast for Kirkwood, CA at 8800ft / 2682m for the next 6 days.
(https://i.imgur.com/7Mlr772.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/4LEyHrr.png)
thanks, injuries are a bummer.
every time i go to the indy pass website i learn about some rad low key resort. hurricane ridge in olympic national park looks like quite the adventure. going from sea level to high elevation that quickly seems like a journey.
have fun in the slop. those slushy slashes can be fun.
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Haven't been on a board in a couple weeks due to an ankle injury, so hopefully it's healed up by the time this monster of a storm has passed through.
This is the forecast for Kirkwood, CA at 8800ft / 2682m for the next 6 days.
(https://i.imgur.com/7Mlr772.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/4LEyHrr.png)
Kirkwood patrol are preparing for 12 feet of fresh! Will be interesting to see how long the roads are closed for that.
Just spent a couple weeks in Hakuba in Japan. Even a shit season there manages to beat the best seasons in NZ
i'm guessing the passes will be closed for multiple days.
riding anywhere in japan is on my bucket list. taking the train and exiting into a winter wonderland seems like a great way to start a snow mission.
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Haven't been on a board in a couple weeks due to an ankle injury, so hopefully it's healed up by the time this monster of a storm has passed through.
This is the forecast for Kirkwood, CA at 8800ft / 2682m for the next 6 days.
(https://i.imgur.com/7Mlr772.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/4LEyHrr.png)
That’s fucking wild. How is this kinda weather handled in the US? I reckon 55mph winds means every lift will be closed, no?
yea, some mountains just fully close due to wind, and avalanche risk.
i'm not sure what the resorts wind limits are, or where snow-forecast gets it's wind data from. winds are well over 100mph / 160km/h at the top of heavenly's gondola today.
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It’s been a 90% absolutely shit year in Hakuba. Probably the warmest Dec to Feb we’ve seen, it rained as much as it snowed during that time, and it NEVER rains in that timeframe. Maybe first rain in mid-Feb.
So I just went to work at the hills and kind of gave up any hope of a good winter.
Anyways, March rolls around and gave us a couple good dumps. It’s not back to normal, but it’s way better than before.
Had my first pow day since Jan, and despite my knee being partially functional, I had a great time. And today was a sunny park day, trying to get myself to relearn different bs 360 grabs and eat shit on the flat-down box.
Thanks again, snowboarding
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Back from snowboarding in the adirondacks, Gore Mtn, with my son. I was able to manage getting some bindings to work on my old burton twin, but moving forward I'm going to get him a board to hopefully use for a few seasons then hand it to the younger brother. I'm not entirely sure what board I'll look for. My older son I would place at beginner/intermediate, but adapting quickly to intermediate.
What's interesting to me as I've not paid any attention to boards in years, is that the descriptions and base profile are totally foreign to me at this point. I began snowboarding in 1992, and I feel like every board had camber back then. I owned maybe 3 boards between 1994 and 1998, a nitro asym 155, a burton twin 49, and a salomon 159 (no clue what model name.) All had camber and varied in stiffness with the salomon being the most stiff as it had a cap as well. I finally got myself a nitro dropout last season, but that was for myself. Researching boards for my son is a little difficult, or maybe reviewers have just gotten too highly nuanced. It seems like in reading reviews that people note camber as being difficult to learn on, or maybe I'm just focusing on that. Full rocker profile seems like it would be squirely.
So for what it's worth I've looked at a few boards and thought that as this would be something to use for years I'd lean towards intermediate rather than beginner for a board. Any suggestions from people here? My son leans towards all mountain, mostly avoiding park but not fully averse to it. We literally get a week in out of the year, so no planning on pow. Although it did snow a bunch while we were up there. I'd add my thought is a true twin wouldn't be his choice most likely he'd prefer a directional board. Could be shaped, or could be directional twin. Also east coast conditions, as we just go visit fam in the adirondacks and don't really go destination hunting.
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Camber sounds fine for you guys.
Reverse camber was spearheaded by Lib Tech in the 00s, and it’s fun, playful, a nd floats well in pow.
Traditional camber is more stable at high speed and good for aggressive riding and carving.
Companies have tried to make blends of the two where you get the best of both worlds, but to me it doesn’t work that well, and you get a board that doesn’t do anything that well.
For east coast I’d say Camber, or at the very least camber between the feet and some light rocker towards the nose and tail.
Rocker to me feels like you are only ever riding half the boards.
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Thanks I figured camber would be the way to go for the ice coast. Since I don’t want to get him a beginner board and he has a few seasons already, I think I’m going to grab a Rome warden just based on its description. Seems like it would be fine for progress without being too advanced for him. Price is right at the moment anyway
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Thanks I figured camber would be the way to go for the ice coast. Since I don’t want to get him a beginner board and he has a few seasons already, I think I’m going to grab a Rome warden just based on its description. Seems like it would be fine for progress without being too advanced for him. Price is right at the moment anyway
i grew up riding camber boards around the same timeframe you describe, but i have actually ridden some rocker and a hybrid shape more recently and thought they worked pretty good. i'm generally riding in NY, VT, and NH, so plenty of ice.
my current 'daily driver' is a GNU with hybrid rocker/camber and 'magnetraction' (basically a wavy sidecut for better grip in ice). it's actually a lot of fun. more forgiving around the tips than full camber, and it floats better in pow. the weird sidecut does actually lend a little extra grip, but it gets catchy in heavy soft snow. the point is, i wouldnt write the rocker or hybrid shapes off completely, although i will say there is definitely less pop.
i've found the reviews at thegoodride.com pretty good. i have ridden a few different boards and compared my impressions with theirs, and agreed with their descriptions. that could be a good place to do research for your son
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Thanks I figured camber would be the way to go for the ice coast. Since I don’t want to get him a beginner board and he has a few seasons already, I think I’m going to grab a Rome warden just based on its description. Seems like it would be fine for progress without being too advanced for him. Price is right at the moment anyway
Rome Warden is a great choice.
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Thanks I figured camber would be the way to go for the ice coast. Since I don’t want to get him a beginner board and he has a few seasons already, I think I’m going to grab a Rome warden just based on its description. Seems like it would be fine for progress without being too advanced for him. Price is right at the moment anyway
my current 'daily driver' is a GNU with hybrid rocker/camber and 'magnetraction' (basically a wavy sidecut for better grip in ice). it's actually a lot of fun. more forgiving around the tips than full camber, and it floats better in pow. the weird sidecut does actually lend a little extra grip, but it gets catchy in heavy soft snow. the point is, i wouldnt write the rocker or hybrid shapes off completely, although i will say there is definitely less pop.
i've found the reviews at thegoodride.com pretty good. i have ridden a few different boards and compared my impressions with theirs, and agreed with their descriptions. that could be a good place to do research for your son
much appreciated info. I wasn't intending to write it off, I'd actually love to try a rocker board myself. That said I did find my son that Rome Warden I mentioned, so a rocker board will have to wait for another time.
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Thanks I figured camber would be the way to go for the ice coast. Since I don’t want to get him a beginner board and he has a few seasons already, I think I’m going to grab a Rome warden just based on its description. Seems like it would be fine for progress without being too advanced for him. Price is right at the moment anyway
Thanks, I hope my son finds this to be the truth. Pretty sure he will.
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I've always been a regular camber guy and now I"m on something hybrid and I've realized something a bit softer isn't too bad. Pacnorthwest means some sloppy days and it works well for that and I don't weigh anything so I didn't really need that much stiffness....I rode those camber boards till they were pretty much flat so, what I'm riding doesn't impede my riding.
This season was pretty much a wash but it was still nice getting out a few times. My back knee has been bugging me I think from years of being on a kicktail you inevitably pronate the shit out of it. Tweaking my stance posi posi has actually helped, it bends now instead of when it was ducked it just pushed inwards.
I keep threatening to quit snowboarding as just such an ordeal, but when it works it's so good......a little bit of fresh snow, no lines....it's the best.
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This thread started with a yawgoons shoutout and Dylan gamache is my all time fave. What happened to them, why are there no more edits? Ran out of steam?
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I also went from a rigid freeride camber board to a hybrid rocker/camber all mountain thing and I found it so much more playful and fun. Good pop too.
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This thread started with a yawgoons shoutout and Dylan gamache is my all time fave. What happened to them, why are there no more edits? Ran out of steam?
good question. i dont know but i've been really hyped to see what a cult following yawgoons has developed online in the last few years. growing up on the east coast we were inundated with super unrelatable snowboard media from out west, so when i first saw the yawgoons stuff i was hyped to see you could still get ultra rad and make a name for yourself riding some crappy groomers, if you had a dope enough style and approach
in other news, the northeast has been getting one last kick of winter weather this week. i'm heading to new hampshire this weekend and it looks like i might actually get to cap my season off with a pow day. fingers crossed
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This thread started with a yawgoons shoutout and Dylan gamache is my all time fave. What happened to them, why are there no more edits? Ran out of steam?
That cab (?) from flat he did over a legit full-size picnic table in one of the last edits is mind-blowing.
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This thread started with a yawgoons shoutout and Dylan gamache is my all time fave. What happened to them, why are there no more edits? Ran out of steam?
That cab (?) from flat he did over a legit full-size picnic table in one of the last edits is mind-blowing.
I think the filmer Dr. Brendan is a full time dentist and films occasionally still. Dylan Gamache is super lowkey, but still boards in the NE. Marcus Rand still boards and lives in Portland.
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This thread started with a yawgoons shoutout and Dylan gamache is my all time fave. What happened to them, why are there no more edits? Ran out of steam?
That cab (?) from flat he did over a legit full-size picnic table in one of the last edits is mind-blowing.
I think the filmer Dr. Brendan is a full time dentist and films occasionally still. Dylan Gamache is super lowkey, but still boards in the NE. Marcus Rand still boards and lives in Portland.
Thx for the update. I heard Gamache was just not made for the travelling lifestyle although Capita was pretty much ready to turn him pro. I mean we were over here in the Alps suddenly snubbing pow rides for fresh groomed piste to try and imitate him. I had so many hangup belly flops trying to replicate the 270 on with the nose going under the rail. Guy pretty much ushered in a new genre of style and riding from some little bluff on the icecoast and no real sponsors to start out with. A year later dropped street footy that was so hard it made 90% of videograss look like fools and a couple years after just faded back into obscurity. One of the true mythical legends of my generation's snowboarding alongside Keegan Valaika, Wyatt Stasinos and Jonas Michilot. Everyone else turned into abysmal social media milkers.
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This thread started with a yawgoons shoutout and Dylan gamache is my all time fave. What happened to them, why are there no more edits? Ran out of steam?
That cab (?) from flat he did over a legit full-size picnic table in one of the last edits is mind-blowing.
I think the filmer Dr. Brendan is a full time dentist and films occasionally still. Dylan Gamache is super lowkey, but still boards in the NE. Marcus Rand still boards and lives in Portland.
Thx for the update. I heard Gamache was just not made for the travelling lifestyle although Capita was pretty much ready to turn him pro. I mean we were over here in the Alps suddenly snubbing pow rides for fresh groomed piste to try and imitate him. I had so many hangup belly flops trying to replicate the 270 on with the nose going under the rail. Guy pretty much ushered in a new genre of style and riding from some little bluff on the icecoast and no real sponsors to start out with. A year later dropped street footy that was so hard it made 90% of videograss look like fools and a couple years after just faded back into obscurity. One of the true mythical legends of my generation's snowboarding alongside Keegan Valaika, Wyatt Stasinos and Jonas Michilot. Everyone else turned into abysmal social media milkers.
Dylan Gamache and the Yawgoons edits are the best. That's the first thing I got into when I started snowboarding. I know they've been slow in the last few years but hopefully there's some sort of edit coming from this season as well. At least Brian Skorupski posted some IG stories riding Yawgoo.
Gamache is the king but I always really liked Marcus Rand's riding too, his signature tricks. He used to post a lot of snowboarding, riding with Scott Stevens a lot at Mt. Baker, those edits were always a treat. He suddenly stopped posting anything like a year ago, this season he hasn't posted one single clip, I think. And he hasn't been in any of Scott Stevens's clips either.
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This thread started with a yawgoons shoutout and Dylan gamache is my all time fave. What happened to them, why are there no more edits? Ran out of steam?
That cab (?) from flat he did over a legit full-size picnic table in one of the last edits is mind-blowing.
I think the filmer Dr. Brendan is a full time dentist and films occasionally still. Dylan Gamache is super lowkey, but still boards in the NE. Marcus Rand still boards and lives in Portland.
Thx for the update. I heard Gamache was just not made for the travelling lifestyle although Capita was pretty much ready to turn him pro. I mean we were over here in the Alps suddenly snubbing pow rides for fresh groomed piste to try and imitate him. I had so many hangup belly flops trying to replicate the 270 on with the nose going under the rail. Guy pretty much ushered in a new genre of style and riding from some little bluff on the icecoast and no real sponsors to start out with. A year later dropped street footy that was so hard it made 90% of videograss look like fools and a couple years after just faded back into obscurity. One of the true mythical legends of my generation's snowboarding alongside Keegan Valaika, Wyatt Stasinos and Jonas Michilot. Everyone else turned into abysmal social media milkers.
Met Keegan and Frank April in Mammoth over Thanksgiving weekend in 2016. I was trying to smoke a blunt and lost my lighter so was hanging out at the bottom of chair 6 looking for someone who might have one. As Keegan approached the line I asked him if he wanted to smoke a blunt and that he'd have to ride the lift with me so we wouldn't get in trouble. He was like hell yeah I'll ride the lift with you, we get on the lift, Frank lets me use his lighter and smokes a cigarette while me, Keegan, and their friend smoke this blunt. The next day I ran into their friend, he offers me dabs so we went to his car and dabbed and he's like did you know that was Keegan Valaika and Frank April. I'm like no way, always loved his part in Bozwreck. We chatted a bit, I remember asking if he knew how Boznutz was doing as I remember he went thru a lot. Anyways sorry for the long post, just saw Keegan mentioned and had to jump in
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Do yourself a favour and don't try to find out how Bozung is doing. This guys last 10-15 years have been one continuous serious bummer.
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I just got back from a New Hampshire trip that I booked several weeks ago expecting to ride pure late-season junk. Instead we lucked into a fresh 22” or so. Here on the east coast that’s like winning the lottery. And a great reminder of why we do this shit
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Do yourself a favour and don't try to find out how Bozung is doing. This guys last 10-15 years have been one continuous serious bummer.
Yeah I just watched his latest interview with stoney buds. The problem is those guys (the bombhole etc) all blow smoke up his ass so he still thinks he’s relevant and riding off his early days on forum etc. he looks like snowboardings version of Johnny Depp now
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Do yourself a favour and don't try to find out how Bozung is doing. This guys last 10-15 years have been one continuous serious bummer.
Yeah I just watched his latest interview with stoney buds. The problem is those guys (the bombhole etc) all blow smoke up his ass so he still thinks he’s relevant and riding off his early days on forum etc. he looks like snowboardings version of Johnny Depp now
After all the stuff he's said and done it's awful that he still gets given a platform but grenier and e-stone are just spineless like that. The Bennee and first JP itvs are awesome, all due to the guests tho, not the hosts
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Tail/nose presses and butter tricks and this kind of shit must feel amazing. Never got anywhere near a snowboard, but watching vids they look so satisfying.
I have a bad habit of doing those lil ollie tail scrapes that people often do over manholes all the time, also learned Ray Barbee's no comply tailscrape thingy recently, it feels great just holding it even for a split second with a foot on the ground. An actual springy ass tail press must by the shit.
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had a fun season, got a solid 30 days in, got lucky with tons of powder days.
snowboarding keeps me sane during the winters. already looking forward to next season.