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ezzywave

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  • Location
    Battle Ground, Wa.
  • Home Mountain/Resort?
    Mt. Hood
  • Occupation?
    Machinist, CNC
  • Current Boards in your Quiver
    Mistral, Oxygen
  • Current Boots Used?
    Oxygen
  • Current bindings and set-up?
    Burton, custom angle plates
  • Snowboarding since
    '96
  • Hardbooting since
    '96

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  1. 2 different times I had someone in the lift line tell me that they skied into my trench and almost wiped out. I took it as a compliment.
  2. Maybe I'm missing something. Does "carving" on a Onewheel mean just turning left and right while the rider's body stays virtually upright? This is what I see in every youtube video I've watched. Is it not possible for even the experts to really lean into a turn like snowboarding?
  3. How much lean angle can you guys get on a Onewheel? Any pictures or videos? I have a Pint. I'm thinking of suiting up in full race leathers and exploring its limits.
  4. I'm in! Let me know if I can bring anything.
  5. Kinpa "One thing I feel is common to most beginners is getting the stance aligned. Make sure you keep your knees, hips, and shoulders over your feet. Keep driving your back hip forward especially on the heel side. Drop into the turn my driving your front hip down to the snow on the heel side instead of making a move like sitting in a chair. Much easier to demonstrate than explain!" Thanks for the advice! I think I'm going to print and tape the above into my goggles! I have never rode with another hardbooter and don't know what I'm doing right or wrong. Hopefully Bryon will be able to fix my errors! Helmet? Yeah, I keep meaning to get one. Really is stupid on my part, since I ridr bike with approx. 2k$ worth of protective gear. Fred
  6. Made it up to Meadows Thursday evening to test out my "new to me" set-up in somewhat decent snow. 'John Deere' supplied me with some Deeluxe Indys and 'oldsnowboards.com' sold me some TD3's and BTS. I was going to use my old Mistral Sonic 167, BUT oldsnowboards.com wouldn't/couldn't let me commit such a heinous crime and insisted I take one his, shall I say, many extra carving boards (Donek (172?)) to demo. I figured he is either insane, to let me take it having just met him an hour before, or a very shrewd businessman, knowing that I would not return the board to him, but bring cash instead. He must be shrewd, because I will be bringing him the cash. Back to the mountain. I was there on Friday evening for our company's ski (drinking) trip. Horrible snow for carving, but I was able to get a bunch of good turns in and tune in a few boot/binding things before getting to the real reason for the trip. Thursday evening was much better snow. I was on new boot-bindings-board and it took me a few runs to get any kind of feel and confidence. Then it became very apparent that I should have got modern gear years ago. First of all the boots are a near perfect fit, and with the BTS adjusted properly, grabs my shin better than I thought possible. The boot-binding interface is way, way stronger and more linear feeling than my old burtons. The board seems to carve a slightly smaller radius (at any given lean angle) than the Mistral. Overall impression of new set-up vs. old? Extremely more confidence inspiring! The old gear always felt that it wanted to come out of the carve if you didn't keep a huge amount of muscle and concentration up. And, that rolling into the carve, the carve wouldn't always start when I would expect it to. And my feet don't hurt. And it takes less effort. BTW, my son followed me for a run with a helmet cam and got some very shaky video. I will try to post it this afternoon. I am looking forward to getting some advice and being told what I am doing wrong. Thanks for listening to me ramble and I hope to meet you carvers soon...
  7. Small world, huh? At first I could'nt believe that you knew that I know Tom. Then I remembered everybody who raced, especially when you did, in the Portland area knows him. I'm a part-time control rider for Tom and Al. And my wife, who rides also, does work on their internet stuff. 12's is fast. My best is in the 17's, but we didnt start riding the track until a few years ago and I'm only a couple years younger than you. And I'm slow!!! Tom says to say hi back to ya. And he said that he seems to remember you raving about how good the brakes were on his ZX9? And BTW, he broke the cam on that same bike the last track day of the year, 1/2 way down the straight at PIR. One of the strangest sights I've ever seen is him riding bitch with Al back into the pits...
  8. I have a garage full! Dirt bikes, street bikes, track bikes and even a GasGas trials bike. Monodude- Do you ride track days in the Or./Wa. area?
  9. Thank you for having me over and schooling me on modern carving gear! I am looking forward to making it to the 'Hood with you. And how much does that dog weigh?
  10. I can't seem to find the PM function on this forum. I can find "Send Email" and "Visitor Messages". Do I have to Add as Friend first?

  11. Hi Bryan. Yeah, I would like to contact you! I have a bunch of questions about set-up and technique. All I know has come from reading online and a little from, ahh I forgot his name, he used to run All Surf Industry in Portland. But I have never ridden with another hardbooter.

    Fred jones9358@comcast.net

  12. Thanks for the responses everyone. I am looking for some Trench Digger 3's or maybe the Catek's. I am leary of the plastic toe "clamp" on others, like the Burtons I am currently using. And a pair of size 9 (27? mondo) that are reatively modern. Anybody know someone who is trying to sell any such gear? BTW, I have a old Mistral Sonic 167 and an Oxygen Slalom 159, I think. I am pleasantly suprised to find you guys on here. In 15 years of hardbooting at Mt. Hood I have seen a total of maybe 6 others. But I usually would go at night, since I had to buy 4 tickets (family). Now that I don't have to pay for the kids anymore, I am hoping to make it up during the day more often.
  13. Hello all! After a few years of only being able to get to the mountain once or twice a year, I'm ready to hit it harder. So I'm trying to upgrade my old bindings (Burton) and even older boots (Oxygen). I assume there are no local shops in the Portland area anymore??? I see that Bomber is out of stock of the TD3's. Any recommendations?
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