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Booster strap goes around the outside of the boot, like a power strap on a ski boot. It is elastic and gives extra support but with flexibility. Power straps are OK, but don't flex.

Wow! Awesome sounding set up there. I think that Lonerider and KJL (look for their user names and email them) have experience with similar set ups. You are going to kick some serious a$$ when you get on hard boots after this transition. Then again, if you have the fancy straps on your Cateks, you might not need hard boots. Update your profile with location info so others here know where you are and can ride with you.

The two sets of pics are interesting. Its more noticeable in the Klug photos, but if you look carefully you'll often see that folks have their shoulders aligned more toward their binding/hip angles and their head turned toward the nose. Unless you've studied yourself on film (still or moving), I think it is hard to discern whether you are aligning your shoulders, or just your head, toward the nose. I guess I need to get to an SES so I can have 3-4 great coaches break down my technique.

Hey Jules, Since you say you'd wear a helmet if you could afford one, here are two options. One, tell your parents you've decided it would be a good idea to wear a helmet, but you can't really afford one. Something tells me they'll fall all over themselves running to REI to buy you one. Alternately. How big is your head? If its 59-60cm, give me your address and I'll send you a helmet. I have 3-4 spares lying around. I use them for guests at the house. If you are a pinhead I can send you the pink one my 8 year-old just grew out of. Seriously though, I'd be happy to send you one of my spare helmets. We don't have enough carvers in the world, we need to do what we can to preserve this endangered species! Email me if you want the helmet. I'll even pay the shipping.

Willy, where is that podcast link on that page? I didn't see it. I also searched iTunes and didn't see any podcasts by Bode.

Ummm. Isn't that board supposed to be convex? I know at the nose it certainly is.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Crazy Fcker. I saw that earlier this week. The Christian faith crap really bugged me. Whatever. Very lucky he didn't die, considering he hit head first...or maybe that explains why he lived?

172 Will be great. You won't need bigger in New England.

Article Link Here What I don't get is how they got 5 people into those two cars. I thought two each would be the limit? Is one of them a 2+2? Either way, its kinda funny, except for the injuries.

Sorry, title got me thinking... "Where the white women at?"

Gee. It might make a snurfer obsolete!

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I think they should only send SBX riders who can do stunts in the pipe while wearing hard boots on an alpine board! What do you think Greenglow? :rolleyes:

No one has mentioned hips. I'm goofy so switch this if you are regular. On toeside turns, I drive my left (rear) hip forward and into the turn (in other words towards a 10 O'clock position w/ respect to the tip of the board). This is very helpful in maintaining balance, edge pressure and proper rotation. If you do this, your knee will have to follow. Its just like starting your turn in golf, you start it with your hlps. Except in this case, I'd say there's a slight delay between turn initiation and hip drive.

What's really bunk is that we send 19 Alpine Skiers (not counting Freestyle and Nordic skiers) for 4 events (5 if you count the Combined) and only 16 snowboarders, including both Alpine and Freestyle. Talk about gettin no respect. Yet in last Olympics skiers got like 2 medals and snowboarders ruled (well, not alpine, but you get the idea). If all we really cared about was medals, we'd probably send an additional BX rider and no alpine guys. Its f'd all the way around.

at least not anonymously... By Declan McCullagh http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance%2C+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html Story last modified Mon Jan 09 04:00:00 PST 2006 It's illegal to annoy - A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity. Here's the relevant language. "Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess. This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two years in prison. "The use of the word 'annoy' is particularly problematic," says Marv Johnson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "What's annoying to one person may not be annoying to someone else." Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called "Preventing Cyberstalking." It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet "without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy." To grease the rails for this idea, Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, and the section's other sponsors slipped it into an unrelated, must-pass bill to fund the Department of Justice. The plan: to make it politically infeasible for politicians to oppose the measure. The tactic worked. The bill cleared the House of Representatives by voice vote, and the Senate unanimously approved it Dec. 16. There's an interesting side note. An earlier version that the House approved in September had radically different wording. It was reasonable by comparison, and criminalized only using an "interactive computer service" to cause someone "substantial emotional harm." That kind of prohibition might make sense. But why should merely annoying someone be illegal? There are perfectly legitimate reasons to set up a Web site or write something incendiary without telling everyone exactly who you are. Think about it: A woman fired by a manager who demanded sexual favors wants to blog about it without divulging her full name. 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But the courts ruled the law applied only to obscene material, so Annoy.com didn't have to worry. "I'm certainly not going to close the site down," Fein said on Friday. "I would fight it on First Amendment grounds." He's right. Our esteemed politicians can't seem to grasp this simple point, but the First Amendment protects our right to write something that annoys someone else. It even shields our right to do it anonymously. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas defended this principle magnificently in a 1995 case involving an Ohio woman who was punished for distributing anonymous political pamphlets. If President Bush truly believed in the principle of limited government (it is in his official bio), he'd realize that the law he signed cannot be squared with the Constitution he swore to uphold. And then he'd repeat what President Clinton did a decade ago when he felt compelled to sign a massive telecommunications law. 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This link might work better Here's the text of the article: Jewell has medal dream, meddling rival tries to knock him off team By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa Thursday, January 26, 2006 - Updated: 03:23 AM EST A sore-loser snowboarder, left out in the cold by the U.S. Olympic team, has filed an appeal saying he — not Sudbury rider Tyler Jewell — should represent the United States in the Winter Games next month. But family and friends of Jewell — the only Alpine snowboarder on the U.S. team — said he won the slot fair and square and deserves to go to Torino over Chris Klug, a former bronze medalist with a slew of big-bucks sponsors. “Tyler’s not the villain here,” said Jean Jewell of Sudbury, Tyler’s mom. “He’s been working and trying and chasing this dream for six years. He literally dug ditches to pay for his own training. He’s just a great kid and I’m really proud of him.” Klug’s grievance will be heard before the American Arbitration Association in Denver today. Klug is charging that the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) did not follow its selection rules when it named Jewell, 27, to the team Sunday. “I’m shocked they named Tyler and not me,” Klug told the Aspen Times. “I feel they picked the wrong guy. I’m confident they’ll reverse the decision.” Jewell’s mom said she doesn’t believe Klug, who was a feel-good story from the 2002 Olympics because he won the bronze medal after getting a liver transplant in 2000, is targeting Tyler personally. But she thinks his appeal is on a slippery slope. “I’m sure whoever got the spot he would file a grievance because he wants to go to the Olympics,” she said. “You can’t blame him for that.” But Jewell said her son, who moved out West after graduating from Boston College in 1999 to pursue his snowboarding dream, earned the trip to Torino despite the fact that he didn’t train with the U.S. team and has virtually no sponsors. “He paid for all his own training,” she said. “He dug ditches for a cement plant in Oregon. He sold sausages at county fairs. He worked for a catering company. The only sponsor he has is Welch’s grape juice ’cause they’re in Concord. But that didn’t stop him.” No, in fact, Jewell spent last summer living in a $29 tent in Colorado to save the $750 a month he would have spent in rent. He had no electricity, no running water and ate his meals in a hospital because the food was nutritious and cheap. “He literally lives out of his car,” his dismayed mom said, “to save money to train in the winter.” Klug, by comparison, was funded for the entire year and has a slew of sponsors including Vermont’s Burton snowboards, Saturn cars, his hometown mountain Aspen/Snowmass and a pharmaceutical company, Astellas. “Whatever happens I’ve got no regrets,” Klug wrote on his Web site. “I gave it my all, I rode with heart and did my best and that’s all you can ask. I could have used a lucky break here or there, but that’s racing sometimes.” Jewell, who was en route to Denver for today’s hearing, couldn’t be reached. The USSA selects the Olympic team through a convoluted system of ranking and race finishes. Snowboard racers are judged first on their finishes in World Cup events, then on their standing in the world rankings. According to results on the International Skiing Federation Web site, Klug has not finished higher than 15th in a parallel giant slalom event this season. Jewell has a ninth-place finish. In the USSA selection criteria, Jewell’s higher finish would carry more weight than the fact that Klug is ranked three spots higher than Jewell in the latest points list put out by FIS. The 16 snowboarders selected for the Olympic team include both male and female riders from three disciplines — halfpipe, parallel giant slalom and snowboardcross. The USSA can divvy the spots however it sees fit and makes most decisions based on medal chances. Jewell is the only parallel GS rider on the team. USSA spokesman Tom Kelly said the organization would have no comment while the case was under review. Do stay tuned. Here's the pic: I say "LET TYLER RIDE." Let the flaming begin.

Who's the man?

That's exactly what I thought when I saw the pic.

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Nice 'do on Billy! Thanks for doing this. Its great to see.

Kill the temper of the steel edges? Hot boxes run at like 60C. You iron at like 120-130C? Are you telling me that you can change the temper of steel at a temperature that is half what I iron at? As for your other points, even Toko does concede some of that: . Oh, and that site basically answered my questions. Here's the info:

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Thanks for that re-post Vlad. I read the same post in another thread (I did use the search feature before posting). Assuming I'm going to go ahead and hot-box my boards, anyone have suggestions or ideas on my original questions?

OK. So I'm going to take some boards to spend a night in a hot box. My question is what prep should I do beforehand. - Do I need to hot scrape them a few times? - What wax should I use for hot scraping? Just a basic storage wax, or my normal riding wax (Holmenkol Alpha Mix)? - Do I want any wax on the base when I drop the boards off or should I ride the boards a few runs to get the wax off (or brush them with a brass brush). - Do I need to specify what wax the shop should use when the hot box it? - My boards' bases vary in terms of condition/structure. Do I need to / want to get base grinds on all the so-so ones before hand, or can I just wait and do it when they really need it? TIA for the help.