Justin A.

Haven't touched my Coiler in 5 years or so, but I've been seeing a couple of regulars at Waterville on Doneks and Coilers and will be breaking out big blue more often this season. I'll be there tomorrow from first chair to last chair if anybody wants to stop by. No guarantee that I'll be on plates all day as I'm bringing my Arbor up as well. I've got 12 tickets to get rid of by April and would love to get out with some other folks in hardboots again.

Even Goering and Rosenburg had trials first...

Gunstock Saturday afternoon and/or night for me.

I might be coming up tomorrow to mess around in the parks. I may or may not bring my Coiler depending on how I'm feeling tomorrow. My friend and I completed our second Everest Challenge in two days today, my legs are pretty tired, maybe too tired to handle my racing board. Edit: nope, I'm not going anywhere today except maybe out to pick up some lunch. SICK AS BLEH.

I was there yesterday and today - nice nice nice. The snow was great yesterday, and great this morning. By this afternoon however it was starting to get pretty icy. Lots of idiots out there who don't know how to slide on their equipment making a mess out of things. I almost got taken out today by a kid who looked to be about 12 or 13 who literally slid down Middle Trigger on his ass, board off the snow out in front of him completely out of control. I also saw a guy in AF600's riding with a young woman. I tried chatting you guys up in the Panorama line but I think you shrugged me off as just some softbooter. I was the guy who said I used to ride AF700's before switching to Heads.

I'll be at Gunstock all tomorrow on my softies with my ski buddy. The snow was great up there tomorrow, and it should be good again tomorrow!

When I get a new board it takes me about a run or two to get used to it and be able to flog it - when I'm riding the same type of board... When I switched to alpine riding, it took me about 4 days to get used to it, but that was on a top-of-the-line racing board coming from a noodly softie board. I went through a few alpine boards over the course of a couple years and getting used to each one was a matter of throwing the bindings on, taking a run or two, messing with the bindings a little bit, and being dialed in - no problem at all. This year I switched back to riding softies after riding Telemark Skis for the past three seasons and it took me three days to get everything dialed in to where I like it. I'm planning on breaking out my alpine board again next time we have appropriate conditions, and I'm not anticipating a whole lot of trouble getting back on the horse - maybe a few runs.

I'm backing out of Sunapee tomorrow...family life and whatnot.

I'll be there wednesday, I'm exhausted. Gunstock Saturday and Sunday topped off with Wildcat today.

Fair enough. Thinking about it, I believe that my first rental board was goofy-specific and not ducked out, but that was in 1995 or so...

What's with all the duck-foot hating here? It's a perfectly practical stance to use (within reason) for free riding when you plan on riding switch for any length of time. I just started riding softies again this year, and I can carve to the limit of the board with my stance ducked (15/-15) on most terrain. It's just different - I still ride 60/57 on my Coiler (and 90/90 on my Teles;)), but they're for decidedly different purposes. You will probably never see me slide a rail or spend any time in the terrain park while I'm riding my Coiler, and you'll probably never see me running gates on my Arbor. I really like the symmetry afforded to me by the duck-footed stance, and now that I've gotten used to it, it's actually quite comfortable around the hill when riding with slower people (especially facing uphill on your knees waiting for said people) If I ever get into BX, my stance will change from duckiness, but for all around freeriding it works awfully well. Oh, and I push on either side of the board, depending on crowds. I get more power pushing heelside, but more control and finesse pushing toeside. Deal with it.

I was there on monday for the powder day . I'm pretty exclusively riding my new softie setup this year though. I'll break out my Coiler if I've got someone to hook up with though. I've got a pass to Sunapee, Gunstock, and Wildcat (LOVE being a College student again), and of them Sunapee is the best balance of driving distance and decency. My best friend has a gunstock-only pass, so that's where I'll be on the weekends. I'm down to go to sunapee almost any day between now and the end of January.

When I'm trying to improve my riding, I put my hands on my head to take any momentum that the changing motions of my hands may impart on my riding out of the equation. I find that I ride a TON better after a couple runs like that. Putting them behind your back works well too. I don't actively use my hands to enhance angulation at all.

It was indeed too good to be true. The guy wanted me to sell Pre-Paid Legal's services to groups and businesses, but oh yeah - it's 100% commission based and I would have to have a membership myself - and it's only $150 for the associate membership! Right. The "interview" consisted of this guy pitching me his product for 40 minutes. Ugh.

I've been granted a job interview with a company that is new to the area (following legislation into the state), and as such there isn't a whole lot of information about them around here. I typed their name into google, and the first suggested search was their name + scam, which theoretically means that there are a lot of searches for that. This all stems from my paranoia about things going right for a change in that if something seems to good to be true, it probably is. Is there any way to check the legitimacy of a non-publicly traded company? Am I just being paranoid?

We've got this part covered! :lol::lol: We're not so much "Revenge of the Nerds" as we are "Big Bang Theory"...it can get pretty bad too hahaha

I've heard of this issue, so I have formulated a back-up plan: Plain-Jane laces. If the quick lace system doesn't hold like I want it to, I'll just pull it out and put in standard bootlaces. That's why I went with the Burton boot/Burton binding combo - I know that they design their products to work with their other products, so I figured why not take advantage of that!

I've got my whole new setup on layaway now: Boots: Burton Ion Bindings: 2010 Burton CO2 And a serious beauty of a board: 2011 Arbor Element Cx I should have everything paid for by the end of the month - I'm picking the boots up on Friday so I can mold them and wear them around the house a bit, then the board and bindings later on. I got a hell of a deal on the bindings - 55% off because they're last year's model :1luvu: I'm SOOOOOOOOO ready for the season to start!

153cm Burton Amp The board is 153cm in length, has a nice long nose, fairly significant taper, and is 22cm wide at the waist - this is a great powder board. I bought it NOS in 2001, and have ridden it probably all of 5 or 6 days since then. It really makes an excellent powder board with the bindings set back. I can provide pictures on request, but be prepared to wait a couple of days for them - I'm staying in a hotel while my house is rebuilt from a fire we had over the summer (the board was in the garage and was completely unharmed) and would have to make a trip home to take pictures. Great deal for a fun board!

Indeed.

I like this idea quite a bit. He's leaning on the side of returning it and getting something else.

I think that if he does come to his senses and decides to keep it we'll just tell people that we went to the same camp or something lol I really don't see what the big deal is, but whatever

So I just picked up a new jacket for the year. I love it - it's bright blue plaid, so it's loud and fits my personality. The problem is that my best bud got the same one, he's wondering if he should bring his back so we don't match. What does Bomber think?

Hells Yeah! I'd be down plus at least two more.

wow thanks for posting that!