Fastskiguy

I stole kjl's picture here but I want to bring it up, it's the picture on the right on a relatively "normal" run-not bowl shaped, carved all the way around, exiting with a little speed, not ending up on a flat board in the last 180 degrees. I don't think it's possible. Carving like the picture on the left, sure, no problem. Doing it with a "V" shaped fall line, yes. Slowing way down and flattening the board at the top, yes, I've done that too. But like the picture on the right without a crutch, well, I've got my 10$ in to see it.

I think you're going to grab a beer with that hand!

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about!!!

Well I sure am glad about that. I've been having nightmares for days about the pain. Looked bad! She's got moxy to be carving Cindy Pop on Sunday, seemed "challenging" to me :)

I wonder if this is anything like calling the "G-Spot" a myth?

I'm not disgruntled yet but I paid my 10 bucks and just wanna see an honest 360, haven't seen one yet, I posted a video of what most people are calling a carved 360 but it ain't! Doesn't need to be HD, edited, or anything, just a carved turn for the whole 360 degrees and riding out down the hill. Here's an example of *not* what I'm talking about (again!)

What's the latest on the leg? Witnessing the pain made me think about selling my board!!

Ended up with 36 days on the snow, 515000 feet so it was my best season in a long time-didn't get on the skis even once so maybe my handle should be "ex-fastskiguy" or something LOL! Shortest day was 1k feet, biggest was 29k, average was right around 14.3k. Special thanks to the guys who gave me all of the tips this year, both online and in "real life", I *really* appreciate it :)

Racing both never occurred to me....great idea and even a better result! Awesome!

The tongue out guy could really use a piercing!

Since we're showing off our family pictures....

you get that $trider? Sure is nice!

maybe it's girls selling HDTVs?

Quality is important, there's no doubt about that, and taken to it's extreme you get those 24 hour races where the guys run DH skis and get in 200,000 feet in 24 hours or whatever, peeing in cat litter on the gondola. So most of us (I'm betting) would be like....where's the carve in that? I mean, once in awhile OK but 24 hours of nonstop straightlining? Well, OK, maybe once would be kinda cool. My point is that quality does matter. But I think quantity matters too!

Well Sun Valley is a good place to rack it up, over on the Warm Springs side you can get over 3000 feet per lap! And they're open 9-4 so that's 7 hours. So theoretically 7 hours at 3 laps per hour could get you 63,000 feet in a day at 10 minutes up/10 minutes down. Maybe some guys are going down faster than that but that's mathematically possible.

Gotta be sailboat racing, that's been the most painful for me on the legs and lower abs! Seems like at least some of you guys are getting over 1,000,000 feet per year, freakin' inspirational!

OK guys, anybody else out there get all warm and fuzzy about figuring out how many feet you ski in a day? Or a year? Post yours here!

That's 18cm wide, right? I need 19.5 or more but it's so friggin' beautiful!

Well thank god this thing finally sold, it was hard looking at it. Unloved. Unwanted. If it was only a little wider.....

What happens when you crash? Are they declawed? Is this anything like "Ferret Legging?"

Dude, get some blubber on that skinny body! OK, having said that I found my micro puff vest to be really warm-so warm I almost never wear it!

Sounds really nice, you're gonna love it! Congrats!

My first reaction is "no" but after thinking about it, ski bindings (usually) hold the skier in when he's thrashing around, then (usually) release before bones break so maybe it would be a good idea for snowboards too. The old Burt design would be kinda neat, as would the old Spademan design. I guess the big fear would be cranking a hard turn going fast and having the bindings release. But that's a possibility with ski bindings and even downhill ski racers use bindings that *can* release.

Just want to second the wax wizard. Faster, cheaper, easier, and better wax impregnation. I have no idea how the wax goes from within the base to ??? (where does it go anyway?) but it does.

Nope, not Olympic, haven't ridden one either...but would like to!