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Ten feet of the lift I was on my a$$,
Sounds like me!! Usually takes 3-4 runs before I'm getting the Ah-haaaaa moment... after that it's easy... till ya hit the 3rd to 4th day in a row...
Steve
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oh yeah.... 2145
Steve
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I keep my girls on a rack that my Father made...(ex carpenter)
cost like $20 to make and preserves the unloaded camber of them all...
Broomstick rack ends have pipe insulation on them to stop scratches on the topsheet, and they're either covered in their plastic storage bags or covered with cotton sheets. All have summer wax on them...And no bindings installed.
Note the top rack has two 178's ( An R17 and FP)
2nd row a 164FP
3rd row 160 Freeride
4th row 155 freeride
Steve
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Ball park $$ figure...????
I Don't wanna low ball ya!! What would shipping be via (cheap) USPS air mail to Sydney Australia??
Steve
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I can't believe they let you keep the rod and screws!!! Hell Yeah!!
I had a plate and six screws and some wire in a semi shattered clavicle from a BMX incident... had it taken out cos' it hurt like all buggery..
(One screw was threaded into soft tissue so when I got a slap on the back it would basically stab the screw into my shoulder)
I never got to see the plate and hardware except through the x-rays...
Hope you heal up strong!!
Steve
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I wish I could remember who this was! I snagged this picture off a post on the extremecarving forums at least a few years ago, and tried to find it again so I could say who it was, but my searching powers failed me.
Good speed on that one....
looks like the night before was a very cold one too!!!Love the pics everybody... nice to see some trenchin' action here in the middle of summer:barf:
Steve
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who rips down a blue run looking half-decent, get's to the bottom, clicks out ..then falls over..tries to get up again, boot plants on back of board, slips, on my ass again. I have to laugh at myself because NO ONE will even glance my way after one of those fancy dismounts.
Yep.... Sounds like me on a typical day riding!!
Lookin' the goods rocketing down the run.... get to the lift line and it seems I left my spine and my sense of balance somewhere half way down........
Steve
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Too true... It does look like you're having a blast...
Must've been carrying a fair whack of speed too.... the wind has peeled your lips back exposing your teeth:biggthump
Steve
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I hardboot most of the time,
I used softies for years but after going back to hard boots...
my soft boot technique has taken off in a big way...
became a much better snowboarder in general....
Still love Hardbooting more..... nothing like leaving pencil thin trenches in super hard snow/ice at big speeds..... nothing comes close..till the ski patrol come over!!! LOL
Love the Carve Kitty.......
Steve
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Falls Creek, Victoria Australia.18th August 08,
2nd run of the season... still getting my muscle memory back....Got better as the week progressed...
as you can see from pic # 2 lost some speed, and decided to put a little weight on the dragging hand... fell apart after that....
178 FP
Still petting the dog though....
Steve
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Good ole' Aircraft Mechanical Engineer...
I fix/maintain the "busses" people fly around the world in...
Pays for my snow trips.....
Steve
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Similar situation. I was riding with some friends and a friend of theirs. This friend of friend said she didn't like riding with boarders because we make it hard to get off the lift. At the top of the lift, she promptly turned into me and ate it after we had all agreed we were turning the other way. She of course blamed me.
Yeah I get this a bit..... usually when people learn to ski, and board, they promptly lose 50 points off their IQ....especially when they get onto a chair lift......
That's why I usually take off from the chair first, or if I'm slow I wait for every one to clear off first....worry about the flailing bodies strewn about on the way down.... been hit by the chair from behind a couple of times...
Always wear a helmet....
Good thing is with Hard boots they make the run off the chair a lot easier to control.......
Steve
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Well said Utahcarver. The amount of "free for the taking" information here is a service to us all. Thanks to ALL the people who put it here, along with the people that make this site possible. HARDBOOTERS SALUTE YOU!
+1 to the thankyou!!
It feels soooo good when you start having your breakthroughs.
Carving has a lot to do with confidence too... if you don't have confidence then you don't progress very well.....
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Rode a new to me board, 156 Rossignol Throttle with TD2s. Had problems with it chattering out after the apex of the heelside turn. This was on some pretty hard cord, first thing in the morning. My entry and mid corner where good. Then it would start to wiggle in the back and chatter out. I made sure to have good hand positioning. Problem went away after a few runs and the snow softened up some. I could still feel an occasional wiggle on turn exit. Any suggestions as to what could be causing this? Do I need to push forward on turn exit so my weight goes back some over the tail?
I had a sililar prob on my board when I started... read the carver's almanac and found the solution there...
Start from binding position... ride them slightly setback from centre..10-15mm and work from there...
wiggly board sounds like the nose and tail are trying to carve different radius'... try this
Rear inward cant and heel lift.....front foot flat. possible go toe lift in the front too.... all my probs are gone after tweaking my setup.
I sometimes still let my outside arm trail behind me (pet the dog) when I'm getting tired but my boards never chatter and I never lose the edge...
Seriously.... I'd advise anyone to read the Carver's Almanac... hell I still read it from time to time to refresh my memory during our summer.
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It's probably been 10 years since an incident when skier hit a tree during night skiing and died at Eldora near Boulder. The response from the ski area was to end night skiing. Well that's great. What should they do if somebody skis into a tree and dies during the daytime?
I just hope they didn't read your post or you might have given them an idea.
Ummmm remove the trees?????
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It's really time to get some stickers made for our boards, helmets and cars...
"Carving Is NOT a Crime!!"
Steve
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I've been walking around the house all week with my knees touching each other to get ready for the season.
Flame on.......!!!!!
;)
Steve
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Hey, Bordy, I always enjoy your perspective. Your writing skills aren't anywhere near your riding skills and that causes a disconnect between the actual quality and the perceived quality of your info, not to mention pissing folks off. I've learned to ignore how you say things and pay attention to what you're saying. Hang in there, please.
great way to say it me thinks...I enjoy everybodies perspective, from the total beginner to the seasoned pro.... it's all good to me...;)
I've learned to filter what's said....But I do remember the knees together thread... LOL
It sounds like it's getting close to trenchin' time....
the edgyness is showing people....Steve
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You're a lucky man to walk away from that... coulda been really nasty....
Stick it up on a wall (Unless you wanna do a warranty claim on them)
So when people check it out you can say...
I ripped that sucker right off my board... with a smirk of course!!!!
It's good you walked away from it though!!
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I feel bad for him, but he definitely is in the runing for a darwin award.
I'm with you Gleb!!
This has been a really great thread. We've seen that even amongst a group with common likes and a common sport can have very different interpretations of various situations. We have the added bonus of no one flying off the handle and a lot of back and forth conversations. Cheers for us.I'm guessing that several here knows some people at different resorts that are in management. I would like to suggest that we drop them a link to this thread and let them see the diversity in opinions we have.
After looking at what everyone has had to say, I can say one thing for sure.
"I'd hate to even try to guess who is going to be on that jury if I was a Ski Resort and getting sued".
We have differing opinions on this subject but we all share the same love of hardbooting..... I love this place!!!
In the interest of fairness I should mention that I can barely tolerate park monkeys and their attitude to begin with. If it sounds crass I don't care, but a couple less monkeys on the mountain is hardly going to ruin my day. As a group they are the most irresponsible bunch of asswipes on the hill on any given day. If they took all the terrain parks off of all of the mountains it wouldn't hurt my feelings either, except then the little bastards are going to be hitting every blind jump they can find and killing other skiers and snowboarders instead of just ruining their own life.
Carvedog... I've felt like that for a long time... even when I purely softbooted, Terrain parks are rotten... they take runs that skiers and hardbooters can use and they are usually some of the very best runs too....
Personally, I think you should have to be licensed to ski/ride. Just a simple written exam that you can take at the mountain ... that makes you consent in writing to the fact that you are partaking of a dangerous sport, and that you commit to upholding the skiers code of conduct. A licensing system would also help weed out dangerous skiers and those who are a danger to themselves if properly designed. The first time I went skydiving I had to sigh a zillio release papers that basically said "you could die" and "you will not sue" every way possible in the english language, but I sign no such documents to go skiing. I bet more people die every year skiing than skydiving.I'm not a big fan of rules and regulations, but I've always though skiing/boarding could do with a teensy bit more.
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Now that isn't a bad idea at all......... licence to carve......
Steve
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Rob,
Bias, as I understand it, is the amount of offset from the centerline of the board.
Thats a spot on explanation on bias...
I find that my back foot is biased "heel-ward" to stop toe drag, only slightly... it centres the boot so it's even across the board it's a matter of 2-3 mm,
I remember asking someone about this (Can't remember who...) and they said on the average board small differences in bias between the front foot and rear foot won't make too much of a difference in the way an Alpine board rides (when it's more than a couple of mm's and especially if it's a torsionally soft board then it "may" impact the performance by twisting it more than it should...
Never really put too much thought into it... I figured as long as they are evenly biased (More or less) and the bindings are mounted properly then it's nothing to worry about..
But carving is one of those sports that is dictated by a try and see personal preference thing...
One more setting to tweak is what it's all about...
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Before anyone renders judgement on the merits of the case they should read more what it's about.
Natural hazards are your own risk, but if you build something for someone to use and people are continually getting hurt, you have a problem.
Jury gives $14 million to skier paralyzed at Snoqualmie
By Sara Jean Green
Seattle Times staff reporter
After a five-week trial, a King County jury on Friday awarded $14 million to a 27-year-old skier who was paralyzed after dropping 37 feet from a ski jump at the Summit at Snoqualmie.
Kenny Salvini, of Lake Tapps, was 23 years old when he went off the jump at the Central Terrain Park at Snoqualmie Central and landed on compact snow and ice in February 2004, said his attorney, Jack Connelly.
During the trial at the Regional Justice Center in Kent, "information came out ... that the man who built [the jump] eyeballed it with a Sno-Cat" rather than engineering a design, Connelly said.
Engineers and an aeronautics professor from the University of California, Davis, testified that the jump was improperly designed and featured a short landing area, Connelly said, adding that ski jumps are supposed to be sloped so that energy from a vertical jump is transferred into a skier's forward motion on landing.
"Going off this jump was the equivalent of jumping off a three-story building," Connelly said. "If you're going to be throwing kids 37 feet in the air, these jumps need to be engineered, designed and constructed properly."
Officials from the Summit at Snoqualmie on Friday afternoon wouldn't answer questions about the incident but released a statement. It said risk is inherent in snow sports, but, "that said, any time there is an incident, our genuine thoughts and prayers are with our guests and their families."
The statement said Summit officials "are disappointed but respectful of the [trial] process."
According to Connelly, other people were injured on the same jump in the weeks before Salvini's accident, including a snowboarder who broke his back. A week after Salvini was injured, 19-year-old Peter Melrose of Bellevue died going off a different jump at the same terrain park, he said.
"There were 10 accidents with eight people taken off the slope in a toboggan" in the weeks before Salvini was hurt, landing on what Connelly said was a flat surface. In all, he said, evidence of 15 earlier accidents was admitted into evidence but "nothing was done" by ski operators to fix or close the faulty jumps.
The full jury award was for about $31 million, Connelly said, explaining that the amount was decreased to $14 million after calculating "the comparative fault" of his client and "the inherent risk of the sport."
Before he was injured, Salvini, now a quadriplegic, was captain of the wrestling team at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, where he graduated in engineering technology, Connelly said. His mother is now his full-time caregiver.
Over the course of his life, Salvini's medical needs are estimated to cost between $23 million and $26 million, Connelly said.
Hey Bumpyride... cheers for posting that...
If a guy died, and several others injured then yes they should be sued, the ski area does nothing to redesign the jumps...then thats gross negligence....
It's a shame he is now permanently disabled but people really should ride within their skills too...too many people, skiers and boarders think they are pros after a week on the mountain....
Steve
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Maybe with this sort of suit...
They'll rip down all the parks and give us carvers some more runs to use...
I personally think that as soon as you buy a lift ticket... you accept all the dangers of the sport...
Thing is there is a lot of money to be made in lawsuits... and that blows.
Parks have become stupidly wild in the last few years... 35 foot double???!!! WTF??
Pipes have gotten so big it's ridiculous... I stopped many years ago when my fear glands made me think twice.....
More carve less jib!!
My 2c
Steve
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And so the Army grows.... slowly but surely!!
Good work!!
looks like the night before was a very cold one too!!!
the edgyness is showing people....
How many "Carvers"
in Carving Central
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Here in Aus,
I'd be lucky to see a carver once a season... Very, Very rare.
Sometimes you run into a Asym rider or something just as old...(prolly a handmedown) but that's it...
Kinda sucks cos' I've always gotta explain what kind of board it is..... *sigh*
Steve