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He died a year ago I miss him but he asked me to take care of his wife who I have known for twenty five years him for 12. She just said, no please don't tea bag me, my belly button is already hurting......... end trans Jumpin jack

earlier this season before my back went crazy from an old navy injury I was teaching at Ragged MT, Danbury NH. It was one of the weekends with the big Ski East racing group............ I went out on the Rossi VAS GS board, came screaming down exhibition under the high speed six pack lift using the whole trail for Christmas ribbon candy turns. Major thigh burn .... Hobbled into the lift line and got to ride up with a couple of the racers. "Wow man You really lay that sucker over ......are you an ex snowboard racer" Nah ex ski racer........ "really?" Yah ex Nastar pace setter 12 HC. "So what kind of riding is that?" Carving, totally different than racing "How do you get from one edge to the other like that? Your edge changes are less than a board length?" Ah easy just throw your self violently down the mountain and drag the board board along for the for the ride. After twenty three years you could do it too..... "Ah **** man I might not live that long!" LOL yah gotta love it guys they have no clue to the Gs we can pull!!!!! Pray for my back to heal will yah Grandpa wolf :D

Casper In the middle picture it does look as if you may be breaking sideways at the waist. In AASI motion analysis clinics I was taught to look work from the snow up . your front leg is not bent forward at all at the ankle ......so by the time of the center picture you are already behind the carve of the board. Which I think is a feeling you mentioned. work from the snow up In this case the front leg is causing you to break when you get behind the board. Cure the cause not the symptom. Think like Sugar Ray and punch your way through the turn with your front arm. A front arm front boot grab is a start for beginning hard booters but you are way beyond that so..... Think NINJA and you have Iron left fist to punch through the wooden door for your toe side turn. Fist has to go through the door before you can. I think maybe that will keep you forward and thusly keep front ankle bent. Which will keep you on top of or maybe (the way I like it) a little ahead of the carve. That will in turn solve the waist thing. my philosophy is to violently fall down the mountain and drag the board along for the ride. Same with skis. I have to stop and really think about it to do anything for demo except my normal super aggressive cross under push the board up the hill form you turn starts. My shoulders usually stay the same Height off the snow for all turns and runs. leg extension and contraction is all in the horizontal plane. Shoulders stay level or rather parallel to the snow surface Let me know if this helps. Grandfather Wolf

THink about this one ok. You have two snowboarders using the whole width of exhibition trail at Ragged (black and straight down the lift line of the six pack) making full looped back up the trail Christmas ribbon candy shaped turns. you also have some of the better GS racers from Ski East on the trail. The skiers are bombing the trail straight down. But they can not catch Up to the two snowboarders. I happens all the time and drives the ski racers bonkers. So if you have competitive GS ski racers bombing how fast are they going? At least 35 mph probably more so if the snowboarders are covering two to three or more times the track distance with push pull ribbon candy turns what is thier average speed. i say average peed as in a push pull turn it is like being accelerated by rocket assist at one point in the turn each time you come off of the tail loading. The PP turn get a constant pressure on the edge for the entire turn . In order to do that the speed varies widely through the turn. So 40 mph and then three times the track distance what is the average speed of the two hardbooters doing PP turns? Go a head and be shocked !!!!!!! It is real and has been GPS documented and doc-ed by some with radar as well. the fall line peed of a PP turn is I say is insane. Just watch the SWoard videos. Grandfather wolf

Three boards one pair of skis

hi Pat wow big wow. you might remember me we have met before If not thats ok. I used to be known as Chase Kenyon past lead snowboard instructor at Sunapee and then Ragged and before that the ski wee supervisor at King ridge for 12 years. Some times as we get older, we just get faster as we learn not to waste any muscle energy. Good form in the pics as usual. TTFN]]\\!!!!! Grandfather Wolf (Mom was born on the Mohawk rez)

We had a big discussion about that at Ragged Erlier thiws year when I was teaching a clinic and carved dwon a drop on teh 173 VAS and turned it uphill into a merging trail headwall The ski clinic jsut happend to be coming down. Scattered all but two of the 20 or so of them into yard sales. LOL The head trainer was ok and when they yelled at me he just said I had the right of way untill I was above them on the mountain and that if they coulodn't avoid me without falling then they better work on thier visual skill or thier skiing skills or both. latter In the pub it came up and the ski patrol head was there. He agreeed that The person farthest down "below" has the right of way but added I should have a spotter. So I guess we have to split up and take different routes to get to above on two trails for spotting when you get a perfect figure eight trail merge . Now, I used to be able to do them at Mt Sunapee at a trail merge in the back bowl. THat was when younger and teaching full time on the PJ 163 slalom board. 360////????? I want to see a video of a full figure eight!!!!!! You up for it Gilmore? Grandfahter wolf:lol: P.S. had to quit teaching cause of degenerative spondylosis. Still hoping for a good day or two to get back on the snow for at least three o r four hours at Sunapee since I have a couple of free passes withing there.

I'd hate to think what a decent home in Simsbury, CT goes for these days. LOL thats where I grew up. And i know the average home there is about 5000 sq ft. WE are so poor we can't afford to keep the run down old fixer upper house here in the NH boondocks. Three good ski areas within half hour. MT Sunapee and lake Sunapee are five minutes. 2800 + sq Ft, five bedrooms $139,900 Anyone want a house in ski country? oh yeah it is zoned commercial and has 290 ft of st hwy frontage As to Income........ I can't remember the last time the wife and I could take the whole personal deduction the IRS gives you. Grandfather Wolf

Osiyo brother. I have been in the dumps here in NH The endless 10 to 12 inch with four or five hours of freezing rain on top storms every three days week after week did my back in. So I kept going under extreme pain and only worked one day a weekend. Then my ex-supervisor who was my protegee and I was his first non beginning level instructor "fired" me for not keeping up my time commitments. Dropped my boards and skis on my porch with a 3 by five torn scrap of paper note to bring my pass and coat to the mountain when I could. Called him on the phone and was told it was a leadership thing as I was no longer needed to teach clinics as the staff clinics were done for the year except for the ones he could tech himself. This after spending 7 weekends clinicing for 5 hours a day with no free runs on my carving board ......IN SERVICE TO THE MT. Well they still owe me for four hours of lessons and two pair of top of the line ski poles are missing. So being fired in a way that violates company written policy and numerous state laws and there is my time and equipment missing they will get the nice new Burton shell back when hell freezes over. I have a friend who is and instructor at Sunapee five minutes away verses the 45 min to the old MT so I have several day passes waiting for me up there. Now if I can only get up the energy to go up maybe I can get together with EZE and finally dial this big ass rossi VAS GS board in. THe old Wolf

P.S. what kind of cookies Doc?

As an engineer who has been teaching skiing since 1965 and snowboard since 1985 I have some hardcore views on this subject. Part 1: No I do not want self releasing snowboard bindings. In 1995 at Mt Sunapee while teaching a clinic on blue ice in the back bowl I was hit from behind by an out of control skier. I was already moving quite fast and when I went down I just slid with no slowing down. At that point the trail had a double pitch and I slid a good 150 yards right off the side of the trail . It was all I could do to get the Burton PJ around from above me to below me on the trail. As I slid off into the woods I braced myself and hit the first big tree with one foot on each side of it. Even today I can't believe the PJ did not break. LOL Part 2: Soft boot setups. I switched to hard boots exclusively In 1994 after having had several nasty crashes from straps on soft boot bindings braking at the most inopportune times. Then when the Emory/OSin/Rossi SIS system came out I checked it out. the metal to metal contact and large center plate to distribute the forces all seemed to have good engineering and execution. Well, after 9 or 10 seasons of teaching I had to make the first repairs to my original SIS set of bindings. I ride hard in the crud and the trees so I finally pulled a couple of the t-nuts apart. I have collected sets of bindings and keep them in stock and have two pair of the boots. I still love them. They almost never have snow pack problems even in New England slush. The only problem is if you walk heel-toe you can trip yourself with the side pins LOL. Part 3: Heck, the side pin design may even be the fore runner of the Intec heel system. Since burton and K2 destroyed the step in market with plastic contact parts that always break at the wrong time the SIS are no longer made either. Fin, I wonder if the manufacturing rights are available. the boots can be done by anyone and can be soft or even a hybrid(my choice), THe binding itself would be similar to manufacture as your hard boot bindings but would be great for those deep powder and back country or in my case trees days. On my original OSin pair even the release lever is all metal. I'll send some pics if you are interested. It might even be a possible hard boot step in design that could be stronger than the Intec system. Part 4: Many of us ride both soft and hard boots. The thing is if you ride hard boots and really carve it up even in soft boots there are few new bindings that can handle the stress. Last year I broke a new pair of burton strap ins on the first run testing out a RIde longboard in the day after a snowstorm afternoon haystacks. Yes burton is un-capitalized intentionally. If we had some carving soft boot bindings and even maybe hybrid boots like ones from the past maybe we could get more riders interested in moving up to some serious carving. Grandpa Wolf.:lol:

Grabbing a kid (or anyone for that matter) and shaking him while uttering threats of any kind constitutes AGGRAVATED FELONY ASSAULT in most states. Threatening anyone even without physical action while mentioning money is ATTEMPTED FELONY EXTORSION in most states. This clown grabbed the kid shook him by the legs while making physical and monetary threats. I think the kids parent's Should swear out a warrant for arrest for assault and have the bugger extradited to a Colorado jail cell. Then sue him back for damages and physical and emotional suffering from the assault. Because of this man's violence and lack of civil manners and self responsibilty a 3 grade child is now afraid to go skiing. I'd say that is probably worth $250,000 in a jury trial with an added 1,000,000 in punative damages. This is what I think. Grandfather Wolf

Interesting pics of Jean Nerva and Peter Bauer bring back fond memeories. One thing of note is that many folks of modern extreme carving styles and techniques claim that P&J only did thier Euro Carves on toe side. Yes almost all still photos of them are toe side. However, How many of you have seen the Warren Miller "Tweaked and Twisted" film? There are plenty of shots showing P&J carving endless turns. The best section in the movie is the "Russian Powder" section. Craig Kelly ain't too bad either. And ""THE JOKER" is still going strong and as cool as ever. Got to be familiar with his antics in my freelance Mistral salesperson days. Grandfather Wolf aka Chase P.S. Where did all the time go? Seems like just yesterday I was Qualifying/testing boarders and handing out competency cards so they could ride the whole mountain in '85.

Don't carry one if I can help it. Did enough of that when they were the size of a small loaf of cranberry bread Back in the 80s, Nowadays If the director or assst dir. hand me one I just except it 'cause that means they think they are going to have an upper level 8 or 9 ski lesson or a H/B carving lesson or a bumps and trees softie lesson. I live for those lessons so it goes withthe territory. Asst. dir. Jerry asked me why I was not reluctant one day since I usually stay so low key. So I told him. He just said "cool" I'll remember that and not screw it up. LOL He 's really a nice guy. He calls the radio the official "Long tether anchor". Grandfather Wolf aka Chase

WAY RIGHT ON BRO!!!!!!! GRANDFATHER WOLF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE NOW AN HONORARY NATIVE AMERICAN . MAYBE I CAN EVEN GET YOU A TRIBAL ENROLLMENT CARD. AS A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE ELDERS COUNCIL i HAVE THE RIGHT (HISTORICALY ANYWAY) OF ADOPTING ANYONE I WAnT AS BLOOD BROTHER!!!!! Grandfather wolf

Get well soon Curtis I don't really know you but all I can say is if it ain't workin' right just keep demanding more Pt. When they scewed my sub talar joint up rebuildng my heel with 11 screws and a metal plate I had to demand more PT three extra times. Well, I hadn't worked as an engineer in ten years and my livelihood was carpentry and I could no longer walk up a roof was the big excuse. so two extra 6 week PTs Just bug the **** out of them till they find a way to work it out with the way you are. you are not, :cool:NOT THE AVERAGE EVERY DAY JOE! Prayin' for you as will my native american tribal family. Grandfather Wolf:cool:

In fact, I'll have to see what's required for the Level I as far as the freestyle stuff, but I'm seriously considering just doing the PSIA level I since I still do teach some skiing. Maybe that's just a cop out, but I'm 36 years old, have two children, I'm VERY whimpy, and I have no health insurance. I really can't afford to get hurt. Maybe that's why I'm so cautious. But then again, I've always been quite happy with my feet firmly on the ground! Well, I guess in a nutshell, there is no way to see what the future will hold for me! I know how you feel man. I'm 56 have a hip that was dislocated and the ball broken, a really bad right foot (same side) sub talar joint problem from when they used 11 screws and a metal plate to rebuild my shattered heel 41/2 years ago, plus degenerative spondylosis in my thoracic spinal area form a 1972 Navy injury. Needless to say days lilke today with the cold rain here in NH are not real good mobility days. I just run em into the ground when I am at the MT. Soft booters I take into the crud on the edge of the trail past the grooming, caravers I take them into trial wide super Christmas Ribbon Candy loopy turns, Skiers Ido both of the above to. Keep the faith. CHase;)

Yo ! the metal on cello is the group "Apocalyptica" there were four now there are only three. Finnish degreed classsically trained cellists that just happen to like heavy metal as well as classical. Quite good actually. Winter before last I took a CD of thiers up to the mountain mid week. On the upper balcony above ski school we had a big stereo set. I put it in and everone was down in front of ski school getting into it even the Senior pass midweekers over 60. Then this twerp bozo junior manager comes out and says turn that off. One of the elders in his 70s asked why. The dude says I hate that surfing music that snowboarders like. The old guy just says to him "Don't you know the sound of classical cello music when you hear it??" Chase :lol: Oh yeah I studied to be a concert cellist myself. Then switched to building instruments.

Sean if they could add a kilt preferably in the "touch not the cat" clan tartan this guy would definately be a SCOTISH WILDCAT :lol: Chase

Any one out there have experience with SG boards? Especially the cult and soul. looks to me like you could have a hard boot board and a soft boot board that were so similar it would be easy to switch back and forth. Chase:cool:

Hi jack hows things in Mainiac land? My favorite choice of stance method is to roll a beach ball to the customer or student on the floor and have them kick it back to me. Whichever foot they stand on usually is the better front foot. There are exceptions like damaged knees andor hips that can require reversal but not often. Chase P.S. If you want to visit Ragged under new (read money to operate it properly) owners give me a PM and I'll hook you up.:D

your making me jealous, it just would not happen here in the northeast, at least not anymore. I had planned on being in McCall and teaching at Brundage but the house sale fell through. The wife and I were going to just park our 40ft Prevost LeMirage conversion in the city RV park for the winter. Thier winter rates for full timers are not bad at all. On the other hand we had a snowboard supervisor for two seasons that was Rocky MT level 3 and in two years she never showed a carved turn on our mt. to anyone I know. All she did was go straight down the fall line at mach 3. Chase3 aka Grandfather Wolf:cool:

Yep that was it. It was a real blast wasn't it?!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chase

In the late 90's I dropped out of PSIA as they were not really supporting snowboard very well and I was teaaching 80% snowboard lessons. Then with AASI being born, decided to get my cert in 2001. Well the Exam was at Loon Mt. NH. DAy one the 2 examiners both went on to demo team I heard, were very good. They made a 2hr clinic in getting to ride swittch out of my beginner excersize of doing flat spins on the snow to get centered and have fun. (In actuality the students who love that one the most are the adults over 40) Then they noticed I was laying over way over on my Arbor and had me teach a carving clinic. I was having so much fun! Day 2 disaster!!!!! it rained all night and was still raining when we got to the Mt. Loon decided to close for the day. So........we drove up to Cannon MT. Just as we got there they decided to close too. So we went back to Loon. four of us came up with a wacky idea to finish the clinic indoors!!!! We went down to the big employee lunch room. We took the long 8ft. fold up tables and dropped one end then stacked another droped one on another table. WOW 16 ft of formica slope! WE taught all our day 2 stuff in stocking feet. For our final teaching exam they paired us up with some level 3 guys to teach so called private lessons. Well my guy, from Stratton I think, had seen me do an almost full loop back up a side trail, yes laid over real far. He said I want YOU to teach a level 6 carving clinic. He and I had talked about hard booting the day before even though I had not brought my race board to the exam. It was really kooky on the tables and do do it it took three people to hold each one that was on the tables to get proper body position and joint alignment for carving. You would have laughed your eyeballs out. End result they gave me 6++ in every catagory of riding. Now AASI east seems to have forgotten carving even on soft boots. So I don't know if it's worth it to regain my certification after it ran out in 2003. I could spend a lot of money or spend half and just go to a new level one exam. It bothers me that last two years I watched clinicians from AASI who could not carve a line in the snow at the level we expect our newby instructors to master before we let them teach thier own beginner lessons. CHase:biggthump PS thanks for resurecting this thread it is a good one.

after years of riding and teaching on hard boots, the only soft boot board that didn't seem like a soggy overcooked lasagne noodle was an Arbor Woodie. Ten years later and four full time seasons and it still has it's longitudinal and more importantly for carving, torsional stiffness. I have put a lot of good riders into Arbors and no I don't work for them and don't get specail deals. Everyone that tries an Arbor wants one. It's that simple. They don't really make any beginner boards. Even thier park models take an up and coming rider that has been on the typical Burtons, Salomons, K2s and all the others, more than just a few days to get used to it. Once you do they kick @@s and just keep on doing it. In spite of that for the price Sean charges My next board will be one of his Sasquatches. Probably go custom with a 166 with a 11.5 meter side cut for running our New England glades ( read woods with trees and brush that so close they are hard to walk through let alone ride through). If you are used to hard boots it will be worth it to get a really good CARVING all mountain soft boot board. If you want I have some tips on boot binding combos also. Chase aka Grandfather Wolf