Phil

I can't decide which of these posts is more far fetched! ;)

Me too. I really wanted to see them beat the Lakers. Oh, well. No doubt! Me too.

That is interesting, but seems like a contradiction. The Spurs are a defense team. If you like the Spurs, I am surprised that you don't like to watch defensive games. In fact, the Spurs and Celtics held their opponents to the same numbers this year (about 90 pts) while the Celtics averaged 100 pts to the Spurs 95, making the Celtics a more offensive team than the Spurs. I never would have known his off hand, but after seeing your post, I had to look it up. ;)

I think that the Celtics SHOULD win, and I am cheering for them. Unfortunately, "should" and "will" have not been synonymous thus far in the playoffs. Every series should have been a blowout, but they never get their "big three" to show up to the same game at the same time. The Lakers also look really good and have not struggled the same way. I still vote the Celtics.

very envious.

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Whoa! I used the term riders. It was not in the NSSRA report. I had no idea that there were any snowboarders that take offense to that term. I use it interchangeably with "snowboarders", "boarders", etc. "Riders" is a term that i have used for a long time. To my knowledge, this is the first time that I have offended anyone with the term. I apologize for the offense.

The NSSRA reports 5.2 million snowboarders (age 7+ who visit more than once a year) and 6.4 million skiers (age 7+ who visit more than once a year) in 2006. Here is more info: Avg. # of days: Skiers: 12.9 Riders: 9.1 Skiers - Percentage and median age: Male: 63% 31.8 y.o. Female: 37% 32.6 y.o. Riders: Male: 72.9% 20.3 y.o. Females: 27.1% 22.7 y.o. edit: sorry, I just realized that you already saw the 2006 report. That is the most current that I know of.

If I am not mistaken, that was a 1990. It was the same year as the Craig Kelly Mistery Air that was yellow, red, orange and black. The CK M. Air was correctly put in the 1990 category, but the regular "Air" that you are talking about is not there. Instead there is a (I believe) '91. Misinformation aside, that is a fun site.

Before we got married, my wife and I thought that we were going to move west. After we tied the knot, she realized that it was too far from her family. I did not think it was too far at the time, but now I am glad to be within four hours of her fam and mine. I really have no regrets. As I write, I am getting ready to go to work - this time of the season, I am on snow 6 days a week doing what I love. I don't feel like I am missing anything by being at a small PA mountain. O.K., maybe I am missing something steep. B.C. is really lacking in steeps. After working with Dianne Roffe at SRT for a few years, I realized that it has nothing to do with the mountain - it is what you make of it. $.02 from another PA rider.

Wow, what a great day - even though we had our lowest turnout since our inception. This was no doubt due to the poor weather patterns. One foot of slush does not make for the best carving event, but we were given lemons and we made lemonade. Last year there were just under fifty, this year there were just under fifteen. When you get turnout for a foot of slush and some bare spots, though, you know that you are getting the die hards. These guys had the best attitudes you could have. A great time was had by all. Special thanks go out to Neil Sunday for setting up gates, doing the race clinic, and running the race. Thanks to Fred P. for timing us. Snowscaper was a big help to me personally and congrats to him for completing his first ever circle in spite of the adverse conditions. Thanks to Mark Brown for helping with the gates. It was a terrible day for a limbo, but JBS showed us that it was not impossible (right after he blew everyone away on the race course - by a lot). We also have some progressive captures of what it looks like to fold the nose - along with the ensuing carnage. I will post that as soon as I get it together. Bill - sorry you could not make it. I hope that you continue to recover well. Hope to see you next year. Bear Creek turned out to be a great venue - especially the race trail. Pre-race pic: P.S. I would certainly be remiss if I did not mention my Mom - without her help babysitting the twirps, i could not have gotten this thing together. Thanks Mom.

Wow, what a great day - even though we had our lowest turnout since our inception. This was no doubt due to the poor weather patterns. One foot of slush does not make for the best carving event, but we were given lemons and we made lemonade. Last year there were just under fifty, this year there were just under fifteen. When you get turnout for a foot of slush and some bare spots, though, you know that you are getting the die hards. These guys had the best attitudes you could have. A great time was had by all. Special thanks go out to Neil Sunday for setting up gates, doing the race clinic, and running the race. Thanks to Fred P. for timing us. Snowscaper was a big help to me personally and congrats to him for completing his first ever circle in spite of the adverse conditions. Thanks to Mark Brown for helping with the gates. It was a terrible day for a limbo, but JBS showed us that it was not impossible (right after he blew everyone away on the race course - by a lot). We also have some progressive captures of what it looks like to fold the nose - along with the ensuing carnage. I will post that as soon as I get it together. WVrocks - we missed you. Hope you can come next year. Bear Creek turned out to be a great venue - especially the race trail. Pre race pic: P.S. I would certainly be remiss if I did not mention my Mom - without her help babysitting the twirps, i could not have gotten this thing together. Thanks Mom.

We have similar conditions in So PA, but we must have better groomers. Even on the iciest conditions, the groom is still good. It sounds like a rant against your resort for not making lemonade out of the lemons it has been given. That stinks. In any case, learn to ride that ice and you will be the man. Whenever I go out west, I usually end up looking forward to coming back to my beloved "hardpack". Why don't you take the day off on Friday and come to MAC Tracks?

Sorry, yes, I meant the Freeride Wide I guess. I am not sure why machine made stuff is different to carve, but they carve it superbly. I thought that I recalled hearing that they reinforce the wide if you want to ride plates (I believe that it is out of the question with the Sasquatch). If I were going to ride plates with it, I would not get the wide - I would get the Incline. Actually, I would just get the Axxess. Photodad - seriously, make sure you weigh people's experience on our vertically challenged mountains against their suggestions about boards - especially with the diversity of your riding. BTW, do you really want to be forced to ride the angles that the Tucker 180 would make you ride? A 24 waist is really narrow for a big guy on softies. If I lived anywhere with real vert, I would be rocking the Tanker 200, but it is just overkill here. YMMV

Skip the intro then go to "Show the angle" Then draw your own conclusions.

Have you considered a shorter board like the Incline Wide 169? You will NOT out-carve this board - it rocks. IMO it is the perfect size for our more vertically challenged hills in the Mid Atlantic. It may also be a little more versatile on the hill. I have done a little bit of everything on mine. I can't imagine that you could be disappointed with it.

In case you missed it in the main forum: The details are here. Hope to see everyone there!

In case you missed it in the main forum: The details are here. Hope to see everyone there!

Bumpity bump bump. A week and a half to go. I have already seen a bunch of hardbooters out practicing for the circle carve. If you have not visited the site, the event is next Friday, February 8, 2008 at Bear Creek Mountain Resort and Conference Center. www.skibearcreek.com If you are going to be anywhere near the mid-atlantic at that time, plan on attending. Last year's limbo champ just emailed me tonight that he might not make it due to injury, so all of the previous limbo participants may have a better chance now.:D

The tricktionary is a skateboarding site. This is a snowboarding discussion (that has gone severely off track:) ). If you will, please read my first post again. My whole point was that things do not translate directly from skate to snow. Noschoolrider's AASI definitions were probably the best thing going for snowboarding switch/fakie definitions that actually separate the two. Many sources would just say that they mean the same thing in snowboarding. The masses call riding with your opposite foot forward "switch". Like the evolution of the English language in many other arenas, the masses dictate what the language evolves to.

I would be glad to be younger than you (regardless of how old you are ;) )and yes, you probably rode before I did. I started skating in the early '80's and got in on snowboarding in '88. Who took the judges' side? I would guess that the other participants would not want him getting more points because of his choice of stance. That would mean that the decision took the participants' side. I don't know that for sure - it is only conjecture. Boardslides, sorry bro, you are incorrect. A frontside boardslide is when your back faces down the rail. Please, don't take my word for it -look it up. That is nothing new. Boardslide is a slide where the nose of the board goes over the rail after an approach with the rail at your backside. Frontside boardslide is when the approach has the rail at your frontside and the nose goes over the rail. On the other hand, a frontside lipslide is when your tail goes over the rail and a backside lipslide is as well. When doing lipslides, direction of travel is more intuitive - FS is facing the rail and vice-versa. This is why it doesn't make sense for snowboarding - most approaches are straight on. In any case, whether it makes sense or not has nothing to do with it - it is just the way it is. Yes, toeside and heelside are obvious - frontside and backside are not really snowboarding turning terms IMO. You can flame on for that one. For everyone else, sorry for the threadjack.

I think that this is the point that has been missed here. There is definitely some truth to the fact that there is a limit to how much you can do when soft snow gets to a certain depth. Beyond getting in the back seat, I don't really see much of a remedy. As far as riding switch on a flat tail when it is not soft and deep, that is about the rider, not the board. There are several riders on BOL that have passed an AASI Level III Exam on square tails and have done so by riding and teaching switch bumps, switch carving, switch steeps, switch pipe, switch rails, switch jumps, etc, etc...... Remember that square tails generally exist on high performance boards. When you flip them switch, they are still high performance boards. I think that it is pretty easy for a high level hardbooter to out-carve a softbooter switch. To the best that my memory serves me, I have caught my square tail once landing switch in a kinked pipe. That was a no brainer - I should not have tried to land switch where it was kinked I also caught it in the bumps once or twice, but that was not too bad, cause I felt myself coming apart, which caused the catch - I knew it was coming. When I have ridden the bumps cleanly, there has never been much danger. I have never caught it anywhere else - certainly not carving - where I can't even imagine why one would catch a tail. My guess would be a botched transition... Photodad - as far as switch and fakie are concerned, you are arguing something that really never was. If my memory serves me, it was Terje H. who argued that he was riding fakie because he had a forward stance where everyone riding duck was riding switch so he should get more points for landing opposite. The judges did not go for it and fakie never really stuck. Riding backward started being called fakie or switch and soon was more often known as switch. ESPN had little if anything to do with it. It is even more inaccurate that we call boardslides frontside and backside when snowboarders generally approach the rails straight on. Unfortunately, it started from skateboarding where skaters approached the rails from the side and was the only thing that we knew when it all transferred to snowboarding. Now I teach rails to snowboarders all of the time who just scratch their heads and cannot understand why having your back down the hill could possibly be called a frontside boardslide. Cabellerials (sp?) are another example of something that has morphed into something different. Now you have half cabs, cab 3's, cab 5's, etc. off of straight jumps. :rolleyes: Furthermore, toeside turns are not frontsides and heelside turns are not backsides. I am sure if I thought about it, I could go on and come up with more of these silly examples. The bottom line is that it is called switch - for better or for worse. Why is it worth arguing about? This is not skateboarding or surfing, just a close cousin (brother?).

Sorry I missed you at BC on Saturday - I was there all day. I must have been in the back bowls when your were on the North Face. ;) SL is the way to go IMO. Pick up a nice SL board and you will be loving life at the crowded PA resorts. I have always kept my HB quiver to two boards - GS and SL. That takes care of everything for me. GS for the mornings and SL as the hordes of meat gates show up. Let me know when you will be at BC again - maybe we can get a few runs together.

Dano, That is a Free 6 (89-90?). Here is your chance to get it back. ;)