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do deeluxe heels also come in two sets? the head heels (which i presume to both be stiffer than bombers) come in two sets, each with very different stiffnesses.

my only boots being the HSPs, i am curious as to what the material is like on those deeluxe heels compared to the stock heads. are they similar to the hard heels or the soft ones? or somewhere inbetween?

Transformice is a highly amusing and hilarious online multiplayer flash game. Try it out! Link here goes to the main English server, but click a different flag at the bottom to get onto another server. Some general info on it, which seems to be nonexistant on the official site. Edit: BTW, the servers often seem to be filled up, so the site may not load at times.

i'll add my own sob story. voted due to other circumstances. couple weeks back, got relieved from my job, so i thought i'd have some time to finally go boarding freely. first day back on the hill was after a night of heavy snowfall with a storm advisory, second day i took a nasty spill on my second run of the day. a bit of detail of that can be seen in my latest thread. took over a week to heal. leaving for a family vacation on the 6th (will be gone almost a month) and have a schoolwork deadline 2 days prior, so i'm stuck at home doing a lot of work that i've been procrastinating. if there's any snow left in may, i may be able to get in some more days. it's extremely frustrating, especially because, in the 08/09 season, i never really got a working, dialed-in setup until around the last 2 or 3 of my riding days that season.

yipee

i think it's muscle? i'm not a doctor... okay, one should know the difference even if not a doc. shut up. :o i guess i could've done all those things earlier on. at this rate, i think i'll actually be back on the slopes within a few days :lol:

nice find. also, the vid posted in this thread has a couple (or maybe just one, can't remember!) quick glimpses of one-footed carving and is a bit more locked in. unfortunately, now you need to use a proxy server to view it. strangely, i haven't had any luck with korean proxies, but it has worked fine for me with a japanese one. edit: okay, im not getting any luck anymore with japan now, bah. will edit again if i figure somethin' out. edit#2: allrightey. so, i can't do it without proxy, but if i use a japanese one and keep retrying, it eventually works within a few tries. one-footed carving found at :32, 1:08, 1:20, and possibly 2:15.

thanks, guys. exactly the kind of comments i'm fishing for :)

rough week. i've been sitting here bored in tahoe, totally cockblocked by an injury. saturday (the first day i was able to board after being relieved from work), wasn't very great. lot of snowfall to the point of chain control and storm advisory warning the night before, so i called it a day after about two hours. sunday, i took a nasty spill on my second run. threw myself into a high-speed, tight-radiused carve without putting the angulation or inclination into it, among inattentiveness/unpreparedness and whatever else. as usual, it all happened so fast. my best guess is that i overcarved/overturned a toeside relative to the direction my body was facing and trying to travel by the time i released the carve, botching the unidirectionality; i really wasn't prepared for that turn. but, perhaps i just let up and caught an edge. anyway, that marked the end of my day. the day count for the season is somewhere between 15 and 20, i'll have to ask about that next time i ride.. it's been a few days since i've last checked. this was my second (or third?) of those 15-20 days this season to not wear a helmet. amazingly, my head got hit by nothin'. i was debating to myself whether or not to request ski patrol to snowmobile me back to the lodge, but i just skidded my way back to the car. i messed up my right, front leg (rear leg also injured, but not nearly as much) so badly from the fall that i had a limp when i got out of my boots. monday, took one run, but it was too painful. it didn't even really hurt until i was walking around in my hardboots in the parking lot; should've tried them on before going out thursday (right now), i just tried to put on my hardboots and get into my board and bindings here in the condo... still too painful. it hurts for me to cross any part of the upper half of my right lower leg onto the left thigh and relax the weight. i can hop on my right leg without problems (though i can easily recognize that there's an injury when doing so), and i can run normally too. didn't bother icing it back then 'cause the entire damn leg hurt and i had no idea what to ice, just took some ibuprofen over the next couple days. anyone else get anything similar? how long did it take you off the slopes for?

just off the top of my head, bomber has 'em. looks like they have 27s in stock too, if you're serious.

Magic. :)

just want to share my enthusiasm. i was gonna put in my two weeks' notice today, but my boss happened to let me go before i said anything. two extra free weeks! ze boss and i didn't get along very well. anyway, i'm no longer a weekend warrior! i'll be going on the biggest alpine boarding binge i can before my month-long family vacation in april that i'm not really wanting to go on (hopefully i'll have a change of heart by the time i'm there, we'll be mostly traveling along the camino de santiago in spain) cuts my snowboard season short. and hopefully i'll get some video recorded this weekend, so i can upload the footage and have you guys pick me apart.

ack, the code needs a $50+ tab you'll have to find someone else to use it. thank you though, it was much appreciated.

was thinking of buying a scraper that spans the width of a snowboard, since all i have are these little dinky ~6inch ones. i can use that code.

i want a diablo :( thanks for the review and porn how much do these run for?

that one is also sexual! (quoting quagmire)

/facepalm i really wondered if that would happen

ty dingbat. i assume he's talking about the same "bolt" here. sexybeast, you mean, due to the lack of tools, you can't adjust it? i had the shop (ski boot shop) that i bought mine new from make a tool for me. they took a pocketsize L-shape wrench (no idea what kind of screw it originally adjusted) and put it to a grinder to make a fat flathead just small enough to fit in the groove and easily adjust. other than that, easiest way would be to get probably the thickest, longest flathead screwdriver you can find. the flathead itself may not fill the gap very well, but a long lever to compensate works well. far from convenient to carry on the slopes, though.

i use that POWER handle when i can't get my finger under that third buckle to undo it. i've no idea if that's what it's there for, but it saves me from having to take off my glove sometimes. my boots didn't come with the manual (if it comes with one) OR adjusting tool what about yours? the stiffness spring: more compression = more stiffness. is "preload" the proper term for that? -raising top screw decompresses spring -lowering top screw compresses spring -raising bottom screw compresses spring and increases forward lean -lowering bottom screw decompresses spring and decreases forward lean -to adjust forward lean without changing stiffness, move both screws in the same direction by the same (or close to the same?) amount. for microadjust, each latch (when not buckled) can be twisted like a bottle cap to microloosen or microtighten. i'd hope that it'd be fairly obvious which direction loosens and which tightens. a couple pages on the almanac have some paragraphs dedicated to the HSPs, if you haven't come across them yet. enjoy your head.. i mean heads.

lots of solutions posted within that thread that have, for the most part, helped everyone, but if you end up having an extremely similar case to mine (i'm the TC of the linked thread), and you end up reading that thread, just keep in mind: *i still haven't bothered to fix my shin bang, where the issue is pretty much when the liner tongue on my rear, left leg (goofy rider) slides to the left (no matter how much i tighten everything), the shin bang takes effect. *many blame my situation on a poorly sized boot, as you will see if you read that thread. *the whole bit in there about me not being able to flex my boots is no longer an issue, even without having purchased a BTS system or performed any boot surgery, and (though not really directly related) i still have the shin bang anyway, i leave my gear 2 hours away in a condo next to my home mountain and haven't gotten around to fixing it yet since it's not even really unbearable on the better days, and i end up usually not having the time to do it.

ack, you must already be on the hills! wish i didn't have to go to work :( i'd strongly recommend also bringing a pocket knife or anything else with a fine, sturdy tip. i end up stripping screws without anything to pick out the ice every time i make an adjustment.

the dice on the 4wd.. stomp pad or topsheet?

if you want to be proactive, and you're planning on going to a JC before a four-year college, www.assist.org will be your friend in course planning (for people in california). i guess, you'll want to look at the courses at colleges you're planning to apply to. i got kind of screwed over, though there wasn't really anything i could have done, 'cause i took precalculus while trig wasn't offered at my high school. they pretty much put all the trig in algebra 2 and precal. at my JC, instead of letting me go on to calc1, they made me take trig and then precal again before i could go on to calculus. as for "what is the highest math class at your high school", which is how i interpreted your Q.. just depends on your individual school, man. not sure what you're trying to get out of asking something like that, it can't have much bearing on what your school would be likely to have. unless.. you're just trying to survey? lots have calc AB and BC. maybe some schools will even have an honors calculus class. waste of resources for a highschool to have anything beyond that; some may think the same about AB and BC depending on averages within the school. you're quite likely to be able to take classes beyond that at your local JC if you were really that set on getting ahead. personally, i wouldn't really trip about not getting through AB and BC before graduation, but that's just me. good stuff, though. scientists are cool, artists suck:lol:

always question #1: got custom footbeds? it's apparently the only solution for flat feet; at least, that's what every bootfitter has told me for my feet, which are also flat. i don't, and the expense for them sounds nightmarish to me. however, the foot pain i get from the very first run of every day is probably even more nightmarish. some day i will have to take the plunge

RN? I think it's time for some RP.