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Bubbles is ok, but I like Buttercup the best.
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Heh, this will be a fun event. We should make sure to do this after, not before the limbo contest or our steak-bellies will get in the way ;)
BTW, loco mocos are super easy college food to make - cup of rice + 1/2 ground beef pan fried into a burger + fry the eggs in the beef grease + cheapo powdered gravy mix from the grocery store. It should look something like this when you're done.
...my god that's making me hungry.
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I'm going to go to the hawaiian bbq joint down the street that sells Loco Mocos (two mountainous heaps of rice, a large hamburger patty, two fried eggs, smothered in beef gravy), and start training. I think it's supposed to have well over a thousand calories, and they are definitely delicious, and will put you into a lunch coma.
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I used to think chiropractors were in that quack doctor/holistic medicine/chakra aura camp (i.e. that's fine if you believe it but don't manipulate my body based on it), but then I saw one because my back was giving me some problems (sciatic nerve issues making my leg and foot go tingly and weak, and I had very painful muscle spasms around those vertebrae). It was really professional and "scientific." He did about 10 quick resistance tests in 2 or 3 minutes and ruled out a whole bunch of stuff, diagnosed it as my sciatic nerve, cracked my back bones, and gave me a set of exercises to do, and my back has been fine since.
Pretty great experience. I haven't needed to see one since, but if I had a weird chronic muscular/skeletal problem again I would probably see both my orthopod and a chiro to get two opinions.
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I know how you can gain those 10 pounds back. Lookie here. Its defintly a good road trip.
Heh, you guys drove 500 miles to eat a big burger? I miss college ;) You did good, Gleb, at 4 lbs, but you're no Takeru Kobayashi, the tsunami from Japan, who ate 53 1/2 hot dogs (8 1/2 lbs) in 12 minutes in 2004 :D Or 69 White Castle burgers in 8 minutes.
If you make it to the SES we should have a steak-off! I'm not as good as I used to be when I used to play sports all the time, but I'm confident I should still be able to put down a 3 lb steak + a baked potato and maybe a cheesecake or something ;)
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Boreal, in Lake Tahoe. All you ice coasters might win this contest on "quality of snow and trails" but it's hard to beat Boreal on "100% of trails are terrain parks, 100% of riders are thugs, 100% of days have at least one fistfight in the liftline". What a disaster that place is.
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Bah, you (non(math nerd))s are killing me... learn your powers of 2! ;)
256! 128!
I think my first game was Combat, also on the Atari. It was in color, but it was still analog, before they invented ones and zeros, except for keeping score.
Man, I've never heard of popping popcorn over actual fire. Was the world black and white back then, or was everything just black?
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Well, they used to use "towels" to dry hair. When people started to use their popcorn hot-air blowers to dry hair, they needed to invent microwave ovens to pop the popcorn.
Black and white wasn't so bad. It got much worse for a while with only magenta, cyan, white, and black with CGA for a few years, but thankfully they got the world up to millions of colors and things are OK to look at again.
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He also has one of the ultimate forms of control on her. He pays for her cell phone (dunno how) so he has a log of all the calls. bad idea. Probably one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Oldest tricks in the book? Hah, you youngsters. Cel phones have only been around for ~20 years. By the way, popping popcorn used to take more than 2 minutes, and involved pans and oil, or special hot air blowers. Also, the entire world used to be black and white before they invented colors.
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I'm only 140 lbs and the Madd 158 flex #2 was perfect for me. I forget which way the flex patterns are numbered, but if #2 really is too stiff for you the #1 or #3 should be perfect.
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I wasn't down at Mammoth (damn you, lack of direct highways!), but there was boilerplate up in Tahoe, too. Haven't seen that in quite a while over here. Looked like grooming machine when it was slush, and frozen overnight = concrete corduroy. Awful stuff. Made me wish I had that Madd I was demoing at the SES...
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I think some of my comments have been misconstrued as bashing EC.
Heh, a few years ago your posts really read like you were very anti-EC (though it's obviously hard to hear people's tone through text), but not so much anymore. :) I probably come off as being super pro-EC, even though I don't think I am - I'm just anti-anti-EC, and personally I don't even ride that way anyways.
I agree, if a newbie comes out and doesn't really know what's going on and they try to EC, they are liable to try to get their hands on the snow and end up with their butt up in the air, and obviously that is the exact opposite of how you want to be angulating and you'll be skidding all over the place.
Similarly, I think if you were a newbie and didn't know what you were doing and were going in with just pictures + descriptions of bomber style, you are liable to attempt to try to get into that perfect "super compressed, angulated position" and sit there frozen as you carve around the turn. I think Marco Olm called it "Park and Ride". "Don't park and ride!" he says ;) I see lots of intermediate riders riding very, very stiff that way.
My first two years of riding were an attempt to crank around in that perfect bomber position, and then a clumsy switch to the other edge, and then find that perfect position again for the next turn, etc.. It was only after I really tried to incorporate the fluidity and looseness of EC in all my joints that my riding level jumped up from the plateau it was on to where I could deal with bumpier, choppier snow, narrower runs, steeper terrain, etc..
I still think the best way to do it is study everybody else who can do whatever they do well, try it out, and keep the parts that work.
I do, think, however, that being a newbie and being stuck in a static, bomber style pose is probably better than breaking at the waist all the time.
But hey, didn't Tom ressurrect this thread from the dead to sell his board?
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My fav is the episode with Charles Nelson Reilly and Jesse Ventura-the total spoof episode...
Heh, yeah, it's called "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" and it might be the best hour of television ever. The opening (with the teenagers getting abducted by two aliens, and then the two aliens getting abducted by the bigger alien) had me rolling around on the floor. Also, don't forget, Alex Trebek (Jeopardy) was in it, too ;)
The best part of the episode is that it actually makes coherent sense - it's not just a big absurdest spoof - it actually has a story and carefully ties everything together, just in a really, really, funny way. "I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage." Ha ha ha.
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Yeah... but here it's FEET ;)
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Yeah, it just won't stop snowing out here. What's that, like 22 feet since March 1? We were averaging >1 foot per day for the first two or three weeks of March, I think.
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I'm only getting one if I can get a hood scoop, spoiler, and aero ground effects. Does that 25 degree bevel edge come with a ginsu guarantee?
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Legend:
36: Legs
32: Left ventricle
30: Flying tapeworms
20: 36 and 34
34: Torn ligaments exploding from knee
28: Titanal
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There are guys who initiate bomber turns by falling down on their hips, but I don't think they ride with any weight on their hips as they ride around - that's just the way they fully commit to the turn. I know when I drag my hip or stick a hand in the snow that there is no weight on it. I know this because I can pick the hand or hip off the snow without the carve changing, and also because if I did put weight on it it would dig into the snow and give me a pretty sweet beat down.
Take it from a guy who's really paranoid about reinjuring previously dislocated shoulders: there's no weight on the hands.
You should go back and take a look at Lifted or Stoked or any of the EC movies. To me it's pretty clear that (aside from the money shots where they go into a carve and coast to a stop) 1) their bodies aren't usually contacting the snow and 2) there's no wieght on the arms.
Don't judge too much from the pictures - they are really only fully laid out for a split second - it's not like they are sliding around on their torsos for the entire duration of the turn.
I agree about the photo comparison - reaching for snow is bad if you break at the waist in order to do it.
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My analysis:
One mogul = instant torn Posterior Cruciate Ligament.
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yes, the board is on edge, but your body parts are supporting the turn.
No they're not. If they were, you'd dislocate your shoulder and break your wrists immediately. Does your hip support your turn in a heelside turn when it touches the snow?
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Anna? (sorry if I got that wrong, correct me please)
Anja.
Looks like a great day! I haven't been able to carve since Feb. due to it dumping and dumping and dumping...
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Personally, I like the stiffness of the intecs, but many of the really good versatile carvers I've met (not the "only on the groom, and only when the snow is hard or harder" kind, but the "chop, bumps, and offpiste aren't a problem" kind) like their standard bails super loose or prefer using flexier intecs.
Some of the ones in Colorado like to poke fun at me, as to them it seems like boots + BTS + suspension system is basically an attempt to get to their setup: walk mode + loose bindings.
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Heh, last week here at work a bunch of people (some of whom are amateur jugglers) were discussing/arguing about this video and the Jason Garfield diss video (where he copiesthe routine but with 5 balls... and a pretty mean-spirited mocking attitude).
I think the consensus was essentially:
Chris Bliss: not that great of a juggler, but has nice artistic presentation.
Jason Garfield: a much better juggler, but less artistry, and a jerk.
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Gah, that sucks. Yeah, bluetomato doesn't carry them. I wonder why they stopped making soft step-ins altogether...
OT: waaaaaaay OT....
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Hah, we don't even discuss our issues with our closest friends, let alone in a public forum ;) Gross generalization of course.
For me: I'm out of college and I hate bars, so I meet approximately zero women a year, plus or minus zero. And she's married. Also, I'm a nerdy looking 5'6" asian guy. That's as straight a shot as you can get into the bullseye of the friend zone.