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Originally posted by Jamie
Xtreme wheelbarrowing? right....
No, really - click on the image - it takes you to their website. They're clearly just goofing around, but are a couple of sweet moves in there :) Some sweet barrel rolls and even a superman! I think in that picture I posted above he's in the middle of doing what you would call a 360 varial on a skateboard... or maybe a tailwhip on a bicycle? I dunno - I never got my skateboard tricks sorted out.
But it's not nearly as awesome as Xtreme Ironing:
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Ah, now this is the kind of Flash game I like:
Nice presentation. Intuitive (needs no instructions), but requires some thought to solve. Some trial and error in the beginning to figure out what everything does, but you have all the information you need to solve it after a couple tries...
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Originally posted by John Gilmour
From the look of Patrice riding the Swoard in the video the flex pattern doesn't look so soft. I think I could have a lot of fun on the board as I like to mix up the styles from time to time. The Prior 4WD looks great for even softer snow and pow-
The Swoard has a very soft flex. I can compare tonight, but I think it might be softer than my Axis. It is snappy+springy, though. Fun to ollie with.
The guys I've seen out here who like to carve offpiste down the steep, crappy, chopped-up, chunky sun-crust and windpack seem to mostly be on 4WD's and love them.
I am teh suck offpiste on my carving board currently (I can get down, but it doesn't really involve carving), so I couldn't tell you how it is in the crud, but I would guess it is pretty good: short, manuverable, and soft.
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Originally posted by cmc
you sound like a swoard lover, , Ride your swoard, lay it down duuude, study my poppin vid----Thats style and technique.
thats what I thought, a soft bootin west coast faggot. Keep your 60 degree slopes, keep your softboots, west coast fag, dude you are a homo. Show us the vid or shut up
Hey, way to make friends with the west coasters, the Swoard riders, the softbooters, and the homosexuals.
Earning bragging rights = cool.
Using bragging rights = lame.
I like the way you kill the ice, but I don't think I need to meet you. Interesting: I guess we don't need to talk about religion or politics to get to that point.
Sad greetings from a West Coast, sometimes softboot wearing, Swoard loser.
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Originally posted by Bob Jenney
“… There are some 10,000 religious sects on the world. Every one of them thinks that they have it right and that the other 9,999 have it wrong or are outright evil.”
“…None of them have convinced me to make the requisite leap of faith...”
I always liked the religion/politics argument that (paraphrasing from somewhere):
"No matter what you believe, thousands of people much, much smarter than you believe the opposite."
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Originally posted by Phil
If we ever actually had a candidate that would make a huge difference, we would not vote for them. They would have too much integrity to play the game. If they did not play the game, we would not think that they were worth voting for. We don't want a good politician, we want someone who can act like a good politician and use the rhetoric that we think is befitting of a "good politician".
The main problem is that the job of politician does not attract people who would be the best politicians.
For example, people who make hardboot snowboard bindings tend to be really interested in engineering, mechanics, and snowboarding. People who are engineering your bridges are probably interested in engineering and bridges. And people who are making computer animated movies are probably interested in computers, animation, and movies. These interests are directly related to the quality of the work - people who are good at engineering and snowboarding will tend to make better bindings.
The person you want as a politician is somebody who is interested in improving the state of society - an altruist and a critical thinker who is capable of thinking and willing to think in long time scales (50/100/1000 years) and global scales. Unfortunately, the job of politician attracts people who aren't necessarily interested in any of those things - it attracts people who are interested in power, and interested in thinking in time scales of the election cycle (4, 8 years).
Which means you have people in power making decisions designed not to improve your life, but designed to keep them in power. This means that choices are always made in favor of short term gains rather than long term goals (things will appear better in 4-8 years but your 30-year future is never being being considered), and politicians who are good at being politicians don't necessarily have any natural inclination towards making society better (unlike, say, Fin, who makes bindings and has a natural inclination towards engineering and mechanics, or I, who make movies and have a natural inclination towards visual arts and computers).
It stands to reason, imo, that the people on the top of the political game (i.e. those in the running for president) are the best at accumulating power on short time scales, and are thus the worst at helping society and thinking in the long term (or at least their skill at improving society and long-term thinking is unrelated to their other abilities).
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Originally posted by cmc
swoard= static rider
Madd = agressive ripper
1) A static rider will not attack the hill,instead he/she will ride it very slight aggressive/laid back.
Not to revive this apparently religious war again, but the EC riders (Jacques/Patrice), who ostensibly ride the Swoard as it was meant to be ridden since they designed it to start with, are anything but static. Their hips and shoulders are more mobile than any other style of riding I have seen, from fully perpendicular to the board in heelside to fully parallel on toeside. Furthermore, every turn starts fully crouched, has an long extension phase while pointed down the fall line, and ends fully crouched again.
If anything, I would consider your CMC style to be static, as you are in a low, powerful stance all the time. Your upper body is always exactly perpendicular to the board, 2.5 feet above the ground with your arms outstretched like wings - the only difference between your heelside, toeside, and transition positions is the direction your legs poke out from your torso. Your angulation is always huge and your center of gravity low. If I could make my toesides look like yours, I'd probably stop washing out all the time.
I've seen videos of you, and personally I'd classify you as a very static, very aggressive rider.
Having ridden with Patrice for a few days at the SES, I'd classify him (and the other EC riders) as an extremely fluid+dynamic, very aggressive rider.
2) Get off the soft snow and come east...getting a little tired of reading the whole "the Ice Coast gives you gigantic balls and CA/NV/OR/CO/WY/ID/MT/NM/BC/NZ/Swiss/French snow turns you into sissies" thing over and over again.
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I am more impressed that he did some backcountry, too...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/kerry
He ate crap a few times, but it also sounds like they were pretty rough conditions:
> Even with his snowshoes, he often sank up to his thighs.
That's pretty soft and goopy.
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So, these big names that keep getting dropped (Mike Doyle, Joey Cabell, Mickey Munoz, etc.) - I don't surf so I don't know the names, but would my surfer friends know their names? I'm trying to get them to switch from softies (so they can stop giving themselves concussions in the park) to hard boots so they can surf the snow, and I figure it might help the cause if some of their idols carve...
Oh, and conversely... does that mean I should learn how to surf so I can have a summer sport?
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Originally posted by cmc
swoard= static rider
Madd = agressive ripper
The Swoards remind me of the older Pure carve maverics, at least they sort of look like that. I have not ridden a Swoard, spoke to some that did..Ill keep me my mouth shut....The Swoard is no comparison to the madd on East coast (Sugarloaf conditions.)
The good Swoard riders (the EC guys and some others) are anything but static.
Maybe
swoard = fluid rider
madd = powerful rider
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I haven't really ridden Swoards on ice (I'm in Tahoe), and in any case I suck on ice anyways and would not be able to make a judgment anyways. I will say, though, that the Swoard is a very lively board. I like to get airborne on edge transitions and dive into each turn with lots of power, which I think most people would call aggressive riding, and the Swoard definitely lets me do that.
Jack, if the Madd is soft lengthwise and torsionally stiff, then that is exactly the same board philosophy that the Swoard guys are doing. They have a fairly soft board with lots of torsional rigidity, which to me translates into a really maneuverable board which still holds an edge when you want it to.
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Jaded gamers like myself would call this a pixel hunt. That is, it requires no intelligence or cleverness or logic or mental ability whatsoever to complete aside from the ability to find hotspots on the image and click on them. This one's even worse, because some of the hotspots have nothing in the image to indicate their location at all, such as finding the battery, so that it just becomes a test to see how long you can stand clicking on different parts of the screen before you give up...
Nice presentation, though...
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I found the freebord to be really, really hard to ride. Also, they are specifically going for the skidding feeling with those 2 freely rotating center wheels, so while it may appeal to beginner/intermediate snowboarders or those who like to butter the board around, it's kind of the opposite of what we like to do on bomber - carve.
I have a tierney rides and it is supposed to be a carving machine, but I am too scared to ride it fast enough to ride it effectively (Its trucks give it the equivalent of a very long sidecut radius).
The BMW Streetcarver is the most fun toy I've picked up so far - skate it around on flat land at running speed and you can really lay it over. Take it any faster and you'll launch yourself (it really wants to turn - it's like having a board with a tiny sidecut radius that won't skid), but I don't like going faster than running speed on asphalt anyways...
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Maybe 2nd year on a snowboard, still in softies, and just getting fast enough to do some damage.
Flew off a lip, got some air, and landed on my toeside edge. Softboots didn't have enough support and my calves weren't strong enough to hold the toeside in, so my ankles flexed, and that pesky heelside edge touched the snow at a billion miles an hour. Before I had time to think, I was airborne, doing a backflip, and I landed on the back of my head and neck, and everything went bright, bright blue as my sunglasses flew off my head. The energy of the crash compressed me and then rebounded me like a spring trampoline off of my head and neck back into the air, and I did a full backflip (blue/white/blue) and landed on the back of my head and neck again. The energy of _that_ crash compressed me and rebounded me again like a spring trampoline back into the air, and I did a half of a backflip (white) and landed squarely on my stomach, face down in the snow, groaning.
Also did the "Can I move my arms? Check. Can I move my legs? Check."
I went up to check my sunglasses, and they were like 60 feet back up the slope, which means that I had essentially done one and a half back handsprings (except by "handspring" I mean "necksprings"), flying 30-40 each time I went airborne... pretty cool, I thought.
...and then I bought a helmet.
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Originally posted by Jagger
What are you guys talking about ? How is there salt on the slopes? Is it some western thing?
:confused: It's so warm in the summer that the snow turns into really wet mashed potatos. So they throw salt all over it to help firm it up. I'm not sure exactly how it works, but I assume the salt melts the top layer of slush completely so the water goes down further, refreezing and/or revealing harder snow underneath...
I know when I went to the snowperformance carve camp last August, the public lane was salted only a few times over the day whereas our organizer salted our race lane over and over and over again, and our lane was noticably firmer than the public lane in the middle of the afternoon.
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So, I recently purchased one of those extremecarving Swoards, and I really like it. I like lots of different qualities of it, but one particular quality begs a question:
For all board makes and manufacturers, why is sidecut radius so tied to board length? As far as I can tell, nobody else (besides Swoard) makes an itty bitty 161cm board with a 13m sidecut. Most 161cm boards will have a 9m or smaller sidecut. In my experience so far, large board length is good for stability at high speed, but the top carving speed of a 13m sidecut seems to be well under the top stable speed for a 161cm board. e.g. (and I'm making these numbers up), say a board that is 161cm long becomes unstable for me at ~45 mph, but the top carving speed for a 13m sidecut radius is ~30 mph. Is there any reason to prefer the 185cm board over the 161cm board, if they both have the same sidecut radius?
Is it just to get a longer edge for better hold on ice? And is more edge or less edge better for ice? Ice skaters never slip on bulletproof ice, and they have an effective edge length of <1 inch... that's always confused me.
I have to say that I really like the fact that the Swoard can be carved fairly fast because of the 13m sidecut, but is small enough (same size as the Never Summer freeride board I rode before switching to plates) that I can maneuver the board around, ollie off of bumps, or wend through the trees, and was wondering why there are no other boards with this combination... As far as I can tell, I have lost no carving ability from having lost 10cm of effective edge when switching from my other carving board...
Thanks,
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Well, I spent the week after the SES carving in Tahoe, trying to keep everything I learned from the incredible riders at the SES in my head, and now I'm back finally at a computer - hence the late thanks. I only have one complaint about the SES: everything else sucks in comparison. Our local runs don't have good grooming, they aren't steep enough, they're too narrow, and our snow is terrible.
So, thanks to Fin and Michelle for totally spoiling me with Buttermilk. Also, thanks to Bob and Chris and Lowell and anybody else out there who was taking pictures and video.
Also, thanks to Patrice and Nils from extremecarving for showing up and showing us their brand of riding. Man, they are way more graceful in real life than on video. Thanks for the tips and letting me tag along for 3 days in a row.
I can't believe how much I improved just from following really good riders around for a week. I came back to Tahoe to the runs I usually have a hard time with and destroyed them, moved up to the next steepest/narrow ones, destroyed them, too, and finally got beaten down on a really steep run, but only after it got moguls all over it later in the afternoon. Awesome. Anybody looking to break out of that damn "terminal intermediate" trap needs to hit the SES and follow the pack around. Instant jump in ability (and some bruises, but what the hey...). I didn't know skills grew through osmosis, but apparently they do.
I had a total blast - thanks and see you all next year.
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Hey, I'll probably be at Northstar on Tuesday. Maybe the rest of the week, too, depending on how crowded it is. If it is bad I will head to Squaw.
I'm the short Asian guy on the black Donek Freecarve or the red Swoard.
I like eating at Soul Sushi (I love the fact that you can order a crystal shrimp roll and a pulled pork sandwich in the same meal :) ) in Truckee and Lanza's (gigantic Italian food - i.e. 4 pounds of chicken parm as opposed to 12 ounces of veal scallopine) in King's Beach.
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Originally posted by Jack Michaud
Okay, what is the electro-ambient music in Stoked? (this one: http://www.okao.com/films/2003/wmv/stoked1.wmv)
Who is it, what album? I like, I like.
"Breathe", by Télépopmusik, on the "Genetic World" album. I hear the rest of the songs on the album aren't so hot.
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Originally posted by Baka Dasai
Thanks, sounds like an interesting hack. I'll check it out.
Yeah - I did this when I wanted more forward lean - I lowered both cant adjusters so that my 1->3 flex is more forward than it was by default.
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Originally posted by Baka Dasai
Some quick questions about the 324s
<ol><li><p>With the lever up, does it make any difference if the dial is sideways instead of up?</p></li><li><p>With the lever down and the dial sideways, it locks for backward flex at position 3. Is it possible to get it to lock at the other positions in this mode?</p></li></ol>
If they are like by SB423s, the answers are No and No - the lever won't fit with the dial turned sideways (it will be lock just like if the dial was straight up, but the lever will be half open), and the 1->3 flex of the lever down and dial sideways doesn't adjust, as far as I know.
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So, should I do this warm-wax + scrape procedure every time I wax the board (approx every 2 riding days), or should I just add new wax each time and do a warm-wax scrape every once in a while (like every 10 or 20 riding days)?
I'm more interested in the long life of my board than in anything else.
Thanks
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Really?
I've always used base cleaner, pressed out all the gunk, wiped the base dry, let the small amount left evaporate out over 5 or so minutes, and then applied fresh wax on top of that. Is that a really bad thing to do?
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Yeah, I got pretty addicted to Far Cry recently. Man, the graphics in games these days are incredible - full, lush jungle with no draw-in/far clipping plane, reflecting and refracting water, real time shadows and physics, at 60 frames per second. Unbelievable. Have you seen the tech demo for the Unreal3 engine (virtual displacement mapping and soft shadows in real time)? Damn.
These days I am playing a lot of City of Heroes. Great fun.