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Love that vid.

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Fin, The thing that surprises me the most (or maybe not, all things being considered) is that if the coach and the school were taking this seriously, the coach probably would have made a personal call or sent an email saying that the incident was unacceptable and would not be repeated in the future. That being said, if it were me, and I had the relationship you have with Copper, I would pass along their email with its implied apathy, and let the chips fall where they may. If Copper management feels that they need to set an example for the National Sports Academy and the other teams that visit their fine establishment, maybe they tell the National Sports Academy that they are un-invited from visiting for one year due to their athletes reckless behavior and their schools indifference in ensuring appropriate behavior by their athletes. The tarnish of being banned from a ski area would certainly affect their image in the community and might get them thinking that respect for others by their coaches and athletes needs to be applied rather than just given lip service.

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Bring something that can handle pow, They are talking about up to 10" tonight and another 5" on Saturday.

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Yeah, and most of them are pretty lazy and if they see a cable locked snowboard and an unlocked board, which one do you think they are going to take? I always lock up my gear, and I was really angry when some jerkoff stole my leash off my board last year. Now I keep it attached to my boot and clip it onto my binding. Michelle, wasn't yours stolen out of your car or the roof rack?

Sunday it is....see ya then.

Have a great one. :)

Plans for Saturday or Sunday?

Not trying to threadjack but I'm curious about the switch from hard boots to softies because of the achilles. I ruptured mine a few years ago (while riding on soft boots) and when I got back on the snowboard the next year, I could only ride in my hard boots because the softies didn't provide the support and protection that I needed for my previously injured achilles. It took me another season of strength training and stretching before I could get back on soft boots. Good luck either way.

A Navy SEAL told me that soreness is weakness leaving the body. :D

Tomato for the WRT54G/GL/GS is another way to go firmware-wise for boosting the signal. http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

If you go onto the apple site there are instructions for both soft and hard resets. Try the soft reset first, if that doesn't work the hard reset will reformat your ipod and you'll need to resynch with your itunes to put all your stuff back on it. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1320?viewlocale=en_us&locale=en_us

Ursle, I'm referring to the placement of your left foot at the end of that push on the crossover. You are pointing your toe downward and the left foot is behind the right at the end of the push. It would look correct if your left foot and right were on the same plane and instead of toe pointing down, and it was toe pointing up (i.e., your pushing through your heels not your toes.) It should feel like your are making the wheels spin forward (i.e. on your left foot wheels spinning clockwise, right foot wheels spinning counter-clockwise). Going forward or backward shouldn't matter, you would just reverse the acceleration to which ever way your forward momentum is headed. Look at the second skaters foot position. Also notice where the hips are in the turn compared to the supporting leg.

I just caught myself in a pavlovian drool just now. Damn, I have to wait until the 11th for my first ride.

Push forward not backwards. :)

Video or it never happened.

Last time I check the weightlifters and powerlifters weren't hurling themselves down a mountain while doing their movements. Yes and no. Yes, the 1 to 2 minutes on/ recover defines what is typically an anaerobic based situation, but how many are really taking it to that level and digging that deep into their system to make it a true anaerobic situation. Not many, I'm guessing. For the average non-competitive athlete it is more like within that 2 minute section there is maybe 30 seconds of true anaerobic work. If your run lasts beyond 2 minutes you'll probably benefit from some type of endurance training that is anaerobic threshold based like running, cycling, inline skating. Spending the day on the mountain making multiple runs will benefit from short to medium distance endurance training. I was never on a national ski or snowboard team, but did ski competitively and speedskated at both long track sprint and distance events. I have trained with the national and world cup teams for both long track and short track both on ice and off, and I assure you there is a lot of endurance training work going on, alot of running, alot of cycling. They just don't necessarily do it as their focus, and they don't do it all season long, they cycle their training with periods that focus on different elements such as alactic power, lactic power training, muscular, etc. I think this is the heart of the matter. Competitive athletes train for basically three things, to have the fitness to carry them through their workouts, recovery, and most importantly for the competitive event. All that explosive training that skiers, snowboards, etc. do is for the 1 to 2 minutes that they are fighting for that first place spot. On race day, they are warming up, waiting, competing, lather rinse repeat. If you are doing something to get yourself ready to make it through the day on the mountain, have fun doing it, and reducing your potential for injury and next day soreness, you are on the right track. Since I put my .02 cents in, I will add what I am currently doing and why. Over the spring and summer I was doing a lot of cycling (road and mountain bike) - 5 days a week, some core - 3x per week, and some balance with strength building (ie squats on stability board type of stuff) - 3x per week. I was riding mostly to drop weight and improve my endurance, but I wasn't burning enough calories in an efficient manner to benefit from any weight loss. I work some long work days and with family stuff finding an 1 1/2 hours to fit a workout in can be tough. So I switched over from cycling to running for an hour 4x to 5x per week, some of it barefoot, and that has worked. I also switched up some of my nutritional habits and started wearing a body bugg so i can keep a close eye on whether I am burning enough calories on a daily basis. One other benefit of running over cycling is that running lengthens your achilles, cycling shortens it. I've learned from past experience that a tight achilles tendon is not beneficial for snowboarding.

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Mountain House Lodge is doing a book 6 nights, get 7th night free.

FIRSTIES!!!! I booked my accommodations, very excited for my first SES!

If you check the Lovey website there is a possibility of snow over the next few evenings....FINGERS CROSSED!

I'm hoping that Fin and Sean will be bringing plenty of demos to SES this year. Maybe an early season demo day at Loveland too?

Gratz, hope you got some great rides in this summer.