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"+" style upper body despite the relatively low angles. Very flexible waist/lower spine/hips rotation to allow that difference to exist. Exemplar style. If I was going to show one video to a softbooter who wants to carve - THIS ONE!

Likely this season will not happen.

Original reference for DIY mask research above. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_the_Efficacy_of_Homemade_Masks_Would_They_Protect_in_an_Influenza_Pandemic#pf7 Just made my own using my neoprene face protector from snowboarding plus a folded bandana inside, counting 12 layers of bandana, an air seal close to the N95 mask I practised with at work the other day and enough humidity absorption that my glasses don't fog. NZ goes into Wuhan level lockdown nationwide in 26 hours time for initially 4 weeks. I'm sure I'll be doing some carpet carving trying some stuff out, and watching lots of carving videos. At least when I'm home resting up between whatever shifts we end up working at the hospital.

Made by Siouxsie (Susie) Wiles, a currently purple haired microbiologist from NZ, not your typical academic! Just one of the people helping with the response here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_Wiles

Playlist of the instruction videos I've found. The above video is in the list. Tried to put together a number of playlists of useful videos for riders so have a look around the channel. Recently made them public. RiotSupercarver (YouTube) = SunSurfer(AlpineSnowboarder.com)

In the midst of this pandemic there are many sources of information. There are already a lot of conspiracy theories and misinformation. Go for authoritative information, your local health authorities, the world wide respected CDC, Centres for Disease Control. View anything on Facebook etc which does not have an official source with caution. I haven't watched the video John has posted above. The comment is a general one, not specifically directed at the posted video.

Wearing my anesthesiologist hat, non-invasive ventilation very effectively aerosolises the virus. Recommendations are for intubation earlier than usual to support patients but enable sealed systems to be used to minimise aerosol spread. The other issue is not just the number of ventilators, but the number of people with the skills to operate them. Lots of people thinking hard about ways to get us all through this. Keep thinking John.

Just seen a new horror of this pandemic. Personal protective equipment training for our all anaesthesia department staff today. The viral filter masks don't seal if you have any significant beard. Just fully seen a number of my male colleagues faces for the first time ever!

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-may-make-millions-of-americans-sick-but-we-only-have-about-100000-ventilators/ To help you understand the stats around the whole heap of trouble the USA is in. 538 is a USA based, reasonably politically neutral, and has some of the best writers around to make statistics accessible. The article may also help with linking your behaviour as an individual and the effect that has on your country/society as a whole. Not all doom and gloom.

Coming to the realisation that there is no guarantee of a NZ season this year for me. Fields may not open, OR, our hospital system may be running on empty for staff by then and my time off is not possible. PPE training this week for all our anaesthesia dept staff, (ED & ICU staff already done) with plans to use our younger staff in the frontline to start with. This is a long game, play will continue till vaccination is widely distributed.

Right now Jack, that's as close to a hug as anyone should give to someone who isn't immediate family.

Not so sure. If Photoshopped someone has gone to the trouble of putting accurate cord reflections on the ptex surface near the nose.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/03/11/coronavirus-aspen-australians/amp That will put a dampener on some people's plans.

Maybe the ladies here could suggest a collective term for gigolos. Like a herd of cows, a flock of sheep, a murder of crows.

Just 5 confirmed cases in NZ so far and no new cases for 6 days but no complacency where I work in NZs health service. Planning committee at our hospital meets daily. Our hospitals are expecting to need to admit to ICU level care about 5% of confirmed cases and ventilate 1-2%. We anticipate the need to triage ventilator care, that is to select which cases receive it because the numbers potentially benefitting will exceed our ability to supply it. NZ significantly has better leave and income support protection for workers than the USA. We have a universally available public healthcare system which is centrally organised and coordinated. As a result we anticipate NZers are more likely to self isolate when appropriate rather than turn up to work, and to seek healthcare when they do get sick knowing that they will not face prohibitive healthcare costs. Hopefully that will translate into slower community spread and overall a lower case fatality rate.

I hope for all of our sakes this is just a first world problem for us. But the statistics would suggest that some of the people who hang out here are going to get very sick, and a number may die, in any of the countries represented here. When we look back at this coming time in a few years missing a sporting event may seem a very small price compared with what others will have lost.

Harem? Not sure what the female equivalent for a collection of male pleasure persons is????!

Guilty. I had company. Pow4ever, Pat Donnelly & ktv are guilty as well. Our only defence is that "The light was better with the shadow from the trees."

I just start thinking about my next season. 5 months from now I hope to be carving at Cardrona unless Covid-19 sends those plans to the bin. Off season training can be fun too, a 3 hour mountain bike ride yesterday was both great time in the outdoors and quads training. The hardest bit of my off season is reading what you Northerners are doing while it's full summer here in NZ.

Rode my first skateboard age 12 (1971), a steel wheeler a friend owned. Built my first skateboard age 12, from an old rubber wheeled roller skate cut apart and screwed to a simple ply deck. Lived on a no exit street 400m long with a modest slope and smooth tar seal. Cue my teenage years spent carving that hill, and building progressively better boards. Always a slalom/downhill rider for preference, and taught myself to tune my trucks for turns vs. stability at speed with wedges. Urethane wheels arrived in NZ in my mid teens and by 18 I'd acquired a pair of Tracker Trucks and a set of Road Rider 4s. Dallied with ramps and parks but road carving was always my passion. Fast forward a few years, and I can ski pretty much all the inbounds terrain I can find at Mt Hutt, when I spot an Asian guy carving the most sinuous, smooth, short swing turns on an alpine board as I ride the lift. Brain explosion!!!! Decided to try snowboarding, hired a board (only soft setups available), immediately found a screwdriver and swung the bindings from duckfoot to like my feet were on my slalom board (Turner Summerski profile, laminated, fibreglass/ply, cambered, with wedged trucks), and proceeded to try and carve from my first run. My snowboard instructor was left scratching his head and I never took another lesson in softs. Bought a pair of Raichle 323s new (old stock in an NZ surf store I wandered into) and found a regular PJ 6.2 in a ski swap/sale. Made a little progress till I found Bomberonline Forum in 2008 and found a Riot Supercarve 180 on TradeMe (NZ's eBay). The rest is history & bliss.

Glasses lenses fog up. That's been my problem. I only use contact lenses for snowboarding, but it means I can consistently see the snow contour with no condensation in the way.

Haven't found one that works yet. I use daily use contact lenses for snowboarding. I've seen a few riders with lenses integrated into the goggle lens as another fog free option.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2020/mar/06/a-snowless-winter-around-europe-in-pictures https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/05/truly-extreme-winter-2019-20-in-europe-by-far-hottest-on-record

@lowriderCheck out the plate thread. Unless there have been some more recent developments????

Agree. Angles don't define technique in the midrange. Skwallers will struggle to heel toe. Duck footers will struggle to ride out of the side of their boots. And racing technique is far far more complex than just how the board is put and balanced on edge. The OP is working out which method is most suitable for him to put, and balance his board on edge. I want to focus on helping him with that. @dgCarve