Dida

I'm 208 pounds and love the yellow springs. When I bought Indys, I rode them for a season and put them away. I hated them so much that I got back on my Le Mans. Then I bought BTS (yellow) and now the Indys are a completely new boot. Just perfect.

Awesome. How can I save this to my PC? This is a keeper. :D

Thanks!

Wow. How does this beast ride? Never seen such a wide Kessler. It would be perfect for my humongous feet. :)

The slope was in the worst condition I've ever seen. Which bindings did T. Jewel ride on? For a front binding to break like that can be fatal for your back knee. Glad he's OK.

The thing I find interesting about being hit by a skier is that I have never, ever, in my life, heard an apology. Not even once. I've collided with other people a bunch of times in my life. When I was a kid, maybe even by my fault. But I would always apologise. Even today when somebody hits my from behind, I stand up, put on a smiley face and say something like "sorry" or "cheers" expecting the same reaction from the other guy so we can go and ride on. But the a**hole whose fault it was in the first place ALWAYS needs to say something about my mother, etc. I've never encountered a guy who would hit me and say "I am sorry". If I'm not injured, I don't care if somebody hit me. Hell, there's hardly a slope that I descend without falling while pushing carves so hitting the snow isn't something exotic to me. I've came to realize that real athletes won't be rude because they know that it is dangerous to continue riding if you are worked up and thinking how you'd like to kick the other guys ass. So all real skiers/snowboarders will, if you collide, just go on. On the other hand, the jerkoffs will always be looking for a fight, at least a verbal one, because they don't really care if they get a good day skiing. This way, they'll have a good story to tell to their friends.

Last week my friend, a girl, was trying to convince me that I don't have a snowboard suit but a ski suit (F2 BX suit) because it isn't baggy. Fortunately, the suit has those Intec clasps that connect to Intec cables so I could prove it was indeed a snowboarding suit. She was stunned... Who would buy such a thing!?!? :D

These are actually my only photos so that would make them the "best" ones too. :) At Soelden, slope 25. Cheers!

Beautiful! And scary! I bet I would have a hell of a lot crashes cause I'd be staring at that terminator head while riding.

In '96 or '97 my dad took me to try snowboarding (I was 8 or 9 yeras old). I was excited about softboots and how cool they are compared to hardboots skiers use. And I was pi**ed when all the softboots at the shop were rented and they only had hardboots. But what the hell, I tried it with hardboots. And at the end of the day, my dad reserved some softboots for me for tomorrow. The next day, I was so excited about trying softboots, "this is real snowboarding", I said... and then... "what is this POS? I cant control the board in this slippers...". I hated softboots so much that since then, I never ever stepped into them again. I just thank God that the shop didn't have softboots the first day I came there. Maybe I wouldn't experience the joy of the Dark side, ever. So, all in all, I'm buckled up from day one.

I've been looking for this for months and have been pi**ed because all footbeds solely rely on arch support. Thanks for the link. I have been correcting posture by putting a canting plate on my rear foot so the foot leans out. @Jack and Alex Where I live, I've never seen a company that makes custom footbeds that correct posture. The only thing you can find are firms that make footbeds solely with arch support to improve comfort. When you google "posture correction footbeds" you get nothing concrete. The philosophy is simple. You just need a little bit of lift on the inside of your foot. I think this could be a great product.

I had a simmilar problem. My knees didn't actually hurt but I dislocated my rear knee twice on a snowboard purely because of forces while riding (I didn't fall). I fixed the problem (partially) by putting a canting plate on the rear binding (reverse order, so the binding leans out). This way, since I'm a natural supinator, the knee bends in a more natural position. Of course, this applies only if you are a supinator. Plus I ride with knee braces on both knees. :D

The guy on the left gave me some pointers on my freecarving last week. At the time, I didn't realize that he was famous. :) Cheers