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  1. State of the Halfpipe adress, a different perspective

    in The Lodge

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    Half pipes have gotten a lot bigger than when I used to ride them. I took a spin on the local one last year and I could barely make it to the lip. I am getting a bit chicken in my old age. It had nice transitions. It seemed like half pipes used to only have one line, a track running from jump to jump. Half pipes these days look awesome. Big smooth transitions. I wish I wasn't so worried about hurting myself. I would ride it all the time.

    That being said for the couple of times a year I would ride, I never saw anyone riding it.

  2. best mittens for carving?

    in Carving Central

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    Any ideas for gloves for really cold weather? I tend to wear mitts when it gets below -20 celsius but I would like to find a nice pair of warm gloves good into the -30's. I probably wouldn't be snowboarding at that temperature but I am out and about in weather like that all the time. I have yet to find gloves that work well in extreme cold. I played hockey with a postman that swore by some hunting gloves that they sell at Canadian Tire that are Polar Shield (I think...) brand or something like that. I can't find anything online about them. I'll probably pop by Can Tire and pick up a pair and try em out.

  5. Over The Bolts - Canadian snowboard team documentary

    in Carving Central

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    I was able to get it to work last night. After installing perian (http://perian.org/) at the suggestion of another user here, you are able to open the movies in Quicktime Player and save the movies out as M4V files (which you can put in your itunes library). Takes about 30 minutes per episode on my somewhat ancient Macbook Pro.

    Do you need quicktime pro? The "Save as" option only comes up for quicktime pro which I don't have. I suppose I should buy it. It's only $38.

  7. Old carver getting back Into it. Looking for gear and advice.

    in Want to Buy

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    Just got my boots today so I set everything up! I'm excited!

    The bindings have a 3 degree toe lift on front and 6 degree hell lift on the back. About 55 on the front and 50 on the back. I have since changed them to 6 lift on front and 3 lift on back. It seems to put less strain on the outside of my back knee when I am on my knees. What do people do to keep from straining their knees (Twisting) when they are sitting down/kneeling?...I know, I know...Don't sit down or kneel! :D

    Oxygen APX 165, Deeluxe 225T m26 boots, TD2s. Thanks for all your help!

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  8. Over The Bolts - Canadian snowboard team documentary

    in Carving Central

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    Corey, sorry for the late reply. I was out of town this weekend. I don't know of any open-source converters or recorders off the top of my head, but I can look into it.

    I've also been using Handbrake to convert some of my DVDs into iPod format and haven't had a problem. It works great, in fact. I haven't tried the OTB episodes yet, but I was planning doing so this week.

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    I use handbrake all the time for putting dvds onto my ipod but it doesn't seem to work for me with these episodes. Could you post the mp4 versions once you are done?:biggthump

  11. Taking Advil while riding= Bad

    in Carving Central

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    I sometimes have found that Ibuprofen takes a bit off my focus. I noticed this playing hockey as a goaltender. It doesn't make me groggy but it seems to slow down my puck tracking just a bit. I don't know if this is just in my head but it affects me enough that I go to tylenol and save the Advil for after the game.

  17. Cypress Diaries 2009-10

    in Carving Central

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    I just wanted to say that you guys have a very cool scene! It is great that you support the sport and local carving community the way you do. :biggthump

    I really appreciate the help that people like Boris And Carvingscooby have given to help me get back into the sport. I'm thinking that I'm going to have to head down for spring break to do some carving! :)

    Cheers!

  20. Anyone have a couple of extra binding bolts for TD2s?

    in Want to Buy

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    I bought some TD2s a couple of weeks ago and they just arrived. I bought them without the center discs because the previous owner had 3 hole discs and i needed 4 hole discs. I ordered the 4 hole discs from Bomber. I just realized that I only have bolts for a 3 hole (Burton) disc. Oops. Are binding bolts standardized or do I need specific ones from Bomber?

    If I do need specific TD2 bolts, does anyone from Canada have some they could sell me?

    It takes a long time for stuff to get here through customs and I'm thinking I might be waiting a while for the bolts to get here from Bomber. I'm still waiting for my 4 hole discs to clear customs.

    Can anyone help out a brainfartin noob? :D

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