SteveInOregon

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Officer Rockboard: "Ma'am step out of the thread and put your school books up on the hood of my patrol car":cool: Aisling: "look you perv mall cop freak, you just pulled me over cause I'm a smoking hottie and you "wish" you could be seen with me in the lift line, Mr alpine looser on your beat up old long board" . Officer Rockboard: "No need to get hostile Ma'am, in fact I am gonna tear up this fix it ticket , not because your a hottie, but because your a member of my old fraternity Tappa Kegga Bud, and your a member of collage M.E.N.S.A = smart a** snow board team and I have a soft spot for brainy carving Bettys Ma'am, and here I am going to give you a pamphlet called "collage carving grants" its how to get government money to carve and still pay tuition Ma'am, have nice day Ma'am. (( Officer Rockboard drives away)) Aisling: (( speaking to herself in her mind )) What a creepy guy , but perhaps I could write a grant , ya ya I could write a paper or even make a documentary about alpine carving minorities and ski slope discrimination and get a new quiver out of it :) (( the dramatic music theme from the old Dragnet TV show ))> Daaa da da da, Daaaaaaaaaa

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- (( slurring my words )) Yezzzz suur Cpt Vicodin, seaman Carver repoording for dudie surrrr, :p

I'm new to alpine ( 3 months ) so take this for what it is " rookie advice " If you use the search function here with the terms knees or knock knees you will find some very informative threads. Also I think Jack the moderator here wrote an article on binding cant / loft and degree set up and it talks about knees in relationship to the board and the facing carve turns , plus pain ??? Myself I had bad knee pain on my very 1st run in hard boots this year , so bad I had to stop at the bottom and walk over to the board repair & wax shop and ask a long time carve board builder / rider whats up , well at the time my plates were both parallel around 45 degrees each, more degrees than my old soft set up. We changed to more degrees on the front boot pointing more in line towards to boards nose ( cant remember the # some were around 55 ) and a less degrees on the back foot, for a difference or differential. Not only that but we took that flat out of both bindings , we lifted up ( is it "tilting" ) the heal up on the back foot binding and lifting / tilting up the toe on the front binding did the trick for me > no more knee pain. Pointing my lead / front boot more towards the nose took a few run's to get use to because I could not ankle my turns I had to be a surfer again and lean like a long board surfer so I caught on fast from already being a surfer, now I want to go even more in line with the nose almost like a Sqwal. Everyone has different knee posture and angles, I think one technical name for extreme turn in of the knees is called "knocked" and then going to a middle ground of "neutral" and the duck or "splayed" or something like that ???. Check it out, I am kind of neutral in the middle, anyways do some searching and you "will" find all the answers here from experienced hard boot guys here, take care Hope that helps.:)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey dude, please go have your dizziness checked out. ( side note ) I am a drummer too, Iv'e been drumming for 35+ years, ( I'm 46 ) I had my own band for 12 years doing 120 gigs a year in so Cal. Broke my ankle carving 2 weeks ago so my right kick drum foot is SOL :( Ian Paice is one of my fav drummers, here are some Youtubes of him in different years plus a tutorial video with Ian at the bottom, enjoy. Old School Ian from 30 years ago : Current Ian: Ian giving some advice to drummers:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am almost ambidextrous , mostly left / goofy. I ride SB goofy, eat with my left, shoot rifle & shotgun with my left, **shoot pistol with both hand ( **thank God I do cause It saved me in a shooting) pick my nose with my right, drink with my right, kick a football or soccer ball with my right, fight south paw, bat with my right, write with my left, and pet my dog with my both hands ( my Pit bull dog silly get your mind out of the gutter silly, lol ;))

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey how did you edit my quote from Ibuprofen to ganja ?

I got something similar to that once in a plane , I was a VFR pilot ( Visual flight rules ) and not use to IFR ( instrument flight rules ) and got into the high fog I had to stair at my panel to stay up right and alive. I think JFK's son & his new wife died in a light plane over long island because he flew into heavy cloud and minimum visibility, he got vertigo like disorientation and gently flew into the ground, sad.:(

( as if its worth squat ) A new Park Pickle or Banana and take Ibuprophen "before" booting up ;)

Is that self powered using only the athletes initiation ???? Seams like a good device for training, but looks like the side to side turns are a bit shallow without high degree edge , they also kind of to quick for PGS , but anyways not being a true athlete nor sports scientist my opinion is just speculation. I do see the same basic muscle recruitment for real vs this training machine. Cool device tho

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evar sins I took they Evaline Wood sped rid'in corse my riden has improved won-der-ful-e, and me comprenshun has gotin a lod booter to, also me now no how tu uze the spill chucker, thamks to Evalin Wood.

I voted > "I couldn't give a dam either way". < pretty magnanimous for a close minded cave man conservative huh ;) Announcer Voice> This sarcasm brought to you "BooterButter" makers of better board bottom base wax & CarveJuice because my alpine board just ran over your RedBull ) Whats another park monkey on a tricycle gonna hurt, lol, so long as they stay in *edit> stay in their not there own room ( thanks Phil W ) ,smoke their dope and Sherms outside, pickup their Micky's Bigmouth bottles, leave the lid up , and keep Napalm Death down to 100 decibels after 10pm. They wont stay here long there are to many mature adult people here, plus a lot of techno & gadget types and a lot of peaceful family type normal folks with real job's here in this forum, and besides Fin has one of those 195 Burners to flatten any flame'rs from peeing on the forum rug. :p

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WOW, So Darren talks about wanting to break 200 !!! sounds impossible, and ya skiers are always faster ( less contact patch ) You would think a Sqwal would be almost as fast a ski's ? This world championship > I don't see any newer listings past 07, I guess no one wants to try to beat him any more , perhaps there is not enough call for this and not enough draw for this fringe thing, I guess not many speed kooks are willing to risk dying to go that ultra fast beat him. ???? thanks

GREAT , keep at it . Here is a suggestion from a NuB myself ( only 11 full days/sessions on hard boots & long board ) > Be picky about the snow & groom conditions, when it gets beat up by skiers or super icy Your learning curve could go flat and then it turns into a survival ride to try and carve, when it gets cruddy then stay sharp and be fresh or stop and wait till the slope zamboni makes another run before you start the "mean lean on the leaning machine". Peace:)

I often wonder who has "documented" the fastest strait line bomb on a SB ? I'm talking world record speed on a set up regulated resort double-black run, and not just your personal record or speed or GS type speed ? This would be nice to know and see some gutsy guys willing to go up to the edge of what a speedboat does when it catches air and yet still stays in control. Obviously I know you could find a snow cliff in the Alaska range and just "fall" at a radar gun at some were around human terminal velocity of 120 or so, but what about a highly organized series of runs to see who and what set up is the fastest. I'm sure there are some kooks out here wanting 15 min of fame as the fastest SB'er alive.

Velcumin to za bomski on lineski heir softridar , lol.:p Today's hard boots with heat modlable liners and custom foot bed's will take all the pain away and leave you with a solid connection to the board and no softy can equal, hell mine without expensive liners are good for all day while my Burton drive x just sit on the shelf. Soft since 88, now hard for 3 months ( without Viagra )

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Truly sorry to hear that :( , well did you at least get in a good few runs with the group before disaster struck ? Perhaps you can ride the lift up and back down a few times with a video cam in hand to film everyone :o. Hope you don't have a long way to drive back to home.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( siren & flashing lights behind you ) You pull over , I get out of my patrol car walk up to your window, my badge and uniform patch say "Boarder Patrol" ( knock knock on your passenger window make hands moevements for you to roll it down ) Officer : Hello Ma'am do you know why I pulled your thread over ? Aisling : Ah no, was I posting off topic Officer: No Ma'am, I ran your profile and you don't have an alpine board. Aisling : Ah Ah no , no I dont , but I am getting one real soon.:o Officer: Ma'am, it's late in the season , and you have been on BOL for some time now, I'm gonna have to give you a fix it ticket and ask you to not only registrar an alpine board in your profile, you will also need to be in hard boots, and buckle up in bail style bindings. ( handing you a fix it ticket ), have a nice day Ma'am. Aisling: ( mumbling under her breath) "jerk" wannabe, he is not even a moderator

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ahhhhh, yes , gotcha.;) QUESTION: I don't know anything about CO resorts, so do you Colorado guys have a multi mountain yearly pass option ? I read some were that you can pay about $2 thousand for a 4 mountain pass, so the main question is was Fin pulled over and threatened with yanking a "very" expensive multi resort yearly pass or a single Keystone yearly pass ???? I don't remember reading that detail

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ya , its all to common. "Balance" : I think it's normal for a guy who wants to be real good or the best in a chosen field or sport to obsess over details, do research, compare etc... but for some people it seams to be an escape and kind of a mask for not actually going out and doing it and learning on the fly, after all this is not flying a plane or building a bridge, lol.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be Cool, be cool my friend you don't want to end up in pain as a gimp with a limp the rest of your life just because you want to ride faster than your body wants to heal. ;)

( This possibly needs 2B in the "Off Topic" section ) It would be interesting to hear from the peep's who looked at the video and read Fin's account as to why they / you voted that Fin was speeding and or a hazard ? It takes brass wax biscuits to stand up and say why you voted that way, I would respect you for speaking up , and not bash you. ;)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm trying to be diplomatic. 99% is not "all". I am sure there is plenty of slackers, trollers, scab picking meth heads, Cheeto loafing bong loaders living on mommies front porch here to keep things spicy One mans "square" is another mans "loser". If I don't hit 5 shots of Jack , spark a hooter on the lift and bomb the kiddie run before looking to hook up on a 17 year old girl in the parking lot then I am "square" LOL. Ya I admit on the other extreme there is a tad bit of "stuffy old guy" here on BOL. I call them "fly fishermen" I used to get them in my motorcycle all the time, they were white collar middle age guys , mostly hyper critical engineer wannabees who would dissect everything , complete with slide rule and hands full of research articles on each particular make model and year, then once they FINALLY buy a bike they then don't even ride it, lol, "Survey Says BEOTCHES E Pluribis Carborundum = Dont let the bastards grind you down.:p

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Or switch to a floater board ;)

Dear Len, although I completely disagree with you as per Fin's assessment of the encounter , and the video, I would like to hear you out Sir. The "grandpa" use by me is not a dis-respect in my use of this term, its just a reference Len. I love to go f-a-s-t but I also know that ski patrol is needed, and can be a tough job, we need ambassadors on both sides. on the resort side and the alpine carving and snowboard side, you have met one in Fin. You will find 99% of the folks here on Bomber on line are polite people in every way, most are in fact not dangerous down hill "bombers" as the BOL name suggests. Many alpine carving devotees are former or part time skiers, they are for the most part a very classy demographic that ski resorts love to cater too, the majority of which are middle to upper middle class people in their 30's to late 50's, ( with kid's ) and definitely NOT the typical stereotype of a teen hoodlum or ruff neck heavy drinking pot smoking selfish low intelligence dangerous street thug snowboarder .:p regards Steve