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jatkinson

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  1. Can you elaborate a bit on the tankers. I am looking for a new pow stick. I am 6’4” 250lb. i gravitate towards the 201 but worry if it’s too long for trees. Any comparison you can offer would be helpful.
  2. For those who have used zipfit... I have been riding Intuition liners for a few years and keep having the same problem. Boots are good at the start of the day, but by the end of the day the foam has packed out and I am flopping around inside the boots. As the liners age, the time to loosen up lessens and I start the day barely able to do up the boots but after 4-6 runs I have tighenened them down 3 notches (which is uncomfortable). By the time i hit 40-50 days the liners are toast. Intuition has been good and replaced liners for me, but I want a better solution. Will zipfit work better? Full disclosure, I am on the large size for a snowboarder so probably load up the boots more than the liners are designed to handle.
  3. Hi. I am in need of some of the new style UPZ tongues. Stiff ones, ideally the race, but stiff grey might work too. For Size 30 boots. UPZ guy doesn’t have any and said he won’t until next year, which really sucks. Can an anyone help?
  4. Hi all, i have lost a pin off one of my heels. Questions: 1. Is this fixable? 2. In the meantime, is it safe to use these? No answer from Bomber during their “issues”, so hoping the collective can help solve. New Donek arrives today, so eager to get out there ?
  5. Is the liner squirming inside the shell a known issue? I just had my first day on new UPZ boots and this was driving me crazy. I asked UPZ and he said that my shell must be the wrong size. I felt like the liner fit really well, and stayed put on my foot but the whole thing was moving around unless I had the buckles cranked way too tight.
  6. I did this once.... Way overloaded the nose and got launched into the air. Managed 1 and a half flips with my front foot having come out of the binding. Seeing snow/sky/snow between your foot and the board is not a good feeling. Lucky for me I landed right on my head and didn't torque my knee into 1000 pieces. My wife was right behind me when it happened. She was white when she skiied up to me. Thought I was going to be dead or something.
  7. Thanks for all the replies. Work went crazy and I haven't had time to check in until now (bad website!). I love the variety, but can't get my head around those narrow stances and body positions of the 90s videos. I am now all set to go rip up Whistler tomorrow. Cheers
  8. Hi All, I like to watch carving videos the night before a day on the mountain. I find myself coming back to the same video over and over. Wondering what the collective feels is the ultimate carving video to get pumped up before heading out For me it is https://youtu.be/MC7HWs3kPjs Interested in others to check out Cheers, JJ
  9. Ok, I will play. You need to look carefully to see the hard boots, but trust me they are there :) An amazing day with Whistler Heli yesterday. I still have a big stupid grin on my face. https://www.youtube.com/Jc2r9V-okQc
  10. Whistler still has a base of about 6' and is supposed to be open until March 30. I just cracked 100,000m vertical for the season and am hopeful for a few more days on the snow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  11. Very cool. PM sent. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  12. Let me know if you can lay your hands on them. I can email you a Fedex label if that works for you. They do indeed have those markings. What did you have in mind? Thanks JJ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  13. Hi All, I have head Stratos MP30 with the yellow/orange tongue. I understand there are stiffer black or silver ones available. Anybody have a pair floating around out there somewhere? Cheers, JJ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  14. Thanks for all the feedback from everyone! The short answer to my question seems to be yes, this terrain is carvable, but my skills aren't there yet. Planning to head back out this weekend to put this into practice. Which of course means that there will be a pesky 2 feet of fresh snow, zero visibility and a million people all over the mountain to interfere with my progression. You are welcome whistler powder heads :) My thoughts on the highlights of this thread so far.... Great link. I hadn't found that one yet. Thanks! I was trying to do this, but probably not committing enough to get the board to a high enough angle and early enough edge pressure. Thanks Boris, but I think I will save this until I have a bit more practice. Perhaps you can teach me the finer points of this if we ever manage to get together for that lesson... This is probably at least somewhat true, though if I pay attention to my turn shape and think about pointing the board back uphill between downhill sections I am controlling my speed without skidding on moderate terrain. Other than more aggressive angulation/inclination what do I need to do to get the board to turn tighter. I have noticed that when I feel like I am really on my game I am able to carve quite quietly on even very hard/icy slopes. When I am not at my best it seems a lot noisier. I realize that this is probably not exactly what you meant by noise, but would be interested to hear if anyone else thinks of the sound they make while riding as an indicator of how clean the carves are. Be more aggressive with the knees - yes. Cool article on physics, but now my head hurts a bit. I was competent at math and physics a very long time ago but that has all left me at some point, meaning I will have to blindly assume that the math is right and stick to accepting the principles explained in the article. Cheers, JJ
  15. Go to whistler mountain. Upper and lower Dave Murray are groomed blacks. Lower was much better groomed yesterday. Ptarmigan on the garbanzo chair was great yesterday. There was a downhill race there on the weekend so it hadn't seen much traffic. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  16. I am about 20 days into my hardbooting career. I think I am carving reasonably on green and mellow blue runs with mixed results on steeper harder blue terrain. This weekend I discovered the downhill course on whistler that was in pristine condition (very hard corduroy). It is a black run that is groomed very well and is not busy because it is too steep for the newbies. If you were to sit down you would slide on your butt for a fair way before stopping. I was certainly not carving on this terrain. More sliding than clean carves, and didn't seem to be able to complete a carve without sliding out as I approached perpendicular to the fall line. I was still in control and having a lot of fun, but not getting the nice carves I was hoping for. Is this type of terrain possible to carve without skidding around? If yes, any tips on how to handle the steeper stuff? Cheers, JJ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  17. I have head boots I bought used with orange tongues intuition liners and BTS. I am around 250lbs. I am feeling the individual straps/buckles through the liners. Not super painful, but by the end of the day it is uncomfortable. I am wondering if this is normal or if I should look for some stiffer tongues or additional padding over my ankle/shin? I am fairly new to this, so not sure what to expect. Cheers, JJ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  18. I am pretty sure that was my second snowboard. A long long time ago... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  19. Maybe old hat for the veterans, but pretty cool stuff for a newbie. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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