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According to this LINK: Spectators are welcome but in limited numbers. Regular lift ticket will also allow you to view the race. Beginning February 1st, tickets will be available for purchase at the West Vancouver Aquatic Centre (2121 Marine Drive, West Vancouver B.C.) www.westvancouver.ca Tickets are available in limited supply. These tickets are not available for purchase at Cypress Mountain. Valid Cypress Mountain lift ticket and/or season pass will allow entry. www.cypressmountain.com • $10/ticket includes one day of competition and a return bus transfer from the World Cup Event Park & Ride located at the Clyde Avenue Parkade (northeast side of Park Royal Shopping Centre). See map and spectator shuttle schedule below. • Please be advised that this in NOT a Cypress Mountain lift ticket. • Skis and snowboards not allowed on shuttle. • Please be advised that due to limited parking at Cypress, tickets must be validated on the bus to guarantee entry into venue. • Please see event schedule for competition information. Tickets are available for the following dates: • Friday, February 13th 2009 • Saturday, February 14th 2009 • Sunday, February 15th 2009 Spectator Shuttle Schedule Departs from the World Cup Event Park & Ride and loops to Cypress Mountain frequently during the following hours: • Friday, February 13th (11:30 am – 3:45 pm) • Saturday, February 14th (7:00 am – 6:15 pm) • Sunday, February 15th (7:00 am – 5:15 pm)

From the following LINK: Busload of school kids will be cheering on local hero Loo Richmond native makes special effort to connect with students Terry Bell, The Province Published: Thursday, January 29, 2009 Tickets will be hard to get, but Richmond's Alexa Loo will still have 100 of her biggest -- make that littlest -- fans cheering her on at the snowboarding World Cup on Cypress Mountain next month. The kids, from Richmond's Ecole Elementaire Tomekichi Homma Elementary School, are coming to the Feb. 15 event with signs cheering on Loo and the rest of the Canadian team. The two best signs will win a pair of 2010 Olympic tickets that Loo bought through the lottery for her event, the parallel giant slalom. "They're really excited," said Kirsten Wallace, the school's vice-principal, on Wednesday. It's not for the faint of heart. You have to want to stand around for two hours and you have to be psyched up. It's just not for every kid. "But if there are 500 signs, we will bring them all up and put them around. It's going to be great." In November, Tomekichi Homma Elementary "adopted" Loo through the Canadian Olympic Committee's Adopt an Olympian program. Loo visits the school and e-mails them with regular updates from the World Cup circuit. But her event almost didn't happen. Because ticketing and mountain access is so restricted, it took some talks with VANOC to get the green light. There's no spectator parking on Cypress but special arrangements have been made to bus the kids to the hill. Loo originally wanted to attract several sponsors to cover the $700 cost of a school bus and tickets. She'd envisioned several hundred kids on the hill getting a taste of World Cup action and learning about the sport, but that fell through. "I was so excited about the prospect of bringing kids up to Cypress and holding a contest for all kids coming up to the mountain to be able to win Olympic tickets," Loo said via e-mail from Germany, where she's competing. "I thought it was a great way of promoting my sport and promoting the Olympics at home. "You have no idea how disappointed I was when I was informed that spectators were not welcome." © The Vancouver Province 2009

Then your original post should have read "Butter milk has to be the most boring stop of SES. I spend the entire time there dissapointed and bored." End of story. Instead you continued with "If your a carver that thinks buttermilk is the action then you are a carver who goes slow and probably never comes close to working any board any where near its true flex and proformance." Totally superfluous to the thread and on the surface (if a person didn't know you) it appears to be an attack on riders' skill sets.

Geoff, good to see you're still alive and well. If you're feeling the need to get out to ride again, we're getting a small group together to ride on the weekend of March 28, 29 and 30th. We'll be in the Laurentiens, just north of Montreal. Here's a LINK to some details. Sorry to threadjack but... oldvolvosrule started it!

Who gives a flying f@#$? It's not about working the equipment to its limit, it's about working the rider to his/her limit.

I bought the RIOT 164... thinking we might use it as part of an entry level package. We MUCH prefer the DONEK Pilot for that package! Surface quality looked OK but nothing special. Extruded base, thin topsheet so that you could see glass layup pattern. Inserts had plenty of resin in them, had to bottom tap each one. If you weighed in at less than 35kg, this board might make an OK entry to carving but don't push your luck. The words "wet noodle" come to mind. Seriously, it would make an OK board for a very young rider that wanted to have the alpine shape but not the alpine performance. Rock board? Sure, any board can be a rock board. Cruising around crowded trails? NO, NO, NO! You will NOT be able to make any sudden changes of direction with authority. Cruising narrow trails? See above. Cruising chopped up crud? See above. I gave this board to a local club for their swap meet with the above thoughts to be passed on to anyone that purchased it. It sold for $100 to what I hope was a young, light weight rider to get their first feel of alpine snowboarding. It would be OK for that.

We received this note from Alexa... Greetings from Korea! After a week of training in the Canadian Rockies, (rather than competing at the World Cup in Kreischberg, Austria) the Canadian Team regrouped in Seoul Korea for the World Championships. Hyundai Sungwoo Resort in Korea cannot boast the largest mountain in the world, but it just might have the largest hotel in the world. The hotel has over 1000 apartments and rooms as well as shops and conference halls, a pool and gymnasium; it is truly a colossal building! The way that it was built in sections, means that some of the floors do not line up with each other. Getting to the 4th and 6th floors when the elevators only go to the 5th and 7th floors is sometimes a challenge as some of my teammates discovered when they got lost trying to go the team physiotherapist in room 407! Eventually, everyone got where they needed to go and we celebrated the opening ceremonies of the World Championships. We had a parade of nations and I was honored to carry the Canadian flag for my team! After a few speeches, we were treated to a great fireworks presentation to kick off the start of the 2009 World Championships with style. The day we had been waiting for finally arrived: competition day for the PGS event! After getting up early and warming up and making our way to the top of the course, we were met with our first delay of the day! Although the weather was perfect, there were some long delays throughout the race. After the confusion wore off, things got going and I laid down a decent first run; coming in 8th in my course. More confusion ensued, with an Austrian girl, Heidi Neureurer, being disqualified and finally we got to do our second qualification run. I qualified for the finals in 10th place, just behind my teammate Caro. Three of the Canadian men also qualified for the finals: Jasey, Matt and Mike. We were excited to be competing in the finals and to have the chance to challenge for the title of World Champion. Caro and I battled the rough conditions, but got knocked out in the first round finishing 11th and 12th respectively. Mike made it past the first round, taking 8th place. Matt ended his day in 3rd place while Jasey took home the title of World Champion! We all ran into the finish area to hug and congratulate our Champ. After the euphoria of the PGS event, we had to refocus and prepare ourselves for the next day’s PSL event. The race hill in Korea is quite steep and challenging with tricky snow conditions. I had a smooth (but slow) first run. My smooth riding tactics paid off in the second run, as the conditions worsened, and I qualified 11th for the finals. Jasey and Matt also made it into the finals, but the rest of the team was not so lucky. We all made it past the first round, but suffered mistakes and got knocked out. Jasey took 6th while Matt and I both placed 8th. We celebrated a successful World Championships and packed our things for the long flight to Germany for the next World Cup event. Check out the pictures from the opening ceremonies of the World Championships: Me carrying the big Canadian flag with my teammates. The halfpipe and big air. The girls in the marching band who were woefully underdressed for the -15 degree evening. Kindest regards, Alexa

Whatever works for you.

Mike, DeeLuxe is working on new ankle pivot hardware for the AF shells. Hopefully it'll be available for next season (if not sooner). Some discussions of changing the materials. Meanwhile, take a look at the attached file for a quick fix. The problem is just getting your hands on the medial pivot components to make the new lateral pivot! The problem with the lateral rivet when broken is that the original replacement parts need a special anvil/swage to roll over the rivet head. So... go with a medial pivot (cant adjuster) and t-nut to make the fix as shown in the 3rd image .

Interesting that your ground shipments come directly into Whinerpeg for clearing. Maybe due to how close you are to the border and the likelyhood that the airport has a large Canada Customs office. For Toronto, ground shipments are cleared in Windsor or Fort Erie, depending upon where they cross into Canada. If we're receiving goods from the USA for our company, we ship to our drop box in Niagara Falls, NY then self broker at Queenston/Lewiston. Anyhow, these posts are so off topic now I can't remember what the original post was about!

If the goods are arriving from the USA into Canada by ground transport, the port of entry is Canada Customs office at (or closest to) that city/town where the vehicle enters Canada. Did you receive some ground transport goods from the USA recently? I'm curious if UPS used air from point of origin to Weinerpeg but only charged you ground. That'd be a bonus but just can't imagine UPS doing that. If it arrives in Canada by air, it's a whole new story. Port of entry is where the aircraft lands.

You must self broker at the port of entry. This works fine if you're using air shipment and live in the city where it lands but when you use ground shipment you must go to the port of entry to self broker.

I have pants from Crash Pads. Here's a LINK to their snow collection. Take a look at Series 6000 for jacket/jersey with padding.

soft boot carving

I have some "Slum Lord" obligations tonight... Anyone know a good appliance repair service?! Where's the Maytag man? Actually, it's an LG man!

I thought we were talking about snowboards!

From this LINK: JASEY-JAY ANDERSON CROWNED WORLD CHAMPION; MATTHEW MORISON THIRD Canada wins two medals at the Parallel Giant Slalom at the World Championships Jan. 20, 2009 (Gangwon, KOR – January 20, 2009) The Canadian snowboard team saw two of its athletes step on the World Championship podium, including a victory by Jasey-Jay Anderson, in Parallel Giant Slalom at the 2009 FIS World Snowboard Championships today in Gangwon, Korea. With the crowning of Jasey-Jay Anderson (Mont-Tremblant, QC) coupled with a bronze medal by Matthew Morison (Burketon, ON), this is the first time in history that Canada puts two of its athletes on the same podium at a World Championship event “I would first like to thank the coaches and the staff that is here with us and through the years. They leave their families at home to come here and help us athletes do whatever we do. They sacrifice as much if not more than we athletes do to get the hardware,” gracefully commented Anderson. Anderson started the day very well, finishing first of the qualifying round to advance in the finals. Throughout the day, the 33-year old snowboarder battled through four rounds of two runs to win the title, including a tough semi-final against teammate Morison. “The variety of terrain that we have here makes it very fun to race, even in the rough course conditions we faced. There is clear talent that needs to be used to get through the course, not once but eight times to win the gold medal,” said the 16-year veteran on the Canadian snowboard team and married father of two little girls. “For me, the past 15 years of experience came into play today. My old body is still taken care of me, but in the end it was a fun day and hopefully we put on a big show,” continued Anderson while celebrating his fourth official FIS World Snowboard Championships title. Anderson’s long day finally came to an end as he defeated French rider Sylvain Dufour who took home the silver medal. “Although not expected, the goal was definitely to win today. Qualifying to the team selection process for the Olympic Games is a big relief off my shoulder,” The World Championship victory gives Anderson a spot on the Canadian snowboard team competing at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. In accordance with Canadian Snowboard Federation policy, a win at the FIS World Snowboard Championships translates into an automatic berth in the priority rankings for the Canadian team selection for the Games in Vancouver. Morison, a young member of the Canadian snowboard team and rising star, barely made it through the qualifiers but continually improved his racing as the day progressed to finally compete for the bronze medal race. “It was awesome today. I was really happy today. Everybody on the team rode well. We had three guys in the finals, and almost had four with Pat just missing the cut. To be able to ride so well at the World Championships proves that we are ready to compete at major events, and be contenders for the victory,” said Morison. Ranked 13th after qualifications, Morison easily breezed through the initial round to face long-time training partner Michael Lambert in the quarter-finals. Morison edge Lambert in the two-run contest by only 0.94 seconds to advance in the semi-finals only to lose to yet another team-mate and world champion in Anderson. In the bronze medal match-up, Morison easily defeated Karl Benjamin of Austria to win the medal. Along with the gold and bronze medals by Anderson and Morison, Michael Lambert (Toronto, ON) came in 8th place after losing to Morison in the quarterfinals. On the women side, Caroline Calve (Aylmer, QC) was the top Canadian finishing in 11th place. Team veteran Alexa Loo (Richmond, BC) placed 12th while Kimiko Zakreski (Calgary, AB) and Ekatarina Zavialova (Calgary, AB) came in 32nd and 38th respectively. “I am really pleased about the result as it has now been nine months since I had my reconstructive knee surgery, I was really looking to come out a start racing back on the tour, especially here since we have raced three times on the track prior to the World Championships,” said Calve after the race. “To have such a good result today means a lot, especially since this is not a track where I can perform at my best. Today I was able to block out every single thing out of my head and stay really calm all day long,” continued Calve. The big final round saw two Austrian compete for the Gold medal. Mario Kreiner edged her teammate Doris Guenther in the head to head race for the world championships title. Swiss Patrizia Kummer won the bronze medal match-up. All of the disciplines at the 2009 FIS World Snowboard Championships will be streamed LIVE on cbcsports.ca as well as on CBC Bold. Full analysis of the action will be called by Brett Carpentier, alumnus of the Canadian Snowboard Team and Olympian. The 2009 FIS World Snowboard Championships continues tomorrow with the presentation of the parallel slalom finals. Over 600 riders from 45 countries are taking part in the event held in Gangwon, Korea. The event, featuring all the five official snowboard disciplines, runs until January 24th.

OK, Tuesday is fast approaching and it's time for another trip to Blue Mountain to join Coach Towers and his crew. Anyone else coming along? BV? HK? Bueller? Bueller?

From the following LINK: TWO CANADIANS FINISH FOURTH IN SNOWBOARDCROSS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Tom Velisek and Maëlle Ricker both finished fourth in Snowboardcross finals held in Gangwon, Korea Jan. 18, 2009 (Gangwon, KOR – January 18, 2009) Tom Velisek (Squamish, BC) and Maëlle Ricker (Squamish, BC) faced challenging weather conditions and tough field of play, both finishing in fourth position in the snowboardcross finals at the FIS World Snowboard Championships on Sunday. In constantly changing weather conditions, the first few heats were held in warm temperatures, thick fog and wet snow combined to significantly reduce the visibility for racers. Throughout the race, the sun gradually pierced the Korean skies to significantly improve racing conditions. Velisek, who stepped on the snowboardcross podium on the World Cup tour four times during his career including a victory, posted his best ever World Championships result. Velisek, who qualified in 14th position during yesterday’s round, won his first heat to advance in the quarter-finals. In the second of four heats, he crossed the finish line in second place trailing only American Sean Wescott, defending Olympic champion in the discipline. In the semi-finals, Velisek faced both Wescott and the defending World Champion Xavier De Le Rue of France. Despite the challenge, Velisek finished yet again second to advance in the Big final and to compete for the gold medal and world championship title. “It is definitely an up for me. It feels very good to have one of my best results at the World Championships, however that being said, in snowboardcross, the worst thing that can happen is a fourth place,” said Tom Velisek, who celebrated his 27th birthday earlier this week on January 15th. “I had some really good starts today. My start training has really paid off today. Good start combined with aggressive riding and having a little bit of luck here and there all came together at the end for a decent result,” added Velisek. The race was won in a dramatic photo finish by Austrian Marcus Schaifer, edging De Le Rue at the finish line. American Nick Baumgartner came in third place of the final heat of the day to capture the bronze medal. “I loved the snow this morning. The course was quite fast and dangerous in the training and qualification rounds. The snowfall this morning made it just absolutely perfect,” continued Velisek, ranked 17th in the FIS world standings in snowboardcross. Francois Boivin (Jonquière, QC) placed in 11th position. Boivin easily won his first heat to advance of to the quarterfinals, where he came fourth of his heat ending his day. Both Mike Robertson (Canmore, AB) and Robert Fagan (Cranbrook, BC) did not advance to quarterfinals, finishing fourth in their respective opening heat. On the women side, Maëlle Ricker (Squamish, BC) also finished fourth place. Ricker easily breezed through the quarterfinal heat to advance in the semi-final where, she faced a tough heat that included three-time world cup winner Olivia Nobs of Switzerland and 11-time world cup winner Doresia Krings of Austria. Ricker came in second of the semi-finals earning a berth into the big final. “The day went fairly well. I had some pretty good starts in the heats to get in the finals,” said Ricker, defending world cup snowboardcross champion. The women gold medal was awarded to Norwegian Helene Olafsen. Olafsen crossed the finish line first in front of Olivia Nobs and Mellie Francon, both of Switzerland, capturing the silver and bronze medals “The weather definitely slowed everybody down a little bit from the qualifications. I got some slower times in the lower section of the course in the heats, and in the final I was trailing right from the second turn and then I was playing catch-up with the other girls,” added Ricker, currently ranked in third place the FIS World Cup snowboardcross standings, Ricker boasts to her world cup career 23 world cup podiums in 95 starts, including nine victories. Also in contention in today’s women final rounds was Michelle Brodeur (Calgary, AB) who finished the day in 15th position. All of the disciplines at the 2009 FIS World Snowboard Championships will be streamed LIVE on cbcsports.ca as well as on CBC Bold. Full analysis of the action will be called by Brett Carpentier, alumnus of the Canadian Snowboard Team and Olympian. The 2009 FIS World Snowboard Championships continues Tuesday with the presentation of the parallel giant slalom finals. Over 600 riders from 45 countries are taking part in the event held in Gangwon, Korea. The event, featuring all the five official snowboard disciplines, runs until January 24th. OFFICIAL RESULTS– SNOWBOARDCROSS FINALS WOMEN RESULTS 1 OLAFSEN Helene 1990 NOR 2 NOBS Olivia 1982 SUI 3 FRANCON Mellie 1982 SUI 4 RICKER Maelle 1978 CAN 5 FREI Sandra 1984 SUI 6 LUNDHOLDT Julie-Wendel 1983 DAN 7 KRINGS Doresia 1977 AUT 8 JEKOVA Alexandra 1987 BUL 9 MOENNE LOCCOZ Nelly 1990 FRA 10 MEILER Simona 1989 SUI *** 15 BRODEUR Michelle 1989 CAN 18 COWAN Ziggy 1991 CAN DNS MALTAIS Dominique 1985 CAN FINAL RESULTS – WOMEN – SBX (PDF) FINAL LADDER – LADIES (PDF) MEN RESULTS 1 SCHAIRER Markus 1987 AUT 2 DE LE RUE Xavier 1979 FRA 3 BAUMGARTNER Nick 1981 USA 4 VELISEK Tom 1981 CAN 5 WESCOTT Seth 1976 USA 6 WATANABE Graham 1982 USA 7 UNTERRAINER Hans-Joerg 1980 AUT 8 GRUENER Lukas 1981 AUT 9 CADUFF Fabio 1985 SUI 10 SIVERTZEN Stian 1989 NOR *** 11 BOIVIN Francois 1982 CAN 17 ROBERTSON Mike 1985 CAN 19 FAGAN Robert 1976 CAN FINAL RESULTS – MEN – SBX (PDF) FINAL LADDER – MEN (PDF) UPCOMING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS – FIS WORLD SNOWBOARD CHAMPIONSHIPS January 20th – Parallel Giant Slalom (PGS) January 21st – Parallel Slalom (PSL) January 22nd – Qualifications: Halfpipe (HP) January 23rd – Halfpipe (HP) January 24th – Big Air (BA) --canadian snowboard federation--

(edit) Would it be these... LINK Good luck with those... let us know how they work out for you.

I don't have a clue what you're referring to. Anyone?

Did it feel like you were riding a bar of soap?

Go to Mount St.Louis - Moonstone and get your confidence back.

I've got that data on the 2008 Protons. The 178 is quite soft in front of the bindings and much too stiff behind the bindings. The ONLY way I could make that board work well for me is by moving the bindings all the way back on the inserts. Turned it into a different ride immediately. I have the complete lineup of Protons and can tell you the 164 and 185 perform the best for me. The 172 and 178 both need the bindings set back. I believe the original poster is having trouble with the board not his technique. His technique may not be perfect but it works on one of his boards so it should work on the other. Take Bruce up on his offer to test a board or two.

Someday we're going to be reading about your mis-cue. I hope you survive.