Jack M

Never tried an SG before... Care of the Bomber Store!! 20.3cm waist, 11.8m tail raidus, 20mm taper, and stiff! My trinity is complete - 163, 170, 185.

Awesome!

My hat is off to you and your large balls, sir!

Unfortunately I think this falls under the social convention that if someone is being a jerk, calling them out on it only makes them think you're the jerk. You know, like with smokers. :rolleyes:

:lol: I've given up, it's a pointless battle. Your board is going to get scratched no matter what. The best solution is to take the board off if you really care. Queequeg, did I read that right? You value your topsheet more than your base?

Weird, that forum's permissions were all messed up. I fixed it, let us know if it works for you now!

Everything looks fine with your account, make sure you are still logged in when you try to post there.

Chuck Norris doesn't turn. The mountain turns beneath him.

Ok I'll bite. Why?

Sure sounds promising, thanks for the heads up! Edit - and "dwolla"? Surely this guy has some Massachusetts in his background!

Wow. I wonder why they didn't land it on the grass next to the runway?

sweet vid and get well soon!

http://www.bomberonline.com/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=61

Right, but you don't just want your c.o.g. there, you don't have a choice. If it's not on that line, you're either falling or rising or skidding. Right. I think Patrice Fivat makes it look like fun. Same for Ray here.

Ha! I remember reading that Mike Jacoby tip, that's a good one, thanks for reminding me.

I think this is a better view of what's going on in my toeside. This turn is a bit better because in my avatar I was hamming it up for the camera. I wasn't aware of it here: What I meant by shoulders above the hips was that if you imagine a line drawn perpendicular to the top of the board, like a mast, the upper body is angled up further away from the snow than that line. In the (old?) picture of Jeff, his upper body is tilted down from that line, towards the snow. I think this photo of Jasey Jay Anderson is the ultimate toeside: (there used to be a bigger version online somewhere) I try for that. The snow conditions above allowed me to be a little lazier though.

lucky it wasn't like this... <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cWZT4xlsVYc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

haha, not really. :D shoulders are still above the hips.

Check out the links in my signature for some reading to get started. Also check out our Southern CA ride board. Good luck!

I suspect brother Jeffrey is up to something here... I have ridden with him several times and he is a lot better than he wants to believe. He's an expert but he won't admit it. Corey gives good advice, I would just add to say think about the order in which your body parts cross the board, and that it should go from the ground up - ankles, knees, hips, etc.

or outward, away from each other.

You want to bend your knees for sure. Leaning forward at the waist is ok, but you don't want to overdo it; you shouldn't be completely piked over. Bending over at the waist off to the side of your board is a different thing. That puts you in an unbalanced position. More on this here.

http://www.bomberonline.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=7931#cant

A long time ago, about 1988 I think, Chris Karol produced an instructional video with that title. The simple wisdom was do not bend over at the waist and reach down for the snow. The boards had notches in the tails and the boots looked like something out of LL Bean. We've come a long way, but this one nugget of advice is still relevant today. Beginner or intermediate carvers whose primary goal is to "get low" or "touch the snow" will most likely teach themselves the bad habit of bending over at the waist. They will need to unlearn it later in order to progress past intermediate ability, and this will be more difficult than avoiding this problem from the start. I saw this youtube in the videos forum and had to point this out. The guy in the full black-and-white patterned outfit is a prime example of what happens when a beginner carver tries to touch the snow, above all else. 0:52 and other places. I would recommend to him and anyone else at this stage to stand up, bend the knees, keep the shoulders level to the hill, keep the head upright, move to gentler slopes, and learn to absorb terrain and manipulate the board and its energy with the knees and ankles. In time, the ground will come up to meet your hand, hip, thigh, armpit, etc, without you even trying.

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