Jack M

Coming soon!

Tragic. Another article: https://www.aspendailynews.com/news/former-red-brick-head-faces-four-felonies/article_347eff6e-ab2b-11e8-97e5-4fa9634eda7b.html

The next Einstein and fellow carver @garrett Garrett Lisi has some videos on Facebook riding one. I think you can follow him without friending, if you don't know him. It looks awesome.

Worked for me on iPhone last night. Just tried it on a computer now and the Captcha is gone.

It is possible, but your friend will have to be the right size/weight for the board and really be motivated to give alpine snowboarding a serious try. If alpine wasn't his idea, this is probably not the way. In my 4 years of instructing I taught about a half dozen non-snowboarders how to snowboard on full alpine setups, including my then-girlfriend-now-wife. So it is possible. These people were all skiers, so they were comfortable with hardboots and familiar with the concepts and goals. Actually I feel they had an easier time than the people on the shite rental softboot equipment. If your friend isn't already a skier then the odds are not as good.

Tara Eberhard is regular foot. I think Dakides is too young to be the woman in the video. I wonder who that Mike is... Jacoby and Kildy are both regular foot too. Man I had crushes on those Burton babes. top photographer unknown, bottom is Bud Fawcett.

Nope. I had a SG 163 SL briefly, but it was too similar to my custom Coiler Stubby 170 so I sold the SG. Sigh... too many boards to try, too little time and money. Necro? This is nothing. Wait till the 2, 3, 10 year old threads get revived, haha. Although I only tried Geckos briefly, just thinking about it, how could setting them up asymmetrically NOT impose a twisting force on the board? I mean hey if one prefers them asym then great, but I think they should be tried both ways. One might get similar results as you did.

Hi Brian, I've manually fixed your account. Keep an eye on it next month as well. The Invision subscription system is relatively new and buggy and I have an open support ticket about the issue that is currently being worked. Thanks for your patience, and thanks for being a member! Anyone else in the same boat, let me know. Jack

No but I can order you one. What style are you thinking?

I saw a friend and fellow USASA racer today and we were chatting about snowboarding as usual. He mentioned he heard that Kessler had gone out of business. I couldn't believe this, but thinking back to the thread discussing difficulty getting in touch with them, I wanted to find out first hand. I emailed Hansjuerg and got this response right back. Sharing with his permission: --- Hi Jack Thanks for your lines below and your work you are doing for alpine snowboarding. First of all i can assure you that there is no need to worry about the future of Kessler. As you maybe know i started building snowboard in 1987 in a small ski resort (its a town without cars at all) only reachable by cable car. So we are building boards more then 30 years. In the first couple years we did build about 100 to 300 boards a year. I did this beside my job as building supervisor in the summer and ski and snowboard instructor during the winter. I grow up in "hardcore" wintersport family and started to ski at 2 1/2 years. Dad, Mum, Brother, Sister, and me were working as ski instrutor in the local ski school. I was supervisor for Swiss ski school federation and Swiss snowboard federation for many many years. So you see, my entire life is wintersport, especially snowboard, what else could I do then follow up with snowboard and ski for the rest of my life? The reason of being "offline" the past 2-3 years is also connected with our decision to dedicate fully to build winter sport equipment. When we entered the world cup in about 2001 with our boards we were very fast very successful. After the first Olympic Medal in Salt Lake the numbers of customized boards went up rapidly. From about 2008 we could not handle the amount of demands in our small production in Braunwald. So we decided to start building serial boards and have them produced at Nidecker in Switzerland. Unfortunately Nidecker closed the Production in Switzerland after 3 years we had been there. We found another production in Austria, it was GST, they produced for many well known brands all together about 180,000 units a year. Unfortunately they closed also after we had been there for 3 years. So again we were without a production for our serial boards. All these years we kept producing all the custom boards in my home town Braunwald. Our serial Skis where built at Head. For several reasons we did want to quit there as well. So we deicided instead of going to Dubai or Tunisia like almost all our competitors do, to build up our own production in Switzerland. In late 2015 I started to build up a complete new production from a blank sheet very close to my home town. Late summer 2016 we started to build our first Swiss Made Serial Boards in the new production. In summer 2017 the ski production started under the same roof. Now we are just about finishing the serial boards for our 3th year (season 2018-2019). As you can imagine the past 3 years I was fully absorbed in building up the production, with all the bigger and smaller problems everyone would have in such a project. It was the toughest time in my whole life so far. I put all my energies in this project to develop all the production process which are needed. Now since the worst teething problems are solved I start to live again and hopefully will have more time for our customer. The custom made boards, developing and athletes boards are still built in the very first facility, during the past 3 years we kept this production running like always, there was no need to touch or change this well going place. In fact at the moment we do have 2 different factorys close together (about 20km) Believe me if I would quit now with what i have done the past 31years and especially the past 3 years I could not see into the mirror any more. I'm the type of guy who must build something real even though I love to do everything possible with modern production technology like CAD and CNC. I always try to go new ways in production process. Honestly I believe we do have the most efficient production for custom and serial boards and ski world wide. I go up in the morning to do at least one thing a day in a way that never has been done before. To cut a long story short: Kessler going out of business, is just BULL SHIT. Hope these guys out there will have a bit of understanding for our situation in the past 3 years. We are snowboarders and build snowboards for snowboarders in the middle of the Swiss Alps. Very best regards Take care Hansjuerg Kessler

@Neil Gendzwill, I've alerted Invision about the confusing "invoice" offering the "Pay Now" button. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have suggested that auto-renewing members should not receive invoices, but reminders. Even if they take my advice it would be a programming change, so it wouldn't happen for a while. For now I would simply advise everyone PLEASE DO NOT MANUALLY PAY AUTO-RENEWAL INVOICES. Just disregard as a reminder, and let the system pay automatically. Hi Robert, I just went through the process again and bought another subscription with a test account. Simply go to the Subscriptions tab at the top of the desktop version (or go here) and press the button for your desired subscription level. It will take you to PayPal to complete the process. I got a spinning "Processing" icon for a few minutes after I had completed everything. Then I got a confirmation email from the forum. I figured the PayPal page was hung, so I closed that window. A minute later I got a confirmation email from PayPal. Perhaps the "Processing" page would have redirected back to the forum had I waited. Let me know if you have any further questions or trouble. Thanks! Again, now that this site is no longer a marketing tool for a manufacturer, Subscriptions are what allows it to exist and allows us to support this fringe sport. Thanks all!

Logged in members may post up to 10MB of images. Supporting Members may post up to 50MB of images. Gold Members 100MB, Platinum Members 200MB. Members might have over 10MB of pre-existing images, in which case they will need to delete some old images, or buy a subscription. The system now automatically downsizes images, but it didn't before. So you could download large images, delete them from your account, and then re-insert them to their threads. Click your username in the upper right then click My Attachments to manage them. I wish that it could all be unlimited, but the image hosting increases the cost of running this site.

Argh. Very sorry for the confusion. I will look into it and request support if I can't fix it in the admin control panel. I believe the automatic sending of invoices and the wording of them is not configurable, but I will check it out. Thanks for letting me know.

Flag is backwards. Field of stars always goes in the upper left.

USASA/USSRT will appreciate it too. Thanks! It's easy to hate on Burton for "selling out", especially with all these new "lifestyle" products and marketing ... but at the same time, I'm glad that the #1 snowboard company in the world is actually a snowboard company. I rented a Supermodel 168 for 4 days in Jackson Hole in 2010 and had a blast. This thing must be a Cadillac.

I will have a word with Jerome Powell. In the mean time, the Classic hat is freak-flag friendly (old school snap adjustable), FlexFit is not (fitted but stretchy). Stickers are coming. Hadn't thought about patches, hmm...

Hot off the sewing machine! Click the new Store tab at the top or go here: http://forums.alpinesnowboarder.com/store/ Proceeds support AlpineSnowboarder, USASA, and USSRT. Thanks!

While at my desk job I like instrumental electronic trancy stuff like Tycho, Emancipator, Ryan Farish, Lemon Jelly, Thievery Corporation, etc. Here's my Pandora station for that stuff: https://www.pandora.com/station/play/3573898297705615876 and then this one borders on EDM with Kaskade, Deadmau5, etc. https://www.pandora.com/station/play/2458254669686624772 By the way after spending significant time on both services I've concluded that Pandora's radio algorithm is far superior to Spotify's. Not only does it seem to have better variety, but it also seems to be more "accurate" as to determining what songs sound good together in a station.

This is done. I believed I've fixed everyone who signed up for automatic renewal, but were dropped into the basic Member group. If you have any questions or see anything strange, let me know. The long explanation: the system automatically generates an invoice X days before the subscription renewal date. The default for X is 10 days. Invoices have a grace period of Y days before expiring. The default for Y is 3 days. SO, the invoices would expire and subscribers would get dropped into the Member group even though the subscription was being paid automatically, 10 days later. I found those settings and set X to 1 day. (Zero is not an option.) This should create the invoice the day before it renews, and then the automatic renewal will pay the invoice the next day, and everything should be fine going forward. Sorry for any confusion!

Update: Subscribers who switched from manual renewals to automatic renewals may have been automatically dropped into the regular "Member" group. I'll be reviewing all subscriptions and fixing any issues starting Friday. Sorry for any confusion or inconvenience! Also - THANK YOU for your support. The forum is now self-sustaining, and we are donating (however modestly) to USASA and USSRT. Hopefully as we get closer to winter up here in the northern hemisphere subscriptions will ramp up and we will be able to make a significant impact on the health of our sport.

Good news: I found a setting in the Admin Control Panel that will automatically downsize pictures. So now everyone can upload pics, even full size, and they will be automatically downsized. Members will have a storage limit of 10MB, Supporting Members 50MB, Gold Members 100MB, Platinum members 200MB. For now, we'll see how it goes.

Yup. Had the surgery in October 2015 and had a pain free snowboarding season. Recovery was about a month. I don't believe a torn meniscus is like a torn ACL where the surgery is optional and you can just deal with it by keeping your legs strong. I waited about a month after tearing mine in August before seeing a doctor. The discomfort only got worse, and it was only a partial tear.

Glad you like it. Ordering hats now. Styles are navy/white trucker mesh, and black flex-fit.

FIS rules say snowboard width must be at least 16cm for competition. http://www.fis-ski.com/mm/Document/documentlibrary/Marketing/04/30/53/Competitionequipment_1617_11072016_clean_English.pdf