Neuffy

lol. http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3809734467&category=7321 1 Gallon...scary price, though...

Yeah...I plan on boarding 120 days, lol. Every day, all day, with injuries just meaning shorter/lazier days :P I plan to have enough money that I won't have to work for those four months... Hm...If I get the Big3 Pass for Norquay, Sunshine and Lake Louise, along with all three shuttle passes...that comes to $2222.00. Hm...not all that bad for 4 months at three places...$18.50/day. If I end up being able to afford it, or even if I have to get a night job of some kind, that seems to be the best option. If I went for only Lake Louise, I'd be locked into only one place, and it'd still cost Nakiska looks pretty good, but the RCR pass (which is only $1000) and covers Lake Louise, Fernie Alpine Resort, Kimberley Alpine Resort, Nakiska and Fortress, are all further away from Banff, and I probably wouldn't end up going to them much - that's probably why the Big3 Pass for only SV, LL, and Norquay is $1259 while the RCR pass is $1000 for Lake Louise, Fernie Alpine Resort, Kimberley Alpine Resort, Nakiska and Fortress. It's sorta looking like I'll be spending close to $5000 CND on just equipment and passes next year...lol. It's good to be young and have no responsibilities...

Has anybody here used it? Last Saturday I tried it on my nicely waxed board, and I moved from loving speed to having to bleed off speed due to fear/worn out board. I actually hit a few people, because I couldn't stop moving on the flat to undo my bindings.... It's just called Liquid Teflon, cost $20 CND, and says it'll do 15 applications. Are the more expensive waxes better/cheaper?

I'm planning to spend 4 months next season (Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar) in Banff. But I can't decide between Lake Louise and Sunshine. Which has more groomed, flat, wide runs? I guess that'll have to determine it, because both are great resorts. A pass for LL is $879, and I can't find out the price of a season pass for SV because they're only selling Spring passes now. The Big3 Pass is for LL, SV, and Norquay, and it's $1259. As well, I'd have to shuttle up every day because I won't have a vehicle during this time. Shuttle Pass prices: Lake Louise - $439 ($20/roundtrip/day) Sunshine - $374 ($12/roundtrip/day) So for just LL it would cost $1318. I wish I knew how much it would cost for just SV.... But for both it'd cost $2072 What do people who've been to both recommend? (I've been to both...but not Sunshine Village for quite some time...hell, I think I was still skiing back then...)

I need to take videos of myself...I have no idea how I look... I've had a few people tell me I carve pretty much like these videos...but I don't believe any of them. I like to think that I carve less hard, but with fewer "bad" habits. I want to get a 3rd person setup... Wireless Video receiver in helmet, along with Glasstron video goggles. Someone behind with a wireless-transmitting video camera. Then I can carve in third person! Hmm...I wonder what the viability of this is....

nice...but did you really have to embed it? The whole forced autoplay/buffer thing's annoying. It's either me or them, but it keeps having to re-buffer, and so I have an interrupted video...It only plays around 10 seconds at a time... :( I love the little coordinated parts...and I want the DVD.... Ooh...looked at source for page, got actual address of clip...yay. So I just downloaded it and can buffer from hd... There's also two other videos available from that site. And one weighs in as a 42 meg avi! I checked the props of the videowindows, and now the buffering problem is solved! :) hm...opera doesn't like to download asf files...so I used go!zilla. files: http://minobong.com/movie/commingsoon.asf http://minobong.com/movie/carve_emotion.asf http://minobong.com/movie/carve_emotion_02.avi As well, downloading these saves them for posterity in the event that that site goes down sometime in the future! (Note: These files are freely available on the site, simply by browsing from the main site to movies and clicking on a link. These files were in no way hidden or protected, etc...)

He's not far enough over to the ground :P ...sorry, I had to. And I mean it...sorta...

well....electicity doesn't travel quite at the speed of light....but it does do 0.98 c through copper.... but only 0.66 c in fiber optics...Which is why using fiberoptic interconnects in computers would slightly increase latency but would allow you to increase frequency (less/no interference). Conceivably the board could stiffen, but I just wonder HOW....as in, what is the physical mechanism for the stiffening...if it also is piezoelectric,...Wow. But I doubt there's enough power to maintain that. Even the best piezoelectrics require a decent power source to maintain changes in shape/stiffness etc.

Really depends on the shell (both material and design of the hinge), doesn't it? I'd guess about 1-3 cm backflexspring, 2-7 cm forwardflexspring.

Well, if your boot is going to be the "perfect hardboot," it had better have a highly adjustable (up to an including easy replacement of spring(s)), NON-CATCHING bidirectional spring system for forward/backward lean. If not, it's useless. People come in so many different weights and styles that without this this, the boot will only be truly great for a very small percentage of the user base.

It really, really depends on both your budget and what exactly it is you want to do. I'm doing pretty much the same thing you're doing : Highly aggressive softboots --> hardboots. I used to do jumps, found carving to be more fun...blah, blah. I'll be switching to a Swoard 175M from extremecarving.com. But it's pricey, to say the least. ($1500 CND shipped) It's a board designed specifically for, well, extremecarving. Fully laid-out (body flat to the ground, board perpendicular to the ground) linked turns. Check out the videos on that site to see what it's capable of (not that I envision getting anywhere close to that initially). I love the idea of hardboots, but don't really like the ultra-thin boards that racers tend to use. What are you stance angles? I'm already at 50/50 in my softboots, so there won't be a huge change there. If you're still riding <15 degrees, then you'll probably want to avoid the thinner boards.

Hm..I've been pretty lucky so far. My worst snowboarding accident was probably when there was this perfect jump - a nice riser-->float off-->long runout. Perfectly groomed, soft snow. So I go off it twice, amazingly soft landings... Then I decide: Hm...I know! I'll straightline it from the top of the hill! Needless to say, I went fast. I overshot the landing my 40 feet :( Did a perfect landing (initially) but then the impact was too much on the more-or-less flat by then and my back leg collapsed. I impacted my heels, sprained both ankles, sprained by left wrist (I ride right foot first - NORMAL!), sprained my right knee and jarred my left elbow and shoulder really badly. It took me about 3 weeks to recover from that...and then after a couple weeks I had another accident..that I now remember was worse: It was dark, so there were only streetlights~ishes. I was just going down the hill as fast as I could and linking 360 flatspins. Frist time down, got going really fast, got really, really dizzy because of the lights and the spinning, caught an edge and fell. Bruises, nothing more. Foolishly decided to do it again because it was so fun the first time. Went faster (I was pacing the skiracers that were on the hill at the same time), and got spinning at around 1.5 rps (90 rpm). Of course, I got dizzy again, caught an edge, but this time my spin let me land on my shoulder blades and neck, and I managed to get really, really bad whiplash. It took me 8 months to get full neck mobility back...I couldn't turn my head to the side at all for 2 months (and so lost the last 2 months of snowboarding season :() I also almost had to have a medical stipulation put on my driver's licence to make me have oversized mirrors ...Now I understand why people sue for whiplash...It really _can_ be that bad.