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Would a plate (like Donek) help with the learning curve on any board? I imagine that since it allows the board to do what it does, while isolating the rider.
Varies by design, but plates always raise your boots above the deck. It seems to me that would make it easier to pressure your edges - thus initiate a turn - but also easier to edge too much and "wash out", or worse.
However, over a couple hours' riding in less than ideal groom, the plate's fatigue-preventing isolation could more than compensate for any problems caused by the increased responsiveness of the board??
Haven't ridden metal, but much forum reading leads me to believe well-designed customs should making learning much easier.
Good luck!
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Boone area. Sugar, Beech, Appalachian. "Reliable" season mid December thru early March. All three close to 5,000 ft. elevation (?) Good season has fair number nat snow days. Bad season, mostly groomed "blown" snow & ice.
This season late starting.
Snowshoe, W.V., also couple others approx 7-9 hours away. Snowshoe/Silver Creek owned by Intrawest if you like corporate resorts. Silver Creek has good amount of relatively wide groomed though not very steep.
Have always thought our hard pack and late season "white ribbons of death" made hardbooting much more appropriate than soft.
Member Mellow Yellow can give you much better info than I.
Good Luck!
BB of Possum Pouch
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from his new, 'restrictive' abode, "so that he could be with his Dad on Veterans' Day."
It was denied (nice try, though,) so I nuked him some macaroni, got him a shake, and drove north, where he beat me in a fast game of 'Sorry!'
I think he's finally "getting it", and I couldn't have had a better gift. Long, long way, from the heaving deck of a wooden minesweeper off the Mekong Delta. Glad both he, and I, are here and not there.
Here's thanks to the men and women who're still in harm's way!
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OK, I'm gonna stir the pot a little here....
Why does a NORMAL (non-business related) person want one of these phones?
that I'm an even nearly NORMAL person. (Some things are futile) BUT I've used low-end Handsprings, and then Palms for more than a decade.
Late last winter, as we hastily packed the Beetle for what became our only boarding trip of the season, I noticed I'd left my Palm Z22 (the most modest but it worked just fine) sitting on the fender of said Bug. I remember thinking, "I need to pocket that or I'll lose it."
Given the range of information on that thing, even though password-protected, it is my fervent hope that it ended up smashed into zillions of pieces somewhere between east and west Possum Pouch.
I am innately disorganized and plagued by tunnel vision. And yes, in (forced) retirement, with fits and starts, I'm trying to develop a cottage industry type of "business." Moreover, my teen son is hospitalized and likely will be for many months. Getting him into a nature-based and then, hopefully, wilderness-based treatment program requires jumping through more hoops than I can count, "remembering" the names, phone #'s, and emails of more administrators than I can possibly enumerate, etc., etc., etc.
So, granted, I'm abnormal and really need an organizing device. But even back when I was normal (I think there was such a time?) I welcomed the highly portable, robust, one-piece convenience of a PDA. Protected by a translucent, slip-on, silicone sleeve, it was a wonderful reminding companion. It could even translate my Sanskrit scribbling into perfectly-fonted text.
(I HATE paper[work]. If I were King for a Day, the first person or persons I'd execute would be the inventor(s) of papyrus. Talk about a plague on civilization... )
Admittedly, I was slow to accept the convergence of the Palm and the cell phone. I tried one early on, and mostly we didn't get along very well. But to buy a good, used, large-screen Palm TX would now cost at least $100, and even $200+ fully reconditioned and tricked out. That's easily within the price range of a fully-integrated organizer, phone, and camera.
So I did it. After a fair amount of research, I bought a low-end, no contract 'Droid.
I admire Apple products. From a design and ergonomic standpoint, they've always struck me as the best of the best. But you almost always pay a really hefty premium for that virtuosity. And to me, it just hasn't computed... yet...
Moreover, I'm no lover of Microsoft. So I'll try to find a handwriting-recognition program for my touch-screen Samsung. Failing that, I may still take a chance on a used TX. (You can't take cell phones beyond the reception area of my son's present abode.)
And, if anyone's wondering, no, David didn't hurt anyone, he didn't steal, or do anything illegal, but sadly, at the moment, he's his own worst enemy. And after nearly 14 years of trying to cope with a hugely intelligent, highly ADHD and op-defiant son, we finally had to "throw in the towel."
He needed more help than we could give him. And we needed help in dealing with that. So, he is where he is, unhappy and rebellious and depressed, we miss him horribly, and the little Android that rests in my backpack may help me organize and cope and maybe in the long run help a young guy who really needs it. I hope so...
Peace to all
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“Let's just get it out of the way: Windows Phone 7 is the most exciting thing to happen to phones in a long time.” - Matt Buchanan, Gizmodo
I really like the concept, and most of the reality, of open source.
I am going to try to install a new homescreen and browser, Launcher Pro and Dolphin HD, as suggested in some blogs.
This is going to be a real learning process.
I'll say this for the Phone 7, I like the simplicity of the interface...
Onward into the (hopefully snow-filled) abyss...
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Angry Birds and cardstar it is, though I think I'll try to install a miniSD first.
Great Groom to you.
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Samsung Intercept Android through Virgin Mobile. (Been with VM forever. Like the no contract feature and $25/month unlimited Web.)
Will be many questions next few days, but already I like the Droid better than my most recent "DumbPhone."
Cheers
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Hey guys,
I'm not usually someone who gets involve in this stuff, but being someone who has an incredibly close relationship to the BC coast and mountains I feel like I need to do it.
Please watch the video and sign the petition.
Mike
http://dogwoodinitiative.org/notankers/copy_of_gulf-petition
Not a B.C. or even Canadian resident but a little international recognition might not hurt.
Kudos to you for caring and fighting.
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and partner are from Denver.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101009/ap_on_bi_ge/lt_chile_mine_collapse_americans
Bravo!!
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Here's to finger-lickin'-good schizophrenia... !!
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I'm a high school teacher.. need I say more ?
Everyday is a struggle. Every year I find myself doing less and less teaching to discipline.. to a point that now I'm doing more of discipline than teaching in a day.
:freak3:No wonder you need the "rush" of hardbooting.
Seriously, to our family, yours is the most important and honored profession in the world. I hope you can find a way to hang in there while preserving your sanity and, hopefully, some joy in the daily grind.
Students like our highly ADHD son, just entering high school, are one of the reasons the lives of you and your colleagues are so difficult. I hope you know that some of us (parents) work very hard, and at great expense, to try moderate our kids' behaviors so they can know the full school experience with all its joys (and its tribulations.)
Thank you!! And, from Possum Pouch, best wishes for a powder-filled winter!
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Let's hope that the finn is not coming back , an astonishing experience using it on groomed runs.
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the huge hematoma to match.
Not going back, no matter what Fin says ...
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to this annual event in Statesville, Possum Pouch?
Can find no listing for 2010 and website seems to be dead. Sad!
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I watched the video of this without the audio. I do that a lot on the internet, and for the life of me, I have no idea why.
Nevertheless, that is some really insane surfing in surreal conditions. Hats off to all of them (surfers.)
If you want to see a truly death-defying Teahupoo wipeout, go to the Catch Surf blog and check out their most recently featured video.
Unbelievable things happening on waves now.
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THE WAVE
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
By Susan Casey
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/books/review/Morris-t.html
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SBS went out of his way to offer encouraging words to this struggling new carver, and then left sweet lines for inspiration - definitely one of my best memories from SES 08.
Thanks for the stoke softbootsailer! Hope I can make it back to your neighborhood next SES....
is beyond 'way cool'.
Your comments have always been well taken and always appreciated by this old boarder, SoftBoot. And if the Black Chicken of Death speaks well of you, you're OK by any criterion.
A carve's a carve - on a Waimea gun, a Doyle Soft, a Morey Boogie, a Prior slalom, or a 'knock-off' twintip in softies. If you have the moves, you deserve the props - regardless of the tool you choose.
Hope to see your styling someday.
Keep on dancin'.
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I'm going to read all the replies in the 'Plates for Free-Carving' thread to see what implications there might be re fabricating your design for a wider (22.5 cm) Burton E Deck ridden with Mondo 30.5 AT boots.
My (old board) choices that I'm not afraid to experiment with are the E-Deck or an M-6 with Tinkler's early Snow Stix (single rod fore and aft.)
With all the designers/craftsmen/tinkerers on here, I imagine several iterations of your plate will be in use during the 10/11 season.
Thanks again and hope your summer brings great (liquid) waves.
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That view, if from my office, would cause me to lose my job.
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would cause me to lose my wife...
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(if you care...)
For first time in quite a while (I think?), Burton was not represented in the "Best Men's Boards Over $400" category. They did have a board in the sub-$400 category. Board types were lumped together but individually designated as Pipe and All-Mtn, again I think.
The Big Bad B did have winners in Women's $400+ and $400- brackets.
Lib-Tech and Gnu well-represented again. As usual there was also a Ride, or two.
Interesting that "new" manufacturers still seem to be popping up, though not nearly as fast as a decade ago, of course.
cheers
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Remember it's not important how well you carve in real life, as long as you are king of the keyboard you will rule.
Welcome to this special place.
Keep your head low for a bit and you'll figure out its rhythms and special sensitivities.
My calendar says summer is waning. I hope to hell it's right.
Ride On!
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include the 2000 Burton Johan and the Morrow Indy (missed one on ebay unfortunately.)
Have been paying my dues learning how to vacuum bag skateboards this summer. Hope, at long last, to 'bag' a "real" board this fall, first, a short, all-mtn twintip for my son and then probably a 165 based on the Burton Amp done with poplar core, epoxy/carbon, and maybe a low-tech hemp cloth dampening layer.
Ride On!
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I wish I had. Based on my limited knowledge of the board and comments on this forum, I'd like to own one even now.
I notice you ride/rode (?) Burton FreeCarves, a boot I wore extensively for many years. I suspect they'd be a perfect match for the board.
At $100, what do you have to lose!?
Good surfing to you.
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Gromel brand alpine boards ?
in Carving Central
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I'd love to buy a cheap Ebay Gromel, try it with my Mondo 30 AT's and, if it holds up, bicycle it out for review by some real hardbooters.
Many moons ago, Phil Sauers of Phil Surfboards made the following statement in a Surfer Mag interview, "A surfboard's a surfboard as long as it's shaped well, glassed well, and ridden well." How true! Especially the part about "ridden well."
Unfortunately for "Phil", the quote played right into the hands of the "Custom is King" crowd who uncritically worshiped any poly blank that had been hand-shaped and decently laminated with two layers of Volan finish fiberglass. (Mr. Sauers had committed the unforgivable faux pas of allowing his boards to be featured in one of the Gidget movies, you see.)
The truth then, and now, however was that Joey Cabell, or Mickey Dora, or Tommy Curren, or Kelly Slater could probably paddle out in junk surf on the lowliest, mass-produced "pop out" and make it sing like a Stradivarius.
No doubt Priors, Doneks, Coilers, "Sigis", and Pogos ad infinitum are worth every penny of their considerable cost. But, Jesus, to a very real extent, a snowboard's a snowboard if you'll just open your mind and ride the bugger.
Pardon the rant. I'm imperfectly, and unwillingly sober at the moment.
P.S. I like the Greek alphabet - a lot!! At one time, I could recite it 25 times before a kitchen match burned down to my fingertips...
Phi, Chi, Psi, Omega...
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