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I had to ask -- did Coach Sean Maccarron ever came? I miss him.

THANK YOU for posting that! I have not seen this video in many years! I remember the section with Peter Bauer and Jean Nerva the most. However, I did not realize that dude was Shannon Melhuse... I've been craving for his MLY race signature board for a very long time. That's a COOL section... I did not noticed it was hardboots but more likely I didn't care because hardboots -WAS- the norm back then. Nowadays, it's as rare as dodo if it's not entirely gone. THank you so much! The tunes brought me back to my yesteryear youth... I remember wanting to try hardboots for so long becaues Peter Bauer and Jean Nerva made it look so cool... but during early 90s, I was too much into jibbing with my first Burton Air (the first in the series) and then K2 FAT BOB (the very first one, too) and wide stance (baseless bindings? omg, wtf was I thinking?!).

If you remember Fear of the Flat Planet video, you can imagine my sigh of relief to see all those old footage of hardbooters doing things that is not commonly seen. Here's the video. :)

You got it! :) It'd be awesome to see you again and shake hands again :)

Thanks! Things didn't work out back east, so my wife and I decided to move back to CO. :) Going to college down here before going back up there. Gonna try get my old job back from Vail in the meantime. :) Thanks, everybody for the welcoming. And tex -- you still got that innercourse board? any luck with using old bindings? I still got 'em bu tno luck with them 5 points damning bindings. :)

Hello ladies and gentlemen. I've return home but at front range. I look forward to pay my respects again at castle bomber in s'thorne once the dogs approves my entrance. Anyways, doesn't bomber have RSS feed?

Now that explains why I didn't get to see him often here for I've always wanted to try his tickler system. Godspeed to Mr. Dryer.

Godspeed.

True but quite an exposure. I'm a bit biased for I have ties with MervinMFG and they have ties with Frequency 'zine. And they have covered carving before (can't remember if t'was an article or photo shooting). And Jack, I definitely prefer your photo shots. Absolutely mesmerizing.

I apologize in advance, but when I saw the topic initially, I simply could not resist.

Fin, I hope you manage to meet up with Steven Cobb of Lib Tech? He's my old co-worker and he's AWESOME and I'm sure he'll love to go technical with you, Sean, and Chris... only if I was there to get ya'll to head to the bar. :) Lee

you mean like this link: http://www.upzboots.com/parts.html It has happened to me before, and I went to a ski shop. The guy was cool to give me spare parts and the notches that would fit. I posted about this a long while back when mine broke. However, my search-fu isn't yielding the result I'm looking for because I did post photos of it here. :-/

Easy. Look at Magne Traction, for a start. EDIT: Ugh, I wish I looked at the dates, first because just now I realized this is a necrothreadding. Pls do disregard my post.

Wow. I recognize the Mistrals! And the strange board (half board or whatever that is with the bar)... did it truly worked? And the purple coiler fingerprint board... I miss the coiler's cool top sheets from a while back! If that is coiler. I'm pretty certain it is?

Hmm, when I casted my vote, it was in 31 to 35. Now I'm 40. Crap. Wish the poll could stay up with the "times" and be updated. :)

Hmm, I'm a bit of a late comer. Uh, from what I recall, it's simply the number of Generation X, Y and Z isn't quite "large" as oppose to the 80's and 90's which would likely contribute to an explosion of the skiing/snowboard population. Personally, I think this is a good thing since I work in the ski industry and the more customers we have, the better business it is. As for snowboarding, by itself alone, I wouldn't be surprise if it seems "declining" but I would believe it wouldn't matter since down the road, snowboard will be one of the tools to use to go down the hill next to skis, telemarks, and maybe snowskates (if it ever gets legalized). EDIT: snowskates as in snow skateboards.

I'd say tweak a bit more with the angles on the bindings. Any lift or cant at all?

Hmm, I don't know what to say except be real careful the next time? I do know I was a lot more cautious after I broke my lower leg (fibia/tibia) from hardbooting many years ago.

Sounds like Coach Sean Maccaron's the guy to get in touch with or take a lesson for alpine riding up at Marmot Basin, Canada (if he's still there).

For some reason, I kept thinking Mad Max beyond the Thunderdome.

After reading all those lines over the years including this post, I'm starting to wonder if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I'm deaf. However I usually make a smile whenever I see somebody looking at me in the ski lift lines. -shrugs- Awesome read, esp the uh... skinny and the retort of "long" post. :)

positive vibes for him!

Busy as hell at an academic environment. Im at the point of being burnt out -- considering returning to the hill back home. Undecided at this point (should know more within a month or two). And hello Bryan -- hope your eye got a huge speedy recovery, bro. Redundancy is the name of the game. Sometimes I respond but most of the time, I do not: considering you ARE correct that it's pretty much the same thing. I must have missed the suspension, geometry and construction changes. That reminds me, I need to find that old ski mechanic book with bunch of trigonometry in it. Awesome book. John Howe, I think. Oh, okay. As in "wise guy department", I tend to stay away from that department of jerks/pigheaded/etc. It's kinda awkward when I got caught in between and didn't want to pick sides. Oh yeah, ALOT has changed, that's for sure... I used to hang out often in the carving section and the racing section as well as NY and CO local threads. But that was like maybe 5 years ago or so? I'm gonna go re-visit those places. I've forgotten about it til you mentioned them. Thanks for the reminder. Well, I wouldn't argue with you on that one since I got married a year ago on top of Vail, my home mountain. :) Well, there's that. And no, my madd 158 will -NEVER- be on sale. :) And still have TD-2 alongside my Red RC-10 UPZ boots. I ski ALOT more than I hardboot or snowboard. The last time I rode was ... gosh, maybe 7 years ago? -shrugs- Two locals from this forum and i went riding out in Keystone, and my edge got caught and slammed on my head pretty hard. Ain't fun. :) EDIT: it took me a while to remember and now I do, shredjen and kress.

Is it me or has things changed in the forum? I just don't feel the "rush" like I used to when I came around here ages ago (early 2000). I'm just wondering outloud if I'm gettin' old or something. Oh, yeah, this doesn't constitute for some kids to call me grandpa. :) And yes, I do miss this site -- just not here often as I'd like to. Lee EDIT: I'll try to hang out here a bit more often.

By all means, please do. I use my UPZ boots exclusively for skiing. Yes, I'm somewhat permanently retired from alpine racing these days. Those UPZ boots are satisfactory for me -- I use Lib Tech NAS skis, so I really don't know how to really answer your question. Your best bet would be to contact Dan Yoja or any other UPZ skiers out on this forum. EDIT: Oh yeah, T-nutting is ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY for those UPZ boots. Trust me, you don't want to have broken femurs. Uh, it's been a long time but there's a post deep into the past (maybe ... oh my ... 2005-ish) about the T-nuts. The photos are even posted alongside the right size.