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Yeah Jim was a great guy -so friendly, stoked and enthusiastic. He ripped too.

I think I can escape from the salt mine for at least the morning.

Nordica SBH boots, used 4-5 times. Comes with a set of Cattracks. $50 plus shipping.

These are the same guys that put on the Carving Camp at Mammoth. Definitely a good way to satisfy the summer jones. I can't go this year but here's the info: Hi Blake I am just checking in to see if you plan on making the snowboard camp at Timberline as I know you were trying to adjust your schedule. The camp will be coached by Mike Jacoby and Sean Cassidy and the current conditions are the most snow seen in 30 year for this time of year. Cheers Gavin Gavin Kerr Hunter Director Snowperformance LLC http://www.snowperformance.com

OVR's advice is, as usual, right on. Energy management was hard for me, too. Just hold your carves a little longer until you're a bit past perpindicular to the fall line. (Make sure you have enough room trail-wise) As soon as you start carving uphill, you'll hemorrage energy. The trick is knowing how much speed you want to dump before you start the next carve. Dump too much and you'll have to nurse the next carve because you won't have enough speed to aggressively intitiate. Dump too little and you wind up with your Mach 39 issue, gaining speed through each incomplete carve. The difference between the two is very small timing-wise. Another thing that helped was focusing on push-pull, i.e. aggressively initiate the carve and pushing at the start and then pulling or unweighting as the board passes through the fall line rather than trying to "G" your way through it. There's a good example of Billy Bordie doing this at the 9:40-10:30 point in this video:http://www.hardbooter.net/Video/size_doesnt_matter.wmv

Agreed! I saw the DKs in their prime at the Olympic Auditorium in LA with about 8 other bands, full Cat 5 mosh pit -total carnage.

Social Distortion The Bouncing Souls The Distillers The Hives The Ramones Although I'm developing a taste for "Trance" as well.

Market the content as a short suitable for play prior to an action flick (James Bond, etc.)

Southern California has an interesting mix of really great people and umm....guys like this: object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DddHsPOHFC4&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DddHsPOHFC4&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355" ></embed></object>

My thoughts exactly. Oversteer scares passengers, understeer scares drivers. That thing looks like it would push insanely. Good name though. Merge the Carver and the T-Rex and you'd really have something. Except you probably wouldn't be able to see out of it when it was laid over because the front wheels would block your vision:eek:

You mean like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LWyA6BsJ1I&feature=related

Oh THAT kind of Airborne. Boy was I off base, that's a whole different animal. Mucho respect.

Brice You have the board and bindings back and can resell them. Refund Petrol's purchase price for the goods. Having both the goods and the money in your possession is unreasonable. Petrol At least in my experience, the buyer is usually responsible for the cost of the initial shipping of the item and, if necessary, also responsible for the cost of return shipping. In turn, the buyer expects to have the purchase price he paid for the goods refunded to him. Expecting to get refunded for the initial shipping costs as well as the purchase price is also unreasonable. Ruling: Brice unless Petrol damaged your goods, refund his purchase price. Next Case

The Air Force definitely has some odd notions on how to "take care of its people." And then it wonders why people punch out at the first opportunity. If they'd just treat people right in the first place, they'd ultimately save money and have a more quality, experienced force in some critical career fields (like doctors).

Was that Hurricaine Hunting in the WC-130?

Business is booming recently -literally. Are you a flight doc?

That means I could retire in 11 days. There's a semi-stoploss going for Predator pilots right now, so we'll see.

Air Force pilot. F/RF-4s, KC-135s and now the light grey thing in my avatar.19 years 354 days. Also run a small IT business. Still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.

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Not to mention it makes you better looking, tougher, wittier, a far better dancer and much more attractive to women.

I was at Summit this morning (Fri.). Very firm and fast at 0820 and full on slush by 1030. How long is the Schtubby?

I recommend NOT riding a brand new board in these late season conditions. I know you know that, it's just sometimes lust gets in the way of judgement. 3 big gouges in the base a couple of days ago without even trying -just a heads up.

I always thought it as a fun board. Glad to hear/see you're enjoying it.

Proton has gone to a good home. Colier AM is on my wish list.

I think you're right about the shell size. I got them with the stock non-thermo liners. They seemed a little tight lengthwise until they packed out a bit then they were fine. I wore those liners out and then got some thermos (size 27.0 -which kind of confirms our earlier premise). What a difference! Perfect fit and comfort, although it seemed like the stock liner with powerstrap was a bit stiffer. I really like the Suzukas but they have 90-100 days on them and I want to move to a slightly stiffer boot.