softbootsurfer Posted January 27, 2019 Report Share Posted January 27, 2019 Well...actually on the Bus to the Lift...The Driver says, "Is your name Bob?, do you Carve turns? ", "I remember seeing you years ago, when I was snowboarding", "I remember those Weird Bindings you use"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carvedog Posted January 27, 2019 Report Share Posted January 27, 2019 All on the same lift ride - me riding a Coiler 180 with Td3 SI. "Do you snowboard too?" This is a snowboard. "Why aren't your feet side by side like most monoskis?" This is a snowboard. "So when you snowboard, what do you ride?" This is a snowboard. At that point I kind of gave up. I wasn't rude by any means, but he just wasn't comprehending that your average grocery getter and an Formula One Ferrari are still both cars. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted January 27, 2019 Report Share Posted January 27, 2019 1 hour ago, softbootsurfer said: Well...actually on the Bus to the Lift...The Driver says, "Is your name Bob?, do you Carve turns? ", "I remember seeing you years ago, when I was snowboarding", "I remember those Weird Bindings you use"... add three strapper Bob to the list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barryj Posted January 27, 2019 Report Share Posted January 27, 2019 On 1/10/2019 at 1:28 PM, 1xsculler said: too old to learn to snowboard." My response, "So am I. That's why I do this carving thing...it's barely related to snowboarding." On 1/14/2019 at 4:13 PM, BlueB said: You are not doing any service to alpine with statements like that... Hey XC, Have to agree with BB on this one............ You could say.....it's never to late to be the snowboarder you might have been! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kirk Posted January 27, 2019 Report Share Posted January 27, 2019 I got off the lift at the top today and a soft boot young man came sliding up and looked at my Kessler and said "sick euro-mono mister." He said it with such authority it made me wonder if that's what it was! There were lots of layers to unpack there but I just smiled and said "thank you." dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big mario Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 (edited) Maybe I'm getting too crotchety to engage some of the stupid comments I hear behind me in the lift line, but occasionally, some people actually get it. I heard someone behind odd job, Yasu, and myself explain carving boards to their chair mates, and they were spot on. The best was a few weeks ago, while standing at the top of spillway, I told a pair of skiers to give me 30 seconds while I dropped in. They obliged, and looked at odd job, and said "go, we wanna watch". Those two instances where a nice break form the inanity we usually suffer from some of the mossyoak clad Texans we usually encounter Edited January 28, 2019 by big mario 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwavedave Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 Mario's story reminds of 2 days ago carving up some hero groom at Giant's Ridge. 2 skiers got off the chair behind us and were complimenting Russ on his excellent carving under the chair earlier. I was clipping in and nudging my board to go as the skiers came up beside me. They told me to go ahead so they could follow and watch. I looked up a couple of times on the way down, worried that they might try to pass, but they were respectful and didn't try to. At the bottom they were very complimentary and in impressed by how low I could go, and I don't even lay down in my turns. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonbordin Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 36 minutes ago, bigwavedave said: complimenting Russ on his excellent carving under the chair earlier. This I believe... 36 minutes ago, bigwavedave said: At the bottom they were very complimentary and in impressed by how low I could go, and I don't even lay down in my turns. This is a lie. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishsurfer Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 1 hour ago, bigwavedave said: Mario's story reminds of 2 days ago carving up some hero groom at Giant's Ridge. 2 skiers got off the chair behind us and were complimenting Russ on his excellent carving under the chair earlier. I was clipping in and nudging my board to go as the skiers came up beside me. They told me to go ahead so they could follow and watch. I looked up a couple of times on the way down, worried that they might try to pass, but they were respectful and didn't try to. At the bottom they were very complimentary and in impressed by how low I could go, and I don't even lay down in my turns. Ive got to say getting compliments from skiers is somewhat odd experience when it happens to me, its defintely a change from the complaints for trenching up the slope. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingbat Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 35 minutes ago, scottishsurfer said: Ive got to say getting compliments from skiers is somewhat odd experience when it happens to me, its defintely a change from the complaints for trenching up the slope. Few years back at ECES, Bobby Buggs and I came down a run and one of the instructors from Stratton's Perfect Turn clinic, or whatever it's called, was pointing his ski pole at us. We pulled up close enough to hear he was using us as an example for something he was teaching. The whole scene was hysterical. His face looked like he was stoked about using snowboarders as an example. The skiers in his clas looked like he had just insulted their mothers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jng Posted January 28, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 As I approached a ski race instructor and a pack of his young charges... Instructor: Cool! An offset monoski! Me: It's actually a snowboard. Instructor: You have ski boots. That's definitely an offset mono! Me: You have no idea how much it pains me to hear you say this. 4 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 This is surely the winter for retorts mentioning a certain female Czech snowboard racer. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pythmere Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 (edited) First day riding my own alpine setup today and the lifty at the gondola said "sweet off centered monoski." I am looking forward to educating my coworkers haha Edited January 28, 2019 by Pythmere 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 If it aint lacey straps it aint snowboard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 1 hour ago, b0ardski said: If it aint lacey straps it aint snowboard You have no idea how close you are with that remark... And it's not only uneducated opinion by general public, unfortunately. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Gendzwill Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 22 hours ago, jng said: As I approached a ski race instructor and a pack of his young charges... Instructor: Cool! An offset monoski! Me: It's actually a snowboard. Instructor: You have ski boots. That's definitely an offset mono! Me: You have no idea how much it pains me to hear you say this. Reminds me of the argument I had riding the lift with an instructor, who insisted that I was riding a "carveboard", not a snowboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvin' Marvin Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 I typically avoid random conversation like the plague (blackout goggles, headphones in), but last week one lady touched a special place in my cold, mechanical heart. While I was stopped on the side of the hill picking dingleberries, a veteran lady skier stopped and told me “I just wanted to let you know that what you’re doing is really beautiful.” Before I could even open my mouth she took off with her silver tresses flowing in the breeze. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 11 minutes ago, Carvin' Marvin said: I typically avoid random conversation like the plague (blackout goggles, headphones in), but last week one lady touched a special place in my cold, mechanical heart. While I was stopped on the side of the hill picking dingleberries, a veteran lady skier stopped and told me “I just wanted to let you know that what you’re doing is really beautiful.” Before I could even open my mouth she took off with her silver tresses flowing in the breeze. I never knew little old ladies found picking dingleberries beautiful. Come to think of it, it is kind of beautiful. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvin' Marvin Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 3 minutes ago, daveo said: I never knew little old ladies found picking dingleberries beautiful. Come to think of it, it is kind of beautiful. HAHAHAHAHA dang you got me there. My phrasing could use some work. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slopestar Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Dropped behind Lunch rock at Winter Park down a very easy flat groomer. Riding my Alloy DO. Love this board but like a good hammerhead, it needs an edge all the time so flat base riding is not really an option. So I was just pinballing left and right down the run. We stop at the top of another chair to figure out where we are going. My music is blaring and a skier comments to me. I scramble to lower the volume as he compliments my smooth line and that he never sees snowboarders do that. I could have sworn I was going to get the “you cut me off” or “you were in my lane” line. I said thank you. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) 16 minutes ago, slopestar said: Love this board but like a good hammerhead, it needs an edge all the time so flat base riding is not really an option. Why does it need an edge all the time and can't be flat ridden, though? Catchy? Edited January 29, 2019 by daveo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slopestar Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 I don’t detune and hammerheads tend to be very hooky if that makes sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 39 minutes ago, slopestar said: I don’t detune and hammerheads tend to be very hooky if that makes sense May I ask what your base angle is on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slopestar Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) 7 minutes ago, daveo said: May I ask what your base angle is on? I have not touched this board other than wax and knocking off the edge on the tip and tail past the contact points. So I’m assuming 90base/90 side. I usually knock of 1 on the base and 2 on the side but I’ve never heard that in the lift line Edited January 29, 2019 by slopestar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) 5 minutes ago, slopestar said: I have not touched this board other than wax and knocking off the edge on the tip and tail past the contact points. So I’m assuming 90base/90 side. I usually knock of 1 on the base and 2 on the side Do you find boards are less hooky once a base bevel is set? I sure do. I rode a hammerhead last season (SG Soul 164- 144 ee) and it was not hooky at all. I did the base on 0.5 and sides on 2. I did slightly go over 1.5 or so inch of the contact points' edge with 600 grit sandpaper. Just 4 passes total. Nothing dramatic. That routine seems to work on every board for me to get rid of the hookiness. Maybe you don't mind it but I find hookiness one of the most unsettling and disconcerting things with snowboarding. Edited January 29, 2019 by daveo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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