1xsculler Posted February 24, 2022 Report Share Posted February 24, 2022 Lean over more, Bob! Angulate more, Bob!!! DO NOT LET THAT BOARD SLARVE UNLESS YOU HAVE TO TO STAY ALIVE!!! WHAT IN THE F IS WRONG WITH YOU, Bob!!!! it’s counter intuitive but I do much better with 187ml of wine in my gullet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kneel Posted February 24, 2022 Report Share Posted February 24, 2022 Some might argue this is why God created edibles. Not that I would sanction such a thing of course, but maybe the first step is to stop that guy from yelling at Bob so much. He sounds like a real bummer. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big mario Posted February 24, 2022 Report Share Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, 1xsculler said: it’s counter intuitive but I do much better with 187ml of wine in my gullet. Keep drilling as much as possible on the low angle stuff, keep having fun doing that while you are building and strengthening those neural pathways. It's not counterintuitive, that wine is letting you relax, and allowing muscle memory take over from those gozillion reps you have done previously. I spend a significant amount of my early season time drilling like that, I personally enjoy being in a flow state, and not survival mode. mario Edited February 24, 2022 by big mario 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st_lupo Posted February 24, 2022 Report Share Posted February 24, 2022 I’LL BET YOU COULD SUCK A GOLFBALL THROUGH A GARDEN HOSE, BOB! apologies if you haven’t seen Full Metal Jacket 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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carvedog Posted February 24, 2022 Report Share Posted February 24, 2022 Leaning is usually not awesome unless perfect snow. Think about creating higher, earlier edge angles....more. And more. And smoke a bowl. Don't try to get low, work for the smooth and round the low will come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post big mario Posted February 25, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Another take One of the most awesome, fluid, cleanest, and amazing riders that i am so honored to share a chair with every sunday, Ice, aka Mr Positive, aka Kevin E, prefers to ride low angle slopes, though he can abso****inglutely kill it on anything he rides. Bob, stop beating yourself up, ride for yourself. I am about to step out of my "ride with gorilla balls" aggro persona for a bit here, and say the following: What we do is poetry, we do it for ourselves, not for the adulation of those watching from above on chairlifts, or our crew that watches us as we pass. Enjoy the beauty of a perfect turn, Irregardless of pitch, relish the feeling of an awesome heely or toeside, if the snow comes up to meet you, whoop with joy, enjoy the moment, embrace it, remember it, and try to duplicate it. The more you pursue it, the more elusive it will become. Get out of your head, let it happen, ride for yourself, and enjoy every turn, bad or good, feed your soul, because, ultimately, that is why we are all here, though we may not admit it. Or you can be like me, ride soso until you see a camera, and turn it up to 11... Mario 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkaholic Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 5 minutes ago, big mario said: Or you can be like me, ride soso until you see a camera, and turn Holy Diver up to 11 and become an ostrich for the camera. Mario Fixed it for ya So hoping Clint got that and it makes the MCC highlight reel. ink 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big mario Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 25 minutes ago, inkaholic said: Fixed it for ya So hoping Clint got that and it makes the MCC highlight reel. ink I've been cut off from liking anything else for today, ill hit you up with a like tomorrow. Laughing my ass off right now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnasmo Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 3 hours ago, carvedog said: Leaning is usually not awesome unless perfect snow. Think about creating higher, earlier edge angles....more. And more. That's it, right there, that's the whole drill. If you can keep the edge angle steeper than the line from your center of gravity to the edge you are balancing on, voila. The lean comes from balancing over the edge, so getting low comes from turning sharper/faster. The carve comes from keeping the edge higher than the lean. People write volumes about how to go about it.... or you can just think about what carvedog said and "effing get it done." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordmetroland Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Yeah, baby… 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1xsculler Posted February 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 7 hours ago, Pat Donnelly said: Missed the humor on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st_lupo Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 2 hours ago, 1xsculler said: Missed the humor on that one. The character of Lee Ermy as the gunnery sergeant is a cultural touch-stone for a certain generation. Your very first post in this thread really evoked that persona in my head. Just like riding in the trees; you focus on the spaces in between the trees and not the trees themselves if you want to survive. Focus on what works for you instead of what doesn't work. Then build out from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Job Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Release the turn more down the fall line as you get better and better. And do it on really hard snow. Hard snow won't fluff your ego. And make sure the turn size is appropriate for the board you are riding (GS/SL) (hard to do). Don't ride freecarve equipment; it's just an ego fluffer. So fun to work on this stuff. Or ride double digit pow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueB Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 (edited) 13 hours ago, big mario said: I personally enjoy being in a flow state, Let the wine flow! 14 hours ago, 1xsculler said: it’s counter intuitive but I do much better with 187ml of wine in my gullet. Edited February 25, 2022 by BlueB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1xsculler Posted February 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 I sincerely appreciate all of your constructive comments. AND humor is so individual. My wife and three of our four daughters and I used to laugh our asses off listening to Jeff Foxworthy on skiing road trips to and from Whistler and Bend. The more times we listened to that stupid stuff the harder we laughed. We know a lot of the one liners by heart and use them to this day. Our eldest daughter, who was about 15 during those years, hated it, saw no humor in it and still doesn’t. It made her angry that we laughed so hard. FWIW, at age 45 she is now an extremely successful personal injury attorney. On this recent four day trip to Jackson Hole with my 8, 12 and 15 year old grandsons most of the downtime, including at the dinner table at various restaurants, was occupied by all three on their cell phones watching stuff like Ticktoc and showing it to one another and yucking it up. At age 78 I, of course, got none of it, i.e. didn’t understand it and saw no humor in any of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chouinard Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 20 hours ago, johnasmo said: or you can just think about what carvedog said and "effing get it done." Now I confused. Should I increase the edge angle OR smoke a bowl? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carvedog Posted February 26, 2022 Report Share Posted February 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Chouinard said: Now I confused. Should I increase the edge angle OR smoke a bowl? Yes 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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