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80 or 90 is just taking the p***. 17 if i also include days when i went out for three hours before thinking "screw this! im off to the pub".

Originally Posted By: Rag-Doll Muika - you walk in with your board, point to board that floats your boat and for a very modest fee they swap your bindings over and you're out the door with an awesome board. They have a lot of their range lined up ready to go. I had a go on the 189cm Impossible for an afternoon when the wax job on my board packed it in. Fantastic board - sonic boom fast and super stable. I didn't get to try it in the deep though but it would have been a dream ride. If a board like that wasn't a bitch to travel with (and a bit pricey - $2,000)) I would have bought it there and t

and one of those places would be myoko.

thanks man, i think there is a line, and im genuinely trying to stay on this side of it, but the subject went kinda meta

Originally Posted By: RobBright Originally Posted By: ippy well yeah, but i also have google tabs so i have like ten pages open right now. Interesting thing facts. and 9 of those are of this thread. Shame, but that site doesn't have any splitboards. shoganai. haha, something like that. Still, i assure you, im living and teaching in korea and at work right this very minute. If i was a rep, i promise you it would be a hell of a lot easier. Half this thread has been about me trying to address the questions of whether or not im a rep instead of dealing with the actual subje

Originally Posted By: inner muppet I'm bored at work so had the Who's Online page on for the last few hours. Quite interesting actually. ippy, I have noticed you have been hawk-eyeing this one thread many (many!) times in the last few hours even when people haven't posted anything new in it. At the same time, apparently not looking at any other threads. Seems that it's real important to you. Interesting page that Who's Online. well yeah, but i also have google tabs so i have like ten pages open right now. Interesting thing facts.

what you mean?

yeah i appreciate that. Im constantly trying to rewrite to not come off, but im walking a fine line here

oooh, sorry, read the edit,i kind of answered the point Basically its a trial operation and truth be told i doubt the japanese markets really going to sway them into keeping it as a policy forever and ever, but the hope is the more people that are interested the more likely they retain it. Pretty straightforward. I want them to retain it because i genuinely think itll be good for the consumer (ie. me and you). I mean right now, its still around 100 dollars cheaper ordering from the US than buying straight here (or in my case, korea). This takes it to $200 cheaper, which is honestly a massive

Originally Posted By: inner muppet Isn't reminding us lessening the chance of you winning? ha! i dont need any more snowboards thanks Ive got my sierrascope and quiverkiller already and will have a bsod on day 1 of its release. If i won, its going to one of my mates. Truth is, I just want everyone on this and making it popular so they think that international free shipping is a good idea in the long run and keep it for longer than a trial!

Originally Posted By: Jynxx I wonder how much it costs to send one with parcel forwarding, the one gareth suggested? i can actually answer that! At least if youre talking about a snowboard. I just bought a quiver killer off ebay (it was 125 bucks, so how could i refuse). Used shipito to get it to korea and all in and packed down to take up as little area as possible, it cost around $120 dollars to ship. Its definitely a nice alternative right now, but thats still not including tax (which was 40,000 won - about 40 bucks). Still, i managed to roughly level out with the average capita pric

international daily giveaway (sierra stunt i think - which is the 2010 burton blunt) headsup! 15 minutes (i think theyre only doing the international giveaway this week, so yeah, im going to remind you for the next two days (if you dont mind too much) because free snowboards are awesome!)

Originally Posted By: -20.7 Some people may also be encouraged to "spend more" than they might otherwise to go over the $500 number...... Stands to reason... hmmm, this charlie slasher is 399... should i just grab those forces for 200 to get free shipping? yeah! why the hell not eh!

which is why its a very big kick in the teeth to retailers and why many people are going to put a lot of pressure on brands to drop sierra. When you factor in as well that the boards are already cheaper buying from them than buying in japan/korea/australia even without free shipping, youre talking maybe an effective 30-40% cut at the start of the season. Thats utterly unacceptable many people Its also seriously interesting to see whats going on next year. I think they said a while back that technine and stepchild are going to be sold by them. They seem to do alright with nitro, so i c

i think theres a few that have exclusivity agreements but its not all. Basically burton et al (analog, red etc), mervin as well i think. But lots of brands like yes, capita, nitro, bataleon, and neversummer dont seem to have international restrictions. Pop to any US board site - sierra, dogfunk, bc etc), and if theyll ship it internationally you know they wont have that type of agreement. Maybe a lot of them didnt have one though because the market was proportionately tiny. stuff may now be in a transition with this action. Its definitely going to be interesting to see what stock sierra have c

id take it as read that its their usual fedex carrier. I think the saving is from 80 bucks for a board to around 160 or so if youre getting board and bindings. You have to probably also factor in (at least this is true in korea) that your import duty is calculated after shipping costs have been added. To give you a rough idea. I bought a sierrascope from them when it was 300. Shipping and import duty alone brought it up to 460. Now itll cost me 360. Thats just the board. I also bought union forces for full whack, and had to pay a pretty astronomical sum on those and a pair of boots - came to a

its 100% good or bad depending on what you want. Its a pretty neutral statement in truth. If you want lots of gaikoku amenities/comforts/social events, its not really happening. If you want something to GET AWAY from all that and somewhere a bit less crowded than nozawa and the like, then myoko will be right up your street.

its okay. My advice to you is on your first run pick a time you think itll take you to get onto that gondola and get tickets for it ORRRR, get your ticket, go for lunch, come back in time for easy lift queue. Also, dont treck from one side of the mountain to the other unless you have skis. Itll just bug the crap out of you.

if its someone who lives in nagano (and probably a city just outside nagano), i reckon i know who it is anyway. The join date looks about right too. Hes harmless, and probably just playing wind up with me as usual

hehe. I had a mate say something similar. Its a crazy place, and i can see why people like it, but man, if you dont know whats coming youre going to be cheesed off There should be a sticky here warning people about that bloody gondola.

if i dont know the place that well id rather just stay there a few days and move on. Nagano is pretty cool for that if you have a car. Get bored of myoko (well, its virtually nagano), pop to nozawa, then hit up shiga, or just nip over to hakuba. You could base yourself in nagano city and not be bored for a hell of a long time. But truth be told, i did all that this year, im really stoked i finally got to hit nozawa this time, but the pull of niseko and its surroundings is way too strong. I spent 4 days there and that was nowhere near enough time. I knew pretty much i made a misstake dotting

Muju - sucks in general only day trips when im really needing sb love. Probably rate it a 3/10 Hakuba - meant to spend a day and then go elsewhere, ended up spending almost a week there. Also landed in the middle of a gigantic dump. For pure drinking id give it 10/10. Dont think i spent a single day sober. As for the rest, i put tsugaike in my top 3 worst rides ever, goryu/47 was pretty much same old (but with more powder), and never made it to cortina like i promised myself (since last year) i would. 6/10 Nozawa was raining. Nozawa was also still amazing. It was my first time there

i had a season pass there last year. They are crazy short of foreigners, but its seriously awesome. Theres also something really special about the atmosphere of the place. It looks like it died on its arse about ten years ago and everyone just kind of gave up on it. Its a shame too, because signihara is serioulsy beautiful, and i love their policy of letting you duck under whatever rope you like and ride under any lift you like so long as you know youre liable if they have to rescue you. Still, it is as you say a teensy bit flat, and when it hits slush season theres honestly nothing worse than

that youre trolling my thread?

well thats kind of the point, eh. If i though it was just something interesting for me, i wouldnt have really bothered. Its because i think its interesting for everyone else i passed on the info.