Peetan
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...I'm such a mug.
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Where can I get one of 'ee?
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I got the 2013 Fish (black one) in a 160!
I'm 182cm and 76kg, could have easily got the 156 but somehow opted for the 160!!
My old board, 2008 Burton Fix was a 156 and for some reason my longer and chunkier Fish feels smaller and lighter than it!!!!
Anyone considering upgrading and getting a powder board.....do it!!!!! It will change your riding ability, confidence!!!!!!! and the sort !!!!!of terrain suddenly !!!!!!!!!available to you!!!
Spent months !!!!!!!watching yahoo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Japan and eBay to find a cheap!!!!!!!!!!!! 2nd hand!!! fish and ended!!!!!!!!!!! up finding mine on rakuten!!
Sorry, forum rules say that you can't use that many exclamation marks without putting at least a couple of '1's in there.
Please edit your post accordingly.
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In seriousness, I found my plank on rakuten as well. It's amazing what you can get on there sometimes, and I would be really skeptical of buying a used board on eBay or the like without being able to inspect in person.
That said, if/when I take my stabilizers off and get a proper nice setup, I dare say eBay will feature somehow.
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Yeah, I'm scanning the weather reports to see where is taking the least massive damage. At the moment it's looking like a toss-up between hakuba (the missus realllly wants to head there) and old favourite marunuma (figuring the height will lift it out of the drab conditions, and the 'devil road' will be clear due to the recent bad weather).
As a ray of hope, a sneaky peak on weathernews is suggesting the mid half of next week could offer something white and fluffy, and I don't mean the Easter bunny.
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Muikabochisan (or anyone..) do you think it's worth a last minute punt up to hakuba this Saturday? Just learned my schedule has opened up, was wondering where could be good..
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It was a while ago, but here it is.
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/topic/20730-buying-my-first-board
K2. I HATE K2. But their boards are top notch. These guys are really at the cutting edge of construction.-
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I'm still pretty new to this gig, so I'm on a 2012-13 Raygun 161 (I'm 185cm and 84kg). Technically an all-terrain rocker, but with a moderate set back it handles my level of pow lovely. Found very cheap, new @ ¥17,000.
Sorry to wander a little OT, but I saw in another thread that Ippy said he hates K2. I'm far from a brand groupie, but just a but curious to know why?
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Morning all!
The air is... Not very nice this morning. I don't wear masks out of principle usually, but today I'm tempted.
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So with that, we have chosen door number 2, Aizukogen Takatsue. Snowpal, sleep on train overnight and get to the slopes a bright and breezy 6:45, on slope by 7:15. A good 10 hours of slope time.
Just a damn shame about the snow. It's not bad, but not stellar either. Mixing up the runs can be tricky as well, but in the morning while there's no one around you can take a sneaky cut straight through the main beginner run at a fair whack and launch straight into a side run, then back out over a good jump if you can keep the speed.
Last time the lady and I went to takatsue it was frosty corduroy up to halfway. Thankfully a heavy dump came around lunchtime and changed it to pewpew, plus a friend and I went tree-dodging a little.
I'll keep optimistic
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I wonder what Alan said when he finally found the baby?
*ahem*
Anywhoo, thanks to a glitch on the App Store, Pacific Rim was my movie of transport monotony for the last two board outings.
S'alright innit.
Bit long, listening to the hashed out Japanese dialogue was cringey at times and the sense of scale was undone a little due to the screen size (iPad mini), but as a popcorn movie it wasn't bad, and Rob Perlman was kickass-awesome. Broke my duck of watching shit films at least (Star Trek:Into Darkness, Man of Steel, World War Z).
I also just re-watched all the Ninja Turtle movies from the 90s.
Please don't judge me.
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Wow, that's.... A big lady.
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From what I gather it's manky stuff floating over from the west, Particulate Matter up to 2.5 micrometers. It's been heavy in China apparently (source), and the warm front has carried it over. It's quite nasty as it's small enough to get through the main repiratory filters and really mess up your inner gubbins™.
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Aahhh, wise guy eh.
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If you are not trolling, this may help...
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Particulate Matter... something? 2.5? Latest firmware? 2.4 was terribly buggy.
I'll get my coat.
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Did Braveheart use the Wallace Tartan? Or was it just bollocks?
Surely that would have been no tartan at all...
I know so many scots ex-pats who really welcome the break, but also worry that it woul financially cripple both England/Wales and Scotland in the process.
And I also know so many American friends who are going to rip their hair out trying to work out Great Britain/ British Isles/ UK all over again.
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Thank you! *doffs cap*
reading between the lines, literally- Joetsu LINE and the Kanetsu EXPRESSWAY. Oh my.
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Thanks for the quick replies! Kasukabe is on the east side of Saitama, just near the Chiba border. Famous for Crayon shinchan. Apparently.
Joetsu/Kanetsu.. I meant whatever my Map application tells me!
*puts on my explorer hat*
*Walks into the sea*
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Hi Everybody!
Trying to eek some fun during the weekends, and weighing up two options:
1) Marunumakogen
2) Aizukogen Takatsue
Both are higaeri via Bus or the tobu overnight train, sadly. Can't drive, work's a swine, etc.
I would normally beeline straight to Marunumakogen as I love the range and the pow there, but last weekend I had a H o r r i b l e time getting to Maiko thanks to the conjestion of the Joetsu Kanetsu Expressway from Takasaki allllllll the way to past Numata. This left only 3 hours of board time on slopes that were hard-packed thanks to the hordes, on essentially powpow rocker boards. It also left a very bitter taste in the mouth and a very sore arse. I'm willing to hope that the traffic was just a one-off, but is it pie in the sky?
Alternatively, the 'safe' option is Takatsue- I live in Kasukabe so getting an overnight train to Aizu on the Tobu snowpal is too easy. Negative points are that I don't really sleep well on the train (too tall for J-town), and the snow/track is IMHO nowhere near as fun as Marunuma.
So, boils down to whether I can risk the roads. Marunuma's bus leaves Omiya at 7:20 on sunday March 9; do people here reckon the traffic will behave by then? Has anyone else had some Joetsu Kanetsu woe? Or should I play safe and get more earlybird time at Takatsue?
Thanks in advance!
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I always have this thought process about this particular image...
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