badmigraine

I heard there was a great superpipe up at Ishiuchi Maruyama in Niigata this season. Mogski was afraid to go into it with his Pocket Rockets! Well the Core Games were supposed to be up there this weekend. I wonder if they really actually happened with all this rain and warm weather..? Anybody know anything? We were thinking of ditching work and heading up on Wednesday or Thursday this week, to spend the day riding and hiking the pipe...but only if it is open and viable, and not a kind of giant interactive sno-cone. Anybody know anything?

Tomorrow night is the Tokyo Perve party--rubber, leather, vinyl and PVC fetish party. My costume is all set, including remote control electric dog shock collar. My friend Mistress Makiko has the remote control, and I am wearing the collar. And it is not around my neck. Will Fatty's sponsor this type of event? [This message has been edited by badmigraine (edited 30 March 2002).]

Will Fatty's have a barber's chair for giving that special Owner's Cut to admiring customers? If a nautical motif is planned, there are these antique diving suits, in good shape but with some brown streaking on the glass.

Don't know too much about Fatty, he was always working...he seemed like just the sort who might go into hospital after trying a new trick to impress a gal. Must be a family thing--we rode some with his Dad and he rips. Not only that, but Dad opens the last beer of the evening but is still up before you in the morning. And Fatty's got a nice stash of Weetabix and Vegemite. Any questions?

Look at me--I'm cool!!

It's a bit odd that in these backcountry threads hardly anyone ever mentions what an exhausting chore it is to have to hump it through knee- or even hip-deep snow, up steep slopes, carrying a pack and your board or skis, a shovel, probe, all the safety gear... On a cold mountain day in the thin air it sure feels nice to work up the same kind of sweat you'd get after jogging in a down parka for thirty minutes. All that sweat turns clammy and cold, or, if you have the correct expensive technical undergarments, quickly begins to stink like a gym locker room with no showers or running water.

Hey Ocean Up here making people wait on a small Net terminal, so I'll have to make this quick. Up here in Niseko, it rained/heavy wet snow and terrible visibility yesterday, today all lifts closed due to high winds! About PowerLinks, there are 3 kinds, ranging from softer to stiffer: freestyle, regular and boardercross/carving. I have the regular ones and they are super. I just put the boardercross/carving ones on my shorter board with stiff bindings, and now it is like riding a razor knife... I would say you should get the one that matches your riding style. It would be a mista

Hey Ocean Up here making people wait on a small Net terminal, so I'll have to make this quick. Up here in Niseko, it rained/heavy wet snow and terrible visibility yesterday, today all lifts closed due to high winds! About PowerLinks, there are 3 kinds, ranging from softer to stiffer: freestyle, regular and boardercross/carving. I have the regular ones and they are super. I just put the boardercross/carving ones on my shorter board with stiff bindings, and now it is like riding a razor knife... I would say you should get the one that matches your riding style. It would be a mista

Ocean, I don't know about Fast bindings... Here is something totally irrelevant: I was interested in a stiff but quick setup earlier this season and I had a long look at Flow bindings, which seemed OK to me. Insofar as you can find reviews on BBSs and in other Internet places, and then discount the usual 30% or so of shall we say "specially motivated posts" that say "GREAT! GREAT! THESE ARE THE BEST BINDINGS EVER!! DON'T EVEN CONSIDER ANY OTHER." or "I don't know why people even buy this trash...mine fell apart on the first day, screws came out, strap ripped in half etc. and they wouldn'

Only too true berg. That convenience, and the ability to send your board bag--fat and ready to explode with wet cold gear like a beef summer sausage bursting out of its casing--home by takkyubin for 2500 yen, is a great boon indeed. I suppose I long for the impossible...not just when reading Penthouse, but also in the matter of living in a fun city only a short commute to fantastic snow-draped mountains. Maybe a topic for another thread, but assuming that one prefers not to live in an isolated mountain cabin all winter, just to be near the slopes, what would be the ideal city/t

I'll bring my Fabio Concato tapes and some other pezzi vecchi, my snowboard and some hangover pills, and let's do something hard to forget!! YEAH!!!

How does it compare to last year's aptly titled onslope smash by Yaida Hitomi, "I'm here, saying nothing"? (Pronounced "I'm heel, saying nothing")

If you are in the French/Italian part of Switzerland, then I recommend that all of us on the SJG forum visit your house with a load of chips and beer and wine, watch a bit of the TV coverage, then you can guide us through the secret runs on your favorite resort. It would sure beat sitting here at a desk and eating the company cafeteria food.

Simon, where in the heck are you?!

Aside from Canada's spectacular, impartial, full-time coverage of everything and everyone at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games, I only know about the US Olympic coverage. Sadly, it is the same thing we get here in Japan. Watching the US coverage of the Olympics, you have the feeling that there are mostly only US athletes in the Olympics. And there are lots of time-wasting interviews and "Up Close and Personal" stories about each US athlete, where we get to hear interviews with his elementary school teacher, see pictures of the family dog, etc. Meanwhile, while forced to watch

When I attend rubber/leather SM fetish parties here in Tokyo, I usually go in black latex rubber stockings w/garter belt, black rubber women's tank-top with molded breasts, over-the-elbow length black rubber opera gloves, and a cheap red wig with straight, shoulder-length hair. And, I am a boarder. Does that count?

Thanks for the info, Simon. Sounds like you got to watch the whole thing! I am jealous!! Why I even have the feeling that if I got to see some tape of the men's halfpipe, Satoya would come busting through the pipe doing a reprise of her mogul run. By the way, is it true that the method of judging halfpipe contests varies? I've read that most riders prefer to keep the friendly "pipe jam" format, where they just ride for a couple hours and at the end rate each other. Like in skateboarding I guess... But then there are all these "Official" contests where they have had to impo

We may reasonably expect a post from Mogski on this thread, as he is one of very few humans alive who have cultivated the ability to burn laser holes through people's goggles and eye sockets right down to sizzling BBQ brain tissue...but it only works when people standing behind him in lift lines scrape their tips over the back of his brand-new Salomon Pocket Rockets. Really something. I feel sorry for those people. First, because they keep stepping on his skis again and again while boistrously joking and laughing with their mates about this or that, totally oblivious to the fact

Simon, I'm willing to go with you a bit on this one as I, too, thought it seemed kind of patsy that the US team would sweep the pipe. But what exactly are you saying? You say most events are not judged. Is it really "most"? All the compulsory and singles and pairs figure skating, all the ski jumping, the mogul skiing, the freestyle ski jumping, the halfpipe... In the one you mentioned, ice skating, the Americans "LOST" the gold to a Russian pair that some say wasn't as good and even had a stumble...where was the pro-US bias in this example? Also, you said only 1 of the snow

Nothing to worry about at all. There'll be heaps of snow. I suppose the average temp is a bit higher in March than in February, but the snow keeps on falling and you are working off a tremendous base. Perhaps the latter part of March could be iffy, though not bad, but I would think the first 2 weeks will be great. Probably some huge dumps, and relatively uncrowded slopes...by then, the slope-clogger type of skier is already reserving trips to Bali and Thailand as Foreign Beach Vacation season has already set in. Only people like you and me--sticks in the mud--would still be (ha-

alferg, thanks for the props! I wasn't aiming anything at you, just trying to get a laugh while frittering away more work time until the bell goes off and we can all go home to watch the Olympix. The Onion?! I don't write for anyone but you guys, and that for free! But if the Onion is looking for contributors and pays in US$, then sign me up. Maybe next I can fill you in on how after an entire day underwater in the onsen, I looked over to find Lama heroically trying pull out Paddy, who was wearing a rainbow-patterned Speedo and had been holding his breath under the surface the

alferg, there are no mixed onsen per se, but I and Mogski were able to improvise one last year using only the following: --2 antique diving bells with clear fishbowl bolt-on headpieces --supply of rotten meat held by nylon net just in front of mouth area Mogski, disguised as an oversized tanuki (a kind of bipedal Japanese badger that goes about the forests in old woodsman's clothes carrying a walking stick acting as a protective spirit), stood motionless on a snow hummock overlooking the women's side of a segregated onsen for two days and nights until the caretaker drained al

I got up early this morning hoping to catch a report on the men's halfpipe and alpine skiing... What I got was repeated shots of speed skater Shimizu's 500m run juxtaposed with slow-mo of his rival falling over in a different heat. What a triumph! Then there was the 5th long report I've seen so far where the aerodynamic properties of speed skate suits are demonstrated in a wind tunnel. Then there was the humorous piece showing the three amazing types of ice skates: figure, hockey and speed. This report ended up with a great laugh-getter: a housewife cutting veggies with a speed

I've been doing the peer-to-peer file swapping thing using iMesh (you can download it easily for free). I really enjoy the mp3s, but I have to say that: 1. iMesh ends up crashing my system every time (this applies to search/download activitity only--after I GET the mp3 onto my system, I have no need to fire up iMesh, and can listen all day using an mp3 player, without crashing) 2. iMesh cobbles into your system a number of programs classified as "spyware" that continually pass information to advertisers and to iMesh. I read it even has the programs that can replace words on a we

oo, did you find that your perception of the fun and functionality of the Net drastically changed once you got ADSL? As for me, I'm downloading tons of MP3s, watching movie trailers, skate vids and streaming stuff all the time...fantastic. Does anyone have Usen's 300Mbps fiber optic service? I wonder what that looks like.