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Yeah, Ivo, that's right. Mine is pretty stiff. It's one reason that the super performance only comes out when you really torque or max out the board. It takes some effort to flex it to the point where its best attributes come out. If you are a light or medium-weight person, or your riding style is smooth and feathery, you may have trouble reaching this point. I personally always seem to be going pretty fast and also muscling through bumps (I spend a lot of time snowboarding in moguls...used to be a skier and can't give them up!) and doing strange things and falling down a lot. For th

Yeah, Ivo, that's right. Mine is pretty stiff. It's one reason that the super performance only comes out when you really torque or max out the board. It takes some effort to flex it to the point where its best attributes come out. If you are a light or medium-weight person, or your riding style is smooth and feathery, you may have trouble reaching this point. I personally always seem to be going pretty fast and also muscling through bumps (I spend a lot of time snowboarding in moguls...used to be a skier and can't give them up!) and doing strange things and falling down a lot. For th

Hmmm...see my post on the Salomon 450 thread...I think I'm on the right board Hee hee hee!! About your inquiry, do you have an orthopedic issue? I myself have one leg about 1/4" shorter than the other and it affects a lot of things, so I use inserts etc. In high school sports I had to have orthotics to prevent knee, hip and lower back pain. Is that your issue? Or is it just that you can't seem to find boots that don't hurt your feet?

Lama, Are you one of those Aussies who was up in the cheapish Hirafu Chalet where there was a guy Ben in charge and his helper Matt who lived in the chalet (actually a big old Japanese house about 5 mins from the Hirafu gondola)? There was a rather wooly-headed soul named Paddy there around that time. We're going back up this year around the same time. Hope you're there, let's have a drink or two! Badmigraine in Tokyo.

Danz, I don't know if it helps much, but I have a foot fetish and know some websites where you can look at some rather bracing shots of womens legs, feet and rears. I have spent a lot of time looking at and thinking about women's feet, and I am pretty good at massaging them and licking and sucking them if their owners let me. Badmigraine in Tokyo.

Hey Chris I demoed a Salomon 450 and 550 at Whistler a couple winters ago. I suppose the 450 has changed a bit since then, but at that time I found it to be a responsive, smooth-riding board that was less forgiving than a big-mountain board (Burton Supermodel) that I was riding that year. I liked it. But know what? I rode the Salomon 550 immediately after, and it had me whooping and screaming like a sterno-crazed alkie on the way down. I kept it for an extra hour and I thought the demo booth guys would be angry, but they just laughed and said everybody does that when they get on

I took 1999 off to do what BTBW is doing--ride my board. At first I thought about spending the winter in Japan, but it is just so expensive here. Many resorts have never heard of the "season pass" concept. And there is a shortage of challenging terrain and long, knock-you-out runs. You get your ticket pulled for skiing off-piste... You can't rent places without guarantors and foreign registration cards... It is all very complicated and in the end I decided I would spend half the money and have twice the fun by heading back to the US and Canada, where you can rent a great apartment