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board: K2, electra bindings: burton, custom freestyle (had to mix some old bindings) boot: vans pants: foresquare jacket: saleva, alpine xtreme goggels: oakley cap: no name protection pants: dainese gloves: reusch the price matters!!! i could buy all things pretty pricy, but i think most of them are great quality! [This message has been edited by ivo (edited 06 December 2001).]

"yuki wa seico desu nee!!??" then they (hopefully she) starts to talk with me in japanese. i will say then " sorry watashi nihongo wa chotto" and we we try to comunicate....

if your left foot is in front you are regular. if your right foot is in front you are goofy. (comes from the early days of snowboarding cause it looks so silly...)

Quote: Originally posted by flameless: Ocean11 I coudlnt agree more with you the saying ' no friends on a powder day ' was coined for a lot of very good reasons and I for one are over waiting for 'buds' to get their s%$t together when fresh snow is waiting powder waits for no man.... ....and the avalanche gets down without saying to any one, that you are inside. too bad that the hotel owner just realise that you arent present for the last 3 days, but i think you want care about, cause its so silent and nice under tons of snow, and spring is coming soon anyway........ hey flame

almost every day....

switzerland, had been in japan last year but it looks that i can't effort to come again right now...

i took the ferry from aomori to anywhere in hokkaido (sorry i'm drunk too) it was pretty funny, there where absouteley no chairs on deck, i could just sit in the parcells on the flor...

he he, 3 swiss riders there! they will kick ass!! watch out!!

Quote: Originally posted by j-dog: It depends on what you want to do. If you`re into jumps, pipes and backcountry(i.e. the back of Hakuba-not advisable unless you`re with someone who knows the area) then Hakuba for definate. If you`re the oppposite then Shiga - why? Because there isn`t any of the above in Shiga. if you find in some pauda place in shiga, you can be shure that you ride the finest and lightest pauda ever!!

you stay the whole season in arai?? could be a little boring..... (just the game center at the bottom station is really nice!!) the leagaly pauda boarding is good too but i think you know the whole area after 3 days!

don't go for beer in japan!!!! go for whiskey, straight, no water, no ice, big glass!!!! you never paid less for so much irish or scotch whiskey!!!! (arround 700 yen) (don't try this in bars with meshurement systems!)

Quote: Originally posted by 7-11: sebun, irebun, ii kibun yeah i like this one!!!!!!!!

snowboarding since arround 13 years

Quote: Originally posted by barok: Also wondering, Is the party scene in Japan a downer in general ? or just that associated with skiing, snowboarding, and the villages ? same as everywhere, if you know where to go and if you are in a party mood then you can have great nights out there!!!!

shit i'm not in japan anymore! i realy would like to to get drunk and sing again some x mas songs (jinglebells-OI) with you guys in ropongi (like we did last year!!!)

why not traveling arround like i did last year???

Quote: Originally posted by powpow: There in their own circle and we are trying to break into it and they don`t want to hear it. Very limmitted english speaking clubs, pubs and restuarnts.In Niseko its like talking to a brick wall. thats true for niseko but it isn't for the rest of the japanese ski areas!!! it might come from too many tourists (aussies, kiwis, and amis) there... think about your hometown, how would you be if every week would come and go masses of japanese tourists, drinking too much and trying to get the most beatifull girls in town...?? i can understand them a

YH in japan sucks!!!!!!!!! go to bed at 22.30???? no way! ronie, check out wazzas world! it's about 30 minutes walking from hirafu but there might be the only road in japan where someone pick you up if you are hitchhiking! sorry i have to search his number.....

pow pow, that sounds strange! too much wax doesnt bring anything! you have the right temperature and speed by waxing your board with the iron, when the wax is dried about 10 cm behind the iron. make a tiny wax film all over your board. then after waxing let the board cool down, best thing is to wax at the evening and scrap the wax of in the morning. if you scrap the wax when it's still warm, you will take it out of the pores. then buy a ski or snowboard scrap blade. blades, longer than 10 centimeters doesn't bring much cause you haven't enough power to scrap all the

Quote: Originally posted by barok: one exception, wax + slush = SLOW almost but, WAX + BRUSH = STRUCTURE IN THE BASE STRUCTURE + SLUSH = FAST i use to give alot of structure, all season! and my board is allways fast! (might be about my weight too...)

Quote: Originally posted by Nat: That's Japanese people do. I went to crazy party with Japanese friends, they bring hell of a lot of beers and vokka etc. then they started party in Pension's party room.... I was a bit surprised. my new years eve was like that! and when i was in the mood and getting a little drunk it was allready 0.30 and all of my japanese friends where tired and went to sleep! ON NEW YEARS EVE!!!!????????? don't search parties in youth hostels!!! usually there is nobody! (just you and the guy who has to lock the door) best way to find parties in japanese ski

as much as i know are salomon boards extremly stiff, compared to other freeride/freestyle boards. but i used one the whole last season and i was happy with it!

i'm freestyle oriantate freerider (but i use to say soulboarder!) pauda is my first choice then a good park or a steep groomed slope! i really like to carve too! ok it's true, at the moment is a forum hype (especially in japan(wach out the 10000 sticker boards)), they really ride sick things (and some of them ride duckstance....) alpine boarders also following hypes, think about asymetrical and directional shaped boards... they are also intrested in new things but i think more in technical things like diffrent flex zones on a snowboard. and i also think that alpine riders poten

waxing is nessesary!!!!! ok fluid waxes doesn't last long or damage the base! but the process if you wax hot is diffrent! the heat will open the little pores on the base, so the hot wax flow into them. so a scratched base says nothing about waxing! if you not wax, the base getting dry, you see that when it gets some grey parts on it. ask the last years reader of this forum!! they will remember, "waxing a snowboard is like having sex!!!!"

Quote: Originally posted by Don: what are we following some sort of fashion ?....! sounds crazy, but is true!!! think about 5 years ago, baseless binding's where the hype! nowerdays, palmer snowboards try to sell additional baseplates to stand higher.... also with the stance, a few years ago, everyone rides 0/0 then the angels changed to 25/15 another year everyone tried duckstance... i think highest factor about fashion in such important things is, wich team, brand or rider is "in" at the moment.