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Rach - I'm honoured that your 200th post was on my thread! legend. And what a fitting thread too. You boys have to do more to get yourselves noticed out there. I am hoping this season to really improve in the terrain park/half pipe...anyone interested in meeting up with me and showing me how its done, say in about 6 months from now?!! My few encounters with the half pipe were as follows: 1st - when I accidentally dropped into it and didn't know it was a half pipe - utter disaster (in Lake Louise Canada) 2nd - when I got some serious air, landed on the wrong edge and landed o

Nagoid Is the Pope Catholic? Is a zebra striped? Snow withdrawl is akin to niccotine withdrawl. Life is almost unbearably miserable without it. And matters are not helped when I hear that NZed and Oz have had a good start to the season already - is that right Raury? Go on, make us all feel very jealous... but when all is said and done, it makes that first day out at the beginning of the season just that much more sweet....and I, for one, can't wait. belle

England, but I rather fancy Senegal for an outsider's chance....and entertainment value. shame about Ireland though

clearly you have an elephant memory mr11. i thought we may have done it all before but knew that you would know if we had! must have been asleep, or better still, riding when we did that one... suwa? shiranai yo. if you have the time would you mind please emailing me the directions or something rather than bore everyone to death with this topic (again!!) put away your snow trou' eh? hard thing to do no matter how kewl they are. mine are still on the floor next to the bed so every morning i am reminded when i get up that i am not going riding... sad torture huh? actually, i seem

longing for those days of riding the snow, I pulled my board out of storage just the other day just to remind myself of how good life is in winter. "you have neglected me" cried my board (well, it would have done if it could). "you have shoved me away without a care until next season, and then who'll be crying for not having SERVICED me properly" anyone aware of a reasonable place in Tokyo to get gouges filled and edges done without paying an absolute fortune? in canada or oz i would expect to pay about $40 for the privilege.... if we have done this before, i am sure ocean wil

Rach - I had a couple of lessons at a resort near Nozawa when I was first starting out boarding - all in Japanese with some really funky and obviously talented J-guys. The main problems I had with the lessons were: -we spent the first 40 minutes of a 2 hr lesson stretching and warming up -we spent the next 40 mins learning how to skate on the flat (which when you are boarding is a pain in the butt and is a good technique to now, but the instructors would have been better to tell us that, as beginners, we should just take off the board and walk) - for the rest of the lesson we wal

i am enjoying this thread, keep it coming boys...

danz - my sincere apologies, i should not have excluded half the board with such a careless comment, but actually, it is nice to ride with your own kind (skiers always get huffy with me when it takes so long to do up bindings) - was merely being considerate to you skiers out there!! raury - where in au did you work last season? i was at perisher for a while.. and although you don't see a huge amount of boarding bettys down there as yet, things are getting better. long way from adelaide, no? ocean11 - you are the biggest fan of nozawa and i am yet to understand why... although i must

to start a new topic because, as Ocean11 pointed out, i have been rather quiet for a while (have already started summer hibernation until i can get down south, or worse, wait until december for the j-snow t return)... anyways, getting a bit sick of reading about your snowbunny stories boys cos' this ain't metropolis, but the hard hitting question i pose, is, what does a girl gotta do to meet some half decent huys who are good boarders? (and before you say anything kuma, i love ya work babe, but your socks ruined what could have been so good between us!!) i have met a few guys out and

Klaus, my learned friend - I stand corrected on a few points. I am not from Sydney so I am the first to admit that my geographical knowledge of the roads and driving times is imprecise. I was based in Canberra whereupon it is only a 2.2hr drive to Perisher or Threadbo. That said, if you leave early morning from Sydney it takes a hell of a lot longer, so yes, leaving at night is quicker. But as most people tend to drive at bloody stupid speeds killing the kangaroos and the wombats on the roads at night, a slower speed around 90kmph is not unreasonable even if it results in a longer drive

I spent 4 seasons at Perisher Blue Cow, a resort about 7 hours drive west of Sydney. When there is good snow, it is just beaut. More often than not though, the season is not crash hot and snowmaking abounds. Patrol are pretty relaxed, so long as you don't go out of bounds, they take a she'll be right attitude. Threadbo which is quite nearby to Perisher rates highly too, but tends to be better later in the season (September-ish). Best thing to do if money is an issue is to stay in Jindabyne (Jindy to the locals) and commute up to the slopes - not very far and there is more of a night life

ocean11 nat, kuma and i will be up at nozza this weekend - email me if you reckon you might make it up eh? ciao

in australia, australians are known to pray to hughie, the god of snow for there to be forthcoming dumps of large amounts of snow. not sure where the origins of Hughie hailed from, perhaps some other aussies could shed some light on this. but hughie is the demigod of (australian) snow, and we love him very much. we're not worthy.

well, might see you there then 011... and just who is this OO chap anyways? hughie - bring on the snow, man!

i thought gala yuzawa was bloody awful and intend never, ever to go there again. huge queues, CRAP music (YMCA in japanese? i rest my case), overpriced food (much more so than anywhere else) and so little steep/long terrain it wasn't funny. that said, there are some great but short tree runs off to the right side of the terrain park, which are fun on a good powder day. to be honest, i was bored silly after about 3 hours as I had done every run several times over and was sick of dodging the beginners (boarders and skiers) who took up the slopes at every turn (a lot of the slopes are fa

hey o-11 (almost called you obi-1 - oops!) are you heading up to nozza this weekend? i am going up for the first time this season, would be good to hook up eh? just got back from awesome 8 days riding in canada, can't get enuf of this white stuff. belle

Rach - that is the best on the board yet! Ocean11 you are a lucky man to receive such adulation. I take my beanie off to you both. well, only while i am on the plane anyways - am off to find me some pow in canada for 10 days.... then straight back on with the beanie for some awesome riding...no doubt eh? yawall take care now (practising my canadianspeak - go figure)

the brotherhood of man, or whatever that be... (unquote) good to see the girrls getting into the equivalent thread - what a sorry state of affairs here all you chaps. come on!?

mogski - i see my poetry has caught on - very fine indeed. nat - very welcome!

mogski, nat is an awesome g-rider, thank you very much, have the photos to prove it! belle here from oz - boardin' sisters everywhere unite...... you see a lot of j-girls boardin but not so many f-girls...will be looking out for you all this weekend. ocean11, my love - see you have been copping some flack on the other posts.... well, as much as we love you and all, this is not one i would have thought to have seen you on. but we love ya anyways.... go girrls

May I eat my own words. Riding under the most awesome lift line I have ever taken at Shin Akakura, through the trees (hit a few by mistake, but you get that) and this guy over head on the chair starts screaming at me.... of course it was in japanese, and me conveniently no speaka japanese (!) so i just kept going. Not to be ignored, the ski patrol chased me, caught up with me when i stacked and said "no no no" (not the most articulate in my language, but I got the drift). I sorta spoke a few words of Japanese and then he just smiled and said "Tanoshi katta?" "Hai" said I, bef

Actually, musings aside, I do have a serious question to ask fellow boarders. I get some serious heel lift in my boots which I assume is not normal. I am between a rock and a hard place because: (a) my boots fit perfectly everywhere else (they are Northwave if that has any bearings on prospective advisors, and I use Burton bindings) ( if i do the inner laces up tight, I get cramp and then my feet fall asleep from the ball of my feet to my toes. Numb. I am no medical genius here, but my toes are telling me this can't be good. But, no heel lift and great board control for the fi

Having pondered the absence of chocolate vending machines, the solitude of the chair lifts and the incongruous, mystical enigma that is Ocean11, I turn my thoughts to the ski patrol. Lack of. NOT, however, that I am complaining in my present state of perfect health and happiness (with a touch of adrenalin thown in for good meaure). Having had the good fortune to ski for a good while in Lake Louise, it was par for the course to all to regularly encounter ski schools and patrol out and about. Perhaps more so on the sunny days (not to accuse them of being fair weathered bods at all). Per

not to mention with far, far too much time on your hands go do some real work!

Ocean - obviously you and I keep our snickers bars in different places Have a good weekend everyone.