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yeah he's from Mammoth. . . and he's even got his own trick, the Kasserole it's a switch Haakonflip 900 grabbed Indy. I can't even picture that in my head.

Kass is an American, I think he rides at Mammoth, or at least somewhere in Tahoe. he's pretty new, and he's only like 18. he was pretty much unknown till 2000-2001, but then he started winning everything. he just goes huge, almost reckless in his style - one of those make it or break it kinda guys, but he stomps almost everything.

superpipes have wider or longer transitions, depending on how you look at them, in any case, yes, they are less steeper, but with significantly more height than a half-pipe (5m vs 3m). when you are in a half-pipe it is like you are on a skateboarding half-pipe, because once you are done with one wall, you only have a split second to react to the next wall that is coming right up at you. riding a superpipe is more like riding downhill to toeside, than downhill to heelside. you can get waayyy more speed and height off the vertical. the longer/wider tra

Where in Japan is there a superpipe ? Sure everywhere has a halfpipe, but I'm looking for one with 5m walls and nice long transitions. I know there has to be at least one. Those Olympic riders didn't look too shabby on the one in Salt Lake, so I know they are training somewhere. But where ?

what's wrong with that ? the whole thing is corrupt anywayz. might as well give them all gold like in the special olypmics. the french judge basically admitted to vote swapping and hooking the inferior russian team up with a higher score. why bitch about it ? did the Russians deserve gold ? - no did they get it ? - yes did the Canadians deserve gold ? - yes did they get it ? - yes, finally Go Canada.

cuz it's better in powder, and more intense in general - you are really strapped in to that board. plus when i was a kid, i liked it better cuz you didn't have to drag 4 sticks around, just one

yes yes, ollie, i'm selling a BD 156 for cheap - i'll even knock the price down to $325 US for you. The info in the link that Ocean11 posted still applies, thanks Ocean, I'm now 100% pro-Ocean.

wayy to freaking much. 1000+ $US on gear 1000+ $US on trips and lifts and that is with poaching, backcountry, and hook-ups. sheesh.

depends on what you are looking for. what are you looking for ?

one more time for rach-$$ http://snowboardingusa.tripod.com/dictionary/AtoC.html is probably about the best snowboarding dictionary you can find.

I think the majority of the best pipe riders were at the olympics. Sure there were a few notable exceptions, (Terje, Shaun White), but in some cases (White), they didn't qualify. I've heard alot of complaints about the judging, and it seems like popular opinion is that places 4-6 got robbed. Sure it's tough to judge an event like snowboarding, but I like badmigraines pipe jam format the best. There has to be a solution. The olympics are so corrupt. With the pairs figure skating contest (It was the Canadian team that got robbed, by the way), there has been allegations of

what up rach-money. . . there are parallel giant slalom races, on Thursday and Friday. . . check www.olympics.com for details.

yep it's the pipe dragon. basically, a bunch of snow is piled up over solid objects, my local hill uses crushed cars for the walls. and this machine digs through the center of it all, cutting out shaped edges. a good pipe will then be detailed, i.e. the high-floors on either side are flattened with a cat track, and the pipe will be mannually scraped with brushes until all of the angles are perfect.

the guys, Dan Franck - strength Shaun White - youth Terje Haakonsen - style Ross Powers - consistency Danny Kass - balls there are of course, lots more And for the gals Shannon Dunn - consistency Natasa Zurek - power That's my opinion.

There was a huuuuge scandal going on with this year's salt lake city games. The head of the International Olympic Committee resigned over the whole thing. It was a bribery scandal where Salt Lake City business owners gave cash to IOC chairholders. Lotsa dirty money to be made. The Chairholders and business people alike shredded enough paper not to be indicted on bribery counts, despite sufficient testimony from witnesses. The case would have turned into a he said, she said case, and not one prosecutors thought they could win. It was well publicized,

I'm with mogski, miteyak, telly-oz, if you are going to do nothing, not complain, assume that the corporates have it all correct, and just blend in to the herd, then why the posts, explaining your position ? if your going to do nothing, then do nothing. some of us want to ski/ride powder and off- piste, and the general consensus amongst those of us who do seems to be a simple complaint or petition to resort managers. either they will listen or they wont, i can think of no reason in the world why i should not express my views as a consumer. maybe some of

Woo-hoo patriots. Madden and Summerall were broadcasting, but I'll bet a bunch of other fools were as well. I personally don't care for John and Pat. And yeah the Raiders got robbed, but any team that beats up on the Rams like the Pats did, deserves to have that trophy.

Oh yeah, plus, I see the Olympics as all-around weak. It's really just another sports competition, and a poorly organized one at that. I remember when I was a little kid, I was waayyy hyped on the Olympics, cuz it was sposed to be the best contest that only happened once every four years. It was attended only by amateurs, so it wasn't tainted by money and capatalism but as I got older, all the corruption alienated me, and then the pro atheletes, being allowed to compete, for the sake of TV ratings and the cash that they bring, then more corruption, a

naaah crud is like the daughter of what you are describing Ocean. I would call the broken up stuff chowder, like not quite powder, but still nice and soupy. If you don't like that. you can call it mush or muck or you can just make something up, coin a phrase. After it gets baked in the sun for a day and chopped up even more, that's crud. the stuff that you eat through if you are riding hard an fast and straight on ex-powder. Other words for snow: pow - short for powder freshies - untracked powder, which leads to tracked - [Obvious] untracked - [A

hey rach, cool philosomophy, i've tried to live by the same one for most of my life, so it's nice to hear it from someone else. although i must admit, i do love to watch from time to time.

jib is like a skateboard trick on a snowboard. hitting rails, mailboxes, funboxes, artificial terrain.

East coast china white, West coast black tar, Oh you said backcountry, not smack-country, sorry.

yeah I listen to my own tracks. yeah It's a little known fact that I'm one out of five members of the latest smash hit boy band. we're called Tuesday's Child. We're going to rock the American Billboard Charts, and then it's over to Europe for the "European Invasion" and then on to Japan, where we'll have busloads of Japanese girls screaming our names. It's going to be great. I'm the bad-boy of the group. You can just talk to my agent. werd.

backflip to boardslide to fakie. seriously

well I'll give you my impression, and I'd say I'm at the point where I can get down the mogul field, medium speed without falling, or maybe falling once. You need to learn how to tackle moguls when it's powdery. This is KEY. Like 10-20 cm of fresh powder, now I'm not talking first tracks here, but just enough snow to provide a forgiving cushion. you also don't need to make turns at every mogul starting out. do two moguls, turn, do two more moguls, don't get too much speed or you'll bail. it also helps if you can ride switch, so that you