barok
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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.
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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 transitions almost guarentee
that you won't land in the flat, a big
problem when landing tricks in a normal
half-pipe.
the superpipe is bigger, safer, and better.
they use the superpipe in most of the bigger
contests, including the olympics.
however, a superpipe dramatically favors
the heavier male riders, as you really need
gravity working for you in order to get
enough speed to get up that 5 meter wall.
when the superpipes first came about,
accomplished females had a tough time even
getting out. i think that is why you
see the jockier, more muscular ladies (Kelly Clark)
rockin' the top spots in the pipe, while the
smaller girls are less consistent.
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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 ?
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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.
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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
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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.
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wayy to freaking much.
1000+ $US on gear
1000+ $US on trips and lifts
and that is with poaching, backcountry, and
hook-ups.
sheesh.
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depends on what you are looking for.
what are you looking for ?
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one more time for rach-$$
http://snowboardingusa.tripod.com/dictionary/AtoC.html
is probably about the best snowboarding dictionary you can find.
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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 predermined judging
see www.olypmics.com for more info, but basically it amounts to vote trading by the judges, saying "i'll hook your team up in the next event, if you hook these guys up for this event" like the votes are already counted before the event begins.
my estimation is not any kind of sympathy vote - snowboarding is not really the all-american sport anyways - i mean, sure it is big in the US and was invented in the US, but it's not like baseball or NFL football.
probably just inconsistent/poor judging on the part of the officials, but not as bad as the pairs figure skating.
also see www.transworldsnowboarding.com for some of the fans in attendance's reaction to the judging.
and yes pipe skiing should be allowed in the olympics. those skiers make the snowboarding stunts look easy with the tricks that they can pull in the pipe. but that doesn't change the fact that snowboarding is still wayy more fun
most of these pros are
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what up rach-money. . .
there are parallel giant slalom races, on
Thursday and Friday. . .
check www.olympics.com
for details.
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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.
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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.
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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'll see if I can
find some news links. It all went down a
year ago, and was in the mainstream media.
I'm surprised you haven't heard about it.
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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 us are more ambitious and want
to shake up the industry, but you know what,
that's possible too. you get a petition with
1000 names on it and that's a big long list
of potential customers to a resort manager.
If each one of those skiers/riders were to
put their names on something that says, I'll
ride at your resort 5 times if you just get
rid of some ropes, that's 5000 tickets *
4000 yen = 20,000,000 potential yen.
certainly nothing to scoff at, and certainly
well above the added costs. now that is
purely an example, but it could work and have
genuine reprocussions, set new trends, etc.
if it doesn't work then that's fine.
we gave it our best shot. what's wrong with
a little activism ?
I wouldn't pretend to believe for a second
that ropes are the reason that sales are
declining, most japanese probably don't even
consider passing the ropes, and of course
a declining economy is the reason the
recreational skier has hung it up. but
*NEWS FLASH*
if you you run a resort and want to increase sales, here's what you do: make your resort
more attractive, more enjoyable, give it some
spin that sets it apart.
and i'm not sure i buy into the collusive
oligopoly biz just on your word. I'd believe
it if I saw some sources. In most capatalist
countries, price fixing is illegal. I don't
know about Japan.
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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.
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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, and I don't give a
frick.
Neither do most Americans. Hotel and
Restaurant reservations in the Salt Lake Area
are down 45% from last year. And there
weren't any Olympics last year.
The Olympic business is terrible this year,
and sure you can chalk alot of that up to
a bunk economy, and September Eleventh, you
can also chalk alot of that up to the
popularizing opinion that the Olympics are
bunk.
stupid
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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 - [Also Obvious]
cold smoke - weird Western (US) word for powder
corn - like sugar
soft - [Obvious]
hard - [Obvious]
windblown - snow that looks like powder, but
due to the sun and wind, rides like ice.
i know there is more, just gotta sober up.
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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.
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jib is like a skateboard trick on
a snowboard.
hitting rails, mailboxes, funboxes,
artificial terrain.
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East coast china white,
West coast black tar,
Oh you said backcountry, not smack-country,
sorry.
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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.
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backflip to boardslide to fakie.
seriously
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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 your not lost when you need to rock back
and forth if the mogul field is really steep.
rock regular down mogul 1, rock switch down
mogul 2.
and of course practice, just keep it up.
you'll get very VERY tired running moguls,
but you simply won't get injured, so keep it
up, and you'll get it in time.
Best pipe riders are....?
in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
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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.