dane

yo yo, in order of meeting: fattwins (hiro too), barok, nofakie (and wife, yoko), enderzero. always a pleasure!

word! pics & vids from a mega dank ski weekend in nagano last long weekend. check the flow... and the crashes. www.irc.atr.co.jp/~deaton/movies.html thanks to everyone that made the weekend so fun. oh also, let's sign the guestbook eh? please.

thanks for the praise guys. but yo, i got nothin'! i just got lucky

yah ryland man, you guys left just a bit early before i started hucking my body for real. like ben said, hopefully we'll have another chance to hit the park after your ankle has healed. and yah, the switch back is smooth like butter. for me, it's definitely easier than a normal backflip. way more controlled here is a sample pic... i would update the site today with the movies 'cept i forgot my computer at home.

long live shinangans!!! my favorite... after skiing. do it up zwelgen. yeah man, the taping of the pants was taped. however there was no directly application of tape to ass. i'll stick that online soon too. i have to sort through all this video... it takes up a lot of space on my computer. work is totally standing in my way, but i'm on it asap.

long live shinangans!!! my favorite... after skiing. do it up zwelgen. yeah man, the taping of the pants was taped. however there was no directly application of tape to ass. i'll stick that online soon too. i have to sort through all this video... it takes up a lot of space on my computer. work is totally standing in my way, but i'm on it asap.

yah ditto that. i totally wanna sesh that badboy. the duct-tape gave me super powers man. optimum loft and rocket ship lift to mention a few. actually, it didn't feel that much different. except it was a bit tight on the back, kind of like i was wearing a diaper (no comments about me being young, please). about the heavyness.. let's put it this way, in walking back to my place, the shhiit in my backpack was so heavy that i've already started on my obaa-san crook in the back. booyeah

yo danz, actually i owe it all to fattwins' mastery with the duct tape! it was quite ingenious work, really.

for now, check the partial update! and cheers to everyone who made the weekend fun, despite mother nature's attempts otherwise. ****in' eh! nick, you'se da man. you should go into a career of duck tape fashion man.

oh my, i have a dreadful feeling this thread has started on account of last weekend... i can't fathom why though. my jeans aged like 10 years at least... let's put it this way, i could go for the bleached punk rocker look. as to whether or not it was cool or not, i offer this modified quote/retort of forest gump: "cool is what cool does". regardless, it was funny shit! and i wont be forgettin' my pants again. i hope everyone can enjoy a laugh at my expense when i update my site with vids/pics of the whole experience. (2 days)

yo db. starting next update, all the movies'll be in quicktime too. the quality'll be lower b/c i had to keep the size done... but now ya can watch 'em on a mac! (adobe premier is great, point-click-point and they are quicktime!) one condition, sign the guestbook plz! for some reason people are happy to give me feedback on anything BUT the guestbook (forum, msn or email). so, onegai shimasu!

way way slow reply, but thanks db. love getting feedback about the site. ok, concerning the forum names, i guess i haven't been in this game long enough. maybe i'll learn to call people by their forum names ... ? anyway, this is an interesting thread! good call db

dan eaton -> dane. i like the name so here is a question. if you know a person outside of the forum (and therefore their real name) do you use their real name on the forum?? for me, it's totally weird calling someone by their forum name, unless they actually use it as a nickname in real life. it just makes me think, "what the shit am i doing? i would never call this person by this forum-name in real life"

coo -- sounds better than good. so i guess cortina it could be, enderzero!

let's put it this way, if there was a bench under some kind of cover, and it was warmer than 5 degrees celcius you would find me sleeping there. i should learn to make an igloo.

that was a lot to swallow badmigraine... i just wrote up a reply, but when i read it over i realized i had conflicted myself about 10 times. this is too hard to tackle at work. anyway, i will just say that i didn't realize that many injuries were hidden. obviously there will be injuries -- these people are pushing themselves hard. but it there are that many... that said, i find the x-games inspirational. i get a huge rush out of learning new tricks, which is a lot more than conventional skiing has to offer (excluding powdery steeps and powdery trees). i've been skiing for so long that n

good question, i don't know... i'm totally drawing a blank here. fattwins?

next weekend in nagano! i'm a psychic mo'a'f'cka.

i skiied down a grass hill. it was about as exciting as i expected. but yah, if you could get to a resort it would be fun for a few quickies

thx man. but it needs definite smoothin out! that is... the "black" run that you enter to the right of the park entrance (facing downhill). that run is actually pretty dangerous. the first time i did it, i nearly blew out of that 90 degree turn near the bottom (which would have put me straight into the trees at high speed)

can you already switch 3 jared? that is a tight trick -- cool mein. hokkaido!! get some footage and put it together in a 5 min long vid or something (just for fun)

i cut a pair of old school racing skiis down way back in the day (actually, truth be told my dad did most the work.. har har har laugh it up) . anyway, it felt like skiing on toothpicks. no real balance in the air. landing them in powder was totally impossible, but landing them on hard pack killllled my knees. verdict? you're better off skiing on your boots, cuz then you wouldn't be able to ski at all, meaining you won't need knee braces within a week of using the cut down ones. (ok, it wasn't THAT bad)

i figure that by having a mullet fluttering out from my helmet as i spin or flip it will draw attention away from my obvious bad style. now now, i may be a youngin' (that said, any japanese sugar mommies want to adopt some young meat?) i believe i can drink legally anywhere in the world. besides, i come from the country where babies are weened off the whiskey bottle, and people live in igloos, right? right? at least that's what my southern cousins would have me believe...

heh, totally messed up the URL in my signature . fixed it now... OK, so this is a TOTALLY shamefull plug for my site. sorry everyone!

email comin' right up. i'd really like to get into doing video, but i don't really have the hardware. all i have now is a digital still camera, which leaves a lot to be desired in the video department (i only get 15 frames per second which makes editing really shoddy) i'd really like to buy a proper vid cam though, but the good ones are really expensive. what do you use?