Lama

yeah it was a very pityfull effort on ferraris part. they basically "rigged" the match..... i wonder how many ferrari team/company members had money on the chin to win?!?!?!?!. if this had happened in any other sport (boxing,Cricket,football,soccer etc)there would be fines-a-plenty and possibly disqualification for ferrari because they set the outcome of the race! thats an idea.... lets hop ferrari get disqualified so that everyone else gets a fair go!!!!

yeah i will admit sundays race was ****ing boring..... i watched it after work on monday evening ater taping it from the previous night and do admit it was pretty god damn boring! bring back the slick tyres and wider cars!!!!

hate to be sceptical!! depends on which team can give the biggest "backhander" and offer the best team xmas party invitation at the end of the year to the FIA. oh well schuey was nearly back to his true colours of the late 90's and his bouts with villenueve.... showing off his arrogancy. nah cant say that... i honestly think that was a "racing incident" and was unfortunate that they came together...... "thats racing" and that is what everyone pays their money to see is close racing and overtaking. except when the FIA introduce regulations to slow down the cars to the

ralphy is the man!! just taken out the g.p with montoya second and m. shumacher third.... are williams on a come back? maybe it is their turn?!

frannyo people were saying a similar thing about mclaren just a few seasons ago. remember them starting in melbourne in 1999... within 10 laps, both coulthard and hakkinen had around 8 seconds on 3rd place....... they were the shit! hate to say it (being a mclaren fan through and through) but look at ferrari now! - unstoppable... a good combination. everybody has their day. before mclaren it was williams with senna (ahmen), hill and villeneuve. my point being..... never give up at anything! you will have your moment and glory! the wise lama

something along the line of saying that niseko is not the "only" resort in japan.... it already gets enough publicity! hell it was on an outdoors/holiday program here in Oz last week! and boy were their prices pricy!

correct me if i am wrong guys, but isnt the "old" car, a car that was "brand new" in august last season, therefore making it kind of new?!?!?!?!?!

i know a guy who is living in niseko called fatty! wonder if it is him???? must ask him!

an intermediate snowboarding yetti!!!

hi sorry to but in, but yeah binding size does depend a little on shoe size. they generaly come in small medium and large. i have found it best to fit your bindings to the shoes you already own or vice versa.... also depends on the make of the boots and bindings. e.g i own burton custom bindings and saloman boots size u.s. 10.5 and strangly enough they fit perfect with my M size bindings. but a D.C. boot of the same size would need larger bindings because they are a chunkier boot. any body else found a similar problem??

yeah i willl second that about the hirafu chalet.... definately the way to go "someone who knows" definately knows!

hi ben, good to see the fat man is up to his usual tricks!! cover him in fresh for me then throw him down the "stairs", dont worry about rocks!! get stuck into hano 3 for me!

well badmigrane, you have excelled yourself in writing yet another piece of fine literature. man you definately still have the gift of the gab that i remeber about you in niseko. well i have another story about five fingers (or in this case... toes). on my first trip to niseko our friendly guide (an sjg regular..... he knows who he is!) took us into homac (a large houseware-department store) and we discovered the toed/fingered sock!!! f@#k what a brilliant idea.... so toasty and warm for those -25deg. days siting on hanozono 2 lift. promptly bought 8 pairs on the first trip and another

don, not sure about the demolition of gloves... maybe from carrying a board.... i destroyed a pair on a rope tow once. simon, sory cant agree with the levels, i bought a pair and 6 days later they were in bits... dunno maybe they were a bad batch or something. then bought a pair of burton mits 3 seasons ago and havnt looked back, never get wet or anything.

thanks for the feedback guys! did actualy have chamonix in mind (but didnt know how hard core it was.... will have to play it cool by the sound of it), and i had also heard about val d'isere, looks like the pic at the moment. been reading up in "boarding the world" a book written by bear agushi and co. well worth a look! anyone else read it??

well was going through my pics of the trips and i reckon i have enough to start a web site in his dedication!!!! yeah the only problem will be finding someone as crazy as him to hang around him to keep it updated on his latest adventures!! madpaddy.com!!!! has got a certain kind of ring to it. is that benk???

hi bad migrane, the solution to this problem maybe that you will just have to go and live on niseko as they dont have any atm's!! viola you will earn your cash by giving skiing/snowboarding lessons to sweet little japanese girls cheers lama

hi craig, well just keeping low this year, dont plan to go back to Niseko. going to europe next week for 7 weeks holiday, plan to do a bit of riding in france (anyone recommend any resorts???) and andorra maybe. what you been doing, are you back in sydney??

nah he is from southern sydney round cronulla way (i think)..... the guy has been locked up in jail in every country he has been in..... he is the kind of guy who gets booked/locked up for drink driving, then is back in his car 2 hrs later and driving back to the pub to tell his mates about it. Yes he actually admits to doing this too! the guy invented A.D.D! he truly has to be seen in action to be believed maybe we should start a web-site up about him... what do you recon badmigrane, mogski

craig, is that the same craig i am thinking of, the guy that rides niseko 12hrs nearly every day last season, from the northern subuerbs of sydney?? remember riding with me at all, some epic night riding along the alpen ridge last season?

yeah i still wonder how he, the chalet and all its occupants got through that season pretty much unscathed. did we tell you about his british bulldog effort against the glass window of the main living room one night in a blizzard... not once but twice, he was so gullable, he would do anything if you dared him!! poor boy, just wanted a bit of attention. i ended up wrestling him to the ground at the yuki-matsuri in sapporo just to try and calm him down a little. but i will give him this... he did capitalise on some of the local women though!!

yeah, couldnt have happened to a cooler guy.... oh i shouldnt laugh!! at least he gave it a go, i looked at it a few times and went hmmmmmm, but i didnt want to come home in a body bag

ahhh why not... its all relevant board- burton fl 162 bindings- burton custom boots- soloman synapse... ultra mega cumfy! highly recommended pants- sims jacket- burton gloves- burton goggles- spy bini- forum thermals- helly

Niseko has a smallish one. nothing like bakers. it is over the family trail on the way back to the gondola. coming down out of miharashi i saw a few pro jap riders build a kicker for a photo shoot there last season and were hitting it for a while, looked pretty impressive. then a guy i was riding with hit it a few days later and landed in the middle of the family course (flat concrete!!!!) needles to say he was out cold for 10 minutes!!!!! but he lived to tell the tale.... just wish i had my camera there.

like rebo, i am in newcastle too!!