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Originally Posted By: MamabearLadies Downhill....
OMG! Some of those falls were shocking. OUCH!
yeah, a couple of crashes off the big air sections of the downhill were huge. one girl flew about 100m in the air off balance, both skiis blew out etc etc. sickening to watch. glad there's been no injuries.
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Originally Posted By: gareth_oaunot necessarily spook, an internet forum is also a wealth of experiences and advice that people choose to share. i seek advice from others where they have had expereinces that I haven't - on holiday planning etc etc
As you're here, we can presume that you are wanting to share your views, and the advantage in using grammar, punctuation and emoticons is that there is less likelihood of people misunderstanding what you are wanting to say.
i understand that emoticons were originally created to help avoid the the potential confusion created by an emotionless line of text.
If I type:
I'm going to kill you
I'm going to kill you
both show a differnt message and without the emotricon you may not understand whether I'm joking or not.
Sorry Gareth. If you look at your post above, you'll kindly notice that you haven't used consistent grammar - for instance, not all your sentences were capitalised correctly.
Despite this, I still read your post in full, and have taken your points into consideration.
I will endeavour to make myself more clearly understood in future.
MitchPee - don't worry about what your future holds. So long as you capitalise your sentences correctly, you'll be fine. -
err, last time i checked these are internet forums. you know, for casual banter...? it's not like i litter my posts with emoticons and all sorts of crazy abbreviations like LOL etc
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haha. awesome trip indo. you guys ever check out east timor? i know the swell window is much smaller but it looks like it could sometimes get something?
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grammar... bah. i'm gen y GN. i don't need no education
i do need a haircut though. i'm pretty much unemployable
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yo mitch, jeez mate, you're only 22! i don't think anyone ever really works out what they want to do, and if anybody says they have it all sorted out in life, i wouldn't believe them!
i'm turning 30 this year. it's one of those milestone ages where you start to think about where you should be at in life. (and now i can hear all the older people reading this tut tutting about how young i am...)
me - i wish i had more assets and was more comfortable. money makes things easier because it gives you choices. but getting money takes away your freedom. it's a balance i think everyone is trying to figure out.
but, and it's a big but, i lead a freewheelin lifestyle that allows me to indulge my passions - surfing, snowboarding and travel. many of my friends are doing better in life (whatever that means) but i wouldn't trade places with them in a heartbeat.
stay true to what you love. when i was about 22 i was on a surfing trip in the desert. there was this guy in his late 40's, just absolutely ripping. the waves were solid and he was the standout guy. you could tell he spent a lot of time in the water. he was just so in tune with it. i decided then that i wanted to be like him when i was older, and most years i push myself with little goals. i like being comfortable in the surf and i think this reflects positively in my life on land. you can draw a very similar analogy in skiing. whenever i see older people on the hill just ruling it, you can tell they have spent a lifetime doing something they love. thats more important than a fast car or a big house. one thing i loev about japan is the amount of old people cruising around the slopes. the fact that they're out there in their 70's stokes me out big time.
the only other thing i would say to you is to get an education, learn a trade or get a skill. i went to uni, realised halfway through my degree that i hated it, but stuck it out and got my piece of paper. it has made getting jobs easier (even jobs in completely unrelated fields - employers can see that you applied yourself to something and finished it). also, if you want to travel and live overseas, having a uni degree makes can sometimes make things easier with visas (eg applying for a highly skilled type visa)
but, like mantas said, a uni degree isn't the be all and end all. i sometimes think i would have liked to have gotten a trade instead. people who can do stuff are always in demand.
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that nozawa onsen pic is rad thursday. looks like a tilt shift lens maybe?
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yeah man, krui will be awesome. i think there is also a right called jenny's point or something a couple of guys i know surfed it good last year. the krui lefts look super long too
yeah, all those places you mentioned in indo sounds pretty amazing. i take it you weren't surfing on that trip?
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A man walks into a public rest room and has no arms. He looks at the guy at the urinal next to him and says "Sir, I know this is an extreme annoyance, but I have no arms and I really have to pee very bad. Could you please unzip my pants?"
The guy thinks about it and feels sorry for the guy so he unzips his pants. "Dude, I know that this is going beyond the call of duty, but could you pull it out?"
The guy reaches in and pulls out the grossest, pussiest, green, brown, nastly looking penis he's ever seen. The no armed man does his business and says "Dude, thank you so much, but could you please shake it and put it back in for me?"
The man does so but asks "What the hell's wrong with that thing?" Then the armless man pulls his arms out of his shirt and says "I don't know, but I wasn't going to touch it!"
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Originally Posted By: MantasMy wife spent a year there. Mostly in Ujung Pandang living with a moslem family. She was teaching English. She trekked in Tanatarja in the central area and trekked in the mentawais in 1989 too, in Siburit.
wow. that would have beenpretty wild. siberut is still very wild and untouched. it's a long story, but we have a friend who is apparently the first white man to visit a village on siberut. the amazing thing is it is only 20km or so from where we are. crazy to think how many people visit the mentawais on surf trips and yet there are villages like this relatively nearby. he described the trip as "hard". that means it was unbelieveably gruelling
he's working on a documentary of his trip. i'll post a link to his website when he gets it up and running
you guys got any trips planned this year. mantas - you still going to krui?
our plan is march-july in the mentawais. then a month on sulawesi, just cos it looks rad and i'll want to be away from surf rats for a while.
then no plan, but a month or two somewhere else in asia would be nice. anywhere in indo is cool too. any recommendations for uncrowded-ish waves. i'm not that interested in the obvious spots in bali/lombok/sumbawa/g-land etc
was even thinking about the phillipines maybe. never been there and don't know much about it though -
i can't comment about holland, but in indonesia men and urinals are the same. they like to get inside them. weird. especially as it is such a dirty country and personal hygiene is so so poor.
maybe you need to use the kiddy urinals in holland jynxx? for some reason whenever i use one of the really low urinals i struggle with it. it should essentially be exactly the same thing, but the lower height throws me off
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seriously can't believe the airs mogulers do, and hen land and ride out through the bumps. nuts
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for those who know alot about snowboarding i'm just wondering how often there have been major judging controversies?
say, in ice skating, every other olympics there is some major uproar about dodgy judging. but is snowboarding judging more legit? i never really watch competitive half pipe. i saw that danny davis run from a month or so ago and it was mental. how close are runs in comps (and how much does judging come into it) or does one guy normally blow the rest of the field away?
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i dig watching olympic moguls, but can't for the life of me image how it is fun.
whenever i encounter them on the hill i groan, curse, then groan again. i'm sure some people get off on them, but i have no idea why
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in tokyo at the moment mate. flying back to perth tomorrow, then will be in the mentawais on the 2nd or 3rd of march
i heard they scored smoking 4-5ft rifles to themselves abou a month ago, last week was small and there's been plenty of good empty waves.
am looking forward to getting back. only doing 4 month this year though. time for a change methinks
anyone ever been to sulawesi? we're pretty keen to have a holiday there for abot a month in july/august. no surf (i know) but keen to check the highlands out and do some snorkelling etc
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and because it does snow a shedload up there. i spent an "average" season there and it snowed ridicutons. crazy amounts of snow. and it was light and dry and stayed that way right until spring. i know it isn't always like that, but really. wow. i'm saying this and i think i'm fairly impartial, as and i have no intention of going back either.
too many powder pig aussies...
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OK. I consider myself a hygienic and toilet trained fellow, but one thing I have never understood is urinals in Japan.
Men here seem to practically crawl into them when they pee. Seriously, they are almost inside the urinal. I find it bizarre. I like to stand back slightly and wee. And I don't dribble all over the floor either, that's what that little jutting out bit of the urinal is for.
Does anyone else thing the way Japanese men use urinals is slightly weird?
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i don't see why lodge owners would be getting in a tizz about this thread. the general consensus is that conditions last weekend were less than ideal. the only good thing that has been said is that it was at best passble.
i doubt anywhere in nagano or niigata has been good lately either.
sometimes conditions just suck. that's mother nature for you. anyone who skis understands that. trying to pretend that conditions were good doesn't make sense to me. if people come to skiing based on false info they'll just be doubly disappointed
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nice TR from black mountain in zao. i dig this pic lots
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well, sorry to hear you guys aren't having fun in hakuba. i've jsut left myoko. we had 15cm on thursday night which made for a fun, but not epic day on friday. there was a nasty crust but if you were 'gentle' you could ride mellow off-piste without any dramas.
having said that, i was surprised by the amount of rain we got up there. 3 days last week, and a couple of days over the past month.
myoko is sufficiently close to hakuba to have similar climatic conditions.. is this amount of warm weather normal?
lots of locals in myoko were talking about how much snow they've had this season. compared to time i've spent in hokkaido, i thought it was good, but not crazy. plus it's been warm. is this par for the course?
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Originally Posted By: joshniiNiseko? Flat?
for what it's worth, i reckon this photo has been tilted to make it seem steeper.
the people hiking up the hill are leaning backwards, when in reality they should be upright, or leaning forward...
not that it matters much either way, it's still not a flat slope -
had about 15cms in myoko last night. enough for a very fun day on the hill. no real significant snow forecast for tonight, but it is snowing heavily and feels like a surprise dump might happen!
we're leaving tomorrow morning, but are trying to work out how we can keep plans felxible, just in case dawn reveals 20-30cm of fresh...
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Originally Posted By: bobby12Caffeine seems to be a big cause of headaches. If I dont have a coffee in the morning I get a headache and sleepy in the PM. But if I have too many, I also get headache.
i get that too. holy hell i had a killer migraine a few months ago. drinking too much coffee everyday for months on end, and then boom! my normal morning coffe just destroyed my brain. worst thing was i has to guide guests around on a boat in thr tropics for about 6 hours. i was pretty useless. found them some waves and then jay lay down in the shade in absolute agony.
now i try and reduce caffeine on a regular basis, give the liver some time to cleanse itself.
i've also had the same migraines from alcohol. same story - drinking everyday for a few months (not excessively, just a few pints a night) and then out of the blue - one sip of guiness and a world of pain for a few hours.
i just cut out the booze for a few days and then i'm good again for another 6 months.
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well, glad that's all sorted then