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I agree, anyone who says women skier/boarders are inferior really does have no idea! I've boarded with plenty of girls that have just blown me away, so fast and heaps of style! I've taught my girl to board this season. It's amazing how far she's come in just a few months. She's come from pulling the "kowai kowai!" just skating around on her first day to charging the powder in the trees with me last Sunday. She's got the full "Gambatteru" attitude, which has hepled but she's definitely progressed faster than most guys! I'm so stoked pulling up after a wicked line to look back and see he

Yeah, what`s with the little "scrotum" pouches that you see dangling off the all the crew in the parks anyway? I've seen people wearing some stupid, impractical shit on the slopes here but those things have gotta take the cake

Basement Boy, like powdertele says, don't worry about it, You're gunna have a ball up there

Before you hit anything of any size it's good to get used to being airborn by hitting bumps and natural little kickers on (or off the side of )the gelende while your cruising around. Start small and work your way up

Cheers, Toque. If you're still looking for just the shoulder pads, I saw this on Yahoo the other night. http://page10.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m11593965

Yeah that's all I usually see too. Crows, seagulls and feral cats

Not that I'm advising you to go this way, it's a matter of preference, but if you don't want to get a fish/swallow tail, most board manufacturers do normal shaped boards which are designed to give you the float in the pow but still get you around everywhere else. They usually have a nice wide nose and a taper front to back. I've got a burton cascade 163 that I ride when the pow is really light and deep. It actually handles better if I keep the bindings setback just behind center rather than right back. Heaps of float, even landing big jumps the nose rarely digs in. It ploughs over the tracke

Cheers, I figured the waistband was probably the way to go! That's interesting about the back muscles, must be because they have to oppose the elastic in the band all day.

Sounds like you met Dr Doolittle!

I spotted two white swans over a lake, a racoon and three very cold monkeys in Fukushima on the weekend. The most wildlife I've seen for a long time here and all in one weekend! Anyone else see anything cool?

I've scared myself enough recently into forking out the money for some sort of back brace. I'm looking at getting one of those dainese body armour jackets. The main reason I'm thinking about it is to protect my spine in case I get bent over backwards like a scorpion off a jump. The thing is most of the jackets designed for ski/snowboarding don't have a waist band. Whereas the mountain bike/motorcross safety jackets do. By my thinking when things do go wrong and you need the support but there is no waist band firmly holding the spine brace in place, it will probably just slide up your back and

Lately I've been cranking Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf when I'm boarding by myself. Soooooo good! Talk about zoning out into my own little world!

That's funny you brought up sheep jokes. In the pubs in NZ, if someone found out I was an ozzie they would start telling me the same sheep jokes they tell in oz but with the countries reversed. ie. Why do Australians wear velco gloves? etc etc.. It was pretty funny actually.

Yamakashi pull ya head out ya arse mate, I was just takin the piss. I don't give a rats arse where ya from! I'll translate this one so no sooks gets their undies in a knot: Wake up, I was just joking, so relax. I don't care where you're from! I was just trying to squeeze all the slang toque mentioned into one line! I was making a joke of aussies more than anything.

Maybe they chose the wrong Viz strip. I reckon "Buster Gonad and his unfeasibly large testicles" would have been the way to go!

Haven't been to deco yet this season. We've been getting this wicked deal from the Nekoma hotel, twin room, 2 day lift pass and "biking" breakfast for 12 thou. I smashed myself up off a table top a few weeks ago so I haven't been up there for while, so I don't know what the snows like right now. Probably get back on the horse this weekend though!

Sven beat me to it but I'm gunna do it anyway: Maaaate, I'd neva spect a seppo to cotton on to wot we're on about but ya can come over for a barby n ave a squiz at me yobbo mates goin off. You won't see any whingin bloody poms there though, buggar that!

If they're getting to you, do what I do sometimes. Drive straight at em and chase em around the carpark a bit. Heaps of laughs!

It does look like a bit like romanised japanese.

Quote: Originally posted by Fattwins: wnever heard of that before and the wife doesnt understand so explain that word Ha Classic! You thought yobbo was japanese and asked the missus what it meant. Good one!!

I get paid to listen to stupid questions all day so the list is endless but one that comes to mind now: Do you have McDonald's in America? (I'm Australian)

I've got bad news mate, if you smoke any length of the cigarette before the filter it will damage your lungs.

They let us off now and then. But yeah, 20 painful hours!

I've had so many sick lines since I've come to Japan it's hard to say. One memory that has always stuck is my first taste of powder at treble cone. It was my second week of boarding and until then all the other places I had been were like mountains of boiler plate. It dumped overnight, the sun came out in the morning,soooo good. I've had heaps better lines since but that feeling of getting freshies for the first time I'll never forget.

My worst snow was definitely back in Oz. 20hours on a bus from Queensland to Victoria for the pleasure of grinding around over rocks and grass at Mt Hotham. (on the hotham resort's rental boards of course)