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Kuma, have you looked at either of them in the flesh? L1 Nitro stuff looks pretty tough, but the 3L should be good too with a lifetime warranty - and bright yellow is always good. Do I need US credit card, or just US delivery address?

Oh SAC has really good Mitts on now, for those who like leather feel. I have a pair, and they are nice.

Originally Posted By: 66jzmstr I like a handful of snow down the back of my pantalones on a hard bail. It helps me regain consciousness a little faster. Freezing rivers do that quite well too. Snow down the back, if it happens, is usually no more than you deserve! It's motivational. Back on topic: New boots - probably thrird pair of the same: Salamon Malamutes. They fit my ankles like a glove and have great response and can still be tweaked out as long as you don't crank the laces too tight. Keep the old pair with new laces for jibbing. I have been considering some soft

I eat more than 1.5 Marathons every day. Can't see what the fuss is about. Or, Snickers, as they are now called.

Kumapix had rollerblades! ha ha ha hee hee hee

Originally Posted By: Indo ... I personally wouldn't even be going to Hokkaido if it's parks you want. I wouldn't even go to Japan if it's parks you want! If you seriously want parks, go to the States, where there will be parks bigger than whole resorts here in Japan! Plus the resorts will be years ahead in terms of maintaining and prioritising parks - the Olympic halfpipe from the first Olympics to have snowboarding (imagine the marketing potential...) was even knocked down in that particular resort. Or, if you are in Oz, just go to snowpark in NZ. Come to Japan, but not for

Originally Posted By: soubriquet Aha. We had one of those when I was in the army. He couldn't march. He swung his right leg and arm together, then the left. They chucked him out after about two weeks. It's not quite like that. Mamoru, the sponsored ripper of Matsumoto skatepark, pushes mongo and still wins competitions (he is approaching a Daewon Song level in the mini now... ok nearly, but halfcab-bs nose blunt-to fakie, bigspin-bs blunt-bs 180 out, and alsorts of other tech combinations) In plain English, he is an amazing skater but still pushes 'mongo', which makes him look naive and

Originally Posted By: Bushpig I'm not holding my breath soub! Yeah Tubby, I was gonna say exactly the same thing. While some adults can probably pick it up, I reckon you really need to start when young. There is no way I would even consider trying to learn now some of the things that I still do on my skateboard now that I can. You need that senseless fear of youth to throw yourself down a flight of stairs with a plank and wheels loosely under your feet! Does this mean you still skate occasionally? What do you "still do now" that you wouldn't consider learning if it was for the first

It is a derogatory term for what BP describes above. It generally requires a small shift of body position between pushing and riding with both feet on the board, resulting in a less fluid 'connectedness' between skater and board, which is generally accepted to make the skater look less holistically stylish and more awkward. I wish I knew how much nicer it feels to push regular in the past! But I can push really naturally when skating switch now though! By the way WTF is 'trucking your stuff' and why/how did you do this?

Originally Posted By: Kumapix AK pushes mongo???!!!! thought he was a weirdo anyways! Right, I will fall for that blatant attmpt to make me reply and post on this thread. Yes, I do indeed have a dirty and sordid past... of pushing mongo! But I am a recently reformed mongo pusher, and now push properly 99% of the time (apart from setting up for backside nollies on a bank for some reason). I skated for ten years before anyone even mentioned it. Regular pushing does make it easier to set up for tricks with short run ups though. Anyway, great TR Oyuki, thanks for doing the write u

Originally Posted By: veronica Quote: biggest power plant in the world Which one is that daver? The one in Niigata that was directly above the (previously undetected, according to officals) fault line of the earthquake there. It's Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant. It was built to withstand up to 6.5, but this quake was 6.8. The disturbing thing is that the officials lied once again, playing down the number and scale of accidents, then being forced to admit to more under investigation. Typical of nuclear power stations round the world. What is more

but that doesn't count as 'progressive' in any freestyle / park related way... haven't seen any for that yet.

Progressive and open minded? In my limited experience (in terms of numbers of resorts visited) only 2: Hachimantai Hakkoda and half a vote for: Happo

Yeah, that's right, you heard it, he gives drugs to kids too. When he's not stealing their hamburgers in the canteen.

Nice article. It's all lies though - I've seen Oyuki push kids over for doing turns of the incorrect radius, getting them to ride with one foot not stapped in "cos one-foot jumps are big this season", and actually not talking to one kid cos his goggles were not down on nose enough. cold. plus he steals their lunch money to buy his smokes.

This is a bitch.... I didn't know the rules had changed in 2003, regarding IDPs, etc, so I just happily made sure I passed my driving test before I came to Japan again this time (I had never needed to drive in the UK up to the age of 28, I know this might sound strange to N. Americans, but it's true, plus I never priorised the money for it - it costs about 700 quid - 175,000yenall in to learn in the UK - and the test is a lot tougher than in the States!)... all the while ignorant of the fact that you have to have had your licence in your home country for 3 months or more in order to conve

BP you were 17 or so!!!? woah - I'm not sure who wins on age then... I'm 29 in my pic! ha ha.

the skateboarding thread? not sure that would last long here (too many old folk and soft skiers! ha ha! don't tell them we're old!) thats bs smith shot is nice - that bank is to vert people!

Soub- what makes you think I (we??) have only been exposed to one stream of thought? As people that are mostly living in another country now, that makes at least two streams of thought, plus you don't know what our eductaional background is... I may have written a PhD on changing definitions of women's rights in sub-saharan Africa, or the feminsit movement during the Spanish Civil War, for all you know (I haven't done either, but I digress)! Plus I'm not sure how French or Italian people would feel about being labelled 'Anglo-'! It is admirable that there is a fore-woman on the

Originally Posted By: charlotte freedom to be women, and determine their own lives freedom to be men, and determine their own lives That is feminism! - with the idea that one does not contradict and deny the right of the other. Historically that has not always been the case (and is certainly not the case in Japan, or most other countries, now) hence feminism also being a movement to try to realise that state of equality - as Oyuki defines it.

ok, maybe true. But i win on 'pop'! How old were you in that pic?

seing as boards are cheaper in Canada anyway, why not sell them in Japan and a new board in Canada? Post Office is usually cheapest way to ship, though.

Back to the original post... Oyuki, I guess this will always be an issue to a greater or lesser degree in 'international' relationships - not always the same way round though! - so I would think it would be best to try to 'work from first principals', i.e. don't talk directly about 'feminism' as this is (mis)understood in many different ways. Instead try to talk about the pricipals in broadest terms that you believe in, and what examples in daily life would explain or illustrate these... like 'equality' or 'not being a violent prick' or 'trying your best' or whatever - the less of a 'la

Originally Posted By: soubriquet No issues here. She's a woman, proud, and happy to be "not a man". Feminism is a western female construct. It surves no purpose here. The problem with this discussion is that different people will bring different ideas of what 'Feminism / feminism' is to the table (obviously it will be the women bringing it to the table, the men are still watching baseball and drinking beer. just kidding). Feminism was a distinct social movement of a certain place and time - which could be viewed as a 'western female construct', but feminism, is also the principals

Yeah, that was the ultimate challenge - in the dark, on my own, self timer and ..... blindfolded. Do i get extra points? yeah right. look again.