SnowJapan.Com#3 0 Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 A new feature, "Just Enjoy!" by Ian MacKenzie, has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-60.html "This season, I skied more powder than I knew what to do with. I choked on great wads of the stuff. I leapt off mushies into great pillows of it. I felt the press of powder on my chest through the tree runs. Powder skiing is hard to do. I don’t mean tiring, I mean the technique is hard to master. I watch my snowboarding friend glide over bottomless powder on his second day, green with envy." http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-60.html Please note that the views expressed in any Features on Snow Japan are not necessarily those of Snow Japan. Discuss it here.... Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 Good read, and some nice pics too. I found this bit interesting - "That is what I do. I ski powder fast, big, spoilt by the amount of snow I can access, spoilt by day after day of fresh, bottomless turns. I take two turns where the old ski purists scowls at me and take twenty. “Look at the powder you are wasting!” they exclaim. “ Hey, I’m here everyday, mate, and look how….slow you are going!” I reply." I rode in so much powder last season that I got to straightlining it pretty much. And I sometimes had the feeling that I was 'wasting' it. But just being able to go so fast without any painful consequences is a really good feeling, and there's really no point in worrying about leaving tracks everywhere. (You can just do more runs and track it out that way ) Link to post Share on other sites
slimeypete 0 Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 Nice one Ian. Link to post Share on other sites
TheOrange 0 Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 It's a good policy to have. Link to post Share on other sites
danz 0 Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 hey Ian... good one... but what's wrong with making 20 turns down a face danz Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 If I walk a long way for pow I deffinately do alot more turning than if I can get it of the lift. Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 Great read Ian. You hang out on the forum at all man? Lookin forward to next year! Ryland Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 Eddie even got a mention Link to post Share on other sites
OUfreeski2 0 Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 Good read, Ian!I was interested to hear Junpeis` story.Must admit I was extremely surprised to stumble upon a shop(343) devoted to only "New School" skiers in Niseko when I was there earlier in the year.One of their parks was fluid but didn`t seem to maintain it so well. Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 Good read. I really enjoyed it. I definately agree that Niseko doesn't have much of a freestyle scene because of the lack of a good park. Link to post Share on other sites
woywoy 0 Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 Good read Ian. Do the featured riders and skiiers ever spend any time on the forum? You guys have it good over there. Nice, very nice pics as well. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 3, 2003 Share Posted May 3, 2003 I'd always assumed Ian was either peaker or talisker. Am I wrong? Link to post Share on other sites
woywoy 0 Posted May 3, 2003 Share Posted May 3, 2003 I dont know Ocean... I thought Ian might have been one of the Scottish characters on the forum. I dont think Fatty or Luke spend much time on the forum though... I could be wrong however. Link to post Share on other sites
HERON 0 Posted May 4, 2003 Share Posted May 4, 2003 Thats what I say to some of my buddies who seem to take sports too seriously - just enjoy the damned thing. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted May 6, 2003 Share Posted May 6, 2003 Love it! Good one, dude. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted May 7, 2003 Share Posted May 7, 2003 Why did Junpei loose his sponsership? Was he one of the pot smokers caught last year. Link to post Share on other sites
blinkin'ek 0 Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 Pot smokers caught last year?? Do tell more.... Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 http://www.skijapanguide.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001874#000000 Link to post Share on other sites
IceEiji 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 I agree. When I was younger I was trying to study and do perfect technique, but I got bored of it. We should just Enjoy! Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Junpei's skis are the twin-tipped orange ones with the salomon circles in black on the ends. One of my friends found some early season with bindings for 20,000 new. Since then I've seen loads of people with them. In an old boarding vid, Steak and Lobster I think, there's a clip where a boarder comes down a huge untracked open bowl following a pair of skiers. The skiers use classic pow technique, boom-boom rhythmical turns either side of the fall line in a narrow strip, while the boarder following them down just pisses right across the bowl at high speed from one side to the other and scores air on some natural hits. The voiceover just says "look at the difference", but the implication is that boarding is freer and more soulful. Now fat skis are out there, skiers can choose to do big open pow turns too. That Steak and Lobster vid definitely has a Niseko section that has been dubbed 1970s kung fu movie-stylee. There mightn't be much in Niseko for freestylers, but the gap jump shown in that vid looks friggin massive. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 mate!! Nice article! Remember ya telling me you wanted to get a bunch of the niseko locals for an interview before the season ended - great read! Just wish you had a pic of Junpei throwing a Fakie 540 off the kogen like he usually did. And, yes, junpei was busted for toking on some nugs. What a shame - its just a plant. Cant wait till my article is done! Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Junpei should become Canadian, I mean come on half the ridin community in North America is high and riding. Ive bummed before and you can smell it of the lifts. I hope someone hooks on to him again. Link to post Share on other sites
OnTheTin 0 Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 I miseed this one until just before. Good read. Link to post Share on other sites
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