nekobi 0 Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 saw this article on japantoday.com http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=250104 pretty interesting. Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 I hope i can still board when i'm 99!! Fingers crossed! Good on him! Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 with the state of my knees (at 17!) i dont think i will be boarding very gracefully down any mountain at 99. Link to post Share on other sites
jon snapper 0 Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 Yeah but have you ever read about his son? Yuichiro Miura. Absolutely bananas. He was the first guy to ski down the South face of Everest. Only thing is, he thought he`d try it at top speed. He reached speeds in access of 100mph. He used a parachute to help slow him down. Parachutes don`t work at 8000metres. He ended up falling down a 60-70degree slope with no way of stopping. He eventually came to a halt about 5 metres away from a massive crevasse. Do a search with his name. You`ll be amazed. Bananas I tell you. Link to post Share on other sites
jon snapper 0 Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 Correction - the type of mini parachute he used don`t work at that height. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted February 21, 2003 Share Posted February 21, 2003 He was on the telly last night. Oh, I just got email come in titled "Penis Tips", so I must rush and reply to that. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted February 21, 2003 Share Posted February 21, 2003 Those guys ski around Tateyama early and late in the season. Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted February 21, 2003 Share Posted February 21, 2003 Maybe all of you know, Yuichiro Miura has a ski school at Teine Highland. He sometimes ski there. Link to post Share on other sites
TheOrange 0 Posted February 22, 2003 Share Posted February 22, 2003 Really? He's 99. Link to post Share on other sites
Tim 0 Posted February 23, 2003 Share Posted February 23, 2003 That's amazing, at 99! Good on him! Link to post Share on other sites
blinkin'ek 0 Posted March 6, 2003 Share Posted March 6, 2003 I saw that geezer on telly the other night. What a guy! Link to post Share on other sites
IIIII 2 Posted March 7, 2003 Share Posted March 7, 2003 Yes, that was very interesting. I couldn't help feeling though that he shouldn't have been there. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 Dumb question maybe, but was he doing that just for the pure fun of it - or something else? Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/features/index.html read this in the Mainichi, the man is a legend! loves the snow, keeps himself tip top and hes still enjoying his passion for skiing. Good on him! This man should be the patron of SJ. The Max Dercum of Japan (A prize for anyone of you who can tell me who he is) Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Said it before but, what a guy Link to post Share on other sites
echineko 1 Posted March 12, 2003 Share Posted March 12, 2003 Thats amazing. I hope my body is good enough for like this when I am 100! Link to post Share on other sites
dancing_barefoot 0 Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 He was on TV again just now. Excellent dude. Link to post Share on other sites
AsterG 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 That guy was on the TV again last night, some kind of documentary. Blimey, he's nearly got more energy than I have. Link to post Share on other sites
oblivion 5 Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 I saw that too Aster, interesting story. They love them there "human stories" in Japan, don't they? Get the talento on to have a good weep - can't be beat! Link to post Share on other sites
97 0 Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 I wonder if I will be snowboarding in another 87 years Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 Yesterday, they had Sherm Poppen(?), inventor of the snowboard precursor, the Snurfer, on one of those Transworld Sports filler programs you get on inflight entertainment and on NHK when the baseball finishes early. He has taken up boarding and was shown giving some beginners their first lesson. It said he was 73. They also had some mad Snurfer home movies from way back and some adverts for them with guys in what looked like drainpipe jeans. Most shots just had guys pointing it downhill with seemingly little control. In what may have been the world's first freestyle snowboard maneuver, one guy was shown pulling a mini-method (no grab) off a small drop. Another guy was shown sneaking onto the lifts on skis and then snurfing down the resort. Some of it was really funny. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 At the Echo Valley mini-museum in the ski-rental place, I saw one of the original Burton wooden boards. It really looked like a heavy piece of crap. (Actually it looked a lot like the Fish but without the refinements). The bindings were some kind of floppy plastic and foam and were right at the back of the board, the board itself was 2cm plywood with no camber to it, and the edges looked like mini angle iron. Things have indeed come a long way. Hurrah! Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by kamoshika: The Max Dercum of Japan (A prize for anyone of you who can tell me who he is) what is the prize K-man? Max Dercum, a 1934 Cornell Gradate and forestry professor at Penn State, organized ski teams, built ski facilities and coached the sport there. In 1945, he and wife, Edna, moved to Colorado, bought an 1860s stagecoach way station on land down valley from Arapahoe Basin, and developed it into Ski Tip Ranch. Max became one of the early directors of Arapahoe, helped supervise run clearing, and was head ski instructor there until 1969. He was one of the originals to form Professional Ski Instructors of America in 1961. He authored the book, The Official American Ski Technique. Max eyed the mountain in his backyard, and received a ski area permit as president of Ski Valley USA, which later became Keystone International, Inc. From 1969 to 1975, Max directed the development of the ski area, locating lifts and ski trails on Keystone. He directed the Keystone Ski School from 1970 - 1975. Max is a multi-medalist on the Masters ski race circuit. He and Edna have a retirement home near Montezuma. Link to post Share on other sites
TheOrange 0 Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 Thank you db. Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 This time, his 70 years old son 'Yuichiro' scaled Mt. Everest! They are awesome! Link to post Share on other sites
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