skidude

.5 girls > bmw

Dude look at it this way....Just steal a UPS truck, and we have all the room you need. You can bring your mom, and I am sure you can find a gift for her in the back of it. My mom is working on mother's day....Then she will probably go chill with her ponies....

Zonked...Greg is going to pick you up right after he comes to pick up me...Yes Greg, you are going

I think you are just imagining things again...

Not bad for the price of about 1.5 jackets to get 21

Haha you think someone like myself doesn't have snow in the freezer? Hopefully I can get up to Kmart or something sometime, somehow...But probably not likely. I guess I just gotta wait til 7am (PST....err is it pacific standard time??) June 23rd

I don't think I have any way to get there, not sure what Mum plans to do, but I don't think she would be ammused watching it. Anyway not sure yet.

Let the bitching match begin? Haha just kidding. Ski999, just remember there is nothing like good trash talking right before a race, to get you and your team ready to go

Even some of the older drills are sometimes good to do once in a while. Considering you do not do one type of turn, with the exact same amount of pressure on both skis, and stuff around every gate, it is good to know how to do a lot of things.

Yupp, and it gets even more confusing when you are trying to race. Since you have 5 different people telling you 5 different ways to get down the hill the fastest....Hmmm welll only one of them can be the fastest.

If I looked that good, I would be trying to see what I would be wearing this summer

Even from one coach to another, you will be told completly different things. I am realizing that I should listen to what the coaches say, and then just get out and try different things and see what works the best for me. Thats really what you have to do.

Rob let me just say this...>I coudl skip every PA race, and probably go up to NY at the end of the year and lower my points more than what I could do all season in PA. (Assuming I stood up and finished all the runs decently)

Almost always? Girls always go first, sometimes you get lucky and they will set a guys course and a girls course (HARDLY EVER HAPPENS) and the girls still run there course first. Anyway another thing that Ridge will just have to deal with. But most of the girls don't trash the courses too much, its the top 25 guys, that hammer them that really do the damage, then the other 50 people that will go before you don't help either

damn I need snow

Either way, if he can do it, so can Ridge

Thats true, but then again no one says ski racing is cheap, if you are going to get into it, you probably know that. Doesn't matter how they score it. EDIT: If you live in PA you will never be that great as far as points go. The penalty for the race (a number of points depending on how fast people skied the course, and stuff) is added to your race points (another calculation of points). The winner gets the penatly (plus 0 race points). In PA penatlies are usually around 80. Go up to Vermont and you can get a penatly of around 40, or even lower. I went to the slush cups, and the penalty was like 7 points in the slalom, and the unoffical penatly was like 4.8 in GS (which later got bumped up to 50 for technical reasons)... Bottom line, you are not going to be able to be recignized as one of the best racers if you are living around here. So its expensive, and just about impossible to be at the top if you don't want to travel from PA

I think they would replace it, if you mean the warning sign. No warning=even bigger lawsuit when someone like Jeff falls down it

What do you mean by the nastar format? Have everyone race as they get in the start wand? Or by alphabetical order? Or youngest to oldest? Because the people that work hard, and ski fast, don't want to have to wait for lil runts to ruin there courses, when they have not proven anything yet. And uhh im working on watching that video...

When you make it to the top there is no question about it. Everyone knows where you started, and where you ended up. Everyone is in the same boat. Sure its hard, but isn't that they way all sports should be? Just gotta fight your way up. I had a breakthough race at Elk, which will put me in the top 15 for GS most likely next year at most races. Which means I will have a very good start possition (top 15 get scrabled in races) so I should be getting nicer courses, which mean smoother courses, which means I should be able to go faster, and bump myself more. Ridge will have to do the same thing. As far as slalom goes, lets not mention that eh? (I dropped about 50 places nationaly , but in GS I went up nearly 700 places )

Also, just remember everyone starts out at the bottom of the pack...Everyone. Even your hero, Durggy-man Bode started with 990 points, and ya gotta work your way up. Prove yourself.

Rob, in no way do race teams think of J3-J5s as sh*t. They don't have points, because they system is set up that only J1-J2s can get points. Now it was switched to second year J3s can get points at a few races. If you wanted it your way, so Ridge could get points, that would mean that a) there would be really no age divisions, because J1/2s always race together, and use points for seeding, there would be about 400 people in every race, (because there would be no age groups), and c)Many many many of the younger racers would be scared to death of racing, if they don't die. Can you imagine having Ridge ski down a course after 150 guys my size tear it to shreads? He would get tossed out pretty quickly, just because the ruts would be up to his face. You can't really say well only J3-5s can go to this race, because if it turns out to be a good points race, you cannot explain why the older kids couldn't be there. As far as awards and such, there is awards (nice trophies, medals, all that stuff), and there are JOs for J4/5s and J3s, so they can go just as far (well they don't have high school championships) as a J1/2. Not too sure how they determan how J-lil people go to JOs, I think it has to do with there top finishes at a few races.

I have a drill that my coach at Mt. Hood had everyone do for a few runs at the beggining of the day, to get foward, if anyone wants it...

Its possible that I would end up there...Who knows. Probably not, but we shall see