method9455
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I use a candle instead of a torch lighter, it gets the job done.
I never use base cleaner, maybe a little windex, when its just dust or surface dirt. I save the shavings and if the base is really dirty I just do a hot scrape, but this winter its been so good that I have not had to do this, why take off more wax than you need to?
with all those steps... just clean the scratch up with a razor, light your stick let it drip a couple times on the scraper, fill the scratch, wait 20 min, scrape it off, wax the whole board... that simple.
Great post backcountry.
Yea I'd never use the base cleaner either, windex at most.
I use a razor blade instead of a knife because if you keep the edge against the base the whole way you don't create more gouges like you would with a knife.
I've use a mini torch and that is much more forgiving, but if you don't have that just light the end of the ptex (if its the thin kind) with a regular BBQ or cigarette lighter or whatever, and after it is lit it will start dripping. If you have the clear kind you will see all the black carbon when it lands which is bad, you don't want that on the base of your board so put a piece of thing metal or aluminum foil on the board next to the cut and drip it onto that, and bring the ptex closer and closer until it looks like a string between the ptex and the board, no dripping, very little flame or black stuff, just like melting onto the metal. Once you have that, just move slowly off the metal and onto the spot that you want to fix keeping the bead going the whole time, and then go back onto the metal at the end. This way you don't get the carbon at either end of the ptexing.
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Shop employes or people who work in the industry get product at basically cost.
Yea I would suspect everyone who has one here got them via selling gear at a shop. Instructors get them too. Burton wants the guys selling their gear to be riding their gear, and by making it cheap they try to make the guys happy so they recommend Burton stuff over other product.
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More than half my gear is Burton/AK stuff because of proforms. Helmet, goggles, jacket, gloves, backpack, board bag, board, bindings, socks, under layers. Pretty much everything but boots and pants. The board I have from them sucks a lot but thats not to say they don't make some good boards.
I think when you check out how many guys who rip in the park ride their bindings, it tells you something. I've broken my share of them, but they do have a great feel. Boards I don't think they're really worth it. Their boots just don't fit me but they are still well constructed. Their outwear, helmets and goggles are great.
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I just read this, yeah stance on the banana is 26 and the dh is 24.5 so yeah. its a pretty big difference. epoxy's a bad idea but it would be cheeper
It wouldn't stick the way you want. Epoxy is more fickle than people think.
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How big is the board? The stance varies by size he could be riding a really small board for his height and thats why its bothering him.
T-bolting it will definately weaken the shit out of it if done poorly, and marginally degrade it if done right.
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I'd be worried about Plaxico-ing myself when I fell.
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Yeah so this captures a different angle of Big Boulder.
http://snowboarder.com/blogs/blog/20090115...r_hill-377.html
Ben really has talent with a camera, he is going to go far.
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WTF This event is on the same day as the Blue boardercross? Now I have to decide which of the two I am going to do.
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were you using a helmet?
Generally the helmets don't do much to stop a concussion in these situations. I always wear mine and they are useful if you catch and edge or something, but knuckling a jump its just falling off a tall building onto flat, the helmet can't do much of anything. I broke my nose knuckling a jump because my knee basically went through my face a few years back so I literally feel your pain. At least you are losing a month now and your season isn't over, there will be a good amount of time after you get back on the snow to have a good season.
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those all ddo it wrong....check this one out
This is way smarter than the first one, I would totally hit a jump like that as opposed just a big bag you are supposed to land and stop in like the first video in this thread. This one you keep your momentum going all the way through and it just breaks your fall a bit.
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I would rather take whiplash and friction burns then broken bones and concussions.
I think you are signficantly more likely to suffer broken bones and concussions on the bag than without.
Remember its not the fall that hurts, its the sudden stop at the end. When you fall hard on an icy deck, all the vertical energy is imparted onto your body, but none of the horizontal is. That is about 50% of the energy since you are hitting the jump with a lot of horizontal speed and some of it gets converted to vertical energy, but certaintly not much more than half. Thats why when you come up short you usually bounce onto the landing and tumble down it, its not like you land on the icy deck and stop. With the bag, the vertical energy is going to be minimized a bit, but now you are stopping your horizontal progress too, so you add a whole new set of energy that your body has to absorb. The acceleration is what causes the forces that break bones and cause concussions. I'll take one predictable direction of acceleration over getting hit from all over.
Now if you are aiming for the center of the bag off a really steep jump, that is a different story. But putting a big air bag over the deck of the jump and aiming for the actual snow landing, and hoping the bag will help you if you come up short, is a bad idea. All it is going to do is tangle up your legs as your chest keeps going and cause you to be flipping as you go forward into hte landing, no thanks.
Step overs a lot safer, and at least a foam pit entirely contains you.
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It would still be awesome regardless of the explanation above. Even though it may contort you awkwardly when someone lands on it, it's not as bad as landing on solid snow. The benefits outweigh the costs. I would, and probably many other people agree that they would feel more comfortable jumping into/onto this trying a trick they have never done, then just trying it off a hard pack landing. This would be prime for our conditions taking into consideration that it never snows here and tricks can't be hucked into powder.
I'd take the foam pit over an airbag. You just can't put enough pressure in there to keep it hard enough to break your fall in any meaningful way, all it will do is grab your board and give you the "oh shit I caught my nose in powder on the landing" feeling, except without the powder to break your fall when you do eventually hit the hard snow.
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Maybe its just me but its pretty obvious why this is an awful idea. When you are jumping most of your momentum is forward, not up and down. The bag is designed to soften the fall for people going downward. Thats why foam pits work for dirt bikes doing back flips, the ramp is much stepper and they aren't really moving forward compared to how high they are going. The only place this would be useful is on top of a quarter pipe.
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How about stance setups? Do any of you change the width of your stance for different boards, or maybe just the setback?
I use roughly the same width since I can't get it exactly the same (Burton & non-Burton inserts), the same angle, but i'm setback on my freeride board and in the middle on my park board.
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Johnny Law I was saying it was hard to explain from a graffiti standpoint, not just general knowledge of trains in general. I see you have some information about trains, do you write or just like them?
I am trying to destroy the Allentown yard soon...
He has dedicated years of his life to this forum, I have been here for a few days and already getting bored of talking nonsense, come in a little while I probably will forget about this board and never come back again. I know how happy that will all make you.
And Kevin, I typed Mixilplix's into Google and World of Warcraft came up. I have never played the game and don't even know what it is about.
Thats because you are talking nonsense, of course you are getting bored. You can only bluster about your skills for so long with none of us caring before it gets old. You won't even back it up, you are wussing out of meeting people at Bear now. We're passing around good information and we have a solid community of people who actually ride together and you come here and are basically sitting on the couch at our party shouting things that nobody cares about. The only reason I answer you is because when I click new posts your shit shows up and its funny to egg you on into unveiling the depths of your stupidity.
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My bet is the pro's are most likely rocking next years gear and/or Tech, depending on how big they are that is... I say this because at the rev tour last year this guy was wearing this years burtons blue and purple two piece and we were asking him about it and he showed us next years board (no clue what it was but it was burton) all I remember is it had no camber and he did pretty well.Yea and that spreads beyond just the pro's, there are testers and employees as well. You can find a lot of next years gear on the hill if you know what you are looking for. The number of pros rocking Burton bindings seems to be insane.
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Kevin you jealous of my post game?
Your the one who told Doug he has no life for posting a lot here, along with knowing something about World of Warcraft the irony made me laugh
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Jay Peak has better tree riding than Stowe imo. Check it out while your up there its not far from Stowe.
I've heard that, so Jay is on my list for the future. More than anything else this trip showed me that there is great skiing and riding to be had in northern Vermont, and that I have plenty of places left to experience on the east coast, much less out west.
Here are the last few pictures I have.
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Wednesday $10 at Big Boulder is good for cheapest of all, but you don't get big vert. Belleayre $200 for a season pass is a good deal, as is Sugarbush for $350 but both of those are not local PA mountains.
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Negative, I'd have gotten a PM by now if it was.
I think he is gone, 82 posts in 4 days, and now 0 for 2 days.
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it sucks that he fell, but safety bars are a false sense of security. More kids fall off the chair trying to put them down or bring them up than they would if there was no bar at all. Thats why many ski areas out here simply don't have safety bars.
No, many ski areas out there don't have safety bars because you get more snow so the landing isn't as bad, and the liability laws in Colorado are a lot different than in PA because the ski industry is so important to their economy the government tries to protect them, where as the 7 hills in PA don't do jack shit for the state as a whole.
I agree that kids fall off trying to put it down or bring it up, but saying that no bar at all is safer is ridiculous. The real solution is to have an adult put the bar down so I wouldn't be sending kids up that aren't big enough to close the bar alone.
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Thanks for your reply.
Do you know how they are with trail closures? Last year when I was there in early march the entire Toll House section was closed, which I was pretty dissappointed about. I won't lie, I was really overwhelmed by the size of the mountain and was looking for some nice beginner terrain to get my feet wet with. I did spend some time on the Spruce Peak side to begin, but I got bored of that after a few runs. I would really like to check out the Toll House side this year, and am hoping that it is open. I don't want to stumble onto a trail that I can't handle and then end up getting into trouble. I can *carefully* handle the black diamond terrain at BC, which is equal to what, the blues in Stowe?
I don't really go to BC, but I would rate most blues at Stowe equal to the blacks at Camelback or Blue Mountain. I would ride under the Gondola and Spruce if you are worried. Gondolier/Perry Merryl/Cliff Trail are all doable if you can handle blacks in PA and that is a lot right there. Also if you ride off the triple the blues are not that bad.
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My Altered Gen is my favourite board by far. It carves really large radius turns compared to most boards, but since it is so stiff it is really smooth at high speeds. That board just wants to blast down the hill at mach 10. It is also super light and poppy which makes it great for pipe and jumps. I like how the base material tunes, it absorbs wax very evenly. I don't know why that is but it really holds wax well. I am almost certain that when I replace it (I've had it for 3 years), I am going to buy another Altered Gen. The only board that even comes close on my radar is one of the high end Arbor boards.
uhhh we ride in the poconos. nothnig is big enough to warrant me having two boards. ill hit whatever jump with the same jib board i hit rails with. endeavour colour series. or ride kink when i used to ride thatI don't have two boards because the stuff is big, I have two boards to keep one of them in good condition. That is the board I then use when I travel because plenty of us from PA are going out to the big mountains out west or up north, and on the icy days here I'm glad to have one board with sharp edges.
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Somebody is working really hard for the PASR 2009 Troll Award, relax, voting doesn't open for 10 months you will have plenty of time to impress the judges
Best park in northeast pa.
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Okemo over Mount Snow ---- what?
Blue is a lot better this year than the last few years. I still scratch my head at some of the jibs (4 foot wide roller coaster box? whats the point?) and I think that their boxes are stickier than others, but everything is maintained very well now, and there is a lot to be said for riding the 6 pack and lapping that many features.
I find it interesting that last year they had a 4 table line, and this year it is 3 step downs in the same spot. I'm not sure which I prefer but thats a great medium sized jump line.