nick malozzi
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Crash Pads
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its a personal choice. I have been skiing for 10 years and have never been hurt once. I stay in good shape and stretch before i go out every time. And no i dont just carve around the mountain...i mainly stay in sidewinder park all day and I am comfortable with every feature that has been in there. I have entered skiercross for the past 4 years with no injury problems. never wearing crash pads once in my life. I just believe there is no need for them here in pa...If you are aware of your body and know how to fall of course you may get a bruise here and there but thats part of the sport of freestyle skiing. Why minimize your accomplishments by taking all the risk away? I ski for the thrill and going in there with a body suit of pads is ridiculous....in my opinion you have to be a pretty big pussy to wear pads at blue mt.....i know all you guys who wear these pads are gonna hate on this haha but its just my opinion sorryif you read this thread you'd realize that most of us aren't telling people to go out in head to toe pads. i wear a simple pair of shorts that has some soft foam padding over my tail bone, and around the joints in my hips. i rock a helmet as well, but if you can't see the importance of helmets i'm not going to sit here and argue over it (natural selection will eventually win that battle for me). the only mention of more hardcore padding was made by someone who charges hard DAILY at a colorado mountain. this is a guy who is constantly pushing himself day in and day out, and knows damn well that some added protection will keep him doing so.
i work out regularly, stretch, all that BS you mentioned. that isn't going to help you though when an out of control skier takes you out from behind, or you make a blind turn and run smack into someone standing there.
i guess i'm a pussy though since i wore my crash pads when i rode at blue. i salute you for being a bigger man then me.
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Haha, I see that as a feature not a bug. I'm used to the really stiff ski boots and I paired up K2 T1's with Ride Teams for basically the stiffest setup I could make without going to plate bindings. I'm backing off that setup now because while it is amazing for carving and pipe it blows out your knees on hard landings. I'm going to swing the pendulum in the other direction this year and go with Burton Custom's and some soft boot for a really really forgiving park setup.
And if you want to see a HUGE heelstrap, go back to the Drake's from 02ish. They basically have a piece of tire for a heelstrap.
I have the custom's and paired with 32 Team 2s sans the stiffening tongue plate.. I dig that set up. Lil on the soft side, but I come from skateboarding. So that is preferable to me.
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32s are top notch. i think i'm on season 5 or 6. sorta lost count
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Crash Pads
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i guess it comes down to if you can handle pain well or not...if you cant handle it too well you should probably get some crash pads...if you can man up and bite your lip for the rest of the day from the bruise you might get from landing awkwardly, you dont need them......also if you like to ski drunk i suggest them haha...or if your a girl you mite want themignorance is bliss until you get run over by someone or hit a tree.
it amazes me that so may people are against wearing protective gear skiing and snowboarding, but don't say dick about football players or hockey players wearing 10 times more.
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i always look for bindings with the least amount of screws holding them together. i figure the less there are the less there is a chance one is going to rattle loose and end up causing some major damage to the bindings. that is my SOUL reason for buying burton bindings. the base plate is one solid piece of material, the back support is pretty much one solid piece, and only the heel strap is screwed on. you can actually adjust the back plate on burton bindings with the 2 screws that attach it to the baseplate. so i usually dial it in there and completely remove that stupid little "quick adjust" block/screw on the back to have one less thing to worry about. so yea, i like burton bindings, and i know many are going to bash me for it, but that is my theory and i'm sticking to it.
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List it on
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www.playak.com
www.boatertalk.com
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Also there is a Burton Custom 158 for sale in the classifieds for 50 bucks:
http://www.paskiandride.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11864
Looks like Zaldon picked up the t6 that had 50-60 days on it and it was delivered in good condition. The Custom is only rocking about 40 days, so it seems like it must be in decent shape. My Custom has been treating me well. 50 bucks might be a good investment even if it only lasts a season.
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i was talking to both justo and kevin who work at Nestor's about my boots. this will be my 3rd season on them and i dont want to get rid of them because i like them so much, and they said that you can get inserts for them so they fit snug again. so thats the route that i'm taking with my boots that packed out. when it comes to the edge ripping out of the board... i wouldnt even want to fix that and i would just buy a new board, but i dont know much about that...
links/brands/recommendations on those inserts?
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I'm also very interested about any solutions to packed out boots. I LOVE my boots, and would really like to keep riding them.
Glenn, I feel like if you can cheaply fix the board that the boots would be where you should spend the money. Then if more money comes in you can replace the board as well. Are you looking for any boots or boards in particular. With so many shops out here in Boulder I could keep an eye out for good deals for you, and then you could swing through on your way to WP. I'd even be willing to possibly front some money to help out if you wanted to jump on a good deal. Then you could get me back later, or whatever.
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they are all available at my shop. thats why i chose those! the primo comes with a free lift ticket and more flexy and costs less, but the evo has a 3 year warranty. im really not sure.
don't let that lift ticket sway you in your decision. i'd rather pass on the free lift ticket and get a board that i'm happy with using, then get something not as nice and get a free day on the hill. there is only a 50 dollar difference between the evo and the primo. in all reality that is not a big deal.
also: just took a look at the burton site. the primo is Burton's cheapest park board. That would lead me to believe the true market for this board is a cheap stick to go thrash on rails. The EVO on the other hand is going to take the abuse a lot better, and even if it doesn't you can get a new one within 3 years. I can't comment on the Rome boards because I have never rode one personally, and I actually don't know anyone who does ride them. So in my opinion if you are between the EVO and the Primo, the EVO takes it hands down.
edit: also the Primo's graphics are just straight up lame too.
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I rode the EVO many years ago and it was a great board. Def on the stiffer end for park, but that would certainly make it great as an all around board.
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Crash Pads
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When were you hitting trees that I wasn't looking?One of the days Shadows was with us. I came around a turn and there he was stopped. I tried to stop but when I did my edge caught a sapling just under the snow and i went flying into the tree well. I wrapped around the tree at my hip/abdomen and knocked the wind out of myself. Shadows got moving again though before the wreck, but was nice enough to tell me it sounded bad
. I'm sure you'll witness me hit something this year since I'm really hoping to push harder now that I have health insurance. -
the attitude you have received has been in line with your demeanor. you've got to give respect before you can get respect, someone of your age should have learned that by now. not to mention that is especially true in the world of message boards, act like a n00b we'll treat ya like one.
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Crash Pads
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dont get crash pads unless your going really big....nothing in PA requires crash pads...if your careful and know what your doing you should be fine...taking a spill here and there is apart of the sport and wearing padding gives you a sense of invincibility....not wearing pads shows confidence in your ability, this is just my opinion...if your scared of getting hurt or if you have any thought that you may get hurt you probably shouldn't be attempting it. be safe, have fun, and knows your limits.....wow talk about ignorance. most of the times i've been glad to have my pads on where doing things that i did a million times before. you never know when your going to catch an edge at the lip of a jump, or hit a dry spot on a rail. accidents happen, and i like to be able to pop back up after taking a fall on something small/within my skill set, instead of laying there in pain. that same theory went into my decision to start wearing a helmet many seasons ago, when all my buddies were telling me i was a fag for it. i fell a few times hitting patches of ice that i failed to see and ended up with a concussion. just from casually riding a blue square! since i've had my helmet and crash pads i have not suffered a single injury that made me end my day early, and that includes when i wrapped myself around a tree last season at WP.
it still comes down to opinion though i suppose, but i've got to be honest if you aren't falling you aren't pushing yourself. that was the theory i was taught growing up playing ice hockey, and i think it applies here too.
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Crash Pads
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what ever floats your boat chief.
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Crash Pads
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yea i am thinking about getting some or the shorts, shin padding would be nice too cuz i messed ym shins up trying to learn to get onto a rail urban set up.any company suggestions, nick?
they're all pretty much the same. i think mine are pro-tec. just try some on and find the pair that isn't uncomfortable to move around in. they are such a sound investment too. i think mine were like 40bucks new and they are going into their 6-7 season now i think.
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Crash Pads
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just putting that plate in there is doing NOTHING for you. the reason those wrist gaurds worked was because they were built into the straps that went around your wrist. and yes, those wrist guards are a death wish for your wrist (if they were still in the straps).
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NS is awesome. I rode a friends EVO a few years back. There is a pretty good chance my next board will be a NS especially since they are pretty easy to come by out here being that they are built here. They will also split any of their boards on special order, and I've been itching to get a split board.
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so i wear a cotton t shirt and running shorts under my jacket and snow pants and i rarely get cold. also i don't remember the last time pa had single digit temps, and windchill only affects exposed skin...
I'm surprised a bringer of death like yourself can even be near snow. Doesn't your soul radiate hell's fiery furnace? Wouldn't that just melt the snow.
BTW: I've totally lost the point to why this thread was even started. This and the other one sorta meld together into a pile of wasted brain cells. I think the mods should merge the two threads to make this even more confusingly entertaining.
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Crash Pads
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i wear just the ass/hip ones. they are pretty light in terms of protection compared to some i've seen out there, but i swear by them. i've have a few close calls landing on my tail bone on rails/jumps and would be willing to bet my tailbone would have been broken without them. if anything keeps your ass warmer when you sit down and strap in.
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Well guys I guess I better just get out of this thread, I mean, when it comes to gearing up for the absolute tundra that Pennsylvania is during the winter it is blatantly apparent that I am a complete noob and obviously I need to do some research on Patagonia's new space age materials that will never degrade, rip, or otherwise fall apart during my lifetime. Everyone knows that doing research on the internet is a complete impossibility and obviously the only factor that comes into play with snowboards that cost more than $200 is purely name brand recognition and has nothing to do with construction quality, materials, or technology. I guess you could call me a "gaper" if you wanted.
Gaper.
Sorry you sorta asked me to.
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I had one hell of run for 20 years.
I got a commodore 64 computer and learned BASIC and then
I started out in data entry and worked up to system operator and learned to program
IBM midrange computers System/34, System/36, System/38, and AS/400 in a language called
RPG II.
I ran a steel company in 1985 with a System/34 that had 64 kilobytes of RAM and 64 megabytes
of disk space.
My cell phone now has 10 times more memory than that steel company computer had disk space.
I wrote software for pacemakers and 911 emergency services.
So when you call for police, fire, or rescue in Monroe County a dispatcher keys into my software.
I wrote software for IBM S/390 mainframes in COBOL and then got into dragon slaying.
The old IBM mainframes where the dragons of old.
UNIX and 400 mhz PCs could do so much so fast that it came time to move off the mainframes and
do CGI programming in PERL to distribute processes and data entry across networks of dirt cheap
PCs instead of using 5 million dollar mainframes.
Only problem there is the COBOL programming staff fought tooth and nail kicking and screaming
to keep their kingdom intact for another 20 years but sooner or later a guy like me would come along
and know both the PC, UNIX, CGI stuff, and the old time mainframe stuff and port the mainframe
tasks down to UNIX using PERL CGI. IT really wasn't all that complicated once you got past their
technology. They were very much the same, just bigger or smaller , faster or slower.
You just had to sneak under their radar, learn how they did something in COBOL and you owned it....
go do it on UNIX. It actually was fun. A lot more fun than pacemakers.
You screw up pacemaker or 911 software and people die.
I learned microcontroller programming to make a few toys and tools over the years.
Anything electronic that beeps or controls or senses has microcontrollers in them and
you can use assembly language or C or BASIC on them.
I bought a Microengineeringlabs MELABS PicBasicPro compiler.
I highly recommend it instead of trying to learn assembly language.
Microcontrollers cost $2 for a complete computer system the size of your thumbnail.
So I did some real serious shit for a long time and now I kayak or snowboard every day I can.
Its a retirement plan.
i'm speechless. really, i'm speechless. i take back the troll remarks. somebody please go ski with this guy. i know he is real, but i need a fucking witness.
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This should be good...
Don't patronize the dude, I'm interested to know what he worked with. I hang out with a lot of his type.
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Vote Dharrisburg 08
couple days late on that one friend. maybe '12 though! i mean i'd vote for him, but only on the condition that his platform is based around putting a law in affect that all must grow mustaches. imagine the campaign sign potential there, i mean seriously!
Crash Pads
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It helped me greatly when I came around that blind turn at WP and shadows was stopped there in the middle of the turn. I took the tree in the abdomen/hip. I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty damn sure my hip would have been pretty jacked up without them.
You also claim to be able to "tough it out" and fight through the bruises. Again, I guess you are more of a man then me, because I've fallen on landings straight on my tailbone and had a hard time walking let alone riding. So let me know what kind of Wheaties you eat, cause I need me some.