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who here snowboards? and how much do you love it. also what gear do you ride? and where have you been snowboarding?
I only got into it last year, but I LuV it now and am pretty much the ePITTOme of the sport
I'm going on a trip to Japan in feb....should be ze best. Niseko supposedly has some of the best powder in the world
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good stuff been snowboarding for a few years hitting up new zealand again this yr cant wait, got a new burton board for christmas of my folks
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what size do you ride, I just got a 157 lib tech travis rice board
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ive only been once but it was fuckin awesome! Hittin Wanaka in nz this year as i got rels there. Cousin builds the terrain park and half pipe so got some sweet hook ups.
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ive been boarding for about 10 years.
i love it although i cant do it as much as i use to. I've done seasons in jindy and overseas in whistler. not going to go into all my gear..
hope you have fun in japan mate.
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been boarding a fair few times but cant do any snowboard or skiing anymore as ive fucked my cruiciate and medial ligaments in my knee :(
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shit anxious, you can get a reconstruction you know.. just expensive as all hell.
i'm in recovery atm from one lol...
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private health insurance?
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werent complete tears so a reco wasnt needed (or so the specialist said) i could either get a reco or just let the ligament strengthen itself which i chose to do. (gym and physio etc)
3 weeks after coming back from my knee injury i did a grade 2 tear of my a/c joint and rotator cuff LOL.
so if i land heavily on my shoulder im screwed aswell lol.
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| LAST EDITED BY anxious ON 31/01/08 11:49am |
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started skiing at 3, boarding at 6, started racing for mt buller at 10, me and my brother still do it.
atm i have 3 boards, one for fun (burton chopper 157) and two racing boards that are both 162+.
have done whistler, apex, sun peaks, steamboat, mammoth, niseko, valdisear, gargellen and most aus/nz peaks. niseko is fucking amazing, you'll love it. gets so much powder that some runs are banned to ski on, as the cables that tow the chairlifts end up being like 1-2 metres from the ground.
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milky, you've been boarding for a year and have ur own board alrdy?... k pro!
yea i just board once a year except for last year. i love it, beats surfing skating etc by a mile, even tho i do none of those :P
just gay that i dont live closer to the snow or go on many trips any more.
been to nz, most mountains over there... go to mt hotham like once a year.... skied in poland and some other places, cant remember... nothing special like yous
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i hope to do NZ later this year! also would like to do trips to sweden and canada in the future
will go to perisher a few times this year also, fingers crossed it's a good season
stop global warming!!
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whistler is great man awesome snow and all but it's a very commercial mountain. go to one of the more locally dominated mountains if you go to canada mate eg. sun peaks, apex
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How can you say it beats surfing when like you said youve never done it... its just easier to ride a snowboard and carve it etc than ride a surfboard and carve that. I take surfing over it anyday of the week. Everyone to their own though!
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| LAST EDITED BY nafan ON 31/01/08 01:58pm |
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milky ask knyzor he is actually a snowboard professional.
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| LAST EDITED BY GoMeZ ON 31/01/08 02:20pm |
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up until i moved here from NZ i skiied/snowboarded everywhere in NZ
best is queenstown by far
small town with a huge lake surrounded by ski fields
coronet peak/the remarkables are great check them out if you go there.
night sessions are wicked, tonnes of gooks that dont look where they are going though.
got k-o'd by one of them when i was about 9 on a snowboard, fucking hurt.
i cant remember howto spell it, RHAUPEAHU i think, near taupo middle of north island is another good spot, some awesome runs there used to have time share when i lived in the north and went there twice a year.
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rhaupeahu is allright o.0 not much snow when i was there
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LoL @ attempting to insult me by implying kNyZ0r!!111 snowboards
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my cock snowboards down chickies legs and down into their caves. its quite exciting.
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rhaupeahu is just ice now.. it's gay. will never be the same again.
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i ski snow boarding is for poofs
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yeah snowboarding is awesome, only bad thing is when learning you fall over alot :(
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Sos the gold coast ehy motion 2g
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no shit benji, i havent lived in NZ for almost 10 years so yeah.. but even when i was there it was a bit icy in some spots now that i think about it.
my dad went powder skiing in queenstown when we were there and said it was fucking unreal. would love to go back.. only thing i miss about home is the snow other than that its a shithole haha.
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been snowboarding since '04...absofknlutely love it. dont think i can go a year without boarding now. ive got 2 boards, 1 is an old all mt board that i got when i first started out, and the other is an option mirror for the park n whatnot
just got back from a 2 week trip to Japan, stayed half the time at Rusutsu and the other half at Niseko. Both resorts have their upsides, but in the end i think Rusutsu wins because theres basically noone there...untracked pow everywhere and stays like that all day, its bloody fantastic and there are some terrific natural bowls if you know where to look, or if your with someone who knows the area. Niseko on the other hand gets a lot more snow than Rusutsu on average, but is FILLED with aussies...like 90% which i guess if you want to party it up a bit is ok. but you can get some pretty big queues sometimes at the lifts, i remember waiting 20 mins for a lift at one point. There is however heaps of awesome pow at niseko as well; to fully take advantage of it you have to go to the out of management areas like the summit, and the bowl at An'nupuri, that stuff is magical like you're riding a hoverboard :D pow up to your waist and deeper in some areas!
But yeah...basically, go off piste or go home! japan is all about the pow and the tree runs, best in the world! you're sure to love it
who did u organise the trip through milky? and how long ya staying for? coz you have to do some daytrips to Rusutsu if you can, its only 45 mins away by bus and i think they can organise it for u at niseko.
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| LAST EDITED BY escuro ON 05/02/08 03:15am |
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heres some pics from rusutsu and niseko actually...these are just some freezeframes from videos which is why they're terrible quality. and most of these are taken on piste coz its a pain holdin a camera while dodging trees :P
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=542069&i...
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I want to go boarding, i just feel like i need to experience it. I've never been to the snow but i do skateboard,surf and have tried wakeboarding.
so i guess im qualified except for the snow bit :P
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Who here snowboards?
Me.
And how much do you love it.
A lot.
Also what gear do you ride?
GNU Riders Choice Magne-Traction (MTX) Snowboard
And where have you been snowboarding?
Mt. Ruapehu, both Turoa and Whakapapa (NZ)
Bears Town, YongPyong, Vivaldi Park and Phoenix Park (KR)
Have fun in Japan Milky! You're going to absolutely love it even though it's going to be fkn cold. Watch out for newbies aye, there's a LOT of them in asian countries. And I'd recommend you to visit Kyoto (Not for snowboarding purposes).
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| LAST EDITED BY zpR ON 05/02/08 09:17am |
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the fuck whistler is bad sponny?? im surprised you didnt melt in the sun from being inside to long.
Steamboat is awesome as well. Whistler is commercial but unless your going on a quick holiday there, its much easier to land a job (more tourists). or you can just sling drugs.
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organised through flight centre escuro, we left it pretty late to book, but we seem to have gotten a pretty good deal, and the girl has been helpful. We're going for about 16 days, but spending a few of the nights in tokyo.
One of my friends has heard about Rusutsu as well, and yeah it sounds sick that there's noone there, so we will prob try to check it out for one or two days at least :d
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lukeft you ski poof...
um tbh i didnt enjoy nz that much, like the mountains where good but staying queenstown meant we had to travel like 1-2 hrs just to get to certain mountains...
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I've snowboarded before but was pretty terrible at it, so went back to skiing.
Andrew, you should go snowboard in colorado. Places like steamboat, aspen, vale, copper, and breckenridge. You'll have a better time because there will be hardly any japs and they'll all love the aussie accent :)
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i'm really keen to go skiing/snowboarding, just haven't had the opportunity in a long time. Trying to plan a holiday around it though sometime this year/next year.
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At first we wanted to go somewhere really commercial so we could get pissed every night :P but in the end we found that thats not what we wanted at all! you wanna experience some of the culture over there...not go overseas to hang out with a bunch of bogans like you can do here. anyway we found that japs are probably the best mannered people in the world...and they absolutely love english speakers :D
oh and i think you'll find theres probably less 'noobs' in japan than there are here, its a big part of their lifestyle over there n there are some pretty good riders(not so much freestyle but just riding in general)
oh and milky if youre staying in grand hirafu...check out the fried chicken from lawsons :D
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