Justo8484

i'm gonna agree with papa again here and add to the claims about bill. johnny, i'm not sure in what capacity you've dealt with bill before but of the comps i've been in where he was in charge, some have been run pretty well (usasa comps where the format is pretty much set) but everything else where he has more of a say in, has been pretty sketch. the oakley jam at boulder last year was awesome, except for the blatant bias towards snowboarders. anyone who witnessed the finals first hand knows who should have one, and if you don't believe me, i have video to back up my claims. as for the team comp at boulder, again, it was top notch, the park was amazing for the most part, and everything was great (besides the forementioned snowboard bias of bill's judging crew) until bill started messing with things again. the bottom jump should have been the feature in the comp, not the top one. everyone on boulder's park staff knew that, which is why they closed it off twice to regroom it and make it quite possibly the best jump i have ever hit in my life, which says a lot for a jump in PA. i've been to mt snow, stratton, okemo, killy, and whistler when they all had sick parks open, and the jump ian and his crew at boulder made down on the bottom of boulder was on par, if not better than anything i hit elsewhere, but for whatever asinine reason, bill felt it was unsafe because a few kids got hurt on it because they came in too slow, when there was ample room to get plenty of speed. you didnt have to worry about overshooting it from too much speed either, so as long as you sacked up and took some speed into the thing, it was spot on. the top jump however, had a much flatter, shorter in run and more kick to the lip with a much shorter landing. out of my heat, i would estimate that close to 75% of the group couldnt clear the jump. during lunch, i asked bill why he switched to the top jump, and said it was because a few kids couldnt clear the bottom one. last i checked, a few is not as many as 75%. no one from the lower numbered heat even practiced that jump because we were told it wasnt in the comp, so for most of us, our first hit on the jump counted towards our results. its flat out unsafe to be throwing tricks off a jump for your first hit, but thats what we were forced to do if we wanted to have our three hits on the thing count towards our score. while i was talking to him during lunch, he even said that after he saw everyone hit that first jump, he thought he should have switched it back to the bottom jump. if the majority of the kids there were fine on the bottom jump, you don't switch things at the last minute and not even give people time to practice a jump and at least get their speed down. so much for him providing a safe competition. also, as papa said, he needs to get his judges up to speed on what's what in skiing. just looking at scoresheets from usasa last year, i noticed kids on snowboards who really didnt do anything spectacular would still be getting higher scores than us skiers who were actually doing technically difficult tricks. granted we were not competing against each other in that scenario, but in an event such as boulder's team challenge or the oakley jam last year where skiers and snowboarders are judged together, they need to be judged fairly. a nollie on a snowboard is entirely different than a nollie on skis, as is riding switch, or spinning onto or off of a rail.

do you honestly think you wouldnt have to fill out a waiver? wow.

there are lots of options. being that you are pretty light weight, the karma might be a lot of ski for you, unless you like a really stiff ski. the PE skis very well all mountain and is a little bit softer. surprisingly, the silencer skis pretty well all mountain too, but its a little narrower and a little softer than the PE. if you like a soft ski, check out the thruster, its dimensions are similar to the silencer. dynastar big troubles are fun, also on the stiff side, and pretty wide, as are the k2 seths.

me and the nestors crew are in for the shop comp. anyone know who's riding in the shop comp?

to anyone who was there tonight, i honestly hope you realize why it wasnt on merriwidow. visibility was bad enough just hitting the small stuff on freedom park, i took a run through merriwidow and there was no way i was about to hit those jumps without even being able to see your landing until you're in the air.

i was just up at killy and okemo, and i was at boulder tonight. boulder wins, hands down. okemo has a nicer jump, but there is only one, and none of their rails are all too great. killy's park is a waste right now. blue, when you can finally blow snow again, get your shit together and make it so everyone doesnt want to to go boulder to ride park. we all know you can make nice snow and fun setups when you try...

have you ever heard of this thing called warm weather? salt is used when temps are close to freezing or below. the salt melts the snow of the lip slightly, which makes it easier to sculpt, and then the cold temperatures refreeze the lip in its new manicured form. salt doesn't do shit when its too warm for the snow to refreeze.

i'm gonna agree with skierboy, square coping sucks, really bad. if you arent completely flat based on it, it bites into your edges really badly, and its also much harder to switch up or spin out of, or stop your rotation when spinning on, at least on skis. the construction of the crackerbarrel/rollercoaster box they made last year is top notch. why cant all the boxes be made like that, minus the circus freak dimensions?

hahaha wasting a day of school? skiing is always worth taking a personal day.

i really like the jumps. i thought the only problem with that first one on merrywidow was that the lip isnt really very well lit, like its between two of the lights or something. other than that, the shape of the lip was nice, and the landing was good. once they can blow snow the whole width of that trail so that you dont have to turn right in front of the thing to line yourself up, it would be sick. also, does anyone besides me hate the way the handrail is set up? i felt like the lip wasnt really far enough away to be a true gap on, but it wasnt close enough to be set up urban style, it was an awkward in between that made it super hard to clean the rail. i've done handrails that were easier for me to clean than that thing.

temperature inversion. for whatever reason, sometimes it gets colder at the base than at the peak.

there's a real sick one at the intersection of ogontz and olney in north philly, at central high school. i like to call it big red. i think its pretty doable though, its only got 6 kinks.

thank you!

hahaha shawn you just shat down boulder's throat. amen to that. and everyone thought us blue locals were crazy in the past when we've said boulder is disorganized and poorly run... i hope for their sake they can pull everything together and put out a decent park for the rest of this season, they're under pressure for sure now.

i think its shane? he worked on park crew last year. and trevor, the offer on the 1080s still stands. so what if they dont have edges? its slushy out, who needs edges

is it me, or is it that every time this kid claims something is going to happen, the exact opposite actually happens...

fair enough.

no not at all. from my one day up there this year, it has been a HUGE improvement over last year, and my only gripes with the place previously had been in the way that some of their comps are run, but you'll have that everywhere. i have a pass there this year that i plan on getting use out of, and i'm curious to see what else they come up with for their parks this year, but its just a very interesting turn of events.

i would have PMed you, but for whatever reason, i can't. jeff wants it kept private for whatever reason, and i'm not going to go against his wished on the messageboard since its something i stumbled upon anyway. i just think its pretty ironic after the hype fest that happened all preseason.

dude, spill it. the paying public deserves to know what they wasted their money on... and again.... hahahahhahahahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahahha

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olin mark IV

doesn't take a scientist to figure out that blue blows wetter snow than most places do. blue s open, why don't you go ski instead of spreading hate?

i can't believe this kid is actually serious

hang them on the wall. thats all they are good for. i would not risk my knees sliding a rail on a setup like that. ever.