Johnny Law

almost always a week before everyone else because it's a massively overrated hill noobs and wannabe's jerk it over because they think it makes them special little flowers.....lol without that huntah dude on here I don't have a hill to blast shit at anymore.....

I'll be up tonight around 7ish.....at least I think......

I really want to go to Penn Hills, hopefully they pipe that porno jam throughout the facility.

That's a hot ski, all of their lineup is real high quality.

Didn't know about the Kartel 98, that looks hot.

I would say don't buy any K2's but that's just me He should buy 191 wren's and let me ski them.....lol......176 jeffery is like a 24 radius if I remember, maybe longer than he likes. Shit there are 2000000 skis in the low 20's ride them all.

Now that's what I'm talking about, that's thinking like Lincoln. The PE is stiff torsionally, in sandwich construction skis a torsionally stiff ski will have better edge hold. When you get the ski up on edge if it's an old solly noodle or something similar the ski can't handle the twisting force and hence the edge won't apply even pressure. If you had a Popsicle stick and you applied twisting force the ends particularly will twist away from the axis in the center of the Popsicle stick, now if they were skis that means you can't get the same pressure on those twisted ends. Now imagine the same thing but with a steel rod, it requires exponentially more force. That's torsional stiffness, you like a ski with torsional stiffness. Core wood choice is not the primary factor generally. Anything with a metal sheet is going to up the stiffness considerably, carbon rods too though you generally only see them in the tails of park skis, you want stiff tails in the pipe. Carbon construction is super light, strong but very expensive, titanial which is actually aluminum is very popular and as a metal sheet increases stiffness, Kevlar is a good dampener but a little heavy, Aluminum honeycomb is nice but expensive and can have resonance issues eg it vibrates in a not nice way. The PE has none of these stiffeners if you will. The PE is 22oz triax, so you have your wood core which is strips of would glued together and then planed into some kind of shape wrapped around that is fiberglass. You can do this in two fashions biax where your wrap the two individual strands at 90 degrees or triax where you wrap three strands at 45, 0 and -45 degrees. Triax creates a torsionally stiffer ski than biax, not to beat a dead horse but you like a torsionally stiffer ski. Wood can be bamboo, ash, maple, paulownia, fuma, fir, spruce, birch, aspen, poplar. Basically any hard wood that maintains it's shape and is vibration and resonance resistant. You get a set amount of stiffness from the wood but it's the additional stiffeners like a titanial sheet that really ups the game. Outside of paulownia which is a super super light wood generally used for touring skis don't get to caught up on wood choice. So if you look at K2's current lineup you got the Press and the Recoil, the sight is probably too soft but if you want a twin that only leaves the press. In that case maybe try the longest 179 which is a slightly longer radius than your current PE's. Ton of skis in this range though so check them out.

It's redic, super cold air pumps out of Siberia into northern Japan so it snows diamond dust all the god damn time. Plus until maybe 5 years ago going off trail was illegal, not like they take your pass, like speeding ticket illegal so the peeps there generally only ski groomers. That has changed a bit but it ain't Alta or JH by any means. Japan is expensive but it's also culturally pretty different but not so different its uncomfortable. They are friendly, lots of English speakers in Niseko and it's certainly safe. They get alot of Aussies and they fucking love to party. Japan is perfect for that ski trip you want with fantastic pow skiing and are really different culture. There are two main areas, Hakkido and Hansu. Hakkido is flatter but gets redic amounts of pow, hansu is steeper but doesn't get as much snow. Hansu is easier to get to. Hansu is really only the big dog Hakuba. Hakuba is probably the best known Japanese ski area. It's huge with Australians. Hakkido is really the town of Niseko which is broken down further into 5 resorts, Annupuri, Higashiyama, Hirafu, Hanazono and Moiwa. Hirafu is the big dog, everyone goes there. There is another sleeper resort about an hour from Niseko called Rustsu that has some killer trees and is more like Silverton than the mega resort Annupuri is. Best tree skiing of my life and it's not even close, crazy BC access right out the lifts. Furano is the newer hot shit but I never rode there and don't know anything about it. If you ever get the chance or the conviction go ski japan it's tremendous pow skiing and an even cooler experience. Be warned though do not under any circumstances be holding the herb. Smoke others but don't carry any weight.

I don't like moguls, they make my knees hurt but I do remember riding with AS one time on 188 Legend Pros, they bucked me around like a god damn horse. This brings up another good point which is think about buying a ski that is inline with where you want your skiing to be. I generally have lots of very stiff, long, large radius skis because I like to ski fast with long arcing turns. My short game is relatively speaking weak, so I bought a pair of sl skis and dabble in SL racing because that's something I wanted to get better at. If your PE's aren't dead, keep them and ride them and maybe buy another ski that challenges you to ski things differently. Also don't overlook the second hand market, lots and lots of people ski 10 days a year and sell their skis after two or three years. Almost any ski can take two mounts no problem and it will save you lots of money. 50$ grind can save your hundreds and then you can buy lots of skis and really figure out what it is your looking for in a pair of skis.

Cool video. Fuck yes, I would only need about 15mins notice, that's Hakkido dudes the holy grail of pow.

The early March storm is still way to far out, it only shows on a couple of models. It's split stream and the key is how the southern energy comes in, too much confluence and the whole thing makes a big right hand turn for the ocean. GGEM shows the right hand turn, DGEX as always shows a foot plus for the entire NE. There is plenty of energy upstream but axial tilt really starts to fuck with the potentials. The two most accurate GFS/EURO lost this storm completely this morning but that's weather models, check back in Friday for a clearer picture.

I post this every time but stop taking recommendations on specific skis, that is pretty much useless, people mostly post shit they have. Saying something like you need a prophet is bullshit, why ? What specs is that related to ? I'm not saying there wrong I'm saying the method of hey I need new skis, oh yeah buy X is a terrible way to buy skis. What do you like about the PE's ? What do you not like about the PE's What is it you don't like about the other skis you own and what is it that other skis you own do better than the PE ? Skis have a radius, this is the tightest turn they can make, its almost always listed in meters. Alot of times it will be stamped somewhere on the ski. So lets say you have the 104Bsquad and you ski that and say this is a bad ski, it doesn't turn nearly as easily as the PE. No shit the PE is probably a 20r ski and the Bsquad 104 is a 35m radius ski. It doesn't mean the Bsquad is a bad ski it means the riders both don't understand it nor skis in general. So lets say you like the PE's but you wish you could push them more, longer faster turns on skis that just murder chop, said shit heads would say the Bsquad is a bad ski but again that's not serving you that's bullshit. Here's what you do, first and foremost find out what radius you like to ski at. If you feel the PE is making the perfect kind of arcs for your skiing it's a 16-20 meter radius ski. That's pretty turny, not SL turny but it's very easy to get up on edge and make shorter radius turns. So when your eventually looking to replace the PE look for skis in that same radius. Unless you while skiing the PE say man I can't drive this ski worth a damn, maybe then try something with a little longer radius like a 25. Radius is the primary factor when purchasing skis, if you know one fucking thing about your equipment figure out what radius you like to ride at. Or better yet buy a fuck ton of skis across the spectrum. I have 14, 17, 22.5, 23.5, 29 and 35m radius skis and I use them all at blue based on snow and what type of riding I want to do that day. Second skis have different constructions that impact the stiffness you perceive. PE's are 22oz triax, torsion box. 22oz is the weight of the fiberglass used in pressing the ski, 22oz is in the upper arena. Triax is the method in which you braid the fiberglass around the wood core, triax means generally they ski will be very torsionally stiff, you can think of that as stiff in terms of twisting motions on the ski. You should note the lack of a metal sheet or carbon stringers what they do is make the ski more conventionally stiff, eg for up and down or flexing forces. Third, skis have dimension. The PE is something like 120 -85-109, its a skinnier ski with higher levels of sidecut. It's simple physics if the waist is 85 and the tip is 140, the difference between those numbers is high so the curved line between those two points must be more extreme and thus what we call more sidecut. This makes the ski easier to turn but more twitchy, if you watch people ski nowdays most cannot drive a ski worth a damn, what they do is that little move where they open up a hip and bam the ski takes off, this is why gapers on Epic fucking loved the Metron, all you had to do was open up a smidge and the ski took off. Don't be so concerned with underfoot, if you can carve a 68 you can carve a 130 however the angulation will be different and narrower skis are more nimble in a sense. Fourth skis have camber. This has been used recently to market skis to idiots, catch free rocker man !!!!!!! however it can be quite important. On hard snow you want a ski where the underfoot is higher than the tips and tails or positive camber. In soft snow or powder this setup forces the tip down or tip dive which means the rider generally will ride way in the back seat to get the tips up. This gives less control and is more tiring, so a very smart man figured you could simply reverse the camber, have it so for soft snow the tips and tails are above the underfoot and thus when riding in powder the tips would plain and you could ride in your normal position and have really pressure the boots. Full reverse sidecut, reverse camber skis fucking murder pow but they suck in everything else, you can't carve them as a matter of physics so some other smart people figured out why not combine a hard snow ski and a soft snow ski. These are the fun shapes, like a super 7. It has traditional camber underfoot and reverse camber aka rocker in the tips. It can carve and run pow pow, it's a do everything though they never do a specific condition better than a dedicated ski, though that requires a quiver. This is an oversimplification certainly but you get the idea. What you like if I understand you is a shorter radius 20 or so meters ski, that is torsionally stiff but softer traditionally. Positive camber with maybe a little bit of tip rocker, decent amounts of sidecut for easier turn initiation aka a forgiving fun ski. The PE just happens to be an example of this ski, lots and lots of people make this ski in pretty much every brand. I'm not shitting on anyone I'm saying educate yourself if your gonna drop some bones on new boards. The Line prophet 90 is an 18m radius traditional carver it's super similar to the PE and actually a good recommendation though it does have a metal laminate so it's going to be a smidge stiffer but you maybe didn't know any of that and that's a bad way to buy skis. Lastly if you go to a demo you can say to the dude, I like low 20 radius, directional carvers, that are torsionally stiff but forgiving and fun. They he can say ok I have ski X that is similar go try them out. Then he can also say why not try ski x that is a little longer radius, with more width and maybe you like them maybe you don't but now you know skis and have actual metrics for evaluation. You get alot more out of a ski you purchase and demo days or just riding your friends boards.

Looking like God damn nostradamus.....should have put some money on it....

I wish, leaving for Atlanta.....

They must be working on their night moves or something, Tuesday night they were all out in force.

Man ligety is a treat to watch, he's so far ahead of the gates, his angulation is so high it's ridiculous. What a beast, a second faster in the Olympics..

Damn sixpack down again......they should replace the drive motor with a John Deere tractor motor, seems to work well for Montage.

Thought so, I haven't seen anything on it yet but if you've watched any WC Ligety better have won, dude is a second faster consistently.

I thought slalom was like the 21st, was it GS

FKNA Boner city!!! Powder is a well run cat operation your gonna have a crazy good time. This is going to sound real fucking douchey so feel free to fire back at me but be real fucking careful in the BC out there. Gear is important but they are just tools, its the shit in between your ears that matters. Without the class time and experience a beacon is body retrieval and none of that shit matters if your fucking around in terrain traps. Coastal snow packs are normally pretty good but there are a couple of things going on. There is a layer of facets from November buried 3-9ft deep, even more important is a layer of windslab, sastrugi, bullshit that the current storm is running on. Wind up high is keeping the snowpack there low. Mix all that shit together and you got to be smart. http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/the-mountain/backcountry/avalanche-advisory.aspx www.avalanche.ca/cac/bulletins/latest Peep this shit and pay attention to terrain. Dbag shit over....have an epic trip.

The way to learn how to up your speed when your beyond about 10 years old is to ski the slow line fast. So on every trail there is a fast line and a slow line. Let your inner beast out and ski that slow line with big ripping arcs, attack attack attack. Skiing is a dance, the mountain always leads, the trail is the song, if you let go of the fear you can hear that song and the pace at which you ski the trail flows naturally. That sounds all new age hippy bs but I swear it's true.

Thanks Mike for all the leg work and to everyone else on the team. It's a great time and I really enjoy being a part of it.

ohhh Elk like skiing in VT, except no trees, lifts suck ball sack and any idiot can fall straight down the hill due to their simplistic trail design.

Are you pressing the tongues ? A natural reaction to feeling uncomfortable is to tail gun, everyone and their brother does this, shit WC racers will occasionally revert back to this coping technique but by simple physics it requires more effort then to get the tips around.

Spring is hilarious, years ago I had peeps on the inside. The family is dysfunctional at a basic level, one year they showed up after summer and the far right chairs were all on the ground because the haul line snapped, said haul line is spliced 6 different ways, the og com and electrical lines for the far right chair ran on the ground so every 30 seconds or so the lift would take a dump because you don't run 30 year old electrical lines on the ground, the far skiers left trail that is never open has seriously injured two persons, a amish buggy once got spooked and jumped off the bridge near the lower lot, a very large women almost killed a zip line worker when she didn't understand how the hand break worked....etc etc etc It's a weird little place that has some charm.....also don't get hurt their, just dont.......