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method9455

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  1. Ha the farther you get into the pictures the funnier they get
  2. Well thats not all that surprising considering we all know USSA is fucktarded and has been for a while, but its still lame.
  3. Then how is it a qualifer for the Grand Prix? I've never seen anything in a grand prix that looked easy thats for sure. That reminds me of the MTV Made show where they tried to turn the whiny 16 year old into a snowboarder and she "won" a comp by doing a 50-50 on a flat ride on rail and barely grabbing an indy on a 5 foot jump. If you can't hit stuff, don't enter a comp until you can. Shit I've never entered a comp because I can't do better than a 360 I didn't want to embarrass myself.
  4. Look where they are hosted, they are still on the jibacademy server, PASR is not paying a cent for those to be up here. I for one appreciate the pictures, rambling text is one thing, pictures are a whole different ball game.
  5. I know, I can't believe my season started in MID-NOVEMBER this year.
  6. Thats what I was thinking, there is a thing called his & hers ramps.
  7. Yea I'm warry of doing it on a weekend one bad snowboarder snow plowing down it would ruin it I bet, don't let the secrets out. Luckily it kind of gets refreshed as snow flows off the edge of rivershot. It was an interesting feeling on Saturday with the fresh snow getting loose under neith, very cool. The east mountain of Jack Frost is the most interesting terrain in PA. I did a glades run up top with fresh snow down to the steepest trail around here, what more can you ask for?
  8. Even if you go 1 day a weekend thats $38 a day which is still less than a regular ticket, and you could go next year for free. If I hadn't burnt so much cash already I might do that
  9. I love pipe, it is dieing though becuase you need two things most park riders don't have. A stiff freeriding style board with a race tune, and skill at holding an edge on ice. If I see a kid air above the deck of a pipe and come back in, I respect that a lot more than a spin onto a rail, it is just so difficult. One of my biggest problems at first two was the perspective change, if you try to leave the lip of a pipe with your head above your feet you will no land, you have to transition to horizontal and make the wall your floor, the horizon shifts to the edge of the pipe and its just really trippy. I used to always try to come off standing up and it doesn't work that way. As for making money on it, I know enough to talk about it and probably even to build one, but I'm not going to make a career out of it. On the other hand I've thought of a few tools that would make it easier for them to do it well that I might build after I become an engineer.
  10. Well its a table top jump, it is unreasonable to expect to be able to build a competition jump up to the size needed as a table, that just uses an insane amount of snow. If you are going to do it that way at least make it a step up jump with a gap, then basically you build a table and a ramp before it so it has a reasonable amount of air time. That just takes a bit more snow and cat time which they where probably rushed on.
  11. Yea I saw them setting up that staircase, I never thought I'd see something as nice as the staircase Mountain Creek built for the Union Square Street Session last year, but this equaled or topped it. Was the riders left rail concrete? Did they leave it open? Did you see how deep the snow is leading into it? They just plowed away what I thought was a headwall to reveal about 10 foot deep snowpack.
  12. Yea I was hitting that gully on Saturday and have to say, it was the first thing that has given me pause free riding in a long time. I stopped on the edge and looked down and was like, ok I'll turn there, and there, and there, and pop out there. And I dropped in and immediately was at the point where I thought my 3rd turn would be, it was definitely the steepest thing I've ever done in PA. A lot of the gapers where looking at me like, what? Isn't that a cliff? East Mountain was kind of overrun with them from WMMR day.
  13. I would say unquestionably the last trail open will be Boulder park, they can push those jumps out for ages. The tables have to be 40' deep at points. The drop in ramp at the top has more snow than all but 1 of Camelback's jumps. I'll be going till they close though thats for sure, I LOVE spring riding. As for LOVE, I'm a bit disappointed with LOVE park at the moment, it was definitely better last year. And I didn't see first hand but I'd differ to BigDaddyK that there was more snow last year, It is far from thin this year but last season was loaded late with cold and snow and this year has kind of been a rollercoaster from start to finish.
  14. Nice pics, thanks man. And now I don't care what anyone says, that IS a shitty jump, at least a small one for a competition. If that guy is what 5 foot tall in a grab that makes the jump about 25 feet high? Even if he is 6 does it make the landing 30? 40 tops? Not exactly a big sweet spot.
  15. It looks a lot better in these shots than the ones posted up from the first day, the walls are smooth, and its fairly straight. It is short but I've always said I'd rather fewer hits on a better pipe than more on crappy long one. It looks a little narrow but it is hard to tell with the wall height, I dunno. Narrow is fine if you pro (actually a little preferable I think) but it is harder, you have less time between walls. I always find that is the thing that screws me up in a pipe, you land a trick and then you are heading for the new wall and starting the transition already, a wider pipe is slower but you can setup better which is good if you are trying to learn. Looks good though, if it looks good next weekend I might come up and visit I need to see how far the drive is from delaware, it might be a bit too much for a day trip.
  16. Yea I haven't seen any pics/videos of the slopestyle course, aside from PASR I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else
  17. Yea and take note, every weekend is a three day weekend at Mountain Creek fridays are the same price as Sunday wtf?
  18. Who is the guy in red who stole my jacket? Bastard Nice pictures overall
  19. $50? Its like $65. Maybe a ski shop will (I know High Country Sports does) but I don't know how deep the discount. Mountain Creek doesn't do discounts for anything as far as I can tell. They don't even have a college day or anything which is pretty standard
  20. The thing that clued me in before I saw who they rode for was interviews with both, they talk completely differently. Ironically I ride a Burton Jeremy Jones board right now.
  21. Yes actually it is. Specifically Ross Powers's heelside wall opening hit signature methods, my favorite trick of all time. I got goose bumps watching him in the X Games and the Grand Prix 5-6 years ago when I was first starting. That inspired me to really push myself in the park, when he gets up there and just lays it out it is about the closest thing to flying a person can do. Id say the three biggest influences on how I ride are ross powers with his go big over go tech, jeremy jones (not the one who rides for burton) for his free riding focus, and jussi okansen for his butters. These are the only crappy pictures I can find of him doing it but I'm sure there are more I'm suprised so few people get the connection
  22. Agree, its 80mi to JFBB from my house, 180+ from school and going up your stoked to get up there but the ride home is brutal, some times I have to pull over and nap because I get really tired and I'm usually driving home alone.
  23. I'll be there, red jacket, grey pants, white helmet, brown board, name is Kevin. I'm going up with my school's adventure club and a bunch of never skied noobies but I will either be on east mountain or I will be at Boulder depending on conditions. Should be up around 9:30~10.
  24. Well that video kind of got me stoked but he never skied straight from the top to bottom without making turns in a downhill tuck so therefore I was not impressed with his skiing ability, obviously spins over 50 foot jumps are easy
  25. Does the course look like this? I'm just saying, last time I was at a Chevy pro/am event, thats what it looked like. So far the only pictures I've seen out of Sno where the pictures of the pipe Ski took on the first day that had the tiller oscillations on the wall
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