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Wow, I'm so sorry guys, it sucks when the sport that we love leads to pain like this

I definitely disagree. For a frontside spin, come up the ramp on your heelside edge, just before you leave the lip kind of give it the initiating a turn feel but you are going to leave the ramp basically straight, just turn your shoulders a bit and turn you head around, your body will follow. Pop hard, clear the knuckle, repeat. Give it a lot of tries and you will get it. Learn them in the order of Backside 180, Frontside 180, and then Frontside 360. For the backside 1 you are practicing landing switch, but if you get stuck 1/2 way you are going to land ass->shoulders, where as for the frontside 180 if you get stuck halfway you will land on are you arms->face which could hurt you more easily. After you learn the backside 180 you will find out they're real easy, so frontside 180s are a breeze you don't have to worry about landing on your face anymore. Then frontside 360s because when you get to 270, again your ass is down the hill so you fall ass->shoulders instead of hands->face. You will fall, start on a 5-6 foot jump on a soft day, just hike it. I learned front 360s last week, I went from never trying them to landing them in 2 hours. I haven't really stepped them up beyond a 10 foot jump yet though.

That def wouldn't work. I'm all for stockpiling snow but its a lot easier to push snow downhill then dig it out and carry it around. Just pile some more up on the top of the hill and push it down, it would be more efficient.

I think the JF park, freedom and boulder are better than they where at this time last year, although I haven't seen the rebuild of merry widow so no comment on that. We had better conditions for it though, but I still have been having a blast.

Not to mention is is probably cheaper to come here than to go to Dubai

I think the cab is easy to improve. Some people will never like standing up, too bad, it won't change. But if they put some more dirt on top of the mountain and graded it so that you could click in right there and ski from 50 feet from the lift instead of 300 feet, it would be a lot better. The lift is 30 feet higher than the top of horizon, make it skiable.

I agree with all of that, I don't think either of your kids are going to end up in jail, I'm just saying, its kind of stupid to say his son is going to be a burn out in jail just because he is an athlete instead of a nerd. I think the kids who do nothing are the ones who end up in jail, When I grew up, I lived near the ocean. Everyday in the summer the rich kids would go out and race their sailboats. I was so damn jealous, and my parents wouldn't buy me one. So when I was 15 I worked at mcdonalds for 5.25 an hour, bought myself a god damn boat for $500. THe boat was from 1980, and the other kids's boats where all 2-4 years old, bought by their parents. We would go to practice and they would bitch, complain, and not work. By the end of the summer I was top 5 in our team of 40. That was about 5 years ago. Now we have moved into the adult realm, I'm #3, I will never beat the two guys above me, they are naturals I came way too late to the party. The moral of the story, 10 years of their parents pushing them didn't do crap, when I showed up working my ass off I caught up to their 10 years of practice in 1. I wanted it, they didn't. I take the same approach to snowboarding, persistance is everything. If my parents pushed me I wouldn't get anywhere, they haven't seen me snowboard in 4 or 5 years, and have never really gone to see me sail. They haven't looked at my grades in years either. Yet I'm known to be the best in my school at snowboarding, the youngest sailor going to New England champs, and I (used to) excel at school, for me its not about anything my parents do or don't do. BUT when I was 12, they pushed me like crazy, just like Papasteeze. Its like teaching your kid to ride a bike, you hold it for a while, but eventually you let go.They did beginning of high school, and now I'm in a much better place for it. They gave me the opportunity and I took them just like your saying, but at some age the parents DO have to push or you just end quitting everything. My parents stopped pushing me to play instruments, and when I got to high school and tried to learn guitar again and I couldn't remember shit, I was so disappointed. So you have to find the time to push and the time to let go, its a balancing act but any kid who has their shit together - you can usually look back to when their parents found the balance just right.

I'm down, I was going to go for the opening day one, but then they never opened. I have a season pass there, I've gotten a lot of days in there this year I just don't write about it here doesn't seem like anyone reads it.

Hes no different than all the parents of kids in soccer, football, baseball, and basketball. Have you seen that shit lately? This is tame. I don't like it but if you are going to treat skiing as a sport this is what happens.For me, I'm not interested in doing it as a sport, except a little racing, mostly just so I can get out on a race course and push myself. I won't be doing a bunch of comps and trying for sponsors, it is just something I do for fun. Once you start treating it like a sport, you get parents who push their kids to do it. If you look at all great prodigies, it comes from their parents pushing them at an early age in some way or another. You think Shaun White wasn't pushed by his parents to be a good snowboarder? Tiger Woods? The Manning brothers? All the great muscians of all time? Hell my parents dragged my ass skiing when I was 4, I had no idea of what skiing was, if I had been a natural they probably would be pushing me to go pro. Its what parents do, so if the parents have the idea that skiing is a sport, this is what you end up with. Without overzealous parents like papasteeze there are no shaun whites and tiger woods and peyton mannings in this world. So you may not like it, but thats what it takes. Eliminate all the pro riders and skiers, and he wouldn't be here, because there would be no competition in it, it would just be a hobby. As soon as you get competition, and it becomes mainstream enough, parents start pushing their kids to do it. I've seen much worse examples, at least his son has real skill at it. And honestly if I had to bet on whose kids are going to end up in jail, I wouldn't bet on Papasteezes. Someone around here has anger issues, and someone around here just prods the fire. I'm going to bet the one who starts fights in parking lots is the one whose kids have a wrong impression on how to solve the problems in this world, but I guess I can't talk because I don't have kids either.

1pm is not early but as a kid a "half day" for us was first chair to 1 oclock. For those of us with long drives, if you can only enjoy skiing for 2 hours what the hell is the point? Sure you can crank out a bunch of laps but if I'm going to go 2 days a week I'm going to do more than 2 hours a day. So I'd rather go somewhere that is going to hold up even if the drive is further (belleayre, sno) or the lifts are slower (jfbb, sno, belleayre), because you enjoy it for more time. I spend enough time fighting crowds of people all week I don't want to on the weekends. When you look back its "Man wasn't that a great day of skiing?" not "man wasn't that a great 20,000 vertical feet of skiing?". I don't really find vertical passed to be a measure of fun or of amount of skiing. Do you multiply the vert by 2 if it is a powder day? Or if it was, why would I ever want to do glades or bumps when I could be ripping corduroy? I prefer enjoying 6-8 hours slowly on the hill instead of just getting a teenage quickie in before the crowds show up. That being said - I can't imagine Blue can come anywhere near as bad as Camelback, which itself is not even an inconvience compared to Mountain Creek. Until you have seen a 25 minute line to get on the gondola at mountain creek mid day on the weekends, don't complain about lines. I've never waited more than 4 or 5 minutes for a lift at camelback.

22 isn't that bad, you get wind that strong once or twice a week in most places, some places on the coast get that everday. The line seems to be about 25 for normal weather, after that the wind starts to get more serious but breaking 25 happens much less often.

Its exposure too, sometimes that can be more valuable than anything else.

I'm no MBA but I feel like they should have sorted the mountain out and then built the village. I've been to Stratton and to Tremblant, the two blueprints for what they want to do to Mountain Creek. Tremblant was awesome, Stratton was ok, but Mountain Creek just doesn't do it. If you go to Tremblant and stay in the village it is one of the coolest experiances ever. Stratton it is more like a mall attached to the ski hill but the area is so yuppie it isn't that suprising. But Mountain Creek? Tremblant - nearly everyone is on vacation for the weekend at the minimum, it is 2 hours from a major city (Montreal) and 10+ hours from down here. People are not driving up for the day. Stratton - same thing, maybe less so, but still the locals are there monday to friday and it is empty, come Saturday it is jammed - those people are not local. They may not be in the village like at Tremblant, but they are still staying in a house somewhere. Mountain Creek - 95% of the people drive to the mountain and home that day. 5% stay over. Those 5% are in all those condos on Granite that coincidently are the last ones to get connected to the other trails each year now that they don't care about selling any more of them. The village is inconvienant at Stratton, but it is brutal at Mountain Creek with route 94 seperating it, 95% of your customers start and end their day slogging around getting pissed off about your crappy parking situation. It doesn't start things off right. The village will only make it worse. At least stratton paves the parking lot.

Where is that quote from?

They made the right decision, even if they lose a few hours here and there, it makes up for it overall compared to the old style guns. When you are running them you are putting out so much more snow that it ends up being a lot more total. It is fewer dollars per cubic yard of snow, so you end up with more snow on the hill for the budget. And when you get the temperatures and you want to open a trail, you can quick. The snow quality is undoubtedly better too. We're talking 2-3 degrees difference, what kind of snow would the other mountains be putting out during that time? Not much since you are using so much air compared to water in conditions where mix guns can run and fan guns can't.

You missed the mark on my motives but its ok because your new. I'm not the typical park rat. My complaint about having 2 race trails is that the race trails are closed for high school kids after school. If it was half high school half nastar I'd be out there using it. But my complaint is after you take away eagle and zero G, there is nothing at all steep or interesting on vernon. They took out everything at South/Bear, so what is left? Devils bit and pipeline on granite? I like them but that lift is slow. I'm a 90% freeriding snowboarder and 10% park riding snowboarder. And don't tell me its 2 out of 46, its 2 out of about 12 ways down the mountain. Maybe less, I don't even know how they get that number but if you count top to bottom there are hardly a dozen ways. I love bumps on a snowboard - but thats because I can do them. You rarely see that down here, most of the kids who try are side slipping through the troughs plowing that shit out its terrible, I see you point but to make good bumps you need lots of snow. Almost every problem at mountain creek comes back to their lack of snowmaking ability, especially quality snowmaking ability. If they where serious about bumps they need fan guns so they could drop a little softer snow on it now and then to keep it fresh. Their snowmaking system puts it out real sugary or real wet and then the bumps just get icy as all hell. Your first rant is halarious you hit a lot of things well. I think the real reason for the Cabriolet is the Diablo bike park in the summer if I'm not mistaken, but agree it sucks. You are going down the mountain for 90 seconds anyway, the walk from the cab to anywhere to strap in is longer than the ride down again.

He's going to reverse look up your number, get your address, and bust through your wall kool-aid man style

I clean it up and post it later. I was thinking of making a few "how to" videos next time I go up, the trick tips you see online SUCK balls. Its a pro rider who is like, yea so you just roll into the 60 foot street style rail, just pop an ollie, and 50-50 the whole thing .... smoooooth. Word now you know how to do 50-50s. I think you have to be closer to the beginner teach to them, I was a beginner not long ago, many of my friends are just at that stage now where they are doing 50-50s, we learned by trial and error because we weren't skateboarders so I can explain it. If it all comes natural to you, you can't explain it. I'm not a natural at this at all for me its 99% persistence and 1% balls, with 0% skill.

Ha the bubble wrap comment made me laugh. I'm probably going to be up we have off at work. I'll know on saturday

Thats definitely not true

Yea when you see those guys riding, it is just not on the normal level. You have to be traveling and practicing and doing comps all season as if you are playing a competitive sport, not something you go out and weekend warrior it up you know? Or even screwing around every day after school, you need to get out there and shred.

we generally private message phone numbers, if you do a google search of your screen name it will land you here and someone could get your phone number.

Have work .... would rather be there.

Thats about the price of a regular private school, if not a bit cheaper. The private school near me (Morristown-Beard) is 27k and its not a boarding school, and you get a worse education than most of the public schools around here. they probably get accepted to colleges at a better rate than us but once they get there we do better.