First days are always a good time. Soft fun snow at Killington on Sunday. Grab your 100 Day Tracker FOR FREE for your iPhone at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/100-day-tracker/id399597092?mt=8
Forester and I have been grinding out late nights on the new catalog. Here are some pics from this evenings office shred session.
A perfect office grasser.... is that a duck face?
my stock office melon
Joe almost ate shit on this tailblock
Forester has years of experience with shop showroom shred and has transitioned into office shred nicely.
not a season ender, just stings a little
Let me start out by saying, I don’t really like Woody Allen movies. What I hate more though, are people who respond to a statement like this with a faux-shock “oh…” all condescending-like, as if they understand his smart humor and I don’t.
Anyways, I Stumbled on this quote of his and for me it really relates to snowboarding. I’m no amazing snowboarder and don’t claim to be, but anyone who’s ridden with me can attest to the fact that I fall… a lot. If I haven’t taken a good fall for awhile, I feel lazy, like I’m not trying anything new. Stoked the season’s almost here and it’s time to get sore again.
There are a few other riders in this clip (Palmer, Temple, M. Goodman), but Andy Hetzel lays down some of the classic stuff, including the ender with the famous railroad gap. And if Hetzel didn’t invent the nollie frontflip that you see in your local park everday now, he set the standard by doing a ton of them in the mid-90s when no one else was doing them.
The powder explorer plugged in next to the mini.
It’s hard to over-state the importance of Mike Ranquet’s riding in snowboarding. Early on, he probably pushed switch tricks harder than anyone. And he pretty much invented buttering. Check this clip from 1994.
This clip from the 1992 King of the Hill in FLF’s Riders on the Storm features a pantheon of early-AK gods: Salasnek, Klassen, Tex, Burt, Graham and Farmer. Salasnek and Graham laying the foundation of the backcountry bs180, Klassen (who also owns Wave Rave shop in Mammoth) hucking double backflips on an alpine board, Burt looking as smooth as ever, and Farmer and Tex just going big.
Of all the film crews, Standard ruled Alaska during the early days at the Tsaina and through the 90s. Some super classic shots in this clip from Goodwill, Salasnek, Rippey and Terje.
Whitey’s 1994 classic film that documented the glam-free, raw, non-contest side of mid-90s snowboarding. All those young progressive riders who said, “who gives a shit about halfpipes?” Stevie Alters, Gabe Crane, Kevin Young and Jay Isaacs.
I think I’m coming down with a cold. My nose has been running like a faucet, and I’m filling trash cans with tissues at home. Anyways, this led me to think about a great way to help reduce waste, that’s also an important part of snowboarding. The “snot rocket”.
Also known as the “farmer blow”, “power snot”, and I’m sure many other awesome names I’m not aware of. For those of you who don’t know, or pretend not to know acting as if you’re too fancy, or too civilized for such a maneuver… (douche bag), the snot rocket is when you either A) plug up one nostril and blow so the snot flies freely from the opposite nostril, or B) close a nostril by pushing a thumb against it, and blow. Personally, I’m a plugger… but as far as I know, there’s no specific benefit with this technique.
There’s also a legend of the “Look-Ma blow”. Dubbed the Look-Ma because it requires no hands. Just tilt your head back, close your mouth, and blow out of both nostrils. The only times I can see this being appropriate, is if you have no hands, or have pretty much given up all self respect, but to each his own. I’ve also included with this post a chart, or outline where it is and is not appropriate to power snot.
