Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate

We have a guy in our office whose lady friend slept with every member of Motley Crue before she graduated high school… Granted, this was back in the mid eighties and I cannot include all the details I just heard… but it was a good enough story let the Crue have their turn on Rock and Roll Tuesday!

Note that playing drums in leopard print underwear with suspenders will never go out of style.

Also, if you get the chance pick up Nikki Sixx’s book ‘The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band’ its a good read and will make you want to put the song “kickstart my heart” onto your playlist. Keep on rockin!

Yoo

I have decided to put Myself through a Self Control Test…

I am not gonna Drink any Soda or Eat any Candy for the Rest of the Season, if I can do that then im pretty sure I can do everything i put my mind to.

The Longest time with out this stuff has been 2 days in a row for the last 8 or 10 years so its a pretty Big Thing for me hehe

I have been doing this for a little more than a week now and its going great…

Ill keep you updated!

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Hitting soft jumps, Parking Lot BBQ’s, spring events, the list goes on…

One classic New England spring ritual is heading to Tuck’s.  To do Tuck’s right, you keep your eye on the weather and try to grab the first sunny 60 degree day of Spring.

Due to the awesome weather we have been having in March, that happened earlier than ever this year (for me)…probably any day from Tuesday through Saturday would work this week…so where I would normally take that day off and run to New Hampshire, this year I was able to hold out until Saturday, which enabled Justin from Warranty to come along.

I had the wrong setting on my camera so I don’t have many good pics of the terrain… but check the pics on Tuck’s site here

We left Waterbury at 4:45 to reach NH and get a spot in the parking lot…Safe to say we were powered by Red Bull

So I was smart enough to bring a couple cans of Bud up…I was smart enough to hide them in the snow…in the end I wasn’t very smart and stepped on them with my crampons

The below picture has seemed to get a response from people…I think it’s because a lot of the pics don’t do justice to how steep it is there…this clearly demonstrates once you roll over the edge there is no looking back.

Here’s Justin ready to drop…he was testing next year’s Blitz pack…   I love the sky in these pictures…it looks painted

Fortunately we had some more Bud’s hidden back at the truck…Here’s Justin handling some hard earned rest

Definitely a great day all around.

If you want to go, personally I recommend going with someone who has gone before. Additionally you need a mindset that recognizes the dangers of the mountain environment. I saw about five things yesterday that people didn’t get hurt solely due to dumb luck.

Most importantly, read the updates on the tuckerman.org and also read the morning postings on the avalanche board. It is your responsibility to make sure you understand every word; they have plenty of rangers and ski patrollers around as well to ask.

Now that I’ve gotten through that all, I do recommend that you go. It is an unforgettable experience that will challenge you in a variety of ways and it will keep you coming back for more…

My Equipment: Design 58, 2011 United Bindings, 2011 Libertine Pureflex, Insurgent Backpack, Cordova Jacket & Pants , Hoss Gloves (going down) Emblem Gloves (going up)

Here’s a few photos from our trip in Japan.

This is how the menus in the restaurants looks like. It gets confusing.

So you sometimes end up with something like that. This is whale.

The crew

This is a dry turtle. They grind it and they eat the powder with water…

The turtle…

beers

Will Lav

After the worst drive of all times ( exploded tyre in the first hour (2 hours delay for fixing it), snow chaos on the roads in Germany and Austria (another 1-2 hours delay), ending up at a mountain pass between Italy and France that was closed (4 hour detour drive, at that point it was past midnight), getting 2 speeding tickets in the mont blanc tunnel (30 kmh too fast on the Italian side/210€ fine an 33kmh too fast on the French side/90€ fine; the tunnel itself was 35€ – i paid 335€ to go through a fucking 10 kilometer tunnel) , getting to Tignes at 4am after 18 hours in the car!!!) i made it to Tignes for the first Euro X Games ever.

The course is somewhat crazy, 6 jumps in one run and 2 speedy jibs. The first day there were still some true gaps in there, but somehow they changed that within one night completely – they made everything poppier, filled the gaps in and made step downs instead. Then the weather was shit and practice was pretty sketchy today. Lots of people got hurt.  I´m not sure if its a smart idea to ride this course after just coming back from a knee injury. I guess i will just go with my feeling and be sponteanous when it comes to qualifiers.

Jump number 4 and 5, a speedy rainbow thing and jump number 6. Actually you can even ride the take off next to the rainbow jib as another jump, then you got 7 jumps in one run. Probably the most jumps in a contest run ever. crazy shit!

…when you scored that PBR beanie…

We have a ton of snow here in VT and the nice weather doesn’t want to quit…

Don’t get caught in a NIMBY mindset…you may have grass in your back yard but winter’s been happening… and now for the best tim eof the year: spring, with parking lot BBQ’s to match sunny park laps.

With Spring days at Tucks in mind, I hoped that the sun would bake the Rock Garden so I headed up…

Anyways, what I mean is: get out there the snowboarding is as good as you can ask for here in the East.

EB just posted this commercial they had on TV 10 years ago on their blog. Good friend, Rome team manager, filmer, movie maker divulged to me with unspoken trust I wouldn’t spread it around that he was the man in the video at about 17 seconds…well, that’ll teach him to trust me I guess.

Hell Yeah Cavan…

Yep, this weeks selection for Rock and Roll Tuesday is Ice Cube. I know his music is not classified as Rock and Roll, but his attitude sure as hell screams Rock and Roll! If you have to deal with the cops this week (like I had to today), blast some Ice Cube to get a smile back on your face.

Ice Cube – Check Yo Self
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No video but here is Ice Cube’s classic diss of Easy E (and the rest of NWA) for your enjoyment.

Rock and Roll!

Conditions are about as good as they get in Vermont right now. So there was pretty much no question that I was headed to the mountain this morning.

I started getting my gear on around 6 am to head to the mountain. A benefit to living in Waterbury is that you are close to the mountain, so most of us will get fully kitted out at home: boots and all.   Dr. Fung has been having me test his latest creation: The PureFlex Libertine.

The snow we are getting is pretty wet and heavy and has really been wrecking havoc in the towns.    So of course I lose power right before I need to put my boots on.

I can attest the Pureflex boots passed the test and were simple to put on in the dark.  Nothing could stop me from getting to the mountain today.

If you haven’t seen the video on how the boots work, check it out…

(As Ian describes in his piece the orange lace goes in to the internal cuff so it is tightening the internal ankle cuff, as well)

Rock and Roll Tuesday has been on haitus for a while but hopefully today’s selection makes up for it! First off, big ups to fellow shred Scotty Lago for keeping it real after winning the bronze, rock and roll Scotty! Anyway, I’ve been reading the book ‘Hammer of the Gods’ so I dusted off a bunch of my old Zeppelin albums and have been diggin on them alot more than usual lately.. Enjoy these two classics from one of the greatest bands of all time!

I don’t think I’ve ever heard this song performed by Zeppelin before, and I feel like we’ve all heard everything they’ve done at least 5 times… but check this out live performance from Australia in 1972..

Keep on rockin my fellow shredders…