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     Bill0351 |
Trying snowboarding for the first time is one of my goals this winter. My girlfriend's nephews are competing at the amateur level in the Tahoe area. We were going to try to get out there for some lessons from them this winter. Plus, I haven't been in Northern California since I was at at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center. It's a beautiful part of the country. Snowboarding looks like one of items on the never-ending list of "things you have to do before you die." | ||
| Tramp |
Don't discount taking lessons at a hill in your state. I know of no other activity as analogous to sport bike riding as Alpine snowboarding is. Bill- Where in Tahoe are they competing? I trained/raced there in 90-91 and competed in the Cal Sates, there has always been an excellent competitive atmosphere there. By the way, you have the coolest profile pic I've seen on this site. | ||
| Bill0351 |
I can ask my girlfriend where they do their thing. I know there is a "ski bus" that leaves from their neighborhood after school and weekend mornings. It brings them back home after dark. That sounds like a really cool way to grow up. Their dad got them interested in it and they have been doing it since they were little kids. The oldest is 13 now, I'm not sure how old the youngest is. One of them is always in a cast or a sling, but they keep going after it harder and harder every year. I'm glad you like the pic. It was taken at Camp Navistar in Kuwait right before crossing the border into Iraq for a convoy escort mission. That's "Big Truck" in the background (named after the Coalchamber song). | ||
| Teddagreek |
Snowboarding comes pretty easy if you were ever into board sports, Skating,Surfing,wakeboarding... Careful of Ski maps what might be Easy for level for skiing may not be that great for snowboarding.. Good Luck you'll love it or hate it like my wife  | ||
| Tramp |
If they live in the bay area, or up around Sacto, they likely ride the north shore- If they're in Nevada, or pints south (Angels Camp, etc.) they likely ride the south shore. I ask because I have friends in management at some of these resorts, and I'm never ashamed to ask for a favour for service personnel. | ||
| Tramp |
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| Hdbobwithabuell |
What's the BS hijacking of this thread about? No one gives a shit to see snowboarding pictures in a thread titled "So you think riots arent likely to happen if obama loses? " | ||
| Court |
Tramp: Do you need a tank bag? | ||
| Gschuette |
SKI SKI SKI!!!!!!!!!! It is so much better than boarding. It is like riding a motorcycle well compared to driving a car well. It takes loads of skill to make smooth turns through bumpy terrain with your feet close together on skis. Anyone can look good in a short time on a snowboard. Snowboarding is not hard to learn. Plus on skis you get one or two more runs a day because you don't waste all that time taking the back boot out at the bottom and putting it back in at the top of a run. Threadjacks in 08! Yeah! | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
Gschuette, I agree that it probably takes a little bit longer to be a passable skier than a passable snowboarder, but to excel at either sport takes an equal amount of talent, skill, and determination. That being said, I would have probably been disowned had I strapped a snowboard to my feet. I come from a long line of Alps dwelling ski purists. | ||
| Dbird29 |
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| Sticks |
It's thought that the slopes are where the vast majority of the riots will occur. | ||
| Tramp |
Anyone who thinks that good skiing entails keeping their feet close together hasn't gotten out much since the '70s. Anyone who says these things, then, is unlikely to have snowboarded much, either. I've competed, taught and race coached both, and continue to, most Winters. I enjoy both sports highly, and prefer components of each to those of the other. Executing clean, carved turns on a board takes more skill than doing the same on skis, incidentally, but this is a rare phenomenon on the intermediate runs of North America. (Message edited by tramp on November 02, 2008) | ||
| Tramp |
..and, incidentally, note that I allude to alpine 'boarding, wherein the boot-binding interface is as quick as that of skis. (Message edited by tramp on November 03, 2008) | ||
| Iamike |
I had been skiing for 40 years when I tried snowboarding. I took a youth group up to an area that had a package deal that was the same price even if you had your own equipment. I'd never tried boarding so I said "What the hell?" I did pretty good for awhile until I would just swap ends, never did figure out the balanace on the darn thing. After a couple of pretty good crashes the instructor told me that maybe I'd better stop before I hurt myself. Since I'd already gone through that learning curve on the skis many years before I decided he was right. What were we talking about? I've been gone for awhile. | ||
| Tramp |
Most snot-nosed wannabe-gangster little white poser 'boarders simply stop trying to improve their riding early on- upper level alpine boarding takes more skill to execute than does skiing (Message edited by tramp on November 03, 2008) | ||
| Tramp |
Iamike- we were talking about Winter sports to improve the motorcycle riding skills of 2-3 season riders who mothball the scoot for the Winter | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Come live in France, good food, good weather, good snow (alps & pyrenees), fantastic roads (had 6 hrs out on the TT today), & presidential campaigns don't drag on forever. Also we don't have rioting, well alright a bit, but it's civilised rioting, honest, no I mean it, protesting is a national pastime here, you get used to it, you just have to work out who's turn it is to be on the streets.  | ||
| Tramp |
France has THE most challenging piste and the greatest "extreme" skiers in the world. I love all of L'Espace Killy, Les Arcs, et al. I also really like the French people, and have always been treated well, there. | ||
| Glitch |
•••• snow, and all that goes with it, I'd rather ride! This is yesterday.  Me and Charlie Photo by Matt | ||
| Bikertrash05 |
Skis? Boards? Nope, this is how I do snow.  | ||
| Iamike |
Glitch- Those of us in the northern climes have to do something during the winter. I think we also enjoy the summer more when it is here. Cross training is probably the advantage for motorcycling. The other day I was riding my ST1300 with the wife on back when I hit something slick on a mild curve. I did a dirt-bike style slide and pulled it out. I never did let on to her how close we were to a crash but it sure woke me up! If I didn't have dirt-bike experience I'm sure we would have gone down. After an 18hr. 850mi. ride in Sept. the other physical training sure helped too. We were touring around and were 100mi. east of Cincinatti and decided not to find out how hurricane Ike's wrath may affect us. It would have been shorter and quicker if we went straight home but we were still trying to find some twisty roads on the way back. | ||
| Glitch |
Those of us in the northern climes have to do something during the winter. Yeah I know, that's why I love the South. I've lived in the mountains where winter is winter. That's one reason I live where I do. Another from yesterday.  | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Glitch, where I live I can ride near all year round, & the snow is no more than half a day away. Problem in France at the moment is flooding down south, doesn't affect me, I live in the west, on a hill. http://www.euronews.net/en/article/03/11/2008/stor ms-cause-chaos-in-france-and-spain/ | ||
| Etennuly |
This thread is like a mix of conversations that would happen in a waiting room outside an operating room where somebody was kicked in the head and we are waiting to hear if the patient will live and or have brain damage, with little hope of being normal again. Just a weird hush of non-commital conversation.  | ||
| Tramp |
what's to commit to? Winter;'s coming and riders need to plan their season thusly. How do you spend your Winter? | ||
| Etennuly |
How about a thread titled "How do you spend your winter"? For me I work all winter and I ride all winter(using my bike for work also). | ||
| Court |
Group met yesterday in Hudson Valley to discuss winterizing their cars and the malaise on Wall Street . . .    Tramp . . you still need a tank bag? |
