best ski video ive seen in a long time

http://unofficialnetworks.com/gnar/

tore my ac ligament yesterday doing a switch backside 720 (humblebrag) at northstar.

bye bye season

Can't believe i've never found this thread before. Here in Steamboat we closed on April 10th, but we still have tons of snow. So I decided to build a split board and took it up for the first time today after we got about 10 inches last night. I need to work on my climbing technique a bit and get back into shape after doing nothing for the 2 weeks since the mountain closed, but damn this should be fun. And it looks like we'll have a good base for quite a while, unless it really warms up out of nowhere.

I will highly recommend the Voile Split Board kit if anyone is interested in getting started with splitboarding. I'm not great with any kind of carpentry or mechanical stuff and I got a pretty damn good result on my first try. Used an old Nitro Pantera I still had laying around and it still floats as nicely as I remember.

Yea, I'm getting a Voile split board for next season. Looking forward to not carrying my snowboard and leaving the snow shoes at home!

Season is over for me now and it has been far beyond any expectations I had. So many sick powder days, amazing backcountry runs and no injuries! Hopefully I can take it even further next season. GG

Just finished my season over here in Europe, managed a month over Christmas and new year, another 3.5 weeks finished on Saturday. Back to race training and freestyle on dry ski slopes. Hopefully my Euro Test next year!

Nice video Mike. One thing is that when you and your friend are doing your spins, a lot of the time you're coming off the lip of the jump headed in a direction that is not straight. This video has some quality info on setting up your spins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT4rPoO5mRM

I hope I don't come off douchey or preachy. Your park skills are much better than mine. I'm still learning 3s, which is why I know of that video. Just wanted to spread the wealth.

There is nothing wrong with their spinning. Its pretty much impossible to spin higher than a 3 going perfectly straight off the takeoff.

Watch the spin at 0:35 again and tell me it looks safe. He could have easily gone off the jump straight if he started his toe turn a bit later and hit the same spin.

That was a BS 9, no one does these tricks perfectly straight off the takeoff. Not to mention he had just hit the jump right before it, giving him less time to set up. Please show me a clip of someone doing straight takeoff 900.

No need to be so defensive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itROwT933Cc

lol at choosing a clip from that angle to try and prove your point, and then being able to clearly see that he leaves the lip at the middle of the jump and lands ~10 feet to the left of that point.

You're not coming off "douchey or preachy" as you were worried about, you're just coming off as wrong.

Best clip I could find (not many 900s on youtube apparently), and it looks like he's coming off fairly straight.

What? Do you not acknowledge that he lands about 10 feet to the left of where he left the lip? Unless there was a mean gust of wind, he definitely left at decent angle. AND he's riding switch, so he'll be trying to come off straighter than he would riding regular to minimize the chance of catching an edge.

I was considering 10ft fairly straight. Regardless of the video clip, I don't understand how people think you can not possibly go straight off the jump. If you approach it straight then go into your turn to help your spin, you'll fly way off to the side. If you approach the jump not coming in straight (like in the original video I posted) your set up turn can send you off the lip straight.

This is all I'm talking about. Assume the rectangle is the jump with the top edge being the lip of the jump. In the first case the guy approaches the jump straight, initiates a turn to help his spin, and leaves the jump at an angle. In the second case the guy approaches on an angle such that his turn ends up giving him a straight take off.

There's no reason the first method would allow him to spin more than the second.

That clip you posted doesn't really count since he is spinning frontside off his toes. In your diagram you just can't get enough torque to spin a 9 if you take the line on the right. The proper line would be to take the medium of the two.

This.
Prip, you need to understand that the tips you're getting in terms of learning to do one rotation are basically disregarded when it comes to the tricks we're talking about. Yes, the fundamentals come into play, but that's such a basic level that it's not even worth talking about. You need to realize that when you're learning to do a 360, you are just beginning to learn how your body's aerodynamics work in terms of rotation. When you get to doing two full rotations or more, you're figuring out to get every last ounce of aerodynamic efficiency your body has to offer.

How old are you by the way?

this is one aspect of snow sports that i will never understand. watching sean white's videos and how he learned the trick in the link posted above was crazy too.

Just as an fyi, the video features 5s and 7s, not just 3s. Perhaps it truly is different for 9s, I don't see a point in arguing it any further regardless. I also don't see what my age has to do with anything.

It's real hard to go perfect straight off the lip for anything more than a three on a jump less than like 40 feet long. You can get away with going off at an angle if you don't prespin. You'll catch an edge if you prespin, but not if you're going off at a slight angle - as long as your edge is set you'll be fine. While it's ideal to go off straight as in your second illustration, it's really hard in practice to do that when you need to torque/throw really hard to get so many rotations around. A little drift is acceptable, the problem is when you drift more than like ten feet. That's bad, cause not only does it look sketchy but you lose distance and are more prone to knuckling.



As an aside, I can't take one thing that those Snowboard Addiction people take seriously because one of them flew off the handle at me one day over absolutely nothing. Apparently I got in the way of their filming or something. More like snowboard attitude if you ask me.

This makes me want to work at starbucks in tahoe and snowboard october to april.

sick video.

Red bull cubed pipe - pretty epic.

http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satelli...21243023948591

I'm an advanced skiier, thinking of taking a trip to Whistler this December. Kind of a longshot, but wondering if anyone else was down. I'd like to not totally do this by myself, but I will. My regular snowfriends don't want to or can't go.

PM me

i bought this bad boy for skiing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-P14...eature=related

350 well spent. got it today and it is incredible. can't wait to use it. i got the black w/ red zippers. insanely nice jacket.