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Entertainment & Artistry => Sports/Outdoors & Manpoon => Topic started by: Steve on November 01, 2006, 02:25:53 PM
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Almost here, in NJ anyway. Anyone else here board? Best time of the year =]
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I've skied for a long time, but I've been snowboarding the last couple years. I'll hopefully get out a couple times this year (there's not really any great hills in Ontario though). Hopefully when I go home for x-mas I can get out to the rockies.
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I've been skiing a handful of times in my life, but never got a chance to try snowboarding. I wanna give it a shot someday, but I'll have at travel somewhere... there's no good hills in Ohio.
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Steve, where do you go to board (or do you take trips?) I spent some time at Mountain Creek last year. I just don't like driving far. :(
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Usually we only ever make it up to Blue mountain (gay). This year my friend Tony's dad bought a hunting cabin in north PA in the middle of the mountains. Going off the pictures he took last weekend up there we should get some really good free-riding done this year, for free =]
I was hoping to make it to Whistler this year but don't know if the funding will line up. I'm selling my laptop since my board and gear was stolen last feb and i need to replace it.
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Ive never been snowboarding, have only been skiing once in my life. I really would like to try it out, but I know the first time I go all I will be doing is picking myself up.. :(
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its fun to fall though lol. I enjoyed learning because while it was challenging i always felt it was easier than skiing, and i still do. Plus chicks dig boarders haha
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It's a toss up for me... I like skiing because I can go anywhere on the mountain, on/off trail. Snowboarding is a lot of fun but I still need to avoid most of the diamond runs, if I bought a board I might get enough time in to fix that, but I'll likely only get out two or three times a year.
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I used to love skiing as a kid, sadly with my knees the way they are I can no longer do it.
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I used to love skiing as a kid, sadly with my knees the way they are I can no longer do it.
i've had two operations on my left knee, as well as a crack in the knee cap that cant be fixed. I have lost 75% of the cartalidge in my right knee, and my right ankle has been fused together. I still freestyle board, skate, race quads, etc. Hell my dad has broken both legs twice, has 4 fused disks in his back, a fractured shoulder, and countless other minor injuries, hes just as active.
Push through the pain man, its worth it.
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When the tendons in the knee are not strong enough to keep the knee cap in place under that amount of stress, no amount of pushing through the pain is going to do crap. I tried boarding once as a teen but didn't enjoy it as much as skiing.
Hopefully in the future after I have surgery done on the knees I'll be able to pick it back up. But thats years, if ever, away.
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my friend had something simillar to that when he had his ACL replaced. They ended up doing orthoscopic and his recovery was nothing short of amazing. Hopefully you get it fixed while you are still young man. I hate surgery but i would hate the injury more =]
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Just as a testiment to previous statements, i have been boarding this year with the two tears in my miniscus :) Heres some pics of the new board!!! I need a new stomp pad, tho, this one sucks. Its got almost no use, but its dirty as all hell.
(http://www.tcempire.net/hyperat/snowboard/IMG_1022.JPG)
Rest are links, keep clutter down:
http://www.tcempire.net/hyperat/snowboard/IMG_1023.JPG
http://www.tcempire.net/hyperat/snowboard/IMG_1024.JPG
http://www.tcempire.net/hyperat/snowboard/IMG_1025.JPG
http://www.tcempire.net/hyperat/snowboard/IMG_1026.JPG
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Pretty. I was a little upset that it was so warm in december and halfway through January in NJ and then ridiculously cold here in Pittsburgh. I have yet to go snowboarding so far...I left my boots at home!! :(
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yea i went last sat (week ago), and im going a week from today (sunday) :)
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if anyone knows someone looking for a nice setup, im selling this one. Decided im going to rent from now on, i only ended up going once and its easier to just rent anyway.