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I tore my ACL last season, and though my knee has recovered well, I want to lower my DIN on my bad knee's ski while leaving my other ski at its normal DIN. This would mean that one ski has a higher DIN than the other. Has anyone else done this or know of any problems? My ski shop advised...

Usually tweaked knees like this go away within a week or two. If not, then you might have hurt your meniscus or a ligament, but if you're walking and skiing on it then I doubt it. Just go light on the aggressive sports for a while and ice it.

Sterbenz is one of the nicest guys ever. A few years back I was walking around in Whistler village with a 4frnt tee and he introduced himself out of the blue and we chatted a bit.

There's no real trick to it other than practice. you are essentially just leaning the direction that you want to go, and then move the wheel underneath yourself so you don't fall. ski poles seems like a good idea though, never thought of that.

yeah, i realize there are other ways to do it but I'd rather not clutter my firefox bookmarks with a lot from NS. If i'm the only one that think this would be a good idea then it's not worth it, just thought other people might like it too.

You're talking about on skis right, not flatland? Think about it: the vert of the jump is tilted at an angle. So if you pop perpendicular to the tranny, then you will land backseat on the landing, which is sloped downward. So think about actually popping forward (like the guy above me said)...

Can NS implement a feature where users can bookmark a thread to save for reference? Sometimes search isn't good enough to find a thread that you read a long time ago. I've noticed that some people just comment in them so they are saved to My Threads, but this sort of pollutes the message board...

never saw it, but i remember the year after they released Los Alamos which had similar style. Old ski movies are the shit. remember nick mercon and that fucking goat? chompers or something

This is good advice. I also think it helps to practice spinning down small sets of stairs when you get comfortable (like 3 or 4 steps). It kind of simulates going off a jump a little better.

Good, but I could not handle the amount of slow-motion in that vid.

I do it, but purely for functionality, and only when I'm hiking. When I'm hiking rails and constantly clicking in and out of my boots, it's really annoying to keep pulling your pants out of the way to click in your bindings. I don't tuck them in, just roll up the cuffs. don't really care how it...

Yeah, lincoln should be fine for a first invert. if you screw up, it's likely that you'll land on your side, which doesn't hurt that badly. also, you can keep looking forward the whole time which might make you more comfortable than a backflip where you have to lose the landing. Someone said...

only functionally. like if you get caught on shit and can't ski then it's too baggy.

As long as people (kanye i'm talking to you) lay off the autotune i don't care. It was cool for like 5 minutes.

He's the next Jay-Z (click for animation).