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  1. jammiefreerider

    Landing switch....

    I guess your trying 180s. You need to pop first, then spin. If you pop and spin at the same time you will take off at the same angle as the kicker therefore when you come round you'll be leaning forward. Its so hard to get your head around this (it took me ages) but think of it like a late 180...
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    Support

    Things are not done right in France, snowboarding is seen as a subsport of skiing. It is absolutely retarded situation. The French are great at revolutions, in fact they are probably the best. The Association Française de Snowboard (AFS), a section of the Fédération Française de Ski (FFS), wants...
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    The storm in Les Deux Alpes

    In case you all haven't seen the video of Mondays storm: http://www.skipass.com/videos/le-jandry-dans-la-tempete-le.html People were stuck in the gondolas for 5 hours before they were rescued. To my knowledge luckily nobody was seriously hurt. Only, tales of puking kids, piss bottles, bruises...
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    A request to level 1, Josh Berman in particular

    How can anyone be a fan of Josh Berman and not love that trailer. There is some amazing stuff in there. It belongs in the trailer for sure. Josh makes beautiful films with some awesome footage. That trailer shows his beautiful artistic skills with the awesome footage that we expect from those...
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    Music Industry Failing

    Why is the music industry still moaning? Does anyone know? Music piracy is slowing down, more people are buying music and the industry falling out of its slump. The reason is, that their numbers still aren’t as large as they were before. The industry bosses have spent millions and millions...
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    Progressive Movie Time

    Almost all the trailers are out now, very belatedly, but the reactions and questions about the films are still the same. There are too few exceptions but ski movies have one mould, which is bent now and again in different ways to make it seem fresh. The problem I have, is that we have a sport...
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    Playing your National Health Service

    I'm injured at the moment with a torn tendon in my finger and torn cartilage in my knee (lateral meniscus). I'm trying to get my Nation Health Service (NHS) to give me the surgery that I need, but being the public service it is, they don't want to put me onto the waiting list for surgery until I...
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    Why the iPone wont be the next iPod

    I agree it's a bit odd to be putting a techy issuse on an NS blog, but (I say) most of us love Apple (laptops/iPods/iTunes etc) because they are the most innovitive, progressive and stylish company outside the snowsports world. This is something we look for in a company, it's the same reason why...
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    Skiing's really taken it beyond what snowboarders can do

    This last year, I have been watching in awe of what skiers are doing. It all started with Charles Gagnier's splits rail slide (I still haven't heard anyone name it yet, anyone know?) at the Tignes Airwaves and the rodeo-to-rail in the L1P LSS trailer. Now at the Jon Olson Invitational, there are...
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    NEW SNOWFLEX RESORT IN TEXAS

    errmmm...snowflex ideally works in temperatures ranging between 2 and 10 degrees C. Anything above 20 degrees the slope gets slow. So I'm hoping theres a very good sprinkler system.
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    2 Alpes Summer camps

    Yeah, its an awesome park. There's tons of kickers, the biggest will be at least 18m (55ft thereabouts). The poor winter didn't affect the snow on the glacier. I havent been there in the summer but I'm going to be there this summer because its one of the best in Europe. There aren't so many...
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    Why a backprotector?

    erm...no actually i usually land on my side. Im still not convinced. In the end theres a chance we could hit any vital part of our body why back protectors so big? When you think of the worst thing that could happen on a rail, you think of landing on your nuts but were not buying a box for...
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    Why a backprotector?

    I actually cant think of a situation where a back protector woud help me in a crash in the park wo I dont know why so many people have them. The people who have them dont really know either, they just seem to like the comfort value of something thats supposed to help. Anyone got any ideas?
  14. jammiefreerider

    Mounting point for cliff drops

    I cant decide where I want to mount my soon-to-be-bought Seths. Last season I was dropping 25footers on centre mounted Fujatives so this year I look to making my life easier with some seths and a better mounting point. What do you recon?
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    D-spin 7

    I find an easier way to think about it: in the pipe its a flare with an extra 180/3/5 . CR does a d-spin at the end of his silver X-Games pipe run back a few years ago. Im sure you know the one I mean.
  16. jammiefreerider

    Invaders

    So the wood in the middle is milled thinner at one point at the bottom and bottom of the ski but does that therefore mean the ski is more likely to break at that point because that is the weakest part of the ski. To cap it off, by making the Butter Zone skiers are encouraged to bend the ski at...
  17. jammiefreerider

    Dryland ski material

    I ride on snowflex in england. Its pretty good with 3inches of padding so it doesnt hurt when you crash. Ive not riden on perma snow but people say it needs more work. Go to snowflex.com for info. Its pretty expensive tho.
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    Name of rail slide?

    Is there a name for skiers doing (what snowboaders call) a lipslide? Thats where if you hitting a street rail from the right side, you put your tails over the rail and slide facing to the right.
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    Snow flex

    if there any snowflex slopes anywhere in the country you are better off asking to buy a second hand roll off them. Snowflex/PermaSnow are both pretty expensive new - around £100 per square metre. In the UK, Ive been using 2 half lengths (1.5-2m) of snowflex to hit street rails and thats only...
  20. jammiefreerider

    Rodeos bios and so much more!!!

    Rodeo is an inverted flat spin with your feet going forward. Misty is like a lincon whereby you turn 90 before your hips get above your head.
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