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To go to the US Open you have to pay right? Well then you BELONG to an organization. The - "I just paid to enter the Open and filled out all the forms." organization, consider yourself a MEMBER of that group. This event IS open period. Anyone can enter it, that is what Open means. You try...

No, just buying a ussa membership does not mean you can be subjected to testing. It also doesn't even mean that ussa judging formats will be used. It's just one method for an organizing body to secure insurance. Events do this type of thing all the time. The WSI used to get sanctioned by the...

^^ Hey, It's cool man, of course many snowboarders are huckers, so are many skiers. Both sides have their style guys and their huck guys. I was simply trying to shed some light on the standard maneuver thing in snowboarding, as it gets a little misunderstood. You seemed to think that it was...

A skier saying that snowboarders look like rollerbladers. Irony to the max.... I'm not going to touch that one, but just for pure entertainment sake, you should post that in a snowboard forum somewhere, I'd love to see the shit-storm that would stir up.

No, but style in general is an integral part of surfing. The point is, the standard maneuver that snowboarders always do, means that at least one portion of their run will judged purely on style, without technical difficulty coming into the equation.

Duh, maybe because that membership is OPEN for anybody to buy? Therefore ANYONE can enter the event, therefore it's an Open. How about if they had just included it into the registration and simply called it all "entry fee" instead? Every OPEN event still has an entry fee. Wake up.

Just so you know, it's not just a straight air, it's a standard maneuver (which means a trick that rotates less than 360). It includes straight air, alley-oop, air to fakie. And that's not just a FIS rule, that's an accepted part of snowboard judging at any event. They do the same thing at...

Well, the website says : "registration to the North American Open will start on December 26, visit www.openfreeski.com to register. You can get a year long USSA freestyle membership for $60 and can download membership forms at the Opens Freeski website"

You guys are hilarious. What's a USSA membership? - 60 bucks, and that'll be good for a year so it will cover you for all three events. So really it's 20 bucks per event that covers the insurance. Any event will have a portion of the registration cover things like their insurance. Just...

Wow, you really dull that aggressively? Can you hold an edge at all with the skis after doing that to them? Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I can't imagine trying to actually ski on something that dull. I've never dulled edges on my park skis (other than detuning the tip and...

Sometimes, if nothing else works, you have to fight fire with fire. Hit them with an even nastier odor and maybe the two offending smells will cancel each other out. Try pissing in them.

So, how's the insecurity working out for you?

Snowboaders do pipe runs with 3 different 1080's so they're better! wait.... Skiers go bigger in the pipe so they're better! hang on... Brad Martin grabbed a 1260 at the Breck Grand Prix, so snowboardings better! oh, but.... Matt Hayward grabbed his 12s last year so skiing's better! how...

You forgot to put the green canoe-shaped box on your list....

That's a little bit off.... Bruce Robinson is the Chief Operating Officer of the CFSA (Canadian Freestyle Association), he doesn't work for FIS directly. His brother Chris Robinson is the Chairman of the FIS Freestyle Committee. Regardless, the fact that both of them aren't fighting to get...

LOL

Same time as Nippon Open....

There was a Nor-Am in Calgary and a "World Cup" (to use the term loosely) in Apex last year. This year there is a Nor-am at COP in Calgary (Jan 4 for pipe). Those events were held primarily because the respective organizing committees wanted to host HP events, not because CFSA was trying to...

Wow, he even teaches a class called "A Practical Guide to Ski Accident Litigation."

Shit, you know what, you're absolutely right. He was 3rd at WSI. I don't know how I forgot about that, but it pretty much makes me a huge idiot, sorry guys..... gotta lay off the spiked eggnog before I jump on here and start talking shit. Where's that humble pie, it's time for me to go eat a...