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Admin · 12-27-2002, 07:08 PM

SDE

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we are both retiring from programming and taking up pro-snowboarding as our full time career.

sde · 12-27-2002, 07:24 PM

ya gotta love so cal snowboarding .. it was almost t-shirt weather =)

revolution · 12-27-2002, 08:33 PM

/me gets the snowballs ready :th:

Ilya020 · 01-04-2003, 05:51 PM

I snowboard usually except not this winter

See...last winter, like always, we whent up to Park City, Utah to Snowboard...

It was my 3rd year snowboarding and I was getting pretty nice.

I...for some reason...decided to try and use the bank at the side as a mini-jump....

Little did I know that right under the bank there was all ice!

So I am going of this Jump and all of A sudden I slip, I conttinue to go on the bank and fall, hand first, into the ice!

That cracked and chipped the bone in my right wrist, the second time I broke my hand in two years!

I felt I hurt my hand and I told my friend, Jake, that I needed to go back down.

Since we were in such a place where the Snow Mobiles cant get to, I had to walk down all the way to the medical office (actually only until where the snow mobiles could get me).

BTW....I used to Ski before I switched to snowboarding, I was an excellent skiier. I toulk my dad up to a double black, he ended up tearing his ACL ligament and twisting his NCL ligament, the ones that hold your knee. They said he needed to have reconstructive surgery but so far he is fine.

I hope that story entertains, saddens, humors, etc....

Ilya

sde · 01-05-2003, 02:51 AM

ooouch! i've had my emergency room visits too =)

sdeming · 01-05-2003, 07:06 AM

I went snowboarding once about 12 years ago. After crusing the bunny mound for a while I braved a double black diamond and barely survived. I didn't know what the symbols meant, it just looked like a longer bumpier ride, fun! Little did I know...

It's not as bad as you think. I don't think you can really compare a typical Michigan double black diamond to a real californian mountain ski resort. We have hills that *we* think are mountains, but my parents live near LA so I know what real mountains look like.

01-05-2003, 08:05 AM

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Originally posted by sdeming
It's not as bad as you think. I don't think you can really compare a typical Michigan double black diamond to a real californian mountain ski resort. We have hills that *we* think are mountains, but my parents live near LA so I know what real mountains look like.

But you have snow... Which *we* think we do....

w00t · 01-05-2003, 08:07 AM

Snowboarding rocks. We have some pretty good mountains near us up here, so it's a pretty popular thing. I tried it for my first time last year and loved it.
Although I suppose it was ignorant of me to go up there with a case of the flu.
I felt ok most of the time, then when the snow soaked through my clothes, it sapped me. I had to walk the 1/2 mile uphill, carrying my gear, wet and cold, with a now raging illness. After I dried out, I went back out and kicked some ass on the slopes.

I ended up faceplanting at about 35-40 mph and I thought I had broke a rib, because I was coughing up blood for a week. I later learned that it was just a lung infection.

Anyways, snowboarding rocks! :rock:

Ilya020 · 01-05-2003, 12:56 PM

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Originally posted by sdeming
I went snowboarding once about 12 years ago. After crusing the bunny mound for a while I braved a double black diamond and barely survived. I didn't know what the symbols meant, it just looked like a longer bumpier ride, fun! Little did I know...

It's not as bad as you think. I don't think you can really compare a typical Michigan double black diamond to a real californian mountain ski resort. We have hills that *we* think are mountains, but my parents live near LA so I know what real mountains look like.

Ya right, the Mountains near San Diego SUCK!

I go to Park City, Utah every year to snowboard.

BTW Park City was were the 2002 Winter Olympics were held :rock:

sde · 01-05-2003, 03:13 PM

snowboarding 12 years ago? isn't that when they had huge florescent ping boards?

sdeming · 01-05-2003, 03:35 PM

The boards were pretty flourescent, definitely. The one I was using was a friends, it was a "Burton" something or other. Had a ton of colors in it and once you strapped in you weren't getting out, unlike skis that you fall out of.

sde · 01-05-2003, 05:09 PM

yeah, you're pretty much still locked into the new boards... i feel safer like that than on skis though .. because i know my legs aren't going to split apart,. technology has come a long way in the last few years, so i'm sure it's a lot more comfy than it was back then too.

Ilya020 · 01-05-2003, 05:33 PM

you mean, you dont use

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