Poster: A snowHead
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I don't know about you but I am currently addicted to boarding vids on the run up to the winter.
Having watched about 20 in the last month there are a few riders who really stand out for me:
Travis Rice - Just absolutely fearless and such a smooth rider
http://uk.youtube.com/v/jOWyulZMVYY
Jeremy Jones (big mountain rider) - Unbelievable back country speed merchant
http://uk.youtube.com/v/pwLOfVWi0Wc
Jeremy Jones (burton pro) - one of the best rail riders I've seen
http://uk.youtube.com/v/ow913-Mi00A
Daniel Ek (Norwegan kid signed up by forum) His part in Isenseven's Ubermovie is one of the sickest I've seen culminating with a rail to flip to rail which is just mental!
http://uk.youtube.com/v/Nbf0kQYRBZo
Who are your favourite riders?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Jussi for the airs
Jeremy jones the jibber
DCP
Shaun white when he's not in the pipe
MFM
Eddie wall
Travis Parker
Mason Aquirre
I've been on a vid mission as well this month, MDP's 2 decades is great, burton's it's always snowing somewhere is epic, love the idea of back to back winters. Think thank I liked, MDP's down with people (you can't go wrong with MDP) and absinthe's ready have all been hits on the stabometer.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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JJ (non jibber)
Craig Kelly
Terje
Axel Pauporte (not bad on big mountains for a flatlander)
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fatbob wrote: |
JJ (non jibber)
Craig Kelly
Terje |
that was the list i was going to write`!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm obviously too old..but I find all the videos intensly dull. ok so for the first 10 minutes the cliff drops, big mountain stuff is spectacular but watching the park stuff and seeing yet another variant way of throwing yourself off a kicker however many spins, flips etc are involved is just dul dull dull. Yes I'm incredibly impressed with their skills but it's just something I find watching to be rather dull, and as for the sliding down stair rails - I just don't get it.
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bertie bassett, I'm the opposite, I can appreciate the big mountain stuff but for me the technical aspect for the rail stuff is insane, nollie hardway 270 backside lip bs 270 out is way beyond anything I could ever dream about.
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bertie bassett, I know what you mean and some of the videos can be a bit samey. However, I am with stab, in that some of the things that the "kids" nowadays can do are literally insane. Although I never tire of watching J Jones nail those AK slopes.
Also, the craft that goes in to creating most of these vids nowadays is to such a high standard that from an artistic point of view they just blow me away.
Lately I have tended to watch one of these in bed of a night, so that I can drift off into lovely dreams of hitting gigantic kickers into 3 metres of pow
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stab wrote: |
bertie bassett, I'm the opposite, I can appreciate the big mountain stuff but for me the technical aspect for the rail stuff is insane, nollie hardway 270 backside lip bs 270 out is way beyond anything I could ever dream about. |
stab It's all well beyond what I can do, and that's why I guess I struggle to relate to it. And then all the language to describe a different type of flicking the board around - what's a nollie for example? I have the same problem with windusrfing - again I can probably do 2% of what the pros can do, but similarly I find the videos dull dull dull...
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Current: Travis Rice
Legend: Noah Salasnek (see Superspines from the Totally Board series if you haven't already - it's beyond insane)
Bertie: a nollie is a nose ollie, so using a compression of nose of the board to spring into the air. I can barely do one
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Victoria Jealouse
hot hot hot
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I'm going to throw mikey leblanc into the mix, hot hot hot also.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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