Post subject: Introductions and profiles Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 01:37 PM
First post: Oct 11, 2004
Total posts: 9487
Location: York
Status: Offline
There are three threads at the top of the UK forum at the moment from people introducing themselves as Newbies. So I thought I'd better create a sticky so people don't have to keep posting that sort of thread. I like to keep the place nice and tidy
I thought this might also be a good opportunity for the people who have been around for a while to introduce themselves and to get a bit of useful info about each other (I am actually blatantly ripping part this off Snowheads, but it's a good idea!)
You can update it as much as you want of course.
Oh and I know some of this will be in SCUK 2 Dunx, I just thought it would be a good stop gap
So fill in the blanks:
Name: Charlie
Age: 30
Weight: 11st/69kg
Height: 5'8" ish
Regular/Goofy: Goofy
Equipment: Rome Agent Rocker 155, Rome Artifact Rocker 150, Ride Nitrane Contrabands, Ride Capos, a garage full of other stuff that I dust off now and then.
Experience: Just tried to add this up, probably around 40 weeks over 11 years but I've lost count really.
Competence: Mountain - I'll ride down anything so long as there isn't a high chance of dying. Park - I'll ride over pretty much anything, I might not do anything good over it though. Considering how much snowboarding I've done I should be better than I am but I'm working on that.
Resorts Visited: Season in Mt Tremblant, Canada. Loads of resorts in France, a few in Italy, a few in Austria, a few in Switzerland... and Bansko.
Local Slope: Castleford
Goals: Get 5's back then rodeos. More comfortable riding off kickers and onto rails switch. Gnarlier off piste. Try not to overshoot any more landings. Slash 20 people in one run. Keep having fun.
14/11/12 - I'm adding front 3's off my toes to that list.
Post subject: Re: Introductions and profiles Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 02:04 PM
First post: Sep 06, 2011
Total posts: 365
Location: Oxford
Status: Offline
Name: Jake
Age: 24
Weight: 12st something
Height: 5ft9 in heels
Regular/Goofy: Goofy
Equipment: K2 Format 158, Burton Missions, Saloman Maori boots
Experience: Minimal. Started learning in April. MK pretty much every week since.
Competence: Improving...
Resorts Visited: La Plagne and Val T (on skis...)
Local Slope: MK
Goals: Improve switch riding, nailing FS/BS 1s consistently, FS/BS boardslides (hopefully with the help of some lessons!)
ace_mcgraw
Post subject: Re: Introductions and profiles Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 02:07 PM
First post: Feb 20, 2007
Total posts: 5395
Location: That snowboarding hotbed, Norfolk
Status: Offline
Name: ace_mcgraw / Gav
Age: 32
Weight: 17st/100+kg
Height: 5'10" ish
Regular/Goofy: Goofy
Equipment: K2 WWW 156, Pieced together Burton Custom frankenbindings, Northwave boots plus Capita 158 Unorthodox, Ride 168 Mountain, Hammer 154 Pulp, Burton 163 Air that don't get used much. And a broken Venue 161 Onyx which is used even less!
Experience: Riding since 1995, although that was infrequent for about 5 of those years, before regular holidays from 2001 onwards. Prob 250+ days on snow after season in Whistler and yearly holidays, not inc of dryslope and fridge
Competence: Despite riding for so long I'm still amazingly rubbish. Mountain - will ride down anything on piste happily. No real experience with anything too extreme off piste. Park - rubbish. Got to stage of riding off medium / red kickers in Canada, but no tricks off them. Stupidly scared of trying most park stuff - succeeded in about 5 boardslides, and landed 180s off kickers but thats about it. I reckon I have technical ability, but mentally just can't commit myself to it...
Resorts Visited: Season in Whistler (Winter and Summer) including trips to Whitewater, Big White, Mount Norquay, Sunshine Village. Saalbach, St Anton, Lech, Zurs, Sonnenkopf, Stuben in Austria. Pas de la Casa in Andorra, La Rosiere, La Tania and Meribel in France. Heavenly, Homewood and Northstar in the US. Also all of the Scottish slopes apart from Nevis.
Local Slope: Norwich ski slope
Goals: Ride more generally. Learn 180s and 360s off kickers. Get boardslides. Learn more fun flatland stuff.
Post subject: Re: RE: Introductions and profiles Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 02:16 PM
First post: Jun 07, 2009
Total posts: 218
Status: Offline
Name: Bex
Age: 26
Weight: Slowly dropping...
Height: 5'7"
Regular/Goofy: Goofy
Equipment: Nitro Fate 152 with Burton Lexas, Artifact Rocker 153 with Contacts, 32 Lashed boots.
Experience: 1 season
Competence: Enjoy riding the mountain and have done a little venturing off-piste, was just starting to get in to park at the end of my first season boarding, but a broken ankle right ankle at the start of last Winter has held me back since.
Resorts Visited: Arlberg (St Anton, Lech, etc.), Zell am See (but as a skiier years ago before I switched over)
Local Slope: CFe
Goals: To hit the epic Arlberg off-piste this season and try and get my confidence back in the park.
cantridepete
Post subject:Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 02:28 PM
First post: Oct 28, 2008
Total posts: 2996
Location: Haute Savoie
Status: Offline
Name: pete
Age: a lot!
Weight: 72
Height: 5'10 and a half
Regular/Goofy: Goofy
Equipment: nitro t1 156, bat fun kink 151, rome 1985 150, endeavour color 151
Experience: about 15yrs, probably around 60 week i suppose, duno really spent the first few skiing.
Competence: parks my favorite, rails, kickers and what not, need to spin of the bigger lines this season though :scared happy riding anywhere really
Resorts Visited: quite a few in france, couple of times to US/Can, mainly europe though
Local Slope: Les houches
Goals: b3 off proline this season
charlie
Post subject:Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 02:34 PM
First post: Oct 11, 2004
Total posts: 9487
Location: York
Status: Offline
Nice one folks, I now realise it was rude to ask a girl her weight
Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Introductions and profiles Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 02:35 PM
First post: Jul 20, 2011
Total posts: 191
Location: Norwich
Status: Offline
Name: Ben
Age: 39
Weight: 187lbs (was 210lbs 3 months ago) 84kg, 13.3 stone
Height: 6'0.5
Regular/Goofy: Goofy
Equipment: Volkl Vice SQD 159, Salomon Arcade bindings, Forum Kicker's / Northwave SL's and lots of special blend clothing
Experience: 30 days or so over 3 years in europe plus 4 hours per month on the indoor slopes.
Competence: I can get down any colour piste fine, however no experience of the parks. At 39 things break more easily so I have shyed away from anything 'risky' and just enjoy hooning down the mountain.
Resorts Visited: Les Deux Alpes, Alpe D'Heuz, Morzine and Tignes
Local Slope: Trowse, Norfolk but tend to drive to MK for a 4 hour session each month.
Goals: Do some park time, but most of all to have a bloody good time before I'm toooooo old, which is not far off , lol
Last edited by murano3 on Mar 15, 2012 - 04:14 PM; edited 2 times in total
cantridepete
Post subject:Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 03:01 PM
First post: Oct 28, 2008
Total posts: 2996
Location: Haute Savoie
Status: Offline
charlie wrote:
Nice one folks, I now realise it was rude to ask a girl her weight
Experience: 5 years, all mountain except for 3 fridge visits. (1 being the spring bash this year
Competence: Being 39 with a mental age of 6weeks I will try anything, done drops of about 10m from rocks, boarder cross and general flatground stuff. Very little park
Resorts Visited: Les Deux Alpes, Solden, Vent, Jasna, others but cant remember.
Local Slope: Pymouth but never been on it, I could ride down my own carpet covering my stairs!
Goals: Get more confident
dashie
Post subject:Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 03:29 PM
First post: Sep 24, 2007
Total posts: 4852
Location: stockport/dundee
Status: Offline
Name: Dale
Age: 27
Weight: about 20-21 stone depending on bowel movements
Competence: Agressive and fast on/off piste without caring if I'm always using the right technique. Adequate in the park but out of practice as its the second summer without really riding because I live next to a beach.
Resorts Visited: Alpe D'Heuz and Tignes, morzine/avoriaz, borovets. 4 yrs in a row to tignes!
Local Slope: Glenshee or braehead.
Goals: to have fun and manage to spray snow on an ESF instructor and his lesson.
_________________ Boobs, booze, snowboarding, in that order!
Nick7
Post subject:Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 03:40 PM
First post: Sep 04, 2009
Total posts: 247
Location: Manchester
Competence: Technically? Pretty good i think... I had good teachers and lots of coaching when i started, so its all good. I will ride pretty much anything if the conditions are right. Powder hound. Switch is pretty much there. Love carving.
Resorts Visited: Canada, France, Bulgaria and Austria
Local Slope: Cfe (I dont like fridges though)
Goals: To earn more money so i can get myself two weeks in Niseko 2012/13!
_________________ White Light. White Heat.
GinaG
Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Introductions and profiles Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 03:56 PM
First post: Dec 04, 2004
Total posts: 10212
Location: The Big G
Status: Offline
Name: Gina
Age: 21
Weight: Hmm
Height: 5'9"/5'10"
Regular/Goofy: Regular
Equipment: Can't remember!
Experience: On and off for the last 10 years, mainly off.
Competence: Was alright 5 years ago and now I don't think I even have the right to give advice.
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