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Your goals for this season?

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#1 ·
Have specific goals for this season?

Mine are:

- Stop being so cautious in general
- Hit the jumps on Northlands dependably (20ft + )
- Start doing street-style boxes and rails
- Learn 360's
- And although this won't mean anything to anyone who doesn't know Seymour, hit Devil's Drop.

That's a good season for me.
 
#80 ·
1: Get more than 15 days on the hill.(Ruined last year due to injury... damn bikes!)
2: Learn how to be better balanced in the air. ( I have this strange knack to turn sideways when I don't want to.)
3:Take a level 1 avalanche course, and start trying to find a backcountry group to travel with and learn from.
4:Learn some park stuff.
5: 360's.
6: Switch carving.

If i get down two of these I will be happy.
 
#81 ·
Last year my goal was to improve my switch riding, which I did and to get comfortable doing FS 180's landing regular and switch.

This year's goals

1. BS 180
2. FS 360

I'd also like to go a year without breaking or tearing something too. ..but that's optional.
 
#84 ·
I wanted 100 bad last year but just coudn't find it in my heart to lap roped off groomers in 40 degree weather. Still got about 55 but so many were just park laps by myself cuz I know a bunch of old coloradans who are way to spoiled to ski/ride when its not "good".

This year shooting for 100+ again.
 
#89 ·
1. Do 1500 km on the snow for the year (did 1140 last year)
2. Do 40+ days (last year did 30)
3. Do more than 100 km in one day on the snow (current record is 87 km for me)
4. Do a 10,000m vert day (would be easy if I spend a whole day at Nakiska on the Gold chair)
5. Do some entire runs switch. I'm usually riding 10-20% switch these days to practise, and while waiting for others, want to get more into it.
6. Get as comfortable in the air as I was when I was in my teens and it didn't hurt to break things.
7. Don't break things.
8. Pull off my panties and start doing spin tricks in the air. Boarding for 21 years and I've never ATTEMPTED a 360. Pathetic.
9. Ride Polar Peak at Fernie, it's always closed when I'm there.
10. Ride a whole day of laps in the "Ultimate Steeps" at Lake Louise.
11. Carve harder than a hardbooter.
12. Ride more powder than a pow hound.
13. Get more airtime than a park rat.
14. Do 11, 12 and 13 all on one board. :cheeky4:
 
#93 ·
Are you fucking cereal? 21 one years & never attempted a 360:eek::eek::eek::eek:

What the fuck!! Haven't you ever had a day with 3+ feet of fluffy goodness?
You're a Canadian son, this is unacceptable.

I honestly find this hard to believe:dunno:

I've convinced my friends, some of which truly suck, to try backflips when it's too deep to get hurt.
Southern Comfort on a real deep day will get you doin' them.

TT
 
#90 ·
First season, so...

In order of priority:

1. 30+ days on snow (season pass & 2wks off for the holidays:D)
2. Don't break any bones
3. Stomp respectable straight airs reliably (not big air, but you know)
4. Hit every run at Shames
5. Ride trees/side country

Maybe a little ambitious, but 30-35 days equals what 2+ seasons for a lot of people?

Other goals may include

Basic butters
50/50's on boxes

OK, flame on and tell me how it's too much and it won't happen. :cheeky4:
 
#96 ·
My goals would be:

- get more days on the slopes (only 6 last year)
- get lucky and catch a storm cycle while in Jackson Hole in late Feb
- commit to one or two switch days and really work on it
- try a 360 if the snow is soft enough (never tried any rotations)
- drop a 10-20 foot rock/cliff while on vacation
- make a seamless transition from a stiff cambered board to my new Slayblade
- not get hurt
 
#100 ·
receive a score of "9.9" on my Super Penguin Slider technique!

Here was my latest attempt today @ Keystone, judges?

 
#104 ·
But I don't think this is a wipe out, I think he's actually trying to go down the hill like that?

I seen someone doin' it last year from the chair lift, me & my one buddy were laughin' are bags off. Turns out that was the third guy in our crew that day, he's the one who drove.

TT
 
#107 ·
hahaha so Awesome, now I know what I have to go for!

and @timmytard yes this was a wipe out. I had just strapped in @ the top up there and was riding down, sponger606 was like "hey man I got my GoPro recor---" and I immediately ate shit and came penguin sliding right toward him.

So ya, I guess i can dig the "6.3" on this one. Next time!
 
#112 ·
Have you spent anytime on your grabs and can't get them or you just haven't tried?

The secret is after you pop off the lip suck your knees up to your chest. Once you get that comfortably over jumps start grabbing, it will be right there! Last night I was working on my nose grabs, I wasn't able to grab them well before because I was reaching for it but I really worked on getting my knees up first and then tweaking my back foot and boom, the nose was right there and I was grabbing so far over it my wrist was hitting the tip.... great feeling. So ya, pull them knees up as high as you can and you will be able to do any grab you want, don't reach for them.
 
#113 ·
Have you spent anytime on your grabs and can't get them or you just haven't tried?
He broke his back a few weeks ago! Hey Sabatoa,.. I wouldn't call them "Fails!!" "Not able to attempt" would be more accurate!
 
#121 ·
Yeah maybe it's just where we ride, but any random run may include groomers, powder, trees, park, etc. It's too much to have dedicated boards!

That said I'm paranoid to break my current board (probably because of the $1000+ price tag and 1+ month wait time) so I'm riding a Burton Custom 156 as a park/play/rock board. After an adjustment period I'm actually having a lot of fun on this board!

I've seen your effortless 360s and hopefully I'm not too far behind in a few weeks! I spent a lot of time riding this custom switch today. It's just so much easier than riding a very directional board switch! I tried popping off rollers and doing grabs switch. Felt like it would have been more natural to pull my eye out and look at it! I'm going to keep trying though, it's acutally brought an element of fun back into my riding. Just popping of little jumps and doing FS 180s feels like progression to me! :yahoo::yahoo:
 
#124 ·
It's getting near the end of the season here and I've been reflecting on my riding...

It's my first season riding and I feel like it was pretty successful. I rode at 7 different resorts this year, spent a whole whack of dough on lift tickets every weekend, and picked up a ton of gear. Went hard and had plenty of spills but never really got too hurt. I feel comfortable riding just about anything on the mountain. Catching some solid airs, even handling moguls, trees, and more technical riding without any trouble. I'm willing to go through some gnarly shit and adverse conditions. I can keep up with very experienced riders without any trouble.

I'm disappointed on a couple things though... I've been so caught up in just ripping as much as I can every time I go out that I usually just neglect to work on things like learning switch and expanding my skills. I'd feel better if I was doing spins and grabs on top of riding switch.

Lastly and most importantly, I snowboard for me and nobody else. It saved my life when I had been in a dark place for a long time and I take it and leave it at that for all that it's given me... but I can't help but ask - Where would the more seasoned guys say a good spot to be after your first season is? Tough to tell without seeing me ride, but y'know...
 
#127 ·
Lastly and most importantly, I snowboard for me and nobody else. It saved my life when I had been in a dark place for a long time and I take it and leave it at that for all that it's given me... but I can't help but ask - Where would the more seasoned guys say a good spot to be after your first season is? Tough to tell without seeing me ride, but y'know...
Snowboarding is zen that way. When you're riding, you're not doing anything else or worrying about anything else. The goal of riding is to ride.

I have a list of goals and such as well, but really that's all detail. Having fun and leaving the ratrace behind for a few hours is the real payoff.
 
#125 ·
Never posted any goals, but I did manage to clean up my 5's a little.. still kinda ugly but i can stomp them consistantly. I'm also more confident doing flips, they're pretty easy actually but I was kinda freaked out learning them.

Other than that I haven't progressed much.. Getting better on rails was a big one but I failed.. Kinda avoided them for the most part.

Getting better on the MTB is going to be hard, I'm awful at that shit.. And it hurts more.
 
#126 ·
@destroy...

I'd say you are in a really good place after one season. It looks you got the snowboard as an effective mode of travel part down and It seems like you are not afraid of anything on the mountain. Those two things are key to having a good time on the hill.

And I would worry about the spins and stuff. trix are for kids, dont you know.

And dont worry about the riding switch thing. You will get it down eventually. I used to practice riding switch all the time and I can ride switch pretty well but I never use it. Its like learing to speak latin.
 
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