Hardgoods 23/24

[J0_Zehp]

Anyone know where Sims made their boards ?

[C.Fuzzy]

And through the lovely world of "internet snowboarders," there are folks genuinely arguing that this is definitely carving. This one really hurt my brain.

Hey man. Don't be an asshole gatekeeper. THis guy is just expressing his soul on the mtn. /s

This is a skit tho, right? People are rightfully laughing at it, right?

[coleslawed]

Macrodose and Mystery Lunch look pretty rad

you picked up a UAP, right? how do you like that one?

[C.Fuzzy]

Yea this basically about covers it. Signal to noise is just awful. Theoretically I'm in a position to try to make the discourse a little more sophisticated... but people are just so fucking dumb lol. I guess I'm just wondering how much time and capital I expend trying to course correct, versus just trying to keep it civil and on point until I can find someone willing to take the reins.

People really are just so fucking dumb. This new era of hand holding we’re in is something I can’t stand. Nobody is willing to try the most basic of things on their own or get their hands dirty.

Reddit is a complete circle jerk. It’s like a bad therapist that just sits there and affirms everyone’s fucked up minds because nobody wants to offend anyone or be guilty of wrongthink. SBF is just as bad: “should I ptex this?!” oh I dunno, how about you buy a stick of it and learn to not be worthless? “Is this too much overhang?” oh I dunno, how about you learn to fucking carve before you stress out over booting out. “Is this delaminating?” oh I dunno, do you have eyes that can see? “What’s wrong with DOPE?!” “I started last spring, what size mega Merc should I get?” etc etc.

Okay, rant over. Hallelujah for ezlounging.

But really ... should I pay the shop $30 to Ptex this or is my board junk bc I nicked the base 1/2 an inch with my RAD SHREDDING!?

[coleslawed]

And through the lovely world of "internet snowboarders," there are folks genuinely arguing that this is definitely carving. This one really hurt my brain.

Hey man. Don't be an asshole gatekeeper. THis guy is just expressing his soul on the mtn. /s

This is a skit tho, right? People are rightfully laughing at it, right?

considering the original poster’s feed is just him reposting all of the times that clip has been re-posted, I don’t think it is.

[C.Fuzzy]

Honestly, it's pretty fucking wild how useless the internet has made people lol. Both in how much people feel the need to check stuff out before just trying things, and how a flood of SEO-optimized content has fucking ruined the incentive to create actually insightful original content, instead of shit that just has the right keywords and fucking filler to extend read times.

My wife had some friends over recently and they were talking about parenting and shit. My generation fucking researches everything and over optimizes. My wife more than the most. My boomer parents just played shit fast and loose because there were no resources to check against. Same thing with early snowboarders, no one had any resources to check and you can't really cave a fucking 140 cm Burton Backhill, but didn't stop people from trying lol.

So true. That’s probably why there are so many terrible riders on the hill now, too… I mean I obviously love gear, sometimes even obsess over it, but that’s because I’ve ridden long enough to appreciate it… all the little nuances are fun. I see kids on Orcas and carbon Atlases now that can’t even carve or butter because they’re worried about status in lieu of riding. I’m 34 now and 20 years ago I just ‘member seeing so many good riders around places like Breck and Keystone that are seemingly disappearing.

Hot take: The average rider sux bc being rad at these sports is less important to status in their peer groups. In today's online based culture the high status and clout that would motivate kids to go out and want to take on uncomfortable things and face the challenge of failure over and over is mostly missing. In my day being a ripper, playing a instrument, building a rad car, ect. was how you showed what you were made of, but you had to suck first. Today it really seems more about who's clips and streams are most popular, and so they do those things and self identify with that instead of seeing themselves as something more challenging. In days of yore if you had the gear but on the hill you couldn't ride it, everyone saw and would ridicule the poser. Today, often times having the hot set up, taking the foot pic at the top of the hill, will work bc you can fool enough people to make it seem like you're good. The incentives have changed.


I also think the average rider sux bc they spend more time online than being physically active. Hard to have conditioning, muscle memory, and physical coordination and awareness, when doing virtually nothing active.

[michaelangelo]

@coleslawed have only been able to get 2 “days” in this year, which consisted of me running down the bunny hill teaching my girlfriend so far. But I got the 53, feels very well built, softer than I thought but not a noddle. Excited to get some real time on it.

[Paidingum]

Anyone know anything about the new CK board coming out?

[michaelangelo]

148 (245ww) 158 (255ww) 168 (265ww)
Directional camber
Super fly II 700g core
WFO base, 45 degree carbon

[mmanza]

https://www.burton.com/us/en/p/mens-bur ... 06881.html

No graphic Customs up on B's site.