Hardgoods 23/24

[scrub]

I'd deffo ride a white custom with a black base.

[oar]

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

No graphic Customs up on B's site.

Spoke to a friend who works at Burton; apparently the black and white custom will be a carry over model from year to year along with a different graphic custom each season.

[unsuspected]

Stranda 23/24
https://issuu.com/strandasnowboards/doc ... klczevoLZI

Vimana 23/24
https://issuu.com/vimanasnow/docs/vimana_season_9

[Spenser]

I'll be on the new shorty sometime soonish, hopefully before I go to Montana in Feb. I like the current graphic for sure, but the new one is very "me"

[C.Fuzzy]

Stranda 23/24
https://issuu.com/strandasnowboards/doc ... klczevoLZI

Vimana 23/24
https://issuu.com/vimanasnow/docs/vimana_season_9

Always love Vimana graphics, but their shapes/specs really don't do anything for me. Maybe one day they'll make something I'll want.

[unsatisfiedus]

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.

these damn kids need to develop some conditioning and muscle memory and then use it to get the hell off our lawns!

hell in my day we had to snowboard up the hill

in fact when i grew up in soviet russia, hill snowboarded you

[michaelangelo]

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I likely won’t grab anything, but to be honest I kinda like this drop. The trailer had Grace Warner in it too, the shop I used to work at sponsors her and she’s super humble/overall a great person.

[coleslawed]

is that a kimono

[coleslawed]

i do need them to bring back the MFI base layer top.

[michaelangelo]

I don’t know what season they made it, but there was an AK MFI powergrid hooded base layer and it’s been my favorite for a long time.