This was Jackson Hole's photo of the day today:
See if you can figure out what is wrong with this photo...props to the guy for getting after it though...
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This was Jackson Hole's photo of the day today:
See if you can figure out what is wrong with this photo...props to the guy for getting after it though...
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the-one-track-mindOriginally Posted by DoWork
I give up. what?
wicked shot though.
I'm going to give it a little more time to see if anyone can figure it out. The answer is somewhat subjective depending on your take on things, but I think (rather I hope) someone can figure it out....
the-one-track-mindOriginally Posted by DoWork
Where'd he jump from...
I think he jumped from the rock just to the lookers left just behind him or maybe that line is a chute that ends with an air, but I'm not sure, and that's not what I'm trying to point out....
the-one-track-mindOriginally Posted by DoWork
He's not Damien Sanders?
HEIL!
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Talking shit about a pretty sunset.
He has a pretty aggressive duck stance, I think, hard to tell. I rode that way until I started having knee pain.
i mean i guess you could say that he isn't doing a "proper" method, but i believe he is technically doing a lein air.
He is grabbing his nose instead of between his feet.
On a skateboard, at least, a Lien air is a FS spin with a backside grab, or in a halfpipe, a frontside air with a backside grab, but I've never really heard "lien air" associated with a snowboard.
I have heard the pictured grab called a "grasser" (if it was turned sideways as well) many years ago.
It is a rad pic though, I'd love to see it not so cropped to where he came from and where he was going![]()
Did you give up studying the vertical drop of all U.S resorts and now are examining every pic ever taken at said resorts?
Hmmmm, maybe going for most shitty threads started in a single day?
He's not wearing a Juicy-Fruit one piece?
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
I know... When shredding that hard, one really should be wearing a helmet. Safety first!
If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
- Eddie Izzard
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winna!!!
Yeah its nit-picky, but in the majority of the snowboard community it is seen as bad form not to grab between your bindings. Jackbombay hit it right on the head, and technically you're right, this is a grasser, but its kind of weak sauce in my opinion. I've also heard it called a Nethod, speaking along the same lines as a tindy or tail-fish...I dunno grabs like this always bug the shit outta me. When I lived in Tahoe a couple of the dudes I used to ride with always, always would grab tindy and tail fish on their spins, and I'd always, always give 'em shit for it. Maybe I'm an asshole, maybe I'm a style nazi, but if you're gonna grab, at least do it right.
But no doubt, otherwise, its a sick shot, but like I said it bugs me to see the no-no grab...maybe its an OCD thing or something![]()
the-one-track-mindOriginally Posted by DoWork
the-one-track-mindOriginally Posted by DoWork
I feel used.
Lien airs are part of the snowboard world for sure...pretty much the same rules apply as they would to the skateboard world. That's why I think grabbing outside of the bindings (save for nose and tail grabs) is seen as such a fo-pau (sp?) in the snowboarding community.
I know I have too much time on my hands, but I live in Michigan right now, WTF do you expect me to do....
the-one-track-mindOriginally Posted by DoWork
me too. i don't have an appropriate lolcat to describe this thread, so this will have to do:
http://superfad.com/player.php?project=251&item=566
^^^ That's fuckin' hilarious...
the-one-track-mindOriginally Posted by DoWork
...Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...
"I enjoy skinny skiing, bullfights on acid..." - Lacy Underalls
The problems we face will not be solved by the minds that created them.
You're retarded. Nothing wrong with the picture. The guy is stoked. Wrong forum too. Is this not ski / snowboard related? Your emoticon usage is totally off too.![]()
Last edited by gbarnum; 01-13-2009 at 11:03 PM.
washu feeze drive me to firenze?
the-one-track-mindOriginally Posted by DoWork
Wrong forum? I figured it fell into more of a rant (of sorts) on my part, that's why I posted it here....
I did say it was subjective, and I did also say props to the guy for getting after it; but this photo would never get published in any self-respecting snowboarding publication because he is doing a no-no grab....you can't go around spreading bad style....its like having the HIV and not giving a fuck.
And I put the no-no head after a really fuckin' lame joke realizing how lame it was...sure I could've went with the finger mustache or something like that, but I figured it was so lame that even I'm shaking my head....
Last edited by pbourdon; 01-13-2009 at 11:07 PM.
the-one-track-mindOriginally Posted by DoWork
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