Archive for the ‘Snowboarding’ Category

Burton Supermodel X

Posted: 3rd May 2009 by Gert in Snowboarding

Im quite tired now because we went for some Insane board testing on the slopes hehe
We started teaching Thomas to snowboard and he turned out to be a Real pro He still has a long way to go, but after 2 hours and a lot of pain he was able to [...]

yeah..

Posted: 27th April 2009 by Gert in Life, Snowboarding

The fileserv s been powered down & Ive decided upon the next step in eSwitchpad .. I’ll be tweaking that power down script the coming days.
Ive got something on the popcorn, time to watch those last 20 minutes
Just take out the trash now
& put the snowboard back in the sack. I fixed the flows on [...]

Dissassembling the Board of Doom

Posted: 21st April 2009 by Gert in Snowboarding

Saying goodbye to the Doom board

Its funny how much traces my bindings have made on the board over the years There s even places where the top layer is totally ground off .. its evil really
Ill edit the pics in later

My binds left quite the impression on the Doom Board

The flows

Quite [...]

73 lifts, An estimated 153 Km of slopes

Posted: 13th April 2009 by Gert in Planet, Snowboarding

We had a great Snowboard trip last week. Kronplatz was great and the Sella Ronda was AMAZING! And now thanks to rfid & networking technology, you can check the stats from your own home Amazing! the dolomitisuperski.com page has a tool that lets you input your skipass nr & continues to show you [...]

Im back

Posted: 13th April 2009 by Gert in Life, Snowboarding

Ive been computer free for some 10 days. Feels right.
We covered a huge amount of slopes the last week. Snowboarding was good. I cant wait till next time.. I’ll have to do something about my shape though.. As the people surrounding me pick up the pace, I’m starting to feel the lack of exercise.
We ve [...]

Snowboarding!!!!!

Posted: 25th February 2009 by Gert in Life, Snowboarding

We re probably leaving for a short trip tomorrow! Though it Will depend on if we have the Shark (my renault megane) back by then. I’m tired of the waiting, I’m calling daily now and they promise I will have it back tomorrow. (they said that about last friday & today too)
Anywho, depending on when [...]

They re SOOOO comfy!!

Posted: 1st February 2009 by Gert in Snowboarding

I jjust put on my new Burton SLX snowboard boots & it took me less that a minute! Put the feet in, pull the pulleys & .. presto Ready!

And they re Sooooo comfy!!!!! I love ‘em I’m considering going to work in the tomorrow! (If we can believe the forcast it ll be [...]

New Gear

Posted: 1st February 2009 by Gert in Snowboarding

Since Dirkie needed lotza snowboard gear (vest & pants), we went to The Westsite, My usual Gent snowboard store, with money in our pockets.. (Great place and I can tell.. We lived above it for 2 years I love it there!)

Dirkie bought the gear he was looking for & I was LONG overdue [...]

Kronplatz

Posted: 24th January 2009 by Gert in Snowboarding

Hooray for Kronplatz
Its a wonderfull place to be and I have lots of fond memories there Last time I was there .. I had my first air (with disastrous consequences – I apparently dont have any blogpostings on this – weird – i actually almost remember writing that one)  I found [...]

Joost is COOL!

Posted: 18th December 2008 by Gert in Snowboarding

I love that I can watch

on Joost!
I’m still thinking about paying to have that on my Telley!
not that i get to watch it often. I work from 8 at morning till 11 at night these days :/ I’ll be glad when the house is finished!

snowboarding last weekend

Posted: 17th September 2008 by Gert in Snowboarding

I am badly out of shape – that was obvious
But it nonetheless felt Good!
And, I perfected some techniques, so Very Extremely worth while

Namely the pirouette in both directions .. technically correct all the way – yaay!
The step from regular to fakey. Its that move – where you just step over your boards nose [...]

The day after

Posted: 15th September 2008 by Gert in Snowboarding

I hurt all over!
*moans*
This is my body Really telling me to shape up :/