New rider, need equipment advice!

[ashmang]

Hey everyone!

As the topic says, I'm a new rider and would love some advice as on boards and bindings!

I from QLD, Australia where the coldest temperature is about 15 degree Celcius in Winter; so getting advice here is like trying to squeeze beer out of a disgruntled moose's butt while its on the job.

To give you a bit of background, I started out regrettably on the Snowblades in Feb '07(but still had a great time) but found the limitations really quickly eg going fast enough,general stability.
I'm not so fussed about bindings, i'd rather look at the release kind because i've had many ankle injuries.

Board's I'm looking at would be something adequately fast with carving ability. I'm not really the airborne type just yet...

If this is way too broad then think of carving up between trees at speed ...or for those who have been to Sunshine Village in Canada, think of Eagle Creek, that black diamond run off the Goat Express lift.

I am a real shortass so I don't really want to go over 90cm.

Any advice would be awesome or let us know if this is clear as mudd.

[tyberesk]

hmmm tanshos sound about right

[Greco]

in the 90 and under range there isn't a great deal of choice in terms of high quality skiboards. you have

75cm SnowJams
90cm SnowJams
90cm Tanshos

75's will be very maneuverable but not handle speed/carving/landing/powder as well as the longer 90's would.

G

[tyberesk]

75s also have less flex and are more prone to breaking
if you land wrong off of a jump...well at least to me and the rest of SBU. After hard riding on rails the edges seperate a good couple of inches. We had 3 pair of new scorpions, and the edges seperated on all but 1 pair. We had 3 pair of Blue snowjams from 2005? and all of them have cracked and the edges have seperated. Id say go with 90s..either snowjam or tanshos, but revel8 has better quality and customer service.

[Greco]

just note, park riding is hell on boards.

g

[tyberesk]

it def seems like taylors Bdubs and my Ct8s hold up alot better then my old snowjams.

[ashmang]

hey thats awesome thanks for the replies.

so i reckon the ill be going
the tansho 90s and the
spruce pro lites


thanks again everyone.

[tyberesk]

Good deal, your getting a high quality product with great customer support. Enjoy Em

[Manlenium]

Originally posted by ashmang
Hey everyone!

As the topic says, I'm a new rider and would love some advice as on boards and bindings!

I from QLD, Australia where the coldest temperature is about 15 degree Celcius in Winter; so getting advice here is like trying to squeeze beer out of a disgruntled moose's butt while its on the job.

To give you a bit of background, I started out regrettably on the Snowblades in Feb '07(but still had a great time) but found the limitations really quickly eg going fast enough,general stability.
I'm not so fussed about bindings, i'd rather look at the release kind because i've had many ankle injuries.

Board's I'm looking at would be something adequately fast with carving ability. I'm not really the airborne type just yet...

If this is way too broad then think of carving up between trees at speed ...or for those who have been to Sunshine Village in Canada, think of Eagle Creek, that black diamond run off the Goat Express lift.

I am a real shortass so I don't really want to go over 90cm.

Any advice would be awesome or let us know if this is clear as mudd.

Absolute go on tanshos, im 6'0 an almost enjoy them as much as EMP's. They are underated on the site. Still decent on powder, jumps, and rails.

[tyberesk]

Originally posted by Manlenium
Absolute go on tanshos, im 6'0 an almost enjoy them as much as EMP's. They are underated on the site. Still decent on powder jumps, and rails.


i think all 90cm and under skiboards are pretty much underrated

[ashmang]

Oh yeah!!!!!

finally got my tanchos today! they look fantastic, can't wait to use 'em

just gotta wait 7 months before i hit the slopes!!! :S


thanks again everyone at SBOL

[Greco]

wow that was fast. we just shipped them a few days ago.

why 7 months, i thought it was winter in australia now?

g

[mctwist311]

Yeah but he said he lived in a spot that doesnt get less then 15degrees celsius which means no skiin there for him

[ashmang]

yeah they did get here pretty damn fast! 6 days! ive ordered stuff from Melbourne and its taken 2 months to get here!

We get snow here in Winter much further south. I only get 4 month holidays a year and ive already used 3 of them up going to Canada in feb/march of this year.




Oh and im a dude ahaha.

[mctwist311]

my bad!!!

[winterparkrider]

thats too funny, I thaught manlenium was a chick, sorry dude. thaught with the photo you were blessed with a nice bod but that maybe you parents lost a bet with god and that why the face is cut out of the photo.

[Manlenium]

Originally posted by winterparkrider
thats too funny, I thaught manlenium was a chick, sorry dude. thaught with the photo you were blessed with a nice bod but that maybe you parents lost a bet with god and that why the face is cut out of the photo.

Nope.......... just wanted a good avatar to remind me there still is good things to do in summer.

Plus i dont have any avatars small enough to fit on this site, they have to be shrunken down.

[rob12]

lol

[Greco]

Originally posted by Manlenium


Plus i dont have any avatars small enough to fit on this site, they have to be shrunken down.

it's got to by a max of 100x100. if you want something as an avatar and can't crop/shrink it send it to me and i'll do it for you.

g

[winterparkrider]

Like I said, sorry dude.didnt mean to offend a teamate.

[Manlenium]

Originally posted by Greco
it's got to by a max of 100x100. if you want something as an avatar and can't crop/shrink it send it to me and i'll do it for you.

g

got them working.........only in my general text though.

[Greco]

how could i not have noticed :(