Goals For This Season

[tommy]

ok im always a person who likes to know what everyone wants to acheive..... So what are your goals for this season, what do you want to acheive on the slopes or in the park this year?

[dfn_doe]

I'm really hoping to get solid on my 180's and 360's and realy want to land a flip trick of some sort, perhaps a misty....

Also I really want to get alot more comfortable with getting air so I can try some of the big features in the park this year.

[Jeff Miles]

hmmm.....my goals..hmmm well....For first off,
i want my brand of skiboards to hit markets next
year...so thats more of a next year goal..so it would
have to be is hit a shit load of comps. and to perfect
the trick "cork screw"...almost had it last year but got
hurt due to a spleen rupture....

[tommy]

Man thats a bitch, jeff do you have msn messenger or aol or anything? what corkscrew youtrying to land, 540, 720, 900?

[Jeff Miles]

my aol messenger thingy is skiboardgumby87
and also i was almost landing the 540 corkscrew...

[tommy]

i always tried landing a corkscrew 720 on skates but never could quite do it, and i could never do corkscrew 540s for some reason.

Jeff i added you on aol messenger.

[ESS Riders]

My GOALS for this season ???

- 3 months of skiboarding !
- having a loooot of fun at the ESS CONTEST
- GAP the road over my house in 360mute
- Build a rail in the slopy field front of my house
- Jump as high as i could
- MAKE ESS TEAM BIGGER

- SEE SKIBOARD SPORT FLYING TO OTHER SKYS !
- MEET YOU ALL GUYS IN ITALY !

[matthew]

1. i got supper flips down last year so i want to go to supper misty flips.

2. i want to get hot flips down and throw a sideways 720 corked to the left side.

3. hit a new urban hand rail every weekend

4. jib a football goal post

5. get porn stars down.

[JapSpec]

Pull a cab 5
Bio 7
misty 5
900
Spins and switch ups on rails

and when that's all done

Beautiful beautiful women around me feeding me grapes and drinking BUBBLY in a hot tub
min. amnt of women : 18

[Cameron]

1. 540 & 720

2. Front flip (or a misty hopefully)

3. Corkscrew 720 ( im kinda iffy on that one but i was practicing all summer on my tramp but with the extra weight it'll be harder)

4. A 30 cliff at my hill

5. Get more peolpe in my town into the sport since there is only 2 skiboarders here

This is me hitting a 20ft ish cliff last year so i think i can do the 30footer

[Greco]

nice job. why's it always so hard to get someone to take a decent picture.

here's me droppin' a cliff too...

[matthew]

nice g i also want to hit a 30-40 foot clif this year but the bigest we got is a 15-20 footer.

i also want to hit all the trips this year

[tommy]

oh so your coming to italy are you matthew ;) Cliffs..... there wicked pictures and crazy stuff.

[matthew]

dude tommey i would be down with comeing but i dont think i can come up with the amount of money to fly there get a place to stay and food i looked and it would be close to 1000 bucks and 1000 bucks is very hard to come by skiboard buming

[tommy]

yeh its costing me about 600 quid but i could have got the transfers alot lot cheaper than i did, talk with greco and se how much its costing him.

[Greco]

probably going to be close to 1000 after all is said and done.

[tommy]

is that 1000GBP or 1000USD?

[Greco]

1000 cash american

[tommy]

about the same its costing me then

[allz]

to me its like - 2000km to get there with car, its a diesel power+food+sleep+lift===aproximetly 260 Ls :D ok=its about 600$ and its about 255 Uk money(pounds) !

but if we look to money we got here for doin job its normaly 400-600 $ per month -

its not liek in Uk, where u can get some 10 per hour!

in Latvia all celery is for 1 month! i think this trip is expencive more to me than to Uk or Us ppl! its 100%!

(if we see how much u get and how much u pay)

money...money...money...shiit..damn!

[tommy]

haha 10 yeh i dont know what the average is, i know my sister gets 30k (GBP) a year my brother gets 52k (GRP) and my other brother gets 130k (GRP) a year i dont know how that compares to your sallarys.

[matthew]

yep 1000 is way to much for me i only made like 1500 all winter last year so i dont think i could make it cause i need new equipment this year new boots ALP's might get the BWP's and looking for a pair of weps. so thats around 800-900 there. + i might be going to the B.C. trip and any other trips that get planed so ill be poor.

maybe next year

[marcolo86]

Allz, from what you say it's obvious that numerically Latvia has lower incomes, but you can't even try to compare the salaries to UK and US... There's factors to consider such as the actual 'cost of life' in both countries, the fact that UK and US surely have a less centrally-planned economic government policy, and that vital utilities such as education and healthcare aren't in most cases freely provided...

[Kelli]

marcolo you are right about that and also if you add in that america has a high inflation right now, becuase we have over produced the amount of paper money and we dont have species on the paper to back it up which causes inflation.

[marcolo86]

And furtherly, the dollar is quite low at the moment, which is an obvious difficulty for citizens, as imports result to be more expesive (for example participating to our contest is quite difficult for you Americans because of the dollar weakness / Euro 'strength').

On the other hand, your national firms are better off from this situation, once again because of the low dollar which allows prices of your exports to be more attractive to foreigners.

The reason for your this situation and your difficulties...? Obviously your political/economic administration, which prefers to aid firms and boost the economy as a whole rather than care about individuals...

Strangely however, on the 2nd November I noticed that people in your country don't seem to care much about their monetary troubles ;)

Ok enough politics...let's get back to talking about something more serious such as skiboarding...

[Jordahl]

sup? havent been on here in a long time. i kinda forgot about it. neways, my goals for this year is mostly style n court knows this cuz my style SUCKS! i wana throw some bigger tricks in the half pipe n try to hit a few more tables. but one of my main goals is to 540. i dont care what its off but i could probably hit it around midseason. and me and court are gona be filming alot more this year. our friend got a handycam this year (finally) so we're probably gona be comin out with like 45 minute movies n shit like that. its gona be awesome. and i plan to have the usc site up by next friday. www.ubductioncrew.com so look for that. alright im out so peace out n pray for snow!!!

[allz]

yes Marco, i know they(uk and usa) pay more for food or drinks and living than here in Latvia, but if we count the money which is in their pocket after all payments, then they have some 5time more than we here!

we cant go by plain to trips, we cant go to holidays where ever we want! i am telling about midle range ppl here, yes-there is millionares,there is rich ppl ..but u cant say that we have cheaper food and all other thing,that we have money for trips and so...

we need to be smart to get money for trips...:D, not all ppl can do it!--like me,i am not working at all,but i know how money is going in out and all that, i know how to buy,where to buy,and i can make money somewhere without big work, so, thanks god i can do that---and THANKS god i can go to Italy trip--thats soooo goood thing man! i am happy already! ;)

peace

[tommy]

hey allz we dont have enough spare money to go where ever we want when we want (some people do but there just millionaires) i had to use my inheritance money to get to italy, i was always told to do something special with the money so im going to italy with it, if i didnt have that money i wouldnt be coming :( so its just pure luck really,

[allz]

me too lucky, me too! ;)

[matthew]

ok so im not real big into inline terms but whats it called when they jump from one rail to another on urban rails? is it just gaping rails? cause i want to get a pair of weps. this year and work on that i think this so one thing we can do that skiers cant

[tommy]

yeh its just gapping from one to another. i cant wait till i get my new deshi i december

[matthew]

sweet well thats totaly what im going to be working on this winter

[tommy]

yeh deffinatly! its real good, i want to try it on skiboards but i dont know anywhere i have been that there is 2 rails next to each other.

[matthew]

i have found a few nice places i still want to go look at some more local schools when i get home i found most schools have some nice rails(one school by me has a 20 kink might be a bit mor or less but its got no inrun at all)

[tommy]

nice!!! i wish the schools here had that. its hard to find good rails here, but worth it when you do.

[tommy]

ive just thought about what i want to get down in france, just like a few goals i set my self,

bio 540
fakie backflip
450 backside
back savannah
fakie misty (in quarter)

so wish me luck and pray for me to come back alive......

[matthew]

fakie misty (in quarter) sick man im going to work on just mistys in the pipe this year

[tommy]

how do you do a normal misty in a half pipe? surely that doesnt work?

[matthew]

well im not sure i havent tryed it yet but i think if you pop real fucking hard you should stay in the pipe

[tommy]

just to let everyone know a misty is a front flip 540 , not a front flip 180. I made that mistake for 2 years in rollerblading, But a misty is a front flip 540.

[tommy]

ive never seen a misty done in a pipe, ive seen a barani (front flip 180) on skates but never a full on misty.