Snowboarding....Dry....

[ScubaFreak]

Soooooooo i was on the dry slope for the first time last night- Hah!
Interesting to say the least. I can definitly see how if you lay your technique down on the dryslope- it will be a lot better on the real stuff!

I will admit i spent most of the time on my a$$, but i was trying to practice my J turns all night, keep falling going from toeside to heelside, think i have the hang of the heel-toeside though.
Good thing is i dont ache at all today- altough i did bust my thumb which is kinda sore, but other than that it's all good!! Cant wait to go back! And cant wait to go to spain in February

SF

 

[NauticalbutNice]

Glad you had fun mate!

Nauticalbutnice :fruit:

 

[simbrooks]

I learnt to ski on the dry slope in Plymouth, supposedly the largest in the UK at one time (not sure if it is anymore). The folks over here dont seem to know anything about dry ski slopes, they have an abundance of the real ones - lucky. I keep trying to explain its like a braided rope mesh that your skis/board can grip a bit like snow - have to show them one time! Hoping to actually get on the white stuff in february if possible, first time in almost 10 years :shakehead

 

[baltimoron]

hmm.... does sandboarding count? I actually learnt to snowboard on a snowboard..... on sand dunes. One of the old Kibbutznicks was a ski instructor, and he brought over a lot of snowboards and ski and taught the whole kibbutz to sand ski / snowboard. I think in a lot of ways its a lot easier to do it on the sand then it is to do it on the snow. You need a place out in the desert where the sand is REALLY thin, and the dunes are VERY high... nothing like the anticipation of a good run after trekking up the mountian. That's what I call dual conditioning!

Never drysloped before.... what's it like?

 

[mossym]

ah scubafreak, i'll have to take a picture when i'm in the sierras next weekend and send it to you...25ft of snow since chrstmas...

 

[baltimoron]

^
Jeez, I hope things will keep up until the week RIGHT before I go to park city for pres day weekend. Now powder is not the best thing for snowboarders, but groomed power is heaven. and, oh yeah, I WON'T get in one of those avalanches. The Canyons is cursed. For real.... everybody I know that has gotten hurt in Park City got hurt at the Canyons. I would stay away.

 

[ScubaFreak]

Dryslope is ok...absolutley zero room for error. You either do it right or you fall- which is good i suppose, means when you get to the snow, your technique is a lot better because the snow is much more forgiving...cant wait to go again- was good fun

 

[mossym]

hey scubafreak, i presume the dry slope is around dublin somewhere..where exactly?

 

[ScubaFreak]

its in kiltiernan, in the grounds of a golf and country club. being upgraded this year with a new snowpark and new slope extension

 

[mossym]

is it open year round? might take a trip up next time i'm home..