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Short Skis Suck, Long Skis Truck…
2008-05-14 21:00:36
Well, at least for these guys…
The Kirkwood, California, locals had a nice ending day for their season - the longboard day! The rule: 210cm or over. What a concept…I wish I could organise something similar around here. We’ve been talking about bringing our (tiny) old 200’s to the local park someday and busting some sweet old [...] ...
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City Sights in New York
2008-05-12 07:46:36
We have discussed about a holiday trip to New York. We haven’t been to New York before and it definitely would be a nice trip. I don’t know much about the city, except the well-known sights such as Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building and Manhattan. As always, I am interested to see the daily [...] ...
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Some nice ski blogs and ski forums/communities
2008-05-11 22:12:55
This blogging thing is pretty weird business. I mean…you write about your passion, hobbies, life in general etc. and totally strange people around the world will look your texts and photographs and comment then. Sometimes you really begin to wonder what’s the whole point of this all?(and I am pretty sure I am not the [...] ...
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Ski Review: K2 Silencer 179cm
2008-05-08 21:58:47
As I posted some pictures from Chamonix few days ago, I also noticed some old notes lying around on my desk. Damn, I completely forgot that I tested a friend’s brand new pair of park skis, 179cm K2 Silencer, already in February.
(Image source: www.suksikauppa.com)
Gear testing is something we like to do. I guess demoing skis [...] ...
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Chamonix Spring Pictures
2008-05-06 22:14:34
Ski season 08/09 is now officially over for us. I was planning to ski a few days still on the first of May (Labour Day) holiday but ended up canceling that trip - driving three-four hours only to ski on a small pile of slush didn’t temp that much. The summer-like temperatures made the decision also easier: it is time to [...] ...
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April Poll Results - Has This Been Your Best Ski Season Ever?
2008-05-03 01:32:30
In April 2008 we asked our readers to say if this was the best ski season ever, and the results are now here. As the ski season is over now, we did not receive much answers this time. According to the poll results, for most of the people this was the best ski season ever [...] ...
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DC Mountain Lab and Subaru WRX - check this video out!
2008-04-30 14:28:37
Summer seems to be here. For many people cars , and especially cool cars, are something that belong to summer for sure.
Marko wrote some time ago how he is not a so called car man. So, I’m not either…that much. For me a car is mostly a vehicle that gets you (and you family, gear [...] ...
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Reminder - April Giveaway Campaign Soon Over!
2008-04-28 22:19:22
Hey there, this is a reminder. Our April free giveaway campaign is soon going to be over. In April we are giving away a book called “Inner Skiing”. Would you like to win that book for yourself? Would you like to win something else next month? HomeboySki.Com gives away valuable stuff every month. Subscribe to [...] ...
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Bobby Root Riding Wheelie Makes Me Feel Like Riding My Bike
2008-04-26 23:13:07
It is easy to see that summer is coming here on northern hemisphere, because the traffic to our humble ski blog is decreasing. Skiers are looking forward to do summer activities, such as mountain biking. Just like many other skiers, we also go riding bikes, surfing, trekking, paddling and doing many other summer sports. [...] ...
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Fixedgearworld - a cool new blog about fixed gear and single speed bikes
2008-04-24 21:51:08
Couple of days ago I wrote that we’re going to post some mountain biking related stuff quite alot in the upcoming monts. I already did a short article about the season opener and my new bike.
I rode a single speed mountain bike for about two seasons (now trying gears again, at least for a while [...] ...
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Völkl 2008-2009 freeride line-up - brief overview, part I
2008-04-22 22:36:05
Last spring I was lucky to review some this season’s Völkl skis. I really liked all the skis in the test (except some reservation for the Tigershark model) and thus I was planning a similar test for this spring too. But it looks bad at the moment, time is running out (too much other dutys in [...] ...
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80’s Skiing Video From Antarctica
2008-04-20 08:07:05
Oh boy! I came a cross with this video this weekend and I must say it brings me some good memories from the 80’s. Typical clothing of 80’s and jumping style in skiing.. combined with Van Halen’s Jump that one of the cornerstones of 80’s music. Sounds good! Check out the video below.
Although skiing in [...] ...
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Mountain Biking Season Opener
2008-04-18 22:19:44
Our skiing season 2007/2008 is getting close to its end.
I have planned one more ski trip for the first of may though - but that is quite unsure at the moment. I’d like to do some (08/09) gear testing, and I have a few negotiations going on about the issue (retailers and some other contacts). I was supposed to do [...] ...
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Ski resort review: Pallastunturi, Finland
2008-04-16 23:26:11
Couple of our last posts were all about world class, high risk freeskiing - something that is very interesting to follow and exiting to watch but actually have quite a little to do with most people’s everyday skiing, after all. So, this time we offer something really different from the adrenalin filled world of top notch ski athletes: mellow (but not boring [...] ...
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Simon Dumont sets the new world record height in quarter pipe at Sunday River
2008-04-14 21:15:38
It is now official: skiers go bigger than snowboarders…
Well, all joking aside: at least for now and in quater pipe especially. (Genarally the skiers vs. boarders debate is pretty useless and very 90’s, in my opinion)
No-one can disagree that Simon did the record with style and difficulty though: a 35 feet high cork 900 tail grab. That’s about [...] ...
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John Nicoletta Died - Extreme Skier John Nicoletta Dies in Jump Off Rock Wall
2008-04-13 01:49:44
27-year-old Freeskier John Nicoletta has died Friday due to injuries sustained during a fall. John Nicoletta was competing on the first day of the Freeskiing World Championships at Alyeska Resort, Alaska. Nicoletta was 47th skier of the day. Local ski patrol reached Nicoletta quickly and evaluated his injuries before transporting to Alyeska Aid Room. John Nicoletta [...] ...
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March 2008 Poll Results - Best After-Ski in Austria
2008-04-10 10:15:53
Sorry for this blogging hiatus. It has been really busy at work lately. Anyhow, here we go again..
In March 2008 we asked “where is the best after-ski?”, and the results are now here. We received 25 votes in total and most of the choices were voted. According to this poll, the best after-ski is in [...] ...
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Five Cool Ski Resorts for Late Spring Skiing
2008-04-07 01:40:25
While Janne went testing 2009 ski models in northern Finland, I keep on writing articles here in Helsinki. Winter is already gone and summer is coming. Skiing in Helsinki in these days is merely a joke. Anyhow, I still feel like skiing. I would like to feel the cold mountain air and get some faceshots [...] ...
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Telemark gear review: K2 Hippy Stinx, Scarpa T-1 Thermo, Rottefella Cobra R8
2008-04-03 09:00:49
“Piss off your old alpine race coach… lean back, lean in, rotate your upper body and smoke lots of weed.” -”cuseo” on TGR forum
First off, I’m a newbie telemarker. Secondly, I don’t smoke alot of weed. Thirdly, I wonder if that statement was about powder riding with teles? Because in the groomed slope it seems [...] ...
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Alpine Skier Kalle Palander Was Jailed Due to Drinking & Driving
2008-04-02 13:22:38
Finnish alpine skier Kalle Palander, who won the world championship in slalom in 1999, released his biography yesterday in Helsinki, Finland. Kalle Palander’s book opens up many surprising episodes from his private life. According to the book, Kalle Palander was jailed due to drinking and driving in Monaco 2002.
Kalle Palander had been dining with his [...] ...
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New unofficial, unintented world record cliff drop by Swedish skier Fred Syversen
2008-03-31 23:20:20
Miracles do happen. A while ago Marko wrote how this season has seen couple of really sad events for skiing - the death of freeskier Billy Poole and the horrible crash of Matthias Lanzinger. Downhiller Scott Macartney had another scary fall in Kitzbühel but was very lucky to survive with minor injuries.
But this time one [...] ...
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Exotic Places to Ski - Skiing in Chinese Altai Mountains
2008-03-30 07:00:55
A while ago Janne listed 10 places we would like to ski. There are very many interesting places to ski on this planet, and some of those places a very unique and exotic. I would really like to ski some of those exotic places, or even visit.
One very exotic place to ski is the Altai [...] ...
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Photos from Northern Norway - a very interesting photo blog
2008-03-28 22:49:01
Few days I ago I scrolled through the visitors of our blog (btw. thank you ALL for visiting our site!) and found this one:
http://blog.thomaslaupstad.com/
It is the blog of a Norwegian photographer, Thomas Laupstad. The pics on the site are mainly about nature. Thomas explains that one of his main interest is preserving nature (thus the obvious pick [...] ...
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The weird stuff - strange skiing innovations that might work…or not?
2008-03-26 23:08:32
We’ve been blessed with the biggest snow storm of the winter! Even here in Helsinki we’ve got like 20cm of new snow. It’s almost April already but for me this late winter snow and cold weather is more than welcome.
So, after a long work day (and the usual routins with kids) I couldn’t manage to get [...] ...
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Forgotten Stars of Skiing, Part 1 - Trevor Petersen
2008-03-25 17:26:28
I am reading Powder magazine in a train from Helsinki to northern Finland. I feel shocked because my idol, one of the icons of free skiing, has died. Trevor Petersen lost his life in Couloir des Cosmiques in Chamonix, France in 1996. Trevor was one of the most experienced free skiers of that time and [...] ...
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It’s all in your head - having the perfect ski day in the most unexpected situation
2008-03-23 22:09:16
Season’s greetings from Homeboyski!
It’s Easter holiday and we’re stuck in the city. A bad situation - as the Easter season is THE time to go and hit the slopes up north here in Finland.
Well, at least we’re finally having real winter here. Couple of friends went and started the ice climbing season here in southern Finland few days [...] ...
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Trick tip: basic 360 (or as the old-schoolers say “helicopter”)
2008-03-21 22:52:57
I learned my first 360, or “helicopter” as they were called, at the age of 13 or 14. Lots have changed since then but I’m kind of milking the same trick even today. And I’m forever grateful to the guy (older mate at the freestyle club) that showed me how to do those off some little knobs.
The [...] ...
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April 2008 Giveaway Set - Book: Inner Skiing by W. Timothy Gallwey
2008-03-20 18:31:50
In February we gave away a great ski DVD value-pack that included Seven Sunny Days and Believe ski DVD’s. We have now set a new contest with a new prize which is a book written by W. Timothy Gallwey. The book is called Inner Skiing and it is probably one of the best instructional skiing [...] ...
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New products and innovations for 2008/2009 Season: the Rocker (R)evolution!
2008-03-20 00:09:45
Well, ski season 07/08 is still going strong but companies (and people of course) already hype for the gear of 2008/2009. I guess marketing is the king these days…?
Still, it’s not all just hype. I wrote an overlook of the rockered/reverse cambered skis in the autumn. And this whole phenomena is really blasting in the [...] ...
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