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February 2006 - Posts

  • Speaking of The FEAR, here he is

    Just been having a look around flickr, as you do. Came across rather an interesting set of pics for all of you, particularly Mr Jarmarl Jermaine.

    The FEAR must be taken head-on. It's the only way of dealing with him. There is no darkness.

    FEARQuest 2002

    Remember this one from the good old days? I have the answers, but does anyone know what the questions might have been? Stick your answers in the comments box below if you please.

    Q1: 3
    Q2: Tastes like birds cages, smells like king williams and looks jaggedy.
    Q3: It is about twenty metres behind you. Laughing.
    Q4: 2
    Q5: Get in the nearest toilet, lock the door and try to ride it out.
    Q6: fork; clingfilm; darkness; furnace;

    Q1: 2
    Q2: it has the body of a dog but the head of a prawn.smells like diesel
    Q3: barcelona
    Q4: 3
    Q5: get under. it.
    Q6: clingfilm;

    Q1: 3
    Q2: Looks like i'm watching myself on a large screen Smells like elderberry's stored in soggy punnets Tastes of dryness and polystyrene
    Q3: It is not everywhere but it has the potential to be, you just never know.
    Q4: 1
    Q5: Run, run as fast as you can, it cant catch you when you're a gingerbread man.
    Q6: leech; hop; darkness; furnace;

    Q1: 0
    Q2: It's a dark odourless colour but almost so dark there is no colour to describe it. It's like the new black.

    As for smell, I'd rather be around Jamahl's wind than smell fear.
    Q3: It's all around. It follows you but doesn't always let you know it's there. But when it rears its ugly head - there's no darker experience. Horrible.
    Q4: 1
    Q5: Mr Miagi from Karate Kid fame always suggested "wax on, wax off". I find it works but only when on one foot about to do the flying kick.
    Q6: knife; darkness;

    Q1: 2
    Q2: I just cannot say, it is not like anything I have ever known before.
    Q3: It is hiding, creeping behind you.
    Q4: 1
    Q5: Stay very, very still and imagine calm
    Q6: All

    Q1: 2
    Q2: its so dark its white but so white its dark. it smells of old leather, but has no taste due to the throat being so constricted by it.
    Q3: It is a gypsy, travelling around, attacking everything that dares to enter its lair.
    Q4: 1
    Q5: Lean against a tree and remove all metallic items
    Q6: fork; monicle;

    Q1: 0
    Q2: obergine and smells like the rim of off yogurt
    Q3: In the inner sanctum of the left ear
    Q4: 2
    Q5: I wouls recomend that you appreciate the full extent of the sisuation that you are faced with. Do not do anything brash as this will result in an unforseable turn for the worst. Must be treated at arms lengh at all times as if it were a rabbied dog. Approach with extreme caution never let it get the better of you once close enough grab it with both hands and perform the chinese burn of Kent, the great move invenmted by our great hero Clark Kent, and wressel it to the ground once it has been overcome I suggest that you run for the hills and never llok back. From this moment forth always be aware as it will revisit the moment your guard is dropped, you have been warned....
    Q6: knife; darkness; monicle; furnace;

    Q1: 3
    Q2: doesn't look like anything. it's just there. not in the background, not in the foreground.
    But you can definitely taste it, oh yes. It can taste like elderflower, but sometimes like chewing a piece of lorry tyre. The fear smells like the fear, nothing else.
    Q3: in the cupboard under the stairs usually. I'd say of no fixed abode.
    Q4: 1
    Q5: duck
    Q6: hop; darkness; frost; furnace;
  • Big Trips coming up

    News just in from GnarlyBoarders far and wide...

    Mr Pope is off to Canada (Jasper and Banff) for a couple of weeks as of Saturday.

    And Geeeee, Messrs Paul of Empringham and about 20 others are off to sample the steep and deep pow in Verbier on Sunday.

    No doubt they'll all have some stories of farming to report on their return.

    Love your work! Keeep it up.
  • Videos are back!

    What does a bored Sloth do on a Saturday afternoon? Farms out all the old videos - they're all back on the site now and should be much easier to find what you're looking for.

    There's a couple of new ones on there (as yet unseen by many of you!):

    Plenty of stuff to keep y'all entertained for the moment...until the next music vid is released...Oscar?!!

    Back to you.

    P.S. If any of you have any more vids to put up, can you send me an email please and I'll show you what to do.

  • What about the Schnitzel?

    Just farmed out my first Parma Schnitzel in our local (which, I might point out, is bloody great and only 2 mins walk / 40 mins stumble away from chez Sloth).
    Can defo recommend farming out the parma. Get right in there tho. They do have a good burger on the menu tho, just in case the Colonel comes over Wink <img src=" />.
    Posted Feb 16 2006, 11:01 PM by le_sloth with no comments
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  • Hannah Teter Brings Home Gold At The 2006 Winter Olympics

    Burton Team Rider Wins Women's Halfpipe In Bardonecchia

    Bardonecchia, Italy (February 13, 2006) - Vermont native Hannah Teter brought home the gold medal in the women's halfpipe contest at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Bardonecchia, Italy today, following her teammate Shaun White's gold medal win yesterday. Hannah, like Shaun, was able to take her second run relaxed and happy that she had already won first place.

    Hannah was raised in a snowboarding family in Vermont, close to the Burton home-base. She has been with Burton since her first day on a snowboard. Jake Burton, Founder and Chairman of Burton Snowboards, has the following to say about her victory: "Much like Shaun, Hannah seems to be having more fun than anyone out there. Today we saw all of that plus a competitive spirit that made all of us at Burton and all of us from Vermont very proud." Hannah's halfpipe win today at the 2006 Winter Olympics is further evidence that Vermont continues to bring some of the world's best snowboarders to the forefront of the sport, as she joins a prestigious list of Vermonters such as Ross Powers (Halfpipe Gold Medalist, 2002) and Kelly Clark (Halfpipe Gold Medalist, 2002).

    Hannah, supported by her family here in Bardonecchia, stated: "I might actually be able to purchase a boat now and do some wakeboarding. I'm still going to be grateful. I came into this having a lot of faith and being supported. I don't think I'm going to change. Maybe just smile a little bit brighter and get my teeth whitened for the cameras."

    With a solid first run Hannah qualified directly for the finals together with her U.S. teammates Gretchen Bleiler and Kelly Clark. It was clear already in training that Hannah was ready to go for gold, stomping her frontside 9 lien. Dropping in on her first run, Hannah took the early lead with a huge straight air, frontside 5, frontside 9 and Cab 5. During the second run, Hannah watched her competitors try to take away her top spot while she waited to take the last run. No one was able to beat her so Hannah dropped in for a gold medal victory run. Like her Burton teammate Shaun White the day before, Hannah raised her hands in the air to the screaming crowd and threw down the same run as her first, but went bigger, topping her first winning run. Hannah stated: "I was standing up there and Gretchen threw down so hard, so I knew I was going to have to step it up. And I just wanted to step it up to represent the U.S."

    In March, Hannah will be back home in Vermont to compete at the 24th Annual US Open Snowboarding Championships where she will feed off the energy of her hometown crowd to go for her first US Open Halfpipe title.

  • Shaun White Wins Gold in Men's Halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympics

    White Continues To Dominate 2005-2006 Season

    Burtonecchia, Italy (February 12, 2006) - Burton U.S. rider Shaun White has fulfilled another one of his snowboarding career goals, taking the gold at the 2006 Winter Olympics after a season of sweeps including all five U.S. Grand Prix Olympic qualifying events and two gold medals at the 2006 Winter X Games. Snowboarding has never seen an athlete sweep so many major events in a single season.

    Shaun was on top of the world when he reached his family, fans and the screaming crowd. "I didn't know if I would get the gold, I just knew I wanted it," said White. "This is the best year of my life and I'm so happy my whole family's here. I know I won't have this again. It's amazing. Everybody's having such a good time."

    Burton Snowboards' Founder and Chairman Jake Burton watched Shaun win the gold from the bottom of the Olympic halfpipe and had this to say: "I have been watching Shaun ride since he was nine years old and I knew he had talent, but I never knew he would have a run like that in his life. Not only is he riding better than anyone else, but he is clearly having more fun."

    Shaun White's winning run included a lofty lien air, textbook McTwist, jaw-dropping frontside 10, cab 10 nose grab, frontside 9 lien to backside 9 [Ed: erm?! Holy Crap!]. His run is a demonstration of the constant progression of the sport. Looking back to the Winter Games of 2002, Ross Powers won the gold medal in men's halfpipe with a solid run that incorporated a huge method and back-to-back 7s.

    "Having Shaun with the Burton family for the past ten years and working with him to fulfill his dreams is what our company is all about," says Bryan Johnston, vice president of global marketing for Burton.

    Shaun White will try to add one more victory to his unprecedented list of contest wins when he heads to the 2006 US Open Snowboarding Championships in Stratton, Vermont this March.

    from the Burton newsletter
  • Winter Olympics snowboard competition

    The BBC have got a competition on at the moment to win a snowboard just by sending in videos of your 180s / backside rodeo 7s etc.

    Can be anything at all - looks like most entries will get on their website anyway - anyone got any from Morzine?

    Here's the site anyway

    and here's the entries so far

  • Anchorman

    Just watched Anchorman with Will Ferrell in it (out of Old School). Genius. Loved it Big Smile [:D]

    That guy Brick is quality - esp. the deleted scene about the panda birth. Ah yes, and some ideas for a future Fancy That video on there - Afternoon Delight music vid.
  • Photos from The Hof 2005

    Wasted Dan Black
    Wasted Dan Black,
    originally uploaded by le_sloth.
    Just put up some of the special photos from last year's Hof mission up on Flickr. Been getting some pretty bizarre comments back on these, especially about Washed-Up Dan Black!!
  • Welcome to GnarlyBoarders 06/07!

    Well come on in and get yourself a seat. Over there is fine, yes. Don't worry about Jarmarl, he won't bite.Big Smile <img src=" />

    It's been a long time coming but here it is - the brand shiny new GnarlyBoarders site for 06/07 and beyond. What you see now is not the final look however and features may come and go over the next few weeks.

    Where is everything?

    So, it looks like everything's been moved around? Indeed it has, so here's where you'll find things now:
    • Fancy That Productions are here
    • Photos are now in our Flickr group, which is here
    • Past and future trips are nowhere at the moment, but watch this space (don't let anyone park here, I'll only be a few minutes)
    Photos
    I felt that it would be much betterererer if we use Flickr to keep all of our photos - it just works! So if you want to upload your own pics you will need to get yourself a Flickr account, which you can do here for free. Once you've created your account, let Sloth know (you can do this from Flickr on your contacts page - add le_sloth to your contacts.

    Blogs
    Each of you can have your own blog (weblog) on the site now so you can tell your own stories, all of which will appear on the front page. It's a bit like having your own website within GnarlyBoarders, but you don't need to know any technical stuff at all.
    If this doesn't mean anything to you, this article explains what a Blog is.
    Oh, and I'm aware that I might have to limit how much Bob can type because her Bobanories do tend to go on a bit Wink <img src=" />

    Any other problems, please contact Sloth.
  • Mornington Peninsular

    Just got back from a great weekend down on the Mornington Peninsular (an hour or so south of Melbourne). Only decided to go on Saturday morning so got the tent in the car and were down there (and out of the city Smile [:)]) before lunchtime.

    Stopped in Mornington first of all, which is where my grandparents used to live - definately changed since I was last there about 8 years ago with Maisy. Speaking of which, I returned to the scene of the "Maisy hitting Sloth over the head with a stick" incident. Bet he'd forgotten about that one! Had fish and chips sitting looking over the harbour - amazing views and getting pretty hot already. Went to the cemetery after that to see if we could find my GP's plaque - not actually sure it's there but was worth a shot!

    Headed off to 3 wineries - we hadn't been since South Australia, so our stocks were dry! First up was Dromana Estate, followed by Crittenden and finishing up at 10 minutes by tractor (well, with a name like that we just had to farm it out!). Got ourselves a nice 6 bottles and got through quite a few tastings - love it!

    Cruised by Arthur's Seat to check out a chairlift and the views - great stuff, can see most of the bay from up there. Didn't seem right going on a chairlift without my board though so gave it a miss. Bit of a mish trying to find a campground after that - seemed to be plenty of them along the beachfront but all either full or impossible to get into Huh? [:^)]. Got ourselves sorted in Rosebud and got on the case with the wines and barbie as soon as poss.

    Sunday, got ourselves up early and headed down to Sorrento (where all the wealthy Melburnians hang out at the weekend apparently), farmed out some breakfast and drove right down to the end of the peninsular at Point Nepean.

    This end part is all closed off apart from a road through the middle, as it's full of unexploded bombs and stuff. Explored all the old army base at the end then walked back along the beach and the bush tracks. The beach down here was so nice it could have been Queensland - really didn't expect to find stuff like this in Victoria! Perfectly clear turqoise water and pure blue sky. Didn't seem like we were only just over an hour from the city. Unfortunately tho you're not allowed in the water down there, so we stopped at another beach on the way back up - think it was pretty warm by then (38c or something).

    Best not go in there then    Point Nepean beach


    Topped off the weekend with another barbie at Duncan's when we got back. Job done. Alan was very tired.
  • Ein Gluwein, Bitte

    Petrol of the Snow and Rock will be performing a visit in the Austria on the 11th of Febuarrary staying in the Kufstein and riding out of Soll.

    Joining him for the trip will be no less than sixteen college students three teachers and an Option Makkinen 161 courtesy of Sam at Option snowboards, Thankyou please. She’s got more pop than a lemonade factory that’s just been shaken up!

    Will be test driving the new Rome hip flask during the visit to see if I can break some ice with a wee nip of port, I’m thinking photo’s of me, a skier in one piece, and the Makkinen which incidentally has a dirty great Giraffe on the base.

     Looking forward to getting addicted to very strong painkillers and separating the knee in the park!

     Petrol out and about,

    Out for good,

    Back for good.

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