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[californiagrown]

im mostly speaking about the transfer portal. NIL and paying players is here to stay... but no one is happy about the way the transfer portal works right now....

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To some extent yes. But IU was doing a lot less than at least 30+ other schools were doing. Remember that Coach Cig's original contract coming over from JMU was only $4mil, and that many of his curent top players were JMU players. IUs 2024/25 recruiting was ranked 46th (high school recruits) and...

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I think there are a few ways to address the huck-and-hope strategy on the FWT level (not qualifiers, 4* or juniors):

1) if your landing "stops" you, then the air doesnt count. Eliminates people hucking to splat.

2) One feature cannot be more than 1/3rd of your...

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I totally understand the safety/longevity of the sport reasons why loss of control gets docked so hard. HOWEVER, there should be 2 distinct caveats to that...

1) Loss of control in a high consequence section should be a HUGE deduction. No question. But loss of control in a safe section...

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Whenever a day out in nature turns into a character building sufferfest (no matter the season or the activity), i like to announce that we are now training for alpental.

Are lessons happening over this holiday weekend?...

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Rafford should have won, and it shouldnt have been close IMO. The frenchy with the big huck should have been top 5, i have no idea how he ended up so low. Judges should stop rewarding people throwing three 3's on medium-small hits all skiing the obvious main line.

Looked like weird...

[californiagrown]

Ditto, appreciate the insight all. Skiing Nash at 4/5 is fucking savage, no doubt seeing and chasing big sibling around from Day 1 helped that progression. "Squish the bug" and especially "knees are headlights" make good intuitive sense to me, lets see if that translates to Jr...

[californiagrown]

Fucking sick!!!

Lets get more of that this season....

[californiagrown]

He is on 90cm skis for added stability at speed through chunder and to stomp big landings. Yeah, likely a little too big for him. Ill check the local thrift stores for some 80s or even 70s.


i was thinking that maybe teaching him to sideslip comfortably on both sides might...

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Anyone have any helpful tips on how to transition a 4yr old from using an Edgie-Wedgie, to skiing without one? He can make decent turns both ways on green runs with the EW, but the couple times we have tried to take it off (at his urging) he has trouble staying in a snowplow because the inside edge...

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I have a small chunk of silver stocks (SLV and PSLV) left over from the halcyon days of 2021 when silver was going to be the next big short squeeze. Turns out, those are now my current best performing stocks. JFC....

[californiagrown]

^^^ my wife clerked at the county courthouse, and its in the same complex as the public works/permitting dept so ive spent a chunk of time there as well. It never ceases to shock me how many people show up to court with loud graphic PJ bottoms on. My friend who did Teach For America in a poor area,...

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I grew up in silicon valley in the 90s. A bunch of my friends' parents made millions in the dotcom early years. The general pattern was they would, start a company and work their ass off while being absent fathers/husbands and then IPO or get bought out for millions. They would take a couple years...

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^^^^ meh. As the father of a young child, a single instance of poop blowout doesnt phase me as much as it probably should anymore. Id gladly trade the ~15mins of cleaning up dog diarrhea to not have to clean the floor after ~2000 meals from my son haha. I will say though, that was the first time...

[californiagrown]

Wet, heavy, fun and remarkably bright out. infinite pillows and mushrooms to pop this morning....

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there are affordable ones, though they are becoming more and more rare. I wonder if telluride patrol can do a working strike where they take care injured customers, and reset bamboo, but basically refuse to open avi terrain citing their professional opinion... it would be one helluva ballsy move for...

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Speaking of annoying, being the cook in my house also means i am the grocery shopper and have an inventory of foodstuffs in the pantry/fridge/freezer in my head at all times. And then my wife will go and use a half box of pasta, or eat a half head of broccoli for lunch without telling me and i will...

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I hope the ikon passholder who fell is ok!



...kidding. Im hearing reports that hyak is getting hammered by tourons today so ill probably miss that opener and stay north of the highway tomorrow....

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Vibes to all who have to clean the floor from their kids meal. We have never once cleaned up under juniors place at the table, and it remains probably the cleanest place in the house on a regular basis thanks to a 45lb mutt. He has a bunch of idiosyncrasies that my wife wants to kill him for, but...

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^^^ thing is, we can tell its AI because its too damn chipper and helpful with bland advice. If we keep calling out AI, its gonna learn to be bitter, sarcastic and generally just a raging asshole giving out local intel....