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    What is the biggest drop on a snowboard? Who What When Where etc.

    Just wondering if anyone knows what the biggest drop on a board is, I've never heard of anything, personally think it's harder to drop stuff on boards than skis, it isn't a very good stance for absorbing impacts, just curious to see what anyone else knows.

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    Why?





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    Quote Originally Posted by cliffhucker View Post
    Just wondering if anyone knows what the biggest drop on a board is, I've never heard of anything, personally think it's harder to drop stuff on boards than skis, it isn't a very good stance for absorbing impacts, just curious to see what anyone else knows.

    I know that Tex Davenport hucked a ~100' backflip off Table Mountain. I don't know what the biggest drop is though.

    I don't know about it being harder on a board... Two plankers seem to find it impossible to ride out of big drops

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    Wasn't there some frenchman who dropped out of an airplane about a decade ago. Not sure how high he was but he had a parachute on, so maybe that doesn't count.

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    Tom sims

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    Quote Originally Posted by kidwoo View Post
    Tom sims

    A view to a kill 1985
    ah yes, back when snowboarding was cool.

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    Does anybody even ride snowboards anymore?

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    If you have been to Keystone lately, you'll know the answer to that one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rideit View Post
    Does anybody even ride snowboards anymore?
    Whats a Snowboard?
    People should learn endurance; they should learn to endure the discomforts of heat and cold, hunger and thirst; they should learn to be patient when receiving abuse and scorn; for it is the practice of endurance that quenches the fire of worldly passions which is burning up their bodies.
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    Skiers couldn't handle it today




    Or the other day

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    'Cause I don't want my people to be contrary?

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    I would like to try that sometime. It looks like fun!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toadman View Post
    Wasn't there some frenchman who dropped out of an airplane about a decade ago. Not sure how high he was but he had a parachute on, so maybe that doesn't count.
    Wasnt that Bruno Groovy or something like that. I think he was really high.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bob
    No more internal power struggle;
    We come together to overcome the little trouble.
    Soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionary,
    'Cause I don't want my people to be contrary?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CommanderBaker View Post
    Wasnt that Bruno Groovy or something like that. I think he was really high.
    Bruno Gouvy.

    Fucker boarded down the steepest side of the eiger too.

    No suprise he didn't live very long.
    Besides the comet that killed the dinosaurs nothing has destroyed a species faster than entitled white people.-ajp

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    "What is the biggest drop on a snowboard?"

    I would say the rider's IQ if it wasn't so mean and I wasn't so PC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rideit View Post
    I would like to try that sometime. It looks like fun!
    Come on down to SLC, bring cute girls, booze, and we can get some snowboard lessons at Alta.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bob
    No more internal power struggle;
    We come together to overcome the little trouble.
    Soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionary,
    'Cause I don't want my people to be contrary?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tippster View Post
    "What is the biggest drop on a snowboard?"

    I would say the rider's IQ if it wasn't so mean and I wasn't so PC.
    UHHH...I don't get it...

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    Quote Originally Posted by CommanderBaker View Post
    Come on down to SLC, bring cute girls, booze, and we can get some snowboard lessons at Alta.
    Kewl, that sounds awethum! I heard Alta's half pipe is SICK!!

    I'm SO in.

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