Alliance Japan

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

I just got the best Christmas Present this morning. Our Japanese Team rider, Yoda, just sent me a scan of the new Alliance Japan. We did a full article on his trip to Canada this summer. Chances are, no one in the US will see this issue, so I am printing it here.

Rock on!

Gavin

Raven · Posted: Dec 25, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject:

That shuv out sequence is sick G, and the kickflip is money as well. Birthday

nick · Posted: Dec 25, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject:

He got a nice write-up too Laughing

Sick.

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

Very nice. I didn't know that Alliance had a Japanese version.

JamesBoardr · Posted: Dec 25, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject:

che blanc, and a new wakeskate hat for the true enthusiast

i LOVE fooseball

s34n · Posted: Dec 25, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject:

how did sattelyte ever get hooked up with a guy from japan anyway?

JamesBoardr · Posted: Dec 25, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject:

s34n, japanese people are like nomads. roaming the lands looking for rails to shred. they train during the day. turn into ninjas at night to fight the snowboarders...duh

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Dec 25, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject:

he can 360 flip?

JamesBoardr · Posted: Dec 25, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject:

-=AlexXx=-, i think the article was talking about reed hansen right there

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

I remember your wild snowboarding stories from japan...

you posted them, of course.

I know a small amount of cantonese....basically, everything they used in wayne's world.

JamesBoardr · Posted: Dec 25, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject:

electricsnow, one day we will meet. and we shall speak cantonese.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

lei ho wan gah...

"Campbell! you learned how to say 'I look pretty' in cantonese!!"

Ziet zah bin du wah! Ziet zah bin du wahhhh!!! (Stop it, you're scaring me!)

hahahaha, yeah, I don't know how to spell any of that stuff, but it's definitely how it sounds!

and yes jamesboarder, we will most definitely speak cantonese...hahahaha....

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

Nothing beats snowboarding in Japan...nothing! The stories are wild and all true.

Chinese is impossibly hard. It is super hard for English speakers to grasp the tones. Japanese is much easier.

NaRC-P rider · Posted: Dec 26, 2006 1:50 am Post subject:

is it all wakeskate?

nick · Posted: Dec 26, 2006 11:42 am Post subject:

Yes, I'll have the cream of sum yun gi Laughing

CheeseSkate · Frontside 180 Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 344

Awesome! I love it!

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

che blanc, hahahahaha... Very Happy

Brett Leadley · Posted: Dec 26, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject:

"Japanese man at airport who walks through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok"

I would love to go snowboarding in Japan what are the elevations like jonnyUTAH

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

Japan does not have very good elevation. It is alot like Vermount or Quebec.

What makes snowboarding in Japan so awesome is the snow. It gets more GOOD snow than anywhere. Cold fronts come down from Siberia and go across the ocean. When they hit the mountains of Japan, it DUMPS! A Sha-it load.

The other awesome thing about snowboarding in Japan are the trees. There are almost no ever green trees on the mountains. They are almost all Deciduous trees. Therefore, you don't need to worry about tree wells, and the trees are spread apart enough that you can really carry your speed well. That, and it creates a Cathedral effect. On the main Island, Honshu, it is bad luck to snowboard in the trees, so only foreigners do it. In the Northern Island, Hokkaido, everyone rides the trees.

Fianlly, every resort in Japan has natural hot springs. So after riding, you go get drunk in the hot springs. It is the Sha-it. Niseko Hirafu in Hokkaido is the best resort fo powder.
http://www.niseko-hirafu.com/