Riding "A-style" with PureBoarding

Contributed by tom. April 2007.

Joerg from PureBoarding and a dozen guests came to Aspen again for a 10-day April trip. Lisa and I had a great trip riding with PureBoarding last year, and jumped at the opportunity to ride with them again.

Brief review of "TWO"

Read my review of the TWO.

The toeside "problem"

This is a bit of a joke, but Jack M's "toeside problem" article proposes that there's a right way and a wrong way to do a toeside turn. Both Lisa and the PureBoarding instructor Remo appear in the "A style", i.e. wrong style, section. I got a laugh out of it, as there are a ton of ways to do a solid toeside turn. I wouldn't do a fully laid out turn on an icy slope, but I like to mix different turn styles, it makes my day more fun. So beware, all the photos on this page are "A style" :)

Photos

All photographs on this page are copyright Richard Keller. See more of them at the PureBoarding gallery.

Shorty

Dirk

Tom

A bus-ful of TWO boards

Daniel

Dirk

Lisa bending the TWO on a backside turn

Joerg lays it out

Lucia

At Buttermilk, for the last run of the day, Joerg, Richie, and Dirk went into the super pipe! Dirk took a fast run and jumped out of the pipe, over the big rail on the side (probably 5 feet over it), and crash-landed on the other side. It was impressive to see such huge air!

Dirk catching air out of the super-pipe and over the rail

Group picture at Snowmass