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new gear is gone forever and good riddance. Ice pipe ruler
Ries high above a wall at Bear Mountain. Photo by
Scott Needham. Sean Kearns (right) pokes a French maid mute stiffy down
Blockcomb glacier. An unsuspecting mountain obstacle feels the wrath
(sequence) of Brian Iguchi's backside lipslide revert. A few of the cast
(opposite, left to right) pausing between runs: Craig Kelly, Nicale Angelrath,
Christian Fletcher and mod Mike Estes
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skateboarding, snowboarders
Wwouldn't have jack. The bulk of snow maneu-
vers today came straight out of skating's trick bag: stalefish,
Indy, slob, half-Cab, nose bonk switchstance or the highly-
acclaimed stinkbug, to list but a few. More often than not.
these moves are given some ugly name that applies only
to a kook's mentality. Although these freaks would like to
seize varials and kickflips as well, only time will tell if those
stunts are transferred to the slopes.
Just as maneuvers become passé or "old school" in
skating, the same goes for snowboarding. The resorts are
rampant with upstarts quick to slag another for doing an
Andrecht handplant to takie, no matter how tweaked or
stalled. Like skateboarding, the snowboarding industry has
gone through a series of rapid changes over the past two
years. The advancement of board and binding design has
brought the level of snowboarding to the point where g