Personal Worst Photo Thread...come on, you know you have them...

[tex1230]

Mid-80's, Probably my last time on skis before I hung them up for the beauty of the single plank...

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs064.snc4/34557_142378855774009_100000056856527_390989_75587 39_n.jpg

[colintkemp]

Tex,

You apparently missed the personal "best" with that one... Amazing outfit color coordination. It makes me want to wear red gators to the office. :eek:

Thanks for starting this threat. I'm digging into my archives.

Colin

[utahcarver]

Ripped stinky shorts, no money, no gas money home, no beer money, Kmart tube socks, riding for the love of it. No shower in several days. The skatepark was already defunct and we were riding outlaw during this time. Kryptonic deck with Pizza Grip, Trackers and Gyro aluminum hubs, fast, very fast wheels for 1981.

If I had pics of my snowboard(s) during this time period it would be referred to as, 'White Trash riding home-made plywood boards'. It wasn't pretty but, it got the job done. Anything, ANYTHING turns in powder if you want it bad enough.

Mark

[queequeg]

I thought I was so cool!

Brilliant idea Tex! ... but didn't Sinecure already win this contest?

:-p

[BlueB]

I'd like to call it "extreme carving a skate" ;)
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[SunSurfer]

Traffic paint will get you very time, even more so if it's at all wet! Ask any road motorcyclist!

SunSurfer

[xxguitarist]

Bump from way past, fun thread.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v164/208/86/14310970/n14310970_33088999_5134.jpg
That'd be my leg. That twin fin fish was THICK and a first attempt from a friend at shaping. I was the test pilot. Lets say, it didn't like hollow stuff.

[KingCrimson]

Bump from way past, fun thread.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v164/208/86/14310970/n14310970_33088999_5134.jpg
That'd be my leg. That twin fin fish was THICK and a first attempt from a friend at shaping. I was the test pilot. Lets say, it didn't like hollow stuff.

Where is that?

Is it a reef on a really flat beach making it barrel far out and then gently spill on the beach?

[xxguitarist]

It's here in RI. The beach drops off rather quick to chest+ deep, then out a little bit there is a somewhat shallower sandbar. Where and how shallow depends on the month and tide.

Wave is powerful and fast, but the drop and kickout are sketchy.

[KingCrimson]

Looks like the **** for freestyle bodyboarding if it has a steep bar that makes it tube up like that with fun little spillers at the end.

I stopped surfing when I started playing around with bodyboards in gnarly shorebreaks..Too much fun to bother with a surfboard!

[xxguitarist]

I like standing up to surf, and prefer reef type waves to heavy shorebreak, but i can agree that on days like pictured, that place is best tackled on a bodyboard. Wouldn't be much fun to catch that wave on your back though.

By the way, that picture was taken on Jan 1st :freak3:

[AutumnOrangeGT]

Me about to eat it....
http://69thvirtualfightergroup.com/Members/needacar/Kitetastrophy2%20(2).JPG

Me Eating It
http://69thvirtualfightergroup.com/Members/needacar/Kitetastrophy2%20(1).JPG


Don't try Kiting for the first time with a 16m C-kite. Especially one with crappy lines.... :nono:

[tpalka]

Me about to eat it....

Sweet! I had lots of those kinds of falls this past summer -- and sure to have more. Thanks for sharing :)

tom.

[Arclite]

I thought I'd chime in...

Not the worst I have, but the worst I can find at the moment.

[KingCrimson]

How the hell didn't you get hurt falling like that?

[Arclite]

KC - Me, AutumnOrangeGT or tpalka?

[KingCrimson]

KC - Me, AutumnOrangeGT or tpalka?

The dude falling wrists first with his knee deployed in Meniscus-destruction mode! You!

[Arclite]

Ever since my first time on skis (when I was 4? 5? ) I would straightline, cartwheel, name that crash, repeat.

For some reason I never get hurt with falls like that. (knock on wood)

I have video of that somewhere actually, give me a moment...

Skip to 15:20 (sorry for it being that long, when I get home I can edit it to just the part where I superman off the board.)

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/7684429" frameborder="0" height="300" width="400"></iframe>

[Sultan Guy]

This is right before I power flipped at Pillow Rock Rapid, Upper Gauley.

[JBS]

This is right before I power flipped at Pillow Rock Rapid, Upper Gauley.

Sorry for the thread jack, but had to share.

Same rapid, but September this year.

[se7en]

got stuck trying to carve between "slow" sign poles

-hope no one got it on vid :D

[valsam]

Yummy Yummy that snow is delicious!!!!!
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7844/vouta.jpg

[!MaineCarver!]

These are pics of me racing in the USASA series

[Futahaguro]

OUCH to those last few pictures! Was the one on the landing zone of a kicker from Boardercross?

Those are some nice pics!

[!MaineCarver!]

Haha. Yes the one on the right was on the landing of a wu tang in a boardercross course.
The one on the left however was on a 162 prior sl board.
The one on the slalom board I compressed my nose and it just through me in the air that is how that happened.

[bobdea]

I thought I was so cool!

Brilliant idea Tex! ... but didn't Sinecure already win this contest?

:-p

priceless!

[Michelle]

Yummy Yummy that snow is delicious!!!!!
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7844/vouta.jpgWOW....nice of your friend to capture that exact moment for you.

[Gcarve]

^^^ Is that the new extreme-face carve I've been hearing about? :biggthump

[caspercarver]

squeezed out and nowhere to go. :eek:

[b0ardski]

Rather ungraceful looking launch...
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6224/6337209689_8dc146a125_z.jpg
...But I stuck the 3.

[patmoore]

Two gates from the end, I slid out of one of my bindings. This was my ignominious finish.....

http://i44.tinypic.com/5e5tm0.jpg

[Gcarve]

^^^^ Quite a flattering photo :D!! Looks like you went head first into that pole. Ouch!

[patmoore]

^^^^ Quite a flattering photo :D!! Looks like you went head first into that pole. Ouch!Ironically, my helmet hitting the electric eye caused the timer to record my time. It was one of the faster ones of the day. I was the coordinator running the race and disqualified myself.

That photo subsequently was published in SnowEast Magazine.

[Gcarve]

And of course that would be the photo they published :rolleyes:

[MikeC]

About to cross the line to what would have been fastest combined SL time of the day at nationals :mad:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sNZizoDkhR8/TZ5j-AecfMI/AAAAAAABy0s/Fv8N0GfEoqk/s800/DSC_5597.JPG

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Z0dWnoVEn0k/TZ5j_8pWz_I/AAAAAAABy08/XJQx6teFHow/s800/DSC_5599.JPG

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-EVlBJRbr0Zc/TZ5kB5jH2_I/AAAAAAABy1M/Ze5QSM1XM7s/s800/DSC_5601.JPG

[Gcarve]

Ouch! Face plant! That had to hurt!

[Speedzilla]

Eat snow.

[willem]

Eat snow.

cool shot!
reminds me of stuff done by comic book characters,
how did it end?

[philw]

Here is one of the oldest photos I have. The boots are plastic, although I remember people had leather ones too. This is what they taught us to do, pointing the planks in weird directions. The business with the sticks is all my own invention. This was my 1st ever ski run, the length of which you can see in the photo. I did not to my memory crash into the photographer (he was using my camera and I couldn't afford to break that sucker).

Actually I think I must have some good GoPro snowboard crashes, I'll go and see if I can make a small clip of just the crashes.

[Bullwings]

Fail....

http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/carvingchef/2012%20ASSESS/DSC_0213.jpg (http://s682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/carvingchef/2012%20ASSESS/?action=view&current=DSC_0213.jpg)