As the sun starts to set a bit earlier and the air starts to get a bit chillier,

we see the usual glut of snowboard buyers guides. We see the usual behemouth from TWS and the thinly masked advertising piece from snowboarder. Snowboard mag provides their premium brand guide which offers a bit of corporate insight with its product images. Future mag... Oops my bad...

A big part of this year's hype is Rocker. Not KISS, AC/DC or even Slayer, but a curved, 3D base shape that is "revolutionizing" snowboarding. This idea first gained traction in the 2000s with Lib's Skate Banana after Lib Tech mad scientists ate a banana one day. It is important to know that some lesser known brands like Bataleon and K2 (with powder skis) were also experimenting with rocker, but the skate banana really turned heads in 2007 trade demos.

Well, it's been a busy summer. I've been actively looking for a new job while balancing my current job, and I'm happy to say that I found a new firm/position downtown. I also turned 30 in June (see the above pic) and was rewarded on my birthday from my wife and family with a new surfboard (a nice Larry Mabile twinzer). Oh we also found a nice little colony of mice in the house who decided to make their own front door under our front door (very cute). May be we need a cat since the dogs don't seem to care about the mice.

I was googling for something else snowboard related and this "popped" up.

Spent the weekend in Burlington/Stowe. Spent Friday night in Burlington with the boys, pub crawling. It was awesome that the motel I stayed at wasn't properly cleaned. There was dry piss on the toilet seat. Good thing I only stayed there for like 5 hours.

It dumped a crapload of wet, heavy, soft snow on Saturday and Sunday. Wet, heavy and soft aren't usually things I look for in women or snowboarding. But it was fun times, even though there was zero visability. Hung with the Eesa crew on Sunday then endured the hell drive home to Boston area.

Had a great but short trip to the US Open. We spent Friday at the Open, meeting up with old friends, making new ones and soaking in the scene. It was cool to see some people dressed in full 80s style including fanny packs.

The weather was cloudy and it started to dump. The snow was bulletproof crap since it had warmed up to 70 on Tuesday then rained, then dropped down to around 20. I really didn't bother attempting to re-demo anything as it just didn't seem worth it to take anything out other than my JJ.

Copied this from my personal blog.... http://hoonhwang.blogspot.com

Saw this photo on a forum today from the past weekend. It's Rhode Island, and I believe that there were some decent surfable waves in the OCEAN. What has the world come to? Ok may be the temperature dipped above the 60 degree mark... But I gotta say there are a few things wrong with this picture.

1. Skimboarding
2. Boardshorts without even a shirt
3. What is that god awful towel or is that a tie-dye t-shirt?

We got dumped on here on the east coast. I didn't make it up to Stowe, but took a friend that was visiting to Loon. I can't complain as we found some decent snow in the trees and some untracked gondola runs. It was great to break out the Fish after a long hiatus. Here's a quick pic. Oh and my goggles didn't fog up. Joy.

Sunday there was still some left over swell. So we hit the beach for a little surfing. It's rare when you can double up on the weekend here on the East Coast to get pow pow on one day, and some waves on the second day.

just waxed my boards for the weekend with my old crappy iron, and with my new bluebird wax.

MFM WAX. ALL TEMP WITH CHOCOLATE SCENT. BIG BOOTY HOES...

my question to the wise members of this forum is why does the wax smell like poo????

most other waxes smell like surf wax or bubble gum or cancer-causing hydrocarbons. but this smells like poo. now my entire office (where my boards are) smells like poo.

is it because the wax is brown?

Since white was the winner......

Thanks Solid Surf Co.